One single explosion takes out many Horde players at once. Rextroy is once again escalating in World of Warcraft – and takes dozens of victims with him.
Every few weeks, it’s that time again when the player Rextroy finds a new method to turn World of Warcraft upside down. This time is no different, as he has found a way to kill enemy players with a single attack – and not by a small margin.
A whopping 300,000 damage points not only take out one but several enemies at once.
What did the mage do? In his latest video, Rextroy shows how even a poorly equipped mage can deal significant damage – so much that top-equipped players drop instantly. The spell “Touch of the Magi” causes with its effect that hardly anything remains standing.
How does it work? For the trick, Rextroy had to experiment for quite a while. Someone had sent him a screenshot showing the absurd damage numbers of Touch of the Magi. It took a long time before Rextroy found the solution to replicate these high values.
The trick is to find a low-level enemy NPC that can be affected by Touch of the Magi and simultaneously controlled by a priest using the spell “Mind Control”. This works on humanoid NPCs, but also – as so often – on the frogs that Rextroy keeps using.
The catch is that Rextroy has a priest in tow who applies the PvP talent “Beam of Hope” to the “carrier” of Touch of the Magi. This prevents all damage for a few seconds and instead adds it delayed. After the mob is released again, the mage casts Touch and then some Arcane spells.
Touch of the Magi now collects, as the spell prescribes, 25% of all damage dealt and explodes after the duration for that amount. Since Rextroy is attacking a low-level enemy, this damage is massively increased, which ultimately affects the explosion.
The highly scaled damage accumulates on the mob, which soon explodes for up to 300,000 damage points and defeats all living enemies in the area.
The result is significant amounts of up to 300,000 damage points, knocking out pretty much every character immediately. Only tanks and rogues with various versions of the “cheat death” abilities can withstand it.
Is it forbidden? Basically yes. However, Rextroy has more or less “freedom” with his videos. This is because he is constantly in contact with Blizzard and reports the bugs and exploits he finds.
Only when the developers give him feedback that the bug has been fixed does he publish the corresponding video. This ensures that such bugs are not used by the general public to disrupt the flow of the game.
We can be curious about what new methods Rextroy will find in Patch 9.2 to cause absurdly high damage numbers.
What do you think of Rextroy’s latest video? An impressive feat? Or just annoying nonsense?
