The worst Deth story you will ever read.

[Pantaloons]

This story will simply leave you with one word in your head: Why?

I was doing my molten front quest for the achievement (ready for raiding) when one of my friends whispered me, telling me to come to Deth'tilac's spawn point. Not hesitating for a second. I run over there to find my hunter friend. She already has Deth but she wasn't interested in a tame. Instead, she was watching a tauren shaman take on Deth alone.

She had told me that this guy wanted to see of he could take him head on solo. Sure its possible but it would be the biggest waste of time. So we told him to stop. He didn't reply and continued attacking. I knew a hunter that was looking for Deth but sadly she had logged off 30 or so minutes before this began.

We continue to tell the shaman to just leave Deth alone. He doesn't drop any loot, and he has nothing to obtain upon killing him. He is in the game for the sole reason of becoming a hunter pet. He continues to ignore us.

To my great delight the hunter arrives that wanted to tame him. We gladly offer our help but there isn't much we can do. So far we have a hunter willing to tame deth, and a shaman who wants to kill him for no reason whatsoever. We beg and plead with him to stop. By now Deth is on 75% hp and this shaman has been going on for at least 20 minutes. We try to take aggro of him and onto the hunter bt sadly hat only sped up the death of Deth.

He is now tameable but untamable because we cant take the aggro off the shaman. Infuriated that we are unable to do anything to help this hunter. I beg him and even try to bribe him to stop but he doesn't listen. He is betraying his own fraction. Yes, we were horde and he was a Tauren. He could hear us and see what we were trying to say and do. But he
didn't stop.

So we watch him slowly kill the spider. Unable to do anything to save Deth but pray that the shaman would make a mistake in his fight, and that deth would finish him off. But it never came. Deth was dead, the shaman mounted up and left without a single word. I could figure out why an alliance person would maybe do this, but not a member of my fraction. I would not accept any excuse for doing that, except if his life depended on it.

[Lisaara]

Thats horrible!

[Sarantha]

I'm so sorry. [...] That person was very rude. I had a RL friend kill a pet I really wanted right out from under me once. I was angry with her, but at the time she didn't know what it was and that it dropped nothing, nor that I wanted to tame it (she was opposite faction and by the time I could call her or log over, the mob was dead). She felt awful afterwards, but, though I am still angry at being deprived of a pet I will now never see again, I forgive her because she honestly had no idea.

This guy is just a dick, honestly.

However, even though you were TELLING him it dropped nothing and was just a hunter pet, perhaps he didn't know himself and thought you might have wanted the loot/achievement/whatever for yourself. He said he wanted to take it on solo. Maybe he thought there was an achievement involved? You get stupid people like that.

Moderation note: Minor edit to the post. A PM has been sent to the poster explaining the edit.

[Atalanta]

Well, lets just hope the 25g tear was worth it. -_-

What a total jackass. I can't believe somebody would do that, and for such little 'loot'. Puh. Your friend will get it eventually; I assure you not all players are like that.

[Demonwolf]

i was so mad n disappointed in [_]! even my alliance friend came to help

[Cerele]

i hope atleast he looted it, a real intentional troll would have let it kill him with 5% health, no loot for anyone,
sorry about the bad sport, but the rarespawns are free to anyone (though intended to hunters) so he technically wasnt doing anything wrong, maybe he wanted to prove himself, BY soloing deth, because it can one shot him.

[Novikova]

Yeah, prove he's a giant wanker because he ignored people begging him to stop and offering to *pay him* even more than the drop.

So he can drop totems and spam frost shock. Whoop.

[Snowbird]

omg why is there such idiots in this game? i hate when players do this to other players. Especially if the player is the same faction! :O

[Royi]

Maybe he just wanted an achievement out of it (not an actual Blizzard 10 points on, but a personal one). You said he wanted to try it on solo.

If he was there first and wanted to see if he could kill him (to test his ability perhaps) and if he got the tag, then its his mob to do whatever he wants with.

Who knows he could have already passed on 5 Deth'tilacs to other hunters and he may have always wanted to try and solo him.

If he was doing it to grief other hunters then thats wrong, but if he just wanted to see if he could kill it and went ahead and killed it... then theres nothing wrong with what he did.


