06-16-2005, 05:37 PM
DarkCrown,Jun 16 2005, 03:32 PM Wrote:My tiny bit of CTF strategy. Any form of protection or stealth causes the flag carrier to drop the flag. So one fun way to get the Horde to drop the flag is to have a priest mind control the flag carrier and have a pally drop blessing of protection on the Horde player as soon as the mind control takes hold.
This is lots of fun when it works.
-DC
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And is a cheap trick as well. Why? A single engineer paladin can take the flag from the opposing team. Mindcontrol Cap (instant, nondispellable), BoP, pick up the flag. You can't stop it either (Divine shield = immune). You shouldn't rely on this a lot, as it will probably will get fixed. You might say that this is a smart use of class skills... But consider the following strategy.
This is similar to the above - catch an opponent player near the exit gates, and Mindcontrol him with a priest through the gates, so the player exits the CTF arena. This will also drop the flag as well if that player was carrying one. Again, this is completely legal use of skills, right? But it doesn't make it less cheap.
This reminds me of another bug, that allowed flag carriers to be summoned by Warlocks! Again, while it used legal class skills, the result that it produced was unintended. So it was fixed. And so I think will the above two methods as well.