Comments on: The lesson – don’t be going afk in a raid!

By: Messyah

Messyah — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:35:12 +0000

Best MD trick I pulled was outside of TK instance stone. I asked a complete stranger (Priest) to join my party so they could help me summon, and as soon as they did, I MD’d 2 warpstalkers and a windserpent on them and feigned. They were NOT pleased. LOL – Of course, I paid for his repairs and we lauged about it later.

By: Asara

Asara — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:31:18 +0000

Awesomeness, lol!! I did something similar as a prank in a heroic Arc run once.. The event was instigated by my CL, so I was just following orders! (lol) Our pally tank went afk, and the other 3 people left the instance. I MD’ed the voidwalker boss onto the tank, and feigned. He dropped like a stone, and everyone else came back in. When he got back from his AFK, we told him that he had aggroed the boss and wiped us. He didn’t even check his log to see if we died, as far as I could tell! He was soooo sorry, he felt so bad, lol!!

I felt like a little kid leaving a flaming bag of poo on someone’s porch.. it was great! :)

By: HolyWarrior

HolyWarrior — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:57:08 +0000

Hahhaa.

I think maybe he would have auto-logged anyway after 5 minutes and it was just coincidence that he went 5 mins after you killed him – still hilarious though!

According to Doofy’s Shattered Halls Sit in of 2007 (http://doofythepaladin.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/the-great-shattered-halls-sit-in-of-07/) if you’re in an instance with an ID you don’t get the release after 5 minutes.

Irregardless (just to annoy certain bloggers) the story gave me a chuckle to start the day off well!! Keep up the goodwork B^3

By: dorgol

dorgol — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:11:48 +0000

Um… the release timer doesn’t appear when you are in an instance.

By: Bellwether

Bellwether — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:59:51 +0000

BBB and Legatum Ignavis ftw!

By: tessy

tessy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:31:24 +0000

Yes, I know…I am a cosmic worrier, and when people go afk like that when they are supposed to be there (unless they are chronic afk’ers) I worry. But worrying doesn’t stop me from getting irritated at them, and I think you did just right to remove him from your raid like you did :-)

And I will definitely remember this sweet way of removing afk’ers. Also wish there was some way to speed up a transfer of group leadership as well, for those times when its the group leader that has gone afk or dc’d and you stand there with a half-cleared instance and you are unable to kick the absentee and replace him.

Gratz to downing Gruul btw :-)

By: Kal

Kal — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:56:30 +0000

Awesome. I wish we had known that; we would’ve kicked an afker in gruul this way instead of waiting 15 min for the offline despawn.

I’m kinda astounded by the amount of afking there. Seriously. The trash had time to actually respawn? There’s like what, 4 pulls! I can see getting distracted on the SSC trash or the TK trash leading to loot reaver, but…4 small pulls! Wow. You must’ve been pulling your hair out.

By: Adonik

Adonik — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:27:31 +0000

What a story, I’m sharing this entry with the guild. LOL!

By: Matticus

Matticus — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:53:15 +0000

Excellent choice of Anti AFK measures!

By: Nightravyn

Nightravyn — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:53:16 +0000

hahaha okay much love for that… :D