Rogue/Warrior Archimonde Semi-Exploit

[RunningManiac]

I realize some of you may not think this is a true exploit, but I think it's more appropriate here than in the guide section. Creative use of class mechanics to completely negate the otherwise super annoying Air Burst ability of Archimonde.

Anyways.

As melee, you'll be standing on Arch's butt, swinging away. With target of target up, and cast bars showing, you can see when he's going to cast air burst on a melee! (Hopefully, if you're doing Archimonde, you by now know by name who your fellow meleer's are.)

When he's about to cast the air burst, warriors, start spamming intercept, and rogues, hit Killing Spree, if you're combat. The Air Burst will hit you, and you'll start flying up, but, killing spree will proc and you'll teleport right back to him, and warriors will intercept vertically downwards and end up right back on the ground!

Gives you a nice extra 10+ seconds of dps on the boss, and saves the hassle of timing your tears and weaving your way back through all the fire. I came out on top of dps by a solid 4% over the next guy on our latest Archimonde kill because I Killing Spree'd through 2 blasts on the melee.

Alternatively, a Shadowstep rogue can also time it just right, and shadowstep to Arch right after Air Burst hits, and, all rogues can Vanish out of Air Burst too, if they have some godly timing skills.

Enjoy! And, if you're really so offended by this semi-exploit being in the exploit section, here's a trick for you. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath. And pretend you read this post in the Guide section. Hoo-saaah. Peace. :wave:

[Allaway]

This was news about 1 year ago.
But I won't flame because this tip gets me atop the dps meters on the fight

[gogobananas]

Not really news a year ago in terms of killing spree, lol. And if you're doing arch, you shouldn't be sub.

[Imbecill]

All have this paranoia that they have to be combat, im sub and my guild loves me because of my dmg, so sub isnt that bad afterall.

[Dec!de]

1. this is NO EXPlOIT as is works as intended
2. common sense

greetz

[Christina]

If you got to archimonde and don't know this, you don't deserve to kill him.

[RunningManiac]

Meh. Might've been news a year ago, but there isn't a post on this site about it.

And my guild only got to Arch 3 weeks before the patch, downed him the week before it hit. So, it was new news to me when I accidentally popped KS right before an air burst and I did it! (FYI, we downed him a week before patch, and I'm sure that none of our melee knew this trick at that point, so yes, we deserve to kill him even though we didn't know.)

So, I bow to you, oh mighty one, who downed Arch the day he was released. My sincere apologies for wasting your time, making you read something you already knew.

As for the rest of you, hope my first attempt at contribution helped.

[samuel93]

not really a exploit but meh thx for contributing or trying to

[pardalis1111]

NOT FLAMING but its the same thing as in pvp. with some new spells having knockbacks. any good/common senced rogue/warrior would know this (I'm a warrior so i know)

may be good for people just getting level 70? but then again they wouldnt be in hyjal

[lawllawl]

add in feral with feral shadow step or feral charge