A Blizzard Cover-up? (The Marvel Family)

I haven't posted in quite a while I know, but I found out some information today that I thought I would share with you. My paladin was in a guild on Vek'Nilash called The Marvel Family and some things have happened over the past few days that I am just now getting more information on and since Blizzard seems to be killing all the forum topics on this issue I thought I would address some of it on here.
A member of this guild had gotten his account hacked many months ago and it took Blizzard a full 4 months to get all his items restored to him, included with these items they returned was a GM item, apparently it was a plate chest piece item that had an on use effect that would kill everything within 30 yards or something to that effect. The person that got the item was a cloth wearer and thus gave the plate chest piece to the guild leader so someone could use it. Now they may have executed poor judgment when the guild leader used this item in a few raids such as Ulduar 25 and Obsidian Sanctum. This caused the members in the raids to get several achievements including two world first achievements for Ulduar 25 which got a lot of peoples attention. This has since led to the banning of accounts of everyone who was in any of the raids in which this item was used. So far 55 accounts have been banned*. Now I understand banning the accounts of the person who used the item and the ones who benefited from its use such as the ones who received gear that they would not have received otherwise. What I can not understand is that everyone else who was in the raid getting banned whether they benefited from its use or not and for that matter may not have known about the item even existing until it was used.
Blizzard is quickly killing any forum threads in relation to this also. I wonder if Blizzard is trying to cover up their mistake for even giving this item out to a player by getting rid of any evidence to that effect as soon as its posted and banning anyone involved in the incident? Being is how this is not a Blizzard forum and can not be deleted by them I would like to ask for the truth about these events from Blizzard and why they may have unnecessarily banned some players involved only peripherally in this incident to keep them quiet. Anyone who is reading this who has an idea as to what going on is free to comment on this post and it won't be deleted by Blizzard or myself.I myself was not involved in any of these raids and still do have an active account at this time but a lot of people I know have been banned because of this.
*That number was given to me by one of the people whose account was banned and it looked to be a believable number by how much the guild shrank yesterday. I have also left the guild at this time.

Edit: Learning more about the story now I kind of wonder if all the bans were necessary and have to agree with what a lot of other people stated in an article on WoWInsider. The GM is at fault here and who is to say if anyone reading this would have gotten this item would not have done the same thing. This item was used for fun and nothing more, now I would have to concede that I might not have taken the loot that dropped as a result, but then again I might have. How about this, Blizzard just take away any items they obtained during this incident and remove their achievements give them a 3-day or so suspension and then get over it and let them get back to playing.

A few new achievements

Ok so it has been another eternity between posts again so I thought I would post a really quick one. As soon as I logged in tonight I was invited to a 25-man Obsidian Sanctum run. We did the entire run with 20 people for the 'Less is More' Achievement. I managed to stay alive until the last few seconds of the fight when I was out of mana and an add decided to pay me a visit. It was pretty fun though and it was also my first time to see this particular place on any of my toons. No loot for me but it was quite fun.

I'm not dead I swear...

Long time no post. In fact it has been over a month since the last time I posted on this blog. I haven't had too much time to play as of late because as of January 18th I became a father for the first time which has taken up some of my play time to say the least. Over the past month I have managed to get my hunter to 80, and doing dailies have gotten my mage to 73 but otherwise that's about all the leveling of the high level toons I have been doing lately. A few of my good friends on my home server have switched servers recently so I made an alt on the server the moved to to be able to talk with them still. I made yet another paladin and he is currently sitting at level 20. The paladin charges they released prior to the wrath release have made leveling the paladin a little easier but I find that my judgements are missing a lot more than I remember them doing wile leveling paladins in the past. Well this post was fairly short but that is a quick update to what I have been up to as of late.

Merry Christmas!

..and a Happy New Year!

Reputation Rewards for Paladins in Wrath Part III

Welcome to part two of my reputation rewards for paladins in Wrath of the Lich King Post. Today I will cover The Sons of Hodir and the Wyrmrest Accord.

The Sons of Hodir
This faction is opened up after doing a really long series of quests and as you increase your reputation with them you will get more daily quests to do as well. This the faction that has the shoulder enchants as well so you may want to try and get to exalted as soon as possible to to be able to get the better enchants.

Giant Ring Belt - yes, this item is mail but it is a decent choice for retribution paladins. I actually upgraded to this belt over the green text plate one that I had been wearing since it provided more attack power. Get a blacksmith to make you a belt buckle to add a socket to it and it makes it even better. You can get this item at honored reputation and level 78

Lesser Inscription of the Axe - 30 attack power, 10 critical strike rating available at honored and level 80, good to retribution paladins.

