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Posted by iTZKooPA on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - 42 Comments

Tags: coldarra, columns, don't fear in crowded places, fun fights, hero of azeroth, knowing your spec, leveling, PvE, questing, survival

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By amanda on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 1:43 pm

this reminds me that I need to work on my rogues PVP

By Justin on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm

sadly i have never experienced this due to that fact im an OP ret pally that never looses mana and when i need some more health i pop an instant Flash of Light from the soon to be nerfed Art of War talent.

By Zumo on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 1:53 pm

The amount of times i’ve gone through 5-6 mobs on my ret pally, with another one appearing from nowhere right after I kill the last one…

Its just as well they’re madly OP, or i’d have a much larger death count

By Sam on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 2:02 pm

My only story was on KT in Naxx 10 man. I was the better geared tank (almost all T7.5), but was OT to give another tank more experience.

I was just dps’ing KT waiting to pickup the adds at 40% when the MT goes down. I pickup KT for a bit while a pally throws on some tank gear to take KT while I go back to the adds when they spawn. Not long after the pally goes down (which isn’t exactly surprising considering he didn’t have full tank gear on).

So I’m back on KT. Then the adds come out, so now I’m tanking KT and both adds. At this point most of the DPS was down. I think there was 1 hunter, no melee and 2 or 3 healers left. Couldn’t really tell how much range was left considering I have KT and 2 gigantic guardians blocking my view. I’m throwing out every survival ability a warrior has while still being a significant portion of the dps.

We were able to take KT down just as the healers go oom. Quite a nail biting win, and kudos to the healers as well.

By Phanttas on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 2:14 pm

Great story and post iTZKooPA,
Though I can’t think of any particularly impressive one’s at this very moment, I tend to enjoy getting myself into situations where I push myself (and if all else fails Feign Death FTW =P ).
One that I can think of at the moment though is once in leveling in borean tundra I was on a quest where you have to go up to a floating place (kinda like a min naxx) to deal with some elite mob. I was trying to solo it as a group quest because I was only in Borean Tundra for the quest achieves and gold etc. after being to howling Fjord before-hand. Any way not realizing after teleporting up to the mini-naxx that I had to teleport to a higher section to get the quest guy, I saw a mob who looked pretty tough and thought it must be him. I pounced and after a fairly long shoot out I eventually had to feign death. But that was not the end! After ressing my pet and a quick food based recuperation I went again. This time knowing to keep kiting and using my cooldowns sparingly etc. The only problem with this kiting is the extra mobs I run into backwards. They weren’t gonna stop me though, a quick cc on my main target, get the adds, then back to him. I saw he was nearing his death and kept kiting proud of my soon to be accomplishment, only to fall into another problem with my kiting… another tough guy. luckily I had just finished off number one and of course I was able to turn round to take my add-less route back. I was fairly low on health though at this point, but I had to do it! Several frost traps, serpent stings and concussive shots later I emerged victorious, but also without having completed the quest, leaving the completion with a slightly bitter taste, but still very happy.
I did realize my mistake and found the actual guy to kill. After wiping a few times, I got a lvl 80 guild mate to help. (The quest guy I stood no chance on)
I just checked now, guy 1 was Vanthryn the merciless and guy 2 was Luthion the vile.
Little shiny boxes don’t have to make you get a great feeling of acomplisment.
But they do help =P

By Deathguard on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 2:53 pm

Nice comment , i had one of those back when i was grinding for reputation in Zul’drak(Argent Crusader left over quest’s ) . I was on my shaman when this happend , i was taking two troll mobs fighting them off , no self respecting shaman will put his guard down even with mobs , but i got tired and it was late so i didnt bother to put on my shield’s or any totems on the ground (enchancement). But suddenly when i was just about to eat/drink a rouge 78 and a hunter 75 jumped at me in lightning speed. Normaly i would /spell ghost wolf but i wont go down that easy. I quickly /drink some potion’s for mana and a battle elixir (forgot it ) and Started on the rouge , lucky for me the hunter didnt unleash his pet . I was starting to “PWN” the rouge and healing my self on the time , ofcourse my macros worked for the mana part (Shamanistic Rage ftw) And then at the peack 2% health i was almost dead , instant healing wave made me even better ^^. I jumped at the hunter and at the same moment my CD for the spirit wolfs has been ended . Now it’s time to get serious i putted heroism / spirit wolfs up and i started to fight that hunter . Mostly being slowed and ice frozen. But i finished her of with my fast healing/self (Heroism ftw). When i left out of the battle area i marked this moment with a screenshot and how the two were dead before me , even SSed the combat log ^^.

By Alayea on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 3:39 pm

I’ve got two PvE and one PvP experiences that I particularly remember.

