Stupid Things People Do - Page 51

Alvira · 03/19/08, 3:40 AM

This just happened on Monday. :X

Our previous mage tank on Illidan council was away for two weeks. We haven't killed him but came close and they were expected to die that day. First pull on Council for that day. I was designated mage tank (had never done it before). My first pull, absolutely nervous and stressed out. Raid leader gives off lots of instructions, etc etc, including the last one to me "run in after BOP is cast on you".

The whole raid gets ready. Priest casts power word shield on me. I was just so nervous that once I saw that shield appear on me, I just started running forward immediately ... and promptly get squished by all 4 of the council who then proceeds to wipe the entire raid... >_< (I had run in before BOP or misdirect had been cast on me yet)

Much laughter by the raid, though I received much scolding by our raid leader. He even questioned if I knew what BOP looked like. lol Luckily, I was allowed to continue as mage tank and we eventually did kill Council later that night. I swear it was really a touch of nerves. I don't know why I confused BOP with power word shield, but still, it was silly of me and I feel really stupid everytime I think back on that pull. lol

Thankfully I have gotten the hang of being mage tank for Illidan council now. But I think I will remember that pull for a very very long time. :P

Reliknom · 03/19/08, 3:55 AM

Anyone ever seen the MH exalted tank ring proc and thought 'Oh shit, who BoP-ed me?'

I know I do even after having it for months, and our raid leader also owned up to almost freaking out a few times. Luckily if you can see the raid not wiping, you usually realize after a few seconds what the spell effect really was.

BoinKlasik · 03/19/08, 4:33 AM

Originally Posted by gcbirzan

As a mage, you can cheat on Supremus and get some DPS in phase 2, knowing you can blink out of volcanoes. That is, until a) he turns around and one shots you (I always thought if you were too close when he started chasing you you got thrown miles away, but, hey), or b) you blink on top of a newly spawned volcano.

He only knocks you as far as I can tell when you are outside of his hitbox otherwise he turns around and whacks you first. Our melee (me included) get owned by this all the time while trying to sneak in a few numbers during the kite phase.

Javi · 03/19/08, 2:07 PM

Not so much an ingame happening, but still funny. Last night while doing attempts on Illidan we had one of our players repeatedly make comments on how his brother managed to get locked inside the bathroom. After his last comment about the brother being in there for a couple of hours, his voice on vent was suddenly drowned by the VERY unmistakeable sound of an angle grinder at full speed. That sounds coupled with the fact that our rented vent for the night had settings making everyone's voice sound very metallic made for one of my funniest moments in WoW to date.

Though it might be superceeded by that time we had our MT go afk just before an Hakkar pull. Living on a farm and generally being an honest guy made his afk note the most legendary I've seen to date; "afk cow giving birth"

flyingtoastr · 03/19/08, 8:27 PM

Originally Posted by Reliknom

Anyone ever seen the MH exalted tank ring proc and thought 'Oh shit, who BoP-ed me?'

I know I do even after having it for months, and our raid leader also owned up to almost freaking out a few times. Luckily if you can see the raid not wiping, you usually realize after a few seconds what the spell effect really was.

The first time I saw it I started a long tirade in our pally chat about how people need to pay more attention and need to own up to their mistakes (no one "admitted" that they had BoP'd the tank). It was quite embarrassing after I found out what really happened.

Cyn · 03/19/08, 9:07 PM

That ring has got me so many times, i remember the first time doing ZA, and thought the paladin we took was retarded, and that the tank was really pro at clicking off BoP. Or maybe not.

• Intermission · 03/19/08, 10:40 PM

Doing Illidan last night, and one of our mages was having a worse than usual day.

Pulled aggro on flame, blaze landed as the flame hit her, group died.

