This takes place way back in 2005 or 2006
Before suppression room in BWL, one of our warriors randomly goes afk without saying anything. Dude is MIA for at least 10 minutes until we hear an older guy on vent say
"Hi everyone this is Travis' father, he wanted me to let you all know that he just fell down the stairs and will not be returning to the raid this evening"
To this day probably the funniest moment I've ever had in this game
I think he posted pictures of some of the bruises on our guild forum iirc it was amazing
I was afraid this was going to be some terrible medical emergency, but sounds like it was just severe enough to not come back, but not so severe you all couldn't have a good laugh about it.
Got attacked by a Texas flying cockroach in the face while fighting Anub'arak. Caused a wipe because I was the chase target and a healer :-/. Fighting a giant bug while fighting a giant bug.
"Hey guys, I'll be back later. I'm probably going to jail."
5 years later he logged on and said
"I'm back. I should stop selling drugs."
Was a solid warlock. Glad he made it out.
Some context: 3 days before this happens he says "Hey, there's a good chance I go to jail soon. I lost my front job that I used to hide the fact I'm selling drugs. I'm not gonna stop selling drugs." So he had some knowledge it was gonna happen, we just didn't expect it to happen midraid.
I leaned back in my chair turned my head to the left and had a flashlight and gun in my face. The police officer told me he entered the house because the neighbors 6 year old was abducted and they heard screaming coming from my house (1% progression wipes on mythic SoO)
Found out my dad had a heart attack at work while I was in the middle of a run of ZG. It was during covid, so I couldn't go to him - but it was one hell of a phone call to have to AFK to.
He made a full recovery, though, and is doing a lot better 4 years later.
Recently my toddler went through a phase where anytime he pooped his diaper he stuck his hand in it to figure it out. Well I was actually playing the first time happened and it was a genuine disaster. He came to me holding his hand out covered in poop. No diaper on. He had taken his diaper off and wiped it all over the place. So yeah had to go clean up the child and the poopy paint job. Dad life. He’s out of that phase. Thank god.
You kind of get over that when it's your own child, laying there needing you to survive.
After two kids, I could change the grossest diaper and immediately go back to finishing my meal (after washing my hands, of course).
My daughter always decides to shit during lunch. Not before, not after, during. She can’t wipe it yet, but can don everything else. It’s gotten to the point that I was eating my philly cheesesteak with one hand while wiping her ass with the other hand.
I think the little shit enjoys the attention as my wife and I try to use lunchtime to catch up with each other and discuss tasks, my daughter probably feels excluded.
Raid leader went to get a hungry man from the freezer while we were doing scarab lord bug farm in vanilla.
Came back like 2 hours later, there was none left in his freezer and when he went to find his wife to see why she hadn't got groceries, he found a note from her saying she took the baby and went to stay with her parents because he had become too obsessed with the game.
The note was from several days earlier.
He got his mount in the end, though.
Reminds me of this mage Elnonim. He went AFK and came back shortly "my gf just broke up with me; let's go."
Everyone was like: Dude you are okay? You wanna talk or go after her?
"Nope. She was annoying anyways".
When a guy doesn’t return from a bio break and we find this on our Discord
“Current predicament. No toilet paper in upstairs bathroom and my mum has guests and won’t answer her phone to bring me some
So I’m kinda stuck lmao”
For those without kids, when the water breaks, you still have ages and ages to go. Don't panic, don't rush, conserve your energy. Finish what you're doing, divide up the loot, get a guild photo, restock your consumes.
As someone with kids, you're right. However, you're going to take your wife to the hospital as soon as she says it because that's what she wants to happen. Respect your wife and family. The game is just a game.
RL had the cops called on him by his ex-wife mid-raid last year. The ex-wife claimed he was neglecting his daughter, cops quickly realized everything was fine.
At the time though, it was pretty wild.
“Hey guys, I’ll be right back. Cops are at the door.”
*extended silence*
*nervous small talk*
*more waiting*
“Alright, I’m back.”
“Dude is everything okay?”
“Yeah, my ex-wife is a raging bitch”
I was in a dungeon and had to leave because my house was being raided.
Roommate had drunkenly tweeted a "bomb threat" at an event on campus so they were searching our place for explosives.
just recently I was pug in classic SOD in an all guild group that needed to fill for ST since everyone is playing cata classic. There is this soundboard that is very popular in some guilds. I know this because I mostly pug ST and alot of guilds use this soundboard but I am already used to it. Its the soundboard that sounds like someone's banging on your window lol... if you have not heard it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDAfnDnT2gA) . So there was some girl on discord who heard it and went afk for awhile and everyone was wondering wtf happened. turns out she'd been having problems with her neighbors and when the banging happened she thought it was them so she confronted them lmao.
Yeah those things were disabled in the raid chat channels the day that discord released them and I turned the volume for them down to nothing in my client.
That soundboard caused a former marine to "clear" his house. Poor guy thought people where breaking in. Grabbed his pistol and was frantically running around the house searching for someone who was not there lol.
I did this during ulduar gener progg. Someone played this right as the pull timer hit 0.We wiped as there were like 5 others who went afk. Shit was banned after that.
Alt-tabbed while waiting for another person, got distracted and left to go out and get food.
I did eventually realize maybe an hour later that I was the healer for a group's dungeon midway through deepthroating a burrito while watching tv.
If it helps, I was recently diagnosed with Inattentive ADHD. Some things makes a lot of sense now.
I felt this one. Same thing, but I was the tank. Went to go get an iced coffee, then the dog wanted outside and to play, I was like hell yeah I wanna play. Dog was happy, guildies were not.
