Stupid Things People Do - Page 49

• Latito · 03/14/08, 5:02 PM

Originally Posted by Pixen

This less a good stupid story and more general stupidity I suppose. Was running Mana Tombs with a 67 rogue on my 64 hunter. I was putting out around 500dps over the instance, he was sitting at 230. I let it go because we were getting along fine enough.

After our second wipe on Shaffar (tank was getting stomped by magic), I finally inspected the guy and examined Recount a bit more closely. Turned out the guy had 43 points in combat, no weapon specialization, had a dagger MH and a sword OH, and was SSing with the dagger after opening with ambush.

I swear this game does not penalize stupidity nearly enough. That rogue also bailed after our second Shaffar wipe because he "couldn't take it anymore."

I found an Illidan parse a while ago (The WWS Thread) which featured a rogue who used Backstab, Hemo and Sinister Strike all in the same kill. All 3 moves were used significantly more than once (5-10% of total dmg or more for each move). Mind boggling sometimes just how bad people can be. Its unfortunate that the parse has expired, served for a good number of laughs.

Nhala · 03/14/08, 8:02 PM

I died to Rain of Fire...
On AKAMA...

And our rogue that does our boss kill videos CAUGHT IT ON FRAPS.

Still haven't lived it down.

We also had our Supremus OT stand in the blue fire. When the RL asked why he was taking so much damage, he replied "I need rage!" and promptly died a second later.

He hasn't lived it down either.

Fake edit: if you want to see me die to RoF on Akama, our boss kill videos are in the general forums on our website. You can clearly see a female night elf flop over dead at around 1:40~.

Chirality · 03/14/08, 8:23 PM

Originally Posted by Nhala

I died to Rain of Fire...
On AKAMA...

And our rogue that does our boss kill videos CAUGHT IT ON FRAPS.

Still haven't lived it down.

We also had our Supremus OT stand in the blue fire. When the RL asked why he was taking so much damage, he replied "I need rage!" and promptly died a second later.

He hasn't lived it down either.

Fake edit: if you want to see me die to RoF on Akama, our boss kill videos are in the general forums on our website. You can clearly see a female night elf flop over dead at around 1:40~.

That fire actually hits pretty hard...One one really bad attempt we had about half of our melee die to Rain of Fire, which had magically seemed to blanket the entire area around the channelers...

I was healing as a druid in BT for one night....And I managed a hilarious death with 4% left on Supremus by standing in a volcano.

I had just gotten a MSD focus proc, and couldn't figure out what to use it on...so it took me a good two seconds to find Wrath (I had moved it around) and another second to cast it. I was so obsessed with using that 6 second Focus buff that I didn't even realize I was standing in a volcano.

That 400 damage was worth it, though.

Garren · 03/15/08, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by Denogran

On a side note, why wouldn't you just stick the MT healing pally on top of the prot pally?

Probably because the prot pally is outside the range of watery grave, which is also outside the range of MT targeted heals.

Thessaly · 03/15/08, 1:11 AM

Originally Posted by Chirality

Is it *really* that hard to macro /cast Spirit Chains and /cast Spirit Lance?! Nearly every week someone gives the excuse of 'it didn't switch my bars when I became the ghost and I needed it to' or 'it switched my bars and I didn't know which button was spirit chains'.

I feel so much better that it's not just my guild that this happens to. Every week, different person. It makes me weep.

Originally Posted by Nhala

We also had our Supremus OT stand in the blue fire. When the RL asked why he was taking so much damage, he replied "I need rage!" and promptly died a second later.

During our learning of Supremus, our MT died mysteriously during a kite phase without getting targeted. He said afterwards that he was low on rage, that there was this nice volcano, he figured he'd just stand in it for a second or two to get rage. It's becoming a running joke, with him asking whether he can stand in various AoE for rage, and me using it as cautionary phrase: "Don't stand in the fire, even if you need rage."

◊ helliax · 03/15/08, 3:48 AM

Third day in a new guild (hi!), and I die on Void Reaver because I fell asleep tanking. The way their strategy worked, you had to move within range of heals if you got aggro, otherwise you were out of range of heals. I was keeping track of my threat cycle, and the next thing I knew someone yelled out "Helliax is down" in vent. So awful.

