Accidental Ganks

[Lovely]

Feel free to add your own funny ganking stories.

So the other day, I was in Stormwind minding my own business, when I answered a call for help from some of our lower level guildies. They were being camped in the badlands by undead rogues, and needed help in a bad way.

Rhowen and I were on the way to help, but Rhowen got sidetracked and I arrived first.

As I rode into the Badlands, I see two undead rogues, who were in their mid forties. I automatically assumed these were the campers, since they were in the same area, and I dismounted and killed them hard, then flashed the /NO emote at them.

I told my guildies that the rogues were dead, and then they responded with "No they aren't. They're still camping us right now."

I had killed the wrong undead rogues.

I felt bad, because I usually never attack anyone without reason. I got paid back when I found the real campers, because by that point they had invited for friends to camp. I got jumped by 5 level 60 horde, 3 of which were undead rogues, and I went down pretty fast. Now I was getting camped!

So anyway, Rhowen and Barke, and Celethorn arrived and chased them off. We then decided to attack their nearby settlement, where we encountered a whole slew of 60's and got stomped again.

Eventually, we gave up and got a good laugh out of it. I danced naked for them until I got attacked, and then bubblehearthed home.

I still can't beleive I killed the wrong people...hehe.

[clys]

I was in the Badlands once and ran into this skanky paladin chick and offed her. Does that count?

:twisted:

[Mortica]

Yeah..Kargath probably has more 60th level Horde in it than Thunderbluff...possibly even UC at any given time of the day.

I don't think it'd be a great target for successful spontaneous raiding.

[Lafiel]

The gank that almost was...

A couple of weeks ago, I was on my way to Scarlet Monastery to escort a couple of my level 30 friends through Cath. (They didn't have a group, I was level 60... It worked out well)

So the three of us are running along the road to SM and we pass a single Undead mage who's level 8. Being nice folks, we don't even break our stride, and just continue on to the instance. The mage, however, thinks he can take us on, and chooses to attack me. His attackes do virtually no damage to me, so my friends and I just laugh and keep going to the instance - but the mage keeps following us and keeps attacking me all the while. After a while, he had managed to take off about 50 of my health points, and I knew that he was looking to test his "Mad PvP Skillz" on a real opponent. (Unfortunately, he chose me...)

While my friends continued on to the Monastery, I stopped and turned to face the brave little mage. I knew that any of my real attacks would probably kill this guy in one hit, and I didn't really want to kill the little guy. But I couldn't let him poke me to death, either. (I have over 3000 health, and it would take MUCH too long.) So I decided to use my bow...

I had been using throwing daggers as a pulling tool, but had just switched to bows so I could get a little extra agility and stamina, and my bow skill was still pretty low.

"Alright, time to poke him back," I figure and I take one shot. I saw a number in the 200's flash, in white, over the mages head and my first thought is "Dang. It didn't crit." Then I look at his health bar... I think there might have been 5 or 6 pixels of green left. Then I start laughing my head off...

The mage stood there for a few seconds and then ran away. Clearly, I had made my point, so I waved and wished him farewell. I also figured that the delay before running was probably him typing his message in the defense channel "HELP!!! High level Alliance ganking me in Tirisfall!!" so I got on my mount and raced to catch up with my friends at the Monastery, where we all shared a good laugh at the mage's expense.

So, when we high level characters attack the lower level characters, it may not be because we're being mean or because we love ganking. It may be because we're being pursued inappropriately and we're just defending our honor... Does that really make us so bad?

[Xeran]

No accidental gank stories on Xeran, but on my Horde warrior on Bloodscalp, a 60 hunter and I were bringing the hurt to a bunch of Alliance corpse campers in Hillsbrad. At one point we get separated. He tells me over Teamspeak that he's being chased by a level 60 druid and may need a hand. So I mount up and head for his direction. All the while he's giving me updates. "He moving here, he's moving there, he's getting away on the side of the hill from the AV entrance!"

I ride up to where the Alliance entrance to AV is and then I see it! Druid in cat-form running alongside a hill. I dismount, charge and one-shot the druid. Turns out, our druid (a 60) was running down the OTHER side of the hill and I had just killed a 30-something.

Ooops.

:)

Lafiel - that's the reason why, in the back of my head, when someone types "ZOMG high level gankerz" I'm wondering "well, what did you do to piss them off?"

Kargath is not a good place to go without a full raid for Alliance. Raids on BRD, LBRS, UBRS, Blackwing Lair and Molten Core all start from there. Not to mention Bad Lands questers and people en route to Thorium Point. At any given time, you can expect as many as two fully-epicced out raid groups of 40 and a bunch of 5 and 10 man groups standing around waiting for stragglers. (Once on Bloodscalp there was a 40-man Red Knights raid, a 40-man DPS raid and a 40-man Promethian raid there all at the same time.) Sometimes you luck out and it's a ghost-town, but you won't catch me anywhere near there. As Clys mentions, it's more populated than UC at times.

