Ask WoW Insider: Great ding stories?
by Barb Dybwad 
Aug 17th 2007 at 3:45PM
Welcome one and all to this week's edition of Ask WoW Insider, wherein your questions are published for the public to answer. Last week we looked at optimizing rep grinding, and this week we turn our attention to a more nostalgic question -- what's your best "ding!" story? Obron from Zangarmarsh (ICftB reprazent!) writes: I was thinking, that it always makes my friends laugh when I tell them how I ding'd 70, by discovering a forge camp in Blade's Edge while running by it.Any fun or interesting stories to tell about hitting the level cap? Or more generally, any memorable or unusual dings at any level?
Does anybody have some entertaining or funny stories about when they hit 60 or 70?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
dekulink Aug 17th 2007 3:49PM
I play Alliance. My plan was to hit 60 by discovering Orgrimmar, and to hit 70 by discovering Silvermoon. Well, I hit 60 by turning in a quest in Honor Hold (I did savor the moment of presing the butt though, and I let my guild know.)
I WILL hit 70 by discovering Orgrimmar. MARK MY WORDS!
Russel Aug 17th 2007 3:50PM
I'm always a fan of when I've been a particularly difficult pull and had some adds that would make it near impossible to survive, and then right at about 10% health dropping one, dinging the next level and being back to full health/mana and pulling it off. :)
Rob Aug 17th 2007 3:57PM
Not sure if this is the type of story you want, but recently my guild-mate and I had a contest to see who could level to 50 the fastest. It got to the point that we were both 49 one night, playing very late. My guildie kept saying how close he was, something like half a bar. At 3am, and 10ish bars off, i conceded and bid him good night. Surprisingly when i logged in the next morning, i found he was still 49. So i ground mobs for a bit. Then he logs in. At this point I was very close to dinging, and i mention the fact. He didn't believe me. Then I dinged. Massive cows ensued. It was great! Something added to the tedium of leveling anyway.
Karl Aug 17th 2007 3:58PM
My buddy was on his horde toon, and I was on my Alliance (both of us on Skype mouthing off to each other). We were stealing each others kills, when I put a dot on one of his mobs he began to attack. He had to kill it with me getting the XP. I dinged 70 on my Warlock because of him.
Arras Aug 17th 2007 4:04PM
My favorite dings are in instances, particularly in the middle of tough/botched pulls. The best was in Strat at level 57 or so, accidentally pulled 2 groups and adds got out of control. We somehow managed to get most of the adds down and DING! I get all my hp and mana back and help finish off the rest of the group.
Midore Aug 17th 2007 4:05PM
I thought it was funny when my NE druid hit 49 while she was dead. (I was talking to the Ghost north of the Gadget GY as part of the Linken chain.) =)
haiduk Aug 17th 2007 4:09PM
I dinged 70 killing fel boars in SMV, blasting "Live to Win"
Azriel Aug 17th 2007 4:09PM
When my Tuaren Warrior was getting ready to ding 40 in Desolace I had just overpulled and had 3 mobs on me, I fought it out and was just about to finish the last mob off when a couple alliance 33 and 35 roll up and saw me about to die, so they do what alliance do and started to come at me. I thought for sure I was dead when I saw the mage start casting his little fireball at me but just as the last mob went down "ding" 40 Full health Full rage bar. Followed shortly by 2 dead alliance :). Best part was when they saw me ding and started running away.
khorin Aug 17th 2007 4:11PM
I dinged my Dwarf Warrior to 60 by getting really close in XP (like 20 pts away), then rode around Durotar until I discovered enough areas (granting like 4 xp per) so that I was 1 discovery away from the big DING. I then positioned myself at the gate and rode straight into ORGRIMMAR, discovering it, DINGING, and then getting Ravaged by about 15 players and guards.
zed Aug 17th 2007 5:23PM
Mine isn't a lvl 60 ding story, but it's one of my favorites.
I play a Holy Priest, my friend a Protection Warrior. We were doing the quests in Bael'Dun running in the keep collecting god knows what (seems so long ago) and I was auto wanding some mob my tank was attacking. I was searching the room, and decided I'd take a look at the head dwarf in the main hall, when I accidentally targetted him, pulling at least 10 dwarves to us. It was an epic, long slog, me tossing heals while my tank taunted whatever he could off of me. We were down to three, and I was suffering mana levels, working with just slivers as I tossed heals at the first opportunity, when *ding* level up and full health/mana. We tore through the remainders, but, unfortunately, did not get all the drops we needed. Still, to this day it's the most well timed ding I've yet had.
Paul Aug 17th 2007 4:13PM
@7 haha, awesome.
LanceG33 Aug 17th 2007 6:21PM
I was running around in SMV for the first time; needed to kill 1 more mob to level. I ran over a rise in the terrrain and:
1) Discovered the Path of Conquest including the Bloodelf patrol and an elite collossus
2) Dinged 70 through discovery
3) Died
So, yeah the 3 Ds . . . Discover/Ding/Die!
shepherdbook Aug 17th 2007 4:16PM
My ding's are consistently dull. Middle of nowhere, fighting a generic scorpion or bear that I happened to agro and then drops nothing. :) So nice being 70, no more of that rubbish.
Paul Aug 17th 2007 4:24PM
when i'm about to ding, even if it's not something cool in game, there's usually something awesome going on IRL. like i try to 1-bite a wienerschnitzel chilidog, or pour gatorade on myself, while dancing to "she's a maniac".
it makes it a more memorable experience.
Mike Aug 18th 2007 10:15PM
I once Dinged while dead too.
It happened on ST when we were fighting the essence of eranikus; our tank died, and I(the holy priest), died just 2secs before the boss.
Since i have the spiritual talent, i kindof Lagged/survived and Dinged while in my spirit form seconds away form dying.
Matthew Aug 17th 2007 4:28PM
One time I dinged my warrior in Redridge while charging due to an exploration experience bonus. So I charged the rest of the way to my enemy leaving behind a streak of sparks. It was apparently pretty cool, according to my duo partner.
dekulink Aug 17th 2007 4:32PM
7: That's awesome.
I looked at my post and realized I meant to type "button" but instead said "butt." Hehe.
I remembered another time I dinged, though, and that was hitting level two on my Draenei (my current main.) We were all talking on general saying how 1-2 is the hardest in the game :P
Ninjit Aug 17th 2007 4:35PM
After I had farmed for hours to get to 59 and only a bit more xp to 60 pre-tbc, I asked my friend to help me kill an elite. After 10 minutes of searching for it he killed some random mob to ding me, I still hate him for that.
Mallik Aug 17th 2007 4:37PM
Favorite leveling story: Running around completing quests in Searing Gorge, often I am not really focused on how close I am to leveling, so it's a happy surprise when it happens.
That being said, I could have thought of better places to be than completing the quest "Caught!" in Searing Gorge wherein you have to kill 8 dark iron dwarves and bring 15 pieces of silk to another dwarf locked in an outhouse.
So I leveled up bringing a dwarf some TP. Very valiant.
Mystrana Aug 17th 2007 4:40PM
Going along with the theme of betting, I was about three bubbles into 69 and it was nine at night. I was visiting my boyfriend at work, where on Wednesdays, he works til one in the morning. Usually, I'm asleep by then.
But tonight, I told him, I was gonna ding 70 before he did. He said I wouldn't be able to do it. So I enlisted a helpful guildie friend, and the two of us quested like fiends for several hours that night until I finally dung and was very happy.