WoWinsider has a funny article up by Amanda Rivera about the Life Lessons of WoW. In it, she mentions learning the hard way one should not activate Autorun in Zul’farak. Two articles later, Arther Orneck chimes in with “Time for Plan B“.
Since the theme of the morning seems to be learning from our mistakes, the hard way, I have a perfect story for you. ;)
Now, back when I first started playing WoW, I was faced with that most critical of decisions, and armed with too little information: What the hell class should I play?
My initial desire was to play a Hunter.
Now remember, we’re talking two years ago. I had just installed this massive multi-disc program onto my computer, configured my account, downloaded the eternal patches, and was faced with the very first choice after server – a blank character creation screen.
What the hell do I know about the classes?
I read the stuff in the manual that came with the game, and the little sidebar blurbs that come up when you choose a combo. And Hunters sounded very fun. You get a pet, and kittys can be your pet. A pet kitty that fights with you! What’s not to like!
Ah, but then there is the Druid…. you don’t GET a pet kitty, you ARE the pet kitty! Oh, hell yeah! That’s for me!
And thus are the great decisions of life made. The mental image of a cat, running stealthily through the grass, stirring nothing in her passing, much like the shadow of the passing wind, gave me a name that was suitably RP enough for a former GURPS player with delusions of creativity. Logging in… and we’re off!
Now, just around hitting level 20 – 21, and getting my cat form, I took my first steps in looking for more information on what the hell kind of gear I was supposed to use. I’d check the Auction House, and there would be this gear with +Spirit, +Agility, +Strength… which one is what I’M supposed to pick? Why doesn’t Blizz just say so? There’s 5 million subscribers to this game, SOMEONE must have asked this question before, damn it!
And thus began my first trip to the WoW Community Forums… where I shortly therafter fled in terror at this new thing, called the ‘forum troll’.. a creature that apparently takes pleasure and delight in being as offensive as possible, in the hopes of getting a rise out of someone. If you got offended and responded, apparently, they won. Won what, I didn’t wait to find out.
My brief jaunt did gave me the idea that I should choose +Agility gear, because 1 point of Strength = 2 Attack Power… but 1 point of Agility also = 2 Attack Power, and gave bonuses to critical strike chance, dodge, and armor as well. So, when given a choice, I clearly should be choosing Agility, and only adding Strength when Agi wasn’t an option. And from the impressions I had, I only needed 1 set of gear for my feral adventuring anyway, and one set for healing!
Fast forward almost 6 months, to level 57-58.
My gear to this date has been chosen following those dimly remembered guidelines. I’m having fun playing the game, I’m kicking ass, and I am NOT going anywhere outside the game for news or info except to Thottbot or Kalibans’ Class Loot Lists, and that is just to help guide me on where to adventure or what quests to do next that give me rewards.
And one day, as I’m pondering some of the choices that Kalibans’ list is presenting as top feral Druid gear, and comparing it to mine, it occurs to me to wonder why they are stressing Strength gear so much over Agility.
Older at this point, and wiser in the ways of the WoW, I start doing a more focused investigation of Druid preferred stats and abilities.
And it is only then, in my mid to high 50s, that I found a little snippet of info somewhere…
That told me I was 100% wrong in my baseline assumptions of gear. That in all forms, Druids gain 2 Attack Power per 1 point of Strength… and in CAT FORM ONLY, Druids gain 1 Attack Power per point of Agility. And Heart of the Wild, dumbass, improves Strength, not Agility, for a reason..
/cower
Overnight I went and re-evaluated all my gear, and began making my choices based on a more balanced mix of Strength for AP and Agi for dodge and crit. And sadly, I just about doubled my AP at the time. /sigh
If I ever start thinking I know what the hell I’m doing, all I have to do is think about that feeling I got of pure “DOH!!!”, and it brings me right the heck back to reality.
Does anyone else have a favorite “Oh, damn, that was stupid” choice or action they’d like to share? Feel free to make me feel better :)
Ok, this is Mrs. BBB here. I’m a very new player to the game (about a month now) after swearing that I would never ever play “that damn game” (but that’s a story for another day). :-)
BBB has already posted my first big oops moment a few days into the game when I pulled an elite bad guy toward me because I didn’t know about elites at all (that’s BBB’s fault!) and didn’t know they were MUCH more powerful than the level shows.
