Pathing Exploit in Grieg's End

[Machiavelli]

Hey what's up guys,

If you walk from zone out to the first open area, there are approx 8-10 mobs, they can be shaman/necro, so in this courtyard u find the barrel and u just run back and forth that wall and the mobs will never touch you! Theres a pile of bones or something, only landmark I can think of. i gets tons of aa's everyday with this. good luck!

 

[Redbot]

Nice, I'll try it out when I get a chance. Anyone else have luck with this?

 

[duexe]

I know of the pile of bones u speak of in the GE CY. However, ur explanation is kinda er... cryptic. R u saying that u can run up and down the far wall (the one with the pile of bones next to it) and the mobs do not cast, attack u?

Please explain...

 

[Alatyami]

How about a /loc reference? There are a couple areas with 8-10 mobs in them.

 

[duexe]

I was finally able to check this out. The original writer mentioned Shaman or Necro. This is because this works best with pet classes that have Snare.

What happens is that when you move the mobs do not directly follow you, they 'ping pong' away from you and then vector back to your position. If you have a snare on, the mobs move very slowly and you can keep it ping ponging and it will not touch you. THis is done by strafing back to the other side of the corner your in, the mobs AI recalculates ur position and turns and then moves away from you first before coming at you. With timing, you can keep the mob out of melee range with this exploit.

There are two entrances to the Courtyard (CY) area of Greg's End. One side has a (as in ONE) barrel and a pile of bones to the left of the stair when u enter the CY. There will be a (only one) mob there, so you will have to kill it first (ping pong works).

However, things get hairy with adds as you have to snare them all (or root). I have tried this with a group (well two) and it gets interesting. Classes capable of using this method are...

Pet classes, SK, Necro, Shaman.
Enchanter (will probably have to charm one and kite the ping ponging mobs), not sure how well this would work.
Bard twisting dots+snare.
I would not suggest trying this on a mount...

I have gotten this to work, if you have any questions, let me know...

 

[Redbot]

Nice work duexe.

 

[Knightwolf]

"If you walk from zone out to the first open area, there are approx 8-10 mobs".

Is this from SD zone out or DSP zone out? Very interested in checking this out. Thanks in advance.

 

[KOKKOR]

Is this from SD zone out or DSP zone out? Very interested in checking this out. Thanks in advance.

DSP side

 

[InterDupe]

I tired this last night with a monk in a fungi. i can manage to kill 4 mobs before having to FD and wait for my hp to regen.

Thanx for posting this. it's just too bad I didn't know this when GE was still a hotspot.

 

[clrplr]

i dunno if its true or not but someone said that if you do pathing exploits like this, u can get banned :P i'll try this with my sk, need some xp on him

 

[Cade]

someone said that if you warp, you can get banned

 

[Alchropie]

someone said that if you warp, you can get banned

lol

 

[pizzahut]

wow bumped up for a lol post =P

 

[JoeSchmo]

Jesus, I didn't even notice the date until you said that pizzahut, I was about to log in and try.... ha ha

 

[someoneorsomething]

It still works i wrote a guide on this a while back as well. Once you get it down the will never touch yo. i did this onmy bst alot

 

[JoeSchmo]

oic, good to know.