The Dirtiest Tricks You’ve Pulled…
on February 6, 2010 at 11:52 amI started a thread in Reddit that has become an extremely fun conversation between players about some of the more nefarious things that everyone has done to other players. I’ll share here what I posted:
I was grinding in Teldrassil on an alt when a guy started spamming general chat like crazy begging for people to walk him through quests and find him the best grinding areas. It was clear he just wanted whatever shortcut he could find to prevent actually having to play the game.
After 45 minutes of this without any relief, I told him that there were some mobs north of Wellspring lake that were worth a lot more XP and dropped more loot.
“What are they called?”
“Oh, they’re called Snipes.”
“Snipes? What do I look for?”
“They’re cloaked, so you’ll have to get up real close to them.”
“Great, thanks!”
That shut him up for about half an hour. He was willing to waste 30 minutes trying to find a single one of these mobs rather than ding multiple levels in the same amount of time just killing normal mobs.
Do you have a story about being a bastard in World of Warcraft? Share it in Reddit or drop it in the comments here.
Back in 3.2, when ToC patterns were actually worth upwards of 6-7k each, I had joined a ToC 25 PuG. When one of these patterns dropped, the raid leader required everyone who rolled o it to link their maxed profession to prove they could use the pattern. Since I did not have that profession, I simply linked someone else’s 450 profession and won the roll, quickly turning around and making a 7k profit.
Kinda a douchebag move there, Kindan.
“Do you have a story about being a bastard in World of Warcraft? Share it in Reddit or drop it in the comments here. ”
What’s your story?
Hm…
Oh! I know:
This one time, about a year or so ago, I was running around in Barrens on one of my Hordie alts, and I kept getting harassed by this amazingly persistent Gold Farmer. After about 15 mins of this, I became cross with this Chinese sonofabitch and was about to add him to my Ignore, when I remembered that I was in Barrens, home of the infamous BARRENS CHAT. So, I fabricated a General Chat message:
[Mulgan]: Hey Barrens Chat.
[Xxgoldfarmerxx] FREE GOLD FOR EVERYONE PST NOW!!!!1!
That’s the last I heard from the gold seller. My only guess is that either he gave up at just that moment or that his chatlog became clogged with whispers from the population of Barrens chat.
During a Karazhan guild run, my character bugged out during chess and I couldn’t move so I tried ice blocking and I kept the invulnerability debuff on accident. So we go to kill Netherspite, by then I have realized that I can’t pull aggro due to the buff, so I run to Netherspite, hear the RL screaming on vent “WTF ARE YOU DOING STOP OMG.” I ran up within melee range of the boss, gave spite a hug, and laughed as my RL was clueless.
In ICC, we were headed to marrowgar and the rouges could only find two of the traps, and so the RL was like “Be careful for traps.” I then did /yell I awaken! and the RL says “shit” and everyone runs to where the mobs would’ve activated and they realized, was quite funny.
Eh…I’m not really known for being much of a bastard in WoW, as I typically go above and beyond to help people out. That being said, being a helper will get the attention of those who merely wish to leech. I had one day where I was collecting holiday eggs in the belf start area and a newbie comes running up to me. Apparently, he thought lvl 85 means that I’m loaded with money (anyone who knows me knows I’m terrible and spend it the moment I had it.)
He whispered me for a gold, and I ignored him as normally did anyone asking for money. Well, after five more minutes of continuous begging, I said ‘What do you need it for?’ ‘I need to learn my new skill.’ I thought for a moment and said ‘Tell you what, I’ll follow you around while you quest, and once you level up, I’ll give you that gold.’ He was all for it, and once he turned in that final quest to level up and asked for the gold I said ‘Well lookie there, all that time you spent bugging me for money, you could have been questing and made it. Have fun with that hard earned silver.”