My second and more hilarious one happened the other night. I had spent an hour or so in the morning mindlessly fishing to level up that skill. Then in the evening, I decided to do some quests in Westfall. Headed out into the fields and encountered a Fleshstripper bird. Started wacking on it as I usually do to quickly kill them and instead, of him dying quickly, I was taking a ton of damage. Checked quickly and nope, not an elite, what’s going on here? And then as I hit slice and dice and watch my character, I go oops, realize my mistake, hit sprint and get the heck out of there to fix my problem.
Note to all of you – after fishing, remember to re-equip your actual weapons before fighting because swinging a fishing pole at even a low level bad guy doesn’t do much damage. LOL
Lol@ Mrs. BBB
Those darn fishing poles don’t do tons of damage.
My big ooops was 30 or so levels in. I was a real casual player and determined that I wasn’t going to do a bunch of research on the internet. As a hunter, I was stacking agility and strength equally b/c in the stats they both add to your damage. I didn’t realize that strength added to my melee and agility to my ranged! Also, I hadn’t learned to use my pet as a tank. I would shoot the mobs as much as I could until they reached me and then my pet and I would both melee the mob to death. Teehee! Huntard at his finest!
-Shurlitimpul
My main is a hunter. Generally, I’m a very good hunter, but…
One of the orc racial abilities is called something like “Blood Fury.” It reads: “When activated, increases attack power and spell damage/healing by an amount based on level/class for 15 seconds, and decreases healing done to the user by 50% for 25 seconds. The cooldown is 2 minutes.”
Pretty sweet, right? (Especially for a ranged DPS class who has a pet-tank to keep aggro off them — the damage boost is noticable.)
Yeah…
I was LEVEL FIFTY before I realized that that ability upped my ranged damage as well as my melee damage.
For fifty levels, I had been using it only when something when wrong and I had to switch to melee.
And I didn’t even FIGURE IT OUT, really — I hit the button by accident during a ‘normal’ fight and noticed my bow damage spiked.
Heh. I had to point out to a friend the other day that she was about to go into combat wielding her complimentary Brewfest mug …
I can’t think of any favorite “oops moment” meself. It ain’t that I never get the dumb, it’s just that they all blur together. Throwin’ out quest items items to make room in me packs, charging the sapped mob, putting up primals on the auction block with the minimum bid still at 1 silver. Ya know the stuff.
I guess me favorite oops was one what I didn’t recognize as such until months later. I was a young warrior and had started using a leveling guide. At one point it says ta kill lions in Hillsbrad until ya gets a fresh carcass, which ya then use ta summon some uber-yeti. So I starts killin’ lions. And killin’. And killin’. I gained an entire level off of dem lions, and it didn’t get a single fresh carcass. The freak is up with this? I asks meself. I complained of the unfairness of life to all on the guild channel. Finally I gave up and went to Stranglethorn or somesuch.
Months later, I’m picking up quests in Thunderbluff so I can get me rep up for a Kodo mount, and I turn one quest in and the guy gives me a follow-up quest to kill lions to get a carcass to summon the uber-yeti. Oops. No wonders I couldn’t get the drop before …
Oh god, those are just great.
Ratshag, you made me remember another one…
I made a noobling orc rogue on my server once, I was gonna play some hordies with my friend as a way to relieve pre-BC boredom.
And someone told me that I could trade gold from my alliance main to my horde alt by posting an item in the cross-faction auction house….
I screwed it up not one but two ways. See if you can figure out what I did wrong….
I was still an enchanter, so I took a stack of 20 Large Brilliant Shards that were cluttering up the bank, and I rode down to Booty Bay and put the stack on the shared AH for 1 silver, figuring I could then log in on my alt, buy them for one silver, and post them on the normal AH in hordie land for about 10 gold each….
Can you see it? Are you laughing yet?
:)
First… you can’t buy an auction from yourself. Try it sometime. You post an item in the AH on one character, then log in another. The game tells you that you can’t buy from yourself.
Second…. somebody using bottomscanner saw that I had a stack of 20 glorious Large Brilliant Shards up for 1 silver and snatched them up in a millisecond.
I made some hordie a VERY VERY happy person that day.
After about 30 seconds of engaging my brain for the first time that day, it occured to me that what I should have done was have my ALT post something worthless, like a fish or a minor mana potion on the Auction House for some utterly ridiculous price like 200 gold… and then hand an alliance friend 200 gold and have them buy it…
I never did that though because I was too embarassed at being that stupid in the first place. I abandoned that orc and never looked back.
