Undetected speedhack in WoW

The problem with anything being done in wow is that Warden is a smart little program.

Every time a player moves from point a to point c, he or she has to cross point b. The system writes out in a log each players movement and takes into account of the players level (if they have any speed increasing effects), if their on a horse, what type of hourse, if it's a flying mount, if it's epic or not.

When it decides that the player isn't doing anything wrong, it shrugs it's little digital shoulders and doesn't do anything.

However, when little jimmy with the level 1 paladin goes from point a to point c without touching point b, warden goes "Ruuu-rooh" and flags it in the movement log with the following lines:

WARNING! "instert-player-name-here" has gone from "insert location here" to "insert location here" (the locations are the coordinates we all use for tloc)

And it spams a whole crap load of warning messages.

Eventually, if you do it for too long or do it so blatantly, a nice little warning will be sent to the GM pit and they will start eyeballing you. They catch you, they write up a little report, take the warden logs and copy them into the report, and send you away for a week or permanently if you get a real hard ass GM.

So you may be getting away with it for now, but it's not a matter of if you get caught, but when you get caught.

Course... it's a trial account so who cares right Very Happy

((Also, the above information is over 4 years old so the system may have changed since last time I was at Blizzard))