Using the same raid lockout Every Week to farm rare mounts! No Second Account Needed!

[Giony]

i tried doing this in icc today, worked with 1 char, i tried to do it again on another and the grp i made doesn't show up so i can't invite myself. did blizz stealth fix it?

[Sklug]

i tried doing this in icc today, worked with 1 char, i tried to do it again on another and the grp i made doesn't show up so i can't invite myself. did blizz stealth fix it?

I was able to make an LFG group to invite myself without issue. Just make sure you didn't put in some "min ilvl" requirement or any of your toons that don't meet it will not be able to see the LFG group. It won't show up to them at all.

[Firegone]

Definitely the wrong thread!

[kcall20]

does way less damage than 5 minutes before

Wat.
You sure you in the right thread?

[sl350]

i tried doing this in icc today, worked with 1 char, i tried to do it again on another and the grp i made doesn't show up so i can't invite myself. did blizz stealth fix it?

The LFG will disappear if you wait too long. So if you are inviting your own toon you have to do it in a couple minutes or the group you made that has no one will be delisted. Then you have to make a new group all over again.

[Limes]

Just gave this a shot a few days ago after not using it for months and it didn't work for ICC.

Lockout alt appears to be saved to 11/13 H25 with LK alive, but my other characters who join that lockout automatically have the LK dead. I'll give it another shot later today.

It's working now, not sure why it wasn't last week.

So yeah, confirmed for still working.

[Nwonknu7]

I also can confirm this is still working.

[Sklug]

Thank you guys for reporting on it! Since I have been doing full clears for appearances, I haven't been using this to skip to the last boss. However, one exception, that music recipe from last boss in Naxx I have been trying to farm and still haven't had any luck. So, I just tried it there, and sure enough, this trick still worked without issue in sharing my raid ID. So, I too can confirm that it still works. For those that are saying they are having trouble, please report your specific issues and hopefully we can resolve them here. I am certain it is more than likely to do with a procedural issue.

Thanks again for reporting back on this still working everyone.

[Tracber]

I find that this only works for one raid lockout extension (a.k.a. 2 weeks). Every 2 weeks I have to full clear on one character. The reason is that my alts don't get saved to the raid until a boss is killed, and that boss they need to kill is the one I'm farming every week. I'm not able to transfer the lockout to an alt for this reason. Am I missing something obvious?

[PassionSTAR]

I find that this only works for one raid lockout extension (a.k.a. 2 weeks). Every 2 weeks I have to full clear on one character. The reason is that my alts don't get saved to the raid until a boss is killed, and that boss they need to kill is the one I'm farming every week. I'm not able to transfer the lockout to an alt for this reason. Am I missing something obvious?

You should provide a bit more details to get an correct answer Like what difficulty/size you create the lockout and how do you farm it.
2 possible common issues:
1) you also clear the instance with the char which is supposed to hold the lockout
2) you are creating an HC lockout

I did this with nearly every possible raid for months/years with like 8 toons every week. One character just holds the lockouts and never enter those raids anymore. Just extending the raids every week and joining the groups.

[Tracber]

I did this with nearly every possible raid for months/years with like 8 toons every week. One character just holds the lockouts and never enter those raids anymore. Just extending the raids every week and joining the groups.

No matter which raid I do, I can only extend the lockout for that raid for one week on that character. Let's say I just did Dragon Soul 25M Normal and I was farming for the Ultraxion mount or something, I'm 4/8 saved for that raid on my main, and I'm using that to farm on my alts. When I extend the lockout for next week it says something like 13 days left. Now next week rolls around and it says 6 days left and the extended lockout is still active. If I try to remove it, the raid ID expires. Also I still have to enter the raid on my saved character so my alts don't enter a fresh raid, even while in the same group

[tlittle]

So this is what I did:

1 Cleared BT up to Illidan.
2 Created a LFR group with auto accept and logged out.
3 Logged on my alt, joined the raid group and entered the instance.
4 Accepted the raid lock out, killed Illidan.

Repeated steps 2-3 with another character. It said the raid was 9/9 with all bosses cleared.
The raid lockout on my initial character still says 8/9.

So I could not get this to work as of wednesday.

[Tracber]

So this is what I did:

1 Cleared BT up to Illidan.
2 Created a LFR group with auto accept and logged out.
3 Logged on my alt, joined the raid group and entered the instance.
4 Accepted the raid lock out, killed Illidan.

Repeated steps 2-3 with another character. It said the raid was 9/9 with all bosses cleared.
The raid lockout on my initial character still says 8/9.

So I could not get this to work as of wednesday.

This is only an issue for raids from Vanilla and BC. If a boss is killed in one of those raids, it's killed for anyone who joins that ID.
You have to full clear it on every character.

[Firegone]

Thank you guys for reporting on it! Since I have been doing full clears for appearances, I haven't been using this to skip to the last boss. However, one exception, that music recipe from last boss in Naxx I have been trying to farm and still haven't had any luck. So, I just tried it there, and sure enough, this trick still worked without issue in sharing my raid ID. So, I too can confirm that it still works. For those that are saying they are having trouble, please report your specific issues and hopefully we can resolve them here. I am certain it is more than likely to do with a procedural issue.

Thanks again for reporting back on this still working everyone.

So, I report back. Would be great if someone can either confirm or deny this. About Dragon Soul

I was using this method for months to farm the rare mounts. For deathwing i was using the macros to "accept" the fight and set it to heroic in one step.
It worked like 99% of the time but since the legion prepatch, it looks like it was fixed somehow. Everytime i tried, deathwing fades away after a second
Anyone else experiencing this behavior?

macro for 25hc e.g.:
/click StaticPopup1Button1
/run SetLegacyRaidDifficultyID(DIFFICULTY_RAID25_HEROIC)

I tried it with 4 chars, didn't want to waste more IDs. It doesn't matter whether I try it with a shared normal ID or a fresh per toon created one. Deathwing despawns as soon as you do the Heroic-Trick and wont respawn aka ID is corrupted.

[Limes]

So, I report back. Would be great if someone can either confirm or deny this



I tried it with 4 chars, didn't want to waste more IDs. It doesn't matter whether I try it with a shared normal ID or a fresh per toon created one. Deathwing despawns as soon as you do the Heroic-Trick and wont respawn aka ID is corrupted.

Deathwing got fixed as of (I think) the prepatch.

Heroic deathwing w/ all prior reg modes

The last few posts confirm it. That exploit is dead.