The next pull, in the Leo-Demon phase, she stands ~30 yards away from Illidan and starts casting frostbolts as the Shadow Demons are 3 seconds away from spawning. After previously dying multiple times, you'd think said mage would have learnt. Anyway, she wasnt targeted by a shadow demon that time. However, she kept on casting frost bolts at Illidan (our guild *never* dps's Illidan at all during Demon phase, for a range of reasons). She kept casting frostbolts as the phase changed. Naturally 2 frostbolts is more threat than the MD, and Illidan goes running to her. She Ice Blocks and it snaps back to the tank.

After the kill, with people asking her wtf she was doing: "I lagged".

vorda · 03/19/08, 10:50 PM

Originally Posted by flyingtoastr

The first time I saw it I started a long tirade in our pally chat about how people need to pay more attention and need to own up to their mistakes (no one "admitted" that they had BoP'd the tank). It was quite embarrassing after I found out what really happened.

The exact same thing happened here.
I still die abit inside each time that ring procs on me these days (swapped the healing ring in for the tanking version till 2.4 goes live).

Also, ever since Magtheridon, I have a hughe fear for infernals falling from the sky. My first Hyjal run in the new guild I was healing Kaz'rogal and suddenly 2 infernals land nearby. I instantly bubble, try to stun and start running away.
It seems to be a common technique for 0 21 40 warlocks to improve their DPS on bosses, but by the time I realised they were friendly, the entire raid noticed my weird behaviour and I still bubble at least once a month for friendly infernals.

edit:

Naturally 2 frostbolts is more threat than the MD, and Illidan goes running to her.

Illidan moved? I've never experienced that in the demon phase, I'd expect him to just shadowblast the mage (and hit everyone in a 20yd radius around your mage with it)?

Illundai · 03/19/08, 11:23 PM

He does move, just like any other caster mob in the game; when he feels like it. Remember Twin Emperor Warlock tanking? Sometimes the Twin would just run up to your warlock and smack him in the face for no apparant reason. (Range, was my guess back then)

• Intermission · 03/19/08, 11:38 PM

Originally Posted by vorda

Illidan moved? I've never experienced that in the demon phase, I'd expect him to just shadowblast the mage (and hit everyone in a 20yd radius around your mage with it)?

Oops, my post was unclear. I edited it for clarity.

The frostbolts continued as he fell to his knees, changing back to his smaller phase again.

Lokk · 03/20/08, 7:40 AM

Silliest thing I did recently was on Azzalgore.

Had died on the last wave before the boss, but as we had 2 rogues we managed to dalay him long enough for me to get rez, buffs, and even drink up.

He is already at the gates and the leaders are screaming at me on VT "Misdirect him to the tank!". So I press the spell button, run thowards him and fire an arcane shot. Only that no shot comes out. Distracting - noting, auto - nothing, arcane again - still nothing.

Now the tank is getting realy nervous watiching the misdirect seconds tick down and starts flaming me as only main tanks can. As the boss thunders thowards me I start to back away dubious of what is wrong. And the clue - a red bow icon, hidden deep under raid unit frames..

• Intermission · 03/20/08, 8:14 AM

So you popped Aspect of the Monkey and Detterence and melee MD'ed him to the tank, right!? :P

I accidentally got too close to Gurtog when pulling him once. I was hoping my Aimed shot would go off before he reached me... luckily I dodged and wingclipped him to the tank.

Altirias · 03/20/08, 12:37 PM

I'd like to share with you a very funny story told by Patrick, the Host of the french Podcast Azeroth.fr

Here's the story :
In Arathi Bassin, an alliance mage notices that the flag on top of the cliff (sorry, the english for "scierie" can't find its way through my mouth :s) is only kept by a troll priest.

As you can guess, the priest starts to mind control the poor Alliance mage who seems to be in for a nice little jump. But, at the very last moment, the mage "iceblocks", and thus breaks the mind control. The troll priest who was not at all prepared for that turn of events kept pushing his forward key, and eventually threw himself off the cliff.

The alliance has attacked the *scierie* (erf, I really can't remember that word :/) !

