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Comment by Gosgosgosu

The Demolisher is the medium form of seige tank in Wintergrasp. It moves at normal foot-speed and is equiped with a battering ram and a catapult. It has a good 55k life and is idealy used for attacking buildings rather than players.

You need the First Lieutenant buff to aquire one from a seige workshop, but there are no requirements needed to hop into one that was already made.

It can carry up to 3 players: 1 Driver, 2 Passengers.

-The Driver controls the movements, the battering ram and the catapult.

-The 2 Passengers stand on platforms each side of the Demolisher. Unlike in the Siege Engine, the passengers are able to use ranged abilities and spells while being protected from harm. It is very effective for a ranged DPS to ocupy a passenger spot, especially if they are able to slow or CC enemies. Frost Mages make excellent Demolisher passengers; they're able to Frost Nova, Cone of Cold and Frostbolt anyone attempting to chase the Demolisher, resulting in excellent protection.

The Weapons:
-The Battering-Ram is able to knock back units infront of it, dealing 1500 Seige damage, the battering ram does a bit more damage than the Demoloisher's catapult, though each weapon can fire while the other is on cooldown if you want to quickly destroy a wall in melee range. The knock-back is also useful for delaying enemy vehicles while your side is defending, allowing you to push them away from the fortress (or just annoy them :P).
-The Demolisher's Catapult throws a flaming boulder at the targeted spot. Unlike the Catapult's Plague Barrel this is instant-cast, does 1000 Siege damage and has greater range, though there is no DoT effect. This weapon has an annoyingly long minimum range, making fighting players a bit difficult. Though it's catapult has an amazingly long maximum range, allowing you to "snipe" well-guarded buildings (like the Keep Door) and damage Fortress Siege Workshops from outside the Fortress Walls.

I suggest that nearby ranged players enter the Demolisher to be protected in large battles. Though this can make it hard to attack enemies, since the driver most likely will not be considering whether or not the passengers are in range to attack an enemy.

In conclusion the Demolisher is very good for attacking buildings, though its minimum range means that it is ideal to go straight for buildings and ignore other players.

Comment by 226567

Anyone noticed a bug exiting the rider spots on there? As a warrior I can't do much up there, but every now and then I'll accidently click on one. When I do, I'm trapped until the machine is detroyed. there's nothing to right-click and dismiss, and I can't find a dismount command. Ideas?

Comment by Jinton

Just adding a link to my post about Ranks and Siege vehicles on the Wintergrasp page.

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Comment by nahkhaz

Fun fact: you can pick herbs while riding in the Demolisher, but you can't mine nodes.

Naturally, such pleasurable pastimes are recommended for after all combat objectives have been met.

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Wintergrasp Demolisher

This NPC can be found in Wintergrasp (19) and Wintergrasp .

Wintergrasp Demolisher

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