PvE #1: This was a few months back when I was still doing 5-man heroics on a regular basis. So anyway, heroic Oculus was the daily and I joined up with a pug. I can’t remember what classes the dps were, but the tank was a prot pally. We didn’t have any problems with the bosses until we got to Mage-Lord Urom. All the dps died while the boss still had about two-thirds (or so) of his hp remaining, which left me and the tank having to pick up that role in addition to our own. Thanks to the pro tank and my large mana pool, we managed to down the boss despite the prolonged fight (I was quit oom by the time we were finished).

PvE #2: This took place in Naxxramas 10. I was quite overgeared for this, but my brother needed a healer for his pug and I figured it was a good opportunity to get drops for my offspec. So we go in, down a quarter or two… We get to Anub’rekhan and start up the boss fight. It goes off well at first, but then — and I don’t recall how — the other two healers besides myself ended up getting killed while the boss still had around 50% health left, as well as a good chunk of our dps. Thankfully, my brother was a prot pally and so threw up as many cooldowns as possible and healed himself while I was going all-out healing him and what dps we had remaining. It was quite a frantic fight, but we did not wipe.

PvP: This occurred when patch 2.4 was still the most recent content patch and I was a full-time enhancement shaman. I was in a group with my brother and one of his friends. We were in an AV battleground and really the only ones who were defending the Horde hut. So when you have one wave of enemy players after the other coming at you, it’s typically not a good sign. Fortunate for us, my bro’s friend was an experienced resto druid. So while my brother and I fought off the Alliance, he kept healing us… and the Alliance just couldn’t get to him before they’d end up dead. It was the best PvP experience I’d ever had, because I was deeply drawn into the fight and relished all those waves coming at us. We were eventually going to lose due to it being a long endurance fight against superior numbers, but we managed to hold on long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

By Keltoroq on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 3:55 pm

Well my new craze now is making dungeons with a friend. I mean only one. Two people dungeons is the best challenge ever.

Ok my friend is level 80 and im 72 but doing outland dungeons like this really presents a challenge since one of us is not a healer. One dk and a hunter that’s how we roll…

Well the dk is the healer in this case hehe. I just stand back and DPS.
But many memorable moments especially in bad pulls…
I got to try it in Northrend dungeons but only when i am a little “bigger”…I just love the run and fire thing hehe…and being a alchemist/herbalist brings that extra healing you need…

Any more two dungeons guys or gals out there?
Really it’s much more fun than 5 people dungeons….try it…

See ya

By Keltoroq on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 3:59 pm

Ahh yes and i remember a memorable Arathi Basin in that we were winning by a large margin and from nowhere some new adittions to the horde faction turns thing around…

But we regroup, talk, and make our way to again winning….i almost got that AB achviment when you win 2000-1990…….dam they had like 1900…..and it took like almost two hours….
That was amazing and that’s when AB became my favorite battleground….
I just love being in the mine hehe

See ya guys

By Xian on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm

Sadly I have no stories of “uber pwnage” on the same scale as most of the comments above me. Closest I can come is one PvE and one PvP story, neither of which are all that epic.

PvE: Level 70 holy paladin vs Abdul the insane.

Level 72 elite mob with some nasty immunities. Immune to stun, fear, etc.

So I’m on the quest where you have to steal his staff from down in the hold. Being nooby the way I am, I thought I had to kill him to get said staff. So I engage. He’s pounding away on my shield and my health is dropping rapidly. I heal myself using holy shock and then an instant flash of light from the Infusion of Light proc. Using mostly white damage and keeping consecration up the whole time (seal/blessing of wisdom ftw) he takes forever to go down. I didn’t think to time it, but I imagine the fight took about 5 minutes.

Now for the PvP aspect of the game. I’m level 80 and a retribution spec paladin. I had just finished a run of the Stormwind Stockades (Blood Elf pally ftw), and decided that instead of burning my hearthstone to get out, I would fight my way out of the stockades and back to the harbor. With no pvp gear on at all, I fought off an 80 spriest, an 80 DK and another 80 pally, plus several npcs (mostly guards). I kill the DK and nearly kill the spriest when the pally shows up. I bubble and heal myself then go after that priest again. After about a minute or two, I get killed. I laugh at the fact that it took 3 80s and several npcs to bring me down. That made my day and lessened the sting from being killed.

By Raethos on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 4:30 pm

I was running H DKT on my ret pally, and we got to the last boss. At about 50%, it’s just me and the tank left because the healer didn’t understand the fight. The tank essentially doing all dps while I healed with the wrong spec and gear, we downed him =D

I was soloing a group quest on my DK, something involving waves of mobs, and for some reason the waves started pulling nearby random mobs with them. About 10 minutes of solid combat with 4+ mobs at a time, all around my level with the occasional elite thrown in for good measure. I love this game.

