Blizzard's Response on the Zul'Gurub Class Enchant Exploit

Classic Posted 2020/04/19 at 6:31 PM by perculia

ZG class enchants

Blizzard

people are trading their class enchants because of spell batching in trade windows

It’s not actually batching, it’s a timing interaction between a macro and the trade window. It just seems like batching. And here is an account from a vanilla toon live now on retail that was enchanted by someone else: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/character/eu/shattered-hand/ihealtheflag 68

This was live in vanilla. People did it in vanilla.

Comment by Shahaman95That communityComment by ObikaThe guy saying it's not batching and that it's "a timing interaction between a macro and the trade window" doesn't have the slighest idea of what he is talking about.
You can literally do it without the macro, just by clicking "accept trade" at the right time. Hell, I've done it myself while testing with argent dawn shoulder enchants. The macro he's referring to is merely a script that says "if you cast time is less than 300ms, then accept trade", it's just making it a bit easier. It's 100% due to batching, and it's also the reason why it existed under Vanilla, because the batching back then allowed it as well.

It's 100% Vanilla-like and a result of batching. Nothing to see here, just normal consequences of 200ms batching.Comment by AllikatThis 100% worked in vanilla. It was even easier as an Aussie playing on a US server because our pings were so bad, although I didn't realise at the time it was a bad exploit. It was in game for so long!Comment by MecsicanWhy change something that was there for the entire duration of Vanilla?
#NoChanges ?Comment by SallaraWhy change something that was there for the entire duration of Vanilla?
#NoChanges ?Comment by ZorbiusGamingWhy change something that was there for the entire duration of Vanilla?
#NoChanges ?Comment by Neuromancer
This was in vanilla as I did this on my 19 twinks. Already did it to my twinks in classic and if they remove it oh well. Farmed my own mats so just time wasted and in this quarantine got plenty of time.

As for raid gear never actually tried that during raid but guessing it probably should work.Comment by Amxyplz ban botComment by MurzacWhy change something that was there for the entire duration of Vanilla?
#NoChanges ?Comment by TyrehlI hope that they disable or remove the enchant ASAP. Stop being idiots, this is in no way good for a game the community already sees as "too easy with the current knowledge". Think about the game and the content, and not about your own interests for once.Comment by HardAsIronAs a DPS Warrior and Enhancement Shaman raider, I can tell you for certain that the class enchants are totally useless for many class/spec combos.

We SHOULD be allowed to pick another class enchant. For example, the Hunter enchant, even with the useless Ranged Attack Power, would be a huge, huge upgrade for DPS Warriors.

It's ridiculously poor game design, that only certain classes/specs will benefit from these enchants.Comment by AsheevaWhy change something that was there for the entire duration of Vanilla?
#NoChanges ?Comment by AsheevaAs a DPS Warrior and Enhancement Shaman raider, I can tell you for certain that the class enchants are totally useless for many class/spec combos.

We SHOULD be allowed to pick another class enchant. For example, the Hunter enchant, even with the useless Ranged Attack Power, would be a huge, huge upgrade for DPS Warriors.

It's ridiculously poor game design, that only certain classes/specs will benefit from these enchants.Comment by Papa63lv20 chest on lv19 priest? StrangeComment by ShadowPhoenxAs a DPS Warrior and Enhancement Shaman raider, I can tell you for certain that the class enchants are totally useless for many class/spec combos.

We SHOULD be allowed to pick another class enchant. For example, the Hunter enchant, even with the useless Ranged Attack Power, would be a huge, huge upgrade for DPS Warriors.

It's ridiculously poor game design, that only certain classes/specs will benefit from these enchants.Comment by MurzacWhy change something that was there for the entire duration of Vanilla?
#NoChanges ?Comment by r3fusetoxall these guys talking about knowing about this since vanilla just make no sense... I guess they talk about free serversComment by silyar"Why change it"?
Because it's obviously a "bug" and not intended. They changed/removed the loot-bug and others from classic too, so #nochanges makes no sense at all. Even a 1-3 day ban would be justified, not just a removal of the enchant.Comment by Flaxtonall these guys talking about knowing about this since vanilla just make no sense... I guess they talk about free servers1. Enchanting a BoE item by items (such as ZG/Naxx enchants, as well as BC LW/Tailoring leg enchants) did not soulbind gear up until patch 3.1.0.
2. In-game raid loot trading was not part of the original WoW experience. (Was done by ticketing a GM, which resulted in item being deleted from one character, a separate item created and mailed to the other - without enchants.)
Comment by arrowdAs a DPS Warrior and Enhancement Shaman raider, I can tell you for certain that the class enchants are totally useless for many class/spec combos.

We SHOULD be allowed to pick another class enchant. For example, the Hunter enchant, even with the useless Ranged Attack Power, would be a huge, huge upgrade for DPS Warriors.

It's ridiculously poor game design, that only certain classes/specs will benefit from these enchants.