[Rogue] Strand of the Ancients quick win

[Tonty420]

This is essentially a repost from a few years back and arguably "intended" but with the recent nerf to demos and huge BUFF to bombs in Strand of the Ancients, figured I would shed some light on the situation. All you need is a level 60+ rogue with access to SotA and Cloak and Dagger - Cloak and Dagger - Spell - World of Warcraft. (And possibly 2 other willing rogue friends for QUICKEST win.) Same concept as Shadowstepping the cannons, (Which no longer works) just cast Ambush on each cannon at each wall till you're at the chamber relic gate, drop bombs for 4,500 damage EACH. Takes 3 bombs in total
(THEORY INC.: Could possibly only have to use 2 bombs and then use an engineering item that deals the remaining 1k health on gate. THEORY END)

Just did this on my rogue going solo, got the first bomb down about a minute in and ran to West GY, which my team had just recently capped. Planted second bomb while my team was downing yellow, giving me access to the bombs inside the courtyard, placing 3rd and final bomb. Took about 3 minutes with no real cooperation from teammates besides GY caps/downing gate

RECAP:
1. Cloak and Dagger your way WITH A BOMB to the final gate when on offence.
2. Drop bomb(s) on gate
3. Right click orb (Or go get some more bombs)
4. Watch opposing team try to finish in 1:30

[xtase2007]

patched sstep so quickly. wtf it wasnt even sstep's fault...... why did they upped bombs damage....

[RAoVSnyth]

Its not so much an exploit but a smart use of game mechanics. +rep for contribution

[Mashadow]

this is old.. used to be around in cataclysm aswell,

[Nevodark]

this is old.. used to be around in cataclysm aswell,

Thats right in cataclysm rogues hacked in an ability from the future to do this.

[Londron]

Thats right in cataclysm rogues hacked in an ability from the future to do this.

No, but I think you could do it with shadowstep back then.

[Sodomy]

This does work and is quite hilarious.


1 thing to note, the bombs for each tier of gates do not spawn until they are destroyed.

So if you are trying to solo you'll need to run back to whichever courtyard your team is up too.


TL;DR - Bombs in final courtyard do not spawn until yellow gate destroyed so you have to run back.

[rev27]

The difference being is the bomb damage is much more now you could do this for a long time but it wasn't even worth doing it took about 10 bombs or something so by time you did it the teams were already in yellow so you only really had like a 10% on gate advantage.

Not to mention it is no longer the old method using shadowstep as that was fixed you now use cloak and dagger and ambush to get up there, if you actually read an entire post instead of assuming its the old way because it sounds like it you wouldn't bother posting that.

And like he said while it is only theory for him there are bombs that do damage as engineer to vehicles and i assume maybe gates since he mentioned it.

[Vulgrim]

If I'm not mistaken this was patched in early cata. Players could ss cannons but bombs would do no damage if you didn't already down the gates. For instance, I personally tried it on my rogue after they fixed it, simply ssing cannons all the way to the relic chamber before we downed any of the gates. The bomb did no damage.

[ballder]

If I'm not mistaken this was patched in early cata. Players could ss cannons but bombs would do no damage if you didn't already down the gates. For instance, I personally tried it on my rogue after they fixed it, simply ssing cannons all the way to the relic chamber before we downed any of the gates. The bomb did no damage.

i won 5 games now using this.. it working damn well.

[pihsag]

Its hotfixed on US, eu hasnt had the hotfix for some reason so abuse it quick!

[ballder]

Its hotfixed on US, eu hasnt had the hotfix for some reason so abuse it quick!

Horfixed on Eu... ;(

[zlayolon]

yea, think it does not do any damage