So my favorite race in Classic was always Night Elves. Gnomes and Dwarves are too small to see your armor clearly and their running animations looks goofy, and humans look like they were made by someone who only had a vague idea of what a body builder would look like and had never heard of wrists before.
So I played a Night Elf on almost every character. Druid, Hunter, Rogue, Warrior, etc. All Night Elves.
My only issue with Night Elves in Classic is that Shadowmeld is a really awkward ability. You cant use it in combat and cant move without breaking it, which 90% of the time means that its only good for taking a quick bathroom break without being ganked while you’re gone.
So apart from the ones that everyone has heard of, such as waiting for someone to run by and Mind Controlling them into town guards or playing a Hunter and ambushing someone from stealth, what are some other clever uses for Shadowmeld? Specific places and scenarios it can be used, fun ways to gank people, good places to hide, etc.
One thing I can’t remember in 1.12: Did Shadowmeld break at the beginning of a cast or once you finished the cast?
I remember on my Hunter in Vanilla being able to stay invisible until Aimed Shot went off, but I can’t remember if that was still the functionality in 1.12.
It was also good for avoiding a wipe if you could time it right, or dropping combat to use jumper cables.
Though as a Hunter, Feign Death meant not really needing Shadowmeld for that.
Shadowmelding when a player is coming up to you to get rid of their targeting in order to get the first attack.
You see someone coming run to the side shadowmeld, it sometimes saves you.
Mage is opening up on you with pyroblast and you shadowmeld to escape the cast because your not in combat yet.
Warsong gulch flag room shadowmelding on roof to the side or on the ramp area in order to ambush
Arathi basin near flags or near ramp in lumber mill.
Hiding on the zeplin or on the top of the stv to ratcher boats mast.
Shadowmeld in enemy territory and have a friend stand around and harras low levels in order to get someone to attack him then ambush him or shadowmeld on top of friend while he challenges someone to a duel and come out in order to get hit while he stealths/shadowmeld as you do it.
- World of Warcraft Client Patch 1.10.0 (2006-03-28) - Stealth and Invisibility effects will now be canceled at the beginning of an action (spellcast, ability use etc...), rather than at the completion of the action.
Shadowmeld to strategically avoid patrols. Wait in an NPC populated area for a specific spawn and bum rush it out of shadowmeld for the kill. Shadowmeld near a named spawn to attempt to steal it, as your opponents might not be spamming their spells because they don’t realize they have competition.
In addition to Jarcola’s great uses above.
There’s plenty more I’m sure.
And even though you already said it, Shadowmeld as a NE priest behind the flight master in the Felwood camp and MC horde off the cliff to their deaths as they land. #1 reason to be a NE priest.
That’s a shame. Though with good positioning, they wont notice you anyway.
It was also fun to tame a lion from the Barrens and Shadowmeld, then wait for some unsuspecting lowbie to think my pet was a NPC they needed for a quest.
Well the passive increased stealth level is nice for rogues & druids.
Melding and eating is super useful in pvp. Even if a enemy player vaguely knows where you are, they can’t target you or attack until they come close. By that time you’ve already regen’d a chunk of health / mana.
It’s useful to get back to full hp/mp after reviving if you’re being camped. It’s mainly a utility skill to avoid being targeted or easily found and gives a slight bonus to stealth for druids and rogues passively.
In Vanilla when in combat with players if I’m not completely mistaken you drop combat after 5 seconds of inactivity. This is something Rogues abused a lot to re-stealth during a Blind or something.
So how could your class get out of combat with a player for ~5 seconds, then Shadowmeld and eat or whatever then finish them off?
Night Elves also have higher base agility, which if you play a class that benefits from that is as much as an agility enchant difference from some other races.
I use shadowmeld when FCing on my Night elf priest in WSG all the time. I’ll have a video out soon with it. It’s definitely fun. Also for priest at least NE is great for pvp because people will kick you on starshards which is arcane tree so you can free cast
One of my favorites, agro a mob, throw a hot on someone then shadowmeld. Mob will then run over to the person you hotted. Technically should work with anything that will generate agro on a mob including buffs.
Basically misdirect before misdirect and you don’t even have to be in their party
As a hunter you can do certain bosses you shouldnt be able to get to. Feign death and shadow meld to wait for cd and repeat. Druids and rogues get better stealth
My brother would sit on top of that fallen tower next to where Galv is in AV in shadowmeld to reap free honor will doing homework. His server had those several hour long slug matches on that hill. Then again I never play Nelf so idk if it works.
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