So I decide to take a break from the rat race of getting my tankadin to L80 and decide to roll a death knight (not a death kn00b, keep in mind as having OT’d Kara I do appreciate the tank’s role properly). Gnome, of course, recognizing the bent appeal of having 30 feet of anger in a 3-foot tall package, pigtails bobbing as she annihilates some poor schlub of a mob Yoda-style with a two-hander…

So I finish the quest chain and run the Stormwind gauntlet of fruit flinging, even with one player, a clothie (I think it might have been a mage but it’s been so long I’ve forgotten; I do remember it was a female toon), doing the /spit at me. I take it in stride, thinking it was just adding to the versimilitude of the Hated Death Knight Having Found Redemption And Now Asking For Forgiveness segment of the story. But, you say, if it’s getting mentioned here, there’s more, isn’t there?

This trick takes it too far. She -actually followed me almost to the gates of Stormwind Keep,- /spitting all the way. And that’s when I get the whisper: “Learn to play a real class.” Before I can reply by quoting one of the gnome female /silly’s (“I’d like to apologize profusely for any hard feelings my murderous rampage may have caused”), the B!0t$# puts me on /ignore!

/facedesk

/head desk

So I hit Shadowmeld and let him have aggro before getting my tablet.

If you answered yes to 2 or more of these questions (tee hee) then you were last night’s healer in Utguard.

Nothing against his/her healing abilities, or their sense of humour… it was when they logged right after they didn’t win the blue drop off a boss – i don’t even remember what the item was, but it did have 15 mp5 so i guess it was the Holy Grail of drops for him/her…… the roll went down between 2 players… both ligitimate candidates for said item…. and when healer was outrolled we all gz’d the guy who did win it and then suddenly we were a healer short!

I mean COME ON! You want it all huh!? you want everyone to just hand over the item?? Is that it?

Ah well, 3 minutes later we had a new healer, one who was older than 2, and we then proceeded to clear the instance with no further tantrums.

I wish i remembered her/him name to shame in public….

Ah well :) eyes peeled!

We were just all hanging out, chatting over Vent, questing, etc. just having a good time. We were a very social, very close knit Guild.

So there we are, getting ready to try to tag the Named Wyrm as soon as we saw it spawn but before that happened…the 70 Hordie flagged himself.

My fellow Guildies were incredulous, but it took about 2 seconds of discussion over Vent before someone yelled “GET HIM!!!” (It might have been me ;)

Yes, we were only low 60s, but there was five of us and just one of him.

The truly hilarious moment was the 60 trying to help his Guildmate just before he died. Yep, flagging himself as well. He didn’t live long either ;)

And now, so did he.

No good deed goes unpunished, right?”

I had this happen to me in Eastern plaguelands once. I came out of the tunnel that runs down on the western side and I see this druid jumping frantically behidn this house structure that backs up to a hill. So I jump over to where they are and I ask “what are you doing?” She replies “I’ve been stuck here for the past few minutes, I can’t find a way out.” Next thing you know there are two druids jumping around trying to find a way out. We did finally inch our way up the hill and out, your story just reminded me of how misery often finds company.

http://boomtank.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/boom-splat/

http://www.shieldsup.ch/2008/11/21/facepalm-not-so-muchyet/

On Scalawag Point, I came up to the end of the questline requiring a named mob kill on one of the ships. While waiting for my turn to tag him, a Tauren hunter offers me a group. Of course my first message is “Good idea”, to which he responds “I do have a lot of those you know “. I come back with “Well it’s not like you just found the cure to cancer :)”. Well that got the ball rolling.

What followed was one of the funniest impromptu RP conversations I have had in a long while (on a PvE server no less), all in pretentious pseudo-medical jargon as we searched for the cure to cancer drop. We finished the questline (which required a group by chance) and went our seperate ways. But times like this renew my faith in the Multiplayer portion of MMO.

Negative moment:

Nothing specific. Just an avid dislike of AoE grinders.

His response? “lol i can kill him solo”

*facepalm*

Seriously, way to miss the entire point of the invite. And, I’m sorry to say, this sort of thing increases my distrust of the random hunters I run into. Yes, I know, there are a lot of nice hunters, I know several and I’m sure the hunters that care enough to read WoW-related blogs are effective in their class as well (knowledge is power! :D)…but there seem to be a metric f-ton of idjit hunters like this guy. :/

Something that made ME look like an ass… I’d sort of idled by a questgiver as I was doing other things, my attention only partially on the game. A fellow ran up with a mob chasing him and had to fight the mob before dealing with the questgiver. After a moment it vaguely dawned on my that it was taking him an awfully long time to kill just one guy. I took a closer look and realized it was a prot pally. Before I could jump in and speed the death process he finally offed the mob. I felt terrible…especially having leveled a protection-specced paladin through several levels in the past and knowing how annoyingly slow a single mob can be to kill. :/