(SOD) Prevent Players Using Mail, Flight Paths (Patreon)

Hearthing out of BFD during Kelris phase 2 with his body asleep causes an aura to persist on the player  After logging out is now keeping players who go near them “in combat” forever until they relog. Preventing players from using flight paths, mail, etc.*

I can't show video footage of wow on here for legal reasons but fortunately someone has uploaded footage of how this looks independently:

https://streamable.com/tvmfly

https://streamable.com/7m982g

https://streamable.com/isf2q3

https://streamable.com/7xcmf2

This type of exploit is sometimes used by exploit syndicates as it restricts access to the auction house and/or specific zones/mobs, allowing a number of profitable arbitrage-type plays.  Put simply the fact a proportion of people may have difficulty doing things like cancelling auctions or farming certain items from mobs makes pricing manipulation a lot easier. The simplest example would be buy item x cheaply then hinder access to zone where mobs drop x. Then take advantage of the low supply and sell at a profit.

Any one doing it for extended periods in a capital city should understand they are very likely to get banned-more so than with the vast majority of exploits. This type of exploit tends to trigger multiple reports and has an economic impact.