08-26-2005, 10:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-26-2005, 10:38 PM by MongoJerry.)
THE ADVENTURES OF NERIAD: Oh, My. Oh, God! Nooooooooo!
![[Image: yarr4_1.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/yarr4_1.jpg)
We ran back into the inn.
![[Image: yarr4_2.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/yarr4_2.jpg)
We then made our way upstairs and took out Revilgaz and Seahorn in a massive aoefest. As evidenced by the tauren standing there, we often had spectators follow us around to watch the show.
![[Image: yarr4_3.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/yarr4_3.jpg)
We then jumped down to the bank again.
![[Image: yarr4_4.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/yarr4_4.jpg)
We then made our way back through the town, hit the Old Port Authority again, hit all the shopkeepers along the top of the town, killed Revilgaz and Seahorn again, destroyed the inn, annihilated the bank, and so on.
It was fascinating to watch the reactions of other players to our pirate raid. Imagine being a level 35-40 Alliance player entering Booty Bay. You turn the corner and see a group of level 60 Horde in pirate outfits aoe'ing the mother out of a group of Booty Bay Bruisers. Some of those pirates wave or salute you while they continue to aoe the bruisers. Do you:
a) Laugh, cheer, and/or salute the pirates and watch the show? We had a lot of that happening on our trip.
b) Run and hide for fear that after the bruisers are dead, the pirates will come after you? I imagine we probably had a few of those. After all, Tichondrius is a PvP server, and ganking lowbies seems to be a pastime for some people. Still, the pirates could've targeted you and killed you in two seconds rather than waved and saluted you, but I guess for some it's best to be safe than sorry.
c) Attack the pirates? OK, you as a level 40 player are going to attack six heavily armed level 60's? For some reason, a few people thought this was a good idea. Luckily, most only thought this was a good idea once. However, there was this one level 60 warrior who was wielding of all things a Doomsaw (like he's going to do anything to us with that) who just kept coming. I guess he thought at some point he'd get a lucky execute in or something, but it's not like we ever let our health get down that low when we knew he was around. We might've been drunk or insane, but we weren't stupid. He finally gave up after dying four times.
d) Run through the aoe zone of death? This was the most inexplicable reaction to our invasion. We have a warlock spamming Hellfire and two mages spamming Arcane Explosion, and a couple level 35-40's thought it was a good idea to walk through it all to the other side. With 8-12 bruisers attacking us, it's not like we were going to stop firing just to let them get through. All they had to do was wait for the fight to be over and then pass by, but no, a couple of people thought they should go right on through, and of course they died about 2/3rds of the way across the aoe zone of death. That's natural selection at work, I guess.
At one point, a level 40 Horde player decided to take advantage of the fact that we were killing all the bruisers by attacking every level 35-40ish Alliance player who came along. He followed us around for a bit, and once we realized what he was doing, I sent him a polite but firm request that he move off someplace else. I didn't want people to think that he was with us and end up having our pirate fun marred by some flame-war forum post saying, "Nice job ganking all the lowbies, The Core!" or some such BS. The Horde player was nice enough to comply, though.
![[Image: yarr4_5.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/yarr4_5.jpg)
We kept going around and around destroying the town. Then came the highlight of the evening. A level 60 shaman guildie named Zylonis decided to stop by to watch the show. We teased him by saying, "Hey, Zylonis! Heal us." "Yeah, Zylonis, just heal us." He answered:
Zylonis: You bastards. I like my reputation with Booty Bay. Thank-you very much!
But after watching a few fights, Zylonis decided to test things out, so when we were fighting a solo bruiser, Zylonis did heal someone and nothing happened. The person he had healed probably hadn't tapped the mob yet. However, this experience emboldened Zylonis, so when we pulled the next big batch of bruisers (pictured above), he healed someone again. After a moment, we heard this on teamspeak:
Zylonis: Oh, my! (pause) Oh, God! (now over both teamspeak and guild chat) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
With 375 faction lost with Booty Bay for each bruiser killed and having been a party to killing 8-10 bruisers, Zylonis went from being three-quarters friendly with Booty Bay down to one-quarter friendly in just that one fight alone. We rolled on the floor laughing and cackled with glee. "You're one of us, now, Zylonis! Join us!" we said. "Noooooo!" replied Zylonis, who refused to do any more than rez us from that point on.
