10/30/2018 03:23 PMPosted by Theloras10/30/2018 03:12 PMPosted by KineticsI mained a dagger rogue through out Classic and never heard of this during that time ever, and i was ontop of all of the "bonus" features if you will, including the macro to backstab or ambush with a sword. So it wasnt in the live game, and as far as Private servers go, they are a different animal altogether. Every server has their own bugs or have tailor made tweaks by who ever is running the server, the client is a 1.12 client but the server side is not at all what Blizzard was running.
TLDR - If you cant do this in BFA you wont be able to do that in live anyways, this would fall under the bug fix category.
no one knew about Seal Twisting either until Slayton discovered it during TBC even though it was possible from patch 1.11 on when Seal of Command received its 0.5 second delay - so be very careful when making blanket statements like this
For reference:
Seal of Command critical hits can now trigger Vengeance.
- Since Patch 1.11, Seal of Command proc will have approximately 0.5 second delay before the animation begins and the Holy damage is incurred, instead of having the proc occur instantly with the swing of the attack. This is considered a good change, since if the normal swing is a critical strike and Vengeance is triggered, the Seal of Command proc will be affected by the buff.
http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Seal_of_Command_(old)
http://web.archive.org/web/20080706232318/http://www.retpaladin.com/warcraft/2008/05/how-to-seal-twist/
http://web.archive.org/web/20080706232318/http://www.retpaladin.com/warcraft/2008/05/how-to-seal-twist/#comment-128
TLDR - Blizzard did NOT view Seal Twisting as a bug but as a "Creative use of Game Mechanics"
PS...
Seal Twisting SoC + SoR doable in Vanilla?
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20760225855
Kinetics
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If it was in BC then it probably was in Vanilla to, the game mechanics and engine were practically identical.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20760225855#post-10
Seal twisting is a different story, here we are talking about using abilities that clearly say must be performed from behind the mob - backstab, shred etc and hitting mobs from the front with them. It sounds like its only due to latency that it happens on private servers, and those servers are not comparable at all to what was on retail. Seal twisting likely will be on live since a blue said it was a creative use of game mechanics, frontstabbing would be viewed as a bug if it even ever happened on live. But who knows until the demo rolls out in a few days and people check.