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Now looks for a nampower.cfg file in the same directory with two lines:
- The first line should contain the "buffer" time between each cast. This is the amount of time to delay casts to ensure you don't try to cast again too early due to server/packet lag and get rejected by the server with a "This ability isn't ready yet" error. For 150ms I found 30ms to be a reasonable buffer.
- The second line is the window in ms before each cast during which nampower will delay cast attempts to send them to the server at the perfect time. So 300 would mean if you cast anytime in the 300ms window before your next optimal cast your cast will be sent at the idea time. This means you don't have to spam cast as aggressively. This feature will cause a small stutter because it is pausing your UI (I couldn't find a better way to do this but I'm sure one exists now with superwow) so if you don't like that set this to 0.
An auto stop-cast tool for World of Warcraft 1.12.1.5875 (for Windows)
There is a design flaw in this version of the client. A player is not allowed to cast a second spell until after the client receives word of the completion of the previous spell. This means that in addition to the cast time, you have to wait for the time it takes a message to arrive from the server. For many U.S. based players connected to E.U. based realms, this can result in approximately a 20% drop in effective DPS.
Consider the following timeline, assuming a latency of 200ms.
- t = 0, the player begins casting fireball (assume a cast time of one second or 1000ms) and spell cast message is sent to the server. at this time, the client places a lock on itself, preventing the player from requesting another spell cast.
- t = 200, the spell cast message arrives at the server, and the spell cast begins
- t = 1200, the spell cast finishes and a finish message is sent to the client
- t = 1400, the client receives the finish message and removes the lock it had placed 1400ms ago.
In this scenario, a 1000ms spell takes 1400ms to cast. This tool will work around that design flaw by altering the client behavior to not wait for the server to acknowledge anything.
Previous versions of this tool required custom macros. This version should "just work".
If you use my launcher, known as wowreeb, you can add
the following line to a <Realm> block to tell the launcher to include this tool:
<DLL Path="c:\path\to\nampower.dll" Method="Load" />To launch with the built-in launcher, run loader.exe -p c:\path\to\wow.exe (or just loader.exe with it inside the main wow folder)
While this makes no malicious changes to the WoW client, it could easily be mistaken as malicious by the primitive anticheats in use on some vanilla private servers. This program contains absolutely no protection against anticheat software.
Having written the anticheat for Elysium and Light's Hope, I can say that they do not currently detect this, and are unlikely ever to do so.
Kronos / Twinstar has said that while they do not support client modification, they will not specifically target this mod. Refer to this thread: http://forum.twinstar.cz/showthread.php/97154-Planning-to-release-a-wow-mod-Will-it-get-people-banned
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