English vocabulary aside, having died a couple of time from this mc trick (no insigna and no bubble up), I would have loved to see the priest's face when he noticed too late the mc had broken

Chirality · 03/20/08, 2:14 PM

Originally Posted by BoinKlasik

He only knocks you as far as I can tell when you are outside of his hitbox otherwise he turns around and whacks you first. Our melee (me included) get owned by this all the time while trying to sneak in a few numbers during the kite phase.

I die to Supremus every time because of this.

If I time it right, it's not that bad to get like five hits in (White/Slam/MS /White /Slam /WW). The problem is that if you're not *really* careful he will melee someone in range right when he switches targets every ten seconds. So you have to be out of range of him when he emotes and changes his gaze.

That said: I'll end up dieing to a hateful strike at some point anyway, so it's worth trying to dps his kite phase. I really hate that fight.

Illundai · 03/20/08, 2:38 PM

The trick to Supremus is to have enough HP to survive one hit :-) Works like a charm!

Akhtal · 03/20/08, 7:14 PM

Originally Posted by Altirias

I'd like to share with you a very funny story told by Patrick, the Host of the french Podcast Azeroth.fr

Here's the story :
In Arathi Bassin, an alliance mage notices that the flag on top of the cliff (sorry, the english for "scierie" can't find its way through my mouth :s) is only kept by a troll priest.

As you can guess, the priest starts to mind control the poor Alliance mage who seems to be in for a nice little jump. But, at the very last moment, the mage "iceblocks", and thus breaks the mind control. The troll priest who was not at all prepared for that turn of events kept pushing his forward key, and eventually threw himself off the cliff.

The alliance has attacked the *scierie* (erf, I really can't remember that word :/) !

English vocabulary aside, having died a couple of time from this mc trick (no insigna and no bubble up), I would have loved to see the priest's face when he noticed too late the mc had broken

The word you're looking for is lumbermill

Even though French is my native language, I can't stand playing a French game because of those kind of problems...

insi9nia · 03/21/08, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by Lokk

Silliest thing I did recently was on Azzalgore.

Had died on the last wave before the boss, but as we had 2 rogues we managed to dalay him long enough for me to get rez, buffs, and even drink up.

He is already at the gates and the leaders are screaming at me on VT "Misdirect him to the tank!". So I press the spell button, run thowards him and fire an arcane shot. Only that no shot comes out. Distracting - noting, auto - nothing, arcane again - still nothing.

Now the tank is getting realy nervous watiching the misdirect seconds tick down and starts flaming me as only main tanks can. As the boss thunders thowards me I start to back away dubious of what is wrong. And the clue - a red bow icon, hidden deep under raid unit frames..

The exact same thing happened to our hunter last night too lol,
Weiss:"shit my gun's red!"
RL:"well is there anything you can MD with?!"
Weiss:"erm raptor strike?"

Doing Illidan last night, and one of our mages was having a worse than usual day.

Pulled aggro on flame, blaze landed as the flame hit her, group died.

The next pull, in the Leo-Demon phase, she stands ~30 yards away from Illidan and starts casting frostbolts as the Shadow Demons are 3 seconds away from spawning. After previously dying multiple times, you'd think said mage would have learnt. Anyway, she wasnt targeted by a shadow demon that time. However, she kept on casting frost bolts at Illidan (our guild *never* dps's Illidan at all during Demon phase, for a range of reasons). She kept casting frostbolts as the phase changed. Naturally 2 frostbolts is more threat than the MD, and Illidan goes running to her. She Ice Blocks and it snaps back to the tank.

After the kill, with people asking her wtf she was doing: "I lagged".

Was it Archaeic? hehehe

And yeah same illidan last night, our top Spriest managed to kill himself with a SWD crit the same time he got flameburst. His 2nd death for that attempt too. Sigh.

Kegsta · 03/21/08, 3:51 AM

http://www.sixpackguild.com/image/us...174706o182.jpg

So, don't get Nightbane under 50% while he is in the air. He bugs out and can't die, on the upside you create a raid level Dr. Boom!