Lesser Inscription of the Crag - 18 spell power, 4 mana per 5 sec, one of the choices for holy paladins.

Lesser Inscription of the Pinnacle - 15 dodge rating, 10 defense rating, this one is for protection paladins.

Lesser Inscription of the Storm - 18 spell power, 10 critical strike rating this would be my choice for the holy paladin shoulder enchant out of the two choices.

Spaulders of the Giant Lords - now for this piece you will need to grind to revered and level 80 to obtain these but they make very nice retribution shoulders.

Once you hit exalted you have access to all the greater versions of the inscriptions above.

Greater Inscription of the Axe - 40 attack power, 15 critical strike rating
Greater Inscription of the Crag - 24 spell power, 6 mp5
Greater Inscription of the Pinnacle - 20 dodge rating, 15 defense rating
Greater Inscription of the Storm - 24 spell power, 15 critical strike rating

The Wyrmrest Accord

Bracers of Accorded Courtesy - plate healing bracers available at level 78 and honored reputation. They have a yellow socket as well.

Cloak of Peaceful Resolutions - protection cloak available also at level 78 and honored reputation.

Arcanum of Blissful Mending - 30 spell power and 8 mp5 make this a nice holy head enchant available at level 80 and revered reputation.

Breastplate of the Solemn Council - protection spec chest piece.

Gavel of the Brewing Storm - holy mace which will be better than the one you can get from the Kalu'ak at revered with more spell power and critical strike rating.

Sabatons of Draconic Vigor - protection spec boots available at revered and level 80.

Legplates of Bloody Reprisal - now we get to the exalted item you can get from them. These are a nice retribution spec item.

This concludes part three of this guide, I hope you found it mildly informative.

Keep Your Relics of Ulduar

According to an article on WoWInsider you will be able to turn in the Relics of Ulduar 10 at a time for 250 reputation with Sons of Hodir. So hold on to your relics and turn them in for a good chunk of reputation when the patch hit.

Reputation Rewards for Paladins in Wrath Part II

Welcome to part two of my reputation rewards for paladins in Wrath of the Lich King Post. Today I will cover Knights of the Ebon Blade and The Kalu'ak.

Knights of the Ebon Blade

You will need to do some questing in Icecrown to open up this reputation vendor, but once you have they can be found in the Shadow Vault.

Dark Soldier Cape - this piece is obtainable at honored and level 78. It is a good starting holy cloak with a good amount of stamina, intellect, and spell power on it. I personally picked this cloak up to replace the one I had gotten out of Karazhan to add to my healing set.

Tokin-Tempered Sabatons - here's the piece a protection pally might like also obtainable at honored and level 78. With defense rating and shield block rating these should be some nice starting tanking boots.

Arcanum of Torment - this is a head enchantment that you will need to get to revered and level 80 to purchase. With 50 attack power and 20 critical strike rating, retribution paladins should get this as soon as possible.

Runeblade of Demonstrable Power - this is a very nice 2h sword you can get your hands on once you hit revered with this faction. It has a ton of attack power and crit on it and should do you quite nicely for a weapon. The one downside of this weapon is that it has 0 stamina on it. I replaced my De-Raged Waraxe from the Amphitheater of Anguish quest line with this weapon.

Death-Inured Sabatons - once you hit exalted you can grab these from this faction. They are a very nice epic boot for retribution paladins with a ton of critical strike rating as well as a blue and red socket to fill.

The Kalu'ak

This faction you can make it into honored with just by doing all the quests they have for you in the starting areas and in Dragonblight. They also have 3 dailies you can open up fairly early on in your leveling career to give you a nice head start on reputation.

Ivory-Reinforced Chestguard - this piece requires honored reputation and level 76 to get your hands on. This is a nice beginning tanking chest piece you can pick up fairly cheaply.

Whalebone Carapace - here is the retribution counterpart of the chest piece above. Its also available at honored and level 76. It has a large amount of strength for attack power on it as well as a nice bit of crit.

Totemic Purification Rod- holy paladins have to wait until level 78 and revered before they can get their hands on this mace. But once they do it should last them for at least a little while before the upgrade it. I personally replaced my level 70 epic healing mace with this as soon as I could get my hands on it.

Whale-Stick Harpoon - also requires level 78 and revered to purchase. A decent polearm for retribution paladins starting at level 78 and should do nicely until you can get the sword from Knights of the Ebon Blade at level 80.

Nurtured Penguin Egg - okay, okay so this isn't paladin specific but I thought I would throw it on here anyway. Once you hit exalted with The Kalu'ak you can grab this and have your very own penguin pet.

That's it for this part of the guide, will have part 3 up soon.