I made a post last week on the WoW Classic subreddit with the title “How Onslaught abused their way to world 1st BWL speedrun and ruined the competitive scene of speedrunning”. Following this post, Blizzard finally fixed the Blade of Eternal Darkness.
Another issue that was discussed was flaskpotting the Flask of Distilled Wisdom. I will reiterate how this is done:
2 core mechanics are involved:
- Popping the flask instantly gives 2000 mana.
- Removing the flask aura when below 2000 mana will just put the user’s mana to 0.
What is the strategy: You need to have a flask of distilled wisdom already popped. Spam-cast abilities until you are extremely low mana (preferably under 100 mana), after which you apply mechanic 2 followed by mechanic 1. This guarantees an instant 2000 mana regen with a 3-second cooldown.
Is this an acceptable way to use flasks? Shouldn’t there at least be a cooldown maybe higher than 3 seconds on these, or have the mana regen changed?
I tried doing the same using the Elixir of Greater Intelligence, and the mana increase is not working the same as using the flask. The elixir only increases the max mana. Shouldn’t the flask do the same? I also tried equipping and unequipping a chest which has the +100 mana enchant. Same thing, it doesn’t work like the flask.
If we look at the effect of Flask of Distilled Wisdom “Increases the player’s maximum mana by 2000 for 2 hrs. You can only have the effect of one flask at a time. This effect persists through death.”, it states that it increases the MAXIMUM mana, not that it restores 2000 mana.
I believe that this is not working as intended. Please state your feedback bellow.
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I believe this should work like Power Word: Fortitude
Seems like an abuse of a mechanic. But on a personal note:
If you’re that big of a nerd, and you think this game matters in any way shape or form, so much so that you’ll spend hours farming gold to blow on flasks to do this with? Go ahead.
It won’t change the fact that your life IRL is so boring that you have no identity outside of this game so pushing old content that the rest of us lazily enjoy 10-15 minutes slower than you is all you have.
On one hand. I agree, seems like an unintended mechanic to grant mana rather than simply increase the mana pool size, considering nothing else works that way.
On the other hand, if they are spending 200g for what is effectively a major mana potion, they’re nuts. I would rather look into their players buying massive amounts of gold and punish them for that than worry about an incredibly expensive ‘exploit’.
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Onslaught has been accused of running all the major botting operations on Skeram anyways, there use to be a reddit post about how they are into RMT and massive botting. You can imagine how well that reddit post went.
It’s probably safe to assume they have just banks full of lotus.
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yeah, like people who do speed runs wont be doing this from now on
if a guild is going for world records they have enough gold to replicate this, so this is not ruinning anything
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I guess Blizzard doesn’t care about this at all.
Blizzard 100% doesn’t care, which is dumb because this flask potting and guilds PTRing BWL for 5 hours basically kills the speed running community. No one will have a chance without spending 1000s of gold on flasks and spending hours on a PTR. Before this it was just about playing better and having 1 chance to get it right and improving everyweek. now its just who spends more time in the PTR and spends the most gold.
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Does this generate threat when Mana is gained?
FLASKS NOT WORKING AS INTENDED?
A lot of things aren’t working as intended…
Blizzard has a BIG job to do in Classic WoW! Anyway it’s keep going better than the new one… (I can call the new a BAD GAME).