During the Dungeon Tournament in World of Warcraft, the professionals from Echo demonstrated an insane trick – something that all teams will probably replicate from now on.
The Dungeon Tournament is currently taking place in World of Warcraft. The best teams in the world often have special tricks and insights up their sleeves to clear a dungeon as efficiently as possible. The professionals from Echo surprised everyone by executing such a complex trick in one of the dungeons that you can only tip your hat to.
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What kind of tournament is this? The MDI is the “Mythic Dungeon International”. Teams from all over the world can qualify and try to tackle increasingly difficult “Mythic+” dungeons – with the lowest possible time.
What did Echo do? The trick was performed in the dungeon “Murozond’s Rise”. It requires not only extremely good knowledge of the dungeon but also a perfectly prepared group (everyone has to be Night Elves) and a good understanding of the mechanics of all enemies, including their “reset” mechanics.
The trick creates a wormhole directly from the Lost Time Battlefield to Morchie’s Arena – thus providing a direct connection between the second and third bosses of the dungeon.
How did Echo manage that? This was made possible by the “Infinite Riftmage” mobs. These enemies can be found on the large, sandy platform after the first boss. There are only 4 of these enemies, and each pair of them links the places of their death with a wormhole. Actually, you can only shorten a few meters with this, as you cannot take these enemies to other locations – but Echo managed to do it.
Two of the Riftmage mobs must be killed in advance to unlock the normal portals of the dungeon. At the same time, these portals cannot be used while in combat. Therefore, the entire group from Echo consists of Night Elves to obtain the racial ability “Shadowmeld” which gives them stealth and allows them to leave the combat.
This is how Echo proceeded:
- All attack one of the two Infinite Riftmages. Once its HP is low, the three DPS characters run to the portal and use Shadowmeld to quickly run to the Lost Time Battlefield.
- In the Lost Time Arena, they perform a summoning ritual of the Warlock.
- At the same time, the healer uses Shadowmeld and utilizes the other portal to run to Morchie’s arena. Since the healer left combat through Shadowmeld but still had DoTs active from it, he is immediately “in combat” again with the Riftmage.
- Once everyone is in position, the tank flees and uses his own Shadowmeld.
- As the Riftmage is now only in combat with the healer, who is on a different platform, the “Snapping” mechanic comes into play. After a few seconds of evasion, the Riftmage teleports to the healer, who immediately kills him. The first wormhole thus forms in Morchie’s arena.
- The healer is then summoned by the DPS players with a Warlock portal.
- The tank now waits for his group to summon him. Just before he accepts the summon, as a Demon Hunter he places a seal under the remaining Riftmage. As the seal only explodes after the tank has already accepted the summon, the “Snapping” mechanic is triggered again, causing the Riftmage to end up on the Lost Time Battlefield!
- Now everyone together destroys the remaining Riftmage, creating a direct wormhole connection between the battlefield and Morchie’s arena.
- After that, they use the seal trick to pull the trash mobs from the battlefield to Morchie and defeat the boss along with the trash to save considerable time.
They clear the rest of the dungeon in a normal way.
To better understand what actually happened, be sure to watch this video:
In any case, an impressive and extremely good tactic, where multiple mechanics interact. Overall, this trick saves about 45 seconds – which is a significant advantage in the MDI.
This is what the community says: Most viewers are quite impressed by this trick but are also astonished. Because such complex strategies that play with the “reset behavior” of the mobs are often changed and fixed by Blizzard. The fact that it even appears as an official video on the WoW channel this time is new and is seen by many as a sign that Blizzard is becoming more lenient and allowing the tournament to unfold more as the community appreciates it.
- “This is the most glorious strategy I have ever seen in the MDI.” – Gordronfreems
- “Brilliant and unreal that someone actually came up with this. 200 IQ.” – SoloVeracity
What do you think of this trick? Brilliant and mechanically well thought out? Or clear bug abusing that should be banned?
