Re-activating your WoW account, or interested in "Trying Before You Buy"?Weird Terrain Glitch in Tempest Keep Raid
Life's busy these days but whenever I have a free evening that coincides with a raid night within my guild, I sign up and bring along my extensive collection of consumables and a great attitude about doing my best no matter how many times we die or whether there's a chance of a gear upgrade on my part. My joy is not in progression, exactly, but in being able to do something cool when I actually have the time to go.
In my guild that regularly fields 25-man raids in an evening, or breaks down into occasional multiple 10-man raids for badge runs on less-populated nights, we're currently working on the boss "Al'ar" when it comes to Tempest Keep. Of course, we've already downed Void Reaver multiple times as well, but recent raids had us putting up attempts on Al'ar and learning new strategies to beat her.
In heading through the hallway which leads to Al'ar, there are some difficult pulls with Tempest Falconer humanoids and their swarms of Phoenix-Hawk Hatchling flying beasts... the beasts interrupt spells with a strong knock-back effect and are a major pain in the butt for a Mage who is trying to cast a channeled AOE spell to burn (or freeze, in my case) the flying beasties down.
I don't recall if this happened before, but this recent run I noticed that the knock-back effect was blasting me up onto the walls, and I believe after I got blasted up high enough, I was out of the range of the AOE knock-back effect and could Blizzard away quite freely.
Unfortunately, between pulls I was to exit the hallway to let the tanks get aggro on the swarms before I joined in, and therefore I didn't stay up on the wall to test my theory about being out of range of the knock-backs.
Does anyone know?
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I'm not sure if being up on the wall will get you out of range for the silence and knock-back effect, but as a tip...
if you have a pally tank have them tank the birds while the 2 humans are killed first, then aoe can stand far away and aoe without fear of aggro, just make sure the silence is cleansed right away.
it's best to pull the first bird group back into the first section of that hallway and tank it in the back corner, so people don't get blown into the big room and aggro the second bird group.
Yes I have been knocked up there many many times and most of the times it saves me other than yes you can catch another knockback and it will throw you off, or in my case my tanks moved to the other side of the pillar meaning I had 0 los on them.
I remember something like that from the level 50 or 60 dungeon in the burning steppes? It was fun because you could sneak by 5 or 6 mobs by walking on the wall. I like to stay in dungeons after they are cleared and play around, mostly i look for places to fish but i also look for things that we missed. I have a lot of fun feeling like i own an empty dungeon. favorite place to fish? mine is boring, i love nagrand.