Breakfast Topic: Pranks
by Zach Yonzon 
Jan 29th 2009 at 8:00AM
I love in-game pranks. One of the first things our Guild Master did when we downed Patchwerk was to tell the entire raid to run through the frogger slimes, telling them to hit the slime to "get their buff". Sure enough, all the players who had never been to Naxxramas or read much about it proceeded straight through the gauntlet. The next thing we knew, there were corpses strewn all over the place and our GM proclaimed himself The Noob Killer.Back in the days of vanilla WoW, one of our favorite things to do to new raiders was initiate them by telling them to go up to the 'window' behind Golemagg the Incinerator to take a peek at Ragnaros. Hilarity ensued and repair bills skyrocketed. I certainly enjoyed the brewfest brew trick on Sapphiron, although that might warrant some serious -DKP.
One of our officers' favorite tricks is to tell guildies to meet him in some major city, telling them he was going to give them something. When they finally get there, he pops a macro that strips him naked and casts Mirror Image, yelling, 'SEXYTIME!' No repair bills here, but seeing four naked trolls is certainly not worth the trip. How about you? What silly pranks have you played on guildies or friends (or even enemies)? What pranks have been played on you?
Filed under: Breakfast Topics, Humor
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 10)
havitech Jan 29th 2009 8:04AM
Back when my mage was my main, I always put up ports to Exodar or Dalaran. Now that I'm playing a druid, I put down the mole machine on top of the Dalaran portal.
andyjay220 Jan 29th 2009 8:49AM
I used to give a LONG (20 minutes) and drawn out detailed explanation of the chess event to new players. I would have them get a pen and paper, then I assigned players with marks on their heads to denote the "fire row, frost row, shadow row, and holy row" and explained how to calculate the number of attacks to use based on standing on odd or even squares in each row (some were opposite element, some were not) depending on the positioning of the enemy in an element row and whether the square was black or white, odd or even,....etc....etc.
Just as they began throwing their hands up in frustration we would tell them how chess REALLY worked and laugh!
Sallix Jan 29th 2009 9:23AM
That reminds me of an ex-guildie who whenever the raid ended would make a portal to dalaran, then on top of that make portals to Exodar and Theramore.
Macbook Jan 29th 2009 10:06AM
Lol, back when I was a noob, my GM told the raid to stay back after we cleared the first 2 bosses in Hyjal, to "get our Hyjal key".
Needless to say, there was a lot of deaths and summoning done afterwards.
Macbook, http://Moonkin.info
Taladan Jan 29th 2009 3:21PM
Nice way to play for the other faction, retard.
No, really. Your actions (and the first two described in the article) are not funny. Not at all. It's being a counter-player. You know Naxx, congratulations; why not spread the knowledge? Why you have to do such stupid thing to prove that "you know more"?
This should be tagged as "being jerk", not "humor".
Draol Feb 2nd 2009 5:20PM
Wow, it appears this hit some nerves. If you'd point out, the bit about Naxx wasn't even Zach's idea, it was his GM. Reading the article is fun.
rosencratz Jan 29th 2009 8:13AM
Whilst waiting for the wintergrasp portal yesterday some cheeky mage laid down a Portal to Dalaran which the majority of the raid feverishly clicked on and got subsequently VERY confused... At least it wasn't a port to an oldworld city though.
Other than that, as a warlock i always enjoyed summoning people over large drops, dropping the Ritual of Doom stone that no one sadly falls for anymore due to the graphic and ofcourse casting death coil and siphon life on my fellow mind controlled guild mates in instances.... Their loss is my gain :)
Malkavos Jan 29th 2009 10:04AM
There's nothing to fall for with Ritual of doom anyway now. None of the summoners dies, and the demon is automatically enslaved to the warlock. No fun =P
Max Jan 29th 2009 10:50AM
I love doing that... making my guild play russian roulette with portals is endlessly entertaining.
Muse Jan 29th 2009 12:10PM
Haven't had a portal-on-portal mishap at the Wintergrasp portal yet. But some cheeky person did put down a train set right next to where the portal would open... next to the two full raids waiting to go through.
SarahTheGnome Jan 29th 2009 8:13AM
I do the old portal to Theramore on top of the portal to Dalaran trick. No, that is not the truth really. I used to do Theramore over Shattrath, but now, all my guildies know my tricks and click before I can cast my second portal. The other mages in my guild are too nice to do such a thing, however much I attempt to 'inspire' them.
And when someone ended up in Theramore, the nice mages would go and get them out.
*shakes fist*
Donaghy Jan 29th 2009 8:37AM
Drop a portal to Theramore, go through it and THEN drop a portal to Dalaran.
SarahTheGnome Jan 29th 2009 8:58AM
Brilliant sir!
Zerapin Jan 29th 2009 7:04PM
(can't take cedit for this myself, it was another guild member that did this one)
One of my guild members caught the "tittyhead bug" The group leader "placed" the {coin} raid icon on the victims head.
Then after a few mins said, you have "The tittyhead bug. There's only one way to remove it as this one will persist through a logout." The victim didn't believe and logged out and back into the game. For some reason the victim didn't auto-leave group on logout, but that only helped things. He immediately rejoins the group and the icon was reinstated seemlessly.
The victim said "how do I remove it". The group leader said "you have to sit and stand quickly 3 times, turn right arnound , walk backwards for 10 yards then shout "I'm a tittyhead"".
So, with reluctance the victim sat and stood 3 times. Then paused, and started to turn though 360. Without waiting he shouted "too slow, you have to do it without stopping for even a second". With this the victim became agitated, and started over but much faster. and did the whole sequence.
The group leader removed the {coin} at the right moment.
A few seconds after this, echos of laughter were heard over the guild ventrilo...
Beagan Jan 29th 2009 8:17AM
In instances like AN, using waterwalking to kill groupmates when they make the long drop into the water.
Cracks me up every time :P
Sentient Jan 29th 2009 9:16AM
That's truly awesome.
Cyno Jan 29th 2009 10:18AM
Heh, had a DK friend try that w/ path of frost, the other 3 died. I love my flexweave underlay.
shif_tea Jan 29th 2009 8:18AM
A guildy of mine thought it was hilarious to put baby spice on the Thaddius in 25 man naxx when we had him to around 20%. Not only does it shrinks him it shrinks his hitbox hugely as well.
So when the melee heavy group we had moved in to stay in range each side nuked the other due to the different charges and we wiped with him at about 4%.
sephirah Jan 29th 2009 8:30AM
Someone in my guild did that on KT...
infection Jan 29th 2009 12:15PM
Would this work for Malygos so the breath wouldn't be as ranged?
hmmm??