Top 10 Broken Things in WoW
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- As with most videos games, wow has had its fair share of bugs and poorly implemented ideas over its 10 year run. This video will talk about a few of those things in a list style video, because videos always get more views this way.
10-Wall Jumping
9-Typhoon
8-Honor amoung thieves
7-Vanilla windfury
6-Battleshout
5-Seal of truth - Rek bomb
4-Entis Quenched Sord - also ilv200 fishing pole
3-Drowned Lizard tail
2-A few raid bugs -Oozeling,platform, Yogg-0, LK
1- Season 5 DK's
--Videos used--
WoW Wall Jumping Tutorial - Madman1o1
Tribute to WoW Wall Climbing - qwertyaphid
Druid Typhoon Bug - Kathygamer
Unbreakable Warlord Shaman WoW PvP Ragnaros Sulfuras - chumppi
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A few segments from this video are pretty much copied word for word from this reddit thread I created - redd.it/306zhp
For some reason I thought it was ok because they were just comments, and comments in a thread that I created. But I didnt really realize until after the fact that thats kinda dumb reasoning.
Really enjoyed this list, had no idea about a lot of these broken things.
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damn it feels good to be a gangster
Le epic Troll Just want to remind you that being gay is not something bad.
DK starting zone still has two bugs that hasn't been fixed since 2008.
The first one is technically more of a glitch. When you hop into the cart and getting dragged up on the ship with the cannons, the cart sometimes glitch out and get the whole game camera to jump as the cart sort of lags up the ramp to the boat.
The second one is when you have bombed the scarlet village from your great dragon, and go back to the lich king to get your helmet. You are still in combat for a long time, sometimes it never goes away until you delete wdb and wtf and relaunch the game. But mostly the combat will go away as you get out on the other side of the tunnel leading to the battle at lights hope chapel.
remember when dk presences were party wide buffs that stacked? i remember groups of dks in dungeons would all go blood and have an even harder time dying.
+Solomore Oh my god, My favorite was that Unholy Pressence gave 15% Movement Speed and stacked, so Alterac Valley for the first time with my DK was like 30 lv 58 DK's and bascially just zooming straight to the end at a ridiculous pace and getting caught on a tree stump or something caused you to fall so far behind because you were no longer caught up in the aura.
+TheoreticallyInsane Or the endless death grip resets upon honor/xp.
I remember when dungeon groups consisted of only death knights in early wrath. Who needs a healer or tank?! :D
My favorite broken DK feature was how the original Blood/Frost/Unholy presence buffs were originally auras. And I believe for a brief amount of time they stacked. Alterac Valley was crazy, to say the least.
At the end of MoP there was a period of time when Pandaria mobs' xp reward per kill did not scale down for low levels. I was able to level two characters from 1-80ish in about half an hour. They were not scaled back or anything, and I still have them at level 90.
Jon M timeless isle was funny for taht bug
DK auras did stack and the blood one was 5% lifesteal. If you went Naxx with 20 DKs you'd get 100% and I've always been pretty sure it should be possible to go full DKs at that time. Though honestly it lasted for like a month
Honorable Mention: Towards the end of BC with the Sunwell the Alliance use to have to fly from IF to the island which involved a loading screen. During one of the maintenance updates they gave locks the power to kill you on this flight. If you casted underwater breaking on someone just as they were talking to the flight master to take off they would come out of the load screen to the island with fatigue over the ocean. So the person would die from fatigue in the middle of the ocean with the only way to rez would be to accept rez sickness at the nearest graveyard as you could run back to your body, but would die again of fatigue. To normally swim back, die, rinse and repeat it took 41 deaths to just make it back to regular waters and not die of fatigue.
I think that rising a dead mate as a ghoul was one of the best mechanic in an MMORPG ever. Too bad they had to nerf everything just cause "balance".
it was the most retarded op shit in the game, maybe it would be acceptable if it wasn't allowed in arena however it was
I remember rezzing a dead mate during a 5-man. He was too busy playing Peggle to notice that he'd been brought back to life and was essentially AFK for the rest of the fight, which we wiped on. The boss had like 2k or 20k health left (something under 1%) and it would have been a kill if he'd even done like 3 seconds of DPS instead of playing Peggle.
I remember the days of 5 Death Knight runs of the BC dungeons because they were so insanely OP. I also remember Death Strike healing for pretty much 100% of your health.
I'd actually rather they keep wall-jumping.
