Mage blink bug

[ubrpwnt]

It's an exploit... It's pretty simple too. I didn't see anything on it so I posted it... geez sorry, but now people that don't search for this stuff can see it and or find it easier.

[treyska]

my hypothesis on why this works.

I believe that there are height zones. My explaination of this... is when you fall, etc, you fall through planes that act as limiters on your location in the Z axis. This is why you see mobs seem to hop up invisible stairs when they bug out in the air, or why when you see a warrior charge from somewhere high to somewhere low, you sort of see the same effect. Heres sort of my diagram on how this translates:

It's actually nothing more complicated than lag between the client and server. Your client records your character at a position further down than the server says it is. So, when you request to cast the Blink spell, the server confirms that request at the Y position that your character has been recorded at. If you haven't yet hit the ground as far as the server is concerned, you won't take any fall damage.

You can look at your latency bar for how fast your reflexes are going to have to be - if it says 200ms, you have 1/5 of a second from the point at which your character touches the ground, to cast Blink and get off scot-free.

An easier way to do this is to time your cast for the instant before you touch the ground, in order to compensate for a slow reaction time.