Things to do before I quit WoW
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We’ve seen it all before. It’s a craze—a new sensation. People are creating lists of things to do before they die. This comes from today’s generation’s observance of society’s elders’ leading boring, uneventful lives. I, however, dread the thought of my own mortality. Therefore, I’ve compiled a list of things to do before I kick the WoW-bucket.
These things range from the simple-but-hard-to-do to displays of WoW supremacy to downright diabolical deeds. I have done a few of these things; I’ll note which ones. I plan to keep updating this list. The ones listed below came me during class this morning. I wrote down as many as I could think of.
PvP
1). Participate in and organize an all-class battleground. - Check!
This is one I have done. Before the days of BC, I hosted a series of all-Warlock WSG/AB raids. Think about it this way: 10-15 Warlocks. 10-15 Fears. 10-15 Seduces. No diminishing returns. Needless to say, we steamrolled the competition.
I would love to see an all Prot Warrior/Paladin, all-Moonkin, all-Elemental Shaman, all-Resto Druid, all-Frost Mage BG. The LOL potential is very high here.
2). Kill someone with Hellfire (Warlock only).
What’s more satisfying than brutally defeating an enemy? Make them hate you. What better way to do this than to kill them with a useless/seldom-used ability? I would love to see Hellfire-induced nerd rage.
3). Abuse spell reflectors (Vanilla only). - Check!
To me, there is nothing more delightful than turning an enemy’s plans back on them. Vanilla WoW’s top-tier engineering trinkets do the trick. If you’re an engineer, I highly suggest you make these trinkets and challenge people to duels. I love the responses.
Back when 2.0 was on the PTR, my original Warlock was an engineer. As we all know, everyone was eager to try out his/her new spec and spells. So, I’d challenge people to duels and reflect their 41-pointers and CC spells back at them. The result was a tremendous amount of whining and flaming. Definitely worth it.
4). Solo a 2s/3s team.
This feat is especially difficult to accomplish unless a) you’re a stellar PvPer with excellent gear or b) you’re facing a team of 9-year-old heroin addicts. Whatever the case, inflicting such humiliation upon an arena team is a delicious prize for this feat.
5). Kill someone with a melee attack (Caster only).
Sure, it’s embarrassing to be defeated by Thorns or Six-Demon Bag, but it’s more embarrassing to be defeated in melee combat by a non-melee class. I would love to see the look on an experienced Rogue’s face when he’s brought down with a staff slap/dagger poke/sword poke/punch for 46 damage.
6). Multi-box.
This one requires some effort, especially if you have a disdain for leveling (read: me). However, when correctly executed, multi-boxing yields excellent results. You get multiple characters with multiple gold pools all with abilities that can easily smoke enemies when used simultaneously. I want 5 Boomkins.
7). Obliterate the Crossroads.
I hate the Barrens. I hate the Horde. I hate the Crossroads. To channel my anger, I want to destroy the non-capitol city they love the most. I want to pierce a hole in Horde ego.
8). Obliterate a capitol city.
While I’m hating on the Horde, I might as well make them hate me. There is nothing more insulting then to have your capitol cities pillaged. We’re talking utter chaos. I want NPCs and players alike slaughtered on their own ground. For this to be especially effective, I’d like to see 4 different 40-man raids in each capitol city in order to ensure that the Horde’s defenses will be scattered. I want a total war.
9). Defeat faction leaders.
I’m sick of Thrall and his self-righteous bullshit. I’ve had enough with his heroic deeds and his arrogant boasts. I hated playing with him in CoT. Therefore, I want him to die in his own city. This is one way to make yourself hatefully remembered.
As an added bonus to slaying a faction leader, you get to shit all over Warcraft lore.
10). Tank Drek’Thar or Vandaar in Alterac Valley (Casters only). - Check!
It’s always exciting when you’re doing something your class isn’t designed to do. Tanking for clothies is one example. Before the days of tower-controlled buffs, Drek and Vandaar were punching bags. Sometimes, however, there is an absence of tanks for these fellows, as most PvPers are specced for PvP (AV is a PvP/PvE blend). This means someone needs to step up to the plate and tank them. I did. As Destruction specced, might I add. Searing Pain spam for great justice! Props to my excellent healers (whoever/wherever you are now).
11). Be a battleground’s hero. - Check!
Nothing makes people love you more than when you single-handedly put an end to turtle AVs or WSGs. Take, for example, yours truly last week:
Both factions were had about the same amount of reinforcements (77 or so) and had only the last two towers to be capped. The Horde was hammering away at the Alliance at the bridge. The entire Horde team was on the offensive and the entire Alliance team was on defense. The Horde kept capping the towers and the graveyard, and the Alliance kept re-capping them. At this rate, the Alliance was slowly losing reinforcements as the Horde’s pressure grew. I was already in the BG for 40 minutes, so I hatched a plan.
