[ICC] Gunship Battle - Easy Tanking on Opposing Ship.

[DSJ]

Just thought I'd post a little trick that I noticed whilst on the Gunship Battle in ICC. I did do some searches but couldn't find anything.

As I play Alliance I will can only talk about Saurfang but I *assume* that Bronzebeard is the same for the horde.

High Overlord Saurfang has a stacking buff when he is being tanked -

"Battle Fury — Increases all damage done by 5%. Instant. 20 sec duration. +7% in 25-player mode."

To avoid this buff and to allow for slightly easier tanking on the enemies ship you use 3 tanks (2 for the enemies ship, 1 for your own ship). If you follow the steps below the 2 tanks sent over can just stay there for the whole fight as he will only use his thrown attack and this doesn't benefit from his buff. This also allows the people who jumped over for the battle-mage/sorcerer to take down any rocketeers/axe throwers who have gained high ranks.

This is what the setup will look like when you first start the event.



When the Battle-mage/Sorcerer spawns, 2 tanks will jump to the enemy ship. Tank 1 will run/charge in and grab aggro whilst Tank 2 stays at range (generally on the edge of the ship so healers don't have to move) and taunts.



Saurfang should forget about Tank 1 who was on him initially and start to use his thrown attack on Tank 2.



Now this thrown attack does put a stacking debuff on the tanks. Tank 1 should run to position next to Tank 2 and taunt Saurfang. The tanks should taunt off each other whenever they lose their stacks. Note that the 2 tanks stay here throughout the whole fight just taunting off each other.

Hope this can be used by some!

[BlQ]

i hope this is a joke

[DSJ]

Judging by that response I guess this must not be an exploit and I have just assumed it was.

If this is correct then this thread can be deleted/closed.

[Spatt]

Gunship is already faceroll.
Don't need a exploit for it.

But nice find anyway..
Take a repcookie.

[vanilla23]

I lol'd

This fight can be done with 8 peaple on 25
There is ABSOLUTLEY NO WAY to FAIL at this fight.
And if you are failing on Hc I just can't belive that you've defeated the LK ...

the time you spend on writing that Guide was just a waste !

[DSJ]

Thanks for the comments

The guide took a few minutes to write and was something I wanted to share, completely understand that people act with hostility to most things people try to share so I was prepared ^^

[xanix]

Wow, flaming him for posting a legit (and useful, especially for pugs etc) exploit?
This obviously circumvents a major mechanic of the fight, most times the single make/break mechanic of pugging this on hardmode is jetpack tank timing failure.

it doesn't f**king matter if the fight is "already faceroll" or not, put some effort into contributing instead of wasting energy flaming those who are already doing so.

Well done, OP.

edit: this wasn't directly aimed at Spatt, even though I used his "already faceroll" statement. Just in response to the general tone of the replies.

[Bastatard]

Goes to show you people will complain about anything...

Thanks OP!

[DSJ]

Thanks for the comments

[DDDevilz]

There's an even easier method that doesn't require healing on the tanks of any kind (for Horde, not tested for Alliance).

As you may have noticed by now, you can walk directly onto the Alliance ship without ever having to use a jetpack. To execute this exploit, just start the fight mounted. When the time comes to break your cannons from the freeze, have the mounted player run onto the Alliance ship and aggro Muradin. That mounted player then needs to kite Muradin in a circle up the stairs, across that balcony type thing, then back down the stairs on the opposite side. Just repeat this for as long as desired.

It's a pretty simple task, especially if you use one of the tinier mounts like a Chicken or Raptor.

Now, you may ask: "But DDDevilz, how is this useful at all? The fight is already mindnumbingly easy!"

If you were simply trying to defeat the encounter the normal way, then you would be absolutely correct. However, using this exploit allows for a very easy "On A Boat" achievement, even while on Heroic mode! Instead of having to organize and assign 4-5 different jumping parties, you merely have to pick ~6 dps and 1 kiter to head over to the enemy ship.

Enjoy!

[DSJ]

Nice DDDevilz, didn't know that.

The only thing is though if he resets or catches up to the person kiting then thats going to possibly be a few people down.]

Edit: Not sure if its doable for Alliance as from memory I can't recall any sort of "balcony" on Orgrim's Hammer.

[Paulmolive]

This is useful for doing the achievement "I'm on a Boat" since no one will have to jump back over after the mage is dead. Thank you OP.

[RaZZoRgr]

+rep for your pics xD

[DSJ]

Thanks again for comments