Quiz: You're a Priest, and the best dagger in the game drops. What do you do?

[Train Wreck]

(Not sure what happened to the original body.  In short, a griefer rolled for it and took a pic of himself disenchanting it to prove how l33t he is.  And no, it wasn't me.  I'll consider myself l33t if I can make it to lvl 30.)

[Ardent]

You're a priest?

Pray.

Or ask the Pope.

[Paelos]

Do priests use daggers? Are there like three rogues in my group? Why am I a priest to begin with? I like to cut things.

[Rasix]

Interesting body of the post there.

Anyhow, I assume you're talking about Deathstriker.  If you're a priest, and you roll on Deathstriker, you're an asshole.  You're probably the type of person that pushes old ladies into puddles, doesn't flush after crapping in a public toilet and reads the newspaper really loud to themselves in public places.   

I can't see the type of priest that rolls on this.  This is a toy for you.  A gimmick.  This is a rogues ub0r weapon that most will never see drop.  Still, if someone allows it, by all means, roll away. Just realize you're the only person rolling besides a warlock that probably gets 0 use out of it and that you're a horrible person that will spend eternity writhing in hell.

Same thing goes for a rogue rolling on a high dps mace that procs clearcasting.  You're vile slime and your own mother doesn't like you.

[Yoru]

It's quite obvious; you roll a 100 on it and claim it's for your level 3 rogue alt. Conveniently ignore any cries about it being bind on pickup. Hum merrily to yourself as rogues, hunters and anyone with a so-called 'legitimate' use for a dagger angrily berate you and potentially attempt to get you killed.

In the case that this happens during combat, you should also completely cease healing/shielding your groupmates and spend the next fifteen minutes ogling the little icon in your inventory because you're just that cool. You may wish to power word: shield yourself in case something cuts through the tank during your ogling session.

[Train Wreck]

Not sure what happened to the post's body.  No, I'm not a priest.  I read about it on the WoW forums.  My lvl 16 warlock isn't going to be seeing anything uber for quite awhile, if ever.

[Paelos]

You shoot the hostage.


Woah.

[Ardent]

You're probably the type of person that pushes old ladies into puddles, doesn't flush after crapping in a public toilet and reads the newspaper really loud to themselves in public places.

Or the guy in the cube across from mine who slurps his coffee. Loud. And emits a satisfied "Ahhhhhhh" after. Every. Mutherfucking. Sip. All day. Every day of my life. He's doing it as I type this.

I suppose I could wish I had Deathstriker with me right now, but if he's as annoying at home as he is at work, I'm sure his family is already actively planning how to dispose of his body.



Um, oh yeah, the dagger. Vendor trash it and buy parrots for all your friends.

[Paelos]

Um, oh yeah, the dagger. Vendor trash it and buy parrots for all your friends.

That's like a whole new level of superevil.

[WayAbvPar]

If this happens to my rogue, I will dedicate what's left of my spare time into making that guy's gaming life a living hell. What a fucking cock.

[HaemishM]

Proving my theory about the Internet once again: "We can't have nice things."

[Ardent]

Wouldn't setting the loot distribution to Need Before Greed have prevented this from happening in the first place?

[Threash]

Need before greed would allow the priest to roll on it since they actually can use daggers.  Group loot would also allow the priest to roll on it since it allows everyone to do so.  Only option for raids is master loot, which of course leads to tons of abuse by raid leaders in pick up groups.  Join a guild of people you trust and never deal with the hell that is pick up groups, your faith in humanity depends on it.

[Ardent]

Very true, Threash. If you get raped, that's a bad thing, but maybe you shouldn't have been in the basketball player's hotel room in the first place.

[Train Wreck]

Here's the thread I found it in.

As far as being in the basketball player's room, isn't WoW designed so that you HAVE to be in his room if you want the best foozles?

[Ardent]

What I meant was, you can choose who to have in the hotel room with you. If you fill it with guildies you know and trust, no worries. If you invite a bunch of strangers, well, hope you brought some patroleum jelly.

EDIT: This analogy may not hold up well in a raid situation, depending on the size of your guild, you may have no choice but to let in a few Kobes into the mix, but it does apply to 5-man groups.

[Calantus]

Master Loot is buggy too such that it doesn't always give you a FULL list of the party/raid. Which can be fun when the only person that can really use it is the only person not listed. So yeah... most raids are either FFA or group loot.

Btw, I lol'd at your cofee slurping collegue.

[stray]

Proving my theory about the Internet once again: "We can't have nice things."

Like factionalized PvP?

Gosh, I miss Shadowbane. I really do.

[Jobu]

(Not sure what happened to the original body.  In short, a griefer rolled for it and took a pic of himself disenchanting it to prove how l33t he is.  And no, it wasn't me.  I'll consider myself l33t if I can make it to lvl 30.)

Not only did he disenchant it. He learned Enchanting from scratch just to do it.

"Your skill in Enchanting has increased to 2"

That's just too awesomely evil.

[Train Wreck]

The Bastard speaks!

