[Tested&Working] PvP : Destroy Grounding Totem with a quest item !?

[mindlessy]

11/04/09 UPDATE :

It will also waste Spell Reflect of Warriors.

Credits to someone32

UPDATE #2 : Navuud is amazing. Check out this new exploit :
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13/04 : New exploit has been deleted :/



Navuud's Concoction Exploit
This exploit is useful for everyone, but will help you the most if you are one of these.

Class


Profession and Class
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Hi there !
You're about to discover a new exploit; one that has existed for a long time but surprisingly had never been found before.
I think most of you know of [Navuud's Concoction - Item - World of Warcraft].

For those who don't, it's a quest item that gives you a buff. When you have this buff, you have a 25% chance to proc electrical surges on every attack you make, whether it be spell, special, or auto (Electro-Shock Therapy - Spell - World of Warcraft). They don't deal any damage and are often just used for awesome factor.

But here's the amazing part you don't know of yet.

These surges are absorbed by :

-Shaman's [Grounding Totem] ,
-Warrior's [Spell Reflect]
-PvE Mobs, Elites and Bosses [Spell Reflect]
-Other abilities that trigger when caster recieves a spell



TLDR
(the shaman one is what actually happened when I discovered the exploit)

You are dueling a Shaman and have Navuud's Concoction's buff on.
1. Shaman lays down a Grounding
2. Attack the Shaman -> Electro-Shock from [Navuud's] procs.
3. Instead of landing on the Shaman, it lands on Grounding Totem and destroys it, leaving you free to cast any spell !

You are dueling a Warrior and have Navuud's Concoction's buff on.
1. Warrior uses Spell Reflect
2. Attack the Warrior -> Electro-Shock from [Navuud's] procs.
3. Spell Reflect is wasted; unleash your spell !

You are in a PvE setting against a mob/elite/boss who has a one-spell reflector, and have Navuud's on.
1. PvE Enemy activates reflector
2. Attack the enemy -> Electro-Shock from [Navuud's] procs.
3. Spell Reflect is wasted... again !

Video :

YouTube - Video 2

You can see the surges being absorbed by grounding at 0:17, 0:32 and 0:48

Q&A

how does this help? cant you just hit the grounding? this is mainly directed at casters like myself (warlock), and it seems much easier to just hit the totem with your sword or your pet or wand it than to hit the shammy and wait for the proc

You are correct, most of the times for your class (warlock) you'll try to stay at reasonable range from the shaman and will be better off using your pet, wand or a fodder spell.
There are still (albeit infrequent) cases where you will melee the shaman though, where this can come in handy. (keep in mind you can't always melee the totem, if the shaman places it conveniently.)

However other classes use spells on a permanent basis in addition to melee :
-Death Knights,
-Ret Pallies,
-Shamans themselves.
-Warriors and Rogues who are Engineers. (8/04 : Hunters too)

If you were to destroy the totem the 'normal' way, you'd have to :
-Move to the totem, melee it, go back to the shaman. this obviously costs you time (during which you can be cc'd or damaged) and dps, and is sometimes just impratical because the totem is placed in such a way that it it pointless to melee it.
-Cast a spell (you can do this accidentally), which costs you mana, GCD, damage, and potentially cooldown.

Or you can use [Navuud's Concoction] to destroy Grounding Totem without wasting any :
-Time,
-Mana,
-DPS,
-Global cooldowns.

Not to mention the WTF factor of it (if someone asks you about this buff, keep them guessing :>)
How this helps should be clear by now

UPDATE #3 : Increase proc rate of Electro-Shock! (up to 99%)

1) Go to our favorite NPC, Researcher Navuud - NPC - World of Warcraft
2) Drink your Navuud. You now have 1 buff.
3) Abandon quest, retake quest
4) Drink your newly created Navuud. You now have 2 buffs !

Rinse and repeat until you have your desired number of buffs.
Note that 4 buffs will not give you a 100% proc rate. Here's the proc chance (1 is 100%) based on the number of concoctions you take :



As you can see, 6 or 7 should do the job.
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Please leave feedback / criticism

Posting this exploit on MMOwned means it will probably get patched in the near future, even if it cannot be used in Arena PvP. (Use this quick, before it gets fixed !)

[xerotsuda]

Thought this was a repost, but it turns out its close enough to not be...
Ill let you decide.

http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-ex...rounding+totem

[mindlessy]

The only thing that is close is that both threads have grounding totem written multiple times :/

[xerotsuda]

Well no, but i dont care enough to argue it...
Here is your cookie.

[nothinglol]

I think :repost:, but at least you cleaned it up, added some pictures, etc.
opsget it. There are two of them. Like two different posts.)
However, if you show me where it's not a repost you might get some cookies. (and the fact that it's alot better put together.)

[mindlessy]

1)The thread you're reading right now shows how you can use a quest item to destroy Grounding Totem without wasting any mana,gcd,dps.

2)The other is a thread in which someone notices a bug? where non-damaging spells unactivate ("put a bleed effect") Grounding Totem, but the totem 'regenerates' after a few seconds.
(this bug has since been hotfixed, if it has existed at all : non-damaging spells now DESTROY Grounding Totem, which is actually why the Navuud's Concoction exploit works.)

EDIT in response to Akisunmaaji's below post
You're kind of right, I deleted my first post which died because of a bad title choice and presentation, and remade it. Alert eyes will have noticed me quoting a post in the Q&A section which cannot be found in this new thread. (edit : The chance you will find this exploit posted anywhere else than this thread prior to one week ago is close to 0% though.)
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it :>

[Akisunmaaji]

+2rep. I believe it is a repost since I've seen it somewhere on here before, but it looks like you took a bit of time and effort with your post so you deserve the rep. I wish more threads were like this.

[nothinglol]

EDIT in response to Akisunmaaji's below post
You're kind of right, I deleted my first post which died because of a bad title choice and presentation, and remade it. Alert eyes will have noticed me quoting a post in the Q&A section which cannot be found in this new thread. (edit : The chance you will find this exploit posted anywhere else than this thread prior to one week ago is close to 0% though.)
Thank you for the kind words, I appreciate it :>

1) I just looked at the other thread and realized that that is not the repost I was talking about.

2) If the repost I was talking about was in fact your old post, then this one is definitely better and hence you get some cookies.

[Sboll]

i will try it some time, ty

[dmxcom]

n1 trick - works prefekt for my dk.

[Rook ZJ]

Too late to use for my DK, but I'll try it on my priest! Thanks a bunch!

[brynz0rz]

Nice find.

[phreec]

Who gives a fly**** about duels anyway? If it would work in arena, then this would be something. :twocents:

[Dayjun]

nice find + rep :]

[someone32]

It will also waste Spell Reflect of Warriors.