SkitterFlame is not Mage proof

[Katalenna]

Well i now i said spiders where ewww....but a hunter friend of mine convinced me how nice they actually where so i figured i would get one of the new ones eventually. Well today was my lucky day (or so i though) i was on with my shammy doing Druid dailies when i spy SkitterFlame. I scan the area for other hunters because i will not ninja some one elses camp that is just plain rude. There where absolutely no hunters so i figured i get mine over here asap.... I logged on my hunter and booked on over there and still saw no hunters.

Thus i begin by pulling him with autoshot and sitting down ice trap to help cool him off and then all of a sudden a darn Mage pops out of no where and starts killing him. Me and a druid who was passing by told the Mage to stop (the Mage was the same faction as us....Ally) and she didn't she killed my tame

I was so sad the druid tried to make me feel better but i proceeded to the nearest cliff and jumped off hoping that would relieve my anger and sadness....but it didn't. I still feel cheated. The darn Mage couldn't even loot him because i tagged him first so for all my trouble all i got was Crystallized Tear....so sad yet so fitting i guess.

P.S. Maybe one day me and SkitterFlame will meet again and if we do any of you hunters here that have him want to share some advice so he does not die right before my dwarven eyes?

R.I.P- SkitterFlame 5:30 ish server time Silverhand

[Curzon]

Alliance on Silver Hand seem to be jerks a lot.


I've seen them kill Anthriss right in front of me a few days ago.

[Imamess]

Sorry to hear. Maybe next time.

Kirix seems to be the only one that's "non-hunter proof".

[Sarantha]

A group of horde hunters on my server attempted to kill Deth'tilac that another horde hunter was taming (I was helping this troll hunter, as I was a friend of his, using my alliance DK and chains of ice). They were making /spit and /rude gestures and both me and the other horde fellow. That was very unclassy and just plain rude. The troll had it tagged first, therefore he should get it, as he did in the end. Deth was down to 5k health before the tame went off successfully. Once I logged back over to my orc, the troll hunter was so happy and was offering payment and ended up naming Deth after my draenei DK (Cersei) which was a good name for her. She's deadly, hard to kill, and even harder to tame.

[AdamSavage]

You should report the Mage. Killing a rare while a Hunter is taming it is griefing. There going out of there way to upset you..

[Katalenna]

Yeah i would report the Mage for griefing but i am so sure the GM's wouldn't do a darn thing about it or give me my precious red spider back. My experience with GM's all seems to end with them non nonchalantly saying the problems i am having are my fault.

[AdamSavage]

Yeah i would report the Mage for griefing but i am so sure the GM's wouldn't do a darn thing about it or give me my precious red spider back. My experience with GM's all seems to end with them non nonchalantly saying the problems i am having are my fault.

Your not the first person this has happened to, when you go out of your way to ruin another players gaming experience then your griefing them. One report may not be enough for anything to happen to the mage, so it will seem like nothing was done. However, if he keeps doing it and players keep reporting him, then he will be delt with by Blizzard.

====>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Griefing<====

[Morven]

They won't give you the pet, but it does count against them especially if a player gets multiple griefing reports. Same-faction griefing is against the rules even on PVP servers.

[AdamSavage]

They won't give you the pet, but it does count against them especially if a player gets multiple griefing reports. Same-faction griefing is against the rules even on PVP servers.

Yep it does, that's why I made a thread specifically about these issues. I hope to create more awareness on this.

[Sarantha]

The GMs know about the griefing. A GM I spoke with mentioned a future hotfix to stop this. Something about once the mob is tamable, no one else can tame/dps it, just the person who did most of the damage or tagged it first.

[AdamSavage]

The GMs know about the griefing. A GM I spoke with mentioned a future hotfix to stop this. Something about once the mob is tamable, no one else can tame/dps it, just the person who did most of the damage or tagged it first.

That's gonna be fun to see. I can hear the crying now from the griefers.

[AdamSavage]

Anyone feel like biting ?

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic ... 582?page=4

[Comett]

Awh *hugs* I'm so sorry about your Skitterflame. It seems the luck of the hunter that very few actually get a successful tame on the first spawn. I went through, I think, 4 Deths (mine was the fifth) and 3 Solixes (mine was the fouth) before I got my two spiders, and they were the only ones I wanted, so thankfully I can stop now *lol*. I hope you have better luck than me there though.

I tend to see Skitterflame up a fair bit (moreso than the others unless I'm actively camping) and so far I've found that 12 hours is a pretty solid mark for spawns but they'll often spawn a couple of hours either side of it. I tracked all the Deths and Solixes this way so I can only guess Skitterflame is the same? ^^

[yozban]

I rarely see attempt to kill rare tamable beast when there is an hunter around trying to tame in us realms . but looks like that happen a lot in eu servers . if you play in eu then you should come to us lol .

[Darkynhalvos]

They won't give you the pet, but it does count against them especially if a player gets multiple griefing reports. Same-faction griefing is against the rules even on PVP servers.

Yep it does, that's why I made a thread specifically about these issues. I hope to create more awareness on this.

I can't WAIT for that, so much griefer QQ I'll be swimming for days, not to mention the relief of being able to tame a mob I tagged with no worries of interference. Lost Solix 3 days ago to that, another hunter somehow took aggro and tamed him from under me, still no clue how, it was like Solix did an aggro wipe and went straight for the other guy. Did get Solix the next night, so it's all good now.

[Aleshanee]

Watched with sadness as a mage and 2 DKs grouped up to kill Ban'thalos that a fellow alli hunter was waiting to tame (waiting for him to get in range of the tree). Their excuse? "We can kill it, so why not?"

A lot of mages are douches, in my experience. Insecure from being such a faceroll herp! Arcane Blast! derp! class I guess.

[Syleye]

Ok, again I have to object, there is no such things as a jerk class or race. There are plenty of jerks in all categories to go around. Calling out a specific class or race just because they happened to be the one who gave you heck is kinda rude, could we please refrain from such generalizations in the future.

On to the main topic, I am very sorry you lost such a lovely pet to a jerk player. You will get her again in no time

[Aleshanee]

Touchy. Guess I'll go elsewhere. Was only speaking from my own experiences. /shrug I said "a lot", not all (I have plenty of excellent mage friends), but fine. Feel free to delete this account. I'll go back to lurking if one can't have an opinion.

[Syleye]

Not being touchy at all and i apologize if my request offended you . I play many classes, mage being one of them and yes he has an arcane offspec.

[Sarantha]

The GMs know about the griefing. A GM I spoke with mentioned a future hotfix to stop this. Something about once the mob is tamable, no one else can tame/dps it, just the person who did most of the damage or tagged it first.

That's gonna be fun to see. I can hear the crying now from the griefers.

Griefer tears are nommy. Yum yum. Let them cry like they've made so many others. Or at least, hurt the feelings of so many others.