Random Powerful, Interesting Exploits (Patreon)

This article is one of a series of articles I've published where each exploit is almost certainly interesting to somebody but not to everybody.  To avoid alienating too many people with plays not specific to their class or goals I put this type of play into a single post in the expectation that one or more exploits may interest patreons even if all of them do not. 

Hunter Abandon Macro Cancels Lust Debuff

The following macro allows a beast mastery hunter to cast primal rage (a form of bloodlust/timewarp etc) without any debuff. This comes at the cost of having to abandon your current pet.

#showtooltip

/cast Primal Rage

/script PetAbandon()

Other players receive the debuff normally. 

Invincibility From Hunter Feign Death With Necrolord Soulbind

Another one for hunters:

First, pick the 3rd Soulbind for Necrolords

You will notice that when you die you stay alive and can’t go below 1 hp for 10 seconds.

Afterwards you die when the buff expires.

If you feign Death and complete the animation before the buff expires, you don’t die.

If you remain in the feign death animation it will just keep proccing and prevent you from going below one health.

Resetting Castle Nathria Raid Trash

It is now possible to instantly reset Castle Nathria raid trash. There are two methods:

1.All raid members log out while the leader ports out and resets, 

2.  The raid leaves the instance and then the leader leaves the raid group, resets, then rejoins and becomes leader again before everyone goes back in.

Farming raid trash for mythic BOE's is one of the most lucrative methods for gold making currently. 

Quest Pets That Can Be Taken Into Battlegrounds And Through Ports

Lord Slaain has alerted to me to this Revendreth world quest where a darkwing rebel pet or pets can be brought into battlegrounds:

https://www.wowhead.com/quest=59599/retaining-the-court

On a related note the quest pet "Enthralled Valkyr" from this western plaguelands quest: https://www.wowhead.com/quest=26937/when-death-is-not-enough

can also pass through battleground and other ports. 

In fact the Valkyr pet has been glitched for some time now-but it is now much greater damage in low level battlegrounds due to scaling.

Maldraxxus World Quest Providing Instant Quest Completion

The Maldraxxus quest "Sore Losers" (the one where you turn into a mushroom and kill stuff) has a glitch whereby if you leave the vehicle prematurely it contributes towards the  completion of the Maldraxxus zone-wide quest.

Podtender Demon Hunter Bug

The Night Fae covenant soulbind "podtender" has numerous bugs associated with it. Reports of interest suggest that:

1. Demon Hunters Rain From Above makes the pod inaccessible if the dh dies while in the air, essentially giving the pod user a free resurrection. The probability of dying whilst in the air can be enhanced by the use of a trick in the archives here-simply set raid settings to 10 and normal settings to 1 then spam the key that changes the graphics ("g" by default). 

There have been numerous other weird reports about bugs associated with podtender including one player who reportedly became invulnerable after dying in a pod in Torghast. None of these tales has materialized into a repeatable exploit however. 

Invincibility In Open-World, Kill Low-Levels In Auction House

Sending an invite to a scenario from one player to another in a group allows the invited player to enter the scenario and then port out at the exact point they left, even if they were dead when invited.

This makes the player effectively invincible in-world provided they are sent the invite before combat - the invite does not work on dead players if they are dead when the invite is sent. 

I had some fun doing this in orgrimmar auction house with a lightforged dranei-this race deals a significant amount of damage in an explosion upon death because of the racial trait "Light's Reckoning". Sending repeated invites to the dranei character, and having them killed by guards and then resurrected via scenario, creates numerous continuous explosions killing most characters below level 50. 

Note: I'm aware many newer members prioritize gold and leveling content. I am working actively on developing several projects to do with these things currently. I should add that mostly exploiters do not have as much control over the type of exploit they find as you might think, it depends very much on what loopholes exist in the code currently.