Oh, I have too many to tell. Let me count the times I’ve forgotten to accept a follow-on quest after reading it from the quest-giver. On a dozen different characters, a dozen or more times each. (To be fair to myself, I know I’ve hit the accept button … right after a groupmate hit it, which resets the quest-giver.) *cry*
But the best is my rogue who was a 300+ tailor. Look…we needed bags…I needed a profession… (He’s since reformed: Mining & Jewelcrafting @ 375, after retraining in his 60s.)
I recently commented on my biggest blunder on my blog but will gladly retell here for the masses :)
My first toon was a paladin, human, waaaaayy back in the day before the AH were in all major cities. At this time if you wanted an AH you went to IF.
I made it to level 25 without ever seeing the AH. I had no idea how to get there. I saw gnomes/dwarves/night elves in my land and knew that somehow there was a way but had no idea how.
I had recently come from Final Fantasy Online and in that game such massive runs were commonplace. I figured that I could do it here too, so I took my level 25 paladin and ran him from SW – Redridge – Burning Steppes – Searing Gorge – Badlands – Loch Modan – Dun Morough – and finally to IF.
It was a looooong run, filled with many breaks and I almost reached the point where I quit. I logged a few times as a ghost only to come back, res, make it 4 or 5 steps and die again….
Yea… A big blunder… All I had to do was ask and someone could have told me about the tram :)
Wildhermit, your story reminds me of one of my big blunders early on. Phaelia was my first character and is a Night Elf Druid. Since I started in the Darnassus area, I knew I wouldn’t have access to the Auction House. Unfortunately, someone told (or I somehow got the idea) that the neutral auction house was the only auction house and that I’d have to travel all the way to Booty Bay to use it – yeah, I even got the city wrong. I spent three or four hours getting to Booty Bay and, upon arriving in Booty Bay, I was told I had to go to Gadgetzan. I hearthed back to Auberdine to start over (>.< ) since I heard that was at least on the same continent. And when I finally arrived, all I found was miscellaneous quest pieces that one faction couldn't use and a bunch of stupid non-combat pets. T_T
In my defense, this was all during the first month of the game’s release. =)
lol, I was a complete noob when my husband and I started playing. He wanted to be a rogue, so I picked a druid as it seemed to complement the rogue well. About all we knew was something a friend had said that we shouldn’t buy eq as quests would get us everything we needed.
At first we rolled on a PVP server (no real reason), but got quickly annoyed at the people that would “steal our kills” (not knowing the first blow, and not the last determined who got the exp), and the chat in the noob area. So we rerolled on another server – this time an RP one, thinking we’d get a better group of people.
In our late teens, still wearing greys, whites, and the occasional green, and had no idea the AH existed. We attempted to duo instances, having no clue what the whole dungeon thing was about. We actually downed the first boss in VC. Stockades was tougher, we couldn’t seem to get past the trash.
Still wearing some greys (apparently quests don’t supply all needs) in our twenties, we met up with a person that was to shape the rest of our careers. He taught us about eq, grouping, dungeons, flight points, AH’s, websites, EVERYTHING.
I don’t even remember now exactly how we met, but I owe so much to him in becoming a better player.
Possibly the biggest noob thing we did was rolling on an US EST server, when the time difference isn’t just a few hours – it’s a whole DAY and a few hours. We had no idea what “end game raiding” was, let alone what the server time difference would mean to raiding aspirations. But we’ve made a few too many friends to shift servers easily.
Had my share of dumb actions aswell.. altho i did study wow-sites so figured out quite a bit soon enough luckily.
One of the more classic Hunters Oops moments is probably jumping down from somewhere with my pet on follow and then go see it round around, chased by packs of mobs. o.O
Sold blue drops for 50silver instead of 50gold because of selecting the wrong window at the Auction House.
Pulling two Corehounds instead of just one.. more of that basic stuff i suppose :)
Gus:
I remember a time (in my defense I was tired) after finishing a group of mobs I confidently approached the next group to sap one only to see how they all charged me since I had forgotten to stealth first :P
Ah, yes, the AH. My first adventures on a PvP server were on a Troll hunter who had skinning and LW for profs. Good start!
Soloable? Check!
Complimentary Profs? Check!
Money makers? Check!
I sold everything I made to vendors and stopped when Fine Leather Tunics didn’t cover the cost of the mats. Dang, I’ll just have to make some lower level stuff that’ll cover the mats.
It was only later on that I found out the 3 silver I was getting from the vendor was a pittance compared to the 75s – 1G that I could command on the AH.
I’m not sure how much gold I lost out on….
