Nefarian Lava Bug

[Ze Alpaca]

I searched and didn't find anything but I think it can be duplicated if we figure out how?

Anyways I don't know it was happening but it can make that part of the fight super easy if we can duplicate it.

EDIT: Here's some more info. The way the fight works for people that don't know it. Once Onyxia dies Nefarian flies into the air and the platform lowers to the ground. This takes about 3 seconds and you cant get on top of the pillar till after the platform is all the way down. The glitch/bug/exploit is that the warlock in our raids lava was filling up instantly and he didn't take any dammage whatsoever from the lava.

His latency was higher than other peoples so that's not it and we have no clue how he kept getting yp so easy.

On everyone's screen he was floating up to the top of the pillar.

[MadameGrip]

Can you explain that a bit more into details, because all I saw from watching the movie was a wipe on neferian :P

[403Forbidden]

Call me stupid, but i fail to see anything unusual in the video above.
They kill onyxia. Nefarian transitions. Someone fails interrupt and warlock dies.

Whats the exploit? OMG WARLOCKS CAN ACTUALLY DIE! ELITE THIS PLX

[Ze Alpaca]

No the exploit is that the lava instantly fills up as opposed to having to wait the 3 secs for it to fill.

[cania2010]

but unless you can tell us how this works, and how he does it, this cant really be classified as an exploit and posted here?

[Vyre]

[NO THEORIES]

This might just be a bug in the boss fight. read the rules for the forum.

[expialidocious]

So what advantage does this 3 seconds give you, Ive killed nefarian quite a few times and I cannot see this would really aid you in any way. Unless your dps is lacking in which case you probably wouldnt finish the fight anyway? 3sec is nothing.

[Gothlord]

Well he answered ur questions in his post. I actully found that quite weird aswell cuz usually u won't be ontop of the platform before the adds are on top of it already but that lock was there even before the adds spanwed.. hmm

[cdmichaelb]

Had this happen to me one a few times, relog fixed it. More of a bad thing to happen than an exploit.

[banzor]

Happened to a warrior in our first kills, but if you aren't sure on how to do this, don't post.

[pewpewboltz]

this is pretty useless wouldnt the adds just kill you all if you stayed in the lava? ;p

[Bastatard]

Obviously, people who don't think this is an exploit/bug have never seen the fight.

This would be INCREDIBLY helpful if you were able to replicate it to everyone and have it consistently work.

For those of you that don't understand what's going in here:

When Onyxia dies, Nefarion flies into the air as the floor is slowly dropped into the lava. However, the video shows the lava instantly spawning for the warlock and he is able to swim up and get on the platform well before the Chromatic Prototypes start casting their interruptible spell. This is helpful as it would allow extra time fpr DPS and for Interrupts to get onto the platform, as sometimes you can get stuck under the ledge when jumping.

[garb]

ITT: Scrubs who can't/don't raid

This is an exploit, did blizzard intend for the lava to bug out and provide a ladder before the actual damage field applied? No.
This would be helpful, yes, but only if it's reproducible. No need to flame. He posted a bug that's available to the community

Oh and

So what advantage does this 3 seconds give you, Ive killed nefarian quite a few times and I cannot see this would really aid you in any way. Unless your dps is lacking in which case you probably wouldnt finish the fight anyway? 3sec is nothing.

Iunno, that takes away the burst factor of the transition, saving mana for the healers, nothing really to do with DPS. Shadowflames from Nef are randomly targeted and it does reduce the panic factor for a healer to completely reduce transitional damage. If you think about it, it's a collective 200k/500k HP not having to be healed (20k each)