WoWers, You Are Merely Blizzard’s Lab Apparatus and Sacrificial Lambs

Ensidia is a guild in a World of Warcraft Europe realm and the first guild that defeated the Lich King. On Feb 3, each member of the Ensidia's raid group that joined the battle to defeat the Lich King received a notification from Blizzard, telling them their accounts would be suspended for 72 hours and all the items plus the achievements gained for defeating the Lich King would be removed because of their abuse of in-game mechanics or glitches. Below is the original text from Blizzard:

Date of Violation: 03/02/2010
Type of violation: Exploitation – Abuse of in-game mechanics or glitches with intent to exploit or cheat in World of Warcraft.
Details: Use of Saronite Bombs to bypass The Lich King fight mechanics Consequences for Account: Account suspended for 72 hours, all items and achievements gained removed

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Not long after that, a brand new world first Lich King kill was done. Paragon, a guild from a World of Warcraft Europe realm achieved the world's first Lich King kill in their first attempt to fight the Lich King early in the morning of February 5th.

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In World of Warcraft, it is very common that abusing in-game mechanics or glitches would cause players' account to be suspended or even permanently banned and what they got from the abuse to be removed. It is also very common in other online games, such as the case that lots of AION accounts were banned not long ago.

However, the Ensidia case has a particularity. That is the use of Saronite Bombs, which is the so-called abuse of in-game mechanics or glitches. Below is the description about the abuse from MMO-CHAMPION:

"First, it seems that the bug was caused by a single rogue (always blame it on the rogues!) who used Saronite Bombs throughout the fight. Apparently the siege damage caused by the bombs bugged the encounter's mechanics and respawned the platform destroyed by the Lich King during the encounter.
The problem with the Saronite Bombs is simple, a lot of rogues have been using them for the past months (and it's been documented on ElitistJerks for quite some time now) and a lot of high-end rogues who like to maximize their DPS just consider it part of their normal DPS rotation.
The main damage dealer of the Ensidia raid group unlearned an experienced profession and trained engineering in order to maximize their damage. As a result, Saronite Bombs have been considered an important part of their normal damage rotation."

Ensidia members said that was definitely a plot and they were merely the victims. Muqq, an elite of Ensidia has even declared the wish to quit WoW.

Ensidia made the related data public on their website to prove their opinions.

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the WoL reports for the Lich King fights from Naihiko.