Blizzard are giving out some account suspensions for players who exceeded the normal amount of reputation you can get in the first week of patch 11.2!
The K’aresh Trust Getting People Banned
Players have been pushing beyond the regular limits of reputation grinding for the K’aresh Trust Renown track. The weekly PvP quest Sparks of War: K’aresh, which sees you doing various activities around the new zone to gather 
Sparks of War while in War Mode, is account-bound. Unfortunately for some players, it was also repeatable on alts with full rewards. This meant they were stacking reputation gains by completing it on their alts. This brought players way past what was achievable in the first week of the patch. Blizzard has now suspended these players for 10 days.
In the reddit thread below, you can see several players talking about their situation. While the Sparks of War is the common denominator, some players think it also may have something to do with the World Quest contracts giving a small amount of reputation, which we’ve already covered here. However, it does seem only the Sparks of War quest was the triggering factor for the suspensions.
It also seems as if the suspensions aren’t related to a particularly high Renown rank. Players with Renown as low as 7 are reporting getting suspended, whereas you could reach as high as 9 without any unusual behavior. So it seems the sole culprit here is the Sparks of War quest.
Plenty of players claim they did not do this on purpose and that they just did what they normally do with their alts. Blizzard has been pretty strict with early Renown exploits in the past, so noticing you’re getting reputation when you shouldn’t should always be a red flag. Another interesting question is whether any Race to World First guild players got caught up in this ban wave.
Do you think the suspensions were fair? Would a simple rollback have been better?
