Using CheatEngine to Change Classes

[bardbrain]

I was being particularly ballsy last night and using CheatEngine on live realms to tamper with the character creation process.

If you take the address 0103D098 and adjust the value at character creation, it will change what class is selected. Value 6=Death Knight.

A few notes:

- It will tend to glitch and sometimes show your character naked. Try toggling your gender to get it to work properly.

- You cannot select a class unavailable to your race.

- It will respond with "Failure" if you try to create a character of the wrong class for your race or try to create while your character is displayed naked.

- I went all out and tried attempting to turn a paid character recustomization into a class change, turning a warrior into a Death Knight. It failed to change my character's class or unlock DK-only skins but it did change my character background (temporarily) to the special DK-only background when I adjusted the value during the recustomization.

I may tinker with this again in a month or so. I'm thinking that if I can find the memory address for the race modifier, it may be possible to do a glitched faction transfer, keeping gear and mounts unmodified... Or at least getting a faction change for the price of a character recustomization.

[bardbrain]

Also, it will prevent you from creating a second DK on a single realm, as normal.

The interesting thing is that you can "almost" change classes with it and you can "almost" select classes not available to your race. There may be further ways to play with this.

[andykh]

Interesting but impossible.

All you are doing is changing the graphics of your character background and such, all of your character and accounts information is kept with Blizzard and there is no way to edit it without "hacking" Blizzard.

Wrong.

If you could hack char recostumisation for it to change your class aswell, then you click finish, it would send packets of data to blizz ordering a change of class.

[Trollblod]

So UD priest go UD warlock in secnds? : o (only 99% chance to get banned)

[MaiN]

Wrong.

If you could hack char recostumisation for it to change your class aswell, then you click finish, it would send packets of data to blizz ordering a change of class.

Wrong.

Then the servers would give you an error because that's not what you paid for.

[bardbrain]

Tinkering around with this some more:

I found out how to change races but it isn't a static address... so you have to datamine it again each time WoW loads.

What is neat is that if you create a Dwarven Mage, it does display the Dwarven Mage starter clothing. Evidently they forgot to remove that. However, Blood Elf warriors are naked. Again, you can't successfully create them.

However, I was able to get Broken, Vrykul, Northrend Skeletons, Naga, Goblins and a whole host of other races to display in the character pane.

I wish I'd thought to try changing races with this last night. I think it might work in a faction transfer, if not a recustomization, since races get unlocked there. Yeah, yeah, they'll have paid race changes soon but why not be ahead of the curve? Also, it might "accidentally" alter your mounts or reputation in interesting ways.

[bardbrain]

So UD priest go UD warlock in secnds? : o (only 99% chance to get banned)

IF you could pull this off, the biggest thing that would get you banned would be something that would draw attention to itself.

For instance, if you didn't unlearn your old spells and were going around using priest heals and pyroblasts.

The thing is, IF it works, it means it flies under their radar to begin with. Which means it then falls on you to do something stupid that draws attention to yourself.

If you don't get caught by warden/server-side scripting AND you don't run around ACTING and LOOKING like an exploiter, you'll be fine. Rolling a 50 foot tall Northrend Skeleton Shaman would be BEGGING for the banhammer. Quietly rolling a Dwarven mage and then sending the shirt to your main to wear, then deleting the mage? That's the kind of exploiting that will allow you to explore this stuff for a much longer period of time without bans or suspensions.

[bardbrain]

Wrong.

Then the servers would give you an error because that's not what you paid for.

It really depends. I suspect the class change failed because the class is a "read only" variable on an existing/created character. However, a race change might be more successful since they have to allow the servers to allow for race changes as part of faction transfer and the new race change system.

It's not necessarily going to regard a race change as somehow "alien" or unauthorized and if you pull it off right, I think you could at least bypass some of the normal conversion routines like mount/gear conversions.

[MaiN]

I think you could at least bypass some of the normal conversion routines like mount/gear conversions.

I'm *pretty* sure those conversions are done server-side.

[bardbrain]

Yeah. I would assume so.

But I'm thinkin': Order a faction change for a Night Elf and then edit your destination race to human. Or order a race change (when they're available) and turn that N'Elf into an orc. You might break/bypass some of the scripting.

[bardbrain]

Yeah. I would assume so.

But I'm thinkin': Order a faction change for a Night Elf and then edit your destination race to human. Or order a race change (when they're available) and turn that N'Elf into an orc. You might break/bypass some of the scripting.

[xXCharleyXx]

its a try, I would really like to know more about this. I think it's server side only, but well, I dont know.

[MaiN]

But I'm thinkin': Order a faction change for a Night Elf and then edit your destination race to human. Or order a race change (when they're available) and turn that N'Elf into an orc. You might break/bypass some of the scripting.

I don't think Blizzard have such flaws - I'm pretty sure their race changes are also done 100% server-side.

[Apoc]

Sigh; what you're trying to do is impossible. Sure, you can send the packets off to Blizz, etc. However; they're not dumb enough to not ensure they're doing proper server side checks to make sure you're not doing something screwy.

[Cypher]

Sigh; what you're trying to do is impossible. Sure, you can send the packets off to Blizz, etc. However; they're not dumb enough to not ensure they're doing proper server side checks to make sure you're not doing something screwy.

Oh really??

You used to be able to get a free name-change by doing something very similar. The server side checks were pretty much non-existent.

Credits to Mads (and Kynox? -- I can't remember) for discovering that one.