By adam on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm

My most memorable experience with this was sapphiron.

Just your average day.
I was dpsing on my DK.
Thanks to the layout of the raid, i’d been given enough health buffs to pass as a tank xD

So we’re going through saph.
as usual, then the Ranged starts getting rather idiotic, and moved round the back of saph.

Fair enough, saph was looking pretty sorry for himself around about now.
he was on about 3%
and popped his ice block thing.

Only for it to hit the two range that were behind him..

First thought was…oh…great…
No one made it to them in time…

But i had another idea…
You know that drink that has the same effect?
Through no fault of my own i had one on me.

accidentally opened my backpack, saw it, poped it. Survived the frost attack.
immediately into frost presence, saph 1 shotted both the ranged.
So its just me. and saph at 1%

I poped EVERYTHING

I killed him with 500 health to spare.
And the vent went wild

By Dulica on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm

I’m a weenie, and even as a lvl 73 fury warrior, I tend to stay away from things that might kill me. that’s always my question to my guildies when going into a new area/instance…”what’s going to kill me a lot?”. I tend to finish up with one mob of baddies just as I’m healing/drinking a pot when they respawn right where I am! Once they are down, I mount up and get the hell out of there!

By Brokenwing on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 6:45 pm

Turtle boat that connects Howling/Dragonsblight/Borean… I’m elemental shaman, I knocked 5 horde players off the boat in the middle of the ride! Enjoy the swim back!

By Ojimaru on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 7:07 pm

5? 8 mobs? *patpat* Try 30 and an Elite. Back in TBC I ran as a Prot Pally. When it time to grind rep for Aldor I paid my first visit to the Demon Slayer training grounds. There were about 30-ish Demon Slayers sparring each other and their Elite Swordmaster pacing about. The whole lot went down to Holy Shields, Retribution Aura and Consecration. Good times.

By Wittgenstein on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 8:09 pm

“Turtle boat that connects Howling/Dragonsblight/Borean… I’m elemental shaman, I knocked 5 horde players off the boat in the middle of the ride! Enjoy the swim back!”

That’s the THING! Entrance of Naxx + 5 opp.faction players + elemental shaman = profit!

By Nnohhbody on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 at 11:54 pm

June 3rd: doing Thaddius25 with a slight PuG, i’ve grp’d with some of these ppl b4, mainly the guild i do 25OS on tuesdays with them…anyways after a wipe we regroup yea thats right regroupd not gather more ppl, we all stayd..anyways(again) we fight him and are doing very well, at 25% ppl stat dieing, now i play a mage so when the charges change i just Blink to the other side, he had 15 sec on Enrage timer with 1%, he Enraged and we wiped at 9k, had he foucusd on another person one of my Fireballs could’ve killd him, i Crit 5-8.5k with tons of DoTs……

this is a achievement story: Ulduar 10: Hodir we did really well, we all stayd up (this was our 3rd try) now as he died i got the Achi “Cheese Freeze” but as i got it i got Flash Frozen which if u dont know not gettin it is the achi

last story i remember: Maly25: I rejoind a Naxx25 grp for cleanup, but not alot of ppl showd up so the leader decides to switch us to Maly25, as im a loot junckie i was okay…..we were mostly PuG’d and guess what, one-shot, no deaths, a minute away from the time’d kill….so awesome….

By Thurin on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 12:38 am

We on Steamwheedle EU have a little RP guild called the Mountaineers.

Now, three of us like to PvP so occasionally we group up and go to some BGs.

One day we went to Warsong Gulch and tried out usualy tactic of defense and got swarms of Hordies attacking. With only two Hunters and a Paladin, we completely decimated waves and waves of people with full PvP gear, even up to 6 of them at a time. We were rather happy.

Also, one time I was fighting Noth (10man) and he was on about 3%-ish health, everyone died but me and I decided to go all heroic-y. I popped all my cooldowns and managed to kite him around for about 30 seconds using all my skill and abilities and I killed him.
For that show, I was automatically given the boots.

By Hjálmar on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 6:11 am

My last moment like that was actually yesterday when i was lvling my DK i was grinding threw 6 mobs and just as i finished the last one i was at 456hp and sat down and started eating but just as i was starting to eat i was jumped by a druid 2 lvls higher and i was ant 523hp so i thaught well to bad corpes run and repair. BUT i was at 197hp and he was about to finish me off when all the suddenly i was shielded.

heald to full and at full power i started to knocking that druid down from 4000 to 900 in just few seconds.

but now he heald well i just tried to death strike him to get some exrta hp.

what do u know a crit and a kill.

the battle that started by me almost dead ended in a victory for me!

