Dirty Tricks To Pass The Time
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iTZKooPA on Monday, June 1, 2009 - 40 Comments Tags: abusing abilities, boredom, dirty tricks, frostthorn, passing the time, sap-mining, sapphiron
iTZKooPA on Monday, June 1, 2009 - 40 Comments Tags: abusing abilities, boredom, dirty tricks, frostthorn, passing the time, sap-mining, sapphiron 
Sap-mining Is Also Pretty Fun...For MeWorld of Warcraft does get boring sometimes. There I said it, are you happy now? Azeroth can't keep my attention all day, everyday, but that doesn't always means I simply logout and do something else. No, heavens no. That wouldn't fly while I was in the middle of a raid, although people do it. It wouldn't fly before I got my dailies done either. In these rare instances I find other ways to distract myself while remaining in Azeroth, or, at the very least, still being connected to the make-believe continents in some capacity. Say YouTube videos or WoWHead "research."
Over the years I have come up with a few fun things to do with my rogue. Mainly, ways to abuse my generic abilities. My favorite past time is causing people to pull mobs by distracting the mob towards them. It's not that easy to accomplish, but worth it for the hilarity and "WTF" moment that the player is sure to experience. An added bonus, you can do it to either faction. Then there's the always classic jacking of a mining node via a Sap, /fart and a right-click. This dirty tactic has only become better since mining became a single strike instead of repeated looting. No longer will you catch a beating before you can take off on your mount. Beware of PvP trinkets though!
This may be a little more than a dirty trick since it can easily cause a full wipe, complete with hefty repair bills. But Wrath brought rogues an aptly named ability, Tricks of the Trade, and I'll be damned if I am not going to use it for laughs now and then. Normally my rogue buddies and I trade these during encounters for the 15% damage buff, vanishing to keep aggro down of course. On the off chance that I want to be a donkey I will put ToT on an unsuspecting player and listen to him go batty on Ventrilo. "How the hell did my aggro spike like that? I never pull!" On the flip side, you can do it to hunters and priests to see how fast they can react with Feign Death and Fade. And they say there is no twitch gaming in WoW.
Other classes have their own entertaining means of harassing players. I am sure all of you have seen mages put out a metric ton of portals at once, causing you to accidentally click on the wrong one. Or waste precious minutes avoiding the the dozen Theramore portals in an attempt to find the single Dalaran mirage. My personal favorite mage tactic is to play the warlock and ask for help with a summon. The players who are barely paying attention, which is many at this juncture of a raid, will click on the portal and be sent to the far reaches of Azeroth rather than summoning their buddy. "I wanted to goto Shattrath anyways."
A single beer from Brewfest brought the best practical joke I have ever seen in Azeroth. The prankster in the video pops a frosty beverage during a Sapphiron encounter. Simple, drunk fun right? Well, thanks to the brew's Ice Block-type debuff, the raid thought it was safe to remain behind him for the beast's Ice Bolt. A full wipe was the effect, another cause of too much beer.
This is only a small taste of the dastardly deeds we can do to each other inside World of Warcraft. What are your favorite tricks and jokes to play on other players? Perhaps someone can top the Sapphiron wipe and earn +2 nerd points.
Reader Comments (40)
Way, way back when I was just in the early 50s, my guild did a 'practice raid', 10-manning ST. Anyway, this 70 hunter was pissing me off by killing everything and being a jerk about it, and about how he never died. So, when he tried to jump a narrow, but deep, gap, I decided to divinely intervene, as pallies never really do in a combat situation. My timing was perfect, and for 3 minutes he sat, frozen in mid-air, waiting to fall to his doom.
He fell on a boss, survived, and aggroed it onto the whole raid. 10-man Sunken Temple with 70s helping wipes.
...Diaf.
It's these kinds of childish pranks that I think detract from the game. I'll never understand the need to screw up other people's gaming experience for your own amusement.
@ Thad
Because it is fun. Plain and simple. Besides, no one said you had to do it.
its all about havin fun while playin WoW O.O
I hate it when people put up that underground portal to Molten Core right before a Wintergrasp Portal goes up. So rude. ><
Ever auto-followed an auto-run "AFK" dude? Like lemmings to a slaughter :D
I remember I was running ST with a group (everyone hates that place, amiright?), and they were all arguing over who would get the epic when it dropped. The hunter wanted it for PvP, the mage wanted it for leveling, and I, the Ret paladin, was going to roll greed b/c I wouldn't use it aside from a cool trick now and then.
