Headless Horseman event bug fix

[lans83]

Not sure if anyone else is dealing with this problem, but I found this to fix the problem until Blizzard can solve it.

Source: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=27300876552&postId=272900890683&sid=1

The crash happens when you mouse over different things in the game, in this case, the pumpkin to summon the Horseman. Whether your clicking it to summon him or not. This might also help on slaves to turn off the tooltip all together if you want to.

Original post:

Hey Guys,

There's tons of threads posted and lots of promising solutions. I have one that I've been testing for three days and have not had as much as lag spike when mousing over cogs. This works if you're willing to disable tooltips when you are anywhere a cog icon might show up.

You will need to create two macros, for "turn off tooltips" and "turn on tooltips".

Turn Off Tooltips
/script GameTooltip.Temphide = function() GameTooltip:Hide() end; GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Temphide);

Turn On Tooltips
/script GameTooltip:SetScript("OnShow", GameTooltip.Show);

This should get you through until the official fix comes down from Blizzard. Happy hunting! People have said that this tooltip crash happens in different parts of the game, not sure how long it's been goin on, but this might help some out.

[Kicksome]

Awesome Lans, thanks for sharing this. I must have gotten DC'd like 15 times today trying to trigger this even.

[lans83]

My pleasure. People have reported the 'Cog of doom' accuring in different parts of the world. Most in BGs and tryin to farm for herbs in StormPeaks. Hope this helps out alot of people. Spread the word about it too, still not alot of people know about this little fix.

[lightstriker]

After Headless died one of my druid cant port out. "You can't do that. You are dead." "But I have nine lives."

[shadewalker]

After Headless died one of my druid cant port out. "You can't do that. You are dead." "But I have nine lives."

I got the same message after finishing a random heroic on my druid, had to run back to the instance portal.

[riffraff]

I got the same message after finishing a random heroic on my druid, had to run back to the instance portal.

Yeah this happens with druids now if they're shapeshifted. Just turn off your boomkin/whatever and you can then teleport out of the dungeon like normal.

[lans83]

Yeah this happens with druids now if they're shapeshifted. Just turn off your boomkin/whatever and you can then teleport out of the dungeon like normal.


Been happening to people as low as 10-15 running Deadmines. Do as riffraff suggests and it should let you port out.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Haven't crashed once yet on my pallies or my dk+shams. Strange.