Breakfast Topic: We get bored
by Anne Stickney 
May 15th 2010 at 8:00AM
Sometimes everyone on my server simultaneously gets bored, or antsy or just a little bit more wired then normal, and things happen like the screenshot pictured above -- that's about half of the mammoth train that was walking slowly around the perimeter of Dalaran. Why was it formed? Where was it going? No idea, but as I watched them slowly shuffle by, I obligingly hopped on my Black War Mammoth and joined the train. Because it was late, I'd just finished a solid run of ICC-25, and it was something to do while I chatted with guild members.
This sort of thing happens just before the raids, too. One guild member will pull out a D.I.S.C.O. ball, another will start throwing around Party G.R.E.N.A.D.E.s. Before you know it, the dank corridor that leads into the depths of Icecrown Citadel has suddenly been turned into a happening place to be, the ground littered with "Spectral Tiger" mounts, Ogre Pinatas and kettles of Goblin Gumbo. Sometimes Archmage Vargoth puts in an appearance. He can't help it; there are usually four or five flaming draenei dancers congregated around a Brazier of Dancing Flames, and the girls just drive him crazy.
Does stuff like this happen on your server? Spontaneous dance parties, mammoth trains, stacks of flying mounts hovering above the Dalaran well? What happens when your server gets bored? Trade chat aside, mind you -- we all know how /2 gets when people are feeling feisty.
This sort of thing happens just before the raids, too. One guild member will pull out a D.I.S.C.O. ball, another will start throwing around Party G.R.E.N.A.D.E.s. Before you know it, the dank corridor that leads into the depths of Icecrown Citadel has suddenly been turned into a happening place to be, the ground littered with "Spectral Tiger" mounts, Ogre Pinatas and kettles of Goblin Gumbo. Sometimes Archmage Vargoth puts in an appearance. He can't help it; there are usually four or five flaming draenei dancers congregated around a Brazier of Dancing Flames, and the girls just drive him crazy.
Does stuff like this happen on your server? Spontaneous dance parties, mammoth trains, stacks of flying mounts hovering above the Dalaran well? What happens when your server gets bored? Trade chat aside, mind you -- we all know how /2 gets when people are feeling feisty.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
Anuillae May 15th 2010 8:04AM
Not recently, but when I was new, I just got my first character to SW, and there was a guild -can't remember which, who was having a party, with fireworks and everything,and (this may just be my newbish perception) it was like, the whole server turned up, you actually couldn't the the ground in the trade district through the mammoths.
Zalvi24 May 15th 2010 11:01AM
do you guys know the little space by the mount vendor in dalaran to go to the flight master, where u can get on your flying mount? we had meeting of celestial steeds one on top of another
Gamer am I May 15th 2010 8:10AM
I keep the Brazier of Dancing Flames exactly for that purpose. No one ever seems to drop any similar items in the groups I group with, so when my Brazier goes down, all of a sudden there are a half-dozen or a dozen flaming Draenei dancing it up.
Zeddica May 15th 2010 8:14AM
When I actually raid with either of the guilds I'm in, we typically end up having dance parties and the such in the downtime between bosses. My dwarf friend always has a keg, and the priests pop levitate on everyone. One big drunken dance party before Lady Deathwhisper is the way to go. Of course, raiding with a blurry screen is always a blast too -_o
ZBTgrimace May 15th 2010 8:28AM
people on anvilmar-US tend to just be jerks and park their mammoths en mass over anything you might want to use... like the quest turn ins at WG or a the new frozen orb vendor in dalaran. Its not uncommon to have 15 or 20 mammoths parked over any useful/timely doodad or NPC.
Its like a mini game, find the exposed pixel with your friends douchy troll rogue and douchier Orc DK!
DarkSpade May 15th 2010 9:59AM
I try to carry baby spice on me just for jerks like that.
If they're there for a long time, submit a ticket. They're not going to get any kind of ban, but I've heard of GMs porting players like that to the far ends of azeroth to get rid of them.