FOR THE HORDE!!!!!!

By Unholyone on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 6:29 am

A long time ago on a realm far far away ….

Arathi
Basin!

An AOE Stike

It is Pre TBC, Dementedone The Mage, and his Deceased
wife Dementshea The Priest take position at the mine. With
no back up forces they keep a close watch on the horizon.
Intel chatter picks up a warning ‘INC MINE! INC MINE LOTS!’

The first wave strikes from the south, Dementedone sniping
off invaders from afar, Dementshea negating incoming damage.
Assailants then spotted coming from the north. Back to back
on top of the flag, The Mage and Priest watch in horror as
an entire army descend upon them from every direction, a full
twelve invaders coming in for the kill.

‘Prowler Claw tactic?’ offers Dementedone, a quiet prayer
escapes Dementshea’s decayed lips, ‘Was a long time ago
dearest… ‘ she mummbled then commanded the words of power
to shield them from the imminent threat.

Calling upon all the powers bestowed upon them, draining every
last mote of magic within them, poised on the brink, prepared
to unleash a torrent of arcane and barrage of holy death to
all living creatures within ten yards, they hold their
breath…..

‘Wait… Wait… wait… NOW!’ Dementedone initiates the
AOE strike just as the enemy fall into range. Explosion
after explosion fill the air, the stuggle lasts just seconds
yet the two undeads, perhaps blessed by the Old Gods, or
maybe just with a lucky roll of the dice, are left standing,
the center of a ring of death.

The two glance at each other in disbelief… not knowing
how to respond to the Battleground chatter..
‘OMG! how are you two still alive?!….’

Dementshea reports ‘Mine Safe…’

By Draikking on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 9:00 am

So many stories…. here comes mine

This was soon after the launch of TBC, i had yet to reach 60 even with my ret(or was i holy?) paly, let alone buy the expansion, anyway i was out mining in Alterac Mountains for Iron/Mithiril for my BS when a warr just under skull level jums tanking 50% of my life b4 i even know whats going on i bubled and seing his level and my still standing hp i did the only logical thing and ran for the hills hoping he only wanted the nodes for himself but he wouldnt give so i said what the heck im dead on buble fail anyway at least im gona go down fighting so i trough a holy light( just in time as buble failed halfway trough and the warr started chopping my ass) turned around JoL,SoC HoJ JoC HL..LoH.. etc next thing thing i know i was 20% he was 5% hp =)) excute is a bumber dough… almost had him XD

By naihcul on Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 4:30 pm

this was shortly after i hit 70 back in BC i was rideing around lvling my herbalism on my warlock. I just happened 2 be in tarren mill when i see a group of hordies rez, being an undead i stop and notice that they are all pvp flagged. at this point i didnt have a whole lot of pvp gear just some of the easy stuff to get and the frozen shadowweave gear back before the nerf. i figured i would hang out for a bit and see if my new little buddies needed any help they all mana up and heal and after a few mins i run off to go pick some flowers. i come back to my little crew just as the alliance group that hit them before comes around the corner. the allys that come around the corner and lvl 45 and up and the horde group is around lvl 25 or so. well the allys see me and stop, and to tell the truth i think its in bad taste to attack players that are way lower than you in world pvp, so i was going to leave them alone. but then one of the allys attack one of the lowbie horde guys, i promptly blow him up and his group i get a bunch of tells from the lowbie horde guys saying thanks apparently that group had be camping them for a while. i hung with my new group of lowbies and slaughtered the other group one more time before heading off into the sunset.

By Kazark on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 8:56 am

I’ve had too many of these to even sort out, but the pile of bodies always makes me think that the mobs should notice and act different when they see a pile of corpses at your feet.

The trolls in Eastern Plaguelands are about the mobs that run for help first. This should be a more common behavior, especially when they can see you’ve already got a headcount.

My favorite story is my brother’s though, back in Un’goro Crater in classic WoW days. He can milk the story, but it basically involves a chain of 7 mobs with no rest on his holy pally. He defeats them all and sits, only to be devoured by the Devilsaur.

Hate them Devilsaurs.

