A nasty shaman also brings seemingly safe players in WoW Burning Crusade Classic down from the sky. We show how he does it.
Flying mounts have always been a controversial topic in World of Warcraft. Since their introduction in Burning Crusade, there has been wild discussion about them. Especially PvP fans have long complained, as with a flying mount you can easily escape any danger, which takes away the thrill. However, this doesn’t necessarily have to be the case, as a player demonstrates in Burning Crusade Classic.
Through “clever use of game mechanics” he even catches flying players from the sky and prepares them for a swift end.
What happened? In the WoW Classic subreddit, the user BloodSeekerWhitemane has published a small clip from Burning Crusade Classic. It shows his shaman at the flight point of Area 52. PvP doesn’t seem possible at this moment, as the Alliance players are flying on their flying mounts out of reach.
But that doesn’t stop the shaman player. He simply launches himself into the air, activates all his big cooldowns, and takes down a druid in flight form in just under a second.
How does he do it? The most important item here is the helm “Rocket Helmet X-52”. It can be obtained at the end of a quest chain in Netherstorm. The helm has no stats but has a use effect. Once every 30 minutes, it can be used to launch the player into the sky like a rocket, from where he then slowly glides down.
Combined with the many quick attacks of a shaman – and a lot of proc luck with Stormstrike – a player can take down his victim in no time.
The poor druid must have returned to his PC quite confused, wondering while looking at the chat log how he could have been hit by Stormstrike at that height.
This is how the community reacts: There is a lot of praise under the post for the creative use of an otherwise rather useless quest reward that is actually just a gimmick.
Others, however, take a slightly more cynical approach and say: “He must be the first horde player to attack without reinforcements at his back and actually win.”
It is not particularly “op,” by the way, since the helm can only be used once every 30 minutes and only shoots vertically into the sky, which makes it easy for (present) players to avoid the attack.
