Blizzard: Quartz addon, WoW casting latency trick not exploit

 

This news just in from Big Blue Blizzard, who have accepted that latency between client and server is too varied and has yet to be fully addressed: the casting latency trick that some expert mages have been using for some time now is confirmed acceptable by administrative standards.

Or so says macro community manager Slouken, who comments, “FYI, we’re working on something for [patch] 2.3 to help make /stopcasting lag workarounds unnecessary.” Adding another possible fix – and hopefully an effective one – to patch version 2.3’s possible change list makes this significant news indeed.

The exploit was reportedly addressed to a game master before, who assured that such an exploit was completely fine in their books – as long as it doesn’t utilize automation techniques. The trick required the use of instinctive estimation, a casting latency addon known as Quartz, and a small macro script. It allegedly increased mage‘s DPS directly by as much as 20%.

Via WoW Forums

 

This news just in from Big Blue Blizzard, who have accepted that latency between client and server is too varied and has yet to be fully addressed: the casting latency trick that some expert mages have been using for some time now is confirmed acceptable by administrative standards.

Or so says macro community manager Slouken, who comments, “FYI, we’re working on something for [patch] 2.3 to help make /stopcasting lag workarounds unnecessary.” Adding another possible fix – and hopefully an effective one – to patch version 2.3’s possible change list makes this significant news indeed.

The exploit was reportedly addressed to a game master before, who assured that such an exploit was completely fine in their books – as long as it doesn’t utilize automation techniques. The trick required the use of instinctive estimation, a casting latency addon known as Quartz, and a small macro script. It allegedly increased mage‘s DPS directly by as much as 20%.

Via WoW Forums