[Mage only!] Spell steal oped buff for 2 min.

[deafspeaker]

honestly, exploit or not, this is useless due to the fact that sure, you have it for 1.5 minutes or whatever but by the time you get anywhere useful enough to use it, it'll be gone. If you could get it to go in a raid or instance, it would still be useless. Really, help clear 1 pack of trash? You wasted more time to get the buff to take in that you would have actually going in and killing things. Take it to a boss in an instance or raid? Extremely unlikely, unless your group was already at the boss and then it still wouldn't make that much of a difference.

[Ziggeh]

So, what you mean is that blizzard wanted mages to use that aoe like that(to scale with spellpower)... my turn to facepalm then.
Just because you find it useless it doesn't mean that it is not a valid exploit.

Oh dear, whatever. Go ahead and abuse this awesome exploit before Blizzard fixes it. Just don't get caught doing that, because Blizzard clearly didn't intend mages to use Spellsteal.

And oh yes, don't forget to give OP some reputation for this awesome find. Sure, every mage who did Shattrah cooking dailies (Super Hot Stew - Quest - World of Warcraft pretty much requires you to kill one of those "rabbit tits" mobs) knew about this super awesome exploit since TBC, but everyone was too afraid to use it because they didn't want to get banned for using Spellsteal.

Seriously, you can spellsteal a buff (you might thing that there's no exploit in this, BUT YOU ARE ****ING WRONG!) then have WHOLE TWO MINUTES of destroying everything around you (within like 10 yards) with 10K damage per 3 seconds AoE. That's like 3333.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333 DPS and that's awesome. Sure, you can't bring this buff into any instance, but you can kill some open world mobs. They drop epics and gold, what else do you need?

A very minor annoyance about this exploit is having to spend 10 minutes flying back to Blade's Edge Mountains to refresh the buff after 2 minutes. And you also a warlock and two more people to summon you every time after you get the buff. Alternatively, you can use a 25 man raid (you need a summon every 10 minutes, CD on Have Group, Will Travel is 240 minutes, so after the 25th person summons you, 1st person will have their mass summon off CD) if you can't get a warlock for this.

[buzzler]

Finding a way to carry a buff into an instance would be an exploit.

I just tested and this buff DOES WORK inside instances. You could also get feltaint from nearby mobs at the same for little extra boost.

honestly, exploit or not, this is useless due to the fact that sure, you have it for 1.5 minutes or whatever but by the time you get anywhere useful enough to use it, it'll be gone. If you could get it to go in a raid or instance, it would still be useless. Really, help clear 1 pack of trash? You wasted more time to get the buff to take in that you would have actually going in and killing things. Take it to a boss in an instance or raid? Extremely unlikely, unless your group was already at the boss and then it still wouldn't make that much of a difference.

It hits avg 15k on single target for me. That's "only" +5k DPS for almost 2 minutes and more with other buffs or AoE. Obviously it's not used to clear trash faster, but people can be summoned to boss and similar exploits have been used in past to get 30% higher WoL rankings than everyone else.

Getting the buff takes about 30 sec with portal to orgrimmar + blasted lands + accept summon.