Strange Exploits (Patreon)

This article lists some strange exploits that are individually very likely interesting to some people but not all, the strategy patreons seem to like best is for me to publish these in a kind of smorgasbord of exploits.

1. Travel Form In Party Sync

KaptainKrunk contacted me through Ownedcore and explained that druid travel form does not scale down while in party sync, this may invaluable for druids leveling in SL:

Hey, Archvaldor, I appreciate the work you put into all of your leveling guide videos. One thing I've noticed, however, is that you have never mentioned at least to my knowledge, the ability to use a Druid's flight form for fast traveling while abusing level sync. For whatever reason, Travel Form doesn't seem to scale down (at least in my experiences) in speed once you sync to a low-level character.

I'm not quite sure how the system will work once Shadowlands releases, as I don't have beta access, but this can be abused quite easily to allow a player to quest in low-level zones not designed for flying mounts, while moving at 310% speed, and with instant mounting. Furthermore, if your Druid completed their Legion order hall mount quest, your owl form can ferry the lower level character with you, making it possible to level quickly through legitimate means, without having to use a secondary trial account.

While I'm not sure whether this will technically be the *fastest* means of leveling from 50-60, it can still lead to clearing entire zones of quests within very short time spans if planned ahead of schedule, and depending on which zone could result in the fastest leveling experience, could possibly even result in a world/server-first level 60 character.

Again, I can't confirm any of this as I don't have the beta, and it's only my personal experience, so if I was able to maintain 310% flight speed while scaled down to level 60 for seemingly unknown reasons, or if you have previously mentioned it in a video, I apologize, but I figured it would be worth sharing just in case. 

2. Grim Batol Instant Skinning Re-spawn 

I was doing a thorough investigation of the dungeon Grim Batol in the Twlight Highlands. I found two interesting angles. 

The first is associated with the mobs Twilight Wyrmcaller. The wyrmcallers as you might expect from the name, each summon two twilight drakes which can be skinned when pulled. There's a niche opportunity for a hunter with skinning here-kill all the trash around the two wyrmcallers, then feign death/play dead repeatedly to drop combat, and then pull again, repeat, summoning infinite Twilight Drakes, thereby allowing you to farm endless blackened dragonscales and savage leather. 

3. Grim Batol, Infinite Trogg Re-spawns

The second play here is to farm mobs on the bridges on the level below the main part of the dungeon. This area cannot be accessed directly, if you jump down you will fall below the death line. However, you can kill the mobs on the lower walkways with ranged attacks and loot them using a loot-a-rang which works with engineering at skill level 1. 

The fastest re-spawning mobs seem to be the troggs which spawn near the end of the dungeon. They can drop embersilk cloth. 

These plays are primarily of interest to players who do not want competition and/or want to bot or multi-box. Open world farms exist which provide superior returns. Players looking to farm embersilk should first hit instance lockout farming the mobs at the entrance to Bastion Of Twilight.

Interestingly one of the mobs that can spawn on the lower bridges in Grim Batol is the Twilight Wyrmcaller, so it might be possible to create some kind of hybrid of the two methods.

4. Exploiting Leech In The Vale Of Eternal Blossoms

When a high-level player attacks low-level mobs in legacy content they do damage that is dramatically scaled up. For players with leech on their gear, this damage can heal dramatic amounts. 

This is something I haven't written much about before because this is nerfed in current content - though it can be a lot of fun to duel people in Goldshire or wherever and heal to full health from zero by murdering a chicken. However, I noticed that it was possible to get full legacy damage healing in the Vale Of Eternal Blossoms from critters-allowing you to complete the daily and weekly content there while being virtually impossible to kill in pvp. 

The most accessible source of leech is to use the siphon enchant on weapons. 

5. (WoW Classic) Skip First Boss In AQ

Kenneth At Ownedcore.com was kind enough to volunteer this information on exploration/boss skipping in Classic AQ, pointing to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGp6KBqO3hc&feature=youtu.be

The method used at 0.32 is an elixir of giant growth + dc.

6. Potential Glitches

This section covers glitches which cover areas where a clear, systemic and repeatable method has not yet been established but something interesting is going on. This is very much source material for people who want to develop their own exploits:

i.  NomTA AtmoN wrote this comment on youtube: 

Yo, I know this is OT, but I recently managed to stand on air after leaving timewalking.  I was flying around on my drake, entered tw and after leaving it my flying mount was standing in the air. I was able to turn, dismount and even remount on a ground mount without it fixing my glitched status.  Once I started remounting on a flying mount I fell down, but the falling didn't cancel my mounting and I was manage to mount up mid air.  Haven't tried jumping or casting while in that glitched state, but if this is repeatable then it could be a very useful trick. 

ii A patreon sent me the following message: 

 Not sure if there's potential here, but it seems like non-class/spec locked items from arena is getting mailed to alts logged in at the same time as your main (same bnet). Boosted hunter was getting saddles and something else while I was queueing on my main. 

iii This was taken from the official bug report forum:

If you Control Undead one of Anub Arak’s creatures in Azjol Nerub’s dungeon, he becomes unkillable until you dismiss said pet and kill it. Watched him stay at 2 HP forever unable to die until I dismissed my pet and killed it.

iv There have been numerous reports of items being duped during realm mergers from multiple different sources. As yet no one has worked out a method which works going forwards.