Rextroy solos World Boss…in ten seconds…at 4M DpS
World bosses are usually very difficult in WoW. But if he has to bow to one player and only has ten seconds left, that’s a mistake: Rextroy strikes again!
In most cases, world bosses in WoW are nothing more than piñata loot. Everyone hits it off in one form or another, and eventually the boss drops in leaving some of the spoils for the lucky few. There are only a few exceptions where world leaders really pack a punch and remain victorious.
The current world boss is Stronran Medium. Time and time again inattentive players die, but in the end the dragon always goes down. Depending on the number of players there, this may take a few minutes. Unless Rextroy is around. He simply single-handedly defeats the boss – by shooting a nice 4 million DpS from the hip. Or maybe like lightning from the sky?
Gale storm feet!
Rextroy arrives, lands and ten seconds later the world boss is dead on the lawn. The trick is as simple as it is ingenious. A few hundred meters to the north is the camp of the Nakhud invaders. To defeat them faster, there are totems everywhere. You can click on these and they will give you 30 seconds of power up. He, in turn, shoots lightning bolts from the sky at your opponents.
But as Rextroy discovered, is damage storms on a percentage basis. The more life points the opponent has, the more damage the attack takes. More specifically, each hit deals 15 percent of max health as damage. In the case of Stronran, this is clearly much more than the “ordinary” gangs in the al-Nukhud camp.
All you need to do now is to click on the totem and go to the world boss with a dragon as quickly as possible. Then just hit it and stay within melee range. Of course, we don’t know if this is a mistake. But since the optimization goes away once you have to go through the loading screen, there’s very little mischief you can do with it. Blizzard probably wouldn’t care if an occasional world boss was defeated in a matter of seconds.
The trick still works now. We just went out there and knocked Strunraan out of life and explained to the bewildered players in the group why we had a few million more DpS than everyone else. Of course, we don’t know how long the trick will remain active. It is very likely that we will see an urgent fix soon.