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Retribution and Protection Paladins have access to an exploit which allows you to extend a damage buff to infinite duration.

You need to have the "Templar" hero talent set for this to work. When a paladin with these talents casts "Hammer Of Light" they can extend a buff called "Shake The Heavens" which casts multiple empyrean hammers at nearby enemies. Crusader Strike, Hammer of Wrath, and Blade of Justice (Retribution) and Judgment (Protection) extend the duration of Shake the Heavens by 1 second.

If you have some means to increase your haste and/or holy power generation high enough you can increase the buff faster than it decays. At some point-after you have extended it for minutes - it glitches out , and begins to increment in hours. This lasts until logout/death, and survives zone changes.

Any major source of increased haste/holy power generation can achieve this effect but it has been discovered in the wild accidentally by players in Horrific Visions, where Gift Of The Titans with its 60% haste buff seems to be glitching out, and delves-where Brann's time-lost relic is doing the same thing.

I'm still hunting for the most accessible and/or effective source of haste and power generation to use this exploit. At the moment the best option is Horrific Visions and Gift Of The Titans, this will likely change and this article may be updated.

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Rod

Hey archie, I’m fervently searching for ways to prep for making a ton of gold when mop classic drops; do you know any long-forgotten exploits or tricks for rapid pet leveling or perhaps even farms for rare pet drops?

Thomas Levens

It's not haste that is causing this bug, it's the time debuff from Horrific Visions. When time is moving 30% faster it is extending the buff incorrectly. When time is moving 20% slower it actually reduces the buff instead of extending it. There are other time based effects in the game and I've replicated this elsewhere. I've spent most of today trying to find other abilities that are affected in this way, and so far only Restoration Shaman's Ascendance and Ebon Might have similar properties that have been tested to work. Considering Ebon Might doesn't survive changing instances, and Ascendance doesn't have an easy way to extend it's buff... it's seeming unlikely that anything "broken" will come out of this. Hence why it also works in delves, Brann has the same aura type. https://www.wowhead.com/spells?filter=29;399;0