We’ve been very pleased by the reception to our WoW Classic Season of Mastery announcement last week, and we’ve seen a great many questions from players about this new version of WoW Classic. We were glad to be able to revisit this and help clarify some of the inconsistencies players were experiencing around this and other proc-based items.īlizzard go into the details of the WoW Classic Season of Mastery that in beta right now, talking about their intentions for the new fresh start including PvP, loot, world buffs, challenging content, the content release cycle and more! Thank you as well to all of the other players who contributed to the super diligent research on this topic. Thank you for the post about this, Smeet. Either way, this is not something that we currently consider to be a bug. Alternatively, Demoralizing Shout has a defense category of “magical” and you will not see Nightfall or certain other items proc during the GCD immediately following that spell’s usage.Īt this point it’s somewhat unclear if this was the original design intent or not, but at worst this was a quirk of how the original game was built, and at best this was part of the original design. This has a defense category of “physical”, thus you can still see Nightfall procs occur while you are on GCD following the usage of Hamstring. An example of this is a Warrior’s Hamstring ability. This means that most physical abilities or spells that incur the GCD will not block these procs from firing while the GCD is in effect. However, we discovered that this is true only if the spell or ability that triggered the GCD was flagged as a magic-based attack (or more specifically, spells flagged in our data with a defense category of “magical”). We also discovered that there were specific provisions built into the original game to force this to be true. However, after extensive testing in the reference client, we can also confirm that this is true and accurate to original World of Warcraft as well. The team took another comprehensive look at Nightfall and other similar proc-based weapon and item effects with this new information and we can confirm that certain effects cannot proc while under the effects of the Global Cooldown triggered by certain abilities. After some testing along with others, it appears as though certain weapons (such as Nightfall) are incapable of triggering during the global cooldown.

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