[Engineering] Unlimited Slowfall

[Safturento]

Today I was playing with my parachute cloak and noticed there's 30 seconds between when the buff ends, and when it's use-able again. Coincidentally, the cooldown of an item that's recently been equiped is 30 seconds. Using this, I made a macro that would allow you to keep using slowfall between two cloaks, therefore enabling you to parachute forever.

Here's the macro:

/use 15
/equipslot 15 Cloak#1
/equipslot 15 Cloak#2

Switch Cloak#1 and Cloak#2 for your two cloaks with the parachute enchant on it. When using the macro, make sure you wait until the buff fully wears off (When you begin to fall at normal speed) and then click it again. It will use the parachute cloak of your currently cloak and equip your next cloak, which will fall off cooldown at the exact time that the buff ends.

For those of you who think this is working as intended and not an exploit, Blizzard put cooldowns on these obviously for the very reason of not letting you use the cloak infinitely. With this macro, you can use it infinitely.

[roflcopter666]

The Mind Control Caps and the like work(ed?) exactly the same. So unless there was a fix to any of the other engineering items to prevent separate CDs on separate items, this is working as intended, no matter what you say.

Granted, it is pretty clever, and I'm sure many people'll benefit from it.

P.S. If you're using the Cloak names, I'm pretty sure you don't need the Slot # to equip them in. A simple /equip and /equip should suffice.

[Safturento]

this is working as intended, no matter what you say.

If it was working as intended, the parachute wouldn't have a cooldown.

[Shobek]

This is working as intended, blizzard has known this for QUITE sometime. It's more of a guide or technique then it is an exploit.. That's like saying oh hey i switch an item for an item for ANOTHER use:

[King Protos]

Isn't there a cooldown when you equip an item that has a USE ability? Seems like that would stop this. I'm very sure it does with trinkets.

[Boscy]

That cooldown is 30 seconds, which as he stated is the duration of the slowfall. Working as intended or not its still a useful bit of info, and I must say I do doubt blizz wants you to have infinite slowfall.

[Shobek]

That cooldown is 30 seconds, which as he stated is the duration of the slowfall. Working as intended or not its still a useful bit of info, and I must say I do doubt blizz wants you to have infinite slowfall.

lol but you do realize there is no reason that infinite slowfall would even help.. in any situation.. of course its handy when im falling and i can parachute until i land but other then that... it's not really useful..

almost forgot to say, it's not like you can fall forever because of it.

[Safturento]

it's not really useful..

Except to fly down to the bottom of ICC, or to float from Lumber Mill to the Mine, or getting on top of org, etc.

[mightychieftain]

how is this not useful, as a hunter i can use most of my shots when i parachute so if someone is in the air on their mount, i get to max range higher than them, dismount and use my parachute and start shooting, then i can just keep infinite parachute so i don't have to worry about falling and dying at the end. +2 rep

P.S. if this was working as intended than why would there even be a cooldown, and blizz probably doesn't know about this because it would be an easy hotfix

[roflcopter666]

how is this not useful, as a hunter i can use most of my shots when i parachute so if someone is in the air on their mount, i get to max range higher than them, dismount and use my parachute and start shooting, then i can just keep infinite parachute so i don't have to worry about falling and dying at the end. +2 rep

P.S. if this was working as intended than why would there even be a cooldown, and blizz probably doesn't know about this because it would be an easy hotfix

It's a very limited use for ganking, since often the people are close enough to the ground, or you'll fall down in combat and can use your disengage to avoid the fall damage, or you fall down slow enough anyway.

For the rare occasions this is a HELPFUL TIP, it may possible be more effort to swap cloaks than to just shoot them 3-5 times (Serpent Sting, Chimera Shot, Aimed Shot, and if time Arcane Shot. Similar-ish as Survival, with Explosive instead of Chimera) falling down at full speed, parachuting near the ground, flying back up and repeat.



P.S. No, I'm sure you're absolutely right. Clearly not working as intended. I'm sure EVERY tinker is broken and bugged and not working as intended:

-Hyperspeed Accelerators (Haste) - 1 min CD - 30 second lockout (can use pre-pull for 6-9 extra seconds, much easier with 2 pairs of the same gloves)
-Cobalt Frag Belt - 6 min CD - 1 min Lockout after swapping belts
-Nitro Bossts - 3 min CD - 30 second lockout after swapping boots
-Mind Amplification Dish - 10 min CD - 1 min Lockout after swapping helms

I mean, just look at those different lockout times on different items with different cooldowns, added at different times to the game (MC Cap was added later if I recall). Obviously Blizzard typed in random numbers with no thought behind it or for concern of balance. I guess that's why they put minute long cooldowns on Noggenfogger, Slowfall and Levitate, right? Oh wait...

[/sarcasm]

That cooldown is 30 seconds, which as he stated is the duration of the slowfall. Working as intended or not its still a useful bit of info, and I must say I do doubt blizz wants you to have infinite slowfall.

I completely agree, and I never disputed it being useful. I just told him it's working as intended.

Except to fly down to the bottom of ICC, or to float from Lumber Mill to the Mine, or getting on top of org, etc.

If you rocket boot with it, you will make it to the Mine-ish regardless. If you don't rocket boot with it, you'll crash around the BS-ish. Are you even an engineer?

Also, for *most* scenarios where you need slowfall, slowfalling the last 30 seconds is fine. I highly doubt you need more than 30 seconds of slowfall to get to either the bottom of ICC or to get on top of Orgrimmar. Correct me if I'm wrong though, as I'm not really into exploration.





tl;dr, NOT an exploit; working as INTENDED. Despite this, it's still a useful TIP for people.

P.S. Think before you post and use that thing called a brain.

[philip_lol1]

Dude, i dont belive that opinion, saying things like "use your brain" will help you to get respect and new friends...

[roflcopter666]

Then I suppose it's a good thing that I'm not here for friends. (But I'm sure you already gussed that.) Let's stay on topic, shall we?

[philip_lol1]

*zip*

nvm, if I could /rep OP, I would

[mpshark82]

I'm not here for friends.

Or to contribute apparently.

[Martin240]

You really think that Blizzard does not know about this? The only reason they did not fix this by now is that there is not much priority in it because there are not many cases you can really take an advantage over someone with this. And you may not be in combat because it's rather difficult to switch equipment then, don't forget about that. Aside from that, this discussion alsways comes up if someone posts a new thread about "hey you can change clothes to reset engineering cooldowns!!!11". There is no point in it so please.

To stay on topic: I like this neverending slowfall idea. It can be pretty handy while exploring. Never thought of it and I can't remeber someone posting it, so +rep from me.