[Death Knight] Gargoyle-Unlimited Time

[Heftydogg]

***Must have Summon Gargoyle and Shadow of Death talents***


Discovered this today when I summoned my Gargoyle to help me fight an elite.

What happened was it flew down, and I died a few seconds later. I ressed as a ghoul and finished off the elite with about 40 seconds left on my ghoul form. This is when I noticed my Gargoyle hadn't flown away.

If you summon your Gargoyle right before you die, it will still fight for you until you eventually run out of time on your ghoul form and die completely. You don't have runic power to keep the gargoyle there, yet it stays.

This is useful for quests that you need to kill a tough elite, because once you die, you can just run around and let your gargoyle wear it down hopefully enough to kill it. Also nice for anytime you're about to die in any situation, as you can pull 3-4 mobs with your ghoul and continue killing with the gargoyle until you have to run back to your corpse.

But this is especially nice in PvP. Was able to 1v3 3 horde my level just by huddling and letting my gargoyle finish them off. Think of the possibilities in Arena if you can maintain ~1000 DPS between yourself and the Gargoyle even after death.

Will provide screenshots/video if requested, but this is pretty simple to understand and reproduce, just go out and try it! =)

Also working on manipulating this exploit with the instant ressing exploit with the ghoul form to see if I can trick the gargoyle to stay even after I'm back in Death Knight form, or producing multiple Gargoyles.


Video:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr_qnOJK854"]YouTube - Death Knight Gargoyle Exploit[/ame]

[Ginchy]

Nice, will rep if you post video

[bortevekk]

works! noticed the same a few days ago

[zabuko]

Ill + rep you nice one!

[Dragonshadow]

Most likely works because As a goul you have energy instead of runic power.
The gargoyle doesn't take that into account and just looks at how much energy you have.

[Heftydogg]

Most likely works because As a goul you have energy instead of runic power.
The gargoyle doesn't take that into account and just looks at how much energy you have.

Yup, and even then it wasn't taking 8 of my energy / second.

[Dragonshadow]

Yup, and even then it wasn't taking 8 of my energy / second.

Because its taking your non-existent runic power but looking at your energy xD

[Heftydogg]

Video is also up now. Just ran to the closest mobs and snagged the clip, so nothing fancy.

[Rarmat]

works ...ty

[Shadowalkerdk]

Nice, but I don't know that it is more effective than using it while you're alive with Icebound Fortitude. I simply can't seem to find a real use for it.

Thanks though, at least now I know it's possible.

[andykh]

Not working for me, the gargoyle just flies away as soon as I die

[Gbyrd]

Umm gargoyles don't work like that. After you summon it, it cashs the rp when it's summon. When you summon it 50 rp is cashed out for a max of minute. It doesn't tick 8 rp a sec. Hence when you came back as a ghoul you are still alive if you exploded or died your gargoyle will despawn

[Heftydogg]

Umm gargoyles don't work like that. After you summon it, it cashs the rp when it's summon. When you summon it 50 rp is cashed out for a max of minute. It doesn't tick 8 rp a sec. Hence when you came back as a ghoul you are still alive if you exploded or died your gargoyle will despawn

lol have you ever even played a Death Knight before? Summon Gargoyle - Spell - World of Warcraft

1. You cast Summon Gargoyle
2. You instantly lose 50 runic power
3. A gargoyle appears and start casting bolts at you target every 2 sec, for 10 seconds
4. After 10 seconds, you gain a buff and a visual effect linking you to your gargoyle
* The buff has a 50 seconds duration, and will consume 8 runic power per second
* As long as you can maintain the buff, the gargoyle will continue to attack your enemies
5. If your target dies, the gargoyle will return to you
6. After returning to you, it WILL pick another target and ATTACK it, even if you are not attacking anything

Curiosity: If you keep the gargoyle for a full 1 min, it will die and fall on the ground. If your RP is over before the buff expires, you will loose the buff and the gargoyle will fly away.

[Gbyrd]

sorry my mistake i misread the tooltip i read it like the DRW sorry about that.