[Lovely]

I was in the Badlands once and ran into this skanky paladin chick and offed her. Does that count?

:twisted:

LOL Clys. I wonder who that was? hehe.

[Lafiel]

I was in the Badlands once and ran into this skanky paladin chick and offed her. Does that count?

:twisted:

I was in the Western Plaguelands once and ran into this skanky undead rogue chick and she offed me. Does that count?

[Soraxis]

I sheep lowbies when they are at half health, does that count?

[Soraxis]

Ooooh I saw Gharban or someone like that, recognized him at the time as an RPer just riding to stratholme...did a few beckons to him, /crack and then cast/cancelled polymorph about 20 times to get him the message I wanted to duel...he dismounted started casting, I CSed, ZHC frostbolt pom frostbolt fireblast and he died...I felt so bad that he couldnt do anything. Does that count?

[clys]

Was that you, Lafiel? Oh yes, I remember now. Why does your name make me think of Laffy Taffy? Are you really more skanky than me? Does Lovely ever try to touch you?

[Lovely]

Was that you, Lafiel? Oh yes, I remember now. Why does your name make me think of Laffy Taffy? Are you really more skanky than me? Does Lovely ever try to touch you?

Don't answer that Lafiel....hehe

:D

[Lafiel]

Was that you, Lafiel? Oh yes, I remember now. Why does your name make me think of Laffy Taffy? Are you really more skanky than me? Does Lovely ever try to touch you?

I'm impressed, Clys. You gank so many people that you don't even remember me. You must truly be an evil person. As for the Laffy Taffy thing, I don't know. Maybe it's because I'm so sweet - like candy. And your skank remark makes me laugh. There's no way I could be skankier than you. I'm a good girl. (Unless I'm with my hunter friend, or another hunter, or this other hunter, or the rogue, or the warrior, or the druid, or the paladin, or the other paladin, or the warlock, or the priest...) But there was this one time, in band camp...

Hm... "Does Lovely ever try to touch me?"... On the advice of my lawyer, I'll have to take the 5th amendment on that one. I can say that I've partied up with her a few times, and the way she buffs me does make me feel all tingly inside. There's nothing like a good Blessing of Might to make me feel an aura of devotion... :oops:

But to get back on topic, here's a reverse gank...

This one time, in Deadmines, I was escorting my level 20 friend through so he could get the Emberstone Staff. We completed our run, got him the staff, and exited the instance, only to be greeted by 3 horde in their 30's. They were obviously waiting to ambush the lowbies coming out of Deadmines, which was unfortunate for my friend, as he appeared first and was nearly dead by the time I materialized. When I did appear, however, everyone's attention turned to me...

The first squishy horde managed to get a bubble up, but I took it down just as fast, and he died in only a couple of hits. The second squishe managed to get a DOT on me before I dispatched him. The third horde, a warrior and the most sensible of the three, decided to use his friends' sacrifice as a diversion, and he ran - fast. I had to use my sprint ability to catch up to him just outside the cave. Once I did catch him, though, it only took a backstabs and a couple of sinister strikes to take him down. (I didn't even have a chance to eviscerate him :( )

Huh... I wonder how the first two guys got their bodies back... As far as I know, there isn't a way to get to Deadmine's back door without going through the instance. So I don't think they could have gotten close enough to their bodies to have rezzed in the cave... :?

[Fhenrir]

One time I was riding around in Tirisfal, and I saw a couple level 40's running towards the Monestary. I saw one of them with the guild name "Great Devourers", so I thought to myself "Devour THIS!" and charged him. He /spit on me before I killed him, so I camped his ass for 20 minutes. :twisted:

[Karkarov]

I dont accidentally gank anyone.... :twisted:

[Grisch]

Eventually, we gave up and got a good laugh out of it. I danced naked for them until I got attacked, and then bubblehearthed home.


One of my guildies accused me the other day that my solution to everything that doesn't require fighting is to dance naked. /sigh People just don't understand.

Clys: This skanky Palladin chick, did she dance naked before you killed her? If so I think I might know who she is.

Closest to funny ganking story: (althought I don't think it's that funny)
Patroling Hillsbrad for gankers, when I see a yell. "Help, shadowpriest ganking me!"

