Breakfast Topic: What's your WoW grudge?
by Olivia Grace 
Mar 15th 2012 at 8:00AM
I started off on the Alliance side, and it's still where my mains are. My first character, my paladin, was leveled tentatively and badly, with only minimal skill and understanding. We all have to learn somewhere!
One of my main memories from that period was dying. Dying a lot. I don't know now whether I'd have the skill to do the Ironman Challenge, but I sure didn't then, and things killed me constantly. I didn't understand about aggro linking, where if you taunt one mob, any mob near to it will be taunted too, and I wasn't great at using my abilities. I was holy, to improve the healing, and I didn't have the early damaging skills pallies get now.
This made me angry. So whenever I see Hogger, who must have killed me 20 or 30 times, I take my revenge. It's harder now that he's down in the Stockades, but when I went down there to take the screenshot in the header and killed him, I still thought "Ha!"
And murlocs -- they're high on my grudge list. My God, they killed me a lot. If I encounter a gang of murlocs while I'm out herbing, I'm sorry. They're going down.
I mentioned monsters from the Alliance side, as I really don't know what the Horde equivalent of Hogger and murlocs would be. Do let me know! I'll go and kill them for you.
Should I seek professional help? Do you hold irrational grudges against mobs or bosses that killed you over and over again? And if you do, who or what are they?
One of my main memories from that period was dying. Dying a lot. I don't know now whether I'd have the skill to do the Ironman Challenge, but I sure didn't then, and things killed me constantly. I didn't understand about aggro linking, where if you taunt one mob, any mob near to it will be taunted too, and I wasn't great at using my abilities. I was holy, to improve the healing, and I didn't have the early damaging skills pallies get now.
This made me angry. So whenever I see Hogger, who must have killed me 20 or 30 times, I take my revenge. It's harder now that he's down in the Stockades, but when I went down there to take the screenshot in the header and killed him, I still thought "Ha!"
And murlocs -- they're high on my grudge list. My God, they killed me a lot. If I encounter a gang of murlocs while I'm out herbing, I'm sorry. They're going down.
I mentioned monsters from the Alliance side, as I really don't know what the Horde equivalent of Hogger and murlocs would be. Do let me know! I'll go and kill them for you.
Should I seek professional help? Do you hold irrational grudges against mobs or bosses that killed you over and over again? And if you do, who or what are they?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 7)
Luotian Mar 15th 2012 8:44AM
My first character was an Ally, but she largely died falling off things. I mostly get a small sense of triumph just from making it up trees in Night Elf areas XD.
Shorty Mar 15th 2012 8:07AM
2 words...Fel Reaver.
Gorelord Mar 15th 2012 8:22AM
I have to second this. Those damn gigantic Fel Reavers are sneakier
than a stealthed rogue wearing camouflage. Hiding behind bush. In the dark. Behind you.
Jamie Mar 15th 2012 8:31AM
Devilsaurs are the real masters of stealth, I swear they came from no where!
Needless to say at it to the grudge list. My grudge list is more active than my friends list these days. Perhaps it's time to move into the revenge business...
Mycroft Mar 15th 2012 8:32AM
It's mind-bogglingly amazing how sneaky they can be, being so huge, stomping so hard they shake the ground as they walk, and blaring these really loud klaxons! Yet I still died to them a lot.
WindSong Mar 15th 2012 9:10AM
BRWARRRRRRAAALLLLLLWLLLLL
Blizzard conditioned me to FEAR that sound. I remember jumping out of my chair cursing in shock and dismay when it came out of nowhere as a warning for the "no-fly" zones in early Wrath.
Well played, you sadists
ravyncat Mar 15th 2012 9:17AM
Oh how I hate them.
Every time I am in Outland on one of my 85's and I see a Fel Reaver that bastard is going down. If I see a bunch then I kill them all.
I especially hate how they sometimes bug and you see one skimming above the ground at ridiculous speed. I am convinced that is how they sneak up on people so easily.
wirehangers Mar 15th 2012 9:24AM
THIS.
Revnah Mar 15th 2012 9:26AM
Same here, Fel Reaver must die.
