The now quite famous Paladin Rextroy has discovered a new combo in World of Warcraft that can take down opponents in the arena in less than a second. Although this time he needs help from friends, the trick is both easy to replicate and easy to counter if known.
What is this trick? Rextroy shows in a video how he, along with two colleagues, can oneshot opponents in the arena with a single combo. He says that he can easily climb the arena leaderboard up to a rating of 2,000 without really coordinating or optimizing with the team. The combo is primarily based on chaining two or four abilities and items:
- the Remote Control, a trinket from Mechagon that summons an exploding vehicle
- Seizing Flame, an Azerite essence (for DPS players)
- the Azerite essence Concentrated Flame (for healers)
- and the Essence Anima of Life (for tanks)
The combo therefore only works in the 3-player arena and ideally requires a tank (in Rextroy’s case, a Paladin) and a Death Knight. From there, it becomes incredibly simple: You position yourself with your back against a wall, the Death Knight pulls an opponent to him, and you all activate the trinket and your essences together. It looks something like this:
Why does this work? With the Remote Control and Seizing Flame, Rextroy has already demonstrated a oneshot combo for PvP that anyone can do. For the arena, it builds on the same principle.
However, it’s important that you stand with your back against the wall. This way, the vehicle from the Remote Control spawns directly on you and hits the opponent pulled by the Death Knight for massive damage.
Normally, the device would spawn at a distance, giving opponents time to react. Since it is a trinket, it does not fall under the global cooldown and can be used together with the Azerite essences.
However, the key to this is maximizing versatility. It increases the damage you deal with the abilities and the trinket. There was, however, a time when there was a bug that gem sockets could reduce your damage in PvP. This should now be fixed.
Rextroy keeps finding new, crazy combos
Who is this Rextroy anyway? Rextroy is known for exploiting or cleverly chaining game mechanics to find crazy combos. Usually, he tests these first and reports the problems to Blizzard for fixing. Only then does he release his videos. Among them have been crazy ideas like:
- Killing opponents naked from a mount
- naked oneshots against mythic geared players
- killing 20 players simultaneously with just one attack
- taking down raid bosses from the current content solo
Many of these combos are only possible because mechanics interact in ways that the developers certainly did not intend. His videos often receive criticism from some players, both for his methods and for WoW itself. If you also have criticism, then vote on which was the worst WoW expansion.