I made a break for Stonehearth Graveyard and ran through the Horde offensive. I made it to the graveyard and fully drank up. I waited until the next wave of Horde respawned at the graveyard and ran to the flag. I hardcasted a Howl of Terror and send the guards running. I quickly capped the flag before the guards returned and before the Horde respawned. The result was the entire offensive teams being sent back to Frostwolf Graveyard, relieving the pressure, and allowing the Alliance to mount an offensive of their own. We won, and I was praised for my accomplishment.
I am awesome.
12). Make people to fall of an edge.
The easiest way to do this is to fight (intelligently) near an edge. This is especially effective against melee, as they need to stay on you. Just put your back to the edge and continue as usual. If you move around quickly, you may trick them into falling.
Alternatively, you can catch people who cut corners by jumping across gaps to save time. You have a split-second window in which to catch them midair and interrupt them. Stuns and Netherweave Nets are especially effective here.
13). Get people stuck in the environment. - Check!
This has happened to all of us. A freak glitch causes us to become stuck in an object—be it a tree, fire, or rock. It’s not funny when you’re the victim. It is funny, however, when you’re the bringer of such punishment.
The best way to do this is to Fear someone. For whatever reason, fleeing enemies can pass through objects that are otherwise solid. This includes doors, certain trees, and instance entrances.
I once got a Mage stuck behind the instance entrance and door at Karazhan. He had no teleport mats, so he burned his hearthstone.
14). Host a Guild Gurubashi Arena Tournament. - Check!
On days of substantial amounts of missing raid members, my vanilla guild resorted to hosting tournaments in the Gurubashi Arena. The result—hours of laughter. I recall dropping my Infernal and winning a 2v1 when my partner died.
PvE
15). 1-2 Man Vanilla Raid Bosses.
With the release of the expansion very close, this task becomes increasingly more attainable. I plan to find myself a healer and beat the piss out of Onyxia.
16). Obtain Baron’s Mount.
I tried so many times over so many hours to get Baron to drop his mount in vanilla days. I think I’m just gonna invite him to dinner, get him drunk, and swipe his mount.
17). Corpse-bomb a capitol city. - Check!
I’m not sure how long exactly, but corpses of players remain on the ground for a decent amount of time. I’ve seen Ironforge corpse-bombed by a series of level 1 Trolls who died, spelling out “Alliance Sucks.” They were just jealous that they don’t have a capitol city of their own.
In Shattrath, myself and a few guildies summoned some level 1 alts with names of dead celebrities and had them jump and die under A’dal. They were there for a few days, and people began to complain. Hilarity ensued.
18). Get the killing blow on a raid boss with a melee attack (Casters only).
Just like in PvP, it’s a feat to defeat your enemy with some finesse. Works the same way in PvE. I want to smack Illidan across his face with my staff and tell him to “LOOK IT OVER.”
19). Become exalted with the Bloodsail Buccaneers. - Check!
The Warlock on my very first account was a Bloodsail Admiral. In the last month before BC, my cousin, my friend, and myself killed Booty Bay guards for days. We needed to get our Pirate costumes.
The only downside, however, was that we couldn’t set foot in any Steemwheedle cities (Area 52 and Gadgetzdan hurt us the most). Definitely worth it.
ETC
20). Develop an RP wardrobe.
In vanilla, a had a guildmate who collected a large number of roleplaying costumes. He used to bust them out in raids to lighten the mood. He had a Jedi costume, a miner costume, a SW guard costume, a poacher costume, and a Defias costume. In addition, he collected all of the dungeon sets (yes, like Dreadmist and Lightforge). He was a champ.
You don’t need to be an RPer to have some RP fun. Go ahead, try it.
21). Ruin a roleplaying event.
As fun as RPing may be, it’s more fun to ruin it. Roleplaying is serious business. As a result, professional RPers take it seriously. This is why they have designated realms. Sometimes, however, RPers find themselves on PvP realms and it is appropriate to show them how we do it on PvP realms.
So, the next time I hear about an in-game wedding/funeral/ceremony, I plan to kill its participants (if they’re of the opposite faction) or interrupt it with mindless banter.
22). Scam someone on the auction house.
I don’t mean a brutal ban-inducing scam. I mean buying out all the Primal Fires on the AH, putting 5 of them up. 4 of them at 20g a piece and 1 for 200g. This will catch careless players who are in desperate need of Primal Fires. If they complain to you say, “Whoops. Typo.”
I actually fell for one of these scams in vanilla with Runecloth. I was pissed. I spent 200g on a stack of Runecloth. I petitioned a GM, but he said it was my fault and that there was nothing he could do. Now I realize that WoW players are extremely abusable.
23). Prank the guild bank.
I want to transfer to some random server, join a guild, become a well-respected member, gain access to the G-bank, and mess it up. I want to replace Primal Fires with Essence of Fire (and the other primals as well). I want to swap Netherweave for Linen Cloth. I want to replace BoE epics with lowbie BoE greens. I want to turn an endgame raiding guild into a “friendly, leveling guild accepting players of all levels.” You know the type.
If I’m feeling especially diabolical, I’ll just rob the G-bank. Meh, maybe not. I do have a heart.
24). Induce nerd rage or crying. - Check!
It’s been said before: WoW is serious business. I love when people flip out over a game. Didn’t get the loot you wanted? Cry about it. Didn’t win the arena match? Nerd rage.