Drache Mar 15th 2012 9:50AM
Yes. Fel Reaver. I still visit Outlands every so often for various reasons - and whenever I see that thing, it will die.
Oh, and then there would be that "Son of A... Arugula" or whatever, but he's quite a wuss nowadays :/
viciouspen Mar 15th 2012 9:59AM
Sweet god they are totally like 3 story tall solid metal ninjas.
It never fails, if your'e in hellfire and you're questing, you can turn and check behind you, go to pick something up, then BOOM, the ground trembles around you and one is literally right behind you.
On my main, which is a pally, I will at times be flying through hellfire, see a fell reaver and drop off my mount in mid air, bubble to paradrop onto the fell reaver, kill it, then /yell a primal scream of triumph.
eirinefrostblade Mar 15th 2012 10:24AM
Oh so very the same. In fact, our whole guild has this grudge. One member has nicknamed him "FRED," or Fel Reaver Eat Death. And if I'm doing arch or soloing old content, I go out of my way to find both of them in Hellfire and make sure they're dead.
Hache Mar 15th 2012 10:26AM
I'm not crazy!! I swear those things spawn behind me all the time! It's a conspiracy I tell you.
Damn you Fel Reavers! Damn you to hell!
Crowhillhouse Mar 15th 2012 8:04PM
I have to agree. I have never /spit on anything or anyone in this game except the Fel Reaver (and I'm not even part of the "stomp club"). Every time I'm in Hellfire I still kill these evil spawn of The Burning Legion and smugly spit on the heap of scrap that remains. Very satisfying after being terrorized all through BC by these (insert favorite explet here) machines.
Kelenicor Mar 15th 2012 10:57AM
I have hated that horrible thing since I first leveled my main (a mage). There I was, merrily trucking along in my first trip to Outland, standing in awe at the sheer redness of it all (firelands was a whole new level of red). So I'm busy killing my 20 or so hell boars, when I accidently aggro a few too many of them. Being the good mage that I am, I start kiting the mobs while backing away and trying to pew pew them down, saving my soft, squishy clothie butt. Knowing that I've cleared everything behind me, I knocked out the first couple extra mobs, who by now are chewing away at me, while I still try and run. Unfortunately, since I'm going backwards, I don't happen to notice the GIANT UGLY @#$(&*ing FEL REAVER that snuck up behind me! Which promptly stomps me into the ground while screaming that god aweful noise at me.
Meanwhile, someone else leveling through there had watched the whole scenario, and (kindly?) rezzed me afterwards, laughing the whole time.
I hate that damn thing.
Noyou Mar 15th 2012 2:31PM
Fel Reaver and that snooty belf on his chicken hawk who tries to gank you before you learn flying. Yeah, I pop him when I see him.
Glaras Mar 15th 2012 2:41PM
Amen. Fel Reavers are KOS (kill on sight) these days. My wife does the same thing, and it is the only time she will use /spit in game. For me, likewise, the devilsaurs are KOS if I'm flying over the Crater.
The one member of the "We Stomp Players" club that I haven't killed yet is the Storm Giant in Northrend, which I've heard is being called the "Fjord Reaver".
Arrowsmith Mar 15th 2012 8:06AM
Defias anything. Whether it was the fireball-slinging jerks in Westfall or the shadowbolt-slinging jerks in Stromgarde, those tightly-packed little twits can eat my bullets if they so much as appear on my minimap!
Also, Leper Gnomes. There's a reason I won't step back into Gnomeregan, you know...
Boobah Mar 15th 2012 11:08AM
Not to harsh on your righteous rage towards all things bandity, but those guys in Stromgarde? Not Defias. They're Syndicate, which is kind of like the anti-Defias.
The Defias became outlaws because they were screwed over by the nobility. The Syndicate these days are mostly nobles who screwed over everybody else.
Arrowsmith Mar 15th 2012 11:10AM
@Boobah
They were enemy humanoids in tight groups that cast spells and interrupting them only makes them move five yards towards you. Defias or Syndicate, they still piss me the hell off.