By cocopuff on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 9:48 am

i renember my first AB ever it was really intence horde and alliance trading of bases and blows alll leading up to the one final battle in the farm alliance had 2 bases and horde had 2 bases horde ere in the lead allliance charged farm but horde refused to go down without a fight allmost intantly the battle bgan the battel normal just a 1 on one and then backup arrived the battle quickly escalated neither side wanted to give in allliance and horde pured in from all sides untill it was 15vs15 battle frost bolts fire bolts wrats bolts shodow bolts curses bullets arrows flying at and by me pats running arround looking to take the bite out of teh competition both 2 handers and one hander swords axes hemmers all kind of maces and plolearns swinging every whear death every whear and i was getting into the toon my gun ang like musical instrument the battle went on non stop for 10 minets just when i thought the battle was over and we lost reinforcements came in allliaance finnaly took farm and battle started to sattle down and shortly afterte battle was over and alliance had won this was the summer of 2006 never since was their a batle like that these days when allliance enters AB they get completly raped or completly rape thier is no middle ground like thier was on that sunny summer day but ot os sure is fun reminising about it

By Castorcato on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 9:54 am

PVE:

57/3/11 Arcane Mage, At UP fighting Skadi the Ruthless. So everythings okay untill the Healer gets in the way of Skadis Bladestorm and promptly dies. Another DPS goes down, I believe it was a Lock.

While watching my comrades valiently die I finished my Evocation and popped Mana Gem and my Trinket/Buff/Procs Macro and went all out with full mana. The Tank died soon after hitting Last Stand and shortly after the Fury Warrior fell too. Skadi was on 9% and I shat my pants. Icy Veins and Arcane Power was up and I gave it my all, spamming Arcane Blast and Missile procs, I slowed him, flipped and blinked and repeated. He went down literally 5yards from me. It was epic. Really!

PVP: Quite recently I went Deep Fire for PVP just to have fun blowing things up. In AB we were losing and the end game was nearing. A large group of about 6 Allies made their way to Farm and started tearing up Hordies on the way. As I aproached the bridge near Blacksmith their was one legendary Frost Mage kiting the 6 or so Allies at a very near death stage, he Ice blocked and saw me coming, I Frost Novad for him, he unIceblocked and Blinked and Evocated his health and mana back up.

I desperately tried to cause as much chaos as possible while Blastwaving a few into the river, instant flamestrike Dragons Breathing and another instant flamestrike followed, I neared death with a bubbled Pally on me, Iceblocked and my fellow Frosty came into play. Long story short we switched aggro every now and then like they were mobs. Epic. One survived, I think it was a Vanish Rogue that Cloak of Shadowed my Living Bomb. It was so surreal, I know how it happened, they were cocky in numbers, and Ive been there, it can happen!

Castocato - Troll Mage/ Steamwheedle Cartel EU.

By cocopuff on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 10:26 am

hey naihcul was taht on garona and was that guy a male dwarf hunter cause if he was i think that was my business you stock your nose in

By cocopuff on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 10:40 am

this is why alliance never win anything they dont thiink

By Noric on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

I was running ZF on my hunter, just helping a friend out (she was running a mage). In the middle of a pretty good sized pull the healer aggroed a pat and went down. Everyone else seemed to panic. The tank and the other dps went down pretty quick. It was my friend and I against 6 elite mobs. I let my pet tank them and run around the room trying to avoid damage while I picked them off one by one. With 4 left my friend went down. I was just about feign and be done with it when she whispered me telling me to wipe because there was no way I was going to kill them. I threw yet another heal onto my pet, and another trap down. I was determined to take them out now. I took out 2 more solo and was forced to use Aspect of the Viper already. My pet went down with two to go. I dropped a trap to freeze one of them whilw I kited th other. Just as the trap broke I killed the first. I then hit the last guy with a Concussive shot, switched to Aspect of the Hawk and wailed on him for everything I was worth. Being BM spec, I was worth much ithout my pet. But I was able to kite the last as well. He died to a Raptor Strike, the only melee attack I did in the entire battle.

By Weeney on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 1:15 pm

I have a few of these stories, but the best one is when I was fighting Thad in Naxx and we brought a noob to raiding, lvl 80 to get him some gear. We made him stay out for this fight because after explaining it to him alot he still didnt get it. I don’t know how it is a rather simple fight. anyways what happened is when We were about 2/3 the way through he jumped in from the side lines thinking he got the fight. Well he was wrong after crossing debuffs a few times we were all about dead. At this point the boss is at 5% health but our dps is gone and we have 1 tank and 2 heals and me and him as dps.
The boss hits 2%health, and our noob guildy ret pally crosses again killing the tank him and 1 healer. The healer gets targeted throws me a Power word:shield, and goes down. Thad Has 18k health at this point, so everyone on vent is screaming, lmao. I used vampiric blood, Rune tap, 2 Deathstrikes, Death coil, and another Death coil. I killed Thad just in the nic of time I was realy close to dead but still pulled it off. Everyone in my guild still talks about that as one of the best fights. Right after I killed him I threw up a Grr, 3 ROFLMFAO, and a train.

By gabereal1 on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 3:54 pm

there hasnt been a new anything on this site for 3 days. PL famine.

