Fix or Remove Spell Batching. Period

[Dommont-saurfang]

For all the talk of special interrupt code, it directly contradicts what the Blue post said.

@Kaivax

It was relatively common in the original game to see a warrior Pummel a mage who simultaneously and successfully Polymorphed the warrior. The mage suffered Pummel damage but no spell-school lock, because the mage didn’t get interrupted. This could seem paradoxical, but it could happen because the Pummel and Polymorph were both in the same batch, and were both valid actions at the start of the batch. For the most part, things like that don’t happen in modern WoW, but they still can. We’ve made improvements to batch frequency, and the game is much more responsive than it used to be. Still, if you manage to get both a Pummel and a Polymorph into a tiny processing window in modern WoW, you’ll experience the same behavior as in original WoW.

Kevin has mentioned that he doesn’t do code. I won’t be surprised if he had gotten that wrong. Your video also doesn’t state when the special interrupt code was added so it’s possible that Kevin is 100% correct but the interrupt code was added in BC or later then removed once they got spell batching more responsive - i.e. responsive enough to match/surpass the special interrupt code.