[Invasion] Stealing the 30x Necrotic Rune summon (Shadow of Doom mob)

[reggg]

If you've been participating in the fight against the Scourge invasion you would know that it is possible, during one phase, to summon a Shadow of Doom that drops 30 Necrotic Runes (for a price of .

The mobs are initially autotagged to the player/party/raid who summoned them, so spamming instant cast spells won't help you steal the mob.

However, there are two ways to steal the summon.

1. Kill the player who summoned it. This is clearly working as intended.

2. The summoned mobs are actually leashed to quite a small area surrounding the crystal that you are meant to be destroying.
What you can do is take aggro on the mob (Taunt, Searing Pain spam etc), and move away from the central crystal until it deaggros and runs back to its spawn point. It is not very far and doable before the enemy reacts. At this stage the mob will be vulnerable to tagging from *any player*, and you win 30 free runes, assuming you can kill it.

Working on Dreadmaul-US as of 26/10.

[Killalots]

Tested
+Rep

Great Idea!

[Yo Dawg]

Great idea, gonna test.

[Captain Bad]

This is so dirty... but so effective.

I can confirm it's true. I was able to drag away a Shadow of Doom from the original player and eventually it turned into my tag.

It doesn't seem to be full proof 100% though since other players can tag the Shadow of Doom also if you aren't close enough to re-tag.

[Stanger1234]

NIce one, going to try it out.

[Akisunmaaji]

HAHAHA. That's awesome. And thanks to the new distracting shot (a 6 second taunt on a 8 second cooldown) this should be very easy for my hunter to steal, and solo. +rep dude

[Fwaky]

Good idea, but I don't see where the exploit is. Since you are basically just resetting the mob, would in theory work the same with any outdoor boss! Still, it's a good idea, but maybe move it to guide section?

[pauk]

nah its a exploit +Rep

[Valain]

That's just being a dick. Just turn in your 8 runes and get it first. 95% of the time, people help you kill yours. I basically "ninja'd" two shadows yesterday. A large group of people were at like 2%. I ran in as they killed it, and managed to summon two shadows on my own. They AoE'd everything and I managed to get my epic chest and 44 runes.