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by Anne Stickney 
Aug 24th 2010 at 8:00AM
I don't think that I've been in a single guild that didn't enjoy pranks. In vanilla days, we had that one mage, the one who made a warlock summoning macro. In the middle of trying to summon people to Molten Core, he'd pipe up with "Now summoning %t, please click the portal!" Approximately 6 seconds later, guild chat would invariably flood with obscenities spewed by the unfortunate 7 to 10 people who were now located in Thunder Bluff and the warlocks who now had to spend even more shards summoning all those players back again. Or that one rogue who, upon Onyxia's demise, decided to do a victory dance -- in the whelp pit. While loot was being handed out.
Later on, I joined a different guild with different pranks -- most of them revolved around the fact that a good chunk of the guild was a bunch of guys that lived together or near each other. These guys all had each other's account information -- yes, it was a bad idea. No, you should never, ever share your account information with anyone; it's not only a security issue, it's against the ToS. However, there is also another reason you shouldn't share account information that was beautifully illustrated by the guild. See, we often grouped together to raid Zul'Gurub, AQ20 or AQ40 -- and if we were short a tank, one of the guys would log on his buddy the tank's account and tank the raid for us. That's pretty much why they were sharing accounts, so that we would have fill-in options if someone couldn't show for a raid.
Later on, I joined a different guild with different pranks -- most of them revolved around the fact that a good chunk of the guild was a bunch of guys that lived together or near each other. These guys all had each other's account information -- yes, it was a bad idea. No, you should never, ever share your account information with anyone; it's not only a security issue, it's against the ToS. However, there is also another reason you shouldn't share account information that was beautifully illustrated by the guild. See, we often grouped together to raid Zul'Gurub, AQ20 or AQ40 -- and if we were short a tank, one of the guys would log on his buddy the tank's account and tank the raid for us. That's pretty much why they were sharing accounts, so that we would have fill-in options if someone couldn't show for a raid.
In the unfortunate instance that someone was feeling squirrelly, however, the situation could quickly turn for the worse -- or amusing, depending on which side of the login screen you were on. A player who was out of town for a week on a business trip would log back in to find his character lovingly planted at the bottom of the ocean, naked, bags emptied (into the bank, of course), with his hearthstone deleted. There were plenty of popular locations to strand people -- a little traveling could provide some truly entertaining locales in which said players could be stranded.
Nowadays in my current guild, we have the pre-raid doldrums, that half-hour or so while the raid is being put together and nothing is going on. Since we're all sitting in Icecrown, we can see general chat for the region -- and post in it. The favorite thing to do at the moment is to pipe up in general chat with a "LFM for Chillmanders, PST to <guild member name>," including the name of someone in Vent at the time -- bonus points if he's not actually in Icecrown, so he can't see you do it. Then wait to see how long it takes the named guildmate to start swearing in Vent because he's been riddled with tells out of nowhere. Retaliation is usually swift.
Nobody in any guild I've been in does this to be mean -- more often than not, it's a matter of lovingly harassing people or doing it for the laughs. Do your guildmates play pranks on each other? Does your guild include a fleet of mages that enjoy playing portal roulette? Do you have that "one guy" in the guild who incessantly plays practical jokes on people? Are you that guy? If you're the victim of a prank, do you get upset, or do you just laugh it off?
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Reader Comments (Page 5 of 6)
devilsei Aug 24th 2010 11:20AM
And, just though of this as a potential prank for rogues. Depending on how Smoke Bomb works, convince your guild to run you through Naxx during a old-raid night, then when hitting the frogger point, throw down the smoke bomb, if we're lucky it'll hide the slimes...
Then tell the people that Smoke Bomb negates the frogger effect.
Kodak18 Aug 24th 2010 11:19AM
I had a friend who was a notorious prankster. He would deliberately pull a Leeroy during 10-man raids just as we had finished discussing strategy but before we could get into place. When he helped our lower level characters with group quests on his hunter we'd find some elite mob bearing down on a poor misdirected lowbie. He played portal games on his mage.
My favorite, though, was when he was healing with his pally one night and we had just finished a 5-man. I had cast hearth, and as the spell was about to go off he started running towards me and leaped into the air. As his corpse sailed past I realized that I was still in the instance, wrapped in a bubble. It only cost me a few seconds of time to recast, but it was so completely random that I couldn't stop laughing.
Stag Aug 24th 2010 11:42AM
My favourite prank was back when my guild was first doing BWL in vanilla. One of our tanks who had the items needed for thunderfury was so excited when we hit the pull with the goblin you needed to mc to learn smelt elementium as it was one step closer to his legendary. I think he cried when me and another rogue killed him before anyone could mc him.
Zankoku Aug 24th 2010 11:49AM
Not so much a prank, but so many good memories......
"Repopulating" Naxx with baby rabbits
Guild was running Naxx after the "easter-ish" holiday. everyone had their spring rabbits out. it was a veritable rabbit orgy in there.
Derrek Aug 24th 2010 11:51AM
Warlock circles are fun.
About a year ago in Ulduar, we had just killed Razorscale and were dishing out loots. Momentarily bored, I ran to the edge of the cliff, set my portal, and then ran back to the group, announcing that "Hey, I can jump off the cliff without dying!". I then mount up and charge off said cliff, porting back up at the last moment with a "Tada!". The other warlock was like "wth?" and insisted he perform the same stunt.
