WotLK Need your opinion on the following interaction

[Kovachut]

Hey, all.

As the title suggests, I'm curious to know what causes a certain interaction to behave the way it does. To make it clearer, I'm talking about the one between http://wotlk.cavernoftime.com/spell=29801 and http://wotlk.cavernoftime.com/spell=24932 whenever a feral druid leaves its respective form, e.g. in order to bress or innervate someone. A few weeks ago, I've noticed a delay. The warrior's 5% crit doesn't pop up immediately, but rather after 1-2 seconds:

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I'm quite certain that this isn't a warmane-specific bug because I've found something similar in an old retail video:


Timestamps for the dudu 5% crit being replaced by Rampage:

• 1:59-2:00
• 2:54-2:55
• 5:35-5:37

Up until today, I thought that this was hard coded, and I didn't put any more thought into it. However, in a casual raid prior to the pull, I started shapeshifting out of cat form in the presence of a fury warrior. While I still witnessed the delay, on some attempts I saw how http://wotlk.cavernoftime.com/spell=29801 instantly appeared after shapeshifting out of cat form. Now, I don't have footage of that, and you have to take my word for it (or you can test it for yourselves), but I have a question - what's the real culprit of this peculiar interaction if not a clunky code? Latency? Transfer of the information between a client and the server?

Thanks in advance!

[skullatbash]

you may get an idea by this report and staff's reply on comment section: https://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/105419

[Kovachut]

you may get an idea by this report and staff's reply on comment section: https://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/105419

Much appreciated!

[edit] But it doesn't explain why on some occasions Rampage is applied instantly. If there was only a delay of 1-2 seconds, I would have understood and wouldn't have made this thread in the first place. However, the aura appears immediately sometimes. Is the latter thing normal? It's not clear in the staff's comment.