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No cheats, bots, unattended automation, or unfair client tools.
Fair play, clearly written
These rules protect the players, economy, competitive integrity, and long-term health of Greyhaven.
The essentials
No cheats, bots, unattended automation, or unfair client tools.
Extra accounts belong in capitals or approved summoning services, not normal world gameplay.
No real-money trading, account sales, paid progression, or laundering purchased gold.
Open a Discord ticket. Do not demonstrate serious exploits or publish reproduction steps.
Greyhaven aims to provide a fair, competitive, and welcoming Vanilla experience.
These rules apply to all Greyhaven services, including:
By creating an account or playing on Greyhaven, you agree to follow these rules.
Not knowing a rule does not excuse breaking it. The examples listed throughout these rules are illustrative and not exhaustive. Conduct that achieves the same prohibited result through a different method may be treated in the same way.
Greyhaven staff may take action against behaviour that is clearly harmful to the server, its economy, its competitive integrity, or its players, even when the exact method is not specifically listed.
These rules may be updated when new features, exploits, clients, addons, or forms of abuse appear. Significant changes will be announced publicly.
Any tool, client modification, program, script, driver, or external device that provides an unfair gameplay or competitive advantage is forbidden.
Examples include, but are not limited to:
Attempting to test a cheat on Greyhaven is still considered cheating unless the test was specifically requested and supervised by Greyhaven staff.
Standard penalty: Permanent closure of all associated accounts.
Any form of botting or unattended gameplay is prohibited. Players must personally control their characters and remain actively responsible for all meaningful gameplay actions performed through their accounts.
This includes, but is not limited to:
Normal Auction House addons such as TSM, Auctionator, or similar interface and pricing addons are permitted, provided they do not independently purchase, cancel, relist, or manage auctions without player input.
A player must be able to respond reasonably when contacted or tested by a Game Master. Failing to respond does not automatically prove botting, but suspicious behaviour combined with failed staff checks may be used as evidence.
Briefly stepping away from the computer is not automatically an offence. Your character must not continue performing meaningful gameplay while unattended.
Penalty: Permanent closure of the offending account.
Input broadcasting, synchronized controls, and other multiboxing assistance tools are permitted only for:
While travelling to a capital city, multiboxed characters may not:
The journey must be reasonably direct and may not be used as an excuse to perform normal multiboxed gameplay outside a capital city.
If attacked during the journey, the player must choose one character to actively control. Using synchronized inputs to fight with several characters remains prohibited.
Botting or unattended automation remains prohibited regardless of location.
Multiboxing means one person simultaneously operating or benefiting from multiple logged-in characters, whether they are running:
Simply owning several accounts is allowed. Playing them simultaneously is restricted as explained below.
Multiple characters may be logged in simultaneously when the additional characters remain inside a recognised faction capital city and are being used for non-combat purposes.
Permitted examples include:
Recognised capital cities are:
Alliance
Horde
A player may, for example, level one character in the world while keeping a bank character logged in inside a recognised capital city.
This section applies specifically when one person operates multiple accounts or characters.
It does not prevent separate real players from questing, leveling, farming, running dungeons, raiding, or participating in PvP together. You may naturally play with your friends, family members, guildmates, or other players.
One person may not actively use multiple personally controlled characters outside the permitted capital-city and summoning exceptions.
Forbidden examples include:
If an additional personally controlled character leaves a capital city, it may only be used under the direct-travel or summoning exceptions. Otherwise, it must be logged out before meaningful gameplay continues.
Using your own warlock and additional personal accounts exclusively to summon players is permitted.
Players may also advertise and sell summoning services for in-game gold.
Characters being used for a summoning service may:
They may not be used together for farming, combat, PvP, questing, or other multiboxed gameplay.
Standard penalty: Warning or temporary suspension for minor first offences. Deliberate, repeated, competitive, or abusive multiboxing may result in permanent account closure.
Players may use:
Support for a client does not mean that every third-party modification made for that client is permitted.
Normal interface addons are generally allowed, including:
Any addon, client modification, patch, executable, or external tool that gives a player an unfair competitive or gameplay advantage over players using the normal supported client is prohibited.
