Stupid Things People Do - Page 61

Emily · 05/12/08, 1:38 PM

His warlock guildmate has made some equally offbeat gear decisions.

PsyBomb · 05/12/08, 2:54 PM

So, I have come to love it when someone makes a broad, sweeping generalization. They tend to turn out as cash-making opportunities for me. I have heard all of the following, and in each case I made at least 10 gold off of the poor sod.

Random guy: "Warriors are only good for tanking"

Guild app in Gruul's: "I'm so good, I'll bet I top your charts!" (please note here that he was in T4 and equivalent gear, and the same raid had 6 of our BT/Hyjal people just helping projects and alts gear up.)

Moonkin tanking in BM: "I generate so much threat, there's no WAY you'll get aggro off of me" (I have nothing against Panzerkin, but you don't hold aggro against an Affliction lock going flat-out during bosses that have stun phases)

Random DPSer: "Moonkin can't tank" (Did I mention my Moonkin has a Panzer set, too? 13k armor and 8% dodge is more than enough for a regular Steam Vaults).

• Intermission · 05/12/08, 8:41 PM

When it's all said and done, ledge mishaps will probably be the most remembered aspect of Sunwell and will live in infamy. The Sac-Aly order will probably become the dominant method as it really is the easiest and yields the best loot.

(That was from the Twins thread, but my post is best suited here. Plenty of derailing already in that thread.)

It makes you wonder how many of the "retard obstacles" were intentional and how many were simply "retard made". A short list of non-combat retard checks that I can think of:

MC - Narrow bridge/pathway past Golemag.
BWL - Pulling goblins at Vael before the raid is ready (precious elementium). Ok that one is a stretch maybe.
ZG - Only thing that comes to mind is avoiding the snake pack when running to Raptor/Spider bosses, and the EoM imp pack when running to Tiger boss.
AQ20 - Making the raid think they should clear the trash from Buru to the poisoning Wasp boss... THAT is a retard check. We cleared that twice before we realised we should just run around the other way and kill her after the last bloke. I stand by that trash being the hardest in existance based on the gear level and general wow-skill level at the time.
AQ40 - C'thun pull. The initial hard version / nurfed version / and reverted versions still didnt stop some people from tapping that strafe key one too many times.
Naxx - Thaddius jump. I swear to god we had a PRIEST (Levitate, just run off the edge) that missed it a couple times.
Naxx - While not a 'non-combat' retard check because it was the essense of the fight, Heigan was always fun killing it with 10 people left.
Naxx - Frogger (plus old-style stunning snowballs for extra fun).
SSC - An instance full of different angles platforms with angry fish/boiling water below.
Sunwell - Stuck outside Kalecgos area.
Sunwell - Felmyst Mass Dispel pull.
Sunwell - Twins ledge.
Sunwell - KJ will surely have orbs to click!

Fun times.

neg^ · 05/13/08, 5:31 AM

"Hmm, Illidan was right. I am not prepared" - Warlock tank with no resist gear on.

He could hellfire himself to death, press his outfitter button and have it change gear after accepting his own soul stone. So it worked out in the end. Didn't end as well when I was lazy changing weapons in combat as an offtank on Lurker below. Those adds hits pretty hard in dps gear. Now i have separate macros that change only weapons.

Monique · 05/13/08, 7:20 AM

Idiots, conflagrate and a dead raid, or <Clarity> on Twins.

"I was busy misdirecting!"
or
/RW Conflagrate on N.N.
N.N.: "OK guys, who killed me?"

I just lose hope for humanity.

Celeras · 05/13/08, 11:31 AM

If one more person leaves a crater during Archimonde, I'm going to lose it.

Smooglab · 05/13/08, 11:41 AM

People using rp-walk (the slow walk, default numlock-thing) to get on the ledge @ Twins and forgetting to turn it off, numerous times.

webmeister · 05/14/08, 1:59 AM

Originally Posted by Smooglab

People using rp-walk (the slow walk, default numlock-thing) to get on the ledge @ Twins and forgetting to turn it off, numerous times.

I did that a couple of times practicing the mage-pull on Illidari Council. At least I know now how far into the room their aggro radius extends!

