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The latest patch 5.4 newsBreakfast Topic: Are you an Azerothian prankster?
by Stephanie Drury 
Jun 3rd 2011 at 8:00AM
Back in the good ol' days, our guild was much smaller and tight-knit. We had enough for a solid 25-man raid, with a handful others who just liked to call us "home." Some guildies knew each other in real life or were roommates who liked to have fun and play pranks on each other. While I glad to not be a part of it, I did enjoy hearing the creativity they came up with, especially when it involved something in game.
The most memorable prank was back in the golden days of yore, back when mounts were items in your bag, guns and bows took ammunition, and gold wasn't fished in fountains. Someone logged onto a low-level alt and commented the character wasn't where he had left him. He shortly discovered that he had no gear, no gold for a flight path, no hearthstone, no mount, was nowhere near a bank, and had to run through high-level mobs to get anywhere remotely close to bank access. Watching him discover all these atrocities one at a time made for a very entertaining evening.
With authenticators bringing heightened account security and Blizzard making items such as mounts "learned," pranks such as this are hard to recreate. This just means pranksters have to be more creative.
Do you and your friends pull fast ones on each other? What epic in-game tales and pranks were you in on or have you heard about?
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 4)
Forward Jun 3rd 2011 8:33AM
Back in the days when Naxramas was all new we were being summoned there by our guild leader who was showing off his new mechano-hog. I jumped in for a ride and the sod took a ride out of the platform for the long fall into dragonblight. He died too as he was a dk with no slow fall but the whole group collapsed into fits of giggles on Ventrillo while I was hurling abuse at him.
My favourite trick now is in Blackwing descent where I stick levitate on people running to the lift after clearing Magmaw and Omnitron. Often they will float off into the lava or they will release the levitate and crash to the ground through the elevator. That little trick doesn't work too well on rogues with their Safe Fall however so the trick there is to position yourself on the edge of a ledge facing the lava and then turn your camera angle and watch for the rogue moving. If you time it right then you can Leap of Faith him straight to your position and he'll run straight off the edge and take a lava bath. This also works in Grim Batol.
Warning: They don't like this but my guild Mages will always pay me a bounty of 13 copper if I can get him like this :)
Mortenebra Jun 3rd 2011 10:33AM
Holy crap... our priest has floated to his death so many times levitating off of the elevator.
But that reminds me of when my guild was doing Gunship in ICC and a mage friend put slowfall on someone playing with their jetpack. Hilarity ensued as the person went jetting off of the airship.
bubbashaft69 Jun 3rd 2011 8:50AM
Damn Baraka has a sister!
Nightmare Jun 3rd 2011 8:47AM
I remember back when we were clearing Molten Core, whenever we had a first timer with us, we'd always convince them that standing on the wall behind the giant lava boss (Golemagg? The one with 2 Corehound adds) would let them see Ragnaros. Anyone who's tried that at level 60 will know, that was near instant death!
nieboh Jun 3rd 2011 12:59PM
This was also a guild tradition with us. "Go look in that crack and you can see Ragnaros." In a group of 40 there were always several newbies along for the first time who promptly burned to death. Good times.
loop_not_defined Jun 3rd 2011 8:49AM
Only friendly prank I ever really participated in was asking newbies to Molten Core if they wanted to see Ragnaros through the secret window behind Sulfuron.
Steve Jun 3rd 2011 8:52AM
Back in the day when I raided Onyxia I'd wait till we'd won the fight and we're getting ready to pass out the loot, then me and another paladin would wake up all the whelps and bubble hearth. LOL!
Peebers Jun 3rd 2011 10:04AM
On my Mage, at the end of a raid, I used to wait til another Mage would start summoning a portal then I'd stand on them and open a diff portal. People ended up all over the place. Common Mage hyjinx I'm sure
Wickid Jun 3rd 2011 10:51AM
Our mage raid leader likes to play "portal roulette" at the end of a raid. He's throws every portal he has in the same place so you have no clue where you are going to end up. Everyone has a giggle at where everyone ends up, then as I seem to shout every week...why is it always Shatt? It's nice to end an intense night of raiding with a little bit of silliness.
chaosdefined Jun 3rd 2011 8:59AM
As a shammy, whenever someone jumps off a high platform towards water deep down below, cast Water Walking on them :)
loop_not_defined Jun 3rd 2011 9:04AM
http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=020809
chaosdefined Jun 3rd 2011 9:09AM
haha!
Rezai Jun 3rd 2011 9:47AM
Yeah there was a instance in Wrath (can't remember which) where after you killed the boss there were like four falls into water to get back to the beginning. Back when there was a daily instance there was always a shammy or DK who thought they'd be funny but casing water walk or path of frost.
Silversol Jun 3rd 2011 1:38PM
Utgarde Keep
loop_not_defined Jun 3rd 2011 9:00AM
Now back in the days of Vanilla, when I played on Sargeras (PVP), some friends and I *constantly* played pranks...on Alliance. I wouldn't call those pranks "friendly", though.
Some favorites:
-Surrounding a poor Dwarf fellow in STV, who completely expected three 60 Hordies to annihilate him, but probably didn't expect them to form a perfect triangle and simultaneously activate their [Barov Peasant Caller]s.
-Drowning a lvl 20-something Night Elf in 3 feet of water by alternating Polymorph and Mind Control on our fresh level 30 Undead Mage and Undead Priest.
-Drowning that same Night Elf's level 60 Paladin main in the nearby ocean, after discovering that: A) Polymorph had a high success rate on targets 30 levels above you, and B) Polymorphed targets *dropped like a rock* in water. It was a good day to be Undead.
I certainly wasn't the most inventive (or cruel) when it came to killing Alliance, though. The friend I duo'ed with on leveling alts frequently spent time in Ally zones on his 60 Rogue while playing Denis Leary's "I'm An Asshole" in the background.
AudreyR Jun 3rd 2011 9:25AM
Heh. That's where I started out. You may be the reason I rerolled horde on a PVE server. ;)
Jayjay Jun 3rd 2011 9:03AM
Best prank I was involved in - it was BC - Outlands was the place we were all going to, and a new pally pal had just gone through the Dark Portal to Hellfire Penninsula.
He asked us on vent what he had to do next - this being his only toon high enough to have gone through.
We told him he had to fight his way through the demons in order to 'get into' the zone.
After he had died twice, the 2nd time stating that he had 'almost made it that time' - we could no longer contain our hysterical laughter (yes we made him go through it twice) before we 'fessed up and explained it was a prank. Luckily he took it in good sport but none of us ever forgot it.
Doomhoof Jun 3rd 2011 9:11AM
My fav prank back in the old days was to take my undead lock and 2 undead friends, swim to the deepest water and then randomly summon guildies. it always took people a while to figure out where they were.
Oteo Jun 3rd 2011 9:33AM
You could do that nowadays in Mt. Hyjal, in the pool of water just outside the first area people go to at level 80. It goes really, really deep: I swam to the bottom of it on my rogue once... it took so long to swim to the bottom I didn't bother swimming back up. I just hearthed out.
I should log someone out there without a hearthstone... :3
briker Jun 3rd 2011 9:11AM
Alt-F4 as the answer to many questions asked in trade chat. How do I slot gems? How do I view the map? How do I open a ticket? How do I get a new hearthstone? Doesn't work as well as it used to, but there was when the dungeon finder first dropped, I managed to get about 6 people to bite. They would come back on a minute later either cussing or laughing.