Demonic Circle Intended?

#0 - Dec. 4, 2008, 9:34 p.m.
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Alright well what im about to share is probably something I shouldnt be, because of how ridiculously OP and helpful it is in raids....More then likley will get hot fixed, but I figured Ill share the knowledge so you can also have fun with it while it lasts.

Basically, if your doing 10 or 25 man raids currently, you will notice that when fighting a boss the doors close around you. No way out.

However, we have this handy new spell called circle of teleport...Guess what?

Place the circle in front of the door that closes. if the tank dies for any reason and then you now have aggro, teleport out, it will run to you and then reset the boss fight and no one else has to die.

Saves your repair bill... I have tried and done this many times and it is confirmed that it works.


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For even more exploity goodness, you can use your circle to escape the vortex on Malygos and go back to DPSing.


If this isn't a bug, it's pretty nice and probably guarantees locks at least one raid spot.
#1 - Dec. 4, 2008, 9:45 p.m.
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We don't think it's a huge problem. I can't think of any encounters where this rises to the level of exploit. It may be convenient in how many people remain standing, but you're not really getting away with anything that you can't already do with a Soulstone.

It's a problem if warlocks feel like the "right way" to use circle is as wipe prevention, but we've seen some clever use of it in say Malygos and Obsidian Sanctum so I'm not sure that will happen a ton.

We'll keep an eye on it.