Chirality · 03/15/08, 4:20 AM

Originally Posted by helliax

Third day in a new guild (hi!), and I die on Void Reaver because I fell asleep tanking. The way their strategy worked, you had to move within range of heals if you got aggro, otherwise you were out of range of heals. I was keeping track of my threat cycle, and the next thing I knew someone yelled out "Helliax is down" in vent. So awful.

Bonus points for having such an incomprehensible strategy. Why would a tank that's (a) taking AE damage all the time and (b) could get agro at any moment not be within range of a healer?

savernon · 03/15/08, 4:40 AM

Originally Posted by Chirality

Bonus points for having such an incomprehensible strategy. Why would a tank that's (a) taking AE damage all the time and (b) could get agro at any moment not be within range of a healer?

Their tanking strategy sounds like the pulling strategy from a PuG HKM once. They had a paladin run in, get aggro on everything, run back towards the mage tank and bubble in the process. We had adequate misdirects, so after a couple attempts of that and the mage tank going splat, a bunch of us jetted out of there.

Chirality · 03/15/08, 3:55 PM

Originally Posted by savernon

Their tanking strategy sounds like the pulling strategy from a PuG HKM once. They had a paladin run in, get aggro on everything, run back towards the mage tank and bubble in the process. We had adequate misdirects, so after a couple attempts of that and the mage tank going splat, a bunch of us jetted out of there.

I remember when I tried to do a Gruul's Lair pug on the 2.2 PTR (the T6 premades one). I figure I'll go on vent and see what the fools were saying, and hear this kid spend the better part of 5 minutes describing how "This hunter's BEASTMASTERY! WHAT A NOOB! You can't use a PET in a raid! IT'LL JUST DIE! NOOB! Kick him from the raid! BM hunters can't do dps!" and so on.

Now, if it had been just one person saying stupid shit like that, I wouldn't have really noticed it. Except that at least 10-15 people agreed.

As far as the bubble pulls, I remember my guild Pre-BC doing that on nearly every multi-mob boss pull pre-BC: Lucifron, Geheness, Sulfuron Harbinger, Majordomo Executus, Golemagg....It was a moderately solid strategy that actually made adds quite easy to pick up with minimal risk. But when you have misdirection ...?

Originally Posted by Thessaly

I feel so much better that it's not just my guild that this happens to. Every week, different person. It makes me weep.

Archimonde is still worse. You only get like 4 or so chance per Gorefiend pull for someone to fail. Archimonde is 3-4 chances per minute.

Actually the thing that bothers me most about Archimonde is the whole 'dps doesn't matter just stay alive' part. I have honestly seen a warlock 100+ yards away from fire running in a small circle for 20 seconds to get ready for a fear. It strikes me that, if you're not even going to *TRY* to damage the boss...WHY ARE YOU THERE?! This is made worse by the fact that when said warlock or priest or whatever *does* get chased by fire, they (a) die or (b) kite it into the raid.

PsyBomb · 03/15/08, 5:44 PM

*sigh* This is probably the worst death I've ever suffered.

So, I regularly solo the "Deadliest Trap Ever Laid" on my Warlock, since it's quick and an easy way to grab 8g if you have Syphon Life. Today, I did so, but since I had the wrong pet out (felpup instead of the Imp) I ended it with about 300 life. As the mobs vanish and Arcus shouts out that we've won, I see a Nightmare Vine sprout up and, of course, my first instinct is to dash over and grab it before it gets ganked out from under me. I pick it and get 3 Nightmare Vine... and the 500 damage kills me.

I was on Vent at the time, and told the story to the guys there. First response? "And that's the danger of doing weed". I love my guild.

jasura · 03/15/08, 7:53 PM

Originally Posted by Penguin

I think the warrior deserves the mention for waiting out a 3 minute buff when he could have just right-clicked it off at any time (works even with funky buff mods like Elks) and gone back to normal. 3 minutes into Vashj and you should be thinking about the tainted spawn, not when the MT is going to come out of DI.

