WoW Moviewatch: Think of the animals
by Mike Schramm 
Apr 30th 2007 at 2:07PM
ZeusJones sends along this movie he made, in support of his new organization seeking to protect the apparently innocuous wildlife around Azeroth. How many innocent lives have you mindlessly snuffed? Please, stop the slaughter.
Now, I'm all for Zeus' little campaign (and he's even got a blog up and running for it), but I want to warn him: those animals might not be as harmless as they seem. True story: I was in Heroic Underbog this weekend, and a frog hopped by while we were waiting for mana. I clicked on him, and Frost Shocked him out of his little froggy existence, as I usually do whenever we see critters around.
And I kid you not-- I was very surprised to see a little red 1 roll up my scrolling combat text. I checked the combat window, and sure enough: "Frog hits you for 1." Completely true. I don't know how he did it (it was an instant spell! he's a critter!), but that frog tried to take a bite out of me. Maybe I should have bought Griftah's amulet.
Now, I'm all for Zeus' little campaign (and he's even got a blog up and running for it), but I want to warn him: those animals might not be as harmless as they seem. True story: I was in Heroic Underbog this weekend, and a frog hopped by while we were waiting for mana. I clicked on him, and Frost Shocked him out of his little froggy existence, as I usually do whenever we see critters around.
And I kid you not-- I was very surprised to see a little red 1 roll up my scrolling combat text. I checked the combat window, and sure enough: "Frog hits you for 1." Completely true. I don't know how he did it (it was an instant spell! he's a critter!), but that frog tried to take a bite out of me. Maybe I should have bought Griftah's amulet.
Filed under: Machinima, Odds and ends, Humor, WoW Moviewatch
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Matthew Apr 30th 2007 2:20PM
Gamon habitually hits me for seven damage or so after I crit him for 500+. Should kill him outright, but I guess he's got some kind of spastic death reflex.
tim Apr 30th 2007 2:37PM
it'd be hilarious if blizz started booby trapping random critters to backlash for like 50K dmg upon death.
sitting around manaing up then getting in your log:
Critterkiller has died.
followed by;
[critterkiller:] lol wut? all i did was whack that frog
Twalname Apr 30th 2007 2:38PM
The froggies in Wailing Cavern do that too.
Lori Apr 30th 2007 2:38PM
But ground up Elderly Kodo horn added to my tea is an aphrodesiac!!
Chilblain Apr 30th 2007 2:59PM
Level 70 Frost Mage, and I have *never* intentionally killed a level 1 critter. I may have gotten one via an AoE by accident, but I have never attacked one outright. I recently got my Continuum Blade, and level my sword skill on Wolves and Defias outside Stormwind.
Matthew Apr 30th 2007 3:36PM
As a warlock, I take great fun in dotting critters as I run around. They're also handy for warriors to charge+battle shout as you run towards the mobs you're looking for.
Joshua Ochs Apr 30th 2007 4:56PM
Yup, I also was being attacked by a frog in Zangarmarsh recently. It was actually quite annoying as I was in the middle of a battle with several nagas. When over I tried to eat/drink or mount up to leave, but couldn't because I was "in combat". Finally I noticed the 1-point losses... and the frog!
Glad to know I'm not the only one!
Shadow Apr 30th 2007 3:49PM
Im a lvl 70 Druid and I support this message.
Hellbena Apr 30th 2007 3:54PM
True Story:
While leveling my mage in the ghostlands, I was fighting the nerbu (those undead spider people) in their little camp, I went and cast frost nova and there happened to be a frog in range of it. The frost nova misses the frog, but now the frog is hostile and starts attacking me... and kills me before I finish of the nerbu I had frost nova'd.
So screw the critters, they deserve to die for killing lowbies that aren't expecting hostilities from them.
Melf Apr 30th 2007 4:03PM
Critter are always screwing up my DPS charts ... multishot is non-discriminatory. The only thing it won't hit are friendly targets. So when in an instance I will fire off a multi and see 1200, 1400, 2700 and realize that I just nuked some rat. I support this message, but move to make critters immune to AOE and AOE-like effects such as multishot!
Avery Apr 30th 2007 4:30PM
I got attacked by a silly little frog that stumpled into my aoe (on my mage). Haven't seen any other critters attack back though.
zj Apr 30th 2007 5:42PM
Indeed frogs aren't all entirely harmless it's true. You'll notice there are no charts about frog slaughtering. Knock yourselves out when those slimy things come a biting.
-zeusjones
jess Apr 30th 2007 5:31PM
This reminds me of when I had to do the druid quest to cure sickly gazelles and my boyfriend kept killing them for leather so I couldn't do the quest.
"Could you at least wait to kill them after I've cured them from their disease"
"Nope. I need more leather scraps."
Such is the life.
Bleri Apr 30th 2007 5:34PM
Was questing in Nagrand once with my wife when the guild did a kill a critter competition to see who would do the most damage.
Laughed my socks off when on my wifes turn (Holy Priest) the critter resisted :)
Karl Apr 30th 2007 6:59PM
It makes me giggle when a level 70 hunter with Aspect of the Pack or Cheetah on whacks a poor little rabbit on his merry way...and gets stunned because the rabbit clocked him for 1 pt of damage. Almost made me fall out of my chair when this happened to my buddy, because we were running for our lives when he did it...My poor Huntard friend was ganked by no less than 15 elite demons. Life was good.
By the way, Hunters are all horrible players. Don't nerf them, just let them know that they are bad people...even my Hunter. That guy is a jerk too. Well, maybe nerf them. Take away their ranged ability and pets. That's all though. No need to get extreme on them.
Bret Apr 30th 2007 10:00PM
For every critter you don't kill, I kill THREE.
Libri May 1st 2007 6:14AM
This is very well done, much better then that "And now the news..." Crap. I have never kileld a critter, except sikcly ones, since i can't exactly heal them.
Didymus May 1st 2007 9:52AM
The frogs at the start of a princess run in Maraudon will hit you for 1 damage after you kill them too.
skeez May 1st 2007 12:04PM
FIST OF THE BUNNY!!
Jenaja May 3rd 2007 3:07AM
Critters are the reagent for the warrior's travel form.