An Alliance Druid with a 1 million absorb shield has invaded Durotar, in Rextroy’s latest video.
The latest Rextroy video revolves around a Druid with a 1,000,000 absorb shield that is basically invincible as long as there are enough Orcs to feed on.
Background Information
This combo was originally told to me by Lunabuna (ßêâr-Tichondrius), I had thought about it, but a lot of people pointed out a 30% max HP cap on the shield from Ursoc’s Fury Remembered.
But Lunabuna sent me some clips showing how they obtained a massive 1.2 million shield on the legendary!
I tested the legendary to see what caused it sometimes to give a cap and sometimes ignore it. The first instance of the shield being granted to you appears to have no cap at all! But every future shield refresh will be capped at 30%. That means every bleed tick from Thrash or if you hit many people with the initial hit.
This means we couldn’t use the scaling bug to turn immortal efficiently since people will be all around us when we do a “raid boss” type video. I thought we could try it with different charge abilities to get away from enemies, but it would be quite limited and only last as long as we have low-level NPCs to charge to.
This changed in the pre-patch when the legendary was turned into a talent. It has a very similar effect, but it also includes MAUL, which is purely a single target ability!
This solved every issue we had! Now we can stack up horde-tagged NPCs that the horde won’t be able to do anything about! And use them to feed us a 500k – 1 million absorb shield whenever we needed!
Of course, it isn’t uncounterable. A mind control will screw up the combo since the NPCs will disappear from us (can be solved if you teamed up with another Alliance to keep the orcs in combat) or if you get stunned at the same moment as you try to refresh the shield.
We have to cancel aura the current shield to refresh it, since, otherwise, it gets nerfed from 500k to about 30k. This is the same frame that horde can stun us to get us stuck with no active shield!
It was really lucky that I decided to film this when I did, I was originally going to wait for the 40% Maul buff for a bigger shield, but that was the same hotfix that also removed the shield scaling against low-level NPCs! About 1-2 days after gathering the footage…
I hope you all enjoyed the video and have a great Dragonflight launch!
Raid Boss Invades Durotar Video
