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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 4 of 4)
Jarvish Jun 3rd 2011 12:47PM
"hehe /camp has such a nice animation"
... has logged off
... has logged off
... has logged off
hilarity ensues
Lychee Jun 3rd 2011 12:55PM
In gchat-
If /gkick and /gquit are standing on a bridge and /gkick jumps off, who is left on the bridge?
monkeyhouse Jun 3rd 2011 5:02PM
i came across someone in SW spamming this in Trade, so i pst "that doesn't work anymore - there is a confirmation when you /gquit".... instant loser :-)
making it backfire is so much more fun
nikdaheratik Jun 3rd 2011 12:58PM
One of the favorites was back when we were first clearing ZA, we'd always have the new guy open the door between Malacrass and Drakkari. The reaction on vent when 50 little adds popped out trying to kill them was priceless.
aerinbear Jun 3rd 2011 1:04PM
It's a pretty minor gag, but I macro'd "/e bumps into %t and pickpockets 3 silver". I don't remember who told me about it, but it was fun to go to Goldshire, and get some new kid up in arms about their "missing" cash. :)
Kermot Jun 3rd 2011 1:51PM
My best one EVER was back on TBC we were raiding the orginal ZA and one of my friends had to go afk after the 3rd boss and was trying to decide in vent who he could trust to put auto-follow on....and he picked me :) As soon as he went AFK i took him over to the water area in the middle and on one side you can swim underwater, I swam down and his toon followed me underwater, then I got him stuck on a corner of a rock pillar underwater there and broke the AF. (btw, this was back when the breathing limit was still 1 minute). Everyone in the raid came over to watch this guys health tick down and finally die. After MUCH laughter, he came back onto VENT and the first thing out of his mount was "GOD DAMN IT KERMOT!!!!!" I believe we all cried for about 10mins laughing hysterically before we could continue. To this day, I still play with him and I never let him live that down.
Ominous Jun 3rd 2011 2:29PM
It was fun when you could wrap objects and post them, COD. It was fun to post gift-wrapped rocks to friends. Of course, that inevitably got abused and shut down.
Probably the best Blizzard-related prank I remember was in the first Diablo.
Anyone could go through a person's portal and it was assumed that portals went to safe places. You could see roughly where a portal lead to and it was quite cool to find one that lead to the floor Diablo was on.
Some people didn't realise that, if you stood in the right area outside Diablo's enclosure, you could open up a portal within that enclosure / on top of Diablo.
Opening up a portal on top of the end boss, and then watching the eager and ignorant and / or work-shy run through - only to be mauled, without the possibility of escape, was pretty funny!
Have the prudence to knock before you open a strange door, folks!
BB Crisp Jun 3rd 2011 4:11PM
Our guild stopped just before Halfus to eat up and I started having some connection issues. My game spiked and every character continued the action they were performing, meaning most everybody was sitting and one was spinning. I told my guild over vent that I had to restart WoW since "people are stuck spinning".
When I logged back in, every character on my screen was spinning. As I started to say "What the hell...?" over vent, wondering what I'd messed up, the whole raid started to crack up. Apparently they decided to screw with me and had everybody set to spin as I logged back in. They still remind me of it from time to time.
arcter Jun 3rd 2011 4:19PM
I do this basically every time I go into Strand of the Ancients.
On our team's turn to attack when we're all on the two boats, I go right up to the edge where you disembark and start jumping up and down in place. Then in /say I say something like, "Huh... when did they put a wall here?" If you have a friend with you to do the same and say, "Yeah, that's weird," it helps.
People can't help but investigate this claim, which has resulted in countless 5-minute swims and much cursing.
Matthew Jun 3rd 2011 5:02PM
Once in Band Camp, I mean ICC, I 'used' my green proto drake (to learn it after it being in my bag) after looting some random trash - knowing it would give me a plenny o mounts acheivment and flash it on the screen to all my raidmates and guildies.
After doing so I said "Wow! I didn't know ICC trash drops mounts!!"
morgan Jun 3rd 2011 7:46PM
/cast Stealth/Prowl
"/e pickpockets 10 copper from you!"
Still works to this day. Freaks out the new players.
Coldbear Jun 3rd 2011 9:00PM
I forget the details, but the #1 best wow prank I've read of so far was a dude who started messing with someone else's macros - to the extent that the prankee found himself all of a sudden unable to taunt properly in a raid or somesuch.
Bluescar Jun 4th 2011 6:15PM
My best prank was back in wrath. I had a pally friend/guildie who liked to auto follow my Druid in Dalaran when he went AFK. I personally didn't enjoy it but even if I ditched him he'd keep auto following me.
Well, one day before raid he auto follows me and tells me in vent he is going AFK. I roll my eyes and run around Dal for a bit, then I decide to take a little trip to the sewers. Then I decided to head to Ulduar by leaving through that lovely sewer pipe. I drop off on my ground mount, he follows, and I shift into flight form.
Needless to say there was much laughter on vent, and when he returned he was NOT happy, but boy did he learn not to auto follow me ever again. ;)
Kristta Jun 4th 2011 12:45PM
I remember back in the days of Gruul's Lair we told some horrible DPS pug to stand outside Gruul's doorway and "take care of adds". He agreed and then got locked out of the fight b/c he really thought adds came in from the entrance.
cumamamdara Jun 4th 2011 11:06PM
My favs are either, summoning a newbie friend under water, or..
when a good friend of mine the navy went to sea for 9 months I did him a favor and bought him epic flying during BC. Then flew up over the gorge in hellfire pen, hit the ceiling and then dismounted and logged out. When he got back he called me as he logged in, I told him I had bought him epic flying and then I laughed as he slowly fell to his death.