Back in July, we reported on a World of Warcraft Shadowlands bug that allowed Hunters to one-shot kill enemy gamers within the PvP sphere of Blizzard’s premier MMORPG. The bug was found by WoW YouTuber Rextroy, who is kind of the wizard (pun meant) at discovering glitches and exploits. Rextroy has as soon as once more struck gold with the invention of a bug that allows Mages to one-shot even end-game raid bosses. Let’s run down the tactic.
The bug is constructed across the Mage spell, Spellsteal, which allows the consumer to steal a buff from the goal, and the NPC buff Fungal Bloom, which will increase harm executed by 25% (the buff dates again to Battle for Azeroth, so it’s considerably of a shock that this exploit took so lengthy to be fastened). The technique is pretty easy in concept – stack a load of NPCs who’ve this buff, trigger them to all set off it directly, then Spellsteal it from all of them. Thankfully, it stacks individually, or in any other case this plan wouldn’t have labored. Once all of the buffs are stolen, settle for a teleport into the raid, hit the boss with no matter you want, and increase. Dead raid boss.
Unfortunately, stealing this many buffs throughout the 25 second buff window is less complicated stated than executed – solid pace was a priority, particularly contemplating that Icy Veins can’t be taken, because the Mage has to be Arcane to scale back the mana value of Spellsteal. To cope with this situation, Rextroy had a Priest apply the Power Infusion cooldown, which will increase a goal’s haste by 25% for 20 seconds. After spell stealing, Rextroy had 18 stacks, attaining a harm buff of greater than 5000%.
Rextroy additionally tried spell stealing Combustion from one other Mage, however exiting PvP fight was unimaginable. An merchandise which might have allowed him to do that, the Precious Bloodthorn Loop, had its 10% self-damaging impact buffed as nicely, inflicting him to one-shot himself. Unsurprisingly, the exploit has already been reported and stuck, so if you happen to had been hoping to cheese your method to the highest of the raiding charts, that chance has handed. However, you’ll be able to try Rextroy’s video.
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