Most infamous or well-known events/bugs/exploits in WoW's history?

[apepi]

[foxHeart]

I think the reckoning bomb is probably up there as far as notable glitches go. The most fun I've ever had with a bug myself was running around SW on my dk when you could use /cast Frost Fever and /cast Blood Plague on friendly players/npc's and kill them. Watching trade go berserk like "WTF horde rogues in SW need halp!" was priceless.

[yoma]

I would say my favorite was when Holy Nova was busted on the PTR and taken off the GCD. Max out a macro with /cast Holy Nova, and watch every enemy show the proper respect that priests deserve. (Made me feel like a suicide bomber though, sprinting towards an enemy, screaming YOLO and popping the macro.) Was only good for 1 burst though, cause it emptied your mana bar

[Usako]

OH the AH bug recently. Were people would put up grey items for ridiculous amounts of gold and buy it from themselves on the mobile app, thus sending gold to their character. Or something like that.

[Adlian]

i miss this one...

[brunnor]

Overrated AQ40 floor exploit.

[Blarglord69]

the only bug i can remember is the innkeepers daughters ghost that would always follow you around permanently, untill they fixed it

[Agent Mercury]

Dodge not getting diminishing return in BC. AKA 100% dodge and unkillable.

And the fireworks shenanigans. A group locked our servers Dalaran up and charged for ports out. Doorways. Where you port in. Everywhere was stacked with launchers.

[Lord Pebbleton]

That bug during MoP release that doubled everything said in /1 (or was it /3?) in Jade Forest.
Everyone were abusing it. That was so annoying.

[Twotonsteak]

Exploit: Last year when some people found a way to turn "invisible" and one-shot players. Org and Stormwind were full of bones. There are probably still video's on youtube of people just falling over dead.

Bugs: During Wrath there was an issue with certain building designs. (The "garrison" buildings, iirc, with three floors.) If you used any sort of AoE, no matter where in the building, the entire building would dump on you.

Bugs: For more than a few months there was a bug with the "Lights Hope" event at the end of the DK starting area. When combat (and your buff) ended the NPC's remained hostile. If you were caught standing too close they would aggro on you and kill you.

[Stormdash]

This, I remember when they figured out how to make them hover in midair doing the same thing. They'd be a few feet above org bank roof spelling gold selling websites.

Annoying but genius.

On Thrall, I remember one night the players in Org fought back -- a herd of Mammoth Mounts moving from place to place to obscure the guy as he was trying to position the corpses. After about 20 minutes, the goldseller gave up.

[Elapsed]

Dire Maul stacking Mol'dar's Moxie back in vanilla getting hunters hp up to 2 million

[Chisato]

The bug that happened while dueling a DK on the boat to Booty Bay, if they deathgripped you you'd go flying through the world discovering all the zones.

When the chopper was first released it was treated as a separate vehicle and could be targeted separately from the character driving it. I used this to farm bloodsail rep with ease since the bb guards couldn't target my character and the bike's model couldn't be snared

Jumping on a certain torch in stormwind, inching along a ledge, the falling completely underneath the city

Climbing up a certain wall in Org, slow falling off, and falling below the city and building models

Gaining weapon skills off the ogre ghosts in dire maul

Sheeping people into Kara crypts

Smiley face under kara

Old dancing troll village

Hmm can't remember anymore right now....

[Rucati]

Let's see.

Bringing that debuff from ZG back to Ironforge/Org and watching as it spreads and everybody dies. That was probably the funniest/most annoying depending on who you were at the time. I quite enjoyed that.

Oh, and if you took the zeppelin from Undercity to Orgrimmar you could duel Priests on the zeppelin and if they mind controlled you and threw you off at the right time, you'd fly through a wall and end up in a room where the walls/floor/ceiling were black and white checkers. I don't even know how that one made any sense, since you literally just glided through the air for quite some time and then through a rock before you ended up there. Was kind of odd.

[DEATHETERNAL]

The two most fun times I ever had on WoW, the rocket cluster walling indicent and the zombie event before wrath (until they ruined it and made the virus do nothing). A game that would have wierd and crazy things like that happening all the time would be a great game.

[Gothicshark]

Way back in the ancient World of Warcraft ie Vanilla Warlocks could summon an Infernal loose control of it and hilarity would happen because they were hard as hell to kill.

Many a Warlock would summon them in the Auction house. And watch as it killed all the Low level Player Characters. I use to release them in Warsong because it was funny to watch.


http://youtu.be/LDU6ElhMKnY

[Deleted]

On Baron Geddon pets could get Living Bomb early in Vanilla. Was easy to dismiss pet when it had the debuff and then call it again in for example the AH to kill everyone in the room. Worked for both warlock and hunter pets.

[Eliot123]

Smart use of game mechanics - some classes soloing Firelands trash for BoE epics. I was doing it on my shaman like there was no tomorrow, got a lot of epics and patterns, made at least 200k before it was nerfed.

[Auxis]

There's a combat bug in the DK starting zone that always annoyed me. Not sure if it's still there, but whenever I finished the Frostwyrm quest, then dismounted to hand it in, i would be stuck in combat for like 5 minutes, and sometimes 10. So I'd usually have to run all the way to Light's Hope Chapel, rather than be able to mount.

[inboundpaper]

You could get a like 500% speed buff in the DK starting zone from the eye quest, then use the old unstuck to go through a rail and hop out of Acherus. Shit was a pain though.