Brakar

Healers love it when you slowly back out of aoe damage like Spore Quake.

 

Baragdur

I always liked to blink through dark glare to get the eyes down... some other mage liked the idea and blinked directly into the glare like 3 times in a row...
I loved the frogger tunnel in naxx because you could have so much fun with snowballs and stunning people right in front of a blob ( always took 20 with me when coming to naxx ).

1 or 2 attempts before our first Teron kill I got the debuff and went to the position near the door waiting for the death... After dying i use my soulstone and want to get to the raid as fast as possible.. My Interface shows me that i am in berserker stance so i hit the button for intercept.. as a matter of facts my bartender froze somehow and i was in def stance.... intervening our mt instead of intercepting teron -.- ( macroed intervene button in def stance )
We wiped @ 1% and I was fucking pissed because i couldn't understand why teron 1-shotted me after intercepting him ( i had even frapsed this and it was showing me in berserk stance pressing the intercept button.... until i noticed the intervene buff on our mt i was clueless what happened )

 

Outofmana

I remember on our first C'thun; running into his room with the whole raid clumbed up on top of eachother. A very unpleasant suprise awaited us there.

Or when the Boglord Collosus' in SSC became herbable. People would basicly run into the Spore Quake when the boglord was low to be in range to herb the moment it would die. Resulting in deaths all over the place. An unlooted one would cause some to stand there 10/20 minutes before it would despawn. A mage herbing 2 Black lotus from it only made things worse...

 

Celcius

Back in my old guild when we were progressing through Karazhan we had spent a good 3 hours on shade with steady but slow progress. I had been there for every attempt and was so used to the idea of getting blown up by someone randomly messing up on flame wreath that I would move out of range of other people if I didn't get it.

Now this time it was "the" attempt and we just needed to take the last couple of % of, he then starts casting flame wreath. As usual to avoid being gibbed by someone I move sideways backwards, to my despair strait into the circle out of camera behind me, nuke the entire raid butonly one guy dies. Then as I'm flying through the air my mage intuition takes over and I blink to avoid falling damage... straight into another flame wreath...

I died of the falling damage.

It's rare that I mess up but atleast once I do, I make sure I do it well.

 

anathor

Resto Paladin using DI on the tank during p2 of Prince... "I hit the wrong button" - no kidding!

Respeccing from Resto to Feral and forgetting to buy Mangle 3 (take 1). Buying Mangle 3 and forgetting to add it back to action (take 2) - with faerie fire to add insult to injury, and of course while OTing and the MT pulls.

And the usual tanking in cat gear (even on trash it can really hurt).

 

Lookit

My very first trial run with a "serious" raiding guild was BWL, which I had never set foot in prior. I was very excited to be trialing with the guild, and was doing my best to impress.

For the Vael fight, they put me with the rogue group and said "Now this is a very important job, rogues are key to this fight and if any of them die we will probably wipe, so you have to keep them healed at all costs."

I had minimal FR, horrible gear in general, but with infinite mana I figured I'd be fine as long as I was on the ball with healing.

About 20 seconds into the fight, I'm throwing Holy Light after Holy Light on the rogues, but my own hp is getting very low and one of the rogues is low as well. I figure I will just bubble to buy myself a little time to top off the rogues before I heal myself.

That would be when I realized that Essence of the Red is a debuff, not a buff, and that it can be bubbled out of.

Flash forward 20 seconds: oom pally, dead rogues, raid about to wipe.

Let's just say you don't get a lot of sympathy for saying "I was OOM!" during Vael.

 

• Nurru

Remember the green room with slimes in Naxx? Remember the river of slime right after it that had the scientists/etc in the corner? For about 3 weeks in a row after the abom pull I would mindlessly blink across the river and aggro the corner pull. Something about small stretches of water forces me to blink...

Frostfire Bolt does Frostfire damage all the time.
< manly> warning: TALBAIN POSTED IN THE WOTLK THREAD
< manly> IT CAN ONLY CONTAIN ENTERTAINMENT
Nuru <Notorious> lvl 77 on Lich King.

 

afhouston

People spirit rezzing to save time on the run back.

No kidding. A priest did this twice. He was very argumentative about how a 10min debuff actually saved time between wipes. He was guild kicked.

 

• Nurru

I can't think of a single raid where this could possibly be the case.

Frostfire Bolt does Frostfire damage all the time.
< manly> warning: TALBAIN POSTED IN THE WOTLK THREAD
< manly> IT CAN ONLY CONTAIN ENTERTAINMENT
Nuru <Notorious> lvl 77 on Lich King.

 

Spades

I have done the following things.

On the rogue:

Backstabbed Hydross the instant he swapped sides and aggro dumped. This was bad enough, but what made it worse was that instead of vanishing or sprinting across hoping to save the fight, I walked backwards and wiped the raid. This is probably the stupidest thing I've ever done, but I've only ever done it once.

Repeatedly pulled aggro on Vaelstraz (especially when 2.0 came out and I specced mut) -- even after I gave the tanks a 10K threat head start. Tanks have infinite rage, come on! No dice.

Stepped into the red beam on Netherspite. Oops.

On the paladin:

BoP'd the tank on Prince once. I have my Blessing of Protection and Divine Shield keybinds right next to eachother and simply hit the wrong one whilst avoiding an infernal.

