Raid Traditions

YaYa

Do you have any traditions or good luck charms in raids or groups?

Back when I played WoW and we did UBRS, I always had to be the one punted by the Beast. If I wasn't punted by him, we'd either get massive amounts of death or we'd wipe.

If I was punted by him and died from it, I would almost always be the only death in that fight.

Medopine

In raids I was in the traditions usually involved wiping or stupid bitches bickering about DKP.


Also it was a tradition for my rogue to get routinely screwed out of gear.

Wavechaser

Medopine wrote: »

In raids I was in the traditions usually involved wiping or stupid bitches bickering about DKP.


Also it was a tradition for my rogue to get routinely screwed out of gear.

SanderJK

My 1st raiding guild on this character had an MS warrior, Fayt. It started out with him having really really bad tanking gear, and/or forgetting to switch to tank gear when he was assigned tank jobs on trash, and he died a lot. It became a good luck charm for him to die, and we even made him his own video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZdoDXOjZs

JimBobtheMonkey

In my horde guild (CRUNK) before TBC, we'd all gather at Korgath before heading to Blackrock Mountain. When everyone was there the GL would play Ludacris' Roll Out over vent, then we would all... roll out.

Echo

SanderJK wrote: »

My 1st raiding guild on this character had an MS warrior, Fayt. It started out with him having really really bad tanking gear, and/or forgetting to switch to tank gear when he was assigned tank jobs on trash, and he died a lot. It became a good luck charm for him to die, and we even made him his own video:

We have a holy priest, Pungent, that keeps dying. Not because it's bad gear, it's just his thing to die in raids. :P

It's not a proper raid until Pungent has died. Also, it's considered a good raid if he tops the death count.

In ZA it's tradition that eagle guy storms me at least five times. Preferrably in a row.

noobert

In my old guild, there was always at least 1 drunken middle aged Australian man, alone with at least 1 drunk underage Australian kid.

Also someone would always afk to get smokes from the servo.

Barrakketh

Echo wrote: »

It's not a proper raid until Pungent has died. Also, it's considered a good raid if he tops the death count.

When I played EQ we had a similar rule, except a Ranger had to die. It didn't matter who, so long as they were a Ranger.

noobert wrote:

Also someone would always afk to get smokes from the servo.

Servo?

noobert

Barrakketh wrote: »

noobert wrote:

Also someone would always afk to get smokes from the servo.

Servo?

Exactly

It's a very Australian bogan way of saying Service Station or Petrol Station.

INeedNoSalt

tier 2 helms were mandatory on Onyxia runs

if you had your helm but didn't have it equipped and visible, you did not come to the raid.

Marathon

Dartol's Rod of Transformation and liberal use thereof.

Janin

Before hotdropping a hostile base, my Planetside outfit would play "Ride of the Valkyries" over Teamspeak. Sometimes we picked other music. On my last day in it, I played a heavy metal remix of the Imperial March.

Asuma

When our raid wipes, everyone /rolls. Whoever rolls lowest gets the blame. Great way to lighten the moment.

Eat it You Nasty Pig.

Yeah, we still do blame rolls sometimes.

Aside from that it's mostly laughing at the RL for dying, and laughing at our prot paladin when he cries about his shield bill.

Arrath

Back in MC I would instantly die on every post-Baron pull. They started a pool on my many times a night I'd die. I won once and got myself a nice 200g.

Also on Baron, I had to get Living bombed. Once I got bombed, it killed me and I was battlerezzed. As I was drinking up in the back someone else got bombed and ran away like they're supposed to...right at me. I was battlerezzed a 2nd time and spent the rest of the battle running from bombed people who were egged on by the rest of the raid into chasing me down and killing me again.

Fodder

Ours are the pretty standard "roll for blame", condom of shame and "kill the RL who opens the jinxed hoodoo piles".

