When it’s happening to you, you can’t help but get carried away in the heat of the moment. I’ve realized how funny these things become in time. :D

I guess putzing with totems is what Shamans do to get ready for combat and she was unhappy that I snagged her mob. So I probably shouldn’t complain too much that while I was in combat, she started throwing spells at me until I was dead. We moved on. Sorry.

Also over the weekend I had two completely contrasting experiences that were not at all unintentional. The first was complete dickishness and the second was unexpected nobility.

I was doing South Sea Shakedown at Lost Rigger Cove, Tanaris. That was tough for me since I had just hit level 40 and about half the pirates I have to kill are levels 43-45 and pull in groups of two. Most of the time (unless both pirates were level 45), as a protection warrior, I could handle them. But they were long, close fights. I’m talking long enough that I would go through two or three cooldown cycles on Bloodrage and Disarm, i.e. the fights lasted a few minutes.

It was also a PvP intensive evening. Which, like I say, I’m fine with. Only two things bugged me. One was the several level ?? that rode by, killed me in a couple blows and rode away. Why? What do they get out of it? But we’re all used to those asshats. What really ticked me off that night was a rogue that would stealth around the pirate compound, wait until I had been in combat with the pirates a minute or so, then backstab me. The first time . . . okay, whatever. Like I say, I’m okay with PvP. I even like it. Not the fight I’d prefer, but he was only three levels higher than me, stealthing into combat is what rogues do . . . so okay. It wasn’t even unwinnable once I remembered to intimidating shout away the pirates, drop a Concussive shot on the rogue and beat down. But that only worked once. And the pirates finished me off pretty easily once they unintimidated. Every time (at least five or six, I stopped keeping track) I lost precious minutes I spent fighting pirates for no quest credit (because of course, I didn’t end up killing them) my equipment suffered durability loss (because I was in PvE combat when I died), I burned through more buff food than I needed to, and I wasted time running between graveyard and corpse.

So okay, the guy pwned me if he caught me at half life against mobs 3 or 4 levels above me. He proved it. But over and over? WTF? I tried avoiding him . . . changed up how long I waited before rezzing, rezzed and moved to a different part of the compound. Dude came after me every time. Eventually, all my armor was at yellow or red, I just rezzed at the gy and returned to Gadgetzan to repair, empty my bags and wait out rez sickness. While I was in the freakin city, I was killed twice by ?? characters. Again WTF? So you can kill someone more than 10 levels below you while he’s got rez sickness. Woo hoo. DFs.

Then the next night working on Broken Alliances in Badlands, I had a completely opposite experience. I should have expected to get killed here by higher level Alliance characters, but at least three level ??s just rode right past me on their merry way. They actually have the same quest here too (Tremors in the Earth?), the mobs around the area are level 43-45 elites and the dragons we have to kill are level 50 (non-elite). Two of them. Even having gained a level since Lost Rigger Cove, I had no business being there. But I wanted the Warforged Chestplate, wanted to try my hand against the elites (couldn’t beat the level 45s) and I’d read on wowhead that it’s possible to pull the level 50s one at a time. When they spawn, though, they both aggro onto you and I certainly couldn’t beat two level 50s. So I run back to see if I can figure out how to pull them one at a time and arrive in time to see a level 46 Human Paladin killing the two bosses I had summoned. Hmph. I mean, I don’t blame him. He’s got the same quest and there they were so what was he supposed to do, right? But then I had to go get the appropriate crystals again, the random elite dragon mobs would no doubt respawn in the meantime and could have been level 45 instead of the level 43 I managed to beat to get at the obelisk.

So I’m just standing there pondering my course of action and this Paladin motions me to follow him. Takes me back to the Obelisk, uses the crystals he spent the time gathering, resummons the black dragon bosses, lets me hit them first while they attack him, then helps me kill them. Totally classy.

Well, I was making my rounds, swooping in and out about as fast as the NPCs were rezzing in on my screen… and before I know it, I accidentally nabbed three pups in front of a priest who had his hands full with the mom. Embarrassed, I flew off, and told my wife, “Oh damn, I just ninja’d that guy’s pups.” :( And, rightfully, he called me on it. I told him it was an accident, but he didn’t seem to believe me.

I did try to redeem myself though, at least. I caught back up with him and quickly took out two of the aggro wolvars he was fighting, so he had easy access to six more pups. No idea if he actually realized I was trying to make reparations.

But anyhow, yeah, it happens.

It’s true you can… assuming it would take less time to swap weapons than it would just to take your frustrations out on the thing with your fishing pole.

Who is wielding her fishing pole.”

Not to demean the rest of the story, but… you know that you can swap out weapons while in combat, right?

Could fate be crueller – he is flagged, and an alliance paladard wanders over and starts attacking HIM!

/faceslap please!

Many a ‘LOL’ and ‘FAIL’ go up throughout our group as he is getting his buttocks handed to him by the alliance ‘hero’… luckily we weren’t flagged so could mock with that safety net!

Downside…. had to wait for another respawn… ah well, what goes around comes around!

I also managed to get my furry paws on the Blackened Dragonfin recipe. So I decide I need a couple of stacks of Angelfish for a little fish fry. I ride out to the same lake that Cassie was probably fishing at.

I pick out a nice piece of shoreline, and clear it of current occupants. As I’m baiting my hook, I notice this blood elf male swimming around in the lake, killing elementals. I’m happy about that, the more he clears, the less likely one of the elementals will come after me.

So he’s out there, bobbing in and out of the water, for about 15 minutes. I’m on the shore, killing the occasional nasty that spawns on top of me. It was all rather restful.

Suddenly, he makes a beeline across the water, straight toward me, cutting through the path of my bobber. My inner self is sighing, “Oh brother, he’s decided to grief my fishing.” But he doesn’t.

Instead he leaps from the water, sits down right at my feet, dripping on my boots he’s so close, and starts eating and drinking.

At this point I notice he’s nearly dead. Poor boy, bit off more than he could chew down there in the depths? Well, even an evil blood elf needs a break once in awhile. I smile at him and nod. Yes, he’s safe with me — no nasty spawn will get him while he’s in such a vulnerable state.

He finishes eating, gives me a hug, leaps onto his horse and rides away.

The priest proceeds to tell me how I’m a ‘rude bastard’ and shouldn’t have done that, because she spent 5 minutes clearing the area. Well in this particular quest you can click the objective to spawn the mob literally immediately after someone else kills the mob. I respond that I’m sorry, saw her drinking, and she can spawn the mob anytime, no harm done. I helped her take the mob down, and went on my way.

I’ve never ninjaed a node, never go after quest objects that despawn after taking them if someone else was there first, but if you’ve cleared the area, and there’s no harm done by me doing my quest I’m not going to hesitate to do what I need to.

Maybe the most polite thing to do would have been to ask to group, but really it’s not like this is a quest that takes a lot of effort. The mobs are weak, just a lot of running… And then again calling someone a rude bastard isn’t the most polite thing either.

# Yvii on November 17th, 2008 11:39 pm

So I just found him… and Another hunter decided it would be in his best interest to kill him for 50k experience, so he claims, instead of letting my 5 seconds left of channelling to finish and tame him.

# duniness on November 17th, 2008 11:51 pm
Yvii,

Do you remember that hunter’ name? You should absolutely call him/her out on that! That kind of jerk should be ostracized here on BRK, the O boards, TKASomething and everywhere else. There is no room for that kind of @$$ in the brotherhood of Hunters.

# Yvii on November 17th, 2008 11:52 pm

Overshot of executus

Kind of says it all.

reference post
http://www.bigredkitty.net/2008/11/17/we-refuse-to-be-jealous/#comments