Also I'm going to second the calls for not posting blind Armory links in this thread - stories of stupidity are much more interesting/enjoyable than "haha look at this noob's Armory, he has no idea!"

Caryna · 05/14/08, 6:00 AM

Last night at Zul'Jin: boss is at ~14% and a couple of people are dead. Then one of our priests gets a fire pillar on his head, steps out of it, drinks a potion and steps right back into the pillar (backwards!).

Same guy seemed to enjoy the pretty purple sparkles of the wrath debuff on our second ever Solarian try so much that he totally didn't move at all, even with people yelling at him on voice com.

thedopefishlives · 05/14/08, 8:22 AM

I just remembered one more from a while back. When we were first learning Illhoof, none of us knew that the pack of elite imps just inside the doorway wasn't linked to the boss. So every first attempt we made on him ended in a wipe because we tried to AoE down the elite imps whilst engaging the boss. We even tried a strategy where we'd basically throw ourselves to our deaths to try to clear out the imp pack before our first "real" attempt of the evening. We only found out that they weren't linked later, when we pulled in a new raider to fill in the gap left by our previous raid leader. He facepulled that pack, sending us scampering in all directions, and we came to the realization that the boss hadn't pulled with them.

sadistic · 05/14/08, 9:31 AM

Originally Posted by Pixen

Grouped with a 41 point in combat rogue who managed not to put any points into any weapon spec. He used a sword and a dagger, and SSed with the dagger for the entire instance. It made my brain hurt.

I always inspect players im grouping with for pugs, and with the recent addition of talents, I'm loving blizzard hard. Went heroic Mechanar and discovered I was grouped with a spriest who not only almost exclusively gemmed crit/int, but also had 61pts in shadow. So I kicked him and went about my beeswax.
Fast forward 3 months, new character and I join a good guild for my gearlvl. First raid, what do I see? A mage with 61pts fire. I start to get nervous around here, I had _just_ joined and we had just started pulling. I inspect some more, and voila, a spriest with the blue spellcrit trinket and gemmed for crit&dmg&int.
Im seriously starting to freak out here and what do I discover? The mage is the mage-officer (and has been for a loong time).
Anyway, comforted by the fact that there must be some slack in a 25man raid we keep raiding and the guild turns out to be great. Due to some mystic mixup of magic we pull off some pretty amazing shit (like khazrogal 2nd attempt ever, no sr, with 2 deaths and 5melee dps(and one protpally and a protwarr/tankdruid (who doesnt ff and insists on dpsing in tankgear)) Im honestly baffled at the dps we do considering the gear level we have.(and the amount of ppl doing shit dps)

I dunno, the stars mustve aligned for my new guild :>

Malleus · 05/14/08, 10:40 AM

We're doing Lurker. Something goes wrong early on, and we lose six or seven DPS. Luckily the critical classes for add control in phase 2 all survive, so it's not a wipe, but it's going to take a while. I'm putting in one of the tightest MT healing performances I've ever done - the only time I've done better was our first Al'ar kill, where I topped the effective heal meter by more than 200k and had only 22% overheal. At 11m40 or thereabouts I go OOM with 25 seconds on potion CD; the tank's about to get stomped when Lurker dives. I swig a blue, Lurker returns, we carry on. I'm just coming off potion CD again when I run out of mana for a second time, so I Lay on Hands and use the pot. All the healers are now very nearly OOM, though, so when I finally run out for the third time around 16m40 there's not much we can do except pray for a good chain of dodges and parries. We wipe at 17m05 with Lurker at 22%. We rez up to try again, and I open my character window to re-oil my mace. At which point I notice that my Libram is pink.

Yes, this silly bastard had forgotten to re-equip [Libram of Souls Redeemed] after doing his dailies, and as a result spent the entire fight with his healing gimped by a good 30%.

Nigel Tufnel once said that there's a fine line between stupid and clever. That night, I bestrode it like a colossus.

savernon · 05/14/08, 10:50 AM

I was running Hmech a while back on my newish warlock, and had gotten down a nice pattern to help out pug tanks, which were inevitably under geared and gunning for the sun eater drop off panthelon. I would AoE fear, let the CC put up a target, tank would grab his, then I would chain fear one mob. This went well for about 5 runs. One night, the healer said after I explained what I was going to do, "can't the feared mob pull the boss?" (We left the 3rd boss up). I hadn't ever seen a feared mob pull her, and had actually seen mobs run in a straight line in front of her, so I figured there was some sort of invisible wall preventing just that from happening. Turns out I was wrong. Emotes from her indicated our impending doom.