I was confusing the duration of DI with the duration of BOP... Because that's happened on this particular fight from me as well

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What happened instead is I see half the raid type out "O_o" and the other half types out "LOL". I'm screaming furiously on vent "MT, click off the DI! It's that clock looking debuff! No, just right click it! CLICK IT OFF!!!!". After about 10 seconds he got it clicked off.

insi9nia · 03/15/08, 8:15 PM

I got bored so i decided to roofcamp for a bit in BEM at the Skyguard camp.
Managed to mass trinket+dot a couple of horde and just for fun, decided to
get off the finger of rock i was standing on. So i mounted up, and hovered
slightly above them /silly and /lol-ing. (Im not usually that annoying though..)

Some managed to survive the dots and mounted up and hovered beside me
so i, out of habit, decided to just fly up higher for safety reasons. BAD CHOICE.

Next thing i knew i was falling out of the sky, and in my confusion i couldnt find
the Levitate button, and ended up as roadkill 70yards below.

Apparently the dragon had to take that moment to fly past. Now i'll never live this
down. =(

Mode · 03/15/08, 8:39 PM

-I was tanking nightbane and suddenly I'M ON FIRE. At first I assumed BigWigs was lying to me. Everyone knows the tank can't get the burning ground! I check my debuffs - Yep, I'm standing in the fire. Potion, healthstone, and last stand are all on cooldown; I'm slow on the shield wall and successfully die a n00bs death: Standing in the fucking fire. It was only after the protadin standing next to me died that I understood why I was on fire.

-I successfully broke a sheep with spell reflect. Twice. Admittedly the second time was on purpose just to see if I really did it, but sure enough, I was breaking a sheep with spell reflect.

-We took a brand new protadin into Kara and put him to work tanking Midnight. I leisurely put up a sunder stack on midnight, stepped back and wait for Attumen to show up. We neglected to tell the paladin that he did not want to pick up Attumen. Cue a minute of me struggling to get Attumen off of the 100% crushable paladin.

Octaviann · 03/15/08, 8:43 PM

I had a stupid moment today on my level 62 rogue. I was fighting eels in Zangarmarsh underwater and I was using a waterbreathing potion from one of the quests there, and I stopped to eat and heal up. The problem was, I ran into a caster which managed to kill me because I wasn't paying attention. Then, I rezzed, and, not realizing that waterbreathing potions don't persist through death, went back to killing eels. Naturally, 1 minute later, I died and couldn't figure out why. I looked around my corpse and couldn't find anything which could've killed me. Then, I looked at my combat log and immediatly thought of this thread.

PsyBomb · 03/15/08, 11:31 PM

On Vashj...

Night 3 of attempts in progress, RL calls Phase 3. The problem? The core wasn't quite there. Thus, everyone pulled WAY out of position, and about 12 elementals get through. The dumbest part is, nobody noticed she was still shielded for about 20 seconds.

savernon · 03/16/08, 2:36 AM

So I'm standing in IF on my bank alt, and I randomly inspect this mage. The first thing I see is a piece of all stam gear, so I figure maybe she just got done mage tanking in gruul's. Check out some other pieces. A vast majority are all stam gear, enchanted with more stam, except for a properly enchant staff, Soulcloth gloves, and the kicker, the patch on the pants was the +healing patch.

mclem · 03/16/08, 10:53 AM

Originally Posted by Mode

-We took a brand new protadin into Kara and put him to work tanking Midnight. I leisurely put up a sunder stack on midnight, stepped back and wait for Attumen to show up. We neglected to tell the paladin that he did not want to pick up Attumen. Cue a minute of me struggling to get Attumen off of the 100% crushable paladin.

Pretty much the same encounter from the other direction:

I'd been into Kara many times as prot pally offtank, but I believe this was my first go maintanking the place - it was certainly *one* of my first goes. We'd just got ourselves a new prot warrior who looked pretty good, but had no Kara experience, so I was going to take the lead and he'd follow. I'd say as a group we on about 40% Kara-level gear on average. I'd been lucky with hand-me-downs as offtank, so I was probably at the higher end there.