A moment later, vent erupts with laughter as the hapless lock falls cursing to his death.
Xaklo Aug 24th 2010 12:41PM
Levitate in AN is the best thing ever. Give your party Levitate after they fall into the water after the 2nd boss to "help" them get out of the water. Most players wont take it off before proceeding to the next room, a Body & Soul'd Power Word: Shield helps them get to the next mob quicker... Whether they like it or not :]
Vitasia Aug 24th 2010 12:30PM
I'll admit, I'm looking forward to potential pranks with priest lifegrip.
Kermot Aug 24th 2010 12:36PM
I'm a rogue and have had some devious fun. I think the best one was back in TBC we were running ZA with my guild and on of my best friends went AFK near the water area in the center of ZA, only he didn't just go AFK, he went AFK and Auto-Follow onto me. Back in BC you only have 1 min of underwater breathing so....I swan underwater until he followed me and I got him stuck on a rock and broke the AF he had on me and we all swan under water and watching him drown. He can back to vent and was "WTF Happened?!?! GOD DAMN IT KERMOT!!!!" We all were crying in vent laughing so hard. To this day, he still won't AF onto me...
Moo Aug 24th 2010 12:39PM
Our 10-man doesn't regularly run with a mage, so when we are finishing a raid evening it's typical that several people will be sitting in the instance after most people have left, chatting since there is no portal to jump into immediately. Our GM does this constantly as he's talking in vent about the run or whatever. No worries, right? Just take the teleporter back to the first room in ICC and port back to Dal, or hearth!
...unless, of course, I pull the next boss or trash pat and bubble-hearth home, leaving my few remaining guildies behind to try to 2 or 3-man it.
Thank god my GM has a good sense of humor.
choopy Aug 24th 2010 12:50PM
I was running Nexus one day, when I got a million whispers out of nowhere, most of which meant nothing to me, but a few were something to the effect of "have any bags left" and "i'll take 3 please!" Apparently my wife told Trade that I was lvling my tailoring and had frostweave bags to give out....
Erthshade Aug 24th 2010 12:58PM
Aside from the ToC Path of Frost splats and portal roulette, my guild regularly did dragon roulette on the non-boss dragons, even in ICC.
But more than that, one incident stands out back in Ulduar. The guild had gotten a new rogue who was familiar with the fights in 10-man and asked for the differences in 25-man. So someone in vent pipes up that Shock Blast gives you a buff in 25s, it being guild policy that new kids should get killed in a raid at the earliest opportunity. First shock blast is called, everyone but the rogue runs out... he gets one-shot. Everyone roars with laughter.
He had a good sense of humor about it, though, laughing with everyone else, and went on to become a guild officer.
Didaxical Aug 24th 2010 1:09PM
When the new ICC 5-mans opened up, we were in FoS wandering if you could jump off the catwalks into the grinder below. Just as I was about to jump over the edge, my pally friend got off a DI.
I told the rest of the group there must be some kind of invisible wall.
A few moments later, all three were over the edge.
Rhoan01 Aug 24th 2010 1:19PM
I play Horde and Alliance, while my wife is fiercely Horde-only. Sometimes when I'm on my draenei and I walk away to get a drink, I come back to find my character dancing naked on a mailbox, having just /yelled to Ironforge "I'M A PRETTY GIRL, I LIKE RIBBONS IN MY HAIR, AND I WANT TO KISS ALL THE BOYS."
Menz Aug 24th 2010 1:39PM
My rogue buddy and I were in a ToC25 pug. He does an /e has pick pocketed 49 gold from you. Most of the puggers had a good laugh, but there were a couple who thought he really did take 49g from them.
tk4426 Aug 24th 2010 1:40PM
I love doing this in guild chat. You would not believe how many fall for it.
ME: Okay, so /quit and /gquit were on a boat, /quit fell off the boat, who is still on the boat?
Guildy 2 has left the guild.
Guildy 3: /gquit
Guildy 4 has left the guild.
existant0o0 Aug 24th 2010 1:53PM
I quit WoW a few months ago, but I just had an interesting idea for something like this. As a hunter in VoA, I think it'd be funny to MD your pet, send it to the current boss being fought, then run off and attack another one. Someone let me know if that works :D
Vanekbutton Aug 24th 2010 2:08PM
Used recruit a friend on a buddy then leveled an alt with him, at around 73 we went to Dragonblight and I would drive him around in the recruit a friend rocket mount... one day I told him i was going to see how high we could go, then unmounted and fell for about 20 secs, he was flipping out the whole way down... (as a druid I changed into flight form just before I hit the ground AHAHAHA!!)
roger.io Aug 24th 2010 2:24PM
I usually use Direbrew's Remote when we're facing bosses that takes time to start (saurfang..) and every now and then there's someone that clicks it LOL
People laugh, if there's a lock to summon them back LOL
Eddy Aug 24th 2010 2:46PM
One of my friends in my first real guild went on a business trip, and we managed to talk his son (who was also a guildie) into sending all of the guy's money to one of his alts, and putting all his gear in the bank (I think he was an enchanter.) When the guy got back, he freaked out... and then his kid confessed. It was so cute.
Jeffro Aug 24th 2010 3:56PM
Back in the old MC days we used to tell the noobs that there was a window behind Golemagg were they could see Rag, instant death pursued, and a ton of laughter on vent.