(What Cerele said mostly)


I've heard of far worse Deth stories, this one seems to not even involve someone stealing a tag, stealing the tame, or killing it while the hunter who had it tamed was attempting to tame. Sure it may be sad for the hunter, but heck not everything can make everyone happy (and I'm sure he was happy that he was able to kill it by himself).

A hunter's happiness is not greater than (insert other class)'s happiness.

[Sarantha]

Aye, like I said, he also might have not known there WASN'T an actual Blizzard achievement, even if people told him there wasn't. Going by the dicks on my server, no one believes anyone and just thinks they're trying to steal the other person's glory/achievement/loot. He WAS there first, as well. It isn't as if he came in and started in on it while hunters were attempting a tame. I'm not defending him. I hate people like that, no matter what, but he just might not have known and he did get the tag before any hunter showed up.

[Sasrei]

Well considering the the only reason Deths health went down is because they helped. Maybe you shouldnt have helped, it may have taken forever but he may have screwed up or got bored after the first hour.

I still dont get it, he spent.. 25mins to get Deth to 75% I wonder what achievement that be considered to spend that long trying to kill something that only drops 25g. If he had tried to solo kill it, he would have taken well over an hour+ Oh hey I know heres a few achievements

"This is why im still single, I dont LISTEN that it doesnt drop anything"

"From hell I stab the hunter!"
"You just killed it because.. it doesnt drop anything useful whatsoever, your never going to get that time wasted for 25g and you broke the heart of a couple real life people but hey its ok. You feel like you accomplished.. something. I think"

[Demonwolf]

and actually, just to clear up pant's story here just a little more accurate since i was there the whole time, my alliance's friends pet made him go down to 75%. in the first 15 or so, he was only around 94% >.>

[Bodhran]

Had the similar thing happen as well.

I was on my horde hunter and saw an ally trying to tame deth tried helping with traps and pet deaths. ally pally comes along and when the hunter died the pally gain aggro and kite him around to his death. I got on my ally hunter and asked the pally why. Got some bullsh*t reason that he was trying to help the hunter and would get 4k for the help but he never dropped aggro for the hunter to tame. Asked the ally hunter if the pally was trying to help him and he said no. Ended up talking to the hunter that lost the chance at the deth tame and said that I'd be more then willing to help and keep an eye out for him on my toons.

Next day came across the ally hunter again at deth's spawn site and started chatting with him while we waited for deth to respawn. He popped two hours later and I helped him tame deth. He was uber happy and I was uber excited for him and that I could help. After what that effen pally did the hunter really deserved this awesome blue spider. (not like he didn't deserved him anyway) Also he lucked out because less then 20 mins later Hurricane Irene knocked his power out for him.

[Rhyela]

Maybe he just wanted an achievement out of it (not an actual Blizzard 10 points on, but a personal one). You said he wanted to try it on solo.

If he was there first and wanted to see if he could kill him (to test his ability perhaps) and if he got the tag, then its his mob to do whatever he wants with.

Who knows he could have already passed on 5 Deth'tilacs to other hunters and he may have always wanted to try and solo him.

If he was doing it to grief other hunters then thats wrong, but if he just wanted to see if he could kill it and went ahead and killed it... then theres nothing wrong with what he did.


(What Cerele said mostly)


I've heard of far worse Deth stories, this one seems to not even involve someone stealing a tag, stealing the tame, or killing it while the hunter who had it tamed was attempting to tame. Sure it may be sad for the hunter, but heck not everything can make everyone happy (and I'm sure he was happy that he was able to kill it by himself).

A hunter's happiness is not greater than (insert other class)'s happiness.

I agree with Royi, actually. I'm one of those that likes to do personal achievements, too. I like to test my abilities against tough enemies sometimes. I like a challenge every now and then (God knows Blizzard has all but removed much of the challenge the game used to have).

HOWEVER, that being said, I would personally not do this with a creature that I know is so coveted. I'd go kill a whale shark or solo a raid or something if I really felt that itch.

