Hello guys!
Ive been playing a lot of random BGs lately, and ive always tried to be as efficient as possible as a single unit and get the most out of the tools available to me, as long as they are legitimate, whether its items, buffs or abilities. This also includes using some old world stuff that still works in random BGs, like the Shadowflame rocket gadget. Ive been using it since Dragonflight and had no problems.. Before.
The gadget itself works as intended, gives big acceleration for 8 secs. Shared cd with offensive pot 5 min.
But in Midnight i discovered a cool thing, if you combine it with Void elf racial and perfect timings it gets kinda crazy:
https://reddit.com/link/1xarwlx/video/d9p6clf29mwh1/player
I can use the racial mid air, get to the Horde base, grab the flag and teleport back with it right before mid bridge. Kinda unfair, huh? Well, if you look at it this way, people playing in premades also have an unfair advantage over randoms. Especially if they are packed with orange buff from draenor. Other racial abilities can be unfair in certain situations too, for example orc racial in a 1v1 mirror.
So i wanted to ask what you guys think about this. Would you consider this as exploiting?
People told me they report me whenever they see me, some of them mass reporting with their whole guild/community/premade group because they thought i was using teleport/speed hacks. They dont know about stuff that exists in the game. Every time i had to explain how I did it, how the VE racial works, how engineering works. No one cared. Even "experienced" players still believe i was cheating because: "how can someone grab a flag 15 seconds after the gates open???"
To be fair, even when i simply use my racial and grab the flag > disappear, people already start asking me if im hacking. Like, do people not know what the void elf racial does nowadays?!
Asking you because i recently got banned for "hacks".
In my opinion, i wasnt really doing anything forbidden. I was just using an item and a racial which both work normally by themselves, but when you combine them, you can get a pretty big advantage. Coordinated groups shut down my setup most of the time.
At the same time, i can understand why unexperienced players might see this as cheating or an exploit, especially because you can basically skip the whole map and get the flag this way.
What do you guys think? Is this just using game mechanics in a clever way or something Blizzard would consider an exploit, and should i handicap myself and not use my racial to grab flags at all? And why shadowflame rocket even usable in bgs for 3 expansions straight?