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List of bugs found in TBC 2.5.1 client
As most of us know, this new TBC client is a copy-pasted version of the retail Shadowlands client with some modifications on its code.
I’m not a big fan of using new engines to recreate old experiences, but well managed could result in a great looking (and great feeling) client of an older expansion, such as TBC.
Nevertheless, we’re all aware of how Actiblizzard is managing its games, and with the in-game shop for TBC, we can easily tell they’re here for the money, not for the players’ nostalgia.
Said this, it won’t take me much effort to prove this client has been totally overlooked and bad programmed, like Blizzard didn’t care about things going well, releasing a version of a product far enough from being acceptable. Not sure if they were in a rush to launch it in June or they just want our wallets asap, but this client is still not even close to be perfect. Here is a list of known TBC bugs, most of them imported from Shadowlands:
- Cross-realm invites. They’re a thing now and Blizzard confirmed it is a bug.
- Lighting and shadows. Comparing TBC and TBC:C clients will be enough to know what I’m talking about. I’m not mad at getting a brighter game to see properly, improvements are improvements. But this is not one of them, this is just a different lighting and shading than it was in TBC:C.
- Some trees and things disappeared from the city backgrounds. Yeah, they’re not that important, but they bring life into the game.
- Lv 51 greens appearing in Rogue practice lockpicking boxes. As a result of the Shadowlands item level scalation, any item could appear in low level boxes, since they would just adapt to the player’s level. Now we have level 10 rogues selling level 50 items
- Arenas DCing players when they leave matches.
- BGs kicking players.
- BGs creating non-existent raid ID saves. Some people got saved on Onyxia, ZG and AQ20 by doing BGs, so they were locked for that week.
- UBRS is a 10-man raid. Well, in this TBC client it’s now a 5-man, just like it is in Shadowlands. It was obviously a 10-man in the original TBC.
- Naxxramas and AQ40 are bugged. Some bosses which have debuff mechanics (i.e. Sapphiron) stack two different versions of their debuffs, instead of one. This means the Shadowlands debuff version has been applied and the classic one was not removed, and now we got a double debuff! (Shadowlands debuff should be deleted).
- Not to mention that now the best strategy to farm honor in Arathi is to just stand in base and lose as fast as you can. BGs were never intended to win more honor as you lose faster, I thought you had to compete to win more honor. Can’t remember this being that way in TBC.
- Original night mode is gone. Post-Cataclysm’s pseudo-night mode is now on this client.
- Cat form is broken. When you shift into cat form, it lasts a few seconds and then it takes you out of that form. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=37&v=-AkvQh0lL5k&feature=emb_title
- PvP icons not showing when killing players. Insteado of (symbol) HK: Sergeant, it only shows HK: Sergeant.
- Every second (sometimes third) Drain Life from Warlocks isn’t visible. The player just stands still doing nothing.
- Same thing happens with Eagle Eye. But with this one, it will not work at all. You can channel it but you won’t see anything.
- Same thing happens with Priests’ Mind Flay.
- Shamans no longer have cast animations for abilities like bloodfury and weapon enhancements, and their +6%hit, 45 pt talent- doesn’t show in the character sheet.
- Undead female eyes are not glowing in no bones mode.
- Eversong Woods has a ton of invisible collision that you can get stuck on.
- Horde Druid Water Form quest bugs out in Silverpine Forest.
- The zone text upon entering a region is not correctly coloured based on PvP region. Every place is colored in white, while it should be green for friendly, yellow for contested and red for hostile.
- Eye of the Beast causes the player to disconnect if recast on pet when pet is moving or jumping.
- You can’t train leatherworking past 225, not even the trainer in Feralas will train you Artisan Leatherworking.
- “Shaman’s Mana Tide totem didn’t do anything for any of our mages in naxx yday” - someone’s testimony. This is due to a bug that has to do with War Mode on retail, and it affects much more than just Mana Tide Totem. The solution is to have everyone in your raid do /pvp which sets everyone as being flagged for pvp, and then all buffs and auras will apply across the group.
- Shaman’s Far Sight is broken.
- Alliance Riflemen in Silithus have no guns. They just stand there looking at the large wasps, unless it comes into melee range in which case they punch it.
- Macros using “!” Before an ability seem to be broken. The intended use for something like “/cast !Cat Form” is to not accidentally toggle the ability off on a second button press. I guess this is caused by the differences between clients and their macros, but this one was a needed one.
- Guild rank settings are resetting after being saved. They remove or add random ones.
- "Not all quests recognize that the quest log limit was increased to 25. I joined a group to do the chicken escort in the hinterlands. One group member started the escort and I got the pop up to accept the quest, but I could not accept it as I had 23 quests in my quest log. I was able to abandon quests to get back to 19 and was able to accept the escort. "
- “Combat seems bugged as well. Yesterday I got flagged for combat multiple times by nearby players fighting mobs I didn’t even touch.”
- Some Amani Trolls in Ghostlands are missing basic animations (like getting stunned, they just immobilize completely without even breathing).
- Sapphiron bugs:
- His cleave is about 5x larger radius we found out last night. It was chaining to healers and melee 15-20 yds away from the tank, with no players in between.
- Tauren can be killed by the frost orb while standing behind ice blocks due to hitbox issues.
- Double the amount of blizzards were in the arena than usual.
- Valharriel’s Search quest in Desolace (first one in the chain), you can’t complete the quest at the cart, The question mark is silver.
- Here’s a few more Naxx ones:
- The pack of spiders in the room after Anub’rekhan on the left infinitely respawns.
- if you fail to kill both Feugen and Stalagg, the one you don’t kill will bug out, become untargetable, and not reset.
- The spider packs before Faerlina respawn way too fast
- “BE can’t receive quest items from many quests. Tested recently hamaliyas plea. Could not get the key to drop no matter how many times we killed her.”
- Seems like daily quests are not getting reset atm. Can’t accept pvp daily after completing ist yesterday. Other people that haven’t already done it can though.
- “Crown of the Earth” is bugged. The quest cannot be turned in after completion (question mark stays grey).
- “Signs of the Legion” cannot be started. The event that spawns Tzerak in Nazzivian (who drops the item starting the quest) does not work correctly -instead of summoning him, the Satyr summoners just despawn after about 30 seconds.
- “Soothsaying for Dummies” in Tanaris does not offer a new blacksmithing specialization after dropping Armorsmithing.
- “I’ve had hunter pet abilities randomly unlearning. No exactly sure what triggers it, but I think it happens when I click the ability to teach it in the pet training menu when the ability is already learned.”
- “Warriors under slow effect doesnt walk anymore but run… slowly.”
I could keep writing stuff until June 2nd arrives and still be far from listing all the bugs that shouldn’t be here for a multi-million dollar company re-releasing a game that was already released 16 years ago, but nevertheless here we go. The urge of rushing content before checking that everything works fine is on their hands. Sad thing is that most of those bugs (specially the lockpicking boxes one) were reported since the first day of TBC beta, almost 2-3 months ago. Still there, in the official release. No clue about Blizzard even trying to fix it.
Have your own conclusions, I have mine and it is that we can’t expect a good experience for this “new” title. This has only just begun. Welcome to The Bugging Crusade.
