Magtheridon, going for our second kill.

I assigned people to cubes, checked pre-pull that they were going to the correct spot. Everything looked good.

First group is successful in banishing him. Queue the second group. One person fails his cube. Ventrilo exploded in "who didn't click?!". Miraculously noone actually died from the aoe, due to really good healers on duty I'm sure. But then everyone just stopped playing and started chatting on ventrilo - the maintank went down shortly after without anyone healing him.

I've been trying to find a good metaphor for what I was feeling at the time, but I don't think one exists. Definitly the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Beliandra, am I right in saying that he didn't know the difference between Gruul and Mag?

I think he did, but he was so focused on "epics" that he didn't care in the slightest - raiding is just a portal to purples, didn't you know? :<

The other night my guild was in SSC doing Lurker. After one or two stupid wipes, we're on track for a flawless kill. We're burning him down perfectly, and his health drops to 1%...and then a big splash. Half the guild doesn't really focus on what's just happened, and assumes he's dead. Hooray! Congratulations start on Vent...except that he's dived, not dead. Couldn't have had more than a few K health.
Confusion ensues...we lost practically the whole raid to adds in a few seconds :P A few paladins had to finish him off with HoW and Holy Shock from the safety of their bubbles.

On the same spell reflecting Serpentshrine pack, a new warlock cast unstable affliction and had it spell reflected 3 times (prety bad) a trial healer dispelled it every time.

First night on lurker, had a warrior who I spotted in the water for the whole try (around our 3rd attempt). After I asked why and she said, I can't jump because my space bar is broken. Apparently several people had spotted it previously, but none of them had though to get her to redefine the key.

Our server used to get regular 30 sec server lag spike that everyone would get. After each about 20 people would relog to fix their latency, proudly stating when questioned, that they were green latency when they logged in .

Had a lock applicant in a ZG raid, first told him he was on curse of recklessness duty (he didn't have it trained). Then we reached the imps so I told him to enslave (not trained) thats ok just banish (not trained).

Plus tradition friendly rain of fire on the same person repeatedly (on rain of fire casting mobs) and yelling at them to move better + throwing grenade to golemag from the bridge.

Guy pm'ed me asking if I did warlock aps for my guild, told him we were full but if he was truely exceptional we might consider him. Gave the hard application interview that I usual gave people when the class was full. Whats the + spell hit % cap on a lvl 60 mob e.t.c. He got every single question wrong, with me telling him at each point. After a bunch of questions, I told him he had failed and was slightly suprised to be asked why.

Just before SSC one day, I decided to re-do my UI, replacing it with mostly Ace and the like.

So, along with the new UI, came a new Keybinds layout.

I just so happened to bind Divine Intervention, right next to the Righteous Fury button. (RF=Alt+4, DI=Alt+3)

And as we where using the Paladin taking agro of Murlocs strat....

Raid Warning: **Moltar** **Terista** **Zahal** **Bowstring** Watery Grave!!
Premixed Dies.
Combat Log: Daave Gains Divine Intervention.
Raider1 has died.
Raider1:wtf?
Raider2 has died.
Raider2:LOLWTF
[1. General][Raider3]:Wtb Paladin's that don't DI MT's on Morrogrim.


In the days following, I was given random invites in Org and Shatt, and subsequently DI'd by other Paladin's from various guilds >.<

We had something similar happen with a DI, we had just finished RoS phase 1 and during the ghosts one of our pallies starts freaking out in vent that he died and we cant figure it out. So as phase 2 starts one of our fury warriors cant figure out why he cant move, and so as it turns out our pally DI'd the fury warrior.

Now every week we force our pally to DI prior to the RoS gauntlet

Well, I didn't really RL past TBC but pre-TBC we welcomed drinking. The mage officer and class captain liked to drink, about 2-4 of the healers would be drinking, a hunter or two, 2-3 of our rogues (including me as the RL). Let me tell you - that leads to some great MC/BWL nights. We had to start watching how much we drank on Saturdays when we moved AQ40/Naxx over there because Twin Emps needs to be done sober.

Our "drinking day" was Saturday so it worked out rather well since we raided 7-8 hours that day. Nef after quite a bit of drinking is a great time.

The mage class captain had some great ventrilo moments... "Uhhh, guys? I had to kick my door in because I forgot where my key was."

Stupid moment (sober) - Nef calls, the priests started targeting one of the melee dps when it was there call. I was their first victim. >_<

Our MT at the time always sung Rain of Fire during Ghenis(?) in MC. "going down down down in the burning rain of fire" oh god, it was hilarious every week.

