500,000 damage with a single attack kills any Horde player in World of Warcraft. A hunter makes this quite easy.
In the meantime, there are a whole bunch of “legends” in World of Warcraft that everyone knows. One of them is the player Rextroy. He keeps attracting attention by either soloing bosses or finding interesting bugs and exploits that allow him to “oneshot” players. This has happened again. As a hunter with rather poor equipment, he can deal enough damage to simply blow away all other players.
But see for yourself how Rextroy once again brings out his hunter to kill enemy players with a single attack.
How does it work? The key element here is the legendary item “Pouch of Razor Fragments”. This causes the Deadly Shot to apply a damage-over-time effect to all enemies near the target, which corresponds to 60% of the damage dealt by the deadly shot. Typically, this is only a few hundred or thousand points of damage. A solid option for area damage, but nothing devastating.
The trick is once again the use of his notorious frogs. These can spawn everywhere in the world and count as low-level beasts – they take increased damage from players who have reached level 60. This, in turn, means that Deadly Shot can deal several million damage points, sending the poor frog to the afterlife.
This massively increased damage is then the basis for the DOT effect that is applied to all other enemies in the vicinity – which ultimately leads to them having a DOT on them that ticks for around 500,000 damage points. That’s many times more than any character in World of Warcraft can currently have.
However, Rextroy had already tested this exact combination over a year ago, and at that time, it could not be used. Back then, the damage-over-time effect simply did not transfer to other targets when the target was destroyed with greatly increased damage.
For a while, there was a bug that the DoT did not jump to other targets at all. Blizzard then apparently fixed this and inadvertently created a new bug.
Does Rextroy find all his tricks himself? No. Although Rextroy spends a lot of time optimizing certain combos and has discovered many bugs himself, he often relies on his community. Whenever someone finds a potential one-shot combo, Rextroy is contacted by his friends and viewers, after which he tests and refines it himself. In this case, the discovery traces back to a small Twitch clip from Team Liquid.
Isn’t that exploiting and prohibited? Basically yes. Especially the spreading of exploits is not looked upon kindly by Blizzard. In Rextroy’s case, however, he is in contact with the developers and sends them a report regarding the respective bug or exploit. His videos usually appear only after the bug has already been fixed in the game and can no longer be reproduced. Therefore, most of Rextroy’s “oneshot” combos can no longer be replicated.
The exploit has now been fixed.
What do you think of this trick? A cool combo and just funny that such a thing is found? Or does it show how many bugs are in the MMORPG?