It simulates climbing effectively without putting in additional control schemes or mechanics.
As much as it might break the game, it does open up the game a lot more.
Really cool stuff.
Paul Staker there was ways to stop it from breaking the game, honestly when i got on early for a raid back then, i loved to just climb shit for the sake of it. sad that when i bought wod i couldn't do it anymore.
NetherPrime
I think this is one of the real reasons people
want Vanilla WoW lol.
Paul Staker There was a patch in wotlk, where you could wall climb a lot things with levitate.
Dezső Drózdi
lol I don't see it now. I can't even jump with levitate.
Paul Staker Wall running up into the IF Runway and the Gate of IF, good times.
Hey there hirumaredx, I've been playing WoW for about 5 years now but one of the major bug I've found in PvP was actually in an arena, during end-Pandaria, where a monk could actually resurrect his team-mate.
I found this out by paying attention to the monk (seeing as you should in Arenas), my friend died as we killed the monk's partner and it turned into a 1v1 match (which we ended in a draw). I let the monk run behind a pillar but directly in line of sight to his ally, whereupon he suddenly starts casting his resurrection spell.
I knew I couldn't let him do it, though I would let the match drag out to the end just to see if it would work. So after 10 minutes of chasing the monk we were down to the 50 second mark. I stopped chasing the monk and allowed him to resurrect his ally, whilst making sure I was ready to kite them on my mount. He successfully resurrected his ally and they both chased me down.
Just thought this was worth noting.
I image they would actually ban the guilds that abused Ret Paladins during the bug. Imagine "why did you ban our guild?", "because we fucked it up and Ret Paladins were overpowered", "Was it our fault?", "No, but tough luck".
It's happened before. I gaurentee if it was caught in 30min and maybe 5 guilds had used it to get kills they would have gotten 72hrs. As it was it just too many people had used it.
Jediskum still, it was included in their rotations. Some could simply be unaware that they are exploiting a bug. You could expect that your class was simply buffed so much for some reason if you don't follow any forums or updates notes. While using not intended item in this fight starts getting you the idea that you are doing something that was not intended.
My point being that people could had mistaken that this is not a bug, but rather Blizzard made the class too IMBA.
Jediskum Paladins did not exploit anything. Their ability was bugged. To exploit something you have to try to sneak around game mechanic to cheat it. The saronite bombs were arguably a bug too and not an exploit since people brought these bombs to primarily deal extra damage, not break and exploit the game.
Reminder - "Sneaking around game mechanics" and "taking advantage of a bug" are the same thing to Blizzard. Punishment doesn't hinge on whether you had to do something normal or obscure, it hinges on how much advantage you can get from the situation and how many people got involved before it is fixed.
Blizzard expects that if you start your raid and the Ret Paladin is obviously doing more damage than the rest of the raid combined you go "Oh Snap. This is bugged. Lets do something else til they fix this" and report the bug and move on. Not try to rush into bosses you couldn't beat before while you have the advantage.
RobiePAX thats what i said, it wasn't an exploit, neither of them were, and noone should've been banned. they just played the game how it was supossed to be played, and there was a bug.
you should of mentioned the non stop DG in PVP when dk's came out . literally being yanked from player to player unable to do shit
top 10 broken things in wow ... 1-10: pvp balancing
+jacob ladder
people hear what they wanna hear.
+MegaFelicks yea, it's the problem that they try to make every class viable for pve-raids, so they all have to have the same dps. otherwise you would only have 5 classes in raids.
I remember a dagger that did "Arcane Damage" instead of physical damage in TBC (Definitely in the beta, not sure if it made it live). Meaning casters could melee for thousands of damage thanks to spell power
I remember Death Knights were able to freeze you while gripping or someway make you get the freeze and slow in the air, which made it so easy to kill others. Think it was fixed pretty fast but I had tons of fun with it :)
Dear Old Windfury Totem,
Rest in peace, you are sorely missed.
Sincerely,
A Vanilla Arms Warrior
dude Shamans were so fking good back then lol from down rank chain healing to windfury totems.. truly strong.