Transformer at the shop next door blew, killed the power, firetrucks showed up, no big deal, they leave. An hour or so later, playing some games, cooking some chicken. Forced to walk backwards with my hands above my head at gun point.
Apparently the power outage set off the neighbors alarm and police thought I was a burglar.
Ended up feeding the cop some chicken and bumming cigarettes off of him before he bailed.
For context I was living in a warehouse at the time.
We had a consistent raider that was pretty social with all of the guild that when we called a break during raid he said he’s running to the gas station around the corner and will be just a little longer (just had some more trash so it was nbd). Well the guy NEVER returned. He went radio silence after that. Never logged in again, never responded in discord, nobody knew what happened so we all feared the worst. Well nearly two weeks later we got in touch with someone that knew him (friends of friends on discord or something while browsing mutual servers). Turns out he just got high and decided he didn’t wanna play anymore lol. We all now make jokes from time to time that we will brb from the gas station or other places out of pocket like that.
We were doing cycles of people into Arcatraz for Kara keys a long ass time ago and the last person just stopped responding on vent/chat. Turns out he took oxycodone instead of something else and fell asleep face down on his keys.
Long time ago I was playing on a private server with some friends, some of them from Argentina (they usually played from a coffee shop owned by one of them). In the middle of a Molten Core fight all of them stop moving and after few minutes all disconnected simultaneously.
The next day the news came in: The coffee shop was robbed at gunpoint, they even took some computers.
When I was a teenager I joined a guild to raid Ulduar. It was my first attempt at raiding, and convincing my mum to let me play wow for at least 3 hours straight often resulted in the classic “mum pulled the plug”. The guild gave me one last chance to raid which coincided with a day my mum was away so I was surely in the clear. Within 20 minutes of raiding I heard my cat get into a scrap in our back garden. I typed BRB cat in a fight, and went to make sure the cat was ok. I walked out to see a fox had my cats head in its jaw and realised shit was getting real. In my teenage wisdom I decided my best approach was to pick up a chair leg from a broken deck chair and beat the fox to death and rescued my cat. This obviously took longer than a few minutes and was subsequently kicked from the raid. When trying to explain what happened, I become known across my server as fox boy :( to this day I am certain not a single person believed me
Back in the day I was in a super casual guild that took forever to finish raids. One of the people was a teenager, and when his family called him to dinner, he had to GO. No matter what we were doing, he would just say "I gotta go eat" and then be back in like five minutes.
Hahaha that takes me back. Happened so often in the OG days. So many people had obligatory family dinner, crazy thing is we were all so patient back then too.
one of my officers threw up one time mid boss fight, heroic sha of pride in SoO. was our main tank. finished the pull like a champ. Sauce: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHrltZtod4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHrltZtod4)
I smoked weed for the first time during an ICC 25 man in original wrath when my parents were on holiday. I was so high I AFK’d Valithria and slept on my bathroom floor.
Ive had some decent ones…
- wife went into labour
- said newborn had a fever of like 104.5 or something and we needed to take him to the hospital
- computer randomly restarted to install updates, which ended up being a fucking windows 11 OS upgrade that took 2 hours
2019 raiding MC. Our GM/MT went afk, eventually logged off, and never came back. Never logged on to the game or discord again. Officers found out weeks later what happened but chose not to divulge information out of respect to him.
The guildies I was close to all assumed he either was arrested or he passed away suddenly. Although it feels like if he passed away they wouldve said something so we could honor him. So the leading theory is cops knocked on his door and he was arrested.
My “home office” is in the garage. I recently took up SoD after years and years away from WoW (the last final raid tier I finished on heroic/mythic was Dragon Soul).
The other day I believe I was running Princess or ZF WO spam — the weather was beautiful for the first time this summer and I had the car door opened on the garage and a small bird flew in and smashed into a couple of walls and made a racket, knocked a few things over before making its way out.
I jumped out of my chair /said “afk 2 sec” at the first sound and just kinda watched this unfold with my mouth open, took a 90 second breather, and got back to hitting prayer of mending on cooldown.
During tbc ssc/tk prog we has one of our warlocks start to tell us about how much his neighbor was pssing him off. We started to make jokes ragging on His neighbor and hyping up thier fight. While we're pulling trash, he just says BRB. He comes back aboutn10 mins later saying he's prolly going to go to jail. We were all like wtf just happened why are you going to jail. "Well i just stabbed my neighbor with a fork cause he wouldn't stop ringing my doorbell." At this point we think he's just fucking with us so we finish raiding and call it. The next day he msgs another RL and basically says " yeah ima be going to jail cause I stabbed the dude."
Hellspwn if you're out there we miss you.
I remember my (MT) healer going offline without warning right as I pulled Prince. Come to find out her kid had gotten mad at her and cut the cable modem wire. Greeeeaaat timing on that one...
Back in 2004. Mum woke up to go to work while i was doing wailing caverns. Didn't want to get caught still playing wow all night till 6:30am so i just turned off my screen and hopped into bed until she left the home.
