Blizzard has taken to the forums to address the increasing concerns about players resetting the Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer buff for World of Warcraft.
This reset occurs when players kill the associated NPC. The response comes after a player posted,
“Whats been weird though is theres some people organizing killing the guy in Stormwind. Some Horde priest shows up every day around 6:30 server time, mind controls the NPC then like 200 alliance kill him and they redrop the head again for all the raid guilds.”
To that end, Blizzard’s Community Manager, Kaivax, posted,
“It’s important to note that this behavior is accurate to original WoW, and was possible in 2005 and 2006. Nonetheless, it’s the sort of thing that wasn’t widespread back then, and we believe that if it had been, it would have been addressed. In general, cross-faction collusion is antithetical to WoW gameplay, and the specific circumstance where players pay a member of the opposing faction help them kill their ally feels inappropriate.”
Kaivax notes that there may be another related concern,
“…it’s entirely possible for players (who don’t know what their allies are doing or want to police what their allies are doing) to kill the hired priest, and then find themselves in conflict with their own faction-mates. We don’t like to see these sorts of hostilities within a faction of players.”
The post ends, with Kaivax noting that the existing functionality will remain in place while the team continues to monitor it. No players will be suspended for resetting the buff or for preventing other players from doing so.
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