Note that the last three items on my list are ways to accomplish this task.
I’m a pretty calm guy. Nothing really upsets me. However, I tend to be a big douchebag, and this pisses people off. In fact, it’s actually quite easy for me. Thus, I have induced countless instances of nerd rage and QQ in my WoW career.
25). Make someone quit the game. For good.
You need to be an absolute pro to complete this goal. To do this, you need to have flawlessly executed a downright evil plan that ruins the game for someone. I can’t even fathom a way by which this can be done, but I want to do it. I want to upset someone so much that they stop playing altogether, preferably a Mage. There’s something about watching someone go crazy over a game that entertains me. I guess I’m a Warlock.
If you’re an intelligent person, you’re immune to the prodding of others. You realize that it’s a game and that there’s nothing to freak out over. You don’t take the game seriously and see it for what it is—entertainment. Unfortunately, there are not many people like this in the World of Warcraft.
26). Meet up with some longtime WoW friends.
Like many players, I’ve developed some really good longtime relationships with fellow guildies. These kinds of relationships are long-term benefits of countless hours of gaming. If you can quit the game with a few good relationships, you win. Physically meeting these people makes your wasted time worthwhile.
Note: Rogues and Warriors may need parental permission to do this (read: 12 year olds).
27). Sing every word of Bohemian Rhapsody in game with other people. - Check!
You cannot plan this. You must simply say the following: “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” Hopefully, someone will reply with: “Caught in a landslide. No escape from reality.”
At which point, you go line-for-line with this person. If you complete the entire song, you win. Game over. You are the champion (and you’ll keep on fighting to the end).
I did accomplish this in a turtle AV once. I win.
Final Thoughts
These are just some suggestions of things to do. Of course, not all of them are easily accomplished and you may not be comfortable with accomplishing some of them. Nevertheless, these lists offer tremendous amounts of entertainment.
What’s on your WoW bucketlist?
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2). Kill someone with Hellfire (Warlock only).
check
4). Solo a 2s/3s team.
check… because my partner was afk and i didnt realize it, so it wasnt on purpose.. it was a priest/mage combo, i seduced the priest, nuked the mage and then the priest… but i´m not a good pvp-player..that was luck lol
7). Obliterate the Crossroads.
check… a druid friend (i know, druids cant be friends) who was with me fell asleep and got ganked by a lot of lowlevels… i was on my way to ogrimmar and saw his hp-bar go down slowly, always just 2 or 3 points, then i went back, it was hilarious, i just let the magic happen and watched while 15 level 10 chars or so killed him in like 10 minutes.. then i hellfired them to doom
9). Defeat faction leaders.
check
10). Tank Drek’Thar or Vandaar in Alterac Valley (Casters only).
check, i also have a vid of it.. but to be honest, i also have tank weapons, trinkets and necklaces, just for moments like that…
8). Get the killing blow on a raid boss with a melee attack (Casters only).
check… i always try to do that
24). Induce nerd rage or crying.
check
25). Make someone quit the game. For good.
check. i dont know if its true, but the mother of a girl who was in my guild wrote me an ingame letter that this girl had a mental breakdown after i told her that i think her bubbly and bitchy behaviour is not good for the guild and that i´m going to remove her if she doesnt change her behaviour… never seen her again and heard of other people that she quit playing… i think her mother and her brother who played too also quit
yay, thats my accomplishments on your list ; )
1. me and my friends had a all rogue twink wsg match. quite fun, we all stood on the flag and raped the horde offense.
4. i have a lvl 70 rogue and on a 2vs2 my friend died, i vanished and allowed my health to replenish itself (talk about boring). about 5 min later when most of my cooldowns were ready i ganked a shaman/paladin team that clearly just started doing arenas….hey, it still counts.
7. oh what fond memories. i usedf to pop out of stelath and kill the questgivers while waiting for guild raids.
12. i dueled a mage once and i jumped off of a cliff, i landed with just shy of 500 health but since im a rogue i have safe fall, the mage landed and proved squishies go splat.
13. did this with sap a few times
20. i made a pretty impressive king outfit once.
22. did this once, it wasnt for a lot though, i was selling health pots and put one in there for the same price as 5.
23. did this just before i decided to transfer realms a few months after BC came out.
25. i like to think ive done this one, there was a tauren druid that was named mookitty, i tracked him for hours at a time stealing his kills, killing him, killing his questgivers. either he transfered realms or he quit.
26. after i transfered realms i met up with an old schoolmate who heard me talking about my old highschool. a pleasent, yet unsuspected surprise.
27. i was over at one of my friends house, he was in a raid that was going nowhere, i was in a AV that was going no where, i read the first line of what someone had typed, not even knowing it and all of the sudden my friend spins his chair around and we both break out in song.
it was a pretty good list, i would add one more:
28. become famous for your somewhat ridiculous political views in trade chat. this doesnt have to be your real views, but just funny made up ones so that hopefully atleast one person thinks are your real views.
oh, btw, not all rogues are 12 years old, only the ones you notice…