Ensidia Banned?!

Edit: Upon further research, I think I might have jumped the shark gun. Evidently, the only way to hit the platform with a frag bomb is if you aim for it. Unless you hit it by accident while you’re hitting adds. I’m going to leave this post here as a testament to my tendency to leap without looking, but if Ensidia was indeed aiming these bombs at the platforms, they deserve the punishment they’ve received.

Edit edit: evidently, I also like to use idioms I’ve only heard once and assume I know what they mean before looking them up. Big thanks to Eidotrope for making me less lazy.

Ensidia got a world first 25 man Lich King kill, and then promptly got a 72 hour ban (google cache link, until their servers come back up) for it. A warning, there’s some pretty heavy profanity in that link.

Why did Ensidia’s raid team get banned? Because, like all good engineers, their rogues were throwing bombs as part of their rotation, and that made the encounter easier because of a now fixed bug.

Blizzard, this is a bad decision. I understand the necessity of punishment for “crime” in your world, but it’s supposed to be a deterrent that makes people more likely to choose to do the right thing. If you release a fight that gets easier when people use an ability you evidently forgot existed, it’s not the fault of the players for not being mind readers, it’s your fault.

What should they have done? How on earth, in the absence of any public testing, were they supposed to know that the encounter was not going as intended? Maybe they should have realized that it felt too easy? But then what; just closed up shop in case they were exploiting a bug without realizing it?

Do the right thing- remove their ban, credit them the game time, re-instate their achievements, and next time, take intention into account. If they had started stacking engineers at the expense of their normal crew, then sure, it would have been clear they were intending to exploit. If they just did their thing the same way they do every other fight in the game, however, it’s your fault, not theirs, and you should never punish other people because you didn’t test enough.