Rextroy is back! After a long break, the well-known player from World of Warcraft has returned with a new video, in which he does what he does best: defeating raid bosses in spectacular fashion while uncovering potential exploits and bugs.
Who is Rextroy? Over the past years in World of Warcraft, there has been no other player who could exploit the systems, rules, and mechanics of the MMORPG as efficiently with the available means, thereby pushing the limits of what is possible in Azeroth.
More than once, he drew the attention of Blizzard developers to unwanted exploit opportunities through his remarkable kills of raid bosses and PvP experiments, which were subsequently fixed. In our MeinMMO special on 12 of the most famous players from World of Warcraft, we dedicated a section to Rextroy for good reason.
Rextroy has certainly seen the recent trailer for WoW – The War Within:
Strong comeback just before The War Within
At the time of the special, Rextroy’s last video was just over eleven months old. It was rumored in the community that the player would focus on his studies for some time. Now, Rextroy made a furious comeback in WoW as well as on YouTube!
What did Rextroy do? In the new video, the player explains that after his long break, he first went into research to catch up on what he had missed during the year. In doing so, he came across an exciting report from wowhead.com from May 2024.
Here you can watch Rextroy’s new video:
The article was about a bug that allowed spells with damage transfer to be exploited to oneshot strong enemies through attacks on weak “Critter” creatures (like wandering rabbits or sheep). This was possible because these “Critters” take high bonus damage.
Although the developers had subsequently rolled out a hotfix, Rextroy noticed during tests that this bug could still (or again) be exploited. Through the spell Glacial Spike of his mage and the 2-piece set bonus that deals 15 percent of Glacial Spike damage to nearby enemies, it was already possible in initial tests to deal more than 200 million damage.
In the next step, Rextroy grabbed his paladin and a friendly mage to venture into Amirdrassil with a “Critter” creature and oneshot raid bosses there. This works flawlessly. Knorrenroot and Igira, the Cruel, each take significantly more than 300 million damage. After that, world boss Aurostor and some Horde players also had to face the consequences.
How did Rextroy bring the Critter to the boss? This was the biggest challenge of the experiment. The little creatures reset their combat status as soon as they move too far away from their original position. Additionally, they can’t withstand much damage.
The solution: By combining the death grip of a death knight twink and the transformation of the mage, the duo was able to navigate the Critter through the raid instance. After the successful tests, Rextroy reported the bug, and according to the developers, it has supposedly been fixed again. Also a cool action: Youtuber kills a group of Horde players in less than a second – With a toad
