Shaman Recall Totems Exploit

[Daytrip-faerlina]

I am posting an exploit reported on a player discord.

In vanilla wow shamans were unable to remove their totems without dropping a new totem of the same element. However, in Classic this is possible due to vestigial api functions from the 8.x Blizzard unit frames. Doing this with macros is a little janky, as it requires a SecureUnitButton, so it would be preferable to do this via addons. The following macro will remove your current Fire totem, however it needs to initially be run outside of combat before it can work in combat. This needs to be done each time your UI reloads." Use at your own risk

/run if not UnitAffectingCombat("player") then dt1 = dt1 or CreateFrame("Button", "dt1", UIParent, "SecureUnitButtonTemplate")dt1:SetAttribute("type2", "destroytotem")dt1:SetAttribute("*totem-slot*",1)end
/click dt1 RightButton

[Humungus-malganis]

Has there ever been anything said on whether this is okay or not? There is an addon now that uses this same method.

GitHub - aabasharain/SimpleRecallTotems

[Yôshî-arthas]

Please fix this. It’s not vanilla like and it has implications in raids, like in the suppresion rooms in BWL, AQ40 Gauntlet, and im sure there are more places that dont come to my mind right now.

[Symbiøsis-bleeding-hollow (Symbiøsis)]

I can confirm via GM that it is perfectly okay to use this macro as of 12/4/2019. I hadn’t made a shaman alt until now so I decided to get this conundrum put to rest myself.

Unfortunately I can’t post links so here’s the ticket’s text:

Me: "Hi - I stumbled upon a macro/script that allows totems to be recalled in Classic WoW. I am wondering if the use of this script is bannable or not since that is not something we could do in Vanilla. The macro/script is as follows:

/run if not UnitAffectingCombat(“player”)then for i=1,4 do n=“t”…i CreateFrame(“Button”,n,UIParent,“SecureUnitButtonTemplate”)_G[n]:SetAttribute(“type”, “destroytotem”)_G[n]:SetAttribute(“totem-slot”,i)end end
/click t1
/click t2
/click t3
/click t4"

GM:
" Hey Nicholas, Game Master Ixzal here and you should be able to use that macro. If the Dev team did not want a macro to be used, then they would break the functionality. If you have any other questions about macros though, I’d suggest checking out the WoW forums: [LINK]

Best Wishes"

[Elemênt-aerie-peak]

/run if not UnitAffectingCombat(“player”)then for i=1,4 do n=“t”…i CreateFrame(“Button”,n,UIParent,“SecureUnitButtonTemplate”)_G[n]:SetAttribute(“type”, “destroytotem”)_G[n]:SetAttribute(“totem-slot”,i)end end
/click t1
/click t2
/click t3
/click t4

[Chewie-blades-edge]

And then, they broke the functionality.

[Sämba-fairbanks]

Can confirm. Does not work. Nor does the SimpleRecallTotem addon

[Symbiøsis-bleeding-hollow (Symbiøsis)]

Confirmed… Broken now. Interesting. Guess I never should have asked in the first place.