In Blitz, there was a BM Hunter dealing damage that would land 4-5 million instantly. A check on Details shows it’s an exploit/bug with Phantom Pain, as at the end of the BG he had landed 6164 shots.
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What people don’t understand, is that there is nothing special involved with this bug. Just playing the game from 1 game to the next is how it stacks. There’s something that is carrying over after each game played that just keeps accumulating. Maybe its call of the wild? One thing is for sure just playing games over and over and over again results in more and more damage. So there is nothing special involved with this bug or even exploitive to get the bug. Logging out removes all the accumulative damage. I reported this bug multiple times explaining how it works just like i did here.
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He’s exploiting the bug in order to land kills on healers and FCs.
It needs to be fixed.
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What your saying is that picking a talent that was added to the game, and just playing the game is exploiting. Most people dont even know how its happening. There isnt some set of circumstances required to “exploit” it, its literally just playing the game and it just gets stronger. This is a pretty huge oversight by blizzard, and logging out resets this damage so its even harder for people to track it down that dont know how its occuring in the first place.
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Anyone with half a brain can work it out that they’re dealing 50% of someone’s HP in a single shot… and he’s intentionally going after healers knowing this.
He doesn’t need to know the mechanics… only that he’s capitalising on it. That’s what exploiting is all about, and Blizzard have banned players in the past for things like this.
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It’s currently still bugged
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Still an issue. Everybody switching to BM because of it lol.
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Someone mentioned that they can create the “buff” by practicing on a target dummy right before queue pop.
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If it’s just from a person playing the game and queuing up again and again, yes it sucks but it’s not an exploit. The game not being tuned properly isn’t a bug. If one of your damaging abilities suddenly started hitting for 1000% more damage if you queued twice in a row, are you supposed to just remove the ability from your bars to make it fair?
Blame the poorly tested patch, not the person doing it. He may be doing it on purpose and purposely ruining people’s fun, but if it’s just his ability acting wonky without this person purposely abusing some outside factor then we need a hotfix ASAP, not a witch hunt
That being said if they ARE doing something other than queuing up multiple times that’s a different story
The talent is bad and you’d never pick it for any reason in PVP. Specifically its for m+ PVE.
2. You can hit dummies between ques to ramp it. So doing this and queing with the intent to kill people and gain rating falls under intentional exploiting.
No different the pyroclasm/deathbolt one shot mages and locks had and were stacking between ques to one shot someone instantly inside arena
That doesn’t make it an exploit. So anybody who doesn’t know what the best pick is is exploiting?
I’ve heard it only only stacks in instance PvP and I’ve also heard you can stack it on dummies. I don’t know who’s right, but if true then ya it’s likely exploiting
It’s instant-hitting me for 50% of my HP. Other healers are dropping within 2-3 GCDs. They clearly know it’s hitting for such high amounts and taking advantage of the bug, and going after healers knowing that it sways the game heavily in their favor by doing so. That’s exploitation.
That’s an unintended bug that’s ruining the game, not an exploit. Just because people are playing their character and using their abilities that are bugged doesn’t mean it’s an exploit, no matter their intentions. There will be people who take advantage of this, obviously, but it’s something that needs to get fixed and never should have gone live. You can’t ask people to not use their abilities
How would you define an exploit then?
If taking advantage of a bug isnt an exploit, then those who use abilities to find flaws in the terrain in order to hold onto the flag outside of enemy reach, is also ‘not an exploit’ ? 
Such as the case where players could get atop the mountains along the west side of Twin Peaks and carry the flag along the ridge all the way from Alliance to Horde base.
Or the other bug atm where Ele shams are 1-shotting players with lava burst.
yet there’s been instances where they’ve been banned for doing these things… because it’s knowing that the game is behaving in a non-standard manner and seeing the outcome of it giving you an advantage, and then making use of it over and again.
I mean take it how you want, but an exploit is using the game in a manner that it wasn’t intended to gain an advantage. The intention of these abilities IS to do damage though, that’s the whole reason for it, it’s just not acting correctly or isn’t tuned properly. It doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to use your ability anymore or you’ll get banned
Running along the edge of the mountain in twin peaks is an exploit because that terrain was never intended to be used by players, that’s why there’s an invisible barrier there. The sticky grenades weren’t intended to get you to places you aren’t supposed to go, it was intended to swap you places that you were supposed to be able to get to. That was obviously missed and eventually fixed
Ele one shotting with lava burst/lightning bolt isn’t an exploit, the abilities are working exactly as they were intended to be used - to do damage. They just aren’t tuned properly
I was one shotting 4-5 people at a time in RBGs while they streamed before on my ele shaman in DF, never once was worried I was going to get banned. It did eventually get tuned though
maybe you havent been across the recent bug where if you fake-cast enough, the damage of the actual casted one is multipled.
Clearly not working as intended… yet by the definition you’ve provided, it’s not an exploit … its just doing damage … despite that it’s no difference in premise to walking along the cliffs in TW; players utilizing bugs for their own gain.
As it is with this BM bug… damage increased with each instance … not intended , as is with the invisible walls in TW … yet players found a way through and now abusing it.
It’s definitely a bug and maybe an exploit as the ability is intended to do damage but only after you cast fully which isn’t happening and that can be exploited for their gain. Not sure anyone will be banned for it though, I doubt it. Can’t really ban everyone who stopped a cast
Agreed but the whole intention of the ability is to do damage, and it is. If the player has 0 intention of doing this, it will still happen. Does that mean they’re exploiting and can be banned? That doesn’t make sense by the definition of what an exploit is. If they’re playing their character the way it was meant to be played and it still happens then every hunter in the game won’t get banned