Also sincerely, combat rogues :)
Yeah no u sucked u not a wow GOD stfu noob u didnt play in vanilla
Sincerely
An actual vanilla player
@@mclovin533 God I have never seen a sadder message about wow then this. And that takes effort
@@OhNoTheFace he's such a sweaty wowclassic andy xD
Another one that didn't make it to live from WotLK alpha/beta: before wotlk, paladins spell "lay on hands" had 1 hour cooldown. In WotLK it was reduced to 20 minutes. new item sets had bonuses reducing the cooldown by few minutes, but T3 had a 12 minute reduce as a set bonus. You were able to stack the bonuses to receive a free full health restore, glyphed to restore half mana too.
the one thing i remember from death knight at launch was the blood presensce having a 10% lifesteal raidwide buff that stacked. basicly a bg full of death knights ment everyone had 100-400% lifesteal next to already op self sustain and damage.
Man, that Unbreakable footage during the Windfury section. That brings back some memories.
FYI the C'thun/oozling bug worked that the anyone who went down to kill tentacles could macro and spam the oozling pet. The temporary debuff wouldn't just stay, it also wouldn't clear the other oozling debuffs when reapplied. Back in vanilla, there was a debuff cap, this would fill the debuff cap and "push off" any unwanted debuffs. This would eliminate the damage caused in the stomach and allow people to stay down there and dps the tentacles non stop.
This also tied in to a problem many raiding warlocks had back then; the bosses would hit the debuff cap, and the warlocks dots would fall off.
Oh I remember number 4, I made a warrior, went to WSG. I charged, rend, ran to next target, rend, continued, ended up with like 54 killing blows. Did this the whole day, so fun :P
PS: ABout DKS in early wrath, if you tried to Death Grip a stunned target it made them DC, my friend got the arena mount thanks to that.
I'm surprised you didn't mention "Rampage" stacking, given that it was a 24 hotfix after being discovered. Pre-BC patch warriors were getting summoned after stacking it to one-shot levels, clearing all the Nightmare Dragons, and chunks of Naxxramas 40.
Great video! For your next video you should do "top ten world of Warcraft crazy back stories" or just more random facts ;)
I was thinking of doing a "107 fun facts" video, which is kinda the same
Yes! I love your fun facts! Your amazing, keep it up :)
Any idea of when u will have it out?
Robert Even
oh I dont plan on starting it for like another month or two. I want to gather a whole bunch of new material for that.
hirumaredx OK, but quick question, in your opinion what are the best classes for PvP?
Hey buddy, great video, love the PvP footage, but there's one thing I Want to mention about the Dk, Death siphon used to be a lvl 60 talent (now 75 I think since WoD) It cost 1 death rune, if you picked frost, both blood runes would turn into death runes, 60 to 70 PvP was a nightmare cus Death siphon would take away about one third of any non tanks HP, so cast it twice on the same person and its almost gg
damn thats OP
Yeah :P i never dared go into a bg anywhere near 60
Back in Vanilla there were a couple of fun bugs involving priest's mind control. For one, if you mind controlled someone and jumped them off of some moving platforms (the boat from Theramore to Menethil for example), it could cause the person to fall through the world. The more interesting bug was how the game treated players under the mind control effect. When you cast MC on a player they were considered, from game's perspective, to be the priest's pet. This is very important because if they player died while under MC (a thing that was easy to accomplish with DoTs), the corps left behind was actually the corps of the priest's pet. What this meant was that if the player that got killed wanted to res, they either had to re-log into the game to fix the problem or they had to spirit res.
Also, RIP wall jumping. I did very much enjoy exploring places I wasn't supposed to go :(
I feel like mages spellsteal should be on here somewhere from when we could go into naxxramas and steal the Dks bone shield that absorbed 1millilon damage
the explanation for the oozeling bug is that the debuff that turned you green took up 1 debuff slot on your character. using a macro you could summon the pet hundreds of times in a very short period, thereby putting hundreds of copies of the debuff on yourself, and forcing the stacking damage debuff caused by being in c'thun's stomach off your character (you could only have a finite number of debuffs and they would be removed in the order they were applied if you passed the 'cap'.) without the stacking damage debuff from being in the stomach there was nothing forcing you to leave, so you could stay and dps the stomach tentacles indefinitely.
That jumping thing was pretty funny. I remember climbing into mount Hyjal with a friend of mine, when it was locked in BC
I remember during WotLK in Nax. Mage was able to spell steal from the Death Knight's bone armour. Making them invincible. Just keep one DK and reapply your bone armour. That was fixed quickly
I remember this!
Should have included the rampage bug warriors had! I got a 3 day ban for that...