By Robingtons on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

good post its the OH SHIT moments that make this game so good

By sarrabi on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 5:35 pm

well I have one, I was grinding for emblems of heroism and I ended up in a pug for the heroic old kingdom:
druid healer
mage and palladin dps
me death knight dps
palladin tank
we fought our way through pretty easily up until we got to the twilight guys and their elementals where we died a few times, after that we decided to go straight for Jedoga Shadowseeker. everyone knew the fight so we thought, we can do this easy. the fight starts and we do well until the first volunteer comes, some one doesn’t attack so boss gets her buff and we lose the two dps but me, and I ghoul one of them up, we go through that several times, with the pally I ghouled up dying after the next volunteer. our mage actualy released and ran back to the boss but died upon reaching us because he was hit by all the boss’s aoe attacks. after the third volunteer I died too. the druid remembered his combat rez finally and brought me up, but with only a tank and one dps on the boss, we couldn’t get her down before like another two or three volunteers. We were so lucky, but I wised I could say I had tanked or healed that fight instead.

By Zidius on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 at 6:36 pm

most of my “war stories” involve some PvP action one of my proudest was when i was on a DK i had made outta sheer boredom….it was on a PvP realm and like many i am always hungry for some horde blood given the oppurtunity so if i saw some unknowing horde i would attack them….

One particular paladin was not to pleased about me thoroughly owning her and got some friends to chase me around the group consisted of a 61 DK, her (a 60 holy pally), and a 70+ (skull level but in Merc equip but definately not above 75 i assume 72) first i thought meh i’ll kill her again and just corpse run for a bit…but then an idea struck me i began to fight-walk to The temple of Telhamat dieing only once over the short distance…immediately some guards jumped into the fray doing some dmg but not lasting long enough against the hunter who continued chasing me….with some quick thinking (and some luck) i got close enough to the flight master that a multi shot had hit him summoning those (never prettier) hippogryphs who the hunter “tanked” while his pet (core hound) held off the flight master….obviously this was not a challenge but i had an advantage i was blood specced….this meant i had Mark of Blood which i slapped onto the Flight master and began to hack away at the pet as best i could….the pet didn’t last very long so we (FM and I) started on the hunter killing not only him but the other DK who wondered a bit to close this continued for about an hour as a back and forth until eventually there were less and less guards to assist me….and the fact i saw an 80 BE pally fly by didn’t help

Although i didn’t win the entire time the whole thing made me feel good just because a little quick thinking and use of regular NPC mechanics allowed me to give 3 horde a run for their money it just goes to show ya there IS some though you need to put into WoW

By Khaynne on Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 1:45 am

ok i wasnt gonna post this, but seeing a lack of hunter pride i have to enlighten you all to this little gem of a story, so here goes…….. back when i hit 76 i started the sordid tale of loque’nahak spawn camping, ill spare you the details safe to say taht like almost every other story you have ever read, i was making a pass before logging and BAM!!! there he is, in my sleep induced noobocity i forgot i was on my flying mount and dismounted only to land and find a horde hunter attempting to tame my new pet, being as how i really wanted that pet (i had been camping him for about a month at this time) i again forget about the rules of battle and just start firing off arrows into this tauren with full life ( remember i had just fallen victim to gravity from a flying mount, and had only 50% hp at the most) of course since he was smart and tagged loque first i had to either kill him ot smash my keybard when he finished taming, so i blew every cooldown i had and battle/guardian elixirs, and proceeded to revoke his taming priviledges, unfortunately he brought a friend, who was afk up until the end, the tauren goes down, and i lay my freeze trap down just in time to catch a warrior charge, which makes him trigger the trap and, thanks to my rotation being nearly perfect i kited him til dead (where the hunter was at this time is unknown), once again i lay down a freeze trap and begin taming (10% life, screw healing this cat is gonna be mine) by the grace of illidan just as i finish taming and before i can raise my dorito stained fist in a solo victory salute i see the hunter get back up, so just to add insult to injury i send in MY loque’nahak blow bestial wrath, and watch as he gets soloed by the kitty (laughing the whole time, he tried to snare me cat) anyway i got the cat, and 3 HK’s all with under 10% life when it was all said and done. and everytiem i go through scholazar basin, im on the lookout for hordies, moreso than ever

By Blight on Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 8:58 am

One of my Favorite PvP times was Vanilla WoW, and I helped defend Sentinel Hill against a level 60 Warrior and some lower leveled friends of his on my level 56 Mage. I beat him and his friends back a few times, and eventually he rez’ed after his PvP Flag dropped (PvE Server) and we Duel’d, and I felt so good about handing his arse to him in my mostly green and some blue gear.