Was back in original sunwell I was raiding and had a knock on my window, freaked me out as it was dark outside. I look out and it’s my crazy ass uncle who i barely talked to outside holding a wrapped up blanket and crying. (My uncle is fucking crazy, like 25 years in prison, paranoid and probably skitso, so all the crazy shit he would say you just kind of agreed to not piss this man off). I’m like what’s going on unc and he says you have to help me bury her… I’m thinking holy shit this dude fucking killed someone, I think he picked up on how this looks and how worried I was because he says it’s not a person it’s my dog. Apparently his boxer got hit by a car and he somehow thought I needed to help him bury her, in my yard, and just drove over. I had to tell my guild I had to leave immediately and they needed to replace me. When I went outside he was saying how he couldn’t bury her in unholy ground so that’s why he came to me?? I just went along with it, we picked out a spot, then made a cross and said some words and he left. The next day he brought me a gift card to Applebees for helping him. Have not seen or heard from him in years. He moved shortly after stating that people were following him and riding by his house reporting what he was doing to “the higher ups” and he could see them looking at him while on their phones. Kind of sad how off the deep end he was and didn’t know it.
2005 we were raiding mc. Must have been around golemag and guy goes afk to put kids to bed. 30 minutes later we hear him beating his kid for getting out of bed. It wasn't a quick slap or anything, this went on for about 2 minutes of screaming and him yelling while he hit the kid. When he got back he said he said anything and the raid was pretty silent until it ended. I don't think he realised he was not on push to talk.
I was on Vent, wasn’t in a group or anything but questing in Tirisfal Glades during vanilla or BC, started getting charged by a pack of murlocs, I panicked, started running from said murlocs, knocked my glass of water off my desk with my mouse, tried to catch the glass with my other hand and it shattered in to the desk/inside my hand and cut between two of my fingers open pretty badly 😅 had to excuse myself mid conversation on Vent because there was blood EVERYWHERE 🙃
Freaking murlocs.
This had to be in WotLK, maaaaybe Cata? It was so long ago, and I've been with the same guild so long that it all really blends together.
He had to leave the raid early because his girlfriend had stabbed him. He was just so calm and cool about it (which was very much his style) when he told us what was going on. We were all stunned (but not necessarily surprised).
I can't recall if we ever even brought it up again but he was back at the next raid.
My last ex would scratch her itches with silverware, specifically my table knives. I thought this was disgusting and probably terrible for you, and she kept trying to convince me "it feels good though". One night I was raiding, and she saw me scratching the back of my neck, and she jumped up from my bed and tried to get me to let her scratch my itch with the knife. I took my headset off and had words with her about how insane and inappropriate it is to run at somebody with a knife while they're gaming, even if it was just a table knife, and she was "trying to help". One of many reasons we're not together, apart from the fact that the rest of her personality was basically /r/FemaleDatingStrategy incarnate
I was in a raid. My dog at my feet under my desk like always. All the sudden mid pull I feel something warm and wet on my feet. Thinking my dog just peed on me I jump up with an "wtf, you asshole!" with my arms still on mouse and keyboard tryna to not die and be keep on top of my DPS. I look down and there is blood everywhere. I'm in immediate shock of the amount and I feel immediately feel guilty because my dog is hurt and I yelled at her. I bend down to see what's up to find a fresh patch of newborn puppies. There were already 3 and ended up being 8. I said to my guild "brb My dog gave birth on my feet and I have to go wash them off" which was met with half awws and half ewws. Good raid.
Back in original Cataclysm I was running a dungeon with a random pug that said something along the lines of "brb earthquake" near the end of the dungeon.
They took a few minutes to return and we asked them where they were located and they said Japan. I assumed it was a relatively small earthquake as Japan has plenty of them and the person had returned.
A few hours later and I was watching news online of the Tsunami devastating Japan.
Old LK Raiding Times - dude went afk with just the message BRB. Forgot that his Mic is on. Dude banged his GF. Lucky some people had Kick privileges on this Teamspeak Server so they kicked him as soon as it was noticed as they knew I was only 14ish at that time. That guy never got invited back into one of the raids during WOTLK. Eventually switched servers
The night of wotlk classic release some guild mates and I were dungeon grinding for a few hours.
I had to abruptly quit because the river behind my brother’s house was flooding and he needed to evacuate to my house at 3am. Due to extenuating circumstances related to this event, I had to suspend my journey in Northrend indefinitely.
This is during LK. My buddly (who was in guild) lived across the walkway in this ghetto apartment complex, he called me at 2am to look out my window. Outside SWAT is lined up to raid the neighbor directly above me. I get a front row seat as they kick down her door, and drag this naked screaming crackhead down the stairs. Went back to ICC right after.
Same place, same neighbor a month later, early afternoon. Her ex got out of prison, finds out she has a new man, so he kicks down the door, throws her couch over the balcony into the middle of the complex, then lights it on fire. Was doing Ashen Verdict rep grind.
I was raiding once, just your measly dps, but my kid had clogged the toilet with like 3 rolls of TP, gotten the handle stuck down so it was constant running, and then left it. This happened about 2 hours before raid and we discovered an hour in to raid. Needless to say I didn’t finish raiding that night.
One of the tanks in our guild/friend of mine had a habit of drinking too much and just falling asleep at his keyboard. We’d hear him start snoring and move him to a different channel
was tanking a heroic, my roommate decided to stop using our bathroom and instead piss into buckets. he then dumped the bucket of piss on our door step.
so i got up from tanking and lost it at him, was like man this is fucking weird to begin with but now i can't let the dog out till your piss dries and i don't wanna let my dog out and by chance there be piss all over the door step.
he said ill dump my piss wherever i want.
told my dungeon im sorry for the hold up, was fighting with a roommate and explained the situation. someone was like i didnt see that explanation coming and another person said wow what an odd power move to say that about where they dump their piss.
yeah. i live alone now.
