Much easier Alysrazor - imprinting bug

[403Forbidden]

Found out something by accident, after testing it proved to be a valuable exploit.

TL : DR version
Get imprinted, reset encounter, do insane dps to hatchlings

Full version:

First, a quick explanation as to how mage invisibility resets encounter. If you invis, and then not do anything that causes threat, once last person dies you will leave combat - note that mobs will still attack you and boss will still cast spells on you etc, but if you do not fight back, once you are the only person alive, they will dissapear. This is for BOSS encounters only.

Anyway we were on alysrazor, and a wipe was called. As always (for mass res), i invised, then ran around dodging stuff waiting for people to die. I had a hatchling imprint on me, so i iceblocked. Then last person died, and the hatchlings and boss dissapeared - but i was still alive (which is why i invised in the first place). The unexpected fact was that i still had the imprint from a hatchling!
We decided to test if it will work, and did a quick recovery. When we pulled, first hatchlings came when i had 2 min left on the buff. And guess what?
300k noncrit arcane blasts ftw. This made the first hatchling phase so incredibly easy - also, a single imprint had bonus damage for both mobs, so you can dps both down, or focus on just one.

PLEASE NOTE: the encounter MUST be reset when you get imprinted. Just vanishing / invising / FDing / etc wont work, as hatchlings will stay on you. You need to get imprinted, and then survive until encounter resets - what i do is i invis, then run around using shield and ward, and iceblock at last second. Just make sure you dont attack or buff or debuff anything.

This has been working as of yesterday, monday 19 july on EU server.
Enjoy

[nerfmeplease]

Confirmed, this happened to my guild on sunday to our shadow priest somehow. by the next pull he had 30 seconds left on the buff. Since we didnt want something strange to happen we didnt do it again (they thought maybe the hatchling would re-aggro to the spriest. at any rate, it works, happy 1000% dmg!

[403Forbidden]

Well forgot to add - on one of attempts i had TWO imprinted debuffs, but hatchlings did NOT attack me - they still imprint their tanks as normal

[vaticon]

I dont really see how this makes the encounter so much easier. If your tank cant manage to get down those adds with at 1000% increased dmg buff hes doing something wrong. Personally I get them down about 10-15 sec before I need to and I have no problems with Tantrum or the wounds at all. The encounter is easly healable with 2 healers on normal so losing tanks should be a problem if you are going with 3 healers like most do for this fight.

Anyway nice find!

[cdmichaelb]

I dont really see how this makes the encounter so much easier. If your tank cant manage to get down those adds with at 1000% increased dmg buff hes doing something wrong. Personally I get them down about 10-15 sec before I need to and I have no problems with Tantrum or the wounds at all. The encounter is easly healable with 2 healers on normal so losing tanks should be a problem if you are going with 3 healers like most do for this fight.

Anyway nice find!

Less healing required if they die faster, send extra people up to dps boss in the air, etc etc

[blackhat1990]

Patch 4.2 Hotfixes - July 19
Imprinted should now be cleared from characters under all conditions when the encounter resets.