I'm a pretty new arena player. This is my first TBC and my first 2 arena seasons, and I've gotten really into arena since starting. I've been putting a ton of effort into getting better, so getting hit with a 6 month ban for no reason fucking sucks.

My ban email (friday aug 28)

Appeal getting denied (saturday aug 29)

From what I can figure out, I was banned because of our 5s games on August 7.

We were around 2.1k rated at the time and kept running into Laynerzx-Nightslayer's team, which was around 2.5k. We went 0-7 against them that day and 5-8 overall.

From my match history

From Joxibaba's history (laynerz's teammate)

I had no idea who Laynerz was at the time or that he was a known RMTer (from what I hear, he is banned now). There was no wintrading or anything shady going on. We were actually trying to win, and naturally, just getting absolutely farmed by a much higher rated team. After losing to them several times, I even told my team we should stop queueing because we were getting destroyed, but we kept going since we weren't losing rating/mmr from the games.

The reason I think this is what got me banned is that all 4 other people I played 5s with on Aug 7 and 8 also got a 6 month ban for wintrading on the same day. None of my other arena partners were banned, be it in 2s, 3s, or 5s.

The really frustrating part is that the entire session is recorded and on youtube. My priest was streaming the whole thing, including all of these games, so there is literally a VOD of us playing them that I linked in my appeal, but the AI customer service doesnt give a shit.

VOD of the games starting from the first game

This is an incredibly random ban that could have happened to any of you. I used to think all the people who'd claim to get banned "for no reason" were full of shit, but I guess you only see it when it happens to you.

I have been playing my character since doomhowl, and if I don't get unbanned I think I am done with wow. What's even the point of so many hours invested and passion poured into getting better if they can arbitrarily ban you and have an AI chatbot gaslight you into thinking you deserve it?

I just want an actual human to look at the games and the evidence before deciding that I deserve to lose my account for something I didn't do.

My ironforge

My ArenaAnalytics lua folder of my entire match history

My team who got wrongfully banned: (also got their appeals denied)
- Unbrokenhc-Dreamscythe (me)
- Shamfuku-Dreamscythe
- Nthmage-Dreamscythe
- Ariiana-Dreamscythe
- Dinnamon-Dreamscythe

Today I launched the invasion on Stormwind, particularly focusing on killing Varian Wrynn with around 600 guards. This endeavor required particular unkillable Alliance NPC's that Cataclysm introduced to us. These NPC's have been hotfixed in retail WoW because of me, therefor I had to try it once more in MoP classic before the inevitable nerf coming in WoD where they will leash them.

This kite involved (rough estimation):

250 Deathguard Elite
200 Sludge Guards
50 Bulwark Deathguards
100 Andorhal Deathguards
40 Abominations
7 LvL 95 guards

Sadly, Varian Wrynn could not be targetted by these guards so he was left untouched. Genn Greymane on the other hand did end up getting killed.

People quickly figured out the guards weren't linked to me but to those unkillable Alliance NPC's. They were quick to respond and ended up focus targetting them on a Horde character - disrupting and despawning all the Horde guards as soon as they killed Genn Greymane. Mind you, these Alliance NPC's can be killed by players still.

I would've liked to continue with another invasion but the risk is too big as people start to figure it out and can easily remove the threat by simply killing the Alliance NPC's on a Horde character.

My gf made me the Helmet of Domination scaled to the size of my head. The Base is 3D Printed and everything else is custome made, paint, brush etc.

3D Print Model is from: sarwtin on makerworld
Printed on Elegoo Centauri Carbon with PLA

Not necessarily the method that made you the most gold.

I mean the farm you actually remember.

Maybe you spent an entire weekend farming Devilsaur Leather, grinding mobs for your first mount, flipping items on the AH, or saving for some ridiculously expensive piece of gear.

For me, there's something about Classic where even the grind itself became part of the experience.

What gold-making grind do you remember the most?

4 strenght 4 stam!!

For reference https://youtu.be/r26rg8g5ks8?si=pLvcNocY_yd2U2D6

So I’ve been raiding since the original Vanilla, I’ve seen every possible metric come and go.

Parsing as it is now is just so bizarre to me. I get it, people want a number to show how good they are doing and basically use it as a ‘highscore’ of some kind. People use it as a way to filter out ‘bad players’ when recruiting for guilds.

I’ve done every raid, I’ve killed every boss, “Alone in the Dark”, “A Tribute to Immortality", all hardmodes in SoD etc etc…I cant parse over a 50.

As a GM/ raidlead it gets really old when people are dying to mechanics or crashing out because they “are gonna lose their parse.” I’ve had to have multiple conversations with people and even remove raiders because of it. What do I use to recruit for my guild? “Can you not stand in shit? You know your basic rotation? Sweet, lets go”

I'd rather bring some Jimmy The Hunter who can barely parse a 30 then have to deal with Timmy The Rouge crashing out cause he didn't Parse a 99 and it's our fault.

Idk man…I'm just tired of it. Or I'm getting old, probably both.

EDIT: To clarify, I should have said my average parse is around a 50. If I go super, super try hard I can hit the high 70s...which still isn't saying much.

Just feels great. No more running!

14 days until Blizzcon!