Developers from Blizzard Entertainment have released a patch for World of Warcraft Classic, which fixed one of the oldest bugs. The authors of the game told regarding this in the description of the patch.
We are talking regarding Val’anyr, the hammer of ancient kings, which was added to the game with the Wrath of the Lich King update in 2008. One of its properties was the ability to apply a shield to an ally during healing, absorbing some of the damage. As planned by the developers, the protection was supposed to withstand up to 20 thousand damage, but an extra zero was mistakenly added to the code – because of this, the strength of the shield increased to 200 thousand. The bug was fixed only in the patch of March 27, 2023 – 15 years following it appearance.
Blizzard previously announced a massive wave of bans in World of Warcraft. The developers banned more than 120 thousand user accounts that were engaged in fraud.
