A player is causing chaos again in World of Warcraft. He kills the hardest boss of the Depths – with just a single attack.
In the past, it was common for a new video by Rextroy showcasing his misdeeds in World of Warcraft to appear every few weeks. After a longer break, he has now significantly increased his pace and shows a new method every few days to exploit game mechanics and exploits to achieve performances in PvP or PvE that shouldn’t actually be possible – for instance, through slimes that terrorize all of Azeroth.
In his latest video, he dismantles the current final boss of the Depths, the Loren boss. Even the Gobfather, the current world boss in Lorenhall, takes only a few seconds before simply collapsing.
How does the exploit work? As is often the case in World of Warcraft, the source of this bug lies in the scaling. When a high-level character strikes a low-level target, the target takes significantly increased damage. Often, this is a multiplier of several thousand percent.
While this is generally good and enables many characters to complete old content solo, it causes problems in other areas.
Because scaling doesn’t always work correctly, as seen in the death knight talent “The Blood is Life” from the San’layn hero talent tree. This talent ensures that a blood beast appears that continuously delivers attacks. A portion of the damage dealt is stored and delivered as an explosion at the end of the blood beast’s lifespan.
A seemingly simple mechanic, but it has a strange scale – namely with different training dummies. When these are attacked by the blood beast, normal damage (in the range of 30,000 to 40,000 damage) is displayed, but the accumulated damage for the explosion at the end gets multiplied. This results in the blood beast ending its lifespan with millions or even hundreds of millions of damage points.
That is enough damage to kill enemy player characters in PvP, but also some PvP bosses and even world bosses.
The trick could also be used on the Loren boss (“Underpin”). This is the current season-ending boss in the Depths, which is currently quite tough on the “??” difficulty. Here too, Rextroy could quickly ensure that the Loren boss bites the digital dust.
Is this still possible? No. Whenever Rextroy finds a bug that affects fairly competitive game content – including the toughest Depths – he reports his findings directly to Blizzard. The videos with these exploits usually appear only after Blizzard has already fixed the issue. This is the case here as well.
In general, one should not attempt to exploit such game bugs for actual advantages or excessively. Because this only jeopardizes one’s own account – as seen in the case of the exploiters who have repeatedly sabotaged the “World First” race.
