[Exploration] Scarlet Monastery and Alterac Valley

[Teryaki]

Hey guys

It's been awhile since I have posted anything, so here are two little things that I have found.

The first one is in Scarlet Monastery. We all know that as a Mage, you can blink though the portals and get outside the instance boundaries, but I found another way that requires a growth item. It is in the Cathedral area. I didn't make a video, but here are the screenshots. Hope it isn't a repost. I did some searching and didn't find anything on this particular spot. This way can be done by anyone, and isn't just restricted to one class.

So you basically use your growth item under the ledge. Disconnect yourself so you go though the ledge area. When you fall down, don't fall towards the water, or you will constantly disconnect.







I also found kind of a short cut in Alterac Valley for a Warrior on the Horde side. I didn't make a video for this one either, but will show you some screenshots.

Basically using the same techniques as my other videos on heroic leaping.






Cheers!

[WizardTrokair]

+4 reputation for you! I'm very glad the board let me... you've had rep coming to you from me for a few explorations now.

Great method... I have personally never seen it before. Always wonderful when a class-only exploration is opened up to the general public.

I do not PvP myself, but I like the Horde-side AV shortcut as well... I would suggest you make a separate thread for that one and do a post in the Exploits section, if you think your shortcut would give an advantage. Exploiters like advantages, and it would probably be received well there.

Keep 'em coming!!


PS - EXPLORER WARNING!! - Entering water, lava, slime, etc, that is located between walls or in small enclosed squares, fountains or spaces (places you're not supposed to be) will usually keep you in a DC holding pattern where you disconnect every time you log in. Never fun!

[Teryaki]

I am not sure if the advantage is that great. I noticed people ran up there about the same time I heroic leaped. I don't PvP much myself.

Is the disconnection thing new? I don't remember it doing that earlier in 4.3.3. I just noticed that I would always DC when I hit the water. Kinda sucks with the blinking though walks method as a mage, if it is true that you would DC when you hit water to mount up. Must have been a hotfix or something?

Thanks for the rep! Will see if I can find more stuff. I have been looking at Halls of Reflection and heroic leaping the mountain at the end, as well as Dire Maul area. I found out that the Dire Maul instances are actually connected as well, just like Scarlet Monastery.

[WizardTrokair]

The Dire Maul instances are indeed connected... we've seen some video proof on the forum here... done by Dellion, iirc. I'll search around for it in a bit.
(edit...found it: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/worl...ploration.html (Little Dire Maul Exploration) )

The DC in water thing is not new, I'd say it started around when Cataclysm hit. Maybe sooner. I misspoke above when I said "any water located underneath walls" (editing what I said now).... because clearly we can "catch" water beneath the surface to get to places, and that is a huge exploration tool, especially for mages.... so I shouldn't say "any water". I do think perhaps it has something to do with 'contained' water... water within fountains, small stone pools or small enclosures, etc, and seems more prevalent when in instances. Come to think of it, I'm not sure what the qualifier is, and this deserves some thought.

The first time I noticed was probably the lava in Halls of Lightning. I had got beneath the floor, and somehow gotten into the lava (I think there is lava in the Slag room, it was probably under that).... and every time I tried to log back in I would disconnect. When it happens in an instance you can simply wait it out... about 20 minutes and you'll just log back in at the beginning of the instance. Then later it happened to me in Karazhan Crypts. I was in Upside Down Sinners room, but at the bottom had glitched through the low tunnel. As soon as I hit the water on the other side, bam, DC and DC every time I tried to log back in. Needed a GM to get me out of that one. Just recently it happened to me in Naxx when I was going to the instanced EPL... I mis-jumped out of Naxx and landed in that slime between the walls... instant DC when I hit the slime. Being in an instance I just waited about 20 min. and was fine. Someone in the Dalaran Arena thread just posted that they got caught in the DC loop when entering the water from underneath in the uninstanced Dalaran Arena. Basically, I try to stay out of confined water spaces behind walls when I'm in instances... but as we see in Kara Crypts and Dalaran, we know it happens in un-instanced lands, too...

[Kwasa]

@Trokair: It also happens in the molten front. I decided to mount jump through the ground back in 4.2, and got stuck in the d/c loop.

[Nyarly]

Oh don't even try to get under blackrock mountain.

Nice little spot there teryaki2 ! Btw there are other methods on ownedcore to get outside this instances for all classes.