Warning: The above pic is not of a real Cataclysm Beta bug.
After playing the Cataclysm Beta for about a week now one of my favorite things is searching for (and inevitably finding) very strange and bizarre bugs. Azeroth is full of them as Blizzard is busy destroying and rebuilding the entire world. I’ve found a few great ones but I’m not the only one as beta testers all over the Internet are taking full advantage of the lifted NDA to post screenies of some of the bugs they have found as well. Here are a few of them; some funny, some frustrating and all of them…uh…buggy.
Mount Speeds at 0%
This was actually accurate for a while. Players would mount up and then move at walking speed. Thankfully it has been fixed but the tool-tip is still showing no run speed increase. Turtle mounts for everyone!
Unable to Train Spells
Copied characters are unable to train the new spells that have been added at lower levels such as Divine Light and Seal of Truth for a Paladin or Trap Launcher for a Hunter. While that alone is frustrating enough the fix for now is to drop a profession. Not too big of a deal for most but for my buddy who has Shadowmourne gemmed with Jewel Crafting gems, it is extremely annoying. Especially since one thing we want to do as beta testers is try out the new recipes for our professions. Hopefully this will get fixed soon.
DK Sigil Scaling out of control
Thanks to Ardhavara from Goon Squad for discovering the funky scaling of the Sigil of Awareness. Before equipping it on the Obliterate tooltip boasts a “plus 2902″ to damage while after equipping it the damage bonus leaps to “plus 4855″. Almost 2000 more damage from a piece that promises to up the base damage of Obliterate by only 336. This is some thorough beta testing here by Ardhavara and as you can see tool-tips are very often buggy. Even in the live game now you will find several tool-tip irregularities.
Visual Bugs
Here are just a sampling of the visual bugs that are all over the Cataclysm beta right now. Lumped together for your viewing pleasure.
Funky half invisible Kara mount
Agghhh! Sudden redness!
Magical lava
Woah!
The beta is full of ‘em. If you have any cool or interesting screen shots of Cataclysm bugs post a link in the comments before they get fixed and we never get to see them.
hoho, in the last pic, matrix style !
… Damn I want to test the beta so much
I can haz beta bugs….and a beta?
DD <3
seems very painful…luckily, I like pain.
looks awesome ! hope i win a key in the next contest
There’s a contest idea– if you were a beta bug, what kind of beta bug would you be? Describe yourself and the nature of your bugginess…
my favorite so far of the beta bugs.
while i was in Hyjal some of the caves were closed and blocked off with a solid wall, solution. Blink through or duel a mage and have him/her polymorph you through. Easier solution, delete hearthstone and do auto unstuck
also another one. The Twilight Cult’s tests in Hyjal. When you use the items involved in teh quest you are suppose to get buttons associated with them. Thing is/was they didn’t show up and had to make macro’s to actually use the buttons
Man, I gotta get in SOMEHOW…
Looks wicked, hope i can test it out before it goes live
I had to drop JC Dills. It was broken on Galadeon for some reason anyway (could not cut gems or anything). So now Shadowmourne has 3 regular Spirit gems in it.(JK, it has Str, lol)
I would absolutely love to get in on the beta and submit all the bugs I find. I have a ton of pics with bugs that are in WoTLK still to this day…
Starcraft 2 is a disappointment for an old Starcraft player, for a new one it might be good, I was expecting more … the cinematics pre-rendered were the ones already released, the campaign is too short, for 20 campaigns we learn the units and get new ones, the Achievements are broken atm, the ladder is broken atm, the campiagn is broken atm after you complete it once cos you can’t get back into the Hyperion anymore, the custom maps are buggy ‘cos they are new, 2 weeks now and now patch out …
And I don’t have a Cata beta key yet :/
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