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Blink fixed in 3.2.2?Follow

#1 Sep 29 2009 at 4:40 AM Rating: Good
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There was a fix to Blink crossing terrain (such as indoor to outdoor) in 3.2.2. If you find situations where it fails, it's more helpful to mention those curcumstances than to just say it "always" fails.

True bugs, like this one, will get processed more quickly if reported in the bug forum. But again, you have to be specific.

[...] All rapid movement events on a client - server game are going to be tricky. Remember that in addition to having the client and server actually agree on where you are, we also have to bulletproof the heck out of that code to prevent exploits (anything from getting where we don't want you to go to outright hax).

Charge and Death Grip work more often than Blink because they have another character as a target. Blink (and a few other spells) target a location. Elevation changes or terrain borders (e.g. the infamous Warsong tunnel) can make the movement check more complicated.

The programmers did a lot of work on Blink (and related events) for 3.2.2 and more fixes are getting made even between patches. I'm just asking you to notice if it works more consistently without just falling back into the "hasn't worked in 5 years, mages aren't a priority" rhetoric (c.f. thread title) that doesn't actually give us information we can use



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#2 Sep 29 2009 at 5:59 AM Rating: Good
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#3 Sep 29 2009 at 9:44 AM Rating: Decent
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lol, right?

Part of me is surprised that they haven't just made it a targeting spell, if that really is the difficulty with it.
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#4 Sep 29 2009 at 7:24 PM Rating: Decent
I hadn't noticed it working better yet, but most of the time I don't have issues with Blink anyways, as long as I'm on a flat surface. >.> I'm glad they're finally working on it though!
#5 Oct 01 2009 at 8:27 AM Rating: Decent
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It is sort of sad when you consider the O-Boards are full of people with a fully automatic whine gun equipped with a hair-trigger. I mean, the comment makes perfect sense, if you are going to post about something not working, give details so that someone can do something about it. The whole idea that people just sit around and cry about how Blizzard doesn't like Mage is just so... 12 years old.

Course I guess I can't say much, I just started to really play a mage.
#6 Oct 01 2009 at 2:04 PM Rating: Good
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Yeah hopefully it gets fixed.

For those of you wishing it to me a targeting move, uhh, no.

Blink for me is one of two things.

1. Moving fast from the bank to the AH in Orgrimmar.

2. An oh **** button. Be it PvP or PvE, I use it to escape fast from something big and scary, or to get into position faster to DPS.

If it was targeted, we are talking a serious increase in my escape time here. The only way it would be slightly feasible as a targeted, is if the range on it was twice what it is now. Even then, I would still want an option to leave it as it is now.

Targeted blink is bad.

On a related note, I was able to pull off multiple falls through the floor in Ulduar 25 last night. When you teleport to Freya's room, right before you leave the walkway and run onto the grassy area, blink sends you through the floor. Did it three times in a row. So yeah, avoid blinking in that spot.
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