Just a warning to anyone trying to farm up for AQ. I accidentally stumbled across this exploit the other day while griefing Horde players trying to do this quest.
I submitted this ticket:
"Wanted to make sure this wasn't a bannable offense before I attempted it.
The Badlands quest "This Is Going to Be Hard" summons a level 45 earth elemental named "Fam'retor Guardian"
If a player outside of my party starts the quest and I tag and kill the elemental, I can loot the mob and he can abandon his quest to re-attempt it. Once he accepts again, the elemental will respawn instantly.
Would it be considered an exploit to utilize this quest to farm Fam'retor Guardian for Elemental Earth? (6% drop rate)"
Got this response: "Greetings, please report this bug to the bug tracker and in the mean time do not do it."
I have no idea how to use the bug tracker. Chrome blocks it or something and I just don't care enough to work around it.
Seemed like a clever idea, but yeah definitely an exploit. Be careful with this quest, if you're on it.
Looks like I gotta keep killing all the level 40 hordes who tag earth elementals and think I won't do anything about it
Warning - Exploit in Elemental Earth Farming
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Re: Warning - Exploit in Elemental Earth Farming
protip; dont use the bugtracker, unofficially(!) the source of account-hack-wave recently.
6% though? eh..
6% though? eh..
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Mchayes
- Sergeant
Re: Warning - Exploit in Elemental Earth Farming
kill him every 10 seconds and thats 21.6 elemental earths/hr between 2 ppl. Better than trying to compete with everyone else
- Bluefear
- Senior Sergeant
Re: Warning - Exploit in Elemental Earth Farming
I copied and pasted what you said on the bug tracker. I will let you know if they respond to it.
- kanem
- Senior Sergeant
Re: Warning - Exploit in Elemental Earth Farming
Heres my question, why cant you just take the quest and summon the mob, kill it, loot it, abandon and restart it? No need for a third party and clever use of game mechanics instead of an exploit.
- thenuclearwalrus
- Sergeant Major
Re: Warning - Exploit in Elemental Earth Farming
thenuclearwalrus wrote:Heres my question, why cant you just take the quest and summon the mob, kill it, loot it, abandon and restart it? No need for a third party and clever use of game mechanics instead of an exploit.
- ILikeEggs
- Sergeant Major
Re: Warning - Exploit in Elemental Earth Farming
I've reported someone for that once and pottu said it was a bug exploit aparently so
- wiseoldenemy
- Senior Sergeant
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Setup wrote:
I'll just leave this here.
Cool looking bags
- Hawt
- Sergeant Major
Re: Warning - Exploit in Elemental Earth Farming
If this is considered an exploit, then any mob spawn script is a potential exploit abuse, even if just for the money/cloth drop.
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Dr. Doom
- Knight-Lieutenant
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