Comments on: Ranged Capture of the Flag is Safer

By: Gheist

Gheist — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:33:54 +0000

God, yes what an idea (simplistic but effective and easy to implement). I would have read the thread and found that out but reading WoW boards drops my iq a few points per thread, and it’s low enough as it is.

Personaly being alliance I’ve only ever seen the horde do the gate trick but I’ve seen the alliance ‘get behind the flag’ trick done by alliance which was promtly reported.

By: Foton

Foton — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:18:14 +0000

AV flag exploit fixed with today's patch 2.0.4. Judging by the screaming, finger pointing and mud slinging in that thread, it was fixed. And I like the suggestion of flipping the BG maps for a while, as long as WSG and AB (especially) are also flipped. Would answer definitively if the maps provide a material advantage to one side or not.

By: gablaxian

gablaxian — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:34:24 +0000

My most surprising moment in WSG was when literally2 seconds after the BG started, one of the alliance appeared behind our flag, took it, then vanished back to their base in the next second. This happened for the rest of the flags… nothing we could do.

Don’t know if any of you have come across that one, but it was the fastest 60 honor i’ve ever earned!

I also heard the gate exploit can be done on the alliance side, but i’ve only seen us Horde pull it off.

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:42:21 +0000

Nothing compared to the ‘get outside of the world’ exploit for horde in WSG, along with they can get over the gate and 3/4 to the alliance side before the match begins. Add the numerous AV exploitations that have happened over the months and are still hapening.

Along with the above ‘exploitation of mechanics’, on horde you can actually avoid any agro from the inner guards what so ever by sliding down the side and just pulling Van anyway.

By: Mephator

Mephator — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:26:29 +0000

My personal “favorite” AV exploit (all sarcasm here intended) is the one where the Horde can rush into the Alliance stronghold, bring out all the Warmasters, and then bug them outside. No muss, no fuss, walk in and kill Van.

Sheesh.

By: Random Poster

Random Poster — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:11:21 +0000

It does exist and Blizzard posted that they were aware of it and were working to fix it.

By: Foton

Foton — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:58:17 +0000

Fortunately I saved the first page of that thread. Bad news, it's only the first page. Furl archive of Page 1. Flickr screencap of Page 1.

By: Brant

Brant — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:24:23 +0000

Oh, it exists. It works on pretty much any flag north of Iceblood. Not that I’d know anything about it, of course. I’ve been too busy riding around on my new PvP kodo. Wheeeee!

(Also, the thread you linked to is gone. I guess that means Blizzard is confirming it exists, too.)