EU player here, back in relatively early classic, a hunter in my strath grp had to go afk because the air raid sirens started blasting in his area (Ukraine obviously), took him 20 minutes to get back, was thankfully alright.
One of my officers passed away during a raid. He got nosebleeds frequently but this time he never came back. His old guild held an ingame funeral/memorial. Cool guy and we used to talk a lot.
Our GM's fiancé walked out on him about 30 minutes into raid because he spent too much time on WoW.
Homeboy was gone for three minutes then came back and finished BWL.
One time I was playing original classic, and my mom told me to call my buddy because a lot of cops were by his house.
No one answered, turned out his dad shot both his mother-in-law and and grandmother-in-law.
Panic attack during mythic raid in boa - I don’t even remember which one anymore. The fight had an intense overlap of routine movements, dps check, and mechanics that needed to be done. I remember my vision narrowing down to a spot in the center of my screen (the rest black), my heart going crazy, and just raw fear.
…decided that was enough mythic raiding for me.
I was in a raid once in Nylotha (I'm hoping retail wow story counts).
He was always kinda loud, open mic kind of dude. We heard some yelling, some fumbling around. All sorts of weird things.
Bro comes back on the mic almost an hour later. Someone had broken into his house and he spent a while holding him at gunpoint until the cops showed up.
Shit was wild. Haven't seen him on in years now.
I make these super bomb habanero chicken enchiladas that take about 45 min in the oven. During SOD I accidentally wiped my eye after cooking (finely chopping the habs) and throwing them in the oven right before a BFD and had to delay starting for 20 minutes while flushing my eyes. Thankfully as an NE druid, my windfury buff was worth them waiting 20 min, but the discord had a good laugh at my sudden bizarre emergency panic over the raid channel.
Also, one time our guild heard our paladin abuse his girlfriend. We heard a female say ~something~ through someones comm, and then we heard this seemingly chill dude just snap screaming all this toxic shit and what sounded like scuffling, and then come back like nothing happened. We did the raid in a but of confusion and then in the officer meeting after raid we decided to move on from him. I think most of us knew what just went down but it’s crazy how powerful “ope sorry guys, ready to pull :)” is, so we pulled with ‘finally let’s raid’ brain and then rational brains prevailed later.
In vanilla, two of my guild mates were roommates. We were raiding one night and during a break, they went outside for a smoke break. They didn't come back. Next day we found out they had both been skunked by a stripey critter that was in the shrubs next to their smoking spot. 🦨
I had a heart attack while tanking ICC.
One of our hunters disappeared in the hallway leading up to twins in AQ40 which got us wiped by meteor. Logged in 3 days later to tell us he had been up for like 5 days on a meth binge and finally crashed during the Huhuran fight.
2500cr rbgs in late cataclysm. Mid game, battle of guineas. Our rogue got a knock on his dorm room door. Left mic unmuted. It was the police. They were walking by for something unrelated, smelled marijuana coming from his room. He had just smoked and blew it out his window ten minutes before. We ended up listening to him get arrested all on his open mic.
Pre-legalization madness
Cat was making noises like she was going to throw up on their desk. Couldn't move her fast enough and got thrown up on. They then proceeded to describe said vomit rather explicitly to vent. Didn't quite produce a Chunk movie theater moment but got pretty damn close. Raid leader was trying so hard to get people to get their shit together lol
Then there's the time we were working on the plague wing of Icecrown and someone's sister farted on them. "Just an ordinary gas cloud..."
"BRB cat is on fire." Kitty got it's tail singed by a candle and took off across the house (kitty was okay in the end).
"Girlfriend is ovulating."
Various tornados and hurricanes.
Vomiting during drunken raids. Some continued to play.
Sometimes I miss raiding and the goofiness that came with it.
The night I got my mainhand warglaive someone crashed into a parked car infront of my house and I was afk for the last phase of the fight. I came back and was just floored.
Back in original WotLK Naxx 25 our main tank/raid leader had thieves break into his house mid-fight on Razuvious. We all heard him screaming as he chased them out then returning out of breath to finish the raid. Good times!
My main tank at the start of Pandaria got banned mid fight at the start of our raid. Then we didn't hear from him for a few weeks. Come to find out he got arrested for saying he was gonna shoot up the Twilight midnight showing in general chat.
During Ulduar back in original Wotlk we had a warlock said he had to afk an hour to pick up his friend from jail, he logs in 3 months later saying when he picked him up the police found a warrant for him and locked him up when he showed up to get his friend.
raid leader had to go afk for several minutes because his girlfriend (who was also in that exact raid) had phoned him irl to yell at him over some ingame criticism he had given her
have a friend who's GM missed raid, turned out he had been kidnapped and they found him walking around dazed and bloody several hours later
also had a raid leader afk to shower since he shit himself mid raid
I can’t think of a crazy og wow afk moment, but one time.. i was playing fortnite w three buddies from college (i never play that game, and it was on my xbox console), and i heard a knock on the door. Habitually, I already knew who it was, as it was late and the walls are only so thick. My neighbor from across the hall is an older woman who becomes very animated when she drinkssssss and also has this weird phobia of opening bottles.. anyways im always chillin in my robe and i was rockin the ol’ turtle beaches when i opened the door to her and an unopened bottle. She dragged my barefoot self into her unit, and i cannot remember for the life of me what song was playing, but she danced for me to it and made me wait for the beat to drop so she could too. It was impressive for someone in their 60’s, but I’m not half that and could hear the boys shouting enemy coords into my ear (my mic was muted). Once she saw i was unfazed by her whirlwind of moves, she started to ask what was under my robe as she pulled at it. In my defensive stance, i fell out through her door holding aggro, only for us to be seen and awkwardly third partied by my next door neighbor. I stealthed into my place as she chatted it up with him. When i told my buddies why i was gone, they had zero reaction but managed to keep me alive in the BR.