Another Epic Vanilla WoW experience was with my Wife on our Shaman Orcs. She was Elemental, I was Enhance. We were doing a quest where you had to kill the elite dwarves in the South East of Hillsbrad Foothills, back when Elites were pretty tough. We had setup our Totems and started blasting away, when we ended up pulling 3 of em (Oh noes!), and basically what seemed to happen was we’d kill 1 and 2 more would respawn and aggro on us. We spent a few minutes in just pure battle, low on mana for most of the fight, and just chewing through whatever we could. We manged to stay alive through it all and get more then enough kills in before we finally got out of combat.

Just recently I was doing Halls of Stone. I was playing another Shaman (Elemental) with a Druid Healer, DK Tank, and the other DPS was Shadow Priest and Ret Paladin. I was on the top of my game too, and having fun knocking the charge stun golems back to the tank with Thunderstorm.

However, during a trash pull I notice that the tank dies and I got all the aggro. I ended up healing, tanking and still doing decent DPS while I kiting (Earthbind 5 second root FTW) and nuking. We find out later that the Healer got DC’d. O.o

Then we get to Sjonnir. We’re all setup and ready, and start the fight doing okay. We get Sjonnir down to 50% when the tank goes down again. Uh-oh, this is a boss fight, not your typical Trash, and it’s Heroic difficulty, hosed right? Maybe not, I got the aggro from Sjonnir, but notice I’m catching heals this time, okay, not so bad, but I can’t kite Sjonnir, immune to Earthbind and Thunderstorm knockback, totally hosed. I’m doing my best, throwing off my instant casts, (Gnomish Lightning Generator, Elemental Mastery, Fire Shock) but I’m unable to kite this guy, and he’s going to 1 shot me, but I’m determined to knock him as far down as possible.

However, I did have one trick up my sleeve to buy me a few seconds, Nitro Boots! I bolt off and get out a Chain Lightning (double!) and Lava Burst before Sjonnir catches up to me again. At this point we had him down to 10%, and he crits me for 13k (I only had 16k health buffed and was already hurting) and it was game over for me. But the other 2 DPS and healer managed to take off that last 10%. Again, we find out that the healer had DC’d, and must of come back in right around the time the tank dropped.

One of the things that helped though was I dropped my Earth Elemental Totem next to the Healer to grab the adds off of him. I noticed the Earth Elemental died right before I grabbed aggro, so I’m guessing it pulled Sjonnir after the tank dropped, giving DPS enough time time to do even more damage and the healer enough time to reconnect.

Overall though, it was a great group, and we never wiped (tank was great at grabbing aggro, and healer, when connected was great.)

I’m really enjoying Elemental Shaman, for PvE, I prefer no other. I also got to save a party wipe on Hadronox when the healer died in the poison cloud warning other people not to stand in the poison cloud, and I took over as healer. However, oddly enough, when I go group healer though, I pretty much suck… which might just be my luck and bad groups… I’m not sure.

By cocopuff on Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 10:24 am

damn bllight dude and you say i have allot of time on my hands

By Zatkhar on Monday, July 6th, 2009 at 1:19 pm

I remember once, back pre-TBC in the old AV. We (Alliance) had released the Forest Lord and the Horde had released the Ice Lord. There was chaos, most of the people fighting around the Stoneheart bunker. The Alliance people who got ressed at the bridge just kept running back, this lasted for a little while.

So, at one point, my guildies and I (we were about 20 people) decided to kill the Ice Lord, who by now was inside the Stormpike base, tearing up stuff. It was a long fight, and when he got to about 20% there was just me and the tank left (me being a healing-specced priest and him being a feral-dps specced guy with loads of PvP gear). Everybody assumed we had wiped on him, so they just went back to fighting the Horde instead. But we got him down, I popped two mana potions just for that

By aadjed on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 2:23 am

Last night in heroic Naxx we were fighting 4HM. Thane n the baron go down np. because of a mix up at the lady almost the whole raid dies and only 2 tanks n 3 healers r up. they take down the lady n have sir whatshisname at 50%. after like 5 mins of nail biting they kill her. Was awesome to see how they worked the debuffs out. /cheers /applauds went out numerously.

By Unholybane on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 8:48 am

lol, on my DK i get insane amounts of mobs on me for fun, if im in blood spec. its just too easy. zerg a couple kills, heal, zerg a couple more, heal

it goes on like that till they all die XD

By Ombrenoire on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 9:35 am

Hmm, great momemt of survival…

Had to be the time we decided to run a Heroic Nexus for the first time with an inexperienced tank, a priest with a death wish, a pure Shadow Priest, a Ret Pally with some knowledge of the instance, and me (BM Hunter at the time).