For tanking specs, but works well for blood dk and Bmaster monks is stacking BA (Bonus Armor) from low level gears. Thus, exploiting tank passive ability called BLADED ARMOR. This was the thing when WOD first came out. But now, they lowered the gears BA stats but still useful until now.
thought my spirit would be on this list throughout the whole of WoD...
3:49 LOL that's some NEXT level damage there: "SO MUCH damage that not only do you die, you get out of the universe"
I felt that pallies being able to insta kill anything in vanilla should be on the list, back when you saved up a swing every time you got crit (forgot the name of the ability), the zul gurub plague was also awesome and insanely broken.
One of my favorite broken things was a short time during WotLK when Pallys could viably heal in Protection spec. If I remember right, they had a talent that gave huge amounts of spell power from stamina, one that gave them insane mana regen and one that made flash of light crit for shit loads, all while the pally had the bulk and utility of a prot pally tank.
If i recall right, saronite bomb bug was only used on normal LK on the first week of ICC raid, the ban and the kill taken away forced ensidia to kill it with alts to stay in the pve course because it would delay their heroic start by one week (since killing LK nm was mandatory to unlock icc HM).
There was a dancing rune weapon bug at one point, where if you were mounted with a dancing rune weapon active, you could spam death coil and dispatch anyone in seconds, lmao.
additional note about the season 5 death knights. When plague strike removed lifebloom, it didn't benefit from the "bloom" effect that normally happened when it expired or was dispelled. RIP resto driuds
Idk if it was a "broken" thing or if it just got nerfed really quickly but I think it started happening once the pre-patch for Draenor came out that my mages Ice Flow's spell (which allows you to cast any spell while moving with 3 charges and I think 12 sec cooldown per charge) started working for mounts, meaning I was able to summon my mount while moving. Once 6.1 came out it stopped working for that though. But in the short time I could get out of pretty much any unwanted ganking event by just casting my invisible then running to a cliff where I'd jump off slow fall, ice flow, and then mount WHILE IN THE AIR FALLING and ride away safely when I get to the ground. This even worked in bgs. If there was someone running away that just needed a little more blows I could ice flow, then mount up while still running after them and then catch up in order to give the killing blow. It was a really awesome ability that I'm really sad doesn't work anymore
One really awesome broken thing i remember was back in Wotlk (I think?) when for a few hours after a hotfix, after entering any instance you would have a bunch of rare companion pets you could only get from special events and stuff (Murloc spacemarine, murloc gladiator, some robot, some onyx cat and so on) In your post box.
And also if you deleted the pets from your inventory instead/after learning them you could actually enter an instance again (i did it in Stormwind) and have all those pets send to you again, loot them and learn therm somehow and finish the 100 pet achievement that way as they counted towards it every single time
A note on the Shammy Windfury in Vanilla; Triggering a insane amount of hits was made even easier if you got the trinket from Dagran Thaurissan in Blackrock Depths (55+ 5man, if I recall things correctly) named Hand of Justice. This trinket was technically a "mini-windfury" all on it's own. Prior to some major changes being introduced to item procs, the hits triggered by this trinket could also proc Windfury, which in turn could proc the HoJ, on and on and on and on. The largest hit count I remember seeing in posted screenshots at the time was somewhere around 17 - which is completely absurd (Yet a lot of fun if you're the Shammy in question :D)
While the above was true, some took to gearing towards the extra hit proc regardless class. Such as; Rogues would get the Ironfoe (Also from Dagran Thaurissan) which would cause 2 additional hits on proc + HoJ trinket + Windfury from Sham Buff = You're set.
Me? I enjoyed doing this on my Warrior. I geared him up for PvP purposes only, although, compared to the other Warriors I completely ignored defensive stats and went for full %crit, STR, AGI and AP. He was an alt, only used for pure fun. I had him geared up around these stats; 49% Crit, 4.6k HP Unbuffed (Would pop a Flask of Titans if the situation called for it; +2k HP), can't really remember the AP at the moment and a 7% chance for extra hits. Five % came from the 2h Sword Spec and the remaining two came from the HoJ.
Now, here is where it gets interesting. A Shammy with equivalent gear would crit a medium armor target for about 700 per swing. A Warrior would crit for over 1.2k - this is white hits - the Mortal Strike would hit for 1.8k. Most people only had about 4k, and even then only the non-Cloth classes.
