GCD hack on 3.3.5a live servers with VIDEO/combatlog proof

[Pipedream]

Fury Warrior.
I start out with Deathwish+Recklessness and do Whirwind, Bloodthirst, Slam if the instant procs, Bloodthirst, Whirlwind, Repeat. Standard Warrior stuff. And no, I'm not a clicker.

That's not exactly 'standard' warrior rotation. You SHOULD be starting first off with recklessness instead of deathwish, that way you get more actual attacks up with the 30secs of deathwish, losing 1 sec on recklessness duration does nothing. Even worse, you should not be whirlwinding first, unless of course you are in an aoe situation and your tank doesnt blow. The fury warrior rotation, as quickly as i can explain it, is - Bloodthirst - Whirlwind - Bloodthirst - Slam (if you dont have a slam proc, pop over to battle stance and throw up rend - should be glyhped and talented for single target) - Repeat. Shattering throw is also best used with other raid cooldowns, use it when you would rend in your rotation. Its definitely okay to pass over a slam proc for it, say if bloodlust is up. If you are stuck on sundering as fury, opening with 5 sunders and then popping CDs and then running this rotation should leave you with a perfectly lined up point in the sunder armor duration to refresh it where you would rend/shatter (or pass up a slam) - usually about 3-5secs left on sunder duration.

This is only a basic representation of the rotation, if you have microsoft excel I advise you check out Landsouls Dps Spreadsheet for warriors - It has the absolute best rotation explanation you could ask for. There's a couple things, such as using a slam proc instead of bloodthirsting after whirlwind, IF the remaining duration on the slam proc is less than 2.56 secs (I suppose that might be 2.06 secs with this hack).

Okay so not the quickest explanation - but running bt-ww-bt-slam/rend should get you closer to utilizing all of your GCDs.


I'll be testing this hack next tuesday on my fury warrior, will post results here.

[Sikas]

Don't know about you guys, but everytime I'm casting spells with my Ret Pally.. I'm getting lag issues. Not sure if it's just my ISP. But I noticed sometimes I press a spell to cast.. and it doesn't cast for like 3-4 seconds.

[Ssateneth]

Don't know about you guys, but everytime I'm casting spells with my Ret Pally.. I'm getting lag issues. Not sure if it's just my ISP. But I noticed sometimes I press a spell to cast.. and it doesn't cast for like 3-4 seconds.

That sounds like your isp sucks. My ping is usually about 50ms and spells are near instantly shot off after pushing the button.

[Sikas]

Yea, it's fine now. Just odd. Guess I'm firing my button every 100ms is bad huh. lol

[Ssateneth]

Yea, it's fine now. Just odd. Guess I'm firing my button every 100ms is bad huh. lol

not really. i use a setup that spam a series of buttons in order about 20 times/sec (50ms) and it agrees just fine with the hack.

[kalr]

its working on my lock....cast dots in 1 sec...)uber nice

[Sikas]

Have definitely noticed a DPS increase. Going to try it tonight on our attempt at hICC 25 LK. Going to be running a parser, see if there's a difference. But I do notice my DPS jump in BGs.

[Ssateneth]

Have definitely noticed a DPS increase. Going to try it tonight on our attempt at hICC 25 LK. Going to be running a parser, see if there's a difference. But I do notice my DPS jump in BGs.

Yeah you'll definately notice a difference in BGs. Your burst will be a lot higher if you can chain a lot of instant abilities. Also playing as a resto druid, you will be nearly unstoppable unless you get chained stuns, silences, and fears/banish.

[DJX]

What benefits hack gives Ret pally? Does anyone have logs?

[Sikas]

Don't have logs right now, I got sat out for hLK ICC 25 attempts. But I noticed my abilities going off sooner. I'm not GCD capped, as I don't have that many abilities going off at once. Sometimes I literally have to wait 1-2 seconds before my next spell can cast. But spells are going off .5 seconds faster or so. And it helps. In BGs, it literally looks like I'm 2-3 shotting people who're semi geared. Like 20k+ health or so. They usually die in seconds. Judgement, CS/DS.. and usually dead. lol. And since I'm using T10 2 piece as well, my DS can reset.. so it can be literally, Judge, CS/DS/DS and that's usually around 20kish, not including if I melee swing.

Really love the 2 piece bonus, I've killed 4-5 guys at once at the flag. lol.

[Stackoverflow]

So just to clarify. As a lock with 1300ish haste, this GCD hack should do relatively little as my GCD should be capped at 1 second already right? I am just confused as some posts seem to reference this hack letting them do more damage even though they are already having GCD's at 1 second.

Sorry if I am confused, but clarification would be awesome.

[Sikas]

What happens is the client gives us a 1.5 second delay before spells are cast. Probably for queueing spells, but with this 'hack' it removes that .5 delay and makes it a TRUE GCD. As in, instead of waiting 1.5 seconds to cast your next spell, it's almost exactly 1 second. So if you're GCD locked, like some classes.. you'll notice a DPS increase. I noticed my spells are being chained together a little faster because of it.

[Solidslange]

Custom MPQ files are allowed. as long as your the only 1 seeing it according to this i found on another web site.
Would say it to this hack to since its only you that Notice it. other people must think and use time to look on your casting to find out if you use it so i would say its 200% possiblity to not get banned or even noticed.

Yes its for custom skins ... but its MPQ so its allowed.
link: WoW Skins: Is it Legal?

Are skins bannable? No one knows for sure, but some have been daring enough to ask GMs directly. In fact a person has talked to a GM in game confirming that it isn't against the rules. As you can see from this screenshot he took, as long as no one else can see your alterations (as in it doesnt affects other players - such as an exploit) it's ok. However, you can still argue that they're just a GM; who knows if they really know what the company position is on this matter... Some GM's have a difference on opinion - some being strictly by the guidelines while some of the cooler ones understand the intent to be visualy stimulating and not exploitive.

[Ssateneth]

thank you to the last two posts here. Should clear up some skepticism since most of the 'believer' posts have come from myself and barrt. It really helps when other people see it working as well.

[Dragonshadow]

Last I read blizz was changing their stance on model editing to disallow all forms, even modifications that don't affect gameplay.