Not allowed (yet) to do old dungeons and raids ?

[Yorgl]

Hey,

I didn't find a thread talking about this, sorry if it has been already adressed but while trying to do a MoP dungeons to grind my Anglers rep (well, to see if it's worth doing that way...), the game prevetended me to zone in and I got a system message (yellow) that recently created DHs can't do old dg/raids and that I should try in 24h.

Any idea why they put such a limitation ?

Thanks

[Deleted]

I am preety sure it has something to do with people having plans on grinding raid-mounts by creating multiple DH characters.

[Metuere]

To stop people making demon hunters, clearing old raids for mounts, deleting them and then repeating.

[Accendor]

Because they do not want people to create a DH, farm all raids, send gold and items away, delete DH, create a new DH, do it again etc. Mostly this is about botters but also normal players.

[Yorgl]

Thanks for your answers.
I see. This is a bit annoying and I personnally don't see the problem if some nuts want to create DHs all day long a 1% chance on Invicible but meh, it's a minor inconvenience.

Enjoy your DHs all !

[tumppu]

To stop people making demon hunters, clearing old raids for mounts, deleting them and then repeating.

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But, the limitation is going away after a while, so I guess we can manage.

[Thrif]

Hmm, that's weird. I thought this was the reason they got an hour-long intro quest chain in the first place.

[ComputerNerd]

Hmm, that's weird. I thought this was the reason they got an hour-long intro quest chain in the first place.

There were guilds paying to transfer an entire raid team to cheat lockouts during world firsts, so an hour-long questline isn't much of a barrier to someone determined.

[Kensio]

Same as boosted chars, you can't enter a raid in the next 48 hours

[jayinjersey]

This is actually the most forward thinking I've ever seen Blizzard react...


In the past, this would have happened after a couple hundred/thousand Ashes or Invincibles were farmed up by pay shops.


Good for them (even though it angered me last night when I decided I wanted to run an old dungeon for a helm xmog)

[Schizoide]

I agree, this is a good thing.

[Zaratul]

I mean, a 48 hour lock only stops so much. There isn't much you can do to stop people from waiting 48 hours, farm all the raids, sell everything and ship it to a main. You could effectively cycle 10 demon hunters with 1 main on the account and get through 25 raid lock outs the first week and then 35 every week thereafter. Roughly 5k gold per character for doing Cata raids could feasibly net you 125k the first week and 175k every week after that.

JK 1 Demon Hunter per realm, I should do a little reading first it seems.

[jayinjersey]

Yes but without it you could effectively have an infinite number of lockouts per week (limited by time of course)

[Fallen Angel]

Or you could just create a new demon hunter, make the 2k~ gold they gain from the starting experience, send away, delete, and profit.

Obviously doing legacy raids would net more overall, but doing the beginning experience takes almost no time.

[neck deep]

it's 24 hours. i've been able to do legacy raids today

[Profyrion]

it's 24 hours. i've been able to do legacy raids today

Awesome. Thanks for confirming.

[Thrif]

There were guilds paying to transfer an entire raid team to cheat lockouts during world firsts, so an hour-long questline isn't much of a barrier to someone determined.

Well, there's a huge difference between a realistic shot at a World's First and a 1% shot for a mount nobody cares about anymore.

But yeah, I get what you're saying and I do agree you have a point. Never underestimate the length some people will go to in video games.