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fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

you didn’t understand. I know how the bug worked and was spread, using unsummoned pets and all. What I said is that it’s wild to me that they didn’t change the debuff to be unable to be spread at all for like a day. Like, change how the debuff spread works to temporarily disable it.

Doing a check each time the buff spreads is inefficient use of server.

WOW is server authoritative, meaning that who gets the debuff is decide by the server each time, doing a location check shouldn’t be that inneficient, the character object should have a cheap way to get the location it is in, including the name of the area, cheaply. IDK how the game is coded obviously, but that check should NOT be something expensive.

changing anything about the spell requires servers to be shut down

Are you sure they had no way to do hotfixes without server shutdowns? That’s been a thing for a while now.

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