A trick to obtain 100% Multistrike

[JohNnimOn030]

Hi guys,

Recently a friend told me a trick(bug) to reach 100% multi for mage. As u can see here

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1. Prerequisites

• Frost Spec
• Icy Veins glyph active in the lower-left corner
• Thermal Void

2. Method

• Paste this macro

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  /castglyph Icy Veins major2 /cast Icy Veins
• Use the macro and cast Icy Lance to refresh your Icy Veins(from 45% multi buff to 30% haste buff)
• Now you find additional multi in stats without any buff!!!
• Repeat what you have done above and your multi will boooooom!!!(100% is enough)
• 100% multi is kept through all three specs even after death, until you log out

3. Example
Here is my test in High Council as a fire mage.(I made it private )

4. Intention
It is definitely a severe exploiting. I do not recommend anyone abuse this bug at the risk of being banned. But, meanwhile, I would like to see more people play fire and upload logs to WCL(someone already did). Only in this situation, BLZ responds as fast as lightening. In my realm(CN) they do nothing.

[Searix]

well this explains that one parse

[Rinoa]

Good post, thank you. I took the liberty of referencing it in a bug report in hopes of a swift fix. Wouldn't want this kind of thing to stay live for very long.

[cgll]

the other way around would be funnier - stacking haste

i guess they wont fix it today be rdy for some crazy logs tonight

[JohNnimOn030]

the other way around would be funnier - stacking haste

i guess they wont fix it today be rdy for some crazy logs tonight

I did try a lot of times but failed - multi decreasing instead of haste stacking.

[Windfury]

Anyone can confirm that Blizzard fixed the bug?

[Savedya]

I was able to perform it last night at around 9pm EST.

There's a typo in the macro, remove the space between "major 2".

It also appears to be slightly latency-based.

[Buttercastle]

It seems like now what happens is that when you refresh Icy Veins with Ice Lance it doesn't set it to 30% haste.

[Searix]

Been meaning to ask does Warcraftlogs have official "in"s with blizzard or something? Has seemed super high and mighty.

[Rinoa]

While he's probably somewhat connected as he runs one of the most useful third party sites, I don't see the high and mighty thing. I think he's just fairly busy and is not particularly enjoying having to manually blacklist a lot of logs because of exploits and clever use that he doesn't want WCL to support.

[Curnivore]

It's no longer clever use when you know developers did not intent the trick to be part of the game if they figured out you could make it part of the game after the fact of their product release. I know hard core guilds often stretch it to claim it is still clever use but they are clearly wrong. They are the designer of the game you are playing and they have clearly indicated they did not intend to have that trick in the game so by definition it is something that is on the queue to be fixed as a bug even if it's not already (the most regular example category is when a trick gives an advantage to a spec, while other specs or classes can not get a similar advantage, making the game imbalanced, a situation that we know for a fact the developers do not intent to exist).

[Rinoa]

It was a general statement, the clever use part of my post is in no way referring to exploiting like the one discussed in this thread. He is also removing things that he himself have claimed as clever use.

[Curnivore]

Sorry, I didn't intend to imply that I was referring to you personally, but I'm too used to people claiming that it is clever use to use tricks that were clearly unintended by the developers when they find a technical loophole to do so. This subject is very clear because we know very clearly how this game is designed holistically: it must have balance across classes and specs. When a spec or class gets an important advantage from a trick that the developers did not anticipate it is by definition a bug that is on a queue to be fixed and if it's not fixed yet it's only because of lack of time and resources.

[skiz]

fixed?

[Astaine]

I think it is, ive just tried it out, and its not working. so i think its fixed, thank god.

[Selluth]

What I'm amazed of more than anything is how this is still in the Arcane sub-forum.

I can also attest to this being fixed already.

[Rinoa]

Locking this thread as the exploit has been hotfixed.