You want a real hidden interaction? Back in Vanilla, Mind Control allowed cross-faction communication with your controlled target.

I didn't know Disengage hopping was hidden. I thought it was widespread.

Whenever Hirumaredx says, "You see", i immediately feel relieved. It won't be a Hiru video without him saying this.

Disengage was hilarious in lich King fight omg so many hunters threw themselves off the citadel faster than Sylvanas

"Unlike warlocks, monks can tank and have a taunt" Why you gotta rub it in like that?

I've been doing the hunter maneuver for years, ever since the spell got added in this version. It's really not that hard and combined with posthaste gave you a good method to run around while in combat or in places where you can't use mounts.

Take a shot everytime hiru says "You see"

I remember back in the day you could just feign death to drop all of a rogue's combo points on them.

I should probably clarify a small little thing. A lot of these things are known to the people who play these classes and to pvpers, but are not as well known to people who dont play these classes or pvp. So a warrior probably never heard of the SW:D trick for example, thats the "hidden" part. The title is obviously more clickbait in nature, but not everyone plays every single class in the game so the average wow player will learn a "hidden interaction" or two from the video!

Another use for Distract is in arena, when you see the enemy healer drinking for mana, you can use Distract which as a big range and AoE to stop their drink, even if its behind a pillar. Also, you can Mass Dispel Cyclone to remove it. While spriests dont have SW:Death at the moment, BFA discipline priests can opt in for Premonition (honour talent I think) which has a similar effect. It heals you and nearby targets, extents atonement by 3 sec, and causes you to take damage after a second, letting you break polymorph if timed well. Shamans as well as druids can avoid repentance if they shapeshift/ghost wolf before the cast goes off, giving them immunity to it. Certain spells don't trigger diminishing returns in PVP, I think the stun from summon infernal is an example. This doesn't work anymore, but in battlegrounds like Temple of Kotmugo, you used to be able to Mind Control the enemy orb carriers, and then while they were MC'd, you have a friendly paladin use blessing of protection on them, which would remove their orb without needing to kill them. If a restoration shaman uses spirit link totem before he/she gets polymorphed, the healing from polymorph is free healing for the rest of the team in the totem until it breaks. It's also a reason why vitality conduit is so broken in 8.3, because you use it before you get polymorphed, and the ally target gets free health siphoning from you, who is being healed by polymorph. Also, health-siphoning effects like spirit-link totem and vitality conduit are unaffected by mortal wounds effect, making them extremely effective even at high dampening levels. In the shadowy duel pvp talent from sub rogues, the other target cannot vanish. Even if they try to use a stealth effect/invis effect/vanish, the sub rogue can sitll see them and attack them because shadowy duel lets them always see their target until the effect ends. You can shadowmeld while spells are being casted to cause an effect like feign death where it untargets you. But even more skilled is if you shadowmeld while the spell is in the air, which causes immunity to the damage. Example, you could shadowmeld a greater pyroblast while its being casted so it doesn't go off, or you can shadowmeld it while its in the air towards you and it won't even do any damage. If you are even more skilled, you can shadowmeld stuff like storm bolt from warriors, which will prevent the stun from occurring too. Night elf rogues can also quick enter stealth from doing that sometimes, allowing a free 'vanish'.

As a Warrior, you can Spell Reflect a Hunter's Ice Trap

Shadow word death trick was the coolest thing back when it first showed up. You knew who the good priests were by how consistently they could remove poly and blind in the rmp mirror. Then you'd also end up playing mind games with the mage trying to fake you out into using swd prematurely. Good times, man.

This was pretty fun. I remember the druid shapeshift hibernate from when i used to use it a lot in TBC. The hunter disengage is pretty basic when performed alone. The hard part is using it in stressful situations like raids or PVP where you also have to concentrate on other factors like raid mechanics and CC.

Warlock banish on tree druid forms. Banish needs to target elementals, and tree form was considered one. 3.3.5 expansion it worked, I don't know after

I remember a funny side effect for the Shadow Word: Death interaction on a specific boss. During Cataclysm the reflect damage was still a thing and in BWD Chimaeron used to have this funny interaction, where it would bring everyone in the raid down to 1 hp. If you had a stupid priest, he would kill himself if he used the spell at the wrong time. Back then it was used to regenerate mana when used and usable on all health levels iirc. I can imagine my brother remembering that one too :>

A priests mass dispel can remove cyclone fyi.

Shadowmeld interaction with interrupting spells and also if the cast goes off, meld will stop the damage coming through Disc priest premonition works similarly to Shadow Word Death

Eye of Kilrogg used to interact with certain mobs. In BC, I'd use it in raid aggroing a distant boss or random mob in Karazan and watch a whole train of mobs chase us down.

