Additionally, two shots in the legs with a fiveseven usually did between 90 and 99 points of damage which meant all the rage, none of the punishment.
ETA: It might have been three shots, now that I think on it. This was CS Source, by the way.
Not really griefing, but once on my level 50 or so horde character back in vanilla I was wandering through Ashenvale and decided to be nice and help two lowbie night elves kill a particularly tough Elite mob. I got thanked by them attacking me. I just stood there, counted to five and SMOTE THEM WITH THE FURY OF GOD after it became clear to them I wasn’t going to be killed by their attacks and they tried to run for the hills.
I like playing Combat Arms, though I wish they would fix the hacking issues.
I haven’t trolled, that I’m aware of, but I have griefed a would be hacker in a game once… he was on our side, and Friendly Fire was on (not on enough, imo). This guy was tucked off in a corner, using a knife hack, and I dropped nades on him. heheh
I was in a Drinking tournament in Y!PP. (Match shape or color of the piece you’re placing to the adjacent pieces on the board, or take a drink. Drink too often and you miss a turn.) I was playing someone who was very rude. So after the match I muted them.
In the next round, they kept jumping in to watch my game and taunt me. My opponent noticed and wondered what I’d done to draw such nastiness. I shrugged and said I had already muted them.
Mute does wonders for chat griefers.
Very troll-appropriate, then!
A friend of mine takes great joy in the fact that I re-tell this tale a lot.
He plays a rogue in WoW, and he has an anti-griefer streak a mile wide. At one point, some horde had gotten (somehow) into the newbie night elf area and were killing quest-givers left and right. My buddy logs onto his rogue, and starts -stalking- them. Sap. Blind. Over and over. And then walking away. He killed -one-, and the others started running.
He continued stalking.
It eventually got to the point that they -lept off the world tree- just to get away from him. I never laughed so hard at an MMO in my life!
On the other hand…
Just last week I got a horde character into Tanaris for the first time. At one of the flight paths / quest hubs, there was this AFK hunter who had his pet on ‘aggressive’. The moment a quest-giver NPC would spawn, the pet would sprint over and kill it. Over and over and over. It took me many, many attempts just to get the timing right to turn in my freakin’ quests. No idea why jerkbag did it, but there you are.
Back in my WoW glory days (2006) my guild (horde) had a serious rivalry with an alliance guild on a PVP server.
There was no love lost. It was KOS for any member of either guild meeting any member of our rivals.
I played a priest then, and oh, the fun I had with Mind Control.
We used to clash on raid nights trying to get into MC. My classic maneuver - hang back, let people fight. But I’d pick somebody up, mind control them, then swim them as deep as I could into the lava. Nearly always a kill and a LONG corpse run.
Another time, a party of ours clashed with said Alliance guild high up in the cliffs of Winterspring. I mc’d a warlock that I particularly hated and made him jump off the cliffs - at the time this meant at least a 15 minute run back to the corpse. He made the LONG run back, respawned, and found us again. I did exactly the same thing - mc, cliff jump, 15 min corpse run.
This one made him made him mad enough to post personal threats at me on the WOW forums.
evil grin
Ahh good old greifing. In Asherons Call before the days of housing and personal storage chests, I was quite the thief. Best part is noone ever knew it was me.
In order to get an item from one toon to another you either had to place it on the ground, put it in a chest or have a buddy hold it for you, then log your toon off and hurry up and log you other one on. Usually you can do this very fast like 4-5 seconds.
I would stand in the middle of town and announce I was going AFK (away from keyboard) and wait for someone to try and mule some items. There was a key to check for items on the ground so I would know they were trying without seeing them. Usually they would go in a basement to try. The second I heard the logout noise I would run in grab their stuff and run back to my AFK spot. They would have no idea what happened.
Yes I am an arsehole for it. An arsehole with really nice stuff.
One time I left a mug of beer in place of the toons loot. His recation was really really funny to me. “WHAT THA F*&K MY LEWT TURNT INTO A BEER”
One more I remembered…
In Guild Wars I mostly play a Mesmer (an inherently griefey class since it is designed to disrupt and inhibit the abilities of others) whose mere presence on a battlefield draws groans of annoyance.
In the PvP alliance battles, a zone-control capture style of arena where you need to run around quickly and capture various HQ points, it was possible to spec out my Mesmer skills to reduce the running speed of others by something like 66%, with a very long duration of around 90 seconds.
Against a pure melee character, this totally removes them as a damage threat since they can’t catch anyone, and also makes them useless for zone captures since everyone else runs 3 times as fast. A valid tacticin the arena…but it becomes truly griefing when I would linger and follow them around the entire match, staying out of combat range, and constantly reapply the hex whenever it expired. 10 minutes of this brings out the rage like you would not believe. I’m not proud of it, and no longer do so, but thought I’d confess my grief 