December 9th, 2011 
Panzer 
This may be old news. But for those of you whol have been living under a rock, Sarya… Paragon , High-end raiding guild, issued an apology December 6th for exploiting a bug found they discovered in the Random Raid Finder that allowed its raiders to accumulate a large quantity of tier 13 gear. The raid finder, as you know, limits the amount of loot you can gather by only allowing you to have a chance a raid boss loot once per week. The statement reads, in part:
There has been a lot of misinformation going around, so to clear things up, here is a truthful account of what exactly happened with the LFR and what we have to say about it: The patch hit EU servers on Wednesday. We started off with our 5x Firelands runs to wrap up legendaries and called it a night. For Thursday, we had an elaborate plan to run a personal LFR raid for every main character to get the maximum amount of loot.
As we were doing the first few runs, we noticed an unrealistic amount of tier pieces on some guilds’ armory profiles, which we thought was unattainable through normal means. We started looking into it, and found out that you can loot passed gear from bosses, regardless of save status, if you zone out and back into the instance. This did not provide the raid with any extra loot, but it did eliminate a major portion of the RNG that would have been involved in simply doing personal runs for everyone.
We acknowledge that using this unintended behavior, which was quite clearly a bug, to our gain, was wrong. The fact that others were using it as well is no justification for doing it ourselves. We apologize for doing it, and accept whatever consequences follow.
Am I the only one who thinks of that … South park episode
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