<Azreal> has gone too far
Here is the situation. One to two days ago, <Azreal> entered the Plane of Sky. Once inside, their guild pulled several Bazzzazzt NPC's from Island 6 to Island 1. When a Bazzzazzt is killed, it spawns a Bizazzzt, a level 63 NPC that doubles for 520 and has 25k hit points. Due to the nature of how these NPC's spawn after another NPC dies, wherever they are spawned is essentially their "bind" and if not killed, they will return to where they were spawned.
<Azreal> spawned several of these mobs, which are KOS, next to the zone in to the Plane of Sky. Anyone who zones into the Plane of Sky right now will lose all their buffs zoning in and be instantly killed by the several Bizazzzt at the zone in.
This has resulted in numerous players losing their corpses in Sky with no way to get them back without GM intervention. The mobs themselves are simple to kill with a buffed and prepared raid, but because you lose all buffs when you zone into Sky, combined with the fact that everyone is zoning into the fight from a port, the encounter is especially risky and a wipe likely by even the biggest zerg.
Plane of Sky Island 1 has always been a safe zone in PVE wise, and <Azreal> has gone to extraordinary lengths to disrupt access to the zone through manipulation of PVE elements of the game. Several people have petitioned this issue and I know for a fact that someone has spoken with Sirken about it already, but for some reason it's not viewed as an important enough problem to be immediately addressed. Furthermore, the "April fools" joke played on the server tonight was in incredibly bad taste considering the number of players sitting around waiting for a response to a petition to try to get their corpse back.
The leadership of <Azreal> should be held responsible for their actions in this ordeal. When you zone into Hate or Fear, you zone in expecting agro and a fight. This has never been the case with Plane of Sky. The nature of their actions create a situation where player corpses are un-retrievable by corpse summon because access to the zone is completely blocked. No other zone in the game has NPC's of this level of difficulty sitting at the zone in and instantly attacking anyone who shows up. That's for a reason, and creating a situation that goes against that reason should not be allowed and it definitely should be punished.
Someone reading this is probably thinking to themselves "That's a risk you take going to Sky", and my response to that is that there are many reasons to go to Sky that would not require a raid force to break in. There are a dozen or more quest NPC's accessible to Island 1 that players visit all the time without needing a zerg raid to access. Additionally, some people use it as a quick way to get to Freeport. What <Azreal> has done is inexcusable and it needs to be addressed.
Thank you.
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