That did give us the mildly evil idea of inviting lowbies into our group and asking them to heal us. I mean, can you imagine being a mid-30's level character suddenly finding that you're kill-on-sight every time you try to walk into Booty Bay? Or finding that you get attacked instantly upon landing at the Gadgetzan flight path? Or finding out that they can't take up goblin or gnomish engineering and can't buy the alchemy or tailoring recipes in Gadgetzan or Everlook? Pure evil. Our better conscience prevented us from doing that.
![[Image: yarr4_6.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/yarr4_6.jpg)
At about this time, Vendetta, the one who had started the party in the first place, had to leave (he had girlfriend aggro). However, we were gaining reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers so quickly that the rest of us continued. In short order, Dimiotrix became Friendly with the Bloodsail Buccaneers, so he was the first one to get the quest to kill Baron Revilgaz and Fleet Master Seahorn. The fight shown above is the fight to kill Revilgaz so that Dimiotrix could get his hat.
Incidentally, I also found an interesting bug/feature with the Savory Deviate Delight in that if you switch your hat out, your pirate hat disappears. Turning off and on your helm graphic doesn't get it back either. I know that this is a largely pointless observation, but if you ever want to go around as a hatless pirate, that's how you do it.
![[Image: yarr4_7.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/yarr4_7.jpg)
With Vendetta gone, our firepower took a severe hit. Plus, it was getting late, so we were probably more sloppy and reckless than we should have been. We died more frequently than we had before, but that was OK. We were still making great progress and before I knew it, I had already reached Neutral with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. "Hostile" had flown right by, and I celebrated by dancing with "Pretty Boy" Duncan.
![[Image: yarr4_8.jpg]](http://www.lurkerlounge.com/mongo/yarr4_8.jpg)
Our supply of Savory Deviate Delights finally ran out, so we all donned our blue Admiral's hats (except for Dimiotrix who already had his red Bloodsail Admiral's Hat) and continued. Just a bit further, and we'd all get to Friendly with the Bloodsail Buccaneers.
UP NEXT: Hip Hip... Arrrrr...
We ran back into the inn.
We then made our way upstairs and took out Revilgaz and Seahorn in a massive aoefest. As evidenced by the tauren standing there, we often had spectators follow us around to watch the show.
We then jumped down to the bank again.
We then made our way back through the town, hit the Old Port Authority again, hit all the shopkeepers along the top of the town, killed Revilgaz and Seahorn again, destroyed the inn, annihilated the bank, and so on.
It was fascinating to watch the reactions of other players to our pirate raid. Imagine being a level 35-40 Alliance player entering Booty Bay. You turn the corner and see a group of level 60 Horde in pirate outfits aoe'ing the mother out of a group of Booty Bay Bruisers. Some of those pirates wave or salute you while they continue to aoe the bruisers. Do you:
a) Laugh, cheer, and/or salute the pirates and watch the show? We had a lot of that happening on our trip.
b) Run and hide for fear that after the bruisers are dead, the pirates will come after you? I imagine we probably had a few of those. After all, Tichondrius is a PvP server, and ganking lowbies seems to be a pastime for some people. Still, the pirates could've targeted you and killed you in two seconds rather than waved and saluted you, but I guess for some it's best to be safe than sorry.
c) Attack the pirates? OK, you as a level 40 player are going to attack six heavily armed level 60's? For some reason, a few people thought this was a good idea. Luckily, most only thought this was a good idea once. However, there was this one level 60 warrior who was wielding of all things a Doomsaw (like he's going to do anything to us with that) who just kept coming. I guess he thought at some point he'd get a lucky execute in or something, but it's not like we ever let our health get down that low when we knew he was around. We might've been drunk or insane, but we weren't stupid. He finally gave up after dying four times.
d) Run through the aoe zone of death? This was the most inexplicable reaction to our invasion. We have a warlock spamming Hellfire and two mages spamming Arcane Explosion, and a couple level 35-40's thought it was a good idea to walk through it all to the other side. With 8-12 bruisers attacking us, it's not like we were going to stop firing just to let them get through. All they had to do was wait for the fight to be over and then pass by, but no, a couple of people thought they should go right on through, and of course they died about 2/3rds of the way across the aoe zone of death. That's natural selection at work, I guess.
