World First Gallywix Exploit Quickly Removed by Blizzard

And how exactly did this group manage to defeat Mythic Gallywix before Vexie?

Discovered after the kill was reported by WoWProgress, Raider.IO, and even entered into Blizzard’s own Hall of Fame, news of the group’s headscratching victory exploded across social media platforms earlier today, even more confounding that they managed to defeat Mythic Gallywix three minutes before Vexie (the entry boss) or any other encounter in the new raid. Clearly the work of an exploit, Blizzard swiftly removed the group from their Hall of Fame tracker, though some of the individual character achievements still remain.

Yeah, this look totally legit…

If this sounds familiar, it’s not the first time such exploitative behavior has interrupted the Race to World First, though it usually doesn’t get noticed quite so obviously. Shadowlands and Dragonflight players may remember similar exploits whereby a group of unscrupulous players had long abused various exploits to trivialize Mythic+ and even cheese a World Second Mythic Sarkareth kill. It’s not entirely clear if this is the same group of players, though the similarities seem likely.

Crazy how this group managed to clear Mythic Abberus in three days, and finish at the same time as Liquid and Echo!

Older players still may recall the hack and exploit group Random Acts of Violation, or RAoV for short, which shut down after Blizzard Entertainment issued a Cease and Desist letter in 2018. Known for finding ways to dupe, wallhack, and instantly kill bosses, the group shut down was largely unheard of after shutting down, though an RAoV guild has remained active on EU Silvermoon for several years. It therefore unlikely that this new RAoV Quality Assurance group is actually affiliated with the original RAoV, but has instead simply coopted the name.

After such a long period of time, it seems unlikely that this new group is related to the original Random Acts of Violation.

As for how these players managed the exploit, nobody really knows, though it probably isn’t a good idea to try to copy them either. The most likely explanation for accessing Gallywix first is by moving beyond the regular borders of the game map, as recently showcased by Rextroy. Coincidentally, some members of the community also thought that Rextroy was involved, due to one of the characters cheekily being named Rextoilet, though while his curious use of game mechanics could be considered exploitative, he has always been very up front about communicating them to Blizzard and not interfering with the race.

For their part, Blizzard has already responded to this case of bad actors exploiting their way to an undeserved victory, already taking action against them and scrubbing the kill from the Hall of Fame. Thus, the Race to World First continues, with seven bosses still up for grabs!

Ok, for real this time, who will be first to complete the Mythic Liberation of Undermine?