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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 3 of 7)
Mitawa Mar 15th 2012 9:33AM
There isn't an undead equivalent to Hogger NOW, but then Hogger isn't really the problem he was anymore either.
There WAS an undead-specific problem though... or really two of them. The Sons of Arugal were elite worgen mobs that roamed the woods in Silverpine who had huge aggro radii and would sneak up silently to kills you dead. They were terrible. Even sending non-undead to run SFK, you'd occassionally get roflpwned on the road down there.
The second one that killed many a baby undead tended to only happen once and you learned... The Bulwark. Level 53 mobs a short jog from a level 1-10 zone? How sadistic! Those wolves and bears -hurt-.
Philster043 Mar 15th 2012 7:52PM
Mitawa, you forgot another specific undead problem similar to the Bulwark that could be encountered by those not in the know: The Scarlet Monastery. On my undead rogue (my second character ever) I had wanted to complete my Exploration of Tirisfal Glades by going there. Oops.
Tili Mar 15th 2012 8:17AM
Ah Murlocs, how I despise thee. I swear it took me a week of deaths before I was able to get to poor Rolf's corpse. I think I was level 16 before I was able to complete that quest without dying the first time. I don't know anyone who is very fond of murlocs but I feel particularly embittered towards them.
I love all the murloc vengence quests that were added in Cataclysm. It seems like a lot of early zones now have a "use this to blow up lots of murlocs" quests. I can't tell you how giddy those quests make me.
Calicia Mar 15th 2012 8:48AM
The first death for every Alliance toon that I have, has been to a murloc ... true story.
Drakkenfyre Mar 15th 2012 8:18AM
Once, on a runthru of Deadmines, my party wiped, and I ran away, while being chased by Cookie. He killed me. I kill him every single time I run Deadmines.
Noyou Mar 15th 2012 2:37PM
Coooookie! I would always /yell that I was coming for him. I hated to kill that Murloc. Too bad you couldn't make him your NPC buddy. A Murloc with a rolling pin? Priceless.
Telwar Mar 15th 2012 10:06AM
The Forsaken Courier in Arathi. I make it a point to murder them if I see it and its bodyguards. That will, presumably teach it to not spawn when I needed it to.
Noyou Mar 15th 2012 2:41PM
Too bad they changed that too. I remember when I was re-leveling my mage. They got me their share of times but when I specced to frost, it was over for them. Shield+blizzard and it was bye bye courier. Now it's just the courier without the bodyguards. That was definitely a mob you ran from until you knew you could handle them.
Stilhelm Mar 15th 2012 6:26PM
Ahh...I remember getting killed by that group a couple times before I was on the quest, and then a few times trying to kill all *5* mobs on my warrior. And then when I finally killed it, I couldn't loot it! Luckily I only had to log out and back in to fix whatever had bugged.
Jamie Mar 15th 2012 8:25AM
On my first character it was Ol' Sooty. That guy (or is it girl..?) was my first grudge.
On my current main, Cogger, I have been known to go to the Scarlett Onslaught Harbour and faceroll them on my paladin because the content was a bit too tough at lvl79.
I also stumbled upon that Horde outpost in Feralas which is on the road towards the main area ad got owned there once. I went back and raised it in early Wrath. An undead rogue can along to remind me who actually owned the place and I haven't been back since.
markabobo Mar 15th 2012 8:28AM
The Alliance Outrunners were a pain in the butt. At least with Hogger you knew where he was, back before pathing and things were mapped out (vanilla) you'd be minding your own business and die before you knew what happened.
Another one that REALLY irritated me was the elite that patrolled around a bunch of stealthed Night Elves up in Ashenvale. You have a quest to kill so many of the Elves and for something that couldn't stealth, that leet was pretty freakin' sneaky.
Luotian Mar 15th 2012 8:54AM
Oh, do you mean the Hypogriff? I forgot about him. My little shaman died to him like six times, because I'd be attacking something and he'd just appear. No matter where I was. It was REALLY annoying.
Swifteye Mar 15th 2012 9:09AM
I don't remember that hippogriff being elite, specifically... just level 31 hanging around a level 20 quest hub. That might have had something to do with the flawed perception, heh.
Killik Mar 15th 2012 9:23AM
He was just 11 levels higher than anything else around. I remember him being the first thing I ever kited, to some Forsaken scouts nearby (he killed them all).
markabobo Mar 15th 2012 9:32AM
Well crap, I could have sworn he was one of the mobs that got nerfed (along with the Scarlet Monastery mobs outside SM) from elite status. I wouldn't doubt it being a perception thing though. He was the bane of my rogues existence back in the day.
Killik Mar 15th 2012 9:44AM
Oh hahaha - you just reminded me of my groups wiping before they even got into the Scarlet Monastery instance! "Stop aggroing more of them! Kill the runners!"
Tauren Fan Mar 15th 2012 9:52AM
Sharptalon got nerfed, but just down to a more appropriate level. Now he spawns right next to a Horde questgiver, though, so when I was there leveling my baby mage the other night I ended up killing him every 30 seconds or so (at least it felt that way) while I tried to get slimes to drop whatever quest item I was collecting. I used to fear that thing, now it is just a feeling of intense annoyance.
I kind of miss the days when you had a real chance of getting killed if you didn't watch your back. I understand the need to lower barriers for new players to reach current content, though, and at least the new quest lines keep me interested in what's going on in a zone. Ah well, don't mean to complain. I suppose if I wanted to die more while leveling I could just queue for a few BG's and maybe hone my pathetic PvP skills along the way.
Lankey Mar 15th 2012 8:37AM
Scarlet Messenger within Eastern Plaguelands. Elite 60 with another 4 elite 60 bodyguards, going along the major road from Tyr's Hand to Stratholm.
Leaves you with option of following the road and praying or going offroad and getting daze-mounted from other mobs every few minutes. Made reaching Strat just a touch more of a challenge, on top of reaching the damn zone.
Mycroft Mar 15th 2012 8:39AM
Hm, toss-up. While I certainly put a vote in for those sneaky huge ground-shaking siren-blaring Fel Reavers who snuck up on me so many times, I seem to recall being very frustrated with some of the group quests in Nagrand. It was my first-ever max-level toon, towards the end of BC days, and I still couldn't get those Nesingwary beasts down, nor that - I think it was some big giant Gronn? - that wandered around the giant crystal. That guy would kill me so fast I never had a chance. Thankfully after about a month of having those things in my quest log, and trying and failing, some guildies helped me out and we took them down. I thought there was no way I could ever do this by myself, but ah, retrospect. I was a huntard who didn't know how to kite, and I had no idea what dungeons were, let alone raids, so I didn't realize just how much more powerful you could get after hitting the level cap, through just gear alone.
Spellotape Mar 15th 2012 9:21AM
Durn the Hungerer. He's no longer elite and it is sad.