Death knights in WoW are more powerful than expected. They terrorize the battlegrounds, as they have nasty Val’kyr in tow, which no one can stop.
Update 01/29: In the meantime, Blizzard has fixed the error. The creatures can no longer be taken into battlegrounds.
Original announcement: In World of Warcraft there are often small bugs and exploits that are simply annoying. However, when the fun of a larger group of players is affected, it is particularly bitter.
Currently, death knights are roaming through the battlegrounds at levels 1 to 49, slicing through players of the Alliance. Unfortunately, not in a fair way, but by exploiting a nasty exploit.
What kind of bug is this? Death knights are able to make undead creatures their servants with a spell. They then have to fight by the death knight’s side for a few minutes and count as an additional pet. However, death knights are also able to take certain mobs into battlegrounds that are simply too powerful.
One of these mobs is the “Charmed Val’kyr” from a questline for the Horde in the Plaguelands. This one has several thousand hit points even in low-level battlegrounds between levels 10 and 49 and hits for over 10,000 damage – enough to take out pretty much any player with just one attack.
The result is that the corresponding death knights dominate the battlefield single-handedly and tear their enemies apart in mere seconds.
Which players are affected? Especially low-level players in the range of levels 10 to 49, who visit battlegrounds while leveling and collect experience points in the process. This is basically a lucrative way to ensure that by level 60, the character can be equipped with PvP gear right away, making farming world quests or visiting dungeons unnecessary.
Has the bug been around longer? Apparently for several months, presumably since the level squish and the adjustment of leveling. Until now, the bug had not really attracted attention. However, comments on sites like wowhead are now discussing the issue, and the Val’kyr is increasing in presence in battlegrounds.
Is Blizzard doing something about it? It is to be expected. When a bug gains such a level of popularity, it usually takes only a few days or even just hours for the error to be fixed. This was also the case with a particular chain that allowed players to mind control druids and abuse them as pets.
Can this be exploited without worry? No. Since the Val’kyr is a mob from a quest, one must specifically abuse her for this type of exploit. Usually, accounts of players who exploit such things to gain an advantage in PvP are later penalized. Therefore, we strongly advise against capturing such a Val’kyr if you care about your WoW account.
Have you encountered such a Val’kyr? Or have you been spared?
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