Strange Powerful AOE Buff, Works In Most Content, Requires Priest (Patreon)

This article is about a buff I have featured many times in videos in the past as something mages can spellsteal. As it turns out this buff can be utilized in a much more effective and powerful way that I did not know about until now.*

Disclaimer: this play has some minutes of set-up time so is best for meaningful and challenging content where an extra edge can be critical.

The Firemane Mobs around Onyxia's Lair in Dustwallow Marsh have a buff called "Fire Shield". This does a small amount of damage based on scaling in a pulse every few seconds. 

As I mention above the flame shield can be spellstolen by mages for two minutes. This is generally speaking too little time to do anything useful for a buff that is not gamebreaking in the short-term. What I did NOT know until now is that priests can mind control the Firemane mobs and get the full 10 minute duration of the buff. Unusually for an npc spell it can be cast on players. The buff can be stacked.

This extended duration means you can do a number of things with the buff, eg:

1. An organized dungeon team could mind-control and cast multiple fire shield buffs on the tank and/or dps which would greatly simplify mythic dungeon content.

2. The buff can be used in battlegrounds where it can be used to automatically expose stealth users. (Sadly not RBG or arena). 

3. It greatly speeds up open-world gold farms or running legacy dungeon content as you never have to stop to do dps. 

4. Can be used just for fun stuff like attacking or even killing players while mounted/flying. 

The buff also works in raids.

* If you are wondering why I don't get straight to the point in the first paragraph it is because patreon insists on publishing the first paragraph of every article publicly.