51/0/10 WotLK Beta Warlock, 56million DPS

--Lolupdate!--
This exploit has been officially nerfed. 4 piece now stacks once, no further. Also, downranking is now much harder than before and would make this method impractical in itself.

51/0/10 Affliction
Wrath Beta build 8714
4/5 Tier 5

Since everyone asks... MUSIC:
Artist: Henry Gregson-Williams
Song: Gekko
Album: Metal Gear Solid 4 OST

ALSO BECAUSE EVERYONE ASKS:
The mob seen in this video that is immortal is called 'Servant of Allistarj', a level 54-55 NPC in the blasted lands. More information on it (and why it doesnt die) can be found here:
http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=7670

Basically the bug goes like this. We take a level 70 or higher warlock, put them in 4 piece Tier5, spec them 50 points affliction at least, put corruption up and spam shadowbolt for a few minutes. Eventually we see absolutely retarded dps output.

What is happening is the 4 piece T5 bonus stacks indefinitly (even in TBC live right now it does). This was never an issue before because you could never recast corruption after getting buffed by this bonus, and it would drop off before it would ever reach values this high. However, due to Everlasting Affliction resetting the corruption timer... yeah. And you thought SWP was an OP dot.

Also, mathcrafting has been done on the nature of WoW's 32 bit programming.

Maximum damage you can do per hit is 2^32 (32 bit integer, since WoW is a 32bit based program)
or
4,294,967,296.

That's in a SINGLE hit. Of course, Corruption is a DOT, with 8 ticks.

4,294,967,296 split into 8 ticks is, of course, the infamous 536 million tick, or 2^29.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• wotlk
• warlock
• dps
• beta

[hotguy23432]

and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you bring a warlock to your raid.

[Dragonfreak47]

-sigh- Stupid Blizzard. You nerf all the fun things in life.

[moosqueak]

@whuzzupj ...well 530m per 3 seconds so about 180ish range

[moosqueak]

@whuzzupj yeah, but if you sit there for 24 hours doing that, it evens out to be much higher, so it can come to a max of 530million~

[whuzzupj]

@panza6424 you forget, initially it was hitting for less damage, so the dps of the last 3 seconds might be really high, but it has to make up for the inital dps which wasn't

[SiFkBBX]

Its real guys .. its WPE Pro dont u see he have 2 shadowbolts in the list .. other 1 is for increasing dmg while channeling ;dd i use but on priest and shaman

[EsminOwnz]

@p4r4m0r3x Yes its real the corrupter set bonus was op and blizz over looked the mechanics.

[panza6424]

isnt it closer to 170 million DPS if its ticking for roughly half a billion every 3 seconds?

[onezeroraid]

@Secundinius I see what you did there

[ewinjo]

would've 1 shotted sinestra hard

[Mcflapphypants]

if you kept it going all night with a bot you could one hit everyhting in the game all HP combined on heroic rofl well at least 6-8 hours :)

[Pureaddiction444]

@hackergr325 Hah, someone who's name has hacker built in feels the need to state this isn't normail =/