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Comment by jjanchan

This handy item is crafted by Engineers. It is consumable, stacks to 20, and does not require Engineering to use - it can be bought/sold on the Auction House or traded in its current form.

Presumably, you will be able to plant one of these before entering combat to Mass Resurrect your party/raid after combat has ended. At present it has a meager range of 5 yards, so it needs to be planted very close to players (or multiple pylons need to be present in the encounter area).
Alternatively, if a wipe is called/imminent, players can move close to the pylon to ensure being resurrected.

It is likely this won't be usable in combat; it is uncertain how long it will last after planted.

Note that being resurrected by this item grants the Failure Detection Aura debuff lasting 1 minute. It may simply be flavour, but it remains to be seen whether it prevents you from being resurrected by the pylon again while active.

Note that in Legion, the Guild Perk for Mass Resurrection will be removed, and only healers will have the ability to mass rez.

Comment by Frenzey

So in other words, if you are a non-healer Engineer and you need to Mass Resurrect other people....

...YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS.

Comment by vindurza

the statement on news page that links this item says only healers can mass rez, dose that mean the guild rez perk is getting removed?

Comment by lovelywaz

In Soviet WoW, "Guns" are used to resurrect your friends !

Comment by Myrroddin

Does anyone know the spell name, or preferably the spell ID that this item casts?

Comment by varenne

Failure Detection Pylon

Everyone can use it
No need to have Engineering
Resurrection range is 5 yards
Can use in dungeons
Cannot use in Mythic+
Can use in combat
Resurrects you with 1hp, so be careful or you can die right after resurrection if you use it near mobs
After resurrection you get the Failure Detection Aura debuff
Theory: Prevents you from resurrecting for the 2-nd time from the pylon for 1 min

Rank 1 Failure Detection Pylon is from "Going to Waste" ~ 22 Engineering quest . More info here Legion Engineer
Rank 2 Failure Detection Pylon is from Hobart Grapplehammer vendor in Dalaran
Rank 3 Failure Detection Pylon is from engineering World Quest in Dalaran Work Order: Failure Detection Pylon

There is also Reaves Module: Failure Detection Mode that supposed to work the same way, but can be used only by engineers

Here is demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVLLJBjLjlE

You can find more info about Legion Engineering in the comment here: Legion Engineer

Comment by Foxworth

This item did not work for my guild in Emerald Nightmare on Normal Difficulty.

Comment by pletter

So we have a thing that revives
1. At incredibly low range
2. Only if everyone else died making it useless in improving the chances at succeeding a raid, at the most it makes you not have to walk.
3. Cannot be used against killer mobs of mythic+ since it is disabled there
4. You revive with 1 hp so no protection against immediate aggro

Another casual only item it seems.

Comment by Kanegasi

You can place this while moving. I tested this while falling and was able to place it the moment before I hit the ground, then was resurrected by it about a second later.

Comment by Aisenfaire

As of 7.2, Failure Detection Pylon can be used in mythic plus dungeons and is very good for wipe recovery on long corpse runs like Kara and DHT. Even if it's not a wipe, you can use it as a pure DPS to rez a healer out of combat if nobody can. The only down side is if you are dying so frequently that you run into a rez timer, in which case, of course, you'll have to release and run back.

(It's made doubly useful by the fact that Brazier of Awakening cannot be used in mythic pluses.)

P. S. It's also now usable in raids and is amazing for wipe recovery there as well.
P. P. S. You do NOT have to be an engineer to use it. Just buy it off the AH for like 100+g.

How to use:

Make a macro and hotkey it:

/use Failure Detection Pylon
/s Dropping Failure Detection Pylon! Do not release!
When about to wipe, call out on vent not to release.
Hit hotkey. It will create a targeting circle.
Find a healer's corpse and drop it on top of them. (literally on top, because 5 yard rez range) If not, find the corpse of any class who can rez (skip this if you can rez).
Die on top of it.

Bonus tip:
Last boss in upper Kara: That spot in the doorway where your corpses all end up when you wipe? Drop a pylon there before pulling the boss. If you wipe (do not jump off to die!), your corpses will land there and be rezzed by the pylon.

Comment by KiraYoshi

With the newer macro modifiers for ground targeting is it possible to make a macro to use the Failure detection pylon and drop it at your feet or at your cursor I have tried but been unable to make it happen it will still just bring up the ground target reticle.

Comment by MikeB7332

Does not appear to work in BfA zones/dungeons.

Comment by Kechlion

This does not appear to work in Battle for Azeroth raids. I placed one down and it did... nothing.

Comment by SJPadbury

Tool Tip has been updated that it doesn't work over level 110. Previously the tooltip did not state this.

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Failure Detection Pylon

Item Level 42

Use: Place an electrical pylon on the ground that will resurrect all party or raid members within 5 yards after combat has ended.

Does not work on players whose spirits have been released or are level 60 or higher. (3 Min Cooldown)
Requires Level 39

Max Stack: 20

Sell Price: 8 75

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