So many wonderful moments to be had in WoW that make you question your ranking on the IQ bell curve…
I remember taking my rogue engineer to Gnomeregan one fine day. I had just learned to make the Gnomish Universal Remote and hey, what better place to give it a whirl? Barely into the instance, on the rim of the first big room with the long, long drop, I took control of an unfortunate mechanical mob and commanded him to hurl himself off the edge.
The fact that the drop was not sufficient to kill him didn’t make itself apparent until about two minutes later – when the angry jumper, and every friend he could collect on his way back up from the bottom floor, finally arrived back at the top to show me, and the rest of my group, the error of my ways.
Was thinking about my most “oops” moment and decided that I wanted to share what was sure a sort of oops moment but of a slightly different kind.
I started this game in January -out of accident and some free trial stunt by Blizz.
Started a human warrior (focused on how much armour each piece of gear was getting me :). Got bored, started a undead lock -got disgusted! Started a NELF hunter and really liked it :) Well until level 30 I was mostly annoyed by other peeps /w when they happened -was thinking “leave me alone just here to play abit, not to socialize”.
Well at about lvl 30 I hooked up with some guy to finish a q I couldnt do myself. Ended up with him inviting me into his guild. Very sceptically I accepted.
But being in the guild was just some background noice to me, I saw the GC but did not take part, dont know if I knew how to :)
And this continued up to lvl 51!! :) And that was when my “oops” moment came!
Some experienced players had been talking about some attunement for some Onyxia thingy-majingy in GC for awhile and on the day they had a spot in their groups and I happened to be online. So ofc it came -”Hey Seb, u wanna come??”
Not knowing better I said sure (cause one of the guys seemed like a real nice guy)!
We proceeded to do about half of the ony attunement q’s taking us into LBRS, winterspring, SW and so on. All the while with me on my lvl 51 hunter working as a sweet aggromagnet:). I think I played for 6 hours straight, glued to the screen, trying to understand all the advice and instructions coming on party chat.
After I logged off I was feeling great! I had had more fun in that evening then the rest of my wow time put together up to that point.
And that’s when I felt -oops, this is what this game is about :)
To speed things along, I usually freefall from Aldor Rise and transform just before hitting the cold stone below. I still havn’t learned the correct distance correlation – so this is a constant oops…
Back in my newbie days of being a druid, I managed to fall off the world tree itself. Boy was that a long, long fall. I’m not sure if it was out of pure curiousity, or more because I wanted to get off the bloody tree and go somewhere nicer. (Seriously, the quests there stink.) Upon dying, I was brought to the Spirit Healer (mind you this was my first death too!) and tried to get back to my corpse. I had no idea what she was, though I wish I had sooner. I spent hours trying to get back to my corpse, and my poor little wisp died from fatigue trying to return. I think I logged out at one point, even stopped playing for a night or two, only to come back to the trade channel and have some nice higher levels explain the uses of the graveyard. =)
lol @ Erestel :). My best moment of stupidity in game was when I decided to level fishing up. I was sitting there in Stormwind, just casting my lines, chatting away, remarking how slow the process was to my pals in guild chat with them just agreeing. After about an hour, one of them asked me “So, Sar, what level is the fishing at now?”… “Um… 1 still *sigh*”… “1?!?! How on earth is it still at 1?” I had no idea, I explained I had been casting for ages but nothing seemed to be happening…
“You do know you have to click the bobber, don’t you?”
“……. Doh”
One time I sent a petition to a a GM, several times, this was right after 2.4 came out, an I thought that something in the new patch had screwed me over, since for some reason, I was only doing 90% of my damage. After several weeks of this, I finally got in contact with a GM, who’s first question is “Are you in defensive stance?”
………
Doh….
I too accidentaly discovered the lack of DPS Produced by my the 2H Fishing Pole with Shiny Baubles. I was fishing in Ashenvale when a nice friendly Undead Rogue found me and decided I didn’t need to be fishing in his stream and wanted to Spar with me against my will (PvP Server). Also my 1st introduction to being Sapped… Maybe that was what encouraged me to shoot at every Rogue I now see…..
IMO Blizz definately needs to nerf that DPS… I Have been smacked by 2H Fishing Poles in RL…. and that $h1t HURTS! Have you ever been smacked by a Shiny Bauble? a.k.a Fishing Lure? THEY HURT TOO!! Hmm… Shiny Bauble – Adds +75 Fishing Skill and DPS to the 2H Fishing Pole… I Wonder… can I use an Adamantite Weightstone on the Fishing pole?
