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novaSphere
Jan 25, 2003

Prince Reggie K posted:

Too bad it isn't like everquest where you could root someone underwater halfway across the ocean and they drowned and were unable to recover their corpse.

One of my favorite spots to grief people on WoW was the Well of Eternity under the World Tree in the Hyjal area (non-instanced). It required exploits to even get there in the first place, but it was always a treat to visit. Thus, it was easy to trick people into getting summoned there!

The Well was a beautiful griefing spot for a number of reasons:

1) In WOW, if you summon people from another zone/continent into a body of water, they spawn with zero breath left. This causes them to drown almost instantaneously after receiving the summons.

2) If you didn't know how to get there in the first place, there was no way to retrieve your corpse after you drowned; your ghost reappears in Winterspring, a full zone away.

3) It was loving deep. It took at least a few minutes to swim back to the surface of the well from the very bottom; unless you were a class that could breathe underwater (Shaman/Warlock/Druid), you were very likely to die without aid. Even if you spent the hour running back through Winterspring and into Hyjal to get your corpse, you couldn't swim back out without dying again.

4) It's an illegal area to be in. You can't ask a GM to help retrieve your corpse, really, because then you'll be caught in an area you're not supposed to be in.

Sadly, the only cost to the person you grief with this method was their gold. The only way to really get out of the situation is to do a Spirit Heal, which damages all items in your inventory and racks up a hefty repair bill. Oh, and I guess it wastes their time.

novaSphere fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jun 27, 2008

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