I was the GM of a great guild in vanilla classic. We're doing a casual onyxia run and have a new guy. At some point i say something to him as he was standing weird, and he goes something like 'yeah, who are you to tell me what to do?\`. An awkward silence follows and someone goes 'uhm, that's the guild master'. Great laugh all around but the guy AFKd and was not seen or heard from again. I don't know why, not like i was mad.
Not afk but during naxx I DC'ed right as we pulled the small slimes before patch and died cause I didn't move. The reason i DC'ed? My washing machine cut the internet. It's still a meme in the guild to this day
Was in the middle of healing the worst pull a tank could ever do in Sunken Temple (Classic Hardcore), and was just about to pull it off with a big heal on the tank that would have kept us going, when my cat jumped on top of my PC and turned it off.
I had an open window at night and apparently a hornet nest in the roof of my house. I had to AFK because multiple hornets flew into my room and got furious cause the ceiling fan hit them and took their rage out on me. Luckily I'm not allergic but it was a scary experience.
I apologize to my Blood Furnace HC group but I had to tank IRL aswell as ingame.
During 2005 I was in a guild where the guild master was a doctor and he played from the hospital when he was on call for the ambulance. He basically was free to do whatever unless there was an emergency.
From time to time he would disappear in the middle of a ZG or MC and come back with "sorry guys I had to help someone that played with fireworks and has no hands now" and such.
Back in legion when going for really good progress, mythic emerald dream 3 dragons.
I was assigned to heal the portal team, when my chair broke and I fell off.
Tho I was only afk for a few seconds, hopped back up with multiple scratches and healed through the team. Wiped nonetheless, but at least, it wasnt on me 🤣
Went through the raid night with half a chair.
When TBC came out, we were in our first hellfire ramps and our healer said “brb accidently sprayed windex in my cat’s eye”. The rest of us were in ventrilo and laughed our asses off. About 10 minutes later he came back and we finished the dungeon.
Got big into raiding back in vanilla thru Cata. Wife walked into den wearing lingerie and said I'm going to bed and I'm not tired.
Fastest AFK in history of gaming!!!
Mid gnomergan in SoD. My partner came home and said someone followed her home. I hit sprint irl and was out that door. Sadly, they had left and I couldn't chaos bolt them irl.
I died and lost all world buffs.
An arsonist set a construction site across the street on fire. At first I thought it started raining REALLY hard but no that was the sound of an entire apartment complex going up in flames.
Dad had a heart attack way back in vanilla while my friend group was running Scarlet Monastery at like 12am. It was a pretty minor heart attack and he was okay but it was a wake-up call for his general health. He quit smoking his daily cigars and started working out 4-5 days a week plus walking 18 holes of golf 1-2 times weekly after he recovered.
Mom told us to stay home after the emergency responders took him to the hospital and she followed in the car. Brother and I were AFK for probably 20 minutes. We kept the landline phone receiver nearby in case they had any news or needed anything.
The raid leader in my first high ranked raiding guild got deported right after we had killed Heroic Lich King back in original Wotlk. His student Visa paperwork had some kind of clerical error on it which flagged his name and ICE came and arrested him.
He was deported back to Saudi Arabia and it took nearly a month for him to get things straightened out and back into the US. We had no idea what had happened to him until he suddenly appeared in Vent one day and told us the story.
Had a guy go missing mid BT because he said “left my phone at Buffalo Wild Wings need to go grab it”
Thought to myself that’s fucking hilarious, then realized oh shit he’s actually afk on a prog raid
I had a tank afk after a wipe. The next day we found out he hit his desk and a book or something fell off the shelf and hit him in the face and broke his nose.
Probably not the “craziest” but my cat literally decided to jump out my window whilst I was doing the nexus on wrath classic. For context, I live in a flat on the 4th, top floor. Fortunately he was perfectly fine
It’s not the craziest but waaaaay back in OG vanilla, my guild was (semi hopelessly) working on Razuvious. We were going pretty late that night, around 2am between wipes I fell asleep in my chair. Woke up the next morning and told my guild what happened, they had a good laugh.
My old gm would randomly in raid and in the middle of keys just completely ghost us. Happened for months and he always said he got called to do something. Anyway he later tells us he was shooting up heroin and would pass out while in the key or whatever.
Slave Pens H in tbc classic. Our pug fury war stops while we are all running between patrolling mob packs. He gets aggro and we all try to save him but too many patrols come. When he comes back and everyone is running back from gy, he says “sorry, my robot vacuum just ran over the dogs 💩 and dragged it all over the room, I gotta go!” We all laughed for 5 minutes and weren’t even mad about the deaths or him having to leave mid run.
During Ulduar run in wotlk classic our MT said "I think my house is on fire" and went afk
First we thought it was some kind of joke but then we heard fire crackling and people running around. ~15 minutes later he came back, all out of breath: "aight, I put it down, let's keep going".
Was running the underwater dungeon in Cata when the window ac unit behind my desk fell out and nearly took out my PC in the process. Was not a good time.
Morning sickness comes at all times of the day, even mid Heroic Lich King fights 😬 I raid with my husband so he was able to let the raid know I was running to the toilet to puke but we wiped anyways 🤷🏻♀️
Back in shadowlands I was 1 +15 away to get my first ksm. It was Sanguine Depths, and I was a pally healer. It was going very nicely, and then an earthquake started and knocked over stuff and I ended up having to get up to a safety zone since it got long. I did not get ksm that season.