While 7% chance for an extra hit is fairly low, and a rare thing, when it happens - it's pure magic (Assuming Zin'Rokh, 3.8 Speed - That's what I was using); Battle Stance > Charge > Berserker Stance + Bloodthirst mid Charge > AA (700-1200 per swing) > MS (1000-1800). With a near 50% chance to Crit, it was a fairly common thing that both the first AA and the MS would crit, hence, about 3k instantaneous Damage. At this point, against most targets of equivalent gear, you would be a couple of health percentages away from an Execute (And Executes really hit hard back then) - but sometimes, when the extra hit procced, the target wouldn't even live long enough to get out of that Charge stun. Getting just one extra AA that crits would mean that the total damage would be slightly over 4.2k - which, as stated earlier, would end up one shotting most targets on the field.
Warriors only got more insane with later gear, but for relatively early builds the extra hits were a godgiven gift. I got 6 AA's in a row at most on my Warrior. And that was on a Feral FC in WSG. Poor guy got absolutely demolished. Don't think he saw that coming. Then again; Neither did I.
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Some things I felt were missing. Battle shout triggered a mass ban wave due to a bug people exploited. You could stack the attack power bonus indefinitely, so every time you refreshed the shout, you you gain AP on top of what you already had, so people could stand inside raids for over an hour, stacking the buff, while having 1-2 healers and the warrior could just run around 1 shotting everything, while earning massive amounts of golds and epics, since the instance were attuned to drop gear/gold appropriate for 40 man raids.
Also, season 5 Ret palas were tons more broken than DK’s ever were. They were literally a meme.
Ah yes, Blizzard creates bugs, players use them, blizz blames the players and removes their achievements and/or bans them
Jup thats exactly what they do
Bugs aren't made they're accidents. Blizzard bans players because it's obvious that it's a bug and the player doesn't HAVE to use it.
the rules literally say "DO NOT ABUSE BUGS"
+0verd0se yes but for the pally one they shouldn't have to stop using a ability to avoid the bug
That's why no one got banned for using it, not to mention it was only out for 4 hours.
I don't remember exactly when, but dk's had an ability called Death Siphon that used death runes and healed u for i think it was 100% of dmg dealt. The broken part was that if used with certain other skills you could easily amass three death runes and then pop three Death Siphons instant. That may not sound too op exept that on lvl 64 when u got it it had the potential to crit for around 4k which meant instant death for most people if they were hit once or twice. Fun times
was loads of broken things in vanilla, a few that springs to mind is when you cast summon the spell was a few feet away so if you stood close to a locked gate you could summon everyone past the gate, also if you died you had a release timer pop up, if you logged out with 1 second remaining when you logged back in you was a ghost at your corpse and able to res up, both of these came with a ban if caught
walljumping was one of the most fun things about vanilla and TBC, everyone used to hang out on goldshire Inn's roof :D
oh yeah remember the ret pally bug, and i remember me and 2 other random paladins in AV just running to the boss and killing him in seconds and winning the bg in like 2-3 mins, fun times
I don't remember exactly when this was but it was sometime between BC and Wrath of the Lich King.
Where in Arathi Basin on the horde side. Using a mount you were able to get out of the starting area and start capping points before the match had even started.
Yeah also in WotLK beta, the chains of ice slowed ALL types of movement. Which meant that 5 DK's entered Hellfire Rampart, chain of ice'd a mob, then pulled them with that...I forgot it's name, taunt/pull ability and then the poor bastard started floating through the air very, very slowly and being completely helpless while we hacked it to pieces.
You forgot a big one! The ability to crash the entire server! In The Burning Crusade, right after arena teams were released, a bug surfaced. If you were invited to join an arena team, and the person that invited you logged off before you accepted, and you then accepted the invite after they had logged off, it would crash the entire server you were playing on! It would take roughly 5 minutes for the server to restart. It only lasted one night, but man, was that a fun night. There was just something so funny about disconnecting everyone on the server during raiding hours.
during the seal of truth bug it also bugged seal of righteousness which would usually cleave to 2 other near targets but instead it was cleaving from itself so it literally let out a wave of cleaves that wouldnt end until everything was dead. I ditched Rated BG's that day to farm AV, it was glorious.
There was this bug back in vanilla that let you dc anyone in your faction. First, you would make a macro that was however many lines of /roll 1-10000 you could fit. Then you would invite that person to a group and start spamming the macro. Best part was, they wouldn't even have to accept the invite.
Nice video i would not mind seeing one video over some the past raid exploits.
lol I remember wall jumping you could get into caverns of time before it was open to the public in vanilla and BC before it was opened up.
