Valiona and Theralion - Blackout Exploit

[michael93]

Searched and found nothing. If its a repost, post a link and i'll delete.


Anyways, my guild just did Valiona and Theralion and our resto shaman had his pvp spec on by accident. However, by this he noticed something very usefull.

He used grounding totem and noticed that it acturally is ''Soaking'' the Blackouts..

So we figured, why not test it. We wiped on purpose and tested it correctly, and we were right..

We had our shaman just place the Grounding totem every time the Blackout was about to happen, and if the blackout was to go on a member of the group the shaman was in, it would simply go to the grounding totem and no hugging needed.

Figured this would be quiet nice in 25man if you have 2+ shamans. Put them in difrent groups and make them use Grounding totem when the blackout is about to appear and you can relief your healers of some healing and dps some more..

Hopefully this will be of some use for you.


-Michael93

[BlQ]

sorry but thats a repost and im not sure this is an exploit because it is well known on my server and blizzard doesnt do anything about it

[michael93]

sorry but thats a repost and im not sure this is an exploit because it is well known on my server and blizzard doesnt do anything about it

If you provide a link i'll be happy to delete the post..

And about being an exploit, just because it seems like its not getting fixed might only be because its unknown to them yet.

[jamie63]

they fixed the one on halion shortly after it came out, so it might be working as intended, i doubt it's unknown.

[Ssateneth]

Gonna try this next week in our 10 man (yeah i know, im bad.. 25 mans are where its at)

[ilikrusyspoons]

Good exploit. Should really help out my guild in this fight.

[michael93]

Gonna try this next week in our 10 man (yeah i know, im bad.. 25 mans are where its at)

I dont blame you My guild was 10/25man before the cata change. But we went 100% 10man after cata was released and we now have 3 solid teams running

I belive in some cases its abit harder to do 10man then 25man. Since if 1 person dies, its more likely a wipe where as on 25man if someone dies you're less likely to wipe as you have a lot of backup.

[Rosulm]

Just tried it in 10 man and it does not seem to work.

EDIT!: Meant to update my post an hour or two ago, seems a bit random (we had a shaman in each group drop it) and it seemed to work most of the time but i assume the times it didn't work the shaman forgot it or the person targeted was too far from the totem. +rep from me.

[neilbs]

Just tried it in 10 man and it does not seem to work.

It works, blackout was probably just cast on someone in the other group.. (Your shaman should know that grounding totem only protects the group they are in lol..)

[gerstenmalz]

This is awesome if it works!
It will take away a lot of raid damage and make P1 trivial so the healers will have more mana for P2

+1 from me

[TehVoyager]

Raiding tonight, telling guildies were goin to BoT instead of BWD

[champ1448]

Hotfixed 18-01-2011

The Bastion of Twilight
- Valiona's Blackout can no longer be absorbed by Grounding Totem or reflected. Its healing absorption effect has also been increased for 10-player normal difficulty.

[Stochey]

I tryed it this night maybe 2 hours ago and it STILL WORKS ! but grounding only absorbs for group