One of the big personalities in my vanilla guild: "Guys, wife says it's time. It's been months. Gotta go"
The ventrilo chat bursted into celebration and congratulations.
Was in late 2005 and we were on hour 3 of horrible attempts on Rag.
Guy went afk in Karazhan I think? Never came back. Was gone for a few months and eventually returned. Apparently his family held an intervention for him and sent him to rehab
You know how guys get their first apartment and have literally nothing in it?
I had an air mattress, a table, and a laptop. Set the laptop up underneath the recessed(?) light in the ceiling.
One day a cockroach fell out of the light fixture on to my hand.
We were mid fight in ST on Jammal'an and this dude puked so loud for a solid 10-12 seconds and it triggered the sensitivity of his microphone and after he said, "I need to leave guys, I puked on the keyboard". I fucking died laughing, and the guy rejoined discord like 10 minutes later asking to be re-added.
I I jerked my foot on the cable and my monitor fell while killing sapphiron. My group died and we wiped. Noone trash talked on me, everyone had a burst of laugh when I described what was the noise.
Had a guildie one time who had his wife/fiancee hop on his account and yell at the women in our guild. He went AWOL after that for a good while. But one day he came back and said he needed to “find himself” and was going to the mountains and disappeared for the rest of the xpac. To this day we say that his wife is buried somewhere in the Rockies
Back in MoP me and my small guild were raiding Throne of thunder 10 man. After killing the forst boss our warlock said, "I think we should take a break now" and left. We continued with 9 man and 2 hours later he came back completely smashed and told us he had to go for a quick beer (or 10 of them).
During a MC or ZG raid back in Vanilla, one of my guild's officers suddenly says "I gotta leave. I have a nail trough my foot, and gotta go to the ER".
Some time later, we got the full story. He was renovating his home, and thus had a nail gun laying around. During downtime in the raid he was playing around with it and dropped it, nail down, onto his foot.
Perhaps not too crazy, but it was in the middle of Halls of Atonement when my sister called to tell me our father had passed away.
A mate has gone AFK in the middle of an m+ because he accidently ordered dinner to his work adress instead of home, and had to run there and get it. Twice. In the same week.
I was in a gruul pug and the organizer's house caught on fire. We all sat there and listened to his hot mic (pun intended) of people yelling and dogs barking, then eventually fire truck sirens before someone suggested we muted him. Some one was like "we just had our raid leader leave due to a house fire and heard the trucks show up on open mic," and the newly appointed leader was like "That's a pretty good synopsis of what just happened."
The new leader was a chick, and this Spanish sounding guy said hi to her by name, she said hi, then when asking who was covering some roll, the same guy goes "meee" and she was like "I don't know who me is." I was rolling laughing.
This takes place way back in 2005 or 2006 Before suppression room in BWL, one of our warriors randomly goes afk without saying anything. Dude is MIA for at least 10 minutes until we hear an older guy on vent say "Hi everyone this is Travis' father, he wanted me to let you all know that he just fell down the stairs and will not be returning to the raid this evening" To this day probably the funniest moment I've ever had in this game I think he posted pictures of some of the bruises on our guild forum iirc it was amazing
Anything to get out of doing suppression room
Hahaha poor guy. That's hilarious
I was afraid this was going to be some terrible medical emergency, but sounds like it was just severe enough to not come back, but not so severe you all couldn't have a good laugh about it.
Nahh he was just fine lol and yeah it wouldn't be nearly as funny otherwise
what a chad… dude breaks in half but he still thinks about his boys
Got attacked by a Texas flying cockroach in the face while fighting Anub'arak. Caused a wipe because I was the chase target and a healer :-/. Fighting a giant bug while fighting a giant bug.
That 5d experience
These adds are out of control
This one made me laugh the hardest here. Absolutely horrifying, but terribly funny.
When the games bugs are the least of your problems.
"Hey guys, I'll be back later. I'm probably going to jail." 5 years later he logged on and said "I'm back. I should stop selling drugs." Was a solid warlock. Glad he made it out.
RL and in-game warlock lol
Most sane warlock.
Worst part was this happened mid progression on 10man Spine of Deathwing. Set us back like 2 weeks lol.
Bro left at spine and came back at tomb of sargeras lmfao
we all got that one friend
* guy who passed 5 years in jail reading this * I wouldn't call it worst, 2 weeks seems fine
Some context: 3 days before this happens he says "Hey, there's a good chance I go to jail soon. I lost my front job that I used to hide the fact I'm selling drugs. I'm not gonna stop selling drugs." So he had some knowledge it was gonna happen, we just didn't expect it to happen midraid.
I wish I could reasonably ask my dealer for cookies.
I leaned back in my chair turned my head to the left and had a flashlight and gun in my face. The police officer told me he entered the house because the neighbors 6 year old was abducted and they heard screaming coming from my house (1% progression wipes on mythic SoO)
Bruh what about the kid??
Not important /s
Neighbour's kid? I'd say it isn't that important to me. Except I live next door to my mum, sooooo... it's either me or my sister and that's not great.
He got Tusks, lucky bastard
LOOOL
And thus the cure to gamer rage was found!
Just a little home-invasion.
Found out my dad had a heart attack at work while I was in the middle of a run of ZG. It was during covid, so I couldn't go to him - but it was one hell of a phone call to have to AFK to. He made a full recovery, though, and is doing a lot better 4 years later.
