Ward

It's great when the target right clicks MD off and the hunter doesn't FD in time.

"A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having." - V

 

LiteSabre

Back when we were doing our C'thun tries, we were buffing up after a wipe when BigWigs told me that the Ouro module was loaded up followed by a 'Huh?' from someone on vent. Back then very few people in the raid even knew where Ouro was (we had decided to take him on after C'thun), much less the fact that his module couldn't be turned on unless he was aggroed (because he can't be clicked on normally).

Ever the opportunist, I quickly dismounted and hearthed back to Light's Hope while people around me disappeared right and left.

 

snape

OMG, I thought this was such a quirky oddity, I thought that explanation was almost entirely specific to my guild.

Something that always horrified me though (and caused way more than 1 death), was when someone walked too close under Gothik's platform...so much pain, and it comes so slowly.

 

sp00n

Oh, I feel for you.
The same happened to my on Vael. 7 is shoot gun and and / is at shift 7 on the German keyboard layout.
Soo.... Trying to do a /ra to write in raid, but instead of /ra it came out to be 7ra with a *klick* *boom* FLAME DEATH DESTRUCTION, you name it.
Since then my ranged attack is on 8.

Item Ranking Rogue [horribly outdated]

 

Andorien

For the duration of a patch or two, Arcane Missiles was broken such that you could start casting it normally, but when you switched your target, the rest of the volleys of missiles would switch to your new target, regardless of how far away they were. This was generally used for comical effect in Alterac Valley to hit enemies at the edge of render range.

One day in Onyxia's Lair, however, one of our mages wondered what would happen if he pulled this trick off to hit Onyxia while we were fighting the first Warder. It turns out she summons in the raid one at a time and squashes you. I had the presence of mind to shield-hearth (much to the amusement of the rest of the paladin corps) but the rest of the raid ended up as fortuitous dragon treats. It was too funny and unexpected for anyone to really be angry at the mage.

 

dukes

It seems that we had a ridiculous amount of C'thun wipes because of people jumping around. Someone actually managed to cause two in a row, without a proper pull between them. It was at that point that most people started hugging the back wall and making sure everyone else was well away from them (which was especially fun for buffing).

We used to tell people who had never been there before the room of blobs before Patchwerk had to be body pulled. They'd pretty much always die without even asking why them, or why they had to be body pulled. I think only one or two new people out of about 20 total ever stopped and wondered why.

Frogger was good - totems cause them to explode so most of out shamans would put down totems and then remove them randomly, causing a number of deaths. Stealthed rogues caused a lot too.

One of our shamans at Thaddius, using the bigwigs Arrows mod, managed to screw up which side. After our raid leader shouted at him he realised he had his camera facing backwards ....

Much more recently, on Mother Shahraz, one of the hunters misdirected it to our MT, as always. About 5 seconds later our MT intercepted Shahraz only to get insta-killed (unsurprisingly). Turns out his sunder button is the same as intercept (def stance/zerk stance) and he forgot to switch stance after using Zerk rage. That was an especially quick reset.

 

andastra

We had an app war in MC once who was assigned to tank something. He fell in the lava while positioning his mob.

Another classic is the frogger summon. A warlock can stand just outside the blobs and summon somebody into them.

 

• astearns

Last night we got a replacement warlock for Mag who AFKed out of a battleground to join us. On the way in from the summoning stone the raid leader pointed out that he'd had the foresight to find a griffon and take flight before accepting the summons - this meant that he wasn't flagged when he zoned into the instance (some others had been at the start of the raid). Everyone congratulated him as an example for others. When he arrived at the bottom of the ramp his felguard immediately attacked the first channeler since he'd forgotten to turn off aggressive.

 

Northerner

Haha! The aggressive pet one is always a classic. Learning Magtheridon we lost a couple of attempts from random summoned guildmate calling up his aggressive kittycat or whatever as well.

As a whole our group is very nervous about summons and portals though and rarely fall for trickery. Back in vanilla we had something of a reputation for summoning people onto the edge of cliff-faces and in TBC the end-raid portal is far more likely to be Silvermoon than anywhere else. (Well, give it a few seconds and it'll be silvermoon overlapping shattrah for the brave.) The summon to your doom thing actually even made for a pretty amusing video at one point; it's amazing who will take a random invite + summon from a rival guild.

 

• Marroc

On the portal topic, our mages are infamous for a game they like to call "Portal Roulette" which basically consists of every portal put up exactly on top of each other. I've taken to just hearthing out of raid zones now.

