WOW CLASSIC - Cata prepatch
May19th 2024 16:00 benediction
This is the bug - it is replicable quite easily and unfortunately quite game breaking.
As we know when there are two teams of the same faction, one team fights as the horde and gets a “buff” indicating this. The current problem is this buff for whatever reason becomes PERMANENT when used to convert players cross faction, and from the results I have seen it only works in one direction.
An Alliance priest (Fighting AS horde, and buffed as horde) mind controls an Alliance member (fighting as Alliance) and what happens is that the “horde side” buff is transferred to the target but does not go away. I have not been able to test if you need to die while under control but it seems to be the case.
I just finished a game of Arathi Basin where 11/15 of us were converted to horde by the end. You spawn in the enemy graveyard, and EVERYONE is an enemy to you. Your own team sees you as hostile, and so do the other horde members. You are stuck in the enemy graveyard spawns until the end of the game. I have not managed to find any cases of reversing this effect through the same methods either. (Ally priest MC converted ally then kill) still no fix.
This has happened in at least 5 matches for me since the prepatch and it’s beyond broken. The game is unplayable, everyone was running around capping the enemy things and I guarantee they knew the bug they were abusing.