My favorite thing ever as a hunter was having a shaman thunderstorm me off of LM in arathi basin, but then just disengaging back onto it and using explosive trap to knock the shaman off instead.

Always glad to see Hiru release a new video like this. These historys of abilities and lore videos are some of the best wow content on youtube imo.

2 Tricks for Warriors. Charge can be used to prevent fall damage, as long as there is a target within range before you hit the ground. Useful against bosses. Heroic Leap can be used kind of like a hunter disengage hop, but requires targeting a landing spot and hopeing the pathfinding doesn't bug out.

Disc priests have had a spell called premonition for all of BFA that deals damage to the priest after healing all of your allies. It can be used the same was as old shadow word pain, to purposely damage yourself and break CC's.

I remember the good old cataclysm days, where I was as an orc hunter jumping half of the lenght of some battlegrounds, especially twin peaks, wsg and ab. I absolutely loved doing disengage ---> readiness ---> disengage and cloak parachute from engineering with the flag. Everyone wanted me in BGs. It took like solid one year or even more until they learnt to use disengage the same way and not to attack me, when I was with the flag on a high place, since it could be only used while in combat. Ofc there were some good players who knew it immediately or learnt that very soon, but there were only few of them :D It was funny as hell. Hunter on cataclysm was the biggest fun and the most powerful class, he had everything.

I remember lich borne, criting dks with exorcism as pally was the shit

As a PvPer you have to know the majority of these things. Makes me wonder how much people in PvE generally know about other classes, considering they're fighting NPCs and not players.

Citizens of Dalaran! Raise your eyes to the skies and observe! Today our world's destruction has been averted in defiance of our very makers! Algalon the Observer, herald of the titans has been defeated by our brave comrades in the depths of the titan city of Ulduar. Algalon was sent here to judge the fate of our world. Cold logic deemed this world was not worth saving. Cold logic, however, does not account for the power of free will. It's up to each of us to prove this is a world worth saving. That our lives... that our lives are worth living.

Honestly, the dark side of spell reflect like using weak dots to reflect a dot back onto the player to prevent CC like poly. Also, gambling a fear (with the warrior in reflect), cast fear onto the warrior, reflecting it back to get on a fear/blind DR and get some distance between me and the warrior, possibly even blow a charge/intercept. The draw back is if the fear blows me back into the warrior.

Make a lore video about what happened to zones after we left! Like what became of Outland or Argus after we left?

Similar to number 2, I used to cast stoneclaw totem (threat generating totem with a lot of health) during duels/pvp if I noticed an enemy targeting my totems. They'd usually hit it a few times before realizing what it was and targeting me again. At witch point I would drop one my other totems again. Of course this was before the introduction of the stoneclaw glyph. I would also sometimes use my hearthstone to try and draw an interrupt since both it and shaman healing spells used nature spell animation.

Isn’t the Shadow Word: Death interaction technically ingame with Disc priest honour talent?

An extra tip for mind control: You can mind control a humanoid in dungeon and let the other npc kill that particular humanoid, while your whole group HAVE to don't interact in the fight at all or they get aggro. It is extremly powerful when you have problems killing that particular npc. So let the enemy do the job for you. It works perfectly fine with that last trash group before King Mechagon

Cyclone can be Massdispelled by a priest and a version of shadow word death exists for disc priests called "Premonition" in the current build. Its usually mandatory against locks to break fear spams when you leave pillar in 3s. And is useful for more than poly.

"Cannot be done if your keyboard Turner"

that hunter trick works with demon hunter's vengeful retreat, and it's not hard at all (double jump does help but also did it on hunters) don't think it's considered a hidden interaction.

tfw you do something on this list regularly, feels good man

top 9 spell interactions that pvpers know that pvers dont

Fun fact: Reaping flames resets it's cd when used on a hunter as they feign death tricking players that they really died lol

Ok, here's one more..shadowstep/feral charge. When target is in higher platform and is about to jump down to you, you time your shadwostep/feral charge just a split second after they jumped, you end up on that higher platform and your target is down.. this allows you recover while they try to run back to you. Very useful in pvp, especially in wsg while holding flag. Im not sure if this is still working, I played long time ago, but still love to watch videos like this.

