Breakfast Topic: What is the best player-run event you've participated in?
by Robin Torres 
Feb 23rd 2012 at 8:00AM
It came from the Blog isn't the only game in town, of course. The Defias Brotherhood hosts a few RP-PvP events, as this video shows. The Spreading Taint and The Stonewall Family guilds march in a pride parade every year. Big Red Kitty's charity run for Ezra was so much of a success that they crashed the server and were asked to end the event early. Many more events are held in WoW each month, and some realms are more active than others. You can check the Community Events and Creations Forums for events you may be interested in.
Planning and running events is a challenge, but a rewarding one. I often find, however, that what I plan and what happens are two different things. Sometimes what I intend doesn't work as I expect, like the War Games feature that requires the same level range as Battlegrounds instead of allowing a wide level range. Other times, funsuckers show up and make it difficult to have a good time, such as when we held our RP Refugee Party and many foul-mouthed griefers showed up. Ah well, griefers grief.
One of the best events we've had was last year's Hop to Hardboiled. We turned ourselves into bunnies and hopped from Razor Hill to Un'Goro Crater to get the Hardboiled achievement. Our Server Maintenance party was both awesome and terrifying, with at least 700 people showing up. We have yet to reach that number again. Our most recent surprise guest was the unexpected appearance of Deathwing to our Candy Run. He is a funsucker of epic proportions, but we were delighted to burn to death in his honor ... the first time. The repeat deaths were not so much fun. But if someone's going to camp you, it will be Deathwing the Ultimate Griefer.
What player-run events (if any) have you participated in? Which was the most fun? Have you ever run one yourself? If so, what were your biggest challenges?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
laudickj Feb 23rd 2012 8:05AM
NAO Tournament
cyclopsfar Feb 23rd 2012 8:13AM
Pirate-day event held by the WHU.
fwebb77 Feb 23rd 2012 9:14AM
WHU is an awesome community of hunters on Icecrown, and all of the WHU events are great fun. My personal favorite was the event just before Cataclysm. We visited King Magni Bronzebeard in Ironforge, killed Carne in Thunderbluff, then partied on the Stonewrought Dam in Loch Modan. Video of the event at www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/2010/11/whu-raids-thunder-bluff/
exogenesis. Feb 23rd 2012 8:20AM
Unfortunately, I have not seen any player-run events aside from achievement runs on either of the main servers I have played on since 2007 (Burning Blade and Shadowsong EU). Right now, Shadowsong is very very quiet on Horde side, to the point where there are free transfers to us now. We're lucky if there's a 25 man ICC heroic run.
As such, I think the best event I participated in was a middle-of-the-day weekend raid ransacking the Alliance cities, back in the days when we were a bustling server. It was huge, it was grand, and most of all, it was damn fun, even when half of us ended up in Ironforge with the other half in Stormwind.
rockychristine Feb 23rd 2012 8:30AM
I'm part of The Spreading Taint, and yes, Pride is awesome! That was one of the most fun things ever. Proudmoore is an awesome server.
Another really fun thing I did was an 80-man city raid- we had two 40-man groups going, and though we didn't quite get Stormwind, we got everything else. The Alliance attempted to retaliate, and it ended with a huge pile of corpses and about 120 Horde people in Grommash Hold. Epic.
Nina Katarina Feb 23rd 2012 8:32AM
Our guild does a bunch of group activities from time to time - my favorites have been the baby Tauren race to Orgrimmar (back when it was still possible to go through the Barrens) and our Naked Molten Core run (your CHARACTERS are naked; I don't want to know what everyone else is wearing, thanks)
I tend not to enjoy things in groups of over 40 - my computer goes slideshow. Having 10-30 people in a player-run activity is just about perfect for me, which is why I prefer guild things to server-wide foofaraws.
TVDenimChap Feb 23rd 2012 8:39AM
I can barely remember the details, but back in Vanilla one of the times a few realms (including mine) went down, I started a tauren on a random realm. There was a big crowd of us 'my server is down' lvl 1 refugees in Camp Narache. So what better to do than spontaneously start a MOO TRAIN, and march all the way up to Darnassus?
