Smolderforge Support Community

Greetings,

This message is to provide information on the temporary suspension of the raid: Scarlet Citadel. Over the past many months we've seen time and time again the constant use of exploits and misuse of game mechanics to trick ways into getting past bosses and/or straight to the loot room.

Recently we've taken notice to players constantly pulling the boss through the loot room recently after we made it only spawn on Renault's death. Since we cannot monitor the servers 24/7 we only can catch raid groups doing so ever so often and we have to force-despawn the last boss and inform the raid that it is being reset. Many people get upset and say it's "not fair" or "we deserve loot" when you get caught bug abusing. Because of this, I don't believe people clearly understand the abuse you're putting on the raid when you cheat.

Therefore Scarlet Citadel is closed until certain aspects can be redesigned and put more security measures on sections, this including restricting access to the 3rd and 4th bosses until the 2nd one has been defeated.

If further exploitations occur after this, accounts will be suspended or closed, Scarlet Citadel will either have it's loot nerfed or wiped or the complete closure of Scarlet Citadel and Stormwind Vault.

Update: I forgot to include that everyone's SC keys will be removed.

Scarlet Citadel is once again open with a few changes. There is now a door blocking access to the 3rd * 4th bosses. The door can only be opened after defeating Vortred and activating the lever behind him. This will cause the door to open allowing players access into the rest of the instance.

While in the process of working with the doors I learned how to make game objects at the full state upon login (like how you cannot run through the doors in arena as soon as you spawn in). So the doors and even loot room doors are now spawned fully closed and cannot be ran through when relogging.

The ghost which contains the loot has been rooted in place and will not move out of his room. He also has been moved away from the majority of AoE effects.


- Any players caught exploiting Scarlet Citadel any further will receive a 72-hour suspension or up to an account closure. If you find anything you can use to exploit the instance any further, report it immediately so us so that we can fix it -- reports do not get you in trouble, only when you do not report them and continue to abuse the bug.