Can you believe they fixed stutter stepping?

[OCNBlitz]

Complete bullshit.

A mechanic in the game since release fixed because someone figured out how to make an autoit script that half-asses it.


I was destroying stuff with a 900 DPS bow that outdid my 1270 DPS crossbow due to stutter stepping.

Stutterstepping was in the game since the beginning and all the pros knew about it (*except stupid me!*) I cannot believe they fixed this. A HUGE nerf to demon hunters.

I'm posting this in the exploit section because people thought this was some huge exploit.


Little known to many of us, many pro DH's/Wizards have been using this since day once without any scripts or programs. Scripts and crybabies on the forums just made them completely make bows useless and crossbows with massive +crit the only option again.


I was having quite fun with my +908 DPS +300 Dex +150 vit bow, looks like I'll go back to using my 1150 DPS Cold xbow with an attack speed of 1.22 (+11% attack speed) because morons don't realize that the bow has an innate +15% damage because of cull of the weak. I sniped this cold xbow for 2 million and I'm proud of my purchase.

If this is inappropriate for the exploit forum, I am sorry. Just ranting and ... ahhh.. They completely destroyed the viability of bows with this nerf.

[belowme81]

Are you sure they removed stutter stepping completely and just didn't fix the dual attack bug?

[KuRIoS]

how is this an exploit? moved to general chat

[Assistend]

Yes.
Getting twice the dmg with a script is obviously a broken mechanic.

[Stige]

Wtf is stutter stepping?

And QQing about exploits being fixed is lol.

[OCNBlitz]

Stutter stepping was animation canceling and allowing a 1.60 attack speed demon hunter to basically get around 2.2-2.5 attacks per second. This was in the game since release. Wizards, witch doctors, DH's all used it. Blizzard was well aware of it.

I posted it in the exploit forum because members of this forum THOUGHT it was an exploit when it was fully recognized by blizzard as intended.


Ownedcore makes some autoit scripts (that shoot much slower than manually doing it), boom.. fixed.

how is this an exploit? moved to general chat

I'm posting this in the exploit section because people thought this was some huge exploit.

Don't mean to offend you but

Wtf is stutter stepping?

And QQing about exploits being fixed is lol.

Not an exploit.

Worked since day one. Considered an exploit once people made scripts to do stutter stepping for them.

[belowme81]

Will you please answer me? Them removing stutter step completely is A LOT different than fixing the exploit.

You need to be clear about this.

[OCNBlitz]

Will you please answer me? Them removing stutter step completely is A LOT different than fixing the exploit.

You need to be clear about this.

COMPLETELY removed.


I used the script thinking I was cheating, then I realized I never turned the script on and was doing it myself.

I have no clue how autoit works, I just read "hold shift press t attack" and I kept doing it, and learned stutter stepping on my own.


I mean, I was getting so good at it that I was firing at 3 attacks per second MANUALLY so they had to remove it, it just sucks I didn't know about it since release and its removed today.

[belowme81]

I'm not talking about what you are doing; you learned the exploit stutter step. I am talking about the LEGIT way to do stutter stepping that has been in the game since Day 1.

[who knows]

You're talking about the exploit stutter step by hitting teleport to reset your animations, of course that would be fixed.

I just logged in to do REAL stuter step, aka stand in place attack move slightly forward attack again, etc. That still exists and thats NOT an exploit. Thats an intended game mechanic.

[KuRIoS]

IF they are fixing it , it probably wasnt meant to be.. so i dont get the whining

[Narudan]

So why exactly wasn't the crossbow the better choice?

[Skyfox]

Was in the hotfix last night, only the exploit was patched, normal stutter is fine..

June 29
Bug Fixes

General

Identifying an item will no longer allow players to circumvent a skill’s attack animation cooldown
Fixed a bug that allowed players to temporarily increase their attack speed or double-cast a skill by clicking repeatedly on Town Portal while performing an ability
Fixed some additional (but rare) game crashes


Auction House

Fixed a bug that was causing stacks of commodities in a player’s stash to update incorrectly if the items being sent from the Completed Tab were purchased from multiple different sellers

[who knows]

So why exactly wasn't the crossbow the better choice?

1Hx2 =
Upside:
Fastest attacks possible, = most hatred regeneration.
Can get +20 disc.
Can have two sockets for 200% theoretical Crit damage or >1000 life on hit etc.
Downside: Lowest low-end damage spread, low top-end comparativey.

The other two, namely 2h crossbows biggest upside are they high min-max damage spread, and the fact they either get +15% damage or +50% crit damage. They're also comparatively better with sharpshooter, since it can stack higher.

[Narudan]

1Hx2 =

But he chose a 2h bow instead