Bird Tech Al'gethar Academy
The Bird Snap in Al'gethar Academy was one of the most used tricks in high keystones. A player would travel to the island using movement abilities where Crawth spawns, before pulling the birds and teleporting back using an Augmentation Evoker's Bestow Weyrnstone. Al'gethar Academy is one of the tightest timers in Midnight Season 1 and this removed one pull from the dungeon as both of these packs cannot typically be combined.
An interesting hotfix has been applied, as Blizzard has really tried to get people from doing this snap. The "fix" seems to be an invisible line on the edge of the Guardian Sentry's platform that removes the Bestow Weyrnstone buff.
Bestow Weyrnstone will be removed from players that cross an invisible line shortly off the Guardian Sentry's platform.
Weyrnstone will be removed when you go this far from the platform.
Do you notice a problem with this line? It's very very close to the platform, and as Jdotb figured out, you can just apply the Weyrnstone after the line, and the strategy works as it previously did.
It's unclear why Blizzard put the line on this side of the gap instead of the far side, but for the time being, this strategy still works although it's a little harder. The easiest way for the Augmentation Evoker to cast Bestow Weyrnstone without going out of range is now to use Spatial Paradox beforehand. The timing is somewhat tight to make sure to apply Weyrnstone after the line, but before they get out of range and Spatial Paradox gives you a much larger buffer. With the current way it's set up, it's likely that you need a Druid or Monk because they most likely the ones crossing to the island now, but I wouldn't be surprised if another fix goes out for this soon.
Bird Tech Skyreach
The Bird Tech in Skyreach was used to also combine two pulls that normally cannot be combined otherwise. Classes such as Evokers, Demon Hunters, and Monks can easily get over or around the gate blocking the stairs to Rukhran. Once you're past the gate, you can pull the bird packs down into the second boss room.
This has now been fixed and going up the stairs now ports you directly to the center of the second boss room.
1st Boss Seat of the Triumvirate
The first boss of Seat of the Triumvirate can be quite difficult and/or take a lot of time because the adds have a lot of health. A common strategy on high keys was never to kill the adds entirely and just quite them. This is a dangerous strategy that takes a lot of coordination, but for it can save a lot of time. Groups started kiting the boss around the outside edge of the room, and using the stairs to limit the adds movement which made kiting much easier.
This has now been fixed as the boss resets when brought outside of the arena in the middle.
Mind Control Al'gethar
In Al'gethar Academy, Priests could use Mind Control on Spectral Invoker and use it to apply Mystic Brand on the last boss. This increases Arcane damage which includes Devourer DH, Arcane Mage, Balance Druid and Devastation Evoker. This appears to have been hotfixed in some way, and the current (but unconfirmed) speculation is that the maximum number of stacks has been reduced to 5 (from 99), but as most teams don't run a Priest this season, we haven't seen this one much in action yet. If there are no other changes (which there might be), 5 stacks at 50% increase is still a lot. More details are needed on this change.