There was a patch back in vanilla where rogues ambush and backstab did not require a dagger. It was only live for about 12 hours but a geared rogue could kill a geared tank just about instantly. Not many people knew about this bug, but it was funny. I tried it out in sm and had fun with the insane amount of instant damage.
I actually remember that Shaman Windfury "bug"...that shit was crazy. IMO that was THE biggest bug in WoW. Yes, not even OP DK's can compare with that...the burst damage they would do was just simply insane...
in eye of the storm you could get out of the starting "bubble" before the timer with big mounts or mechano hog, so you could walk over to the points and then instantly start capturing them when the start timer ended. :D
There was a point pre-expansion where ret paladins would get a ridiculous amount of damage from hammer of wrath when popping avenging wrath, allowing them to 1 shot almost anyone in pvp with the finisher.
DK's "raise Ally" used to be dungeon saving for me. Being able to get that extra bit of dps in at the end.
So, I know this was made awhile ago, but I have my own story of broken things in wow. So back in Cata ( don't know which patch) me and a pal were doing the recruit a friend grinding, and we also had a 3rd guy joining to help do random quest and what not. Short story is we were able to bring a max lvl char into any random que do them super quick and get the random que bonus. we were able to get to 18 to 55 in a span of hours cause of this fact, and it lasted for about a week.
Similar to the sword with no level req. there was also a pickaxe rare treasure in pandaria that at least in the beta had none either. I made an alt on the beta when i found it and powerleveled for a bit just one-shotting everything.
I remember a bug on a Wrath private server where you could oneshot almost everything with Drain Soul because it ticked for like 300k damage and 1200k damage when under 25%
As a Pally tank from 2.3 on-wards we've been broken a few times, and in one case we didn't get fixed for a long ass time.
Ardent Defender...any tank that's not a Paladin that raided ICC is crying right now.I used to love eating Soul Reapers on 25HC without cooldowns or eating Big Bangs without cooldowns in Ulduar, basically if you've got an alive healer, you're un-killable.(This was when it was a passive ability that does what it does now but passively)
Oh yeah and Seal of Blood that thing was intended to be somewhat trollish of Blizzard, till they realized Bloodelf Paladins were decimating everything, and if you critted a tad too much even decimating yourself.
I still remember the wall climbing in wsg, so you could get the opponents flag and jump to the water channel, where allies would have to be able to do the same to even find you. Good times.
I miss Walljumping soo soo soo much:(
It came back for a brief moment in 5.0.4 check my page for videos on it
You forgot the Rogue dagger glitch towards the end of Mist of Pandaria from the "Battleworn Thrash Blade", I remember pulling 30k-40k single target after the patch the down-scaled everything. If it was an AOE fight I could pull 200k dps and sometimes I made some of the raiders crash from my dps.
Its funny how top lists works. Lots of people love them. Good way to make some sweet yt cash. Good video as always Hiru.
Totally, the next video wont be a list one. I think I'll alternate between them from now on. The first dave and dev video did a lot better than I expected
I sound like such a fanboy lol but i thoroughly enjoy all your videos. They are well put together and informative. Keep diing you brother
Good on ya for not including the pally world boss one shot, we've heard about it so many times, we dont need to hear about it again
I enjoyed wall jumping. My guild used to do base jumping events to see who could do the coolest and most unique base jumps. Kinda died out after Wrath launched, as everyone just did Dal.
Omg, I DO remember that ret pally bug in Cata. I didn't get to experience it myself, but I remember the fallout from it
I've seen a lot of people say that windfury could chain into itself, but I've never seen a video with this happening. The only thing I can think of is that people saw a windfury proc off of an attack and then another one off of a simultaneous stormstrike.
also one funny / broken mechanic was in early MoP I believe (or cata?) that shamans had a % of their healing / damage done turn into AOE healing to the raid for as long as they were standing in their healing rain. This gave my enh. shaman a nr. 2 - 3 spot on the healer list while only giving up 1 lightning bolt every 10 sec or so. Really sweet
I remember healing rain
the ret pally bug disconnecting their enemies is just hilarious to me. like imagine getting killed so hard you disconnect from the game. lmao
When WotlK came out, i was in groups with 5 DK's to do dungeons, the tank just came back as ghoul (as everyone else), I had a macro that had all the abillities in it and just spam that, it killed everything. Good times.
you should probably edit the LK part since they did the exploit on normal and not heroic they were just likely going to be the first guild to kill it on heroic before they were banned.
