Warning, if you are currently in WoW: Shadowlands and meet a priest, they can annoy you terribly. The annoying thing is that it even continues after the fight.
What is this exploit? The WoW community is currently discussing a nasty bug or exploit that gives priests unexpected powers. After a mind control, they still have further influence on your character. They then spin around like paralyzed. Those who don’t know what to do about it have to log out.
We show you here how the exploit works and how you can defend yourself against it.
Priests can change your turning speed
Here’s how it works: On reddit , player Automaton17 warns that a chat command is exploitable in battlegrounds. With mind control, one can dictate how fast players turn.
- A priest uses mind control on an opponent
- While the spell is active, they enter a command for “turnspeed”
- When the mind control ends, the altered turnspeed value set by the priest remains
- The speed can be set to any conceivable value. 0, so players can no longer turn at all or high values like 3,000, so one spins around like crazy at the slightest touch of the turning key
This mainly affects the so-called “keyboard turners”. Players who turn their character left or right with keys like A and D.
As players report, this is supposed to not persist after logging out. After logging in again, the actual values for the turn speed should be automatically restored.
What can you do about it? By logging out and logging back in, you regain your old values for turning the character.
If you don’t want to log out, you can also enter a command in the chat to restore the default value.
- “/console turnspeed 180”
What does it look like in the game? Also from Automaton17, who pointed out the exploit, there’s a clip from WoW. It shows what it looks like in the game when you set your turn speed to 2,000 via command.
It resembles wild Beyblades spinning in circles. So if you’ve seen players in Oribos or other cities spinning like crazy in the last few days… it’s probably due to this command. It has probably been in the game for a while and is now circulating through the community and gaining attention.
But apart from exploiters, there are also other types of players who can ruin your mood. My first WoW raid after 9 years showed me what annoys me about it.