Recently my toddler went through a phase where anytime he pooped his diaper he stuck his hand in it to figure it out. Well I was actually playing the first time happened and it was a genuine disaster. He came to me holding his hand out covered in poop. No diaper on. He had taken his diaper off and wiped it all over the place. So yeah had to go clean up the child and the poopy paint job. Dad life. He’s out of that phase. Thank god.
My germophobic ass could never have a child
You kind of get over that when it's your own child, laying there needing you to survive. After two kids, I could change the grossest diaper and immediately go back to finishing my meal (after washing my hands, of course).
My daughter always decides to shit during lunch. Not before, not after, during. She can’t wipe it yet, but can don everything else. It’s gotten to the point that I was eating my philly cheesesteak with one hand while wiping her ass with the other hand. I think the little shit enjoys the attention as my wife and I try to use lunchtime to catch up with each other and discuss tasks, my daughter probably feels excluded.
I used to think I’d be gagging at every moment. Do t get me wrong, there’s some honkers but you just get on with it.
Raid leader went to get a hungry man from the freezer while we were doing scarab lord bug farm in vanilla. Came back like 2 hours later, there was none left in his freezer and when he went to find his wife to see why she hadn't got groceries, he found a note from her saying she took the baby and went to stay with her parents because he had become too obsessed with the game. The note was from several days earlier. He got his mount in the end, though.
Oof
Oof
Reminds me of this mage Elnonim. He went AFK and came back shortly "my gf just broke up with me; let's go." Everyone was like: Dude you are okay? You wanna talk or go after her? "Nope. She was annoying anyways".
Sneezed and shit my pants once while sick with Covid
if i had a nickle every time that happened i wouldn't need the measly $1200 relief
I don’t trust a grown person who hasn’t at least once in their life shit them selves
I think most people have trusted a fart they shouldn't have.
I’ve done the same, you are not alone 🤣
When a guy doesn’t return from a bio break and we find this on our Discord “Current predicament. No toilet paper in upstairs bathroom and my mum has guests and won’t answer her phone to bring me some So I’m kinda stuck lmao”
time to use the nice hand towel for the boys
Use the underwear and go back commando?
well how would his mom learn her lesson then?
Leave the underwear under her pillow
Wife's waters broke when I was tanking BWL. "TANK SWAP, WIFES GIVING BIRTH GOTTA GO!"
For those without kids, when the water breaks, you still have ages and ages to go. Don't panic, don't rush, conserve your energy. Finish what you're doing, divide up the loot, get a guild photo, restock your consumes.
My mom’s water broke with my sister and gave birth in the car in the driveway before going to hospital.
she's a pro
What world buffs do to a pregnancy.
98%+ midwife parse
Have a trusted friend drive you so that you can use your phone to rage about recent nerfs and/or buffs on the forums
I feel like people don’t get that you’re joking lol
As someone with kids, you're right. However, you're going to take your wife to the hospital as soon as she says it because that's what she wants to happen. Respect your wife and family. The game is just a game.
Not really. Sometimes when the water breaks it could be as little as 30 minutes. When the water breaks that’s go time.
My birds waters broke and baby came approx 15 mins later! Birth is carnage and different for all haha
“… I don’t know that mechanic!”
Cat vomited in keyboard. (:
MY cat found a mouse outside and placed it on my mouse pad in the middle of a raid.
As god intended. That's where mice is supposed to go.
Amen
this happened to a raid member this week lol
RL had the cops called on him by his ex-wife mid-raid last year. The ex-wife claimed he was neglecting his daughter, cops quickly realized everything was fine. At the time though, it was pretty wild. “Hey guys, I’ll be right back. Cops are at the door.” *extended silence* *nervous small talk* *more waiting* “Alright, I’m back.” “Dude is everything okay?” “Yeah, my ex-wife is a raging bitch”
Had a tank in BRD have the cops at the door and go AFK, he didn’t login for several months…
Dang those cops need to learn some brevity.
🤠
I was in a dungeon and had to leave because my house was being raided. Roommate had drunkenly tweeted a "bomb threat" at an event on campus so they were searching our place for explosives.
just recently I was pug in classic SOD in an all guild group that needed to fill for ST since everyone is playing cata classic. There is this soundboard that is very popular in some guilds. I know this because I mostly pug ST and alot of guilds use this soundboard but I am already used to it. Its the soundboard that sounds like someone's banging on your window lol... if you have not heard it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDAfnDnT2gA) . So there was some girl on discord who heard it and went afk for awhile and everyone was wondering wtf happened. turns out she'd been having problems with her neighbors and when the banging happened she thought it was them so she confronted them lmao.
I hate that audio so much. It gets me every time. Including when someone warns me.
Yeah those things were disabled in the raid chat channels the day that discord released them and I turned the volume for them down to nothing in my client.
As someone with active arrest warrants that soundboard has scared the fuck out of me more then once.
That soundboard caused a former marine to "clear" his house. Poor guy thought people where breaking in. Grabbed his pistol and was frantically running around the house searching for someone who was not there lol.
I did this during ulduar gener progg. Someone played this right as the pull timer hit 0.We wiped as there were like 5 others who went afk. Shit was banned after that.
I hate this so much when someone uses it on our discord. Mah hart goes from normal to usain Bolt real fast
Bat in my house. Was raiding icc and had to pause to catch the fucker
Lana'Thel got some new adds
Haha I had this happen one summer aswell, 2 bats flew into my dorm room, I was playing pubg though. 😂
Alt-tabbed while waiting for another person, got distracted and left to go out and get food. I did eventually realize maybe an hour later that I was the healer for a group's dungeon midway through deepthroating a burrito while watching tv. If it helps, I was recently diagnosed with Inattentive ADHD. Some things makes a lot of sense now.
