MMO Glitches / Sploits

Anyway, another EQ1 classic glitch was being able to cast while moving. It let you dodge AEs and keep casting. Cast interruption was based on if your x,y,z coordinates were the same at the start and end of the cast and didn't care about inbeween. So like on Nagafen you find a corner. Cast a long casting spell, run and dodge the AE,run back to the corner before casting is finished and your spell still goes off.

Ukerric_sl said:

To make the stuff? Nope.

To have the ones who figure out how to make the stuff have to pay you anyway? Plenty enough.

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What? Why would anyone be forced to pay you?

Ukerric_sl said:

Because if you don't, I'll sue you. That's the point of patenting things (from the future, natch): when someone wants to make them, they have to license your patent or you can sue them for damages. No work needed from your part (well, a few legal filings, but that's not work, it's lawyer stuff).

And the beauty is that it doesn't matter if you use only a little bit from the patent, and have invented - even patented - the rest yourself. You still have to pay me.

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So you'd go into the future to come back a piece of shit. Got it.

There actually has to be a good enough MMO released that you'd care enough to exploit. Who gives a damn if you find some leet exploit in WoW now? Oh noes, you can get get your armor tokenz faster.

In EQ after a patch there was no range limitation on archery and almost no delay. I managed to kill 2 named dragons in Western Waste by plinking at them from beyond aggro range back when they were hotly contested.

There were several places in several zones you could camp out and log back in at the safe spot for that zone, Sirens Grotto being a big one. Camp in the corner of the wall near the Cobalt Scar zoneline and log in at the opposite end of the zone at the Western Waste zoneline.

My favorite bug was a post patch one where you could forage any item on the drop table for that zone. I foraged a lammy in Seb, I'm pretty sure they rolled the server back for that one however.

I somehow did a sploit in WoW where I could cast while still running as my Shaman. This was in vanilla before Spiritwalk(?). Could never emulate it again.

Most of the best exploits though were in EQ though, which I didn't get into as much of some of the others around here.

For a while during WotLK WoW era knockbacks would instantly demount enemy players in Wintergrasp the outdoor PVP zone. Anyone over a 3-story height would suffer fatal fall damage and take durability loss resulting in repair costs. As a mage with blast wave (instant PBAE knockback), slow fall to safely land on the ground, and an achievement mount that was 30% faster I quickly became the terror of the skies with no one daring to fly except at low heights and all AFKing was done at a safe spot on the ground. I literally racked up over 1000 knockback kills before they finally fixed it but the terror didn't end there. Living bomb DoT and instant nukes could still kill flyers the old fashioned way, but the most famous of which was the epic rundown of an enemy horde also with the faster mount. After making an initial midair damage run I put him into low health but he took off and kept flying while my brother tracked him on his hunter. He literally tailed the guy out of Wintergrasp all the way into Borean Tundra (remaining PVP flagged) but his straight path to avoid me catching up happened to go directly over a lake. With the target still in low health my brother demounted, crit his Kill shot to finish the bastard, and then landed safely in water with zero fall damage.

Even without the knockback sploits aerial combat between priests and mages became common although mages definitely had the better end of it. Priest levitate broke on damage and mages could spellsteal each others slow fall. Toss in silence, ice block invulnerability and invis to escape on the ground and that was the best non-traditional PVP WoW ever had. I even tracked down the hardly known Evonice's Landin' Pilla trinket for 10 second slow fall so hunters could join in the action. Still didn't get as many hate tells from newly created alts as I did during the knockback days.

Edit: almost forgot but you could fly inside the door and curl upwards and if your mount lasted just long enough you could land on top of the inner pillars. Death from above from indoors on unsuspecting raiders. The best was spamming tab + living bomb on targets in a large group and watching the explosions destroy entire packs.

The best sploit would be too make a few well timed trades on the swindle market . Then just buy the MMO of choice for a hobby out of your sofa change.

Think of the fun you could have .
Assling druids with a huge xp ratio too level.
Randomly make characters combust who need it with a bolt from the heavens .
The fun would be limited only by your imagination.

Fawe_sl said:

i in Vex Thal we could run on the roof and get to any of the bosses.

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A couple years ago last time I checked you could still do this. There was a hole in the roof if you ran around the back of the castle. I think it was right above the human hat oozes.