Istdorl :
I am not going to even try to defend myself. Yea I disenchanted the dagger, and yea i dropped 300 herbalism to learn disenchanting so I could do it. That raid was the saddest thing I had ever seen. 33 people, and I die 3 times before leaving the stadium? I ask and cannot get a clear answer on what the loot rules are? And no, I didn't plan on disenchanting it until I got 4 pages worth of hate spam from this server and people from other servers who created newbies for the sole purpose of harassing me about it :) but you know, I really don't care if everyone knows what happened, because the noted disenchant was done precisely for the purpose of massively annoying everyone who massively annoyed me in this entire ordeal.

And Kheldin is right, I follow rules when they are stated to me about loot, such as on their guild. THe rules are clear, stated, and enforced, and I never once even though about stepping out of bounds. I was just so immensely annoyed about last night's entire experience, what the heck. And as for blacklisting, harassing, whatever, feel free to try, but I don't even exist on this petty little soap opera server anymore, and no I don't play on this one either, this was a character I made here when the game started last november. To all the friends I made that were resepctable and competent, I will miss you, but for the idiots I encountered last night, adeu. My former guild and everyone I knew had nothing to do with this, and I apologize for any harassment they may have to endure from idiots who don't realize this was an independent act.

And no, anyone who knows me realizes I am not like this normally, that was just an epicly stupid night, so why not take the epic out of it.

Good luck on the server all... I'm history.

[schild]

This is the second best event to ever occur in an online game.

[Triforcer]

Istdorl :
I am not going to even try to defend myself. Yea I disenchanted the dagger, and yea i dropped 300 herbalism to learn disenchanting so I could do it.

WHAT. THE. FUCK.?>!>!>

That is wrong on so very many levels.  Dropping 300 Herbalism at least shows he wasn't lying when he said he was pissed.  And "This was an epicly stupid night, so why not take the epic out of it" is the greatest line ever spoken in WoW.

[Calantus]

Yeah, when I read the "dropped 300 herb to do so" line it went straight from lame to kickass. Good show.

[Threash]

Hah.  You can do molten core with 33 people, who the hell takes more than 20 to ubrs? you take 20 when you wanna zerg the hell out of it without any chance of wiping.  I can just feel the frustration  a clusterfuck of that magnitude can create and i can easily see someone snapping and doing something totally crazy like that.  I think Chris Rock said it best when talking about O.J. Simpson "i'm not saying he should have done it... i'm just saying i understand".

[Train Wreck]

you take 20 when you wanna zerg the hell out of it without any chance of wiping. 

They don't call them "Keepers of the Zerg" for nothing.


Here's some notable responses to "Robin Hood":

Johnny:
The loot policy was stated at least 5 times, and repeated along the way for the newcomers. Even with english as a second language i got this, why couldnt you?

So yeah you died, go say that to your party members. Like death matters at all. 

Draygo:
Perhaps... or perhaps Istdorl's name will now be forever etched in ER's history for throwing the biggest temper tantrum ever about dying in a Raid Group. I mean... if some Rogue outrolled him on a really rare Blue or even Epic Priest item, then I might have excused his action as in 'an eye for an eye'. But because he died five times...

[stray]

This is the second best event to ever occur in an online game.

And what would be the first?

My money's on Ceciliantus.

[schild]

This is the second best event to ever occur in an online game.

And what would be the first?

My money's on Ceciliantus.

When it happens, you'll be the first to know.

[Ironwood]

That's excellent. 

Truly Class.

[Paelos]

Yeah, he just went from being a 14 year old griefer to a pissed off MMOG player who wanted nothing more than a parting shot in frustration.

That's pretty funny. And these Keeper of the Keg guys sound like asshats.

[HaemishM]

This whole event sounds like the scientific definition of a gaggle of asshats.

[Ironwood]

One question I have though :  Surely Rolling for Loot should be made a non-combat event ?

There have been a couple of times I've clicked the damn thing just because, in combat, I'm actually clicking everything in sight....

I think some newer interface beyond a 'small dice box' is in order.  It's quite unassuming for something so important.

[Jayce]

I don't think that it was too cool of him to do it.

It was an asshole thing to do regardless of how put out he felt by being in a bad raid group.  If he didn't like it, he should have left.

In some circles, dropping all the herbalism would be called "cutting off your nose to spite your face".  It's both asinine and spiteful.  Can't get behind it.

[Paelos]

He was planning on dumping the character anyway, dropping Herbalism was not an issue. This was literally just a big fuck you to the people he didn't like.

And I agree, Blizzard needs to put in something else besides the dice box. I would like a cancellation box after you roll especially so that people can retract errant rolls on crap they don't want. When you have bind on pickup items in the game I would think this is a necessity.

[Train Wreck]

He was planning on dumping the character anyway, dropping Herbalism was not an issue. This was literally just a big fuck you to the people he didn't like.

His claim is that he deleted the lvl 60 Priest, as well.  So yeah, dropping 300 herbalism is moot.  And if the entire server hates you, what else are you going to do?  I would have decided to be the Super Villian, but some people can't stand the heat for long.

[Toast]

I won't glorify those actions by saying what he did was cool of kickass. That's griefing at its highest.

I wish Blizzard would take disciplinary action on his account. In Everquest, "ninja looters" were frequently punished and the item restored to the deserving party. Sometimes, these ninja looters were valid members of the raid who simply disregarded the loot rules to snag something.