Every mob we pulled ended in a death of our main healer until she was full on in the red when we finally ended the run.

So the fight was on Grand Magus Telestra, you know, the annoying elf that splits into 3 magic aspects into the fight. Everything had started well, agro evenly split between the tank, the Pally, and my cat Light (she can hold her own against any mob easily).

Suddenly the Pally dies. The SP and I open up on his target to burn it down, then switch back to Light’s target. The main healer dies and the SP does the best she can to hold the rest of us up. Light get’s feared and the main tank starts getting pounded on. I open up with everything I have, short of burning through trinkets, to help him out. One aspect dies shortly before she reintegrates.

Telestra is at 35% and the tank dies. I turn on growl and sic Light on her as the SP and I launch everything we have left.

25% and Light gets feared. I gain agro to save my only heals for attacks. As Light comes back, I get polymorphed. The SP does her damnedest to keep my cat alive.

10% and the SP dies. Oh crap!!

5% and Light is at 50% health. I cast distracting shot to gain agro to let Light heal a bit. When I reach 50% Light is back to 100% so I FD to give her agro.

2% and Light dies. I am on my own! The rest of my group has not made it back to me yet. Where the hell are they?!?!?!

1% and I have 45% health left.

And finally she dies with me at 15%.

My comment in chat at that point: “You just realized that a BM Hunter just took down the last 10% of a Heroic mode boss on her own?”

Laughter ensued as I needed to be put on a ventilator to calm my racing heart.

By Waru on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 1:07 pm

I’ve had a few close calls myself but most of the time i trigger them on purpose out of curiosity or sheer boredom.

I was playing my shaman, elemental spec’d lvl 64 at the time, just doing a few quests in nagrand trying to get a nice little blue mace. I was over by the nagas just killing on at a time going 1-3-2-4, when i saw it, 2 mages,a slaver,and a group of 2 slaves.

so i threw down my totems, replacing my stoneskin totem with earthbind and gave em a good old chain lightning and a few lightning bolts. of course they reached me in no time, I popped my frostshock on the slaver and kited all the slaves (4 in all bringing the total mobs to 7) through my earthbind totem and they all ended up getting the proc from the talent in ele that stops them completely for about 5 seconds so i take that time to spam some shocks and lightning and ended up killing 3 of them and in that time the mages were starting to get to me and the slaver had caught up so i ran through the slave and slaver to the mages BAM thunderstorm, kills the slave and slaver and send the mages flying interrupting some spells, i throw myself a heal and spam my lightning at them untill they fall down.

By Blight on Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 at 7:27 am

One of my most disappointing solo attempts was when I was trying to do the quest Natural Remedies in Hellfire Peninsula at level 61… because, holy crap did I want those caster mail gloves!

No one apparently groups for this quest anymore, so I figured what the heck. My equipment was pretty weak overall though, and that’s what worried me.

I didn’t do any significant clearing of the area, just 1 giant that interrupted me while I was trying to do the cleansing. I had trouble before with these stupid elementals because I just couldn’t kite them as they would leash back (apparently people were kiting them to guards and I dunno Blizzard got all panties in a bunch about it.)

So, I summon the guy trying to remember if he had the same, knocks off shardlings that attack you that the other Colossi had, when I was reminded of another ability he had, knockback. So, I’m doing okay, the fight isn’t going to badly, basically, I cast my DPS, he knocks me back and I heal up, drop Earthbind to catch the shardlings and DPS again, no biggie.

Well, the lack of clearing up the area, and the knockback was making things interesting. So, I get knocked back at one point and aggro a Raging Colossus. Which, as long as you don’t DPS the Raging Colossus isn’t much of a problem, their DPS is manageable when they don’t have shardlings out adding to theirs. At this point I have Goliathon down to 50% or so, and I’m definitely looking to finish the fight. Boom, another knockback into 2 other Raging Colossi. So now, there’s 3 Raging Colossi on me, as well as Goliathon and his shardlings, but at this point Goliathon is around 25%, I can do this!

And this is the part that pissed me off… As Goliathon was approaching me from the second knockback he did, he leashed! Even though I had Flame Shock ticking away on him, he leashed.

He ran back and reset to full health, unbelievable! After he reset, I ran out of aggro and rested to full health and mana, snuck my way past the Colossi again, and tried to fight him again, but each time, he would reset after running to me from the knockback he did.

So, basically, Blizzard made Goliathon leash so people couldn’t kite him to guards, and a short leash too (I think maybe 50 yards) but didn’t remove the 30 yard knockback he did. So, basically, after two knockbacks, you were out of his leash range. >.<

It would of been pretty epic though to have killed him with all the other aggro I got.