Anyways, me and a druid friend who was in the group had an idea.
I was "tanking", so I went up to pull the boss. He roared, charged at me, and I got ready. The druid ran for the back and I popped my bubble and hearthstone. I saw as the dragon mangled the mage, destroyed the hunter, massacred the innocent priest, then run for the druid as I faded out.
I guess Eranikus can keep that epic sword all to himself.
heh. if you use ToT on a hunter you better wacth out for some Misdirects :)
a mage in my guild did something like the beer thing, but he just used his iceblock spell. and went on the wipe about half the raid
The ice block from sapph is a completely different color than the mage ice block...
@Xian
"Besides, no one said you had to do it."
Uh, run that by me again? I don't do that sort of thing, but it's not like I get a say in the matter if someone is pulling a /clown TO me.
In NAxx we always joke with our mage in the saph that he is gonna do ice black and yell: I'm in Ice block... or what ever is says... so one of these times i have a feeling he is gonna do it and kill of a group of us lol
Not sure if it still works but as an alliance hunter I uses to drop a snake trap under a mob who was fighting a horde player because the mob would go down and the snakes would attack the horde with out turning on my PVP. Another one is a priest in our guild while waiting for raid members at the Naxx summon stone will look for Horde chartacers with their PVP flag on. If there not paying attention he will mind control them off the edge to their death.
misdirect is always fun, theres so much u can do with that and distracting shot.
Haha, I wont do anything that I know will piss off a player, like sap mining, but! The "Magikalz Portalz Game" as my guild mate calls it, popping ports on top of each other is really really fun and funny, even on the receiving end.
Mind controlling Gamon. Nuff said.
I play a horde pally, so when I'm bored I'll head to an ally starting zone and put up ret aura, I then aggro most of the guards and quest givers who soon die from ret aura while I remain un-flagged. I usualy then have a mob of lowbies QQing at me for killling there quest givers. Something to try if your on a PVE server.
I fart around with my guild and do things like this, but never with random people. If I run into some jerks in a PUG group, and they piss me off, I'll just hearth. No skin off my nose.
Nebulya said
"Haha, I wont do anything that I know will piss off a player, like sap mining, but! The “Magikalz Portalz Game” as my guild mate calls it, popping ports on top of each other is really really fun and funny, even on the receiving end."
Yeah so funny when your about to enter WG and end up in Theramore LOL. So your the stupid f**K who does that then? L...O...L
This is along the lines of what Jovar said. I play a Tauren Shammy on a PvP server. Love droppin Thunderstorm at the Naxx summoning stone when Alliance are around. It's a shame gnomes don't know how to fly.
lol our guilds top rouge and I (a hunter) try to see who can force the other to pull agrro first in naxx with MD and ToT really funny when we did it on patch =p
Yeh after 15 minutes of waiting for the GM to come back online on patch 25. I decided to ninja pull patch as a tank paladin. Alot of people got angry but i just said "Your too slow the lot of you!". It was sooo funny watching them
I do things like this, i remember with my gnome warlock (80- formerly in haomarush, now in drakkari) I was flying in zangarmarsh and i landed on the top of one of the murshrooms over there and i saw a very unlucky tauren hunter back down on the floor, i targetted him and threw a couple dots and watched him slowly die, when he ressed i did the same, he ressed again and i decided to be a little more mercyfull.... sorta, i decided to leave him alone but give his pet a real hard time, i killed that little tiger like 5 times without even touching the hunter, i bet that pet got angry... that little tauren never knew what was messing him up...
and with my horde hunter whenever a see an ally in combat i just stay still until he finishes up his fight and if he's weak enough i just shoot a kill shot or an explosive shot, just for the fun of imagining the other player going: dude what the fuck is your problem??? (71 belf hunter ragnaros)
Sometimes when AV goes on forever i just position myself on the bridge at DB.
I get myself some popcorn and use distract to make mounted allies run off the bridge and plunge to their deaths.
Good times.
As a Pally healer, I messed with my keybindings right b4 a fight with Grand Widow in Naxx. As I was we were getting her down to 20% (fighting achievement style) I decided to bubble/sacrifice to help with the hits our MT was taking with the enrage. That would have been a good idea except I had switched my keybinding and that key was now bound to DI. Needless to say...full wipe and the MT saying WTF over vent because he was DI'd 3 feet from the boss with everyone else dead. Luckily we were all guildies and now we just joke on every boss fight that I will not DI the MT.