So...I suppose that it would have been nice for the guy to pick a different challenge, but fair is fair. He didn't steal it from anyone, it sounds like. He found it first and wanted to try killing it by himself. In my personal opinion, he did nothing wrong. Yes, I do feel bad for the hunter that wanted to tame it, but if the shaman found it first and wanted to kill it, that's his prerogative.

[Serenith]

I have to say... this doesn't feel quite as bad as the time I passed by the spawn point to find a tauren hunter who had been camping all day take on Deth himself. To help him out I rushed in and offered my pet as sacrifice, and we got him to around 30% health when a worgen hunter showed up. I begged the worgen to leave him alone and offered him 200g to let the tauren have him. The worgen ignored each and every one of my whispers till Deth was dead. And then he responded to me by saying, "F**k every horde, they screwed me out of a tame so they get what they deserve. Why the f**k do you want to help those [insert lots of colorful language here]?!" Mind you, this tauren hunter had nothing do with this worgens failed tames, it was other hordies, but yet he was punishing him for their cruel behavior. Two wrongs never make a right, and this worgen made me ashamed of my own faction. I apologized to the tauren, and he thanked me for helping him. He has his Deth now, so really the worgen just caused a minor set back, he didn't scare him away from his chance at that pet.

[Royi]

So...I suppose that it would have been nice for the guy to pick a different challenge, but fair is fair. He didn't steal it from anyone, it sounds like. He found it first and wanted to try killing it by himself. In my personal opinion, he did nothing wrong. Yes, I do feel bad for the hunter that wanted to tame it, but if the shaman found it first and wanted to kill it, that's his prerogative.

Perfectly said. I would question his choice of "challenges" as well. Since I'm pretty sure these were rare hunter pets that were implemented, to pose a challenge to tame them, not kill them. Although I would recommend bragging that Kirix is unkillable in general chat (to try and provoke someone to attempt)

Oh well, 1 less in competition to get the next Deth???

[Sasrei]

I think you probably should have waited for him or left him to do it on his own. Deth has the worlds dumbest agro table and it goes without saying, so probably you should have just waited to see what happens. After an hour he probably would have gotten bored or something.. hopefully

If someone wants to waste that long for something that doesnt drop a single thing, and unlike the whale shark isnt for an achievement while people are begging him to stop... then I still dont get it. But maybe thats just because id never kill a rare someone wanted..

[Flyra]

I'm Alliance and I'd never do this. If I see a rare spawn I find any hunter and if it's horde I'd single them to follow me. Not kill the spawn. The guy may of found it amusing or was just being stubborn. I wouldn't repeatedly beg though ,it probably just made him more determined to kill Deth.

[Himeko]

That really is horrible... For someone to do that just makes me want to punch something very hard with my cast. ;>> Thing is, which is worse? One person killing Deth once or having a whole guild raid him every time he's up? =/

Not saying it was right, but it could be worse. Trust me... Deth was up again last night when I was on one of my 85's over on ZJ and Hit Squad was raiding him again like normal. No one will be allowed to tame him on ZJ unless they pay a heavy fee for it. =.= Some of my fellow Hordies paid 10k just so they could tame him. x.x

[Serenith]

That really is horrible... For someone to do that just makes me want to punch something very hard with my cast. ;>> Thing is, which is worse? One person killing Deth once or having a whole guild raid him every time he's up? =/

Not saying it was right, but it could be worse. Trust me... Deth was up again last night when I was on one of my 85's over on ZJ and Hit Squad was raiding him again like normal. No one will be allowed to tame him on ZJ unless they pay a heavy fee for it. =.= Some of my fellow Hordies paid 10k just so they could tame him. x.x

That guild needs a life, STAT! I mean come on! They should seriously be reported cause thats just overboard. A GM will probably say "its a hostile mob so they have a right to defend themselves" Which is bull since you have to get very very close to aggro this spider in the first place.... so they are purposely going out of their way to kill it. Not to mention they know he drops nothing significant, so they have no other reason to kill it besides keeping him from other players, which seems completely wrong in my opinion. And 10k? Seriously, someone payed them 10k to let them tame it.... really they are taking it too far and they should be at least reported cause thats pretty bad if hunters are not able to tame him when he was pretty much put in the game for that reason. And did I mention they need to get a life?