Ledneh

It's tradition in our guild's Overnight Karazhan to do three things:

1) Everyone who can summons Archmage Vargoth to each boss fight; anyone who can't is blamed if the fight goes pear shaped
2) Ioasis (our raid lead) dies a lot ("ioasis more like die oasis m i rite")
3) We one-shot every boss but fuck if we don't wipe like four or five times to trash

The Rocking M

Before TBC came out it was a tradition in my guild at the time to see how many times i could die to the bat riders in ZG also, the MT and the rogue class leader would constantly bet to see who could have the highest /roll and the rogue would always lose. I think he lost 100g to the mt in one raid.

Dog

We kill lurker with no pants on.

Echo

Oh yeah, I was a mage in the ZG days. Dying to the spider packs was my tradition.

Brainleech

When Jain zar my night elf rogue last year was in that guild that I did not like. They would give all guns, bows or throw weapons to all hunters before anyone else. I had that bow from the raptor troll in ZG until TBC came out. They continued to do this when we then to Kara. After the time that the gun was given to the hunter who was a collected weapons idiot {He had every weapon I do think of out of MC, BWL, Zg and Aq20/40} They said they all things are now for DKP in there.
The main tank getting tanked very raid and the first Gm cybering every women in the guild it was not the guild for me

Now my warlock other than Rabid getting very drunk and then yelling into vent with his Nz accent slurred and the various things Brah would say about killing kangaroos around where he lived. We would be tried to made very raid fun.

My Troll rogue was bascilly the same when it same to raids as my warlock the people were not.

My mage well I did not get to raid allot with her so I don't know

Salvation122

"Hey, new guys? Yeah, if you come up here you can get a quest from a Dark Iron dwarf... okay, res the new guys."

riz

We used to eat a good-luck [Roasted Quail] before serious boss attempts. It started with this one rogue, it was sort of his 'thing'. Then all the melee started doing it. Until it got to the point where we were handing out 40 [Roasted Quail] before Nefarian attempts before we killed him.

Pre-Rag quail eating. (The rogue in question, and my druid.)

If I remember I'll bring some to Illidan someday.

DrZiplock

We had traditional drinks for raids:

MC= Shiraz (or another red if Shiraz wasn't stocked) or Scotch
ZG= Rum based drinks or tequila
BWL= Beer
AQ= White wines or your traditional cocktails.


Beyond that we used to have a raid leader who would have the worst habit. Clearing his throat into the mic...all the damn time. Soooo..whenever he did it, everyone would have to take a drink. Started with a small group and then just grew to the whole raid. On nights that had first attempts on bosses he would regularly stock cough drops to keep us sober.

SabinXL

riz wrote: »

We used to eat a good-luck [Roasted Quail] before serious boss attempts. It started with this one rogue, it was sort of his 'thing'. Then all the melee started doing it. Until it got to the point where we were handing out 40 [Roasted Quail] before Nefarian attempts before we killed him.

Pre-Rag quail eating. (The rogue in question, and my druid.)

If I remember I'll bring some to Illidan someday.

:^:

fairweather

When I was raiding for a brief time on my mage in MC, we would always have a contest to see which mage could be blown the farthest into the air from the last elemental in the Garr fight. I always won a few gold from that

Also, my guild would always consider an instance run blessed when a mage died.

Wavechaser

INeedNoSalt wrote: »

tier 2 helms were mandatory on Onyxia runs

if you had your helm but didn't have it equipped and visible, you did not come to the raid.

uhhhhhhhhh

Am I the only one who see's the irony in that?

Echo

fairweather wrote: »

When I was raiding for a brief time on my mage in MC, we would always have a contest to see which mage could be blown the farthest into the air from the last elemental in the Garr fight. I always won a few gold from that

Hah, we did that too. We called it the Garr Game. We tried to land as close to Garr as possible from the last elemental. (we CC'd as many of the elementals as we could while killing Garr, then killed the last ones)

Back when we did ZG before BC I had a much-commented tradition of going out to get a kebab before raids, and causing some major concern if I hadn't had my kebab before the raid. :P

Sadly I've moved since then and don't have a kebab place around the corner any longer.

Kalkino

Medopine wrote: »

In raids I was in the traditions usually involved wiping or stupid bitches bickering about DKP.


Also it was a tradition for my rogue to get routinely screwed out of gear.

