They we’re retained for the whole duration of vanilla, nobody ever called them ‘‘game-breaking’’ since it was implemented that way to begin with.
The abuse of the infinite stack of recknoning was indeed fixed the next day to make it a 4 stacks maximum, but the ability to still ‘‘sit’’ and get a crit stack wasn’t changed.
Blizzard was fully aware of the ‘‘reckbomb’’ spec ever since the first paladin tried it out. It wasn’t the only ‘‘broken’’ thing back then that made it to the end of vanilla and is still in classic, but removed or changed in the Burning crusade for being ‘‘too powerful’’.
The ability to get stun locked by a rogue with the right spec, being CCd for more then a minute and possibly longer if the player is good enough.
Hunters being able to kite, with or without help, any World bosses to a major city, making it impossible for players to even enter said city. This wasn’t ‘‘fixed’’ until late wrath of lich king, but GMs had to do an intervention to make the boss disappear. When it was fixed though, they said ‘‘ohh well, this wasn’t really intended to be possible, but we didn’t do anything about it until now’’.
I could probably fill another chapter with ‘‘game-breaking’’ mechanics that made the cut until BC came out, but I don’t even care anymore, so many things aren’t vanilla right now in classic, so I am treating it as a new game.
My point is, I can understand why people don’t like the fact that prot paladin could one shot you if you didn’t pay attention, but changing a whole mechanic and telling us that it wasn’t like that 15 years ago is why am angry.
They should have just said ‘‘Yeah, we don’t like the fact that paladin can get stacks by sitting down, so we are changing it’’ . That way people would have known and made more advised decisions, this tread would not even be around.
On that note, am sorry if I sound like a rude 12years old, English isn’t my native language. If I offended you I apologize, I was just trying to tell and defend my own opinions, am not saying yours is wrong either.
I understand that it might have been a bug or unintended, but like I said above, its wasn’t fixed until BC…