It’d been ages since I’d done any arena – especially 2v2. It was a lot of fun.
I grouped up with one of my long-time in-game compadres, for a BM Hunter / Elemental Shaman 2v2 burstfest. We did alright…well…actually, no…we pretty much sucked.
My partner was undergeared, still wearing some greens and blues, but even worse were my blowits. >_<
After about our fifth loss, I was really starting to wonder why my Scatter Shot seemed so ineffective, and how come my Wing Clip wasn’t slowing anyone. I suddenly realized I’d forgotten that I’d removed those skills from my action bars and replaced them with emotes.
Let me explain…
The other day I was putting together an ‘announcement / rally the troops’ post for a new guild site I began his week. In an effort to add a little character and passion to the article, I accompanied it with a few screenshots of me doing various emotes. I put the emotes in my action bars and turned my interface off so I could just tap the action bar buttons to get the screen shots. I put /roar on Button1 and /shrug on Button2 — Button 3 was a Flagon of Mead. Normally in those slots I have: Wing Clip, Raptor Strike and Scatter Shot.
Problem was…I forgot to return the skills to my action bars. 😉
As a result, I was running around in arena like a jackass, roaring with bestial vigor and trying to drink all my Flagons of Mead. Occasionally when trapped in melee, my opponents would get a shrug from me as well.
I’m not one to watch chat if I happen to be on Skype, which we were, so I was unaware of my shenanigans. Meanwhile, my partner is silently scratching his head wondering why I keep roaring at our opponents. A few of our opposing players even started spitting on me.
Anyway, when I realized what I had done, I was full on headdesk. But I was laughing at myself as well. We were mainly queueing for Conquest points and some fun, so it was no biggie. Needless to say, our win percentage went up once I addressed my ‘head-in-ass’ condition.
Part of the reason I missed this is because I started hiding my action bars while out of combat. While in combat, I tend to watch for only a couple of the longer cooldowns, so I wasn’t even paying attention to those three abilities. The other thing that maybe caused me to be a bit oblivious to this would have been the Sailor Jerry and Dr. Pepper that I had been enjoying. One gets mighty thirsty when PvP’ing.
Anyway… upon realizing my noobish maneuver, I quickly swapped my skills back in and we started handling teams a bit better. It’s amazing that we actually beat 4 teams without Wing Clip, Scatter Shot and one other thing… I had Spirit Mend off autocast, and had been neglecting to manually cast it. The rust was heavy last night.
At any rate, we finished the evening at 8-8, and my partner and I each earned a shiny new piece of Conquest gear. 🙂
So there ya have it…Great Moments in Hunter PvP History!
Haha Great story Garwulf,
I would think we all have a story like that, most of mine would be from trying to perfect my own focus macros. Oh and back in TBC I copied the old 1 button macro wrong and spammed guild chat for an hour ( I was in a dungeon/raid channel I madewith no clue until guildies whispered me) lol
I’d like to mention if you like emotes I found an addon “killshot” that emotes when you get a kill ( it has spit and slap but you can add/remove more like mock, rude, bye, etc ) and gives you audible messages like “wicked kill” “killing Streak” and “unstoppable”. This addon has added a whole new level of pvp enjoyment for me 🙂
oh yea you could add /roar and /shrug 🙂
tonight i logged into my hunter for the first time in 2011
i was discouraged about many changes and how much i had forgotten
came here for advice and read one of the best posts ever…
you reminded me that its not really life and death and supposed to be fun
thanks!
This is hilarious Gar. Thanks for a good long laugh!
I needed that giggle… too funny! ‘Special hunter’ ahahaha…. If nothing else it could have made for a nice diversionary tactic… while they were busy trying to figure out what was ‘wrong’ with you, blow them up! It’s times like this we will look back on, when wow is dead and gone and remember how much fun it was…
And Takaas, don’t feel bad! “Oh no mage.. and the holy priest is a chicken shit, I guess the hunter has to trip the traps and disengage in time before she goes splat!”…. If I managed to actually hit it is time before ‘splatting’ there is a good chance I end up in the lava lol, so i FEEL YOUR PAIN.
Reading it I couldn’t help but laugh. Then thinking about it I would probably be kicking myself if I had done it. *shrug* We all make mistakes. Last night on Ragnaros I had an itchy disengage finger and disengaged not once but twice off into the lava.
I’m hoping people laugh at the story, ’cause I certainly found it funny. Imagining me spam-roaring at my opponents still gets me cracking up, especially when I think about the chat going on between them – talking about the ‘special’ hunter they’re playing against. 😉
We all make mistakes, but if we can’t laugh at them, then we’re taking this a little too seriously.
Every Hunter goes through that at some point in their lives so don’t beat yourself up. It comes with the territory.
Oh, don’t I know it. I normally don’t care when that sort of stuff happens – I just laugh.
If I had been struggling with achieving a gear threshold ranking, then I would have been a little miffed at myself, mainly for letting my teammate down.