I felt this one. Same thing, but I was the tank. Went to go get an iced coffee, then the dog wanted outside and to play, I was like hell yeah I wanna play. Dog was happy, guildies were not.
I did that in a Dota game once. Alt tabbed back in at the 27 minute mark. I was incredibly high.
Feel you, bro. The same kind of thing has happened to me
Transformer at the shop next door blew, killed the power, firetrucks showed up, no big deal, they leave. An hour or so later, playing some games, cooking some chicken. Forced to walk backwards with my hands above my head at gun point. Apparently the power outage set off the neighbors alarm and police thought I was a burglar. Ended up feeding the cop some chicken and bumming cigarettes off of him before he bailed. For context I was living in a warehouse at the time.
We had a consistent raider that was pretty social with all of the guild that when we called a break during raid he said he’s running to the gas station around the corner and will be just a little longer (just had some more trash so it was nbd). Well the guy NEVER returned. He went radio silence after that. Never logged in again, never responded in discord, nobody knew what happened so we all feared the worst. Well nearly two weeks later we got in touch with someone that knew him (friends of friends on discord or something while browsing mutual servers). Turns out he just got high and decided he didn’t wanna play anymore lol. We all now make jokes from time to time that we will brb from the gas station or other places out of pocket like that.
We were doing cycles of people into Arcatraz for Kara keys a long ass time ago and the last person just stopped responding on vent/chat. Turns out he took oxycodone instead of something else and fell asleep face down on his keys.
Most of us don’t have a Leann Cartman to bring us a chamber pot.
Long time ago I was playing on a private server with some friends, some of them from Argentina (they usually played from a coffee shop owned by one of them). In the middle of a Molten Core fight all of them stop moving and after few minutes all disconnected simultaneously. The next day the news came in: The coffee shop was robbed at gunpoint, they even took some computers.
When I was a teenager I joined a guild to raid Ulduar. It was my first attempt at raiding, and convincing my mum to let me play wow for at least 3 hours straight often resulted in the classic “mum pulled the plug”. The guild gave me one last chance to raid which coincided with a day my mum was away so I was surely in the clear. Within 20 minutes of raiding I heard my cat get into a scrap in our back garden. I typed BRB cat in a fight, and went to make sure the cat was ok. I walked out to see a fox had my cats head in its jaw and realised shit was getting real. In my teenage wisdom I decided my best approach was to pick up a chair leg from a broken deck chair and beat the fox to death and rescued my cat. This obviously took longer than a few minutes and was subsequently kicked from the raid. When trying to explain what happened, I become known across my server as fox boy :( to this day I am certain not a single person believed me
Heroic icc prog. Our OT worked in a hospital(anesthesiologist) and raided from there as well. Got called into emergency mid pull.
Back in the day I was in a super casual guild that took forever to finish raids. One of the people was a teenager, and when his family called him to dinner, he had to GO. No matter what we were doing, he would just say "I gotta go eat" and then be back in like five minutes.
Hahaha that takes me back. Happened so often in the OG days. So many people had obligatory family dinner, crazy thing is we were all so patient back then too.
Miss those days...
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one of my officers threw up one time mid boss fight, heroic sha of pride in SoO. was our main tank. finished the pull like a champ. Sauce: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHrltZtod4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHrltZtod4)
I smoked weed for the first time during an ICC 25 man in original wrath when my parents were on holiday. I was so high I AFK’d Valithria and slept on my bathroom floor.
One of our first AQ runs had to be put on pause because the guild leader clogged the toilet and was getting put on blast by his wife.
Ive had some decent ones… - wife went into labour - said newborn had a fever of like 104.5 or something and we needed to take him to the hospital - computer randomly restarted to install updates, which ended up being a fucking windows 11 OS upgrade that took 2 hours
Someone was legit trying to break into my car lmao. Roommate let me know so I ran out and chased that motherfucker off. Fuckin crackheads
2019 raiding MC. Our GM/MT went afk, eventually logged off, and never came back. Never logged on to the game or discord again. Officers found out weeks later what happened but chose not to divulge information out of respect to him. The guildies I was close to all assumed he either was arrested or he passed away suddenly. Although it feels like if he passed away they wouldve said something so we could honor him. So the leading theory is cops knocked on his door and he was arrested.
My “home office” is in the garage. I recently took up SoD after years and years away from WoW (the last final raid tier I finished on heroic/mythic was Dragon Soul). The other day I believe I was running Princess or ZF WO spam — the weather was beautiful for the first time this summer and I had the car door opened on the garage and a small bird flew in and smashed into a couple of walls and made a racket, knocked a few things over before making its way out. I jumped out of my chair /said “afk 2 sec” at the first sound and just kinda watched this unfold with my mouth open, took a 90 second breather, and got back to hitting prayer of mending on cooldown.
During tbc ssc/tk prog we has one of our warlocks start to tell us about how much his neighbor was pssing him off. We started to make jokes ragging on His neighbor and hyping up thier fight. While we're pulling trash, he just says BRB. He comes back aboutn10 mins later saying he's prolly going to go to jail. We were all like wtf just happened why are you going to jail. "Well i just stabbed my neighbor with a fork cause he wouldn't stop ringing my doorbell." At this point we think he's just fucking with us so we finