Imitate any chat message through GMotD

[Saiket]

Exploit hotfixed 2008-04-04. GMotD now under same restrictions as normal chat, except newlines are allowed.


Check out the new 2.4 GM whisper message!

I posted this as a bug report on Blizzard's forums about a year ago and nobody listened, so obviously this is working as intended. I might as well share my most treasured macros since I rarely use them any more. Someone in the "WoW Color Hack WoW Color Hack (Use color-codes in text)" thread on the Bots and Programs forum didn't think this was useful, but I will prove him wrong.


The theory behind them was that "guild messages of the day" get broadcast to all guild members when changed. By carefully placing your own lines of text in the GMotD, you could spoof any message you wanted just after the regular message, and it would look like a completely independent and valid message.
Everyone in your guild will see it, no matter their range from you or what party they're in. Non-guildies won't see it obviously.

Of course, this assumes you have access to editing your guild's message of the day. It also assumes that your guild mates aren't smart enough to question the repeated guild message spams. Most importantly however, it assumes that your guild mates use the same chat color setup as these macros do. If someone configured tells to appear in white rather than the default purple, my macro would stick out like a sore thumb. Chat timestamps also break the illusion, but from my experience most people will be utterly convinced by the use of color.


Note that these don't require the packet filter from the "WoW Color Hack" thread; they work entirely through the in-game macro system without tampering.

1. Fake Yell:

   /run local p,m,g,s="","",GuildSetMOTD,GetGuildRosterMOTD()g(s.."\r\124cffff1111\124Hplayer:"..p.."\124h["..p.."]\124h yells: "..m.."\124r")g(s)

   Add the player name and message text into the two empty sets of quotes for the desired effect. Not very useful, but fun to spoof boss yells. Note that the player name is clickable in these messages just like legitimate names in chat.
2. Fake Tell:

   /run local p,m,g,s="","",GuildSetMOTD,GetGuildRosterMOTD()g(s.."\r\124cffff80ff\124Hplayer:"..p.."\124h["..p.."]\124h whispers: "..m.."\124r")g(s)

   Similar to the fake yell, although this one is far more useful. For example, consider the simple <GM> prefix on official game master messages (See below!)
3. Fake Roll:

   /run local i,g,s=100,GuildSetMOTD,GetGuildRosterMOTD()g(s.."\r\124cffffff00"..UnitName"player".." rolls "..i.." (1-100)\124r")g(s)

   Replace that 100 with whatever you want your guild to see you roll. This one's probably good for one or two scams before people catch on and guild kick you.
4. New Fake GM Tell (2.4):

   /run local p,m,g,s="","",GuildSetMOTD,GetGuildRosterMOTD()g(s.."\r\124TInterface\\ChatFrame\\UI-ChatIcon-Blizz.blp:18:12:0:-1\124t \124cffff80ff\124Hplayer:"..p.."\124h["..p.."]\124h whispers: "..m.."\124r")g(s)

   Replace those two fields with a name and a chat message just like the other whisper macro, but this one has the official GM logo from patch 2.4 in front of it; see below. Note that this one's cramped for space. If you need more room for the whisper text, brush up on your Lua coding and use a variable containing the message.

Here's a sample of what the yell macro could look like:

Guild Message of the Day: Old message of the day here.
[Hakkar] yells: PRIDE HERALDS THE END OF YOUR WORLD. COME, MORTALS! FACE THE WRATH OF THE SOULFLAYER!
Guild Message of the Day: Old message of the day here.

As requested, here's a screenshot of the roll macro in action:


Here's a shot of the 2.4 GM message whisper:


Be creative; I didn't even mention loot or system messages. Bogus item links? They won't disconnect you here unless you click on them. You can also send any image from the game in any size through chat. Please share any other uses you think of!

[chromiumx]

Hawt stuff, I need to try this out.

[AlexM]

That's a pretty cool idea. I had not ever thought of that.

+rep

[Nugma]

Hawt + rep :P

[0035]

Nice nice!

+rep!

[Leoric716]

/run local i,g,s=193510,GuildSetMOTD,GetGuildRosterMOTD()g(s.."\n\124cffffff00"..UnitName"p layer".." has sold "..i.." Stone of Jordans to Merchant.\124r")g(s)


I used that to recreate the old message from diablo 2 expac, it will just say,

Your Name has sold 193510 Stone of Jordans to Merchant


I wow'ed some people with that one.

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Another thing, is there a way to change the spot where the number is, to make it an actual word. Its only letting me change it to a different number. I want to do things, like edit the script to make it say, Leoric has left the guild. Or Leoric has removed Leoric from the guild, but it wont even work if I put in a word for the number.

[Ascension]

Niiiice

[Dartex]

Great!!!!!!

[suicidity]

I beleive this is what I was thinking of when I spoke in the other thread.

[Forever]

Can you post a screenshot of you doing that rollhack? It sounds very cool but in the other hand very dumb that ppl don't notice it

[unreal]

very nice, +rep

[d3athcr33ps]

it says i do not have permission to do that on the roll hack

[Trouler]

it says i do not have permission to do that on the roll hack

You need to have permission to change the GMotD in order to do any of the macros.

[Zurkei]

you my freind will have alot of rep coming to you +rep

[John Krayton]

This is VERY easy, and has been around sense day 1, but he.. it's a post.

Thanks.