Wintergrasp Siege Weapon Exploit – World of Warcraft

Actually there is a little Wintergrasp exploit, which can be abused (current state: This exploit still works on PTR and will probably not be fixed with World of Warcraft 3.1 Content Patch featuring Ulduar), to make it easier/faster to win. Especially useful if you’re outnumbered by enemies or want to make the Within Our Grasp Achievement.

The bugged siege vehicle is Wintergrasp Demolisher! Many people already know it or think it’s common knowledge, but I’ve seen so many people who didn’t know it, so i decided to post it here so they get aware of it too!

The bug is simple: The Wintergrasp Demolisher has the “ability” to go through the small holes which are designed for the players to go through in the inner walls. There are two ways to exploit this bug.

As attacker in Wintergrasp

As attacker you can abuse this exploit to get quickly to the artifact room win the siege.

• The prerequisites: Tell everyone in your Wintergrasp raid to take the Wintergrasp Demolisher instead of the other two siege engines!
• Next go and destroy the outer wall (of course!)
• Once they are broken, everyone moves with their Wintergrasp Demolisher through the small hole in the inner wall
• Everyone who is not in or on the Wintergrasp Demolisher, will bind the enemy
• Go straight for the artifact room, destroy the door with the catapults (They have great range and can fire while moving)
• Once the gate is broke, use the artifact
• Win and hopefully get Within Our Grasp!

As defender in Wintergrasp

But you can abuse this also when you’re on the defending side of Wintergrasp, however it’s benefit is much lower than if you do it while in offense.

The trick on the defending side is, to move the Wintergrasp Demolisher to one of the towers. This allows you even when the tower was destroyed to shoot down at the enemies. And in the right position, they can’t fight back to you (no line of sight and you can shoot in an arc)

Main disadvantage is that the min-angle is quite high and you can’t directly attack enemies close to the tower, so it requires a bit experimenting with the positions where to place the catapult to be most effective.

On the other side: The really big advantage is that you can also shoot inside the outer yard of the Wintergrasp Keep! (which is otherwise only possible with the two Turret Guns on the inner walls which are usually destroyed very quickly).

Have fun exploiting!