We got to Midnight, and I ran through an explanation of the fight; I was going to take Midnight, 'cause at the time I was convinced that disarming Attumen made a massive difference; the new warrior would grab Attumen when he appeared, bring him over to one side of the room, and just leave him offtanked; the standard process when you're starting to learn the fight. Just to be extra careful I'd go light on consecrations to allow maximum pickup opportunity; when Attumen was clear I'd go full-out for threat.

So we start the fight, I hold Midnight just fine, he summons Attumen... and Attumen stays on me. I ask the warrior to take Attumen... nothing. This goes on for... I'd estimate 20 seconds or so, and at that point threat's getting dangerous so I just have to go full blast.

I have no idea how I survived - I'm not even sure if I was uncrushable back then - but we did manage to down him; tanking both of them on one of my first goes as maintank. And as for the warrior?

Every so often you'll get a tank who kinda goes to pieces as soon as they discover a mob that they can't simply taunt...

Kegsta · 03/16/08, 11:35 AM

I just had an interesting experience on my alt doing blood furnace. How many problems can you spot?

http://www.sixpackguild.com/image/us...005930w182.jpg

For some exciting talents choices check the armoury.

The World of Warcraft Armory

I'm sad that I didn't think to screenshot when he asked if he could need the [Libram of Saints Departed].

Axl_Stukov · 03/16/08, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by Kegsta

I just had an intresting experiance on my alt doing blood furnace. How many problems can you spot?

Halanni Claymore
That hypno-watch
AD trinket
He's using Aspect of the Wild
And he's barely doing more DPS then people 8/10 levels lower then him.

Dralmoo · 03/16/08, 12:28 PM

With a name like "Bowhunterx", that's just SHOCKING

As for dying to dot ticks during RoS p2, isn't that the healers fault?

• Bass · 03/16/08, 1:52 PM

Originally Posted by Axl_Stukov

Halanni Claymore
That hypno-watch
AD trinket
He's using Aspect of the Wild
And he's barely doing more DPS then people 8/10 levels lower then him.

I love that he's 38 Marks and 21 BM without intimidation or trueshot. It's like he rolled the dice when picking talent points. Pretty hilarious.

Annie · 03/16/08, 2:05 PM

Our guild has been learning the Zul'Aman bosses for quite some time now. We are a casual raiding guild so we have only Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays dedicated to raids (this includes getting all our new members through Kara while having our more geared members move on to ZA, and Gruuls). Well, we've been stuck at Jan'Alai for a while now but at one attempt just recently, we had him to an all-time low of 32%. Dragon spawns were being managed beautifully, all of our DPS was alive, we were experiencing the giddy anticipation of a guild first downed boss. And over vent we hear from our Pally Healer, 'Oh crap, I'm sorry guys.' Then, I see the Dragon boss heading for me! As I lay there, dead... I realized that the Pally Healer had managed to DI our MT.

Chirality · 03/16/08, 7:11 PM

Originally Posted by Bass

I love that he's 38 Marks and 21 BM without intimidation or trueshot. It's like he rolled the dice when picking talent points. Pretty hilarious.

Both points in Survival are in Savage Strikes (Mongoose Bite / Raptor Strike)

One point each in Pathfinding (!!!), Improved Aspect of the Monkey (!), Thick Hide, Improved Revive Pet, and Lethal Shots (!)...

Shuth · 03/17/08, 3:19 AM

More fun with Teron Gorefiend...

After going over the strategy many times and a couple of kills under our belts, we had one guild member get the Shadow of Death debuff who then proceeds to not move away from the raid. Once the debuff expires and his ghost/constructs spawn in the raid, he (as his ghost) runs to the back of the room ignoring his constructs. We managed to kill Teron (happened at ~15% and we just burnt through) but at the time I was wondering where all these constructs had suddenly come from. I had frapsed that kill and after searching the video, it clearly showed him not moving an inch! I think I could've strangled him, ala Homer/Bart Simpson style.