WoW Shadowlands 9.1 Exploit Summary (Long) (Patreon)

I've assembled a list of some strange exploits which have emerged in WoW Shadowlands patch 9.1. 

New Over-Powered Game-Breaking PVP Talents

Patch 9.1 introduces some new pvp talents which appeared to have been designed by a sadist entirely to maximize the amount of griefing in-game. 

A good example of this is frost mage's "Ice Wall" which creates an ice barrier which is physically impassable and blocks line of sight. I have already been in several battlegrounds where frost mages simply blocked their own team inside their own base using this technique. 

The most ludicrously over-powered technique is the warlock talent " Shadow Rift". This creates a target reticle which, when it expires, teleports all players to the warlock's demonic circle location. If you know how to exploit this technique properly, which admittedly requires a lot of knowledge, you will win every single random or rated battleground you enter. 

The reason is that almost every battleground map has one or more of the following:

Entrapment Points - Specific places where once teleported a player cannot by any means.

Death Zones.

Points of No Return - locations where the once player has jumped down they cannot return to the main battleground.

Falling Points Of No Return - co-ordinates where a player once teleported will immediately fall down.

Access To Points Under The Map - where players will die instantly and repeatedly on logging-in. 

Knowledge of these locations allows the warlock to port any number of players to these locations usually incapacitating multiple players often for the duration of the battleground and making the toughest team trivial to defeat. 

I am assembling a list of these locations for a specific article on Shadow Rift (there are a great many of them to test). There's a great deal more to this ability even than I've already explained: for example you can teleport multiple players into mid-air using a complex method.

For players who want to get started on this right away it is worth looking at my older videos specifically for content related to death knights, as many of the locations death knights can exploit can be used by locks with this talent.

Invisible Penguin Glitch

This exploit requires the toy item "Magic Mirror".

The battle pet "Tundra Penguin",

https://www.wowhead.com/npc=62835/tundra-penguin

currently has no model, making it invisible. 

You can use this to make your character invisible. First you will need to capture a tundra penguin.  Go to Borean Tundra in Northrend. You cannot fight the tundra penguins because....they are invisible. However, if you pet battle artic hares or borean marmots they may have a tundra penguin with them. You can tell if they have a penguin with them because there will only be two visible battle pets when the pet battle starts...don't worry the invisible penguin will soon enter battle. Battle the invisible penguin down to low health and use pet capture ability until the invisible penguin is caged.

Having captured your penguin it will now appear in your pet journal, summon it. You will then need the pet battle item "magic mirror". Copy the appearance with this item: https://www.wowhead.com/item=127696/magic-pet-mirror

This will copy the appearance of the invisible penguin, making you invisible. The mirror's appearance )ie your invisible form) will fade on combat, you can get around this by using Al-Li's Skymirror which will allow the invisibility to persist in combat for 10 minutes.

Edit: NOooooooooooo (fixed). I am heartbroken. 

Win Every Pet Battle-Exploitable Pet Battle Glitch

There's an interesting post about a pet battle exploit on the bug report forum. Pet battle exploits are extremely rare:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/pet-battle-turn-skipping-bug/1018280

"If the pet who’s supposed to go first in the turn order skips their turn (either through the Pass Button, Swap Pet, or some sort of Stun), then the opposing pet will skip their turn as well. This does not occur if the pet who’s supposed to go second in the turn order skips their turn; everything proceeds as normal.

This gives an exploitable advantage to fast pets. They can just pass any turn they don’t want the opposing pet to take action, and DoTs will continue to tick away while the opposing pet does absolutely nothing. Cockroaches and their Apocalypse ability are essentially undefeatable with this glitch."

For those who perhaps understandably find pet battles a little absurd it is worth pointing out they can produce some very profitable rewards which can be sold on the auction house for lots of gold. 

Recovered Phantasma

Recovered phantasma is an item from one of the torments in torghast. This item is technically stolen from you from amalgamations, with players then tasked to defeat them before they escape. Upon killing them, players are given this item that instantly consumes itself to recover the phantasma. 

This item has the notorious mail box glitch, where it is transported to your mail if your bugs are full. This allows you to access the recover phantasma on later Torghast Torment runs, where it may be more useful to you. 

Dupe In Booty Bay (Speculative)

This exploit is marked as "speculative", meaning that at this time we do not have a repeatable series of actions to trigger the exploit. Consequently this is only of interest to players who like to find their own exploits and gain an advantage over the field.

Numerous reports have emerged of lvl 1 rogues in Booty Bay purchasing an unnamed item and selling this item elsewhere in Stranglethorn Vale for a profit. Despite some effort on my part (and why this article is late) I have been unable to locate the exact method. It may have something to do with a rogue-specific sharable quest, since this would be a good reason for creating multiple lvl 1 clones.

Pre-Existing Exploits

Unlike previous patches Blizzard do not seem to have taken much time to fix pre-existing exploits. 

The pre-existing exploit "Infinite Sylvar Army",

 https://www.patreon.com/posts/51147272 

is still active as are most of the powerful recent exploits uploaded here. 

On a related note legacy raw gold making appears to have been purged of the few remaining tricks that made it worthwhile.