Interesting World PVP tactic in home cities

[slybootz]

Not sure where this thread belongs, so feel free to move it to a different forum if this is the wrong spot.


Today, I was bored and decided to fly my gnome mage to orgrimmar and try to kill a few flagged horde. I brought along a warlock and a disc priest. As you know, home cities are now guarded by level 85 guards on the ground, and swarms of flying mounted guards as well. These flying guards are annoying because they have an ability that will dismount you from your flying mount, called Dismounting Shot. Dismounting Shot - Spell - World of Warcraft

Well, our priest decided to MC one of the flying guards, and sure enough he had Dismounting Shot on his bars! We took up a camping spot on the "bridge" right above the front gates of Org, and lured mounted and flagged horde close enough to our MC'd Orgrimmar Wind Rider, and laughed our asses off as we dismounted unsuspecting horde who then fell 200yards to their death!

Orgrimmar Wind Rider (Orgrimmar Wind Rider - NPC - World of Warcraft)

I assume the same strat can be done with the flying guards in Stormwind by a horde priest.


Clever use of in-game mechanics, possibly, but quite overpowered at that!

[Tetro]

Works with enginerring cap aswell

[slybootz]

Works with enginerring cap aswell

awesome! i was wondering if it did. the gnomish mind control helmet has a reduced effectiveness if the target is above level 60, plus a 30minute CD. priest is more fun

[TehVoyager]

thats amazing. beautiful work.

[ratsrfroobs]

Holy crap, I need to go lvl my priest.

[jimmys96]

+cookie
dont think its supposed to be there, the dismounting shot, so this is more of an exploit.. no use but its so damn good that i have to reward you with this cookie!

[TehVoyager]

it totally has a use... if ur attakacking the alliance cities (or horde) MC a guard and use him to pet people off there mounts.... reinforcements take longer to get there to defend if there running instead of flying / horse riding.

[mgscs]

It isn't? It's not working. You got a shoot but not dismounting one...Phail

[Narugold]

great find, will test asap

[slybootz]

It isn't? It's not working. You got a shoot but not dismounting one...Phail

Are you testing in Org on the flying guards? I will have our priest take a SS sometime tomorrow or tonight when we go back!

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Works with enginerring cap aswell

just tried it out with the engineering cap, but it doesn't look feasible. I got the error "You are in combat" when I tried to MC one of the guards, since they guards fly in packs of 3 or packs of 6. Kill off two guards, then invis'd out of combat. Tried to use it again on the single guard, but it said "You already control a summoned creature" (water elemental), at which point a bunch of horde killed me D:

Definitely having a priest and a few dps for backup is what makes this fun!

[Mayx]

As I'm horde (Since its best) I will have to try this on the Stormwind flying guards.

Anyone know if it works on them?

[CheeseProphet]

As I'm horde (Since its best) I will have to try this on the Stormwind flying guards.

Anyone know if it works on them?

Horde cant even figure out such a simple exploit how is it better ^^

[slybootz]

As I'm horde (Since its best) I will have to try this on the Stormwind flying guards.

Anyone know if it works on them?

Should work for Horde as well, on the Stormwind Gryphon Rider (Stormwind Gryphon Rider - NPC - World of Warcraft)

Wowhead has one of their abilities also listed as Dismounting Shot (Dismounting Shot - Spell - World of Warcraft)

[mgscs]

Are you testing in Org on the flying guards? I will have our priest take a SS sometime tomorrow or tonight when we go back!

---------- Post added at 09:08 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:33 PM ----------




just tried it out with the engineering cap, but it doesn't look feasible. I got the error "You are in combat" when I tried to MC one of the guards, since they guards fly in packs of 3 or packs of 6. Kill off two guards, then invis'd out of combat. Tried to use it again on the single guard, but it said "You already control a summoned creature" (water elemental), at which point a bunch of horde killed me D:

Definitely having a priest and a few dps for backup is what makes this fun!

Nevermind this. It defenitely works! My bad +repx5

[awesomepossum]

tried on stormwind guards, tried multiple times and it seems to be gone cant use dismounting shot.