Skyreach Overview Midnight Season 1 Mythic+ Rewards
Pulling Extra Birds with Araknath
After defeating Araknath, there are two packs of Suntalon Tamers with a few Suntalon birds. Before taking on the third boss, Rukhran, these mobs must be defeated.
These mobs are usually not accessible until after defeating Araknath, but a strategy allowed players to bypass this. Players were using certain classes (Evoker, Demon Hunter, Monk) to jump over the gate and pull the birds into Araknath's boss fight, which created a huge time save. This strategy, however, was recently hotfixed.
The hotfix now teleports players who arrive at the top of the stairs, instantly teleporting any player back to Araknath's boss arena if he hasn't been defeated yet.
There is one small workaround players have discovered: pets. The teleport only works on players, and not pets. Hunters can jump the gate and use Eyes of the Beast to control their pet and pull the birds. Other pet classes can also do this using petattack macros.
Why is This Helpful?
Mythic+ dungeons are all about time efficiency. Planning which mobs are pulled together plays a critical role in ensuring the dungeon is timed.
With a boss like Araknath, this is an instance where pull efficiency isn't ideal because it's just the boss by itself, with no additional trash mobs. This strategy completely solves this issue.
By having extra birds with the boss, an entire additional pull is removed from the dungeon. Count for the dungeon gets completed quicker, and there's more resource generation to cast harder-hitting spells with on the boss! This usually nets in defeating the boss much quicker than being just by itself.