 

Advice

Guild Leader(raid leader) AFK'd outside of Karazhan back in March. This was a time of great stress on my guild because we were trying to run 2 kara groups and progress in 25 mans.

Well needless to say this pissed off half the guild who he was supposed to be MT'ing. However, when he went afk he left his auto-invite mod/macro on so a hunter got the bright idea to misdirect a few mobs onto him. He no longer has a macro/mod for this.

 

◊ Kaubel

Your sig isn't annoyingly gigantic enough. I say make it bigger and more annoying.

 

• GokieKS

The fact that the Soul Well graphic used to look the same as the Ritual of Doom (summons a doomguard, kills one of the clickers) graphic was a source of much entertainment to some of us warlocks. =D

 

Rottenapple

We had a pally who not once, but twice BOP'd a tank on Al'ar accidentally.

The MC "window to Rag" is a classic I think everyone has pulled on new people.

In my old guild we had a rule that people had to be at the zone in at raid time or lose priority on a spot so we would summon the slackers into the lava in BRM for bwl nights.

I have a couple times done Kael'thas attempts with no weapon equiped because I forgot to re-equip after a wipe when the staff despawns.

 

Ward

Happy, it's gone now.

"A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having." - V

 

Cormack

Who are you and how did you get into my raid last night?

I've been a part of most of the stuff people have already mentioned. Aim shots on Vael, feeding the Lurker fish, the Golemagg crack, etc. My own worst example of stupidity was getting punchy on late night C'thun attempts and jumping into range of the eye beam. The worst part was I survived, the boss deaggroed, and I was one of about 10 people still alive while everyone else lay in a smoking heap.

As for some other stories, back in MC, our main tank at the time got *smoked* by Sulfuron and started bitching at healers for doing a horrible job. They calmly looked at his body and commented that maybe he should tank with a shield.

For a more recent example, we've been working on Hydross this week. I've been pulling him with invisibility potions and people simply can't wait for me to pop out and actually agro him. Starting off the fight in the nature phase is not fun. Eventually I just stopped announcing when I was going to bloodrage and just let them react to seeing Hydross start swinging at me.

 

Agren

Benevolent Mr. Pinchy will aggro channelers as soon as the owner targets a channeler. Most hilarious wipe ever.

 

◊ Jameson

I was terrible at the Buru jumps. I plummeted to my death several times before I figured it out.

We have a fun game we play on TK trash called "Kill the MC'ed person". It happened by accident once, and now we actually try. Good times.

 

Nyfe

Don't forget about someone asking for a bot to be dropped the attempt after it was used.

 

Gadz

Especially when it is the raid leader. I can't even get a cast off on him before he is down.

 

◊ Sarutobi

Wouldn't happen after a wipe/going out for repairs, but that reminds me of the GM of my old guild who, for EVERY BWL raid, after everyone else had already zoned in, would take 20-30 mins to get inside due to constant ganking/disconnects. I never understood how a person playing a class that can stealth (druid) could have so much trouble making it to the orb.

 

Earthhoof

Fell into the lava strolling to MC several times. Occasionally more than once in a night. Got a whole raid et by Frenzies in ZG - we were trying to find another fishing spot to summon Gahz'ranka. A few people said, "There's one over here!" ... and swam off in like four different directions, and most of the raid took off after one group or another. It's funny how the fish are trivial to kill when there's 20 of you and 4 of them. Funny how it's very different when you're scattered across the instance. >_<

 

Yaltus

As a general rule, my guild always kills the MC'ed people, anywhere. Once we were running TK, I believe that first six pull of Kael's trash, and were really light on mages and warlocks, so we just barely had enough CC/tanks to keep everything down. I get MC'ed, killed, and then calmly say "Square has no sheep". Any trash packs with 10+ deaths is a great time.

<Vontre> Oh irony
<Vontre> The next CoT instance
<Vontre> Will be to travel back into the past and fix blizzard's game

 

• Marroc

You realize you could just slide down the hill to the right of the water and just take 1% damage right?

 

Downforsa

Never actually tried to do it, but I ended up tab targetting an MCd priest as well as another rogue. Two rogues, raid buffed with SnD and full energy take down an MCd priest very, very quickly. Wasn't even two seconds before he was dead, and he called us bastards over vent. Good times for all...

Another MC flashback was in a Botanica run, I got MCd near the end (can't remember what mob did it) and got two 3k+ white crits on a holy priest. After the priest, our healer, died I ended up going after our other clothies. The tank disarmed me in time to keep them alive.

PvP makes me emo.