"Existence has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long."
-Rorschach, Watchmen

 

cheebamonkey

One of the funniest things I've seen happen was on HKM when our mage tank hit blink instead of pyro on the pull.

 

• Sigea

The worst thing I ever did was hitting my hotkey for pet attack on accident while having Domo targeted, just as we had gotten the whole raid ressed after wiping way back in MC. Needless to say, I felt like crap but I was too broke to pay everyones repair bills. I took special care not to have anything targeted after coming up from feign death again.

 

Radixx

This happened to me last week: We were smashing Aran when someone set off Flame Wreath during elemental phase and pretty much wiped the group. Turns out that I had the healing book buff on, and my ghostly healer companion decided to run through the wreath... Needless to say this week I waited til we were done with Aran before using the book.

 

bodicea

Did they fix that a few months ago? Haven't been in kara for a few months but I remember it didn't go off for me.

 

Radixx

Not sure - I know that objects considered "pets" won't set it off, but the combat log clearly said it was my spirit healer's Explosion dealing XXX damage to the raid. First time it's happened to me too, and we're almost done with Kara for good, so yeah it was a bit unusual.

 

vicious

haha i remember doing that too

dumbest thing ive done is running back to kill Illhoof after having time left over in a Kara raid - i tried cutting the corner where the first Consortium dudes are, but lo' there isn't enough ground there to jump from the edge across the corner. It ends short, and i fell from the top of the library to the bottom. What was worse, two people had done the same exact thing right before me, and we all 3 fell face first.

second dumb thing recently was messing around in TK trying to organize a 3-rogue sap of the first trash pulls for fun because our mages were afk. We all distracted, but my distract was resisted and they just all pulled to me, then saw the other 2 rogues when i vanished, who in turn vanished, and the last one was backing up while vanished, aggroing the group to the raid wiping everyone; while we sat there untouched. Was hillarious.

 

Blackmoon

My personal favourite currently is one i have done a few times now.

Being melee i sit close to the side of Nightbane and have been told often that if charred earth lands on me run through him and dps from the other side.

Fair enough.

So i run through nightbane, i maybe take a tick of charred earth, i turn and DPS from the other side. Charred earth...
Run through...
Charred earth...
AAGH!
I've lost count of the times i've seen me and whatever other melee their is on that particular attempt running frantically around charred earth trying to find a safe spot to melee AND avoid cleave/tail swipe... benny hill moments all around.

Of course we all get shouted at over TS by healers and raid leaders "Get out of the charred earth melee!"
We're Trying!
funnily enough last night was the first time it occured to me that when this happens, just piss off and stop attacking, its a lot less hassle.

 

subscience

Believe it or not, this happened to us tonight during Archimonde as well (and to a Shadow Priest, no less!).

A few attempts later, I accidentally run in ahead of the tank and get clobbered by Archimonde.

Edit- Actually, I have a habit of that. I used to be the MT of a 40 man raid guild prior to TBC and I was naturally used to body pulling everything. Well, now I raid on a Shaman and, as you can imagine, they don't really make for great pullers. Regardless of that fact, I've managed to pull Hydross early at least 3 times, Karathress twice, countless pulls of trash, and the aforementioned Archimonde. I tell my guildies I do it for optimal totem positioning, but yea... I think it's just a force of habit dying hard. Plus I'm impatient.

 

• Wodin

You when a DPS class always has to eke out that last little bit of damage before getting out of an aggro wipe or a phase change, and ends up getting splattered as the tank is conserving rage for a spike when threat wipes?

Yeah.

 

• Andeh

The very first time we killed Twin Emps, we were about halfway to C'thun/Ouro (in the big open round room people like to use to kill trash in). While people are being res'd, one of the Warlocks decides to summon an Eye of Kilrogg to go explore. Shortly after: "Rez the dead." "I can't; in combat." "..." Ouro erupts from the ground and proceeds to lay waste to us.

Our guild has always had special ranks for the GM and officers, and every raider is given a rank called Guild Leader (but not the actual privs). This is partly a respect thing, but mostly for entertainment when some really obnoxious noob starts pestering... he can then be forwarded to whoever is on your shit list at the moment. "You need to talk to X about applying as a level 14 Hunter, he's the Guild Leader."

My own most recent "tard moment" was using /rw to yell at a Lock and Mage for pulling agro immediately after Tidewalker was in position... and then pulling agro myself since I was too busy typing to watch Omen. Our MT later explained that he had about 15 sec of dodges and parries, so 0 rage.

 

Squrf

On one of our recent Doomwalker kills, one of our primary tank types goes down early. Many groans were heard on TS, and then aforementioned tank says "Dammit, someone get me a combat rez!"

There's a momentary pause, a collective shrug, and a combat rez is bestowed upon him. I think he got one swing off.

 

Natural

Spirit rezzing for C'thun wipes prior to the teleporters would be fairly close since it took 10 minutes just to get to C'thun after you zoned in.

 

Spades

A hunter friend of mine always justified doing this by saying "if every DPS class timed it perfectly and kept going until the last second, like I do, the boss would die in x less seconds, giving us more time before the enrage, less fail points and less mana issues."

"Existence has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long."
-Rorschach, Watchmen

 

◊ Shalas

How would that get you to C'thun any faster? Either way you're alive for the 10 minute run through AQ.

 

• Shifft

Mount for the short distance from the graveyard.