I've used disengage jumps + engie parachute since wrath :D Same with lichborne healing!! Glad to see then get some attention

My favorite interactions are the ones that save me from falling to my death. I think they’ve added an option for every class at this point - disengage for hunter, wild charge in travel form for Druid, heroic leap for warriors, etc. Use any of these abilities before you reach the ground and you’re good, can’t tell you how useful this was in Nazjatar

Nice video! Just a little tip as a main rogue for years: Distract could be used to stop casting/channels and even eating/drinking if you and your target were out of combat. Useful in a variety of niche and not-so-niche situations, like when a mage runs away with invisibility and appears eating at the opposite corner, you could distract him from affar and interrupt it, or if some healer casts revive or a heal or any spell you could interrupt it with distract.

Back in the day you could mind control an opposing faction's flight master and then speak to them, gaining that flight path forever.

Lichborne Healing - do you mean shackle undead?:D i always used it against them

I think this fits well - a lot of priests (and I think this works for mages with slowfall) know about this trick with levitate, but I'm sure many don't. Get on a mount, take a running jump, then use levitate on yourself. It'll dismount you, but you'll fall at a less sharp angle and glide about as quickly as your mount speed, which allows for a really nice glide if you're trying to get somewhere difficult. Early in Legion I used this to glide from Dalaran to the Broken Shore (before it became a proper zone) and the uninstanced Eye of Azshara zone.

New Hirumad video nice

Corpse explosion to blow up ghouls, I remember it was the one way to burst as an unholy DK after all the nerfs. Also, curse of recklessness as a fear toggle to mess with feared targets. Disengage is one of the most fun skills in the game, in my opinion, for the above reasons. You can also do this as a balance druid with wild charge. As a bonus, applying a slowfall effect (advanced, can also cancelaura!) can really give you distance with this ability. I also want to add that at this point, the fact moonkin can learn Flap from a tome is basically a hidden feature.

I knew most of these, but still, great video!

This was basically a "Welcome to arena" video. Very fun still!

Just thought of another, back in cata mana burn became really popular in pvp, a good counter was for druids to shift into bear form right before a priest finished their cast. Since they have rage instead of mana in bear form the mana burn would cancel. Another trick on druids against a stealth class is to cast nature's grasp on yourself and jump to the left and right over and over. When they open on you, even if it's a stun, they'll be rooted but you're body will keep moving from the jump, usually out of melee range.

The death word trick was fun to use. Never been good at arena, but that trick I knew well!

As a SPriest main, I used SW:D interaction a lot on WotLK, and it was really nice to see the rebound damage back again. However, it also means a lot of SPriests will die to rebound damage again on bosses with damage amplifications... Or just someone pressed SW:D on low health. Neat.

i have a different memories of lichborne in pvp... getting shackled/pala feared when i popped it also: the elemental cc shamans got in cataclysm had a nice interaction with tree form dudus :)

I loved doing the Disengage jump trick with my 19 twink hunter in MoP. I combined it with the Posthaste talent so I got a 60% movement speed increase for I think it was 6 or 8 seconds. It would be so useful for pvp too. I would often run towards casters and disengage over them to get behind them and cancel their cast. I was so skilled at Disengage jumping that I was able to do a 360 spin, once I was turned 180 degrees, I’d disengage, and then continue spinning to complete a full 360 spin. I was deadly accurate with it. I could also climb buildings with it.

Smoke bomb used to stop spirit link from working. Also if you had a warlock, druid, and a friend, you could make a summoning stone near a large edge (like the edge of dalaran, or the cliffs of ulduar) and have the druid initiate the summon in flight form over the edge. This allows you to place the summon mid-air and when they accept they'll just fall and hopefully, can't save themselves :) Lichborne also allowed you to cast shackle undead and exorcism as mentioned in the comments already, but undead also grants you immunity to polymorph due to the undead aspect, similar to druid forms. Not mentioned in the tooltip either.

The Shadow Word: Death interaction was really nice to have on Maiden in S4 of SL:3

Scare Beast against druids was absolutely my favorite thing to do against druids in AB back in burning crusade :D

Shadowmeld - avoiding all kind of spells if casted in right time.

Yo this hidden spell interactions video is pretty neat, It's cool that you can play this game for 15 years and still be learning new things. I especially liked the transcendence one. Though, and yes this is the most nit-picky thing I've ever said, it kinda bothered me that more than once he said something was "time specific" when he probably should have said "time sensitive"

Nice Video but to the lichborn thing: a paladin still can fear a dk with that buff since they had fear undead ability

5:28 ooh yea, I used to have Lichborne+Deathcoil self heal macro'd when i used to main a DK back in Wrath, and i NEVER do pvp, it just was so awesome to have an extra quick heal.

Happy to hear the subscriber percentage went up!

Og wc3 players would never forget how death coil works

I recall using Hibernate a lot in PvP, but mostly to be annoying, because they always broke out easily. I also remember accidentally finding out about the Mind Control dots, and then used it when ever I could for fun.

