Interesting Exploits-Infinite Damage Shield For Mage, Bugged Extra Talents?, Free Lay On Hands For Paladins, Infinite Re-spawn Point For Skinners (Patreon)

Here's a collection of exploits which are class-specific or niche, so each will have appeal to some but not to all players-so I've put them together in a list in the expectation that most of you can find something of interest.

Powerful Shield Mages Can Spellsteal

The rare npc "Ishyra" :

https://www.wowhead.com/quest=74338/ishyra

periodically creates adds called "expulsion drones". These drones have a shield which can be spellstolen by mages. This lasts the full duration of any spellsteal buff: two minutes.

The shield gives you approximately 250,000 HP damage protection-about the same as an average player. Multiple shields can be stacked making the mage temporarily invulnerable. The shield survives through ports and works in most instanced content. It is removed on entry to arena and mythic dungeons.

Instant Respawn Skinning Farm Multiple Mobs

The Highpeaks goat mobs, at 28,44, due east of the skeleton in traitor's rest in the South-West of azure spawn, re-spawn instantly. There are a number of them in the area.

These mobs are an excellent way to level up skinning. I have not seen this mentioned in gold-farming channel or other media.

Paladin Recompense Can Be Set Up For A Huge Heal

The paladin ability "recompense"

https://www.wowhead.com/spell=384914/recompense

has been bugged since the start of the expansion.

Currently it is not working at all as it is supposed to, and is not adding any damage at all judgement. It is however providing a heal, and this is snapshot at the time you cast blessing of sacrifice. The size of the heal is "stored" at this time and persists through loading screens and arena.

So, you can set up an extra large heal by casting blessing of sacrifice on a friend - perhaps being hit by Boulderfist-the raider tanking dummy in Valdrakken. This can then be used when you cast judgement in arena or solo shuffle.

At higher levels of play this extra heal is decisive: it is basically an extra lay on hands.

Force Mobs To Spawn With "Convert Raid" Trick

The quest "Time-locked Timewalkers"

https://www.wowhead.com/quest=65947/time-locked-timewalkers

has a quest item: temporal destablizing beam, which frees timewalkers and spawns two random time mobs that drop mostly drops trash greens and tattered wildercloth.  The larger award mobs regular experience and the more numerous smaller mobs award reduced experience.

By forming a group and converting it to a raid allows you to free timewalkers repeatedly as this retards quest progress.  You can do this every 15 seconds generating two-three mobs every time-in addition a large number of regular mobs spawn in the area.

In addition to experience/gold farming I thought this was mentioning because it shows that the "convert to raid" is still producing exploits in Dragonflight.

Some Strange Exploits Still In Development

The following will be of interest to theorycrafters only: these are strong leads but not yet reproducible exploits.

Extra Talents

I was sent this message on youtube:

@warframewarframe5095

If you change talents then force dc in instance last second you can have extra talents, they won’t show up in talent bar as activated but if u check logs they are

This sounds like the sort of timing attack that would produce an exploit, however I could not reproduct it and warframewarframe5095 did not respond to a request for more info.

Generally speaking this type of exploit only works with specific passive talents and so far I have not found which.

20% Haste Buff: Unknown Source

I found the following message on the official forums:

Paped<Ruby Nightmare>

I was raiding with my guild and noticed i had Rune of Alacrity (spell id: 388334) buff for the whole raid until i died because of wipe.

I don’t know exactly how i got the buff, before raiding i did some Zkera Vaults, completed remaining quests of the Forbidden Reach, then i did some profession crafts.

Logs doesn’t show the buff.