Typhoon bug dominates the Wrath beta
No, no, it wasn't Seed of Corruption this time. It happened with the new Druid spell Typhoon. Specifically Typhoon Rank 5. It's already been hotfixed, so don't bother trying it now- you missed out. If you want to see exactly what people were doing with this spell, just check out the video above.
I had a chance to experience a little of this firsthand, and it was impressive, to say the least. A Moonkin rolling up to an enemy faction's town and laying waste is just hilarious to see, though not so much after the tenth time. Remember, this thing didn't even trigger the Global Cooldown. Druids were running around with macros that cast this spell ten or twenty times simultaneously. Nothing could even hope to survive, especially when you got a bunch of them together. Five or six Moonkin in Naxx-25 was just absurd.
If you want to see more of the bug, the tipster that supplied the above video has a whole bunch of them. Balance Druids, I hope as many of you got in on this as possible. Everyone gets a turn to be horribly, hideously overpowered. That was yours.
[ Thanks, Bular! ]
Filed under: Druid, Bugs, Wrath of the Lich King






Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Manatank Sep 26th 2008 6:12PM
Druids are so OP
WyrmKing Sep 26th 2008 7:08PM
*Resto Druids are so OP*
Fixed it for you.
Khass Sep 26th 2008 8:41PM
Dear Elune, not again! Stop bringing your small, insignificant issues that you keep blabbing about because it's popular to, and stick to the matter at hand!
Which is, Sapphiron dying in 16 seconds, killed by 5/6 of probably the once-worst spec/class to be. Damn.
Anymniel Sep 26th 2008 6:22PM
For one bright shining moment...
Amaxe Sep 26th 2008 6:26PM
Uggh, I really hope they do get it out the door working, but sometimes it feels like a train wreck in slow motion
BenMS Sep 26th 2008 8:58PM
Well, fair enough that there are a bunch of bugs at this stage, but it's horrendously easy to break something like this. All it takes is a GCD=no, cooldown=no kind of command, two lines of code.
It's also possible that someone in Blizz was having a bit of fun with an easily created, easily sorted out massive OP-ness bug.
Coram Sep 27th 2008 9:10AM
Gonna be tough to beat their record of killing saphiron in 10 secs.
Bob70011 Sep 26th 2008 8:30PM
Mages currently have the Focus Magic effect as a castable. Too bad all we can do is give anyone 3% crit for a few seconds.
Bular Sep 26th 2008 9:28PM
I wish I recorded more videos of this but it was fun while it lasted. Heres a picture of the damage meters we were on patchwerk we cleared every other wing. http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/2033/wowscrnshot092508180954ur5.jpg
Matazuma Sep 26th 2008 9:41PM
Jesus that is obscene!
I had a couple of DOOM-Kins running around IF killing anything they saw.
SotA was unfair since they would pop the siege engines in 2 secs.
I found it entertaining seeing people run away from druids.
They were demi-gods.
Daniel Sep 26th 2008 11:29PM
it was a bless from Cenarius the Demigod!
xD oh god i miss the SoC bug