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Published on September 26, 2008 by Phaelia
Spells and Talents
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Edit: Apparently this bug was corrected last night. Poopy!

Beta testers are reporting a bug with Rank 5 of Typhoon whereby it costs no mana to cast and isn’t activating the global cooldown. This means that it can be spammed indefinitely (say, by binding it to your mouse wheel) and chain cast to achieve up to 100K DPS. You can imagine what kind of havoc this is wreaking on the PvP premade server (Rank 5 only becomes available at level 80). Druids are reportedly soloing raid bosses, heroic instances, and more!

I believe there is a bug with rank 5. The others seem to work correctly.

Here’s a video from Kahakai of Northrend (US), depicting the bugged behavior:

typhoon_bug Note that there is no animation currently associated with the spell. As funny as the DPS is by itself, listening to the insane Omen of Clarity procs is pretty amusing, as well.

From Beta Tester Serawyn of Lich King (US):

DK: “HAW HAW! Stupid little Boomkin thinks he can kill me!”
Boomkin: *snufflehoot* “Stop making fun of me guys! I could get PvP tactics any day now!”
Pally: “Hahahahaha! Stupid Boomkin…”
*Boomkin clenches fists* “Shut UP!” *fwooshfwooshfwfwfwfwoooooosh*
Boomkin: “I killed them… I killed all of them… And I’m not dead! And there aren’t even any Warlocks or Rogues on my team!” *stares at hands and grins*

Moonkin should enjoy their day in the sun (moon?) as I’m sure this bug will be corrected soon. If you happen to be playing a level 80 Moonkin on one of the beta servers, be sure to kill some DKs! I’m sure they’ll get us back later. :-)

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  • Gravatar fb

    yeah fixed late last night :(

    i logged in and was like, aw yeah getting 80 tonight but alas, rank 3 didnt do it. but good times, good times indeed.

    1:22 pm on 9/26/08
  • Gravatar Jeff

    Awww…i would have petitioned to rename the final rank “CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE”…ah well :)

    1:43 pm on 9/26/08
  • Gravatar Matticus

    As of 8 AM this morning, the Typhoon bug isn’t really fixed. They hotfixed a patch which disabled the casting of Rank 5.

    It was a lot of fun. I did 25 man Naxx with 8 Druids (Me on my Priest) and a DK tank.

    1:54 pm on 9/26/08
  • Gravatar Thalium

    My druid was feral, but looking like I’m going back to Boomkin with patch/xpac release. Mourn feral, yay balance.

    2:10 pm on 9/26/08
  • Gravatar Nim

    Well, shite. That’s it, I’m finishing my epic murloc RL quest chain and logging back into beta ASAP! Too many delicious Druid shenanigans to miss.

    Oh, and I don’t think there’s ever been a typhoon animation.

    Nims last blog post..The murlocs shall not win

    3:04 pm on 9/26/08
  • Gravatar Cynra

    Holy hell! I think that this is something I need to share with our guild’s resident boomkin.

    4:08 pm on 9/26/08
  • Gravatar Tesh

    *Chucklesnort*
    Love this post, Phaelia! The *snufflehoot* sells it. :D
    Teshs last blog post..Thompson Tangent

    6:27 pm on 9/26/08
  • Gravatar Impressive

    Wow, that is cool. At least something getting close to our secret “press F10 key to win” - warlock spells… ;)
    Impressives last blog post..Out of Undercity

    8:38 am on 9/27/08
  • Gravatar Donjio

    WTB Beta Key and have fun like this :P

    10:33 am on 9/27/08
  • Gravatar Bellwether

    *snufflehoot*

    *giggle*

    Bellwethers last blog post..Stealing is Wrong…Right?

    10:57 am on 9/28/08
  • Gravatar Yashima

    I liked Typhoon just without the bug :D but this makes it much more useful. WTB Moonkin :D

    2:52 am on 9/29/08
  • Gravatar Phaelia

    @FB: Sorry you missed out on the fun!

    @Jeff: Clever… ;-)

    @Matticus: I’ve heard the Typhoon bug is back as of today. Lulz.

    @Thalium: As crappy as Resto is these days, I might be trying my feathered paws at Balance for at least a little while.

    @Nim: Actually, Typhoon used to generate this pretty silly little wave animation. It was lame. ^^

    @Cynra: AWESOME avatar.

    @Tesh: Agreed. If I ever DO play a Boomkin, I’m definitely creating some *Shufflehoot* macros!

    @Impressive: Ha … you really could have bound your entire keyboard to Typhoon and facerolled your way to victory!

    @Donjio: To take a look at the beta forums, most people who aren’t Druids didn’t think it especially “fun.” Party poopers.

    @Bell: If you try Balance, you too must use *Shufflehoot* macros!

    @Yashima: WTT Tree for bugged Typhoon (Rank 5)!

    12:59 pm on 10/1/08

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