We played a similar game but instead of rogues getting the shaft it was the ferals. I think i spent the majority of my pre TBC raid period arguing about that shit :x

riz

Echo wrote: »

fairweather wrote: »

When I was raiding for a brief time on my mage in MC, we would always have a contest to see which mage could be blown the farthest into the air from the last elemental in the Garr fight. I always won a few gold from that

Hah, we did that too. We called it the Garr Game. We tried to land as close to Garr as possible from the last elemental. (we CC'd as many of the elementals as we could while killing Garr, then killed the last ones)

Back when we did ZG before BC I had a much-commented tradition of going out to get a kebab before raids, and causing some major concern if I hadn't had my kebab before the raid. :P

Sadly I've moved since then and don't have a kebab place around the corner any longer.

Haha we did this too. The mage thing, not the kebab thing. People would place bets as the last add died and then yell at the mage who failed them.

Firebrand

Damn you, I've been wanting to eat a kebab pizza for days now and you have to remind me. Tomorrow is pizza day though!

My personal raid tradition... hit 60 (back then), get super-excited about joining a raiding guild, then quitting WoW two or so weeks later.

Charus

My current guild has a tradition of making a tremendous deal about not zoning into the raid zone until asked to. This is so that they can choose one person to "seed" the loot. The raid is then free to blame that person when the same old shit that got disenchanted last week drops again.

Also, our mages are totally devoid of survival instincts (though they're getting better with trainable iceblock), and there's a nightly bet on which one of them dies from pulling aggro first. Also, when we go through SSC (not so frequently now, but we have to go this week due to new recruits), it's always a fun game to guess who is going to body pull Morogrim while we move into position behind him.

Septus

We used to have a rogue named Megatun, who basically died all the time, or would pull mobs accidentally, or more often than not, would just get blamed for everything. Our guild forum still has titles named after him(Megatun of Love or something). I wish we had more dickery, like Misdirect killing.

Eri

Gnomish sacrifices sometimes would appease the loot gods or ensure a successful raid.

dojango

Guild leader used to tell us to crowd around the last elemental when we killed Garr. About half the people would do it, and get blowed up. I notice that the guild leader never did it hisself, tho.

Septus

dojango wrote: »

Guild leader used to tell us to crowd around the last elemental when we killed Garr. About half the people would do it, and get blowed up. I notice that the guild leader never did it hisself, tho.

Also, the window of death.

captaink

I loved the hoodoo piles in ZG. We killed a lot of people that way.

Our mages had a tradition of blinking into places no one else could get to. Notably on top of Executus' treasure chest and up the spinning gantry things in BWL.

We started playing the Final Fantasy victory music after boss kills too.

And lots and lots of in guild emote memes. /loverub ewww

Echo

Charus wrote: »

My current guild has a tradition of making a tremendous deal about not zoning into the raid zone until asked to. This is so that they can choose one person to "seed" the loot. The raid is then free to blame that person when the same old shit that got disenchanted last week drops again.

That's why Entropy has the title "Bad Seed" here. :P

Asuma

Before every Shade of Aran attempt, raid members kneel while our MT plays this.

Mgcw

Asuma wrote: »

Before every Shade of Aran attempt, raid members kneel while our MT plays this.

Hahah, chants FTW.

CJTheran

A lot of people on Dark Iron do the /roll for blame thing. The way it usually works, though, is one person rolls out of the number of people in the group plus one (IE, 40 man raid, roll 1-41). If it comes up as that extra slot, I am blamed.

As in I, Theran, am blamed.

I have been standing in the middle of AHs, beating the crap out of shit in other instances or BGs...and gotten tells demanding to know why I wiped some guys raid. Usually I know these people...sometimes I don't. Then it's just really weird.
__________

Every new boss kill, SOMEONE yells when we get to 1-5% "Vael is at 2%, we've got this!", commemorating one of our...lesser...moments in BWL.

__________

Typically, on any new boss kill our raid leader will be forced to sing the embarassing song of the raid's choosing. That said, he's been an utter tool and refused to do it recently.