World of Warcraft: Classic

Curious what everyone's thoughts on leeway are -

Given that it was a mechanic put in place to adjust for latency issues, it seems reasonable to at least reduce the effect relative to the net reduction in user latency from then to now.

From the WoW Classic "Not a Bug" List blue post:

I’ve updated the original post in this thread with:

• “Melee leeway” is working as intended.

After careful study and testing, we’ve found that for players with low latency, the state of melee leeway is how they would have experienced the game in 2006.
There are more people with low latency now than there were in 2006, so we expect for some it might feel different, but it is working as expected.

I suppose a similar argument could be made in regard to spell batching. /shrug

Batching is stupid, people sheeping each other at the "same time" doesn't need to exist in pvp. But oh well, it's in!

yerm said:

Because, hey, owning the fuck out of shit from years ago is badass. .

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Someone tell blizzard this

I look forward to Mortal Striking a gnome from two continents away as a Tauren.

Bondurant said:

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I used to main a warrior in original wow and I dont' remember that happening or at least it was exceedingly rare. Maybe hunters can chime in as they would probably remember better since it fucks them.

Kevin Jordan was talking about traps being coded as interrupts to avoid the batching window.

I recall using scatter + trap to aimed shot people but apparently that won't be a thing in Classic either.

But as somebody who spends a lot of time researching an old game, I have to say that memory is too faulty to base conclusions on

I don't mind leeway, you're at a massive disadvantage as melee anyways.

Unless you're a rogue.

I for sure remember scatter into trap to aim shot being the bread and butter of hunters.

xzi said:

I don't mind leeway, you're at a massive disadvantage as melee anyways.

Unless you're a rogue.

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Leeway f's rogues extremely hard against other melee. No more 5-8 kiting.

Temptation is great to relive the heyday of Night Elf Shadowmeld and
Ashjre’thul.

Torrid said:

I recall using scatter + trap to aimed shot people but apparently that won't be a thing in Classic either.

But as somebody who spends a lot of time researching an old game, I have to say that memory is too faulty to base conclusions on

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It wasn't a thing in vanilla/classic if you're talking about scatter shot to lay down a trap. Couldn't trap while in combat.

But if you meant using the short window of scatter shot to aimed, then yah you could somewhat. But the cast time was usually so long that scatter wore off a little early, but i gave you a little time to do it.

On a different note. I love the huge list of "not bugs" they have to release because people forgot the QOL changes or other things they added over the years. Rose colored glasses starting to crack for a few people I guess.

Yeah I remember plenty of hunters doing the scatter>FD>trap thing

In spite of Blizzard's massive screw up with BFA, they are going to make out like bandits with classic. Plus their timing is amazing luck.

With the total lack of new mmos recently, Classic is going to pull in massive numbers. I have friends that have never once been interested in WoW that are actually considering playing Classic because they are burnt out on their current mmos and nothing new is coming. FFXIV, GW2, ESO, etc are going to take huge hits to their sub numbers for a few months.