My big “Oops” moment was just a few days ago and had nothing to do with fishing. We were at Maiden in kara and me, being a Resto Druid, was checking the gear drops and hoping for the Shard to drop. I was also talking to my fiancee about something and paying a little attention in game as I was already ready at that point. Over vent, I hear our radi leader say “Ok, we’re starting in 3,2,1…go” and I click out of my inventory and move into position, only to realize our tank hasn’t moved yet and the big white woman in front of me is focusing her attention on me and isn’t happy… Oops. Apparently, the tank had something to say real quick before we started and that’s why he hadn’t run in.
So now I’ve coined the phrase “Tree tank ftw” in my guild.
When I was leveling up my night elf druid, I went into Stormwind (it was hell getting there from Darnassus just for some quest rewards, believe me.) to get some training. Oh, shit, there’s a Horde raid group in town. I walk around, knowing they can’t attack me, and hoping they left the Park alone. I was clumsy with my mouse and when I held right click to turn around and walk to the park, my middle finger slipped off and I smacked the level ?? Tauren Shaman with my staff for 15 damage.
Aw, balls. He turns around, smacks me with his mace and frostshocks me. I was dead, and flagged for PVP inside a city filled with Horde. “Oops,” I told my guild. “KEK,” the Tauren yells, and the idiot paladin beside him says “kek” and teabags me.
Another oops moment for me was when I realized Naturalist increases damage /given/, not taken. I messed around with my spec for 10 minutes, freeing up enough points for Naturalist.
I remember thinking I could kill anything by rooting it long enough and nuking it. This was when I was around 17 and to prove my point to myself i decided to try it out on the dwarves outside of uldaman (since it was right by loch modan where I was questing). Needless to say they were marked with a skull… but I had no clue what that meant and comeon with roots they wouldn’t be able to touch me… so ya. A few resists and a smack accross the head made me realize I wasn’t quite that uber.
Oh and even though I leveled feral my gear was allways a mix of every stat not because I wanted to be a hybrid but because it required a higher level and was leather…
my real ‘Christ im stupid’ moment came when i was about 60. i never ran instances while lvling, so when i got to outlands a friend invited me to his guild where i learned about the wonderful world of ramps, BF etc. where i learned i MUST tern off growl (after an embarrassing dressing down from my gm). we got to the end with a few wipes and i was feeling good. so i thought id go test some of my new kit, after about half a hour of frustration at pulling aggro of my pet (man these new gloves are AWESOME) and dying enough times to make me contemplate Hari Kiri, i realized growl was still turned off ”doh” indeed.
Whats really upsetting is i still forget from time to time
Heh. Lot of nice stories here. My horribad moment came when i hit level 62, I think. First character, NE rogue, feeling pretty cool in Outland. Doing somewhat ok dps for my level, certainly topping the chart (yeah, I read that post too:). Ran Blood Furnace with a rogue a few levels higher, and he totally beasts me. No idea what i was doing wrong, I mean we had more or less similar gear.
As it turns out, subtlety-spec spamming sinister strike with a 1.5-speed dagger isn´t exactly optimal :(
I was questing in Felwood with a buddy one day when we came across a poor NE npc trapped inside a cage. She beseeches us to free her from her prison, and we go about pwning mobs till her key drops.
We get back to her cage and I open up my bags in search of the key– and it’s not there? What the heck? So I tell my buddy and he opens a ticket, and we go about killing more stuff trying to get the key to drop while we wait for a reply.
About a half hour later a gm responds. His first question is “Did you look on your keyring?”
… Oops.
In my defense, this was soon after the keyring was released. >_<
When I read the initial journal post I could only remember one Ooops moment of my own, and thought “C’mon, I’ve done plenty of stupid things in my time, surely I should have tonnes of material for this!”… Having read through so many of other people’s comments and realised I did those things too, I wish I could forget them all again! xD
I too spent half an hour fishing in Auberdine at level 12 to no avail until some passing kind soul stopped and watched me for a minute, then whispered me saying “You do know you’re supposed to click on that little thing when it splashes, right?”. I made my embarassed thanks and have since had a fruitful fishing career!
On my first day playing WoW, on a druid I made on my brother’s account to see what all the fuss was about, I fell off of Teldrassil and couldn’t revive at my corpse because the wisp kept falling past it too fast… I ended up phoning my brother saying “I’m floating around on the Veiled Sea” as if that would help him figure out exactly where I was and how I could get back up to the graveyard… He eventually got me to Rut’theran, but he aged a few years in the process!