Performance, stability, loading-time, or visual improvements that do not provide a gameplay advantage may be permitted.
For example, VanillaFixes may be used with the 1.12.1 client because its normal purpose is to improve performance, stability, loading behaviour, and graphical presentation rather than provide an unfair advantage.
An addon or client tool becomes prohibited when it performs actions or provides information that a normal player could not reasonably obtain through an approved client and its normal addon API.
Forbidden behaviour includes:
When uncertain about a specific addon, modification, or client enhancement, open a Discord ticket before using it.
Client modifications that are purely cosmetic or performance-related may be permitted, provided they offer no gameplay advantage.
Examples that may be allowed:
The following modifications are forbidden:
Greyhaven may publish an approved or disallowed modification list. That list forms part of these rules.
A bug becomes an exploit when a player knowingly uses unintended behaviour to gain an advantage.
Examples include:
Dying, releasing, and opening a door from the opposite side through normally accessible gameplay is allowed, such as opening the Scholomance door.
Listing an item with a low bid and a very high buyout in the hope that someone misreads the listing is not considered a technical exploit. However, staff may intervene and issue bans when a player deliberately uses misleading auction listings as a repeated money-making scheme. Gold lost by misreading an auction listing will not be returned, so players should always carefully inspect auction prices before purchasing.
Repeatedly using a bug after recognising that it is unintended may be punished even when the bug has not yet been publicly documented.
Serious exploits must be reported privately by opening a ticket on the Greyhaven Discord.
Do not:
Players who discover and responsibly report serious exploits may be recognised by the team.
Reporting an exploit does not protect someone who deliberately abused it before reporting it.
Standard penalty: Removal of gained items or progress, temporary suspension, or permanent closure depending on severity and intent.
Duplication, economy-damaging exploits, and deliberate concealment will normally result in permanent closure of the offending accounts.
Greyhaven is a PvP realm. World PvP, faction conflict, competition, ambushes, and fighting over objectives or resources are expected.
Being killed by another player is not automatically griefing.
The following are generally considered part of normal PvP gameplay:
Staff will not normally intervene simply because a player lost a PvP encounter or was killed multiple times.
PvP may become punishable when its main purpose is clearly to prevent a particular player from being able to play rather than to participate in normal faction conflict.
Forbidden behaviour includes:
/who, opposing-faction accounts, Discord, streams, or external tools to repeatedly locate a specific targetStaff will consider duration, intent, repetition, location, available escape options, and whether the attacker followed the victim to continue the behaviour.
The activities below are generally only punishable when performed excessively, repeatedly, or for long enough that players are effectively prevented from progressing or playing. Ordinary faction attacks, town raids, occasional NPC kills, and normal PvP disruption remain allowed.
The following may become punishable when performed repeatedly or for an excessive duration:
Raiding faction cities and killing faction leaders remain legitimate gameplay.
These rules concern prolonged disruption whose main purpose is preventing others from playing.
Safespotting means attacking players or NPCs, carrying objectives, or avoiding retaliation from a position where opposing players, guards, or enemies cannot reasonably reach you through normal gameplay.
Forbidden examples include:
A position reached through ordinary jumping is not automatically legitimate. Consider whether the location was intended to be used for combat or objective play.
Players must participate honestly in battlegrounds and competitive systems.
The following are forbidden:
Organised PvP groups are allowed.
Cooperation becomes a violation when opposing participants deliberately coordinate to manufacture rewards, Honor, rankings, or match outcomes.
Standard penalty: Removal of Honor, ranks, or rewards, accompanied by a temporary or permanent suspension.
Greyhaven has a strict no-RMT and no-pay-to-win policy.
The following are forbidden:
Both buyers and sellers are punishable.
Items, gold, characters, guilds, and accounts connected to RMT may be removed without compensation.
Standard penalty: Permanent closure of all participating accounts.
Deliberately deceiving another player to obtain items, gold, or services is forbidden where there is clear evidence of an agreed transaction.
Examples include:
Staff may require clear screenshots or other evidence of the agreement.