Cyclone is dispellable by Mass Dispel btw!

It's been years, but if I remember correctly, Distract was also used to disrupt spell casters. A lot of offensive spells required the caster to face the target, so a rogue would cast Distract at the last second to turn the caster away from the target, preventing the spell from completing. Maybe this is still common today? I have no idea.

I’ve been following this channel for years and I still love everything you put our. Good job bro!

Love the video, but 2 little things, the mindcontrol trick can still be useful. You can mc a paladin and let your teammate paladin cast BoP on ghem, so they can't use bubble anymore. Bop can just be purged. Cyclone can be despelled but obly by priets massdespell.

When you’ve known all of them and more for years and don’t know if you should be proud or sad ;/

Interesting thing with the FD interaction... I used to do something very similar using the rogue vanish and a toy, I also did it on hunter as well. The toy was the personal hologram toy, people often take a good amount of time to realize they were not hitting me.

Arcane Mages can cast Ring of Frost while Mass Invisibility is active to completely disguise the Ring from the enemy team in PvP often causing them to willingly walk right in to it and incapacitate themselves, this only works if you COMPLETE the cast while under the effects of Mass Invisibility, if it gets broken or ends before the cast finishes the enemy will still be able to see your Ring of Frost; your allies can still see Ring of Frost regardless. Back in Legion Arcane Mages could also use Displacement to instantly Blink from the enemy flag room to the middle of the map in Warsong Gulch if they took the PvP talent Rewind Time as it + your artifact weapon Aluneth modified the duration of Displacement Beacon to last 32 seconds and before BfA Displacement had no max range on it outside of leaving the current zone you were in. This ability alone made Arcane Mage the best flag carrier in the game. You can still use Displacement to Blink back up ledges you walked off of as long as you Blinked before hopping off.

Demon hunter dash ability kept their momentum when face agains a wall letting them dash upward! Monk also have something similar where if they roll near a cliff or a change of terrain inclinaison they can roll about 2x farter.

There is a neat trick you can do with Shaman’s Grounding Totem where you wait until the enemy player just about to finish casting his spell with travel time before throwing a Grounding Totem. They may use an instant cast spell on you afterwards which will be eaten by Grounding Totem along with the spell with travel time. Another trick with Tremor Totem is to drop it again just about you feel you are about to get feared so it instantly removes it from you. I stopped playing in Wrath of the Lich King so I don’t know if these abilities still exist, modified or removed

Suggestion for Shadow Priest abilities: Back in (I think) Cata, you could use Void Shift to swap your HP with a pet, including your Shadowfiend, which was eventually patched out, but could act as a Lay on Hands in Arenas for around a month. It was used and abused, and it was excellent.

you missed the hidden property of stealth/vanish which permit to evade a bolt spell (even instant traveling spell but it need frame perfection) the time it travel to your location (rogue and elves trained to evade Mortal Coil was just insanely skilled and unfair^^). It worked like the last trick but a level higher. You missed too the ultimate niche trick of Warrior who could cancel their own ''spell reflect'' to tricked a good mage who wanted to get polymorph reflected on himself^^. Bladestorm was frequently cancel to surprise kick a healers cast. Another trick with spell reflect who required some lag, permitted to get hit by a spell while on ''spell reflection'' to reflect the next spell (this one was usually more a problem that an advantage^^). You could lastly reflect hunter's trap, and even a CC not targeted on you with the defensive charge to an ally who was targetted by this CC. That last trick was insane to making you're opponent mad and confuse in arena (but it didn't work usually if your ally had a melee player on him, except if you have frame perfection reflexes^^).

2 things . You can also remove cyclone with mass dispel by the priest. And priests still have premonition which works the same way as shadow word death in the sense that it damages you after a few seconds.

I still love to this day when I can trick players into thinking they killed me as a hunter, then i just run off cackling before they notice

Imo one of the most busted things hiddenish things back in the day (BC-ish era) about a hunter was frost trapping someone in pvp then doing feign death and just eating/drinking right in front of them to heal back up to full while they sat there unable to do a damn thing without a trinket.

You could always talk about more exploit-y / buggy "hidden interactions" like how Spell Reflect abilities back in WoD and MoP could reflect AoE hazards on the floor, like the mage meteor dots or boss mechanics.

Oh, I thought you can just normally use that undead heal thing on forsaken and death knights

Man, my guild LOVED our monk tank during ToS mythic progression!