You forgot to mention the all time bug that's never been fixed. Stealth o.O
Robert Schwartzback lel kid
bronson carter i think its a joke lel
aiden head lel i no ked
k den lel
Robert Schwartzback Mage's blink never got fixed either! Still doesnt work to this day
Also in Wrath, Dancing Rune Weapon on DK's would copy all of their buffs when it was cast and the rune weapon would mimic any spells the DK used while active. You could summon two armies of the dead, it was hilarious.
My favorite bugged ability was warlock demon summoning...some cata beta build - your vanity pets were in the same category as other pets, so they were replaced when you summoned instead of your actual demon. Went into some dungeons with like 200 demons. Was faster than it is now with L100 haha...
I remember way back in vanilla in Arathi Basin on my hunter....we used to have this ability that we could see a far distance, cant remember the name anymore....but you could use it before the match started against the fence then press forward and you would be on the other side thus allowing you to go cap a flag very quickly.
Neat video but I'm surprised you didn't mention the old level 50 paladin quest reward sword that didn't have bind on pickup with the other items without level requirements.
Wall walking with a priests levitation. You could pretty much get everywhere
Tholyn i have to agree with this as i main a priest and in earlier game expansions nowhere was unaccessable to me was great
Don't forget 0/32/39 death knights; a spec that ended up so overpowered Blizzard pushed out a patch specifically to break the spec by moving Gargoyle and Howling Blast to the bottom of their respective trees.
Actually, the Kaluak fishing pole was from early Wrath. Other than that, nice video! I remember the WF procs :D
I remmember the broken DK days... 3 DKs in a group each one with their presence a an aura, the crazy stats that frost presence gave you, the broken dots of the unholy and the army of dead in arenas.
I remember back in Wrath, I was in an Eye of the Storm. I think there were like seven of us, fighting a Death Knight, don't remember what spec. It was just the Death Knight. We had him backed up into a corner in the Mage Tower, yet the fight still lasted like 30 seconds and the Death Knight managed to kill two of us before we killed him. That's when I knew that DKs were broken
there was a quest for paladin during the beta ( vanilla ) that would give you a level 50 sword, but it was not bound, and there were no level required, best weapon ever to start a warrior at the time :D
Also, there was a weird bug with the paladin during beta, if you had something like 2/3 ( or was it 3/4 ? ) on blessing of wisdom, and tried to summon your pally mount, you would get a Kodo.
Fun times !
The thing about enhancement shamans and the windfury is that it would reduce the damage each time it happened. You would know this if you played it. I had it happen to me once, where it proc'ed a total of 7 times, and I saw it went from a 1.3k crit, down to 10 points of damage.
The only reason it was over powered is because if a really well geared shaman, went up to a character with crap gear, they can eventually one shot a player with windfury, and it was the players who couldn't play the game who would whine about the ability.
So if something like that would happen, all you would see is a bunch of "1" flooding your screen. after the initial hit.
+Trace P. I spose though "1" damage 3million times is still one damage, so if you could run around and avoid crap for 10 minutes it should in theory work
If my memory doesn't fail me, the saronite bomb bug was detected and fixed after World's first NORMAL kill made by Ensidia. The whole raid group was banned for a week, basically destroying their options of killing the Lich King in heroic mode and marked the downfall of the guild and the rise of Paragon.
The weirdest thing about it is that the kill was being monitored by game masters but Blizzard banned them after they killed him and posted the post-kill selfies on their website instead of stopping the try and warning them right on the spot.
Mozedo Even more crazy was that they were banned at all considering the use of Saronite bombs was part of the normal dps rotation for raiding engineers, and the guild had no clue anything was actually wrong until the bug was explained to them and they were banned.
That one definitely ranks pretty high on the list of major screw-ups/crappy decisions on Blizzard's side.
The ooze bug for the C'thun was that you had to to have enough oozes to spam to fill up your de buff bar so that the debuff from C'thun would fall off so you would never have to leave his stomach.
really amazed you didnt mention older paldins in pvp. back when you had three lives thanks to lay on hands and bubble healing.
I remember we were doing 3v3 during season 5 in hunter, hunter, rogue setup. Every enemy team with paladin or DK was almost undefeatable. When we saw RED RED PINK health bar or similar combo, we just sat down and let them kill us to save time.
Arathi Basin bug and vanilla prot pala with reckoning should be here atleast as honorable mentions :D
There was a short time I don't remember during which exp that Shamans could use their far sight ability in AV and capture flags.
