Up, up and over. Movement exploit.

[pantowned]

This isn't useful on its own, but has a lot of potential applications by allowing a type of movement that blizzard usually tries to restrict.

First, use the engineering tinker "nitro boots." Since cata, these have a high chance of failure. The most common failure mode is to rocket you very very high into the air. This can occur indoors, in bgs, and in instances.

Next, use your goblin racial--did I mention that you're a goblin engineer?--to gain lateral movement. Disengage might also work (untested) but I assume it would be hard to have a target anyway. So--up, up and over.

Possible uses are many.
- Reach high ledges in instances to evade out adds, or heal/dps while evading game mechanics and AoEs. Generally speaking, being high up in a boss fight is often advantageous.
- Hide the flag in unreachable places in pvp, or possibly just rocket up to the roof in WSG from inside the flagroom.
- Skip large parts of instances. Remember all the TBC instances with backdoors that were made "one way" via a short cliff drop? Also the backdoor of deadmines, getting onto the roof to skip a large part of SFK, etc.
- Exploration

Nitro Boosts: Nitro Boosts - Spell - World of Warcraft
Rocket Jump: Rocket Jump - Spell - World of Warcraft

If your boosts don't backfire the first time, swap your belt out for a different one and it resets the cooldown to the 30 second item change. Minor exploit on its own.

Using the goblin rocket jump puts a cooldown on slowfall, but (THEORY) if someone was able to find a slowfall effect that it didn't cancel, you could also use this to fly a really, really far distance. Lot of unusual slowfalls out there--the holiday beer, the lowbie warrior shield, the parachute from the quest in feralas, noggenfogger.. Which is also useful.

[Ssateneth]

That is indeed thinking outside the box, and probably does have some uses like you have mentioned. Unfortunately, I don't play a goblin, and, well, I use NoAddiction so I can get anywhere to begin with. I'll leave the non-hackers to explore this though.

[Diablo1903]

Im assuming that warriors Heroic Leap would work in place of the rocket.

[pantowned]

Can you heroic leap while falling? If so, probably.

[Neonic]

Heroic leap doesnt take you up anywhere near as high as rocket boost

[Notmyrealname]

Mages can blink at the peak, then run forward, and then slowfall in the direction of their choice. The rocket boot failure generally takes you high enough that blink doesn't move you anywhere, but does allow you to pick a new direction to fall in.

[celticking]

Ok so:

1. You can't use Rocket Boots with flag. You drop it. So hiding with the flag using this is impossible.

2. Yes you can Heroic Leap while falling, but it's a really buggy spell that just goes "Can't use that here" or "No Path available" a LOT of the time, so it's a 50/50 whether you'll manage to do it or not.

3. A good place to test this would be Hellfire Ramparts as the back entrance is really close to the ground and is right next to the entrance.

Sadly I'm Engineer on EVERY character I have EXCEPT my Warrior (and I don't have Goblins yet)...so I'll wait for someone else to say exactly how high up you get

[pantowned]

It was pointed out in the other thread that you can use filled festival mug with the rocket belt. So now this can be used to slowfall long distances at high speed-- on vacation right now, but someone should try it out while the mugs are still available.

[nothorde]

cant use boots in wsg bra

[Mpidis]

I remember priests or druids healing while falling at PvP. It's a low chance though and could take time. I personally changed it with the 18k absorb tinker.