I go barreling over, and find a L30 elf priest being pursued by a L34 Hordie and a few others in tow. I'm mounted so I catch up with her, thinking all the time that I'm the righteous hammer of vengeance for her evil ganking ways. I lay the smackdown as only a shaman with a 2-handed weapon and windfury can lay the smackdown on a cloth wearer around 20 levels below them.

The others get there, and I ask who started it and where, just in case there were others.

I get the reply from the L34 Hordie "Oh, I started it." Apparently he'd attacked her first, while she was on a mob, she'd beaten his ass like a red-headed stepchild and he'd called ganker over the channel.

I told him what a skillless moron he was, and never to ask people for help if he's too useless to fight the battles he starts. Added his name to my 'never help again' list and moved on. Felt very bad about it. Should go and apologise to the priest, if I could remember her name.

[Leyujin]

My rule of thumb when someone yells ganker, go to them and see:

Who is the higher level, the Horde or the Alliance?
How many Horde are there, and how many Alliance?

It's fairly easy to tell from that, their names (darkrouge and the like is an alarm), and the manner they're carrying themselves who ganked who. Also, if it's clear the Horde there can handle it themselves, let them. It's never clearcut though, and the best thing to do is observe the situation for a bit if you can. Don't take someone else's word for it. Most of the time, I'll kill off the Alliance and move on.

[EnheilRas]

There've been many occasions to where my queue has come up and I've been called to War on the battlefield, so I will jump into any Alliance held town or party that would be sure to overwhelm me, kill as many as I can with my most powerful attacks. Await their response, then phase out to the Gulch, Basin or Valley.

[clys]

Aw Laffy, you know I was teasing. I remember vividly the one and only time I accidentally on purpose ganked you. It led to our wonderful friendship, didn't it? How could I forget?

As for skanky points, I think you still come out ahead of me due to the +500 to Skank you get for having nightelf bewbies.

And the +1000 for the dance.

:wink:

[Thurgo]

Well...

So I was in Goldshire, 3:30 AM, I am bored out of my mind, and nobody is on...

I hear a cry over the local defense "OMG 3 60S IN NORTHSHIRE" or something similar...

I started over to Northshire, looking for some fun inter-faction goofing off...

So I arrived and what do I see? 3 Level 60 shamans, from Echelon, all with similar names, dancing with level 5's and corpse camping a level 38 paladin that would just not give up...

I proceed to /dance /talk /dance /talk /nod /nod /excited

They begin dancing with me and I switch out my gnomish MC cap...message one that I remembered him from a previous attack on Red Ridge (He was killed many, many times. None shall escape dwarven justice...couple of humans their as well, he never fought back either...)

We fool around a bit more and one motions me over to the window behind the abbey and pops through the wall onto a bench, I follow him in and blah blah blah...same old stuff...but then...

I decided to play around with a few of my other inventions and come across my gnomish death ray...flip it on the one sitting in the middle. I never saw a double failure (Eh?) on a death ray till that moment...and was surprised to see a blast of four thousand damage vaporizing the orc infront of me...his buddies blinked and stared, quickly raised him, killed me...then the dancing continued...

[Soraxis]

Chawano Chawani Chawana were the names?

[Thurgo]

EXACTLY!

Funny guys =P fun to mess around with heheh...might have been that it was 3:30...but eh...

[Lovely]

Chawano Chawani Chawana were the names?

I ran into them in Westfall when we were all in our early 40's. One of them made it clear he wanted to duel, and just as I was about to win, a bunch of lowbies took advantage of his low health and ganged up on him.

I immediately backed up and did the /sorry emote. After his brothers killed all the lowbies, they saluted me and left.

<3 the Chaw guys.

[Abric]

Can accidential and gank be used in the same sentence?

I'm an equal opportunity ganker.

If I see you

...

I gank you.

DOOM!

[NorthFace]

^---

/agree

Tho admittedly... I don't often gank. I've got better things to do. :D

[Fallacy]

^---

/agree

Tho admittedly... I don't often gank. I've got better things to do. :D

You hit me once in Thorium Point, but I was AFK. I come back to my computer to see "Northface hits you for (this much) damage. Northface apologizes to you." And you're no where in sight.

[NorthFace]

That's a love tap. ;D & if it was at thorium point, i was probably en route to doing one of those "better things" that I mentioned.

[Fallacy]

In cases of "accidental", it's mostly when I have no urge to fight anyone at that moment, but some other idiot insists on it. I had to kill this one hunter seven times at Thorium Point just to get her to back off, and she wasn't even a challenge for me, just a waste of my time, while I was trying to turn in Dark Iron Residue.

[NorthFace]

Northface's ravage crits YOU for 2187 damage!
You die.
Northface apologizes to you.



*Feral grin*

[EnheilRas]

Pfft..

I shrug that shit off.