Monthly Archives: October 2006

Camping the Forums

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Since no one has visited my World of Warcraft realm forums to complain about my PVP self yet — and really, how much more of a douchebag do I have to be to get these people to file an official complaint with my realm?? — here’s some other interesting not-about-me convos I found:

Aerieth of Blackrock asked about upgraded PVP equipment available in the expansion. As answered by Drysc, dripping tree of Castle Blizzard:

We haven’t announced any specific rewards that will be available as of yet, but there are new rewards being implemented that will be available up to level 70 in the new honor system. I’m guessing that probably answers your question just enough so that you still don’t know, and are also now slightly annoyed.

And my job here is done. 😉

Now I found that hilarious. But I think I’m the only one, based on the lack of titters.

Byrondo of Elune asked for player opinions about the best NPC rebel yells and scripts, nominating Ragnaros, Majordomo Executus and Bloodlord Mandokir, he of Zul’Gurub, which got me to thinking … the guys first taking on Bloodlord must have heard him shout “DING!” and wondered what the hell he meant by that — horrified, possibly, that the Bloodlord knew perfectly well what “Ding” means. (And he does.)

Kalanakila of Kalecgos (say what? Where did that realm come from?), possibly coming off an embarassing 5-cap loss in Arathi Basin PVP, asked for opinions on preferred AB strats, specifically: Has the “defend three nodes and we’ll win” strat worked for people (umm ya, that’s math, mate), and, what do you do when the enemy is holding / defending three nodes and you only have two. The thread has some good discussion and anecdotes about AB PVP, but I’ll share my super leet strat for winning 95%+ of your Arathi Basins: queue with 14 guildmates.

That’s similar to my super leet Warsong Gulch PVP strat, which is: queue with 9 guildmates and expect a 98%+ win rate. (I never promised you keen insight or in-depth game analysis.)

Comedy Central’s South Park, featuring World of Warcraft, will be broadcast tonight at 10 pm Eastern. Expect your guildchat to feature line-by-line dialogue recaps because what could be more fun than watching television with your game buddies and then seeing the same lines repeated in guildchat just in case you suddenly became hard of hearing. (Blizzard press release)

Archives of forum threads:
PVP gear to be upgraded in expansion, probably
Best NPC rebel yell
Defend these three and …

Gaming CSI

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The exciting, and bizarre, conclusion (I think, because ya never know with some of these internet headcases) to the story I began last Thursday. (LINK!) Briefly: Rogue apps to our guild and is denied, he forms his own guild for the Unguildables. EbayRogue, former guild member, joins the Unguildables after I torched his app to a rival guild. IWannaBeTheRaidLeaderTank, guildmember, helps out the Unguildables on a run in Le Molten Core. He gets Le Boot from our guild for his trouble and joins the Unguildables. That’s three people in the Unguildables who we should not count among our admirers.

So, there we were off the coast of Theramore Isle, on some godforsaken island, killing some quest mob for, what I have named, That Stupid Sceptor Quest. Here’s my issue with the TSSQ: we always call these fights right before the loot raids, the fights are mostly in remote areas or, at the least, in some area I haven’t visited in over 30 levels, and we usually are doing this mob for one guild guy. I say, if I’m hauling my lazy ass all the way out to Theramore, let’s run the bitch a few times, for everyone with TSSQ, so I won’t be bothered EVER AGAIN. But that’s just me, some people may enjoy leisurely flights to remote areas for a five-minute fight.

We were clearing the surrounding trash while our current Emo Tank was breathlessly describing exactly how he wanted us to off this bad guy, when our Raid Leader interrupted the Vent spam with “this is fucking unbelievable”. Thought I, this should be good. He’s seen it all, if he thinks it fucking unbelievable, it’s GOT to be good.

He explained — seems that each member of the Unguildables, one by one, was /telling him for a guild invite into our guild. I used the stalking magic of the /who command, and noted that the Unguildables guild was no more. No members, former members are now guildless and the officers are nowhere to be found. A gen-u-ine mystery!

Some of our more “connected” guildmembers sent out /tells to see if anyone knew the deal with the Unguildables and their officers. Our guildleader started talking with the other guildleaders. Everywhere across Azeroth, in all the raid zones of the world, entire raids were momentarily halted while we performed a little CSI on this crime scene.

Our raidleader, still dealing with “pls invite to guild” tells, tried to add the Unguildables guildleader to his friends list and discovered an important clue: Invalid. Player. Name. (Warcraft noobs: no such player exists on our server … anymore.)

He asked a few of the Unguildables, directly, why in the world they would ask for (read: expect to ever get) a guild invite. Oh, the Unguildables leadership had told them they were disbanding, they had arranged a merger with us, and, all members should send a tell to our raidleader for a guild invite. (Err, say what? Come again?)

I know most of the Warcraft player base is new to online multiplayer gaming … gaming CSI rookies … so I’ll outline the relevant clues: a dead guild, a missing guildleader, a diversion made for the former membership. We’re not dealing with a simple guild murder here, or a kidnapping, this is grand theft. (Cmon, who do you think held the guild bank?)

Realizing he was talking to innocent victims, our raidleader explained that guild invites would not be forthcoming … they had been duped. (Although all healers would be welcome to apply to our guild! heh) The time to petition was now, but don’t expect any satisfaction. There is no court system in online gaming — there is no justice, there are no reparations, there is only revenge.

As the server pooled its information, the entire scheme came to light: the Unguildables leadership had planned this for a few days … they had applied for server transfers, told the membership the guild was being disbanded, thanks for stopping, they had arranged a merger with us (how nice of them), please contact *RaidLeader’sGameName* for the invite, then they took the money and ran to a different server.

Of all the guild thefts I’ve witnessed over the years, this was a pretty good one — well planned, well executed. Almost professional, in fact.

I camped our realm forums for a few days, hoping a huge flamefest would spawn. All that came out of it was one feeble thread, which was only interesting because one of the motherfuckers posted that there was almost no money or items in the guild bank (Hail, A_Lie!) and he only kept that as payment for services rendered (Hail, A_Rationalization!) and he wished his former members well (Hail, A_Douchebag!).

The Unguildables membership was picked over by the raiding guilds — most joined another Guild for the Unguildables, a few remain guildless to this day. Poorer, but wiser, one could say.

That’s not what I would say. I’d say: Know thy Guild Banker’s phone number and address. I think you know where I’m going with that.