Warning for 1337beast: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.

• Aldriana · 04/04/09, 4:44 PM

Post: Sartharion and Company (3 Drakes) - Discussion
User: 1337beast
Infraction: 1. All posters are to make an effort to communicate clearly.
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Message to User:

This was a pretty solid post right up to the end where you used "lol" as punctuation. Don't do that. Thanks.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Snowy

Don't turn this into a "hey do you think we can zerg him down with this" thread, please.

I'd be very surprised if this wasn't hotfixed soon in some manner, I guess people can debate it but to me it's pretty clearly an exploit.

Sorry for my request if it was unappropriate, but I don't think it will be hotfixed. Blizz MUST have known this way before WOTLK was out when they designed the encounter, anyone can figure out this strategy is viable if you can achieve 4500+ DPS.

You can compare it with other fights too where "exploits" are used.
Some examples:
Killing Noth before he teleports, killing heigan before he teleports, therefore doing "safety dance" easily. Zerging the first horsemen instead of splitting the groups and switch sides at 3 stacks. Suiciding at the beginning of sarth to get the volcano blow achievement. Killing anub'rekhan fast enought to not have to deal with locust swarm. Having a warlock to drop off his drake at malygos phase 3 to apply a debuff for 6mins achievment.

Those are all easier way of doing an encounter or getting an achievement that were not the original way of doing things. As of know blizzard have not hotfixed any of those "exploits". If someone is clever enough to find something that works and nobody has thought about it before, how is that an exploit? They're not bugging the game or anything. I think this is "clever use of game mechanics" as blizzard says.

And if blizzard doesn't want that to happen, how do you explain the wording on the twilight zone achievement? They could have simply put "With 3 twilight drakes still alive, engage and defeat sartharion along with the drakes on normal difficulty" rather than what it is currently.

Anyway, even if it get fixed or not, it works right now so I don't see what's wrong about sharing strategies and raid composition in this topic(even if there's almost no strat involved lol)