Second funny, on a mag run, I was assigned the last channeler to tank, and before the most recent mag nerf, I would have worn full tank gear and whatnot, but since they hit pretty soft now, I decided to just wear dps gear, figuring an overgeared healer should have no problem keeping me up. When my channeler is the last one up, I was actually getting worried about dieing, and had to trinket and use my bear pot macro. After mag goes down, my healer whispers me, turns out he misclicked on his gear change addon and was in his birthday suit healing me.

• frmorrison · 05/14/08, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Malleus

Yes, this silly bastard had forgotten to re-equip [Libram of Souls Redeemed] after doing his dailies, and as a result spent the entire fight with his healing gimped by a good 30%.

Use the mod Holy Librams! or similar so that the mod will automatically swap your in LoSR when you target has BoL on it.

Kolmar · 05/14/08, 11:06 AM

I committed my egregious offense Tuesday night. We're in the middle of a recruitment drive as we had several players leave for RL, so our raid week was elongated due to adapting to new tanks/healers/dps. As a result, we were 6 attempts in on Illidan, and just having some random bonehead wipes (eye beam, pally flame tank forgot RF, parasites break out on the raid, etc.) So we engage the event, and as I normally do I step over to Illidan and pop Bloodrage so that I can put a Demo on him ASAP. It ended up being my quarterly reminder of the 1 threat tick from rage generation, and as I was closer than the MT, I got to happily eat the first attack. At least I got to go make a sandwich during my unintended break.

Earlier that night, more of a funny event occurred. People new to the IC fight are still getting their sea-legs, so to speak, as the rampant AoE was tearing a new one on us. We end up with 6 down around 2%, and I'm DWing my Swiftsteel Bludgeons and Executing while watching for Circle of Healing and Divine Wrath casts from the Priest. A paladin yells over vent, "Just die already!" and mere seconds later the council dies. And myself as well. I tunnel-visioned on my target's castbar, and was putting out high DPS on what's not the wisest of choices. A Blizzard hit me, and then I proceeded to Reflecting Shield myself to death. A most embarassing death, especially given the ribbing I had given a rogue the previous night for just that same mistake.

Ah well, at least I can claim some creativity in my idiocy.

Jemsky · 05/15/08, 10:13 AM

I'm still smarting from last night's mess I made in our Felmyst kill.

Pressing the W button to run forward since I had a new UI and did not keybind auto run .Running forward as one one of my team got encapsulated and then trying to run back with both Wand S buttons pressed and thereby remaining still and dying an ignominious death much to the horror of my poor RL who was right next to me

Forgetting I could aspect to run faster if needed. Kiting the beam THROUGH the raid instead of the edges and last but not least, not using 21 talent points as I re-specced for the fight to SV ( We don't use pets ) . I forgot as I was so stressed and doped up with anti-histamines

Spesh · 05/15/08, 12:09 PM

At level 63ish I was having trouble using the portals in Shattrath to IF, SW etc. Sometimes they worked okay, sometimes they didn't. Looking on the forums & the technical help section of the official WoW site, I deduced that it was most likely a broken add on causing the issue after a patch, so I deleted and reinstalled all of them - along with the WTF and Cache folders. They still didn't work properly so I went through the whole process again - whilst bleating to my guildmates about what a pile of shite Blizzard were & why the f**k couldn't they get things right etc. Once again, things still didn't work properly so I ended up giving up on it for a while and just flying to HFP and traipsing through the Dark Portal whenever I wanted to go to back to Azeroth.