I have also done the “fight with your fishing pole”, “try to buy own items on neutral AH and lost the item because of it”, “pulled half of gnomeregan by aggroing a mob downstairs and watching him run to me via the rest of the instance” and “run up to an enemy ready to Sap, then realising I forgot to Stealth as the whol group ganks me in 3 seconds” mistakes.
My more unique, and certainly biggest Ooops moment, was when I was 60, pre-TBC. I’d been raiding with my guild for ages, and had cleared MC and part of BWL. We were just recovering from another wipe and getting ready to try again, when I hit a button on my Necrosis add-on that, I thought, would cast Life Tap… Nothing happened. I kept clicking and clicking, somehow not realising that the whole time the cast bar was slowly casting at the bottom of the screen. I started to type “Damnit, my mod’s not working” but was cut off half way – the button in question was actually set to Hearthstone, and I was now standing in Ironforge as “OK, everyone into positions” came across raid chat. I completely missed the next attempt as I flew, rode and jogged back to the group, feeling like I was level 1 again. Everyone was surprisingly forgiving, and let me off… Though until the day that guild split up it was a running joke before major boss attempts for my class leader to remind me in Warlock chat not to run away if I got too scared! xD
Deadmines, forge room, tab target + pet = bad.
Deadmines, pirate ship, tab target + bridge + pet = bad.
My early WTF moments..
Tho i turned deadmines into a valuable training tool when I was a guild leader. As noobs would join the guild, I would take them on a VC run (if they were 18-25) so I could observe their listening skills. The instruction to stay on the outside wall, and visually check all targets before shooting helped me determine who was capable of paying attention more than 20 seconds. The instruction to not step onto the platform, helped me determine who the real idiots were and could put them on the list. .. ohh shiny.. ack an engineer!
more recently, playing a druid for hours on end at lvl 70, I then switched over to my hunter and do my usual jump + flight form dive off aldor tower.. wait.. hunter doesn’t have … splat
Altitis.. it’s a killer.
I have only been playing for about 9 months, but have managed to do most of the “oopses” listed above… my personal favourite was getting to level 35 (yes….. 35) on my hunter Aliora without teaching my pet to growl. Oops indeed.
Just did the dumbest thing in arena tourney…(which I’m horrible at btw)…Myself = Moonking with a Survival Hunter buddy fighting Resto Druid and Warlock. They were giving us a heck of a time but we started beating them down.
Then we had them on the ropes – Lock is just about dead!
My buddy tells me over voice that he’s got a big kill shot coming on the warlock, the Resto is cycloned. The shot is coming, the cyclone is about to drop off the resto…so I warm up a second cyclone to re-CC him. But, of course, I managed to cc the lock (damn you tab target!). Shot goes off and hits him immune. Resto hits the lock with a huge heal the second the cyclone drops and they come back and stomp the stuffing out of both of us.
We decided to hang it up for the evening after that.
Discovered PVP on an RP server when I buffed the guards in Auberdine while the Horde were attacking.
Tried to run into a Horde camp in Ashenvale thinking I had discovered an new Alliance town.
Rode off the cliff [many times] to my death after mounting on my saber instead of my gryphon.
I had just finished baking a batch of yummy bread when my warlock suddenly keeled over and died. My initial thought was “some Alliance douchebag dotted me” and I started scanning the nearby area. Then someone told me that I just made his day by literally “dying in a fire”.
Remember, kids: check your portrait for signs of damage when using the default UI, and never stand in a void zone or in a fire :)
was lvl 79 and killn this elite for a quest. Decided i would stealth up behind him in kitty form and get the jump on him!
So im creepn in for the kill.. lookn around for alliance.. gettn close then BAM! The elite knocks the crap out of me! i didnt just forget to stealth,
i forgot to go kitty 8p
So it was my first instance run as a huntard, heading into shadowfang.. it was NOT my first char! We were doing really good, i was enjoying dpsing a lot after playing half a year of warrior tank. But suddenly i noticed my cat wasnt there (got carried away dpsing prolly)… tried to revive… it said my cat is alive.. called her.. nothing … must be some bug, nevermind. About a minute later we were about to hit the first boss in this big hall… i see my kitty coming outside the gate dragging like a dozen mobs behind her running up the big hall and turning around to the stairs… we had a good 20 seconds to look at my kitty speeding towards us untill impact… surely i must have wrote something like “oops” before we all died horribly.