Spooncraft

For those that don’t know, there’s a current bug that can be exploited by the hunter snake trap. On a PVE server it really becomes an issue as a hunter can drop a snake trap and if you walk over it (activating it) then you will be attacked by the snakes but he will remain unflagged for PVP. In other words, ganking and camping lower level players has become much easier and less risky for hunters on PVE servers.

If reported though you could get banned or worse. Neth had this to say about it.

Q u o t e:
Is there any word on when this is going to get fixed? I had a 70 hunter use this on me, camping me, for over an hour. I tried waiting him out, but he’d just shadowmeld and get me once I rezzed. I wound up logging out as a ghost until this morning, where I got back to my corpse and hearthed out before I had to come to work.

Now, if I was on a pvp realm, this would pretty much be expected, but that was also specifically why I didn’t roll a character on a pvp realm. I just didn’t want to deal with being camped. I deal with enough frustration on a daily basis fixing computers for stupid people after they mess them up. I want to get out of the real world and away from the stupid, mean things people do when I get home. Now, I have to wait until Sunday to play again.

I reported him for this exploit, and I seriously hope that he got suspended for a while, but seriously, he should not have even had the chance to pull that garbage.

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This bug should be fixed in the current 2.4.0 patch. (src)