Ordinary bad trades, buyer’s remorse, market speculation, and negotiating an unfavourable price are not automatically scams.
Player-run casinos, lotteries, death rolls, and similar gambling activities using in-game gold are allowed.
Participation is entirely at the player’s own risk.
Greyhaven staff will not:
Real-money gambling or gambling involving external currency remains strictly prohibited.
The default Greyhaven loot standard is Need Before Greed.
Under Need Before Greed:
Groups are free to establish different rules, including:
Any alternative rules must be clearly communicated and agreed upon before the run begins.
Players should take screenshot evidence of the agreed loot rules.
Without clear evidence that alternative rules were announced beforehand, Greyhaven staff cannot assist with the dispute and will treat the normal Need Before Greed standard as applicable.
Once a run has started under agreed alternative rules, those rules may not be changed without clear group consent.
GDKP runs are allowed.
Only in-game gold may be used as payment or bidding currency.
Real money, cryptocurrency, services on another server, external items, or any other form of outside compensation are prohibited.
GDKPs are organised and controlled entirely by players.
Greyhaven staff will not:
By joining a GDKP, players accept that the host or appointed player controls Master Loot and the gold pot.
Participate only when you trust the organiser.
GDKP participation is entirely at the player’s own risk.
Greyhaven may still investigate a GDKP when there is evidence of:
Players may disagree, compete, joke, and engage in normal faction rivalry.
Communication must not become abusive, threatening, or excessively disruptive.
The following are forbidden:
Public channel access is a privilege. Staff may mute or remove players who repeatedly disrupt public communication.
Character, guild, pet, and account names may not contain:
Staff may rename a character, pet, or guild without prior warning.
Repeatedly creating prohibited names may lead to additional penalties.
You are responsible for activity performed through your account.
This includes activity by:
Greyhaven strongly recommends:
Account sharing is strongly discouraged.
Staff may refuse to restore losses caused by account sharing.
Claims that another person used the account will not automatically remove a punishment.
Account theft should be reported immediately.
Attempting to evade an active temporary punishment is prohibited.
This includes attempting to bypass:
Forbidden evasion methods include:
A player whose account has been permanently closed is normally permitted to create a fresh account and start again from the beginning.
The permanently closed account, its characters, items, gold, and progress will not be restored or transferred.
The new account must fully follow all Greyhaven rules.
Repeating the original offence, attempting to recover banned assets, or continuing the same abusive activity may result in immediate permanent closure.
Only in extreme circumstances may Greyhaven issue a person-level exclusion, meaning the individual is no longer allowed to create or use any Greyhaven account.
This may be used in cases involving:
Players must cooperate with reasonable Game Master checks.
You may be asked to:
Refusing to cooperate, intentionally disconnecting, or repeatedly avoiding staff may be considered when reviewing suspicious activity.
Players may not:
Constructive criticism is welcome. Abuse is not.
Reports should contain as much evidence as reasonably possible:
Do not publicly accuse players of cheating, botting, or RMT.
Submit evidence privately so staff can investigate without alerting the suspected player.
False reports made in good faith will not be punished.
Knowingly fabricated reports may result in action against the reporter.
Staff will not normally disclose:
Penalties depend on:
Possible actions include:
Severe offences may skip all warning stages.
Cheating, botting, duplication, serious exploitation, RMT, and deliberate temporary-ban evasion may result in immediate permanent action.
Punishments may be appealed through the official Greyhaven Discord. To submit an appeal, join the Discord and create a support ticket for staff review.
An appeal should:
Submitting repeated appeals, lying, fabricating evidence, or organising others to harass staff may reduce the chance of reconsideration and may lead to further restrictions.
An appeal is a request for review, not a guarantee that a punishment will be changed.
When uncertain, ask yourself:
Does this action provide an advantage through automation, modification, exploitation, deception, or control of multiple characters that an ordinary player would not have?
When the answer may be yes, stop and ask Greyhaven staff before continuing.
Our goal is not to punish normal players for honest mistakes.
These rules exist to protect fair gameplay, server stability, the economy, competitive integrity, and the long-term health of Greyhaven.
Rules last published August 2026. Significant changes will be announced publicly.