Gwynedd May 15th 2010 10:42AM
Click Shift-V and the NPC's nameplate will appear on top of whatever's there. You can right click the nameplate.
icepyro May 15th 2010 2:58PM
Also, players are hollow. If you go into first person view while the camera would be inside another player (the mammoth in this instance), you see other objects just fine. That's how I dealt with it before learning about nameplates. Stand right next to what you want, 1st person view, and they are right in front of you easy to click on.
Greg May 16th 2010 3:19AM
Hey that's my server too! And yeah it does happen a lot! although 1 in 10 is probably accidental. (I've done it accidentaly before.)
vaarsej May 16th 2010 2:38AM
GMs should not only port them to Burning Steppes but also "accidentally" delete their Hearthstones.
Anathemys May 15th 2010 8:18AM
Well, I wouldn't say the stacks of flying mounts over the well were spontaneous...
More like constant...
I do, however, sometimes put in an appearance as the amazing "Falloushi", the master of falling into wells from tantalizing heights and surviving! Most times...
James May 15th 2010 8:21AM
I hadn't noticed that before, but they are always over the well. Why is that?
Mr. Son May 15th 2010 8:43AM
There's a small space over the well where Dalaran's no flying zone isn't in effect, so they can get low enough to the ground to show off, or trade with a friend, etc.
Tirrimas May 15th 2010 11:45AM
Lately on my server there's been a Tauren Druid with his Ashes of A'lar mount camping there.
Frankly, no one can top THAT.
Blackout May 15th 2010 1:11PM
you can land on the grass by the stairs and not get dismounted, as well as in the tunnel to the silver covenant side.
Swifteye May 15th 2010 8:19AM
I once saw (and joined) a group of no less than thirty hunters using Feign Death in the pond in the middle of Thunder Bluff. You literally could not see the surface of the actual water due to the glut of floating "corpses", and I'm just sad to say I didn't get a screenie... my laptop was brand new at the time and I hadn't figured out how to do screen captures on it yet.
Still, it looked funny as all get-out!
Juzelle May 15th 2010 8:28AM
I regularly roll around with Piccolo of the flaming fire, romantic picnic basket, pony keg, steam tonks, Frenzyheart brew, and many more useless/amusing junk cluttering up my bagspace. Whenever our guild breaks for 5 minutes durring raid, there's always a half naked dance party somewhere in that instance.
Every so often we'll Queue up a 5 man for AB, and setup a picnic/dance party at the farm., complete with C'thun/Yogg tentacles and a D.I.S.C.O. ball. Every so often we'll get some amused Allies that want to play along, and we spend the entire BG merrily dancing away :3
Doxa May 15th 2010 8:33AM
I've been looking for a website to travel novelty items (like picnic baskets, foam sword rack, disco ball, etc) but haven't had much luck. Anyone know of something similar to Warcraftpets.com and warcraftmounts.com but for fun in-game novelties?
Freakprince00 May 15th 2010 5:58PM
Seems like you're looking for wowtcgloot.com
most of the things you're looking for are loot items from the trading card game. Some of those cards can be bought with real world money, but it also tells which TCG expansion each card comes in. Good luck and happy hunting!
Alphasim May 15th 2010 8:33AM
I've seen the mammoth parade before. Once on my server, a guildmate and his friend were in it, and I wanted to participate somehow but I had no mammoth. What I did have was a lot of Preserved Holly, so I made my bear a reindeer and ran through the parade /yelling, "Rudolph says for all mammoths to go home!" I got a decent reaction to that so I kept the shtick up (speaking for my reindeer, who ultimately developed quite a personality/attitude) for some time until my guildie's friend told me to "take Rudolph and 'go somewhere.'" I promptly said that Rudy and I were going to give toys to all the good boys and girls and went to the landing pad to turn my gryphon into a reindeer. I circled the city a few times before diving down into the mammoth parade.
This was all a lark one night, but for the next week I saw an unprecedented amount of reindeer in Dalaran. I hadn't seen one in a long time - which is why I opted for the holly in the first place - and suddenly the stupid things were everywhere. I apologized for the influx on my blog.