You forgot to mention the first Divine Storm that was implemented in pre WotLK patch.
The fact that blizzard increased paladin damage by way over 100% along with giving them a new "Wirlwind" dealing holy damage, healing yourself for a part of the damage done and dealing roughly 1/3 of the targets health in damage per hit meant I managed to win a Warsong Gulch match 1 vs10 with 102 kills as the match ended.
There was a talent in early wrath that allowed deathknights to gain damage for your amount of armor, the amount was insane but it was dps talent. Only the problem was it was on the first row so every tank DK was hitting as hard if not harder than both dps DKs.
actually it wasn't just early wrath, it was there the whole time during wrath and it was in the blood tree, which wasnt entirely a dps tree :P
yeah I was gonna be more specific but they switched around between whether blood or frost was the tank so I couldn't remember.
Sarosusiel
Back then all three specs of DK were potential tanks if you took the tanking talents in those trees.
How i miss my old blood dk
Sarosusiel in first half of wotlk blood talent was tank
In MOP near the end of SoO. I saw a few combat rogues using the heirloom 1h sword that gave you a chance to swing again and it was hella broken. Rogues were doing some crazy ass dps while using that weapon.
I miss only early Mist BM hunters and Arms warriors. Stampede bug was almost as big as DK's in early WotLK. I remember BM hunters oneshoting in arenas. It works like this - stampede pets were meant to deal 20% of main pet. However in arenas they did 100% + they were affected by bestial wrath. They were cc and snare immune. That was the reason why ZiQo - one of the best frost mages left wow until WoD. He made even video when hunter oneshoted his disc priest mate in accident becouse they were going for rogue and pets just randomly switched to priest. About warriors 5 stacks heroic strikes 1 shoting most of classes. When many classes were 350 k hp in max they could crit over 300 k. Just good luck :D What I also remember were frost dk's in 4.1 having instant aoe cc + overpowered healing and damage. Unholy just disapeared for a while then :D
Blood dk's used to be a dps spec, before it was streamlined and wow now tells us what spec does what. Frost used to be the go to tank spec. Also, blood DK's used to be able to kill people in a duel. Can't remember what the spell was, but it was fixed relatively quickly.
Fun fact, in Legion, Destro locks could also kill people in duels if you opened a portal just before winning, which would leave the person at one hp, and the portal would continue to hit that person until they were either dead or the portal despawned.
The Legion warlock duel killing was literally never fixed, either, until artifact weapons were taken away, which fixed itself by default I guess. But until the end of the expansion, me and one of my warlock buddies would just duel and kill each other while waiting on our raid to populate. Lmao.
#1 is spot on. The original DK's were entirely over-tuned. I remember groups of 5 DKs being able to do every BC dungeon while leveling so long as one was Blood Spec (originally a DPS spec, Frost was originally the Tanking spec) because the original Blood Presence for Blood DK's gave a healing on damage dealt to the the entire party. Combined with the a fore mentioned insane survival tools available to DK tanks, it was virtually impossible for any of the 5 DK's in the party to die to level appropriate content. Even later, they were still insanely over tuned for tanking purposes. It was not uncommon for a DK tank to solo Heroic boss encounters after everyone else in the group died thanks to the sheer amount of self-healing and mitigation/damage negation affects they had (particularly in fights with heavy magic damage).
Even now, after all the nerfs and changes, DK's are still able to solo/DK only group current raid content (including Heroic) that no other class can simply due to the survival ability set of the class.
Anyone who doubts this should go checkout Raegwyn Soloing here on UA-cam. He has vids going all the way back to soloing Sarth at level 70, to Soloing multiple heroic dungeon bosses simultaneously during Cata, to the most recent vid of 10 DK's clearing heroic BRF.
Hero class, not withstanding, from a pure game balance standpoint, NO single class in the game should be able to pull off what DKs have been and are still currently able to do.
No mention of the Fire Nova Totem bug? Was it that well known?
For those of you who don't know: Shaman could drop Fire Nova Totem and then log out, and the Totem would go hostile hurting anyone who happened to be around it.
A bunch of Shamans in my guild ran around Ironforge dropping our Fire Nova Totems next to bank alts, logging off, and having our non-Shaman friends on vent tell us of the massacre we missed. Was hilarious! The bug was fixed soon after we heard about it.
This had to be around BC, I'm guessing. It's been awhile.