Why would you stop that? Steal it and go batshit crazy with 2.5k arcane explosions. Do it twice, then nova, then keep spamming it and all packs will die in literally 15 seconds unless they get tanked in the magical shield.

I've almost made a thread for silly armory links, but it seemed pretty mean of me, elitist jerk definitely.

Many a stupid thing occurs in Raids. This thread will live forever.

Twinkraid today, back to old areas, The Eye. We are having a really bad day, with everything that could be done wrong by players will be done in exactly this way. Funniest was Void Reaver. Because he still does not announce where he will lob his orbs, players are told to watch for themselves. Of course it does not work, maybe the orbs are to small or not sparkling enough, either way, people are dying to every single orb, so we reset the encounter. One player throws up this idea: "Remember, there were never orbs on the melee, so if we all stay in melee range, there will be no orbs". Ok, raid time is almost over, so we try it for the fun of it. Of course, it proves to be untrue, orb is directly launched at the Reaver itself, and we die a funny death. 10 minutes are left, so another idea is brought forth. "What if we let stay two people outside, that only run circles opposite to each other, so Reaver has target outside melee range, which seem to have priority?" Said, tried. The result is also hillarious. After the pull, the reaver misteriously ignores the tank completly after about 30 seconds, and runs straight to one of the cirle runners (an affliction lock). And no, it wasn't aggro. Reaver just went rampant without any obvious reason. Of course another wipe, but still amusing.

To stray off a little bit from the topic, i don't find the last two amory links worth mentioning in this thread. Yes, they both have a little bit strange talent choices, and suboptimal gear. But there are no obviously blatant mistakes visible. The items are just a little strangly choosen, gemmed and so forth. If we don't know the players behind the toons, we can't judge them. They could be 10 years old with little to no understanding of how to effectivly play. More likely, the could be 50 years old, who have bought the game for their kids, and now have a own char, which they play in the most casual way possible (for example, there was a teamspeak record floating around some time ago of german players of this age, who raided Shadow Lab non-heroic for about 5 hours straight, wiping several times on murmur before giving up, but still having real fun all the time, and being proud of making it this far). Take the healing trinket on the hunter for example. Looks strange, right? Well, look at it from this way: The hunter noticed maybe "I'm having mana problems in my fights! What can i do? Mana regeneration!" So he equipped a quest trinket with quite a bit of mana regeneration (from a quest which offered no hunter suitable loot), he maybe acquired it afterwards, or still had in his bank. Of course, this is just wild guessing from my side. I just want to point out, that there is a difference from making outright stupid decisions and just trying to do as good as possible, but failing (with sometimes funny results to others).

I pretty much assumed the same thing about that Hunter.

There's a Rogue in my guild who stacks agility, dodge rating, and dodge talents, so that 1) if he pulls aggro on a boss he has a higher chance to dodge the attack and live and 2) if the tank goes down at 2%, there's a higher chance he can dodge-tank the boss until we kill it. Of course, the problem is that 1) with the way he gimps his damage output he basically can't pull aggro and 2) his lower DPS is contributing to boss not already being dead at the point that the tank dies.

Is he misguided? Yes, absolutely. Is he truly stupid? No.

Lines from tonight's BT.

Holy Priest: How freaking ironic is it that I just died to a Holy Nova?
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Raid member X: Nobody wins when you listen to R-Kelly
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Me: Remember the comment earlier about how epic Ice Blocking out of a Frost Trap would be?
MT: Yes?
Me: Is it bad that the comment gave me an idea for an RP story?
MT: Yes. Yes it is.

Backgrounds to these lines are available on request, but are they really needed? I think not.

No, I think that makes him truly stupid.

A few months ago, we recruited a new Shaman. While running him through Black Temple, we were preparing to pull a group in Akama's room. All of a sudden, mobs start spawning at the sides of the room. They charge forward, aggroing every group in the room. We wipe.

The new Shaman had talked to Akama and engaged the encounter.

Yesterday we were running regular Crypts with myself, our moonkin lead playing healer, an up-and-coming feral tank, and a couple of random dps. With great difficulty, we hack our way into the room with the first boss. Our rogue saps one of the three-pull, our bear charges in, and the soulpriest starts summoning adds. The healer calls out for a taunt, because she got aggro from the adds and is getting hit. The bear's response? "I never trained Challenging Roar, it didn't seem necessary to me and I wanted to save the money." Come to find out he had almost 200 gold worth of spells he hadn't trained because he was too cheap.

I know of a 70 Druid who--to this day--does not have Seal Form because, and I quote, the quest is "too hard".