At one point, a level 40 Horde player decided to take advantage of the fact that we were killing all the bruisers by attacking every level 35-40ish Alliance player who came along. He followed us around for a bit, and once we realized what he was doing, I sent him a polite but firm request that he move off someplace else. I didn't want people to think that he was with us and end up having our pirate fun marred by some flame-war forum post saying, "Nice job ganking all the lowbies, The Core!" or some such BS. The Horde player was nice enough to comply, though.
We kept going around and around destroying the town. Then came the highlight of the evening. A level 60 shaman guildie named Zylonis decided to stop by to watch the show. We teased him by saying, "Hey, Zylonis! Heal us." "Yeah, Zylonis, just heal us." He answered:
Zylonis: You bastards. I like my reputation with Booty Bay. Thank-you very much!
But after watching a few fights, Zylonis decided to test things out, so when we were fighting a solo bruiser, Zylonis did heal someone and nothing happened. The person he had healed probably hadn't tapped the mob yet. However, this experience emboldened Zylonis, so when we pulled the next big batch of bruisers (pictured above), he healed someone again. After a moment, we heard this on teamspeak:
Zylonis: Oh, my! (pause) Oh, God! (now over both teamspeak and guild chat) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
With 375 faction lost with Booty Bay for each bruiser killed and having been a party to killing 8-10 bruisers, Zylonis went from being three-quarters friendly with Booty Bay down to one-quarter friendly in just that one fight alone. We rolled on the floor laughing and cackled with glee. "You're one of us, now, Zylonis! Join us!" we said. "Noooooo!" replied Zylonis, who refused to do any more than rez us from that point on.
That did give us the mildly evil idea of inviting lowbies into our group and asking them to heal us. I mean, can you imagine being a mid-30's level character suddenly finding that you're kill-on-sight every time you try to walk into Booty Bay? Or finding that you get attacked instantly upon landing at the Gadgetzan flight path? Or finding out that they can't take up goblin or gnomish engineering and can't buy the alchemy or tailoring recipes in Gadgetzan or Everlook? Pure evil. Our better conscience prevented us from doing that.
At about this time, Vendetta, the one who had started the party in the first place, had to leave (he had girlfriend aggro). However, we were gaining reputation with the Bloodsail Buccaneers so quickly that the rest of us continued. In short order, Dimiotrix became Friendly with the Bloodsail Buccaneers, so he was the first one to get the quest to kill Baron Revilgaz and Fleet Master Seahorn. The fight shown above is the fight to kill Revilgaz so that Dimiotrix could get his hat.
Incidentally, I also found an interesting bug/feature with the Savory Deviate Delight in that if you switch your hat out, your pirate hat disappears. Turning off and on your helm graphic doesn't get it back either. I know that this is a largely pointless observation, but if you ever want to go around as a hatless pirate, that's how you do it.
With Vendetta gone, our firepower took a severe hit. Plus, it was getting late, so we were probably more sloppy and reckless than we should have been. We died more frequently than we had before, but that was OK. We were still making great progress and before I knew it, I had already reached Neutral with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. "Hostile" had flown right by, and I celebrated by dancing with "Pretty Boy" Duncan.
Our supply of Savory Deviate Delights finally ran out, so we all donned our blue Admiral's hats (except for Dimiotrix who already had his red Bloodsail Admiral's Hat) and continued. Just a bit further, and we'd all get to Friendly with the Bloodsail Buccaneers.
UP NEXT: Hip Hip... Arrrrr...