Chirality · 03/21/08, 5:08 PM

Originally Posted by Kegsta

http://www.sixpackguild.com/image/us...174706o182.jpg

So, don't get Nightbane under 50% while he is in the air. He bugs out and can't die, on the upside you create a raid level Dr. Boom!

Odd. I dps Nightbane down a few percent while he's in the air all the time on my shadowpriest (instead of helping kill skeletons, a job for which I am quite ill-suited), and I've never seen him bug like that.

xmod2 · 03/21/08, 5:24 PM

Originally Posted by Chirality

Odd. I dps Nightbane down a few percent while he's in the air all the time on my shadowpriest (instead of helping kill skeletons, a job for which I am quite ill-suited), and I've never seen him bug like that.

I'm assuming they got him from 75% (phase change) to below 50% (second phase change) before he landed from his first flight.

They have a good amount of Warlocks, and I'm guessing Shadow Priests in the group.

Also to add, I've learned the hard way that when leading a raid in vent, yelling at people who can't seem to avoid a particular mechanic is a sure fire way to ensure you're distracted enough to get hit with it yourself.

Benita · 03/22/08, 7:44 PM

Yes, it "works" on every air phase. If you get him lower than the next air phase % he bugs out and cant be killed. If everyone zones out the encounter resets, didnt even need a 30mins reset.

thedopefishlives · 03/23/08, 12:09 AM

Our guild's first run through Kara, we went in for a "trial run" and wound up one-shotting Attumen. Coming back the next night, we proceeded to one-shot Moroes, and hopes were high for getting to Maiden. We were finishing clearing the hall with all the guests, the first pulls on the way to Maiden, and our resident boomkin (who had just respecced to boomkin after being a tree for the Moroes fight) pops her treants. All well and good, until they pull the remaining elite pack and cause a near wipe.

brandonlcoyle · 03/23/08, 3:42 AM

After a few weeks/months of effort going for the timed event in ZA, we had finally managed the previous week to reach the lynx and miss the bear by about 1.5 minutes. The next week we went in ready to go and killed dragonhawk with about 18 minutes left on the timer. We were positive we were going to make it as long as no one screwed up. We finally get to halazzi and we have 8 minutes left.

Awesome we usually kill him in 3 minutes so no problem "Just dont mess up". We step in and dps him down to 75% and the lynx spawns and our Prot pally gets a taunt resist... there goes the lynx owning our Shaman healer. No problem he was supposed to get a soulstone right? - Warlock "Uhh whoops" Ok ele shammy switches to healing no problem. We dps him down and are doing alright... it's not perfect but we get him to 25% lynx comes out and right after they reform *bam* down goes the prot pally. Oh no...25% down 2 people so i yell at the other warlock to go in and start taking saberlashes and all i can think is man we are going to mess this up. So the warlock goes in on the tank and thankfully we dps the last 25% down no problem. There wasn't even a saberlash to kill off the walrock /cry.

We walk outside to take a picture and we are trying to figure out how it went so wrong when the lynx is never a problem and all of a sudden the raid leader asks the prot pally why he isnt as pink as usual (4/5 t5 and pink weapon). The Pally looks at his gear...."Oh my bad - I still had all my FR on from dragonhawk." So end of story fireresist doesn't work all that well for Halazzi; however, it did make what seemed like an easy first bear a pretty tense experience

Prinsesa · 03/23/08, 8:49 AM

Another funny "Priest in AB Lumber Mill" story: This half-HP Priest cast Levitate and jumped off the cliff when she sees she's outnumbered 3 to 1. I manage to throw my Avenger's Shield just as she jumps, and it makes impact.

Levitate gets dispelled on damage, so she hits the ground like a sack of bricks

Grai · 03/24/08, 12:03 AM

Two funny things on Illidan tonight.

1) Our warlock tank specced into Nether protection between raid days, and forgot her had it. When the whole raid got shadow blasted we were all like WTF!

2) Our phase 2 Druid FR tank forgot to reequip her staff, and instead had her healing weapon on from our phase 3-4 attempt previously. Our elemental shaman pulled agro off her, and we couldn't understand why.