One of our ADD hunters pulled Hakkar on us once while we were buffing on the bridge. Some how.... SOME HOW his keyboard flew off his desk and when it landed on the floor it mashed his Jump + Serpent Sting buttons. Some how.

There's probably a ton more to go with these. Alot of it revolves around Vent conversations during the raids. We've had alot of great times. ZG/AQ20 were a blast. I'm a big fan of "Hmmm.. new content? F*** it, AoE pull! Heal the mages. GO!!" We've done that in MC, BWL, AQ40, Naxx, ZG, and AQ20. And you know what? Normally, it works. =p

Here's another entertaining one:

Killing Gruul and just on the 11th growth, within the space of seconds one pally and mad rogue are dead.

Cause: instead of a lay of hands by the pally to MT, the MT was DI'd by said pally. Mad rogue instantly became the hateful strike tank due to this. MT cleared the DI and got back to been MT (how I'm not sure, but he managed it). Gruul dead by 15th growth. Mad rogue subsequently got [Dragonspine Trophy]

Not really stupid, but rather funny. Friend of mine was working on Kael and the go before their kill, one of their DPS warriors got mind controlled and didn't get broken due to some unknown reason. Kael then proceeded to cast Pyroblast and their tank got hit to 12%. The DPS warrior proceeded to execute their MT and kill him.

Yep exactly. It was like going to a job interview, and then, when they say they'd like to get you in for a second interview, saying "nah, I've already done that, no point coming back in unless you're going to pay me my salary to do it".

Even people who think raiding is just a portal to purples are usually smart enough to say that they're in it for the challenge of beating new content when they post guild applications.

I experienced something likely with my old raid... but it was the Lurker, not Hydross. As most of them were retared they loved dying in the Add Phase...

But my absolute favourite for "Stupid Things People Do" was one of my first Magtheridon Tries wenn a fellow Pally used consecration near one of the channellers. Most people acutally didn't realize what has happened. Ha, that was fun!

We've had the following chain of events happen with those patrolling packs.

[me] OK, Misdirect up. Go grab 'em.
[hunter] going
<hunter appears in the doorway, running to the raid>
<hunter turns around, and runs back out the door, back to the mobs>
<pack resets with hunter in tow>
<MC wears off>
<squish>

For some reason, even if Misdirect goes off, when the MC goes off on the hunter, the threat never gets applied to the raid, and they reset.

We then had two hunters as backup. Both got MCd. Both went to play fetch with the mobs.

Then we tried 2 hunters and me. We all got MC'd, and all went along with the pack.

At that point, we were so pissed off at the mobs that would not pull that we just zerged them, to predictable results (MC+Affliction Warlock=Howl of Terror).

Interestingly, the MC seems to affect 3-4 people. Once, it was 2 rogues, enh shaman, and a warlock. Heroism. The rogues proceed to shred anything that wore cloth before the MC wore off. I think 9 people died on that pull.

When Blizzard patched it so that when you right-click a target on a Hunter it would cause them to auto-shoot..there were so many "miss-pulls" in various instances that I can't list them all.

Divine Intervention doesn't clear threat, it just causes mobs to threat you as "dead" if you're the only possible target (And thus reset). So it would just take your MT a single hit to get back aggro, since his threat was never cleared.

Are you certain about this? I know abilities like BoP just required the single hit to get the aggro back, but was always under the impression that DI completely reset the person's aggro. (though tbh never tried it out)

Pretty sure DI is a complete aggro reset since it puts you out of combat.

*cry* Welcome to the world of pantsless tankingcraft.

DI is indeed NOT a threat wipe. It takes you out of combat but once clicked off mobs will remember you as soon as you do anything and you'll get all your aggro back.

We were moving from Leo to Hydross and there's a little gap in the floor just as you leave Leo's tunnel which is almost impossible to see when you're coming from the tunnel. I noticed someone fall in ahead of me and went and stood beside the gap and simply watched as at least 10 people ran right into the water, one after another. I was laughing hysterically on vent.

The other night, before a Hydross pull, one of our paladins put our tank on autofollow for a minute while he adjusted his in game bars.

We use the invis pot strat...

We DId our warlock tank on Leotheras the other day, and it took him almost a minute to get the hate back over our backup tank (a feral druid). If it didn't reset his threat, then something extremely screwy was going on.

Situation: warlock has (say) 100k threat. Druid has 65k threat. Warlock hits 8 debuffs, and shatter isn't on cooldown. Paladin runs over, drops a DI. Warlock clicks it off immediately, but Leo is *glued* to the druid. He actually stayed on the druid until the druid got 8 stacks and died, and then he went back to the warlock.

Explanation?

edit: actually, I'll post screen shots of this one when I get home. It's better that way.