Exploit: Create lag as rogue in PVE/PVP

[Wildrake]

I looked around and didn't see this posted. I noticed it recently while leveling my rogue. Essentially there is a way to lag people around you by moving your character in a particular way.

Yeah yeah I know. Had I not experienced this again and again I wouldn't have posted.

It works about 80% of the time. Here is how you do it.

(You must be attacking a stunned mob. For some reason this does NOT work if the mob/player is turning/turned towards you. )

So you stun (in my case cheap shot), begin attacking the mob, then using mouse right button to turn you and w key (or whatever moves you forward) you move past the target either to the slight left or right then rotate to face them. Make the motion to turn smooth and do not jump.

What happens is that between the camera angle and the actual way your character is facing there is a lag of about 10-15 degrees. As the game finishes your turn everything lags. Your hits stop, dots stop, everything stops. For about 1-2 seconds, then everything catches up.

At first I thought this was just local to my client. Then I ran Maraudon with my friend (on his 70) and he started complaining of terrible lag. I noticed it only happened whenever I attacked anything. We tested this. It lags the hell out of him, essentially my character warps around.

The pvp implications are obvious, but also you can annoy people close to you. Anyway, hope you find it useful (and I also hope it works for you, it would suck if it had something to do with an add-on I'm running or something).

[Endedlife]

um what? are you saying that moving the camera lags someone. i doubt this...

[swankboss]

I'll try this me and my friend are about to run strat

[jacob4313]

this sounds like it has something to do with your comp or your friends comp. doesnt seem logical that stunning a mob and moving your camera angle will lag a player around you.

[Vile Knight]

i not sure how its usful

but it might be good in BG/arena if it works

[hello504]

dude, thats so cheap... but i love it. lol

[Obama]

i dought this works

[4paint]

If the person has any sort of a decent comp/connection the effect this causes is almost unnoticed and never heard of it working in pvp but have had complaints from friends in 5 mans. Just stateing it is somthing but not anything too special.

[Wildrake]

My theory on this is that the game is trying to compute attack angle and because it is also doing the turning, something about the programming is inefficient and puts a strain on the server.

As far as my comp/connection I am on an XPS M1710 with 2gb of ram and a 512m vid card, and my net is fiber to the home. So it isn't that.

The way I could see this being potentially exploited is in a double rogue arena team with both members coordinating their attack. It would be a small advatage as potentially your target would have trouble telling what side of him you were on. Not game breaking, but I'll take any advantage I can get. And I'm sure this was definitely not intended lol.

[hatriz812]

Weird, but cool if it works

[wowkid]

i dought this works

dought
i lol'd IRL

[[Royal]]

It works in duels when you want to win the rogue lags around the dude so you cant hit him because he is essentially everywhere.

[c0ddingt0n]

meh, oh god lag exploits never work

[Allizkor]

Highly unlikely, probably all coincidences.

[whquint09]

It works. I do it all the time on my rogue