We managed to keep it together (must have been about 50 of us? Maybe more) across Barrens and into Ashenvale, but Astranaar was an absolute massacre. We lost a good bunch there, and Auberdine was nearly as bad. By the time we managed to get on the boat across to Teldrassil there must have only been 4 or 5 of us left. Still we managed to run through the portal into the capital so we could res outside it, safely atop the giant tree. Still got a picture of us dancing in that graveyard. Managed to make it all the way to Shadowglen, but there wasn't much chance of us making it past those guards.
Good times
viciouspen Feb 23rd 2012 8:39AM
So far the WHU seems pretty on the ball. I've got a hunter in there and I'm liking it so far.
There are numerous game shows on Eonar.
Not as many as there used to be, but still you see them every so often.
People run hide and seeks and trivia games for hours and give out fairly substantial gold prizes for people participating, pretty fun use of TRADE.
I have to say though I continue to be disappointed in Wowinsider itself. So far as I've ever heard it ONLY runs horde events, and ONLY endorses horde events itself. I've seen numerous articles about their guilds running horde events but I've yet to see a single Alliance event or guild mentioned.
Sorry but that's pretty lame Insiders. Faction favoritism is going out of style, you guys need to get onboard at some point.
Apoman Feb 23rd 2012 8:41AM
I once took part in a mage war. Shimmering Flats raid groups from both Horde and Alliance filled solely with mages. If you died you weren't allowed to run back. Most memorable PVP session in my life.
Noyou Feb 23rd 2012 8:47AM
For the Alliance. Many times. Close second was my own guild get together for noble garden, but that was only 5 people, sadly. Gives me some ideas though.
Noyou Feb 23rd 2012 8:51AM
I take that back. #2 would be the time my guild got a small group together (8-10) to take down one of the world dragons. On our way to the one by forest song, there was some action going on in Astranaar with some hordies. A bunch of us landed at Astranaar and romped over the few hordies that were there. I think there were 2 lvl 80s and 1-2 60-70s. Possibly a 40something too. We never got to down a world dragon that day. But that was fun.
lavergne.joseph Feb 23rd 2012 9:12AM
The AIE Guild on Earthen Ring gets together sometimes during the year to grief the alliance by having 3-4 full 40 man raids running into the alliance capitals and killing everything, we also have a "Running of the Beef" where we all make lvl 1 toons and just run to a undetermined location, last one I was in we ran all the way from the Tauren starting area through Southern Barrens, through Northern Barrens to Orgrimmar, took the zep to Northern Stranglethorn, then ran up to Westfall and into Elwyn Forest, by that time we were all lvl 3, then ran into Stormwind to die epically.
Wolfrunner Feb 23rd 2012 9:24AM
My old guild on Moon Guard was an all dwarf RP-PvP guild called the Mountain Guard. At the height of our power, we launched a couple of all dwarf attacks on Orgrimmar. Battling in the canyons, capturing buildings, and causing havok until we were forced out. That was memorable.
ravyncat Feb 23rd 2012 9:26AM
The most fun group event I have done is the Running of the Gnomes on the Scarlet Crusade-US server. My screenshot of the ribbon at the end even made Around Azeroth. ^^
Several of my guildies ran too and we all had a great time.
I haven't really done any other large group events. I suppose they might occur on my server, but I don't really know. I tend to mainly hang with my guild and never look at trade or general chat.
Mattie Feb 23rd 2012 7:06PM
I was in that, too! Such fun.
I was also present and mooing for the BRK Running of the Bulls.
I love events like that.
evoxpisces Feb 23rd 2012 9:26AM
I've never participated in any big player event, but last year my fellow guildies and I went on a bar hopping stint for an hour or so. It started out as 4 of us but quickly grew to about 50, to the point where we had trouble finding room in the bars lol.
dr_david1 Feb 23rd 2012 9:56AM
40 man Hogger raid, all level 1 gnomes
Noyou Feb 23rd 2012 10:37AM
That is awesome. Did you kill him?
dr_david1 Feb 23rd 2012 12:14PM
Eventually but some of the gnomes were level 3 and 4 by the time he dropped. It was pretty awesome display of Gnomacide.
Cbeefman Feb 23rd 2012 10:04AM
hands down, the BEST player run event i've ever been a part of was when my entire guild jumped into the Gurubashi Arena to duke it out over who would be the best man at the in-game wedding of our GM and his girl.
The wedding that followed in moonglade is a close second in coolness. I didnt have Fraps or another recording thing at the time so i took screens and put them in a powerpoint presentation. still have it