As a warrior will it eat one of my 32 buff slots by having my bow enchanted with a scope? If so, can I have a GM remove the enchant from my ranged weapon since I didn’t know that it would actually hurt my character. Just curious since I had heard that helmet, shoulder and leg enchant counted as one of the 32 buff slots meaning only 29 remain. With a weapon damage enchant on my bow, I now have 28 buff slots available and I’d rather not have the bow if this is the case.
Why do you think you’ll ever get that many buffs
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Well i mean a scope is basically a permanent buff on your weapon… lol
But seriously scopes are handy and you can replace it with a better one and it will destroy the original scope
I don’t think there’s that many enchants in the game. Or… buffs to have on your character at once.
I routinely hit the buff cap in raid before this update. Now I’ve screwed myself for one of the buffs. My strikers mark is worthless with ZG patch and DMF week due to this. Yikes. Gonna get a GM to remove it I guess. What a terrible system.
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I don’t actually believe this interacts with buffs on your character. Did a GM say it did? Did you notice that putting the weapon on removes a buff from your buff-capped character?
I submitted a GM ticket. Hopefully I can get this removed from my weapon. I don’t want to risk a buff slot that could be a songflower or ony buff disappearing just because i blood rage, zerker rage, double crusader proc, have a shield, have a hot, and an armor buff at the same time with multiple protection potions popped. Hitting the buff cap is EASY in a high end raiding guild.
Naw this was a very real thing, but apparently it’s been patched.
https://classic.wowhead.com/news=295667/classic-hotfix-enchantments-no-longer-count-as-helpful-auras
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It will eat one of your 32 buff slots. Pretty much anything that isn’t strictly from enchanting will use a buff slot.
Also adding a scope to a ranged weapon only impacts that ranged weapon. It doesn’t change melee dps or +hit. It has as much benefit for warriors as +attack power does for priests.
Nine. You listed nine slots.
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Lol@everyone arguing with op saying this isn’t real. Yes he listed 9, but on-top of group buffs and world buffs it was pretty routine for people to just randomly losing their ony head, flask, etc because of enchants and set bonuses occupying the buff cap. Or players would lose their hit bonuses and start missing when supposedly hitcapped, forcing them to take off and put on gear in the correct order (most likely pushing more buffs off), since literally everything from enchants, to +crit/hit % on gear was counting as a buff aura.
I would make a macro to cancel anything that isn’t beneficial to your class (spirit buff, intellect, etc) and not have your healers put out hots at all. Throwing a renew on someone very well could end up costing them their flask, dire maul buffs, etc
Edit; this also works with debuffs too. You can push player’s res sickness off by having a bunch of people spam them with debuffs/dots
No wonder it takes forever for them to get to tickets.
Idiots putting in tickets for things that aren’t an issue, cause they are misinformed.
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Didn’t they fix this a few days ago due to dire maul enchants or something?
Yes, this is what I’m worried about. Hitting buff cap is a breeze in raid as any high end raider knows. I lost my songflower just last weekend during Major Domo simply because I drank a fire protection potion and a shadow protection before the fight.
The GM’s have not replied if this affects buff cap for warrior yet but ultimately if it does I’ll likely have to swap out my bow on full DMF world buff raids.
They fixed the ones that were bugged and said the others are intended.
I don’t have a link sadly.
Basically enchanter enchants don’t use a buff slot and others do.
Yea that’s awful for a scope on a weapon for warriors since now they’ve clarified that the game is in essentially a broken buffcap state. Talk about terrible to blindside the community like this.
This seems like a silly thing to get so dramatic about.
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You don’t understand. He is a high end raider.
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Oh man .19% of your power has been forever lost!! You’ll never clear MC now! 
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Been fixed for four days, people just don’t actually look at new news before posting crap, they go off what youtubers say.
Though the scope was a buff slot in Vanilla so it should stand as one now. But what scope even? I can’t even think of a scope a warrior would put on a ranged weapon.
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