Hibernate being niche is cool and more such things need to come back. I hope they were not lying about "unpruning"

I give you one you didn't have here. When you talked about Feign Death and your pet name same as yours I remembered what I did in arenas in Cataclysm. When you use macro and before Faign Death with melee opponents you will use Snake trap then every little snake made by that trap can be targeted, so if you Faign Death after trap was triggered, your oponent will lose target and if he attempt to use TAB for targeting, there is big chance he will target a snake. He would have to manualy target you with mouse or macro.

Shadow Word:death was also an exquisite way of killing yourself accidentally in a raid if you weren't careful on bosses with damage modifiers.

Related to the "hunter pet named you" thing. A mechagnome can use their holo emitter racial which is like a ghetto mirror image, then feign death the second after. Generally confuses people for a few seconds in BGs, but in arenas, they're wiser.

Shadow Word: Death can be used on plenty of CC not only polymorph, if you're good enough you can do it on scatter shot, repentance, blind etc

Really late commenting on this video, but the Priest mind control trick; I use to use that for the opposite effect for World PvP back in Burning Crusade. If I saw a lowbie/anyone getting ganked; or just having trouble in general, I'd MC them, quickly throw on either PW:S, or a renew to keep them safe. Would always aim to get both on though. If I was lucky, I could talk gankers into leaving them alone. If not, I'd annoy them into leaving by just MCing them until they went away. The best way to do this was to have them targeted, and to use one of the spells to break the cast, as they'd be friendly. You could also cast Fort on them too. I'd follow my husband around to help him out with his quests this way as well.

I also use disengage a lot to prevent fall damage from falling or knock up mechanics, though it too requires very good timing.

This appeared right when I was about to get my lunch, 10/10 best timing

Alot of PvP uses realy like this video, I do miss alot Lichborne healing and Shadow Word Death to avoid CC in MoP

I knew about them all but still good vid :D

I don't know how well known this is, but a lot of movement abilities can be used to negate fall damage. For example, if you use disengage before you hit the ground, or the goblin jump, and even blink will stop you from taking fall damage if you have the right timing

for the Rogue distract one, theres also an interaction, during arenas mostly, where using it on an enemy drinking will interrupt their mana regen

Curse of tongues causes spellcasters to speak jibberish if they tried to say something in the short time the effect is on them.

The Lichborne one is nuts also because it wasn't really made obvious that you could use that spell on yourself. I mostly played back then, but had never heard of this cause I never played a DK that far.

you used to be able to cyclone a mage and stand directly in its ring of frost and you would not be frozen as long as the mage was in cyclone. there is also some symbiosis interactions i vaguely remember.

one kinda funny thing about the shadow word: death trick for blind/poly/trap/...it doesn't deal damage back to you if it kills the target. I once lost an arena match because I attempted to death a poly and my SW: D actually killed the mage. I was poly'd without a trinket and my teammate ended up dying during the poly and I was unable to 1v1 down the last guy. A couple of other fun things like this. 1) It used to be that you could use mind vision in arena and any time you mind visioned someone it would make them stand up. Mind vision did not care about LoS or range so anywhere in arena you could instantly make the opposing player stand up so that they would stop drinking. Eventually they fixed the bug but at the same time as they fixed the bug they also made it so you couldn't cast it in arena. To me this was unfortunate because I'd occasionally use it to catch a rogue when I knew they were about to restealth and it was down to a 1v1. 2) If you were playing against a player who was the same faction as you in arena and after they died they released they would become a friendly target. Why was this important? Once a player released you could not res by clicking on their frame. I was playing disc + tauren feral druid vs tauren resto druid + mage. Right as my feral druid killed their druid he died. Both players released spirit to be observers and there was a back and forth between myself and the mage for a bit. Eventually I managed to pull off a res. I asked my partner why he wasn't getting up and to my surprise the opposing druid suddenly popped up. Needless to say I lost that game (and afterwards I definitely used that to mess with people in 5v5 when it was just 1 opponent left).

Brb to practice the Disengage hopping mechanic for 12 hours.

Fun thing about Lichborne: You could use Turn Evil on a Death Knight (or a warlock using Metamorphosis) to CC them, because it was classified as a Horrify and not a Fear.

Blessing of sacrifice in vanilla wow, allowed a paladin to be effectively immune to all cc that breaks on damage, given if you're with an ally. You can cast sacrifice on your friendly target. Once they take damage you break out of the cc and be able to support/heal from there. It's very useful for breaking out of poly/seduce in a 2v1/2v2 situation where the mage/warlock will try to poly you 100% of the time. Also can cast pre-emptively on your ally to be immune to sap.. rocket helm, you get the idea. Super useful without having to blow your bubble to support your comrade.

Vampire Race confirmed playable in Shadowlands