Front stabbing and /sitting

[Zeliek-moon-guard (Zeliek)]

@Kulzuk-illidan

We literally have patch notes, several guides, and videos showing otherwise. You literally have no idea how spell batching works and don’t understand how the modern client would remove any possible chance of proccing a talent from a /sit.

@Kaivax

Since we first announced World of Warcraft Classic, we’ve seen questions about spell batching. While we never really eliminated spell batching in WoW, we did change how (and how often) we process batches of actions coming from players, so you’re less likely to notice that processing in today’s game. We’ve been working to ensure that in WoW Classic, the gameplay of activating spells and effects will not differ from the experience of playing original WoW.

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.

As with many other areas of WoW Classic, authenticity is our primary concern. It used to be the norm that combat flow and PvP balance were defined and tuned in a game where spell messages were resolved less frequently. There was a single game loop that processed all messages sent and received every server tick. Nowadays, the game processes multiple loops for messages of differing priorities. Spell casts are high priority, and have been for a long time.

For WoW Classic, we’re moving spell casts to a low-priority loop that will cause them to be processed at the frequency that best fits how the game actually played in version 1.12. Two mages will be able to Polymorph each other somewhat reliably, resulting in two sheep nervously pacing around at range. Two warriors will be able to Charge one another, and the end result will be both warriors standing stunned in each other’s original location.

We think it’ll be fun to see those sorts of things happening again.

Show me those vidoes and maybe I’ll be able to understand what you are saying

@Kulzuk-illidan

The fight is that, Ret is still and always will be the worst dps in the game. You won’t be able to exploit sit to max level nor in pvp. Hell even legacy players says Ret is the worst even Elem or Enhancement is superior.

Poor thing.

Congratulations on trying to instigate indignation and anger there at the end. As for Ret being the worst dps in the game, one might think you were ignorant unless you add a qualifier to your opinion that specifically points to the one scenario you think they are bad at: raiding.

[Anathil-dentarg]

Surprised to see this post blow up a second time.