This probably went on for a month or so - until one day in Shattrath I happened to notice that rather than there being only 3 or 4 portals, there was actually 6 or 8. Further investigation revealed that some were coloured red and some were coloured blue. Yet more investigation revealed that in fact the portals always work fine - it's just a case of making sure you don't try and click on a Horde portal if you're an Alliance player.

doogless · 05/15/08, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by thedopefishlives

I just remembered one more from a while back. When we were first learning Illhoof, none of us knew that the pack of elite imps just inside the doorway wasn't linked to the boss. So every first attempt we made on him ended in a wipe because we tried to AoE down the elite imps whilst engaging the boss. We even tried a strategy where we'd basically throw ourselves to our deaths to try to clear out the imp pack before our first "real" attempt of the evening. We only found out that they weren't linked later, when we pulled in a new raider to fill in the gap left by our previous raid leader. He facepulled that pack, sending us scampering in all directions, and we came to the realization that the boss hadn't pulled with them.

I'm so relieved to know I wasn't the only one who thought this!

Malleus · 05/15/08, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by frmorrison

Use the mod Holy Librams! or similar so that the mod will automatically swap your in LoSR when you target has BoL on it.

I would, but it's rare we don't have enough Paladins to ensure the whole raid has Light. Now Malleus is retired from dailies in favour of my two DPS-capable alts, it's pointless.

That said, the last night we were on Vashj the Paladin in charge of Light forgot to buff it before an attempt. Seeing as he was the main tank for Phase 1 and thus had the two Pali healers exclusively assigned to him, I think that's worthy of mention in this thread.

Elywienn · 05/15/08, 2:47 PM

At some point we were trying arcane resist gear on Felmyst.
Thank god we changed the strat the day after because it was pitiful.

Douglas · 05/15/08, 4:26 PM

Originally Posted by Bloodthorn

Readin the above posts, I wondered if this was the right place to ask if anyone could explain me why a lock would chose 15+str on gloves, spirit on chest and a spell penetration gem in a pve hat?
The World of Warcraft Armory

Obviously a firestone/melee build! Beware, or he shall poke you with his burning staff!

Honestly... that might really be it. Might be thinking that the spell penetration helps the fire damage from the weapon land, and might be thinking if he spends enough time meleeing for DPS, the spi might kick in and regen mana.

Stupid? Yes, but I've seen stupider.

PsyBomb · 05/15/08, 6:22 PM

I'm not so sure if this guy was an idiot or merely misguided, but here goes. We're fighting the Shade of Aran, and there's a new Fury warrior there. We have him assigned to interrupt Fire. The problem is that he can't seem to stop any of the casts. Fireballs keep pegging people left and right. He kept on telling us it was because his Pummel was on cooldown. This would be understandable if he had actually been hitting some, but about 90% of them got through.

Talking to him afterwards, I found out why. He was using Pummel every time it came up as an instant attack, trying to trigger Flurry and Windfury Totem.

Thebeefe · 05/16/08, 2:18 PM

Originally Posted by neg^

"Hmm, Illidan was right. I am not prepared" - Warlock tank with no resist gear on.

He could hellfire himself to death, press his outfitter button and have it change gear after accepting his own soul stone. So it worked out in the end. Didn't end as well when I was lazy changing weapons in combat as an offtank on Lurker below. Those adds hits pretty hard in dps gear. Now i have separate macros that change only weapons.

Wish I thought of that when I done it... both times...

caelus · 05/16/08, 6:44 PM

Originally Posted by Caryna

Last night at Zul'Jin: boss is at ~14% and a couple of people are dead. Then one of our priests gets a fire pillar on his head, steps out of it, drinks a potion and steps right back into the pillar (backwards!).

Same guy seemed to enjoy the pretty purple sparkles of the wrath debuff on our second ever Solarian try so much that he totally didn't move at all, even with people yelling at him on voice com.

That Zuljin scene would've looked amazing im sure!

But can't beat half a raid doing Kael'thas without reequiping their weapons/offhands after a previous wipe using the legendaries. Not that any of them are stupid or anything, its just easy to forget.

Rane · 05/17/08, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by Douglas

Obviously a firestone/melee build! Beware, or he shall poke you with his burning staff!

Honestly... that might really be it. Might be thinking that the spell penetration helps the fire damage from the weapon land, and might be thinking if he spends enough time meleeing for DPS, the spi might kick in and regen mana.

Stupid? Yes, but I've seen stupider.

My warlock alt has AP on bracers, spirit on chest and other various oddities - I'm leveling enchanting, and fuck standing around in a ci