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> My favorite hack I feel responsible for was the wow zeppelin hack (zeppling fly points were stored client side ) so you could change them and the zepplin would take you somewhere else!

Wait, really? I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this.

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It was back in the vanilla wow days. I was active over at some german run wow hacking forum, did some reverse engineering, and posted about finding the values being stored client side in ram. A few months later someone did it... and then it was patched almost immediately. It's entirely possible they weren't related and whoever did it found the values themselves, but that's not as fun a story to tell myself or others so I stick to my version.

Now you have me feeling all nostalgic for the day wow went from beta to live... and those early vanilla days of 40 man raids.

So weird that they're bringing back Vanilla servers - maybe that'll be possible again?

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