Your bear tank isn't kidding, though. I'm pretty sure 1-60 Druid training costs 600-700g. Someone did the math a while back. I recently got my Druid to 60 and whereas other classes I've leveled would have about 1000g to work with, the Druid had 150~g. Very expensive, but that's the price of no downtime.

I would argue that the term itself has been so misused and warped through the magic of internet hyperbole, that it is near impossible to take a comment like that seriously without actual interaction with the person in question, or at least more examples of said stupid acts. There are many factors that could lead to what a more informed player would consider horrible choices in spec, gear, etc. However, if that really, truly leads you to believe that they are a stupid person from some secondhand musings of their stat decisions, step back for a second, maybe consult a Merriam-Websters or something; work on developing a more subtle and varied vocabulary. Or get your head out of your ass if that isn't the problem.

Sorry for that. I'm definitely not an English major in any way, shape or form, but with the amount of stuff "drooling idiot retard faggot" gets applied to these days in a completely non-ironic or facetious manner is pretty wild, and disappointing.
Onward with the bumblefucking - I personally caused a wipe or two in a badge kara run because I kept giving 10 minute kings to the wrong priest (overwriting his salv - competing for threat against a well-geared spriest while you are low on pots and overgear the instance even in your threat set is not fun).

Someone needs to guide him then, atleast he got the stacking Agi part somewhat right.

But the other thing is, while levelling my Rogue I remember atleast 3 occurences where I was asked to tank an instance. It pretty much goes

X: lf1m WC
Me: I'll go
...............
Me: So, who's tanking?
X: You.
Me: later.

I also know other rogues who have been asked to do the same, there seem to be a lot of mis-informed souls out there.

I can feel the pain of that; as a paladin, I get all of that cost, plus the fact that I have to join the "50g respec club" and collect 3 separate sets of gear in order to be competent in all three of my trees, whereas a feral can play two roles with a lot of shared gear and no respec. The thing that made it stupid was that he could've saved himself so much more money just by training them as he leveled, instead of skipping them all until our boomkin dragged him out to Moonglade and sat on him until he trained them all. (As we usually do with guild-progression costs, though, some of the officers chipped in to help him pay for it.)

Our first Vashj kill may just have been tanked by a warrior wearing a [Dilapidated Cloth Hat].

I did this, but because I was levelling as a tank, most of my balance and cat spells were subject to the cut. I've trained them all now, but many of the skills I wouldn't use, I simply didn't train. Do I really want to spend 6g on top rank starfire? That's a no. Claw (post mangle), that's a no. Tranquility? No thanks.

My bear skills were all there, but the off-spec skills? I had other costs to deal with.

Ok, so after we finish a ZA run (3 timers, as usual), our WWS gets posted up and I go to check how I did. Turns out, abysmal. Where I'm normally #2-3 on DPS, I was last of our dedicated DPS this time. The problem? I got my gear macros mixed up.

Thus, I was running around the trash mobs with 207 spell hit and less spellpower, and fighting bosses in my trash set, containing about 150 more power and only 158 +hit.

I've tanked in a [Mirren's Drinking Hat] before.

Quite the opposite of stupid, but there is no where else to post this, and I just HAVE to.

So the new badge vendor opened up yesterday morning on our server, and, as expected, there are 50+ people gathered around and on top of the vendor at all times. To the point that it was hard to even target the vendor with Crtl-V and her health bar.

One of the shaman in our guild had an insanely creative solution. He put on [Belbi's Eyesight Enhancing Romance Goggles], turning everyone into gnomes (for him), making the vendor the tallest one there, and easily clickable.

I hopped on my old main yesterday, having recently obtained a S1 welfare MH sword to upgrade from [The Castigator] and got invited to a Gruul PUG (which failed horribly).

I was wondering why my damage was so incredibly low compared to other rogues. I knew that my gear was pretty terrible (mostly naxx/AQ40 stuff), but it was still surprising.

Until I farmed a couple mobs for leather thereafter and saw "Your skill in swords has increased to 306". I guess I've only used maces and daggers for most of that toon's life.

Mental note to self: When pulling Netherspite, wait until everyone's in the room. Yes, I was that soldier who sent out the ready check, charged in, tossed his Captain America shield, and locked half the raid in the hallway.

We had a rogue afking (announced) in the hallway before teron. Pity we pulled the boss without checking raid chat. Nevertheless he could buff the melee group through the door with his drums and even received some damage from shadow bolts.

People left outside zul'jin's platform are also a bugger.

Not quite as bad, but still foolish...a couple of weeks ago, some guildies and I were doing H MgT. Were you aware that, as long as you have a tank, a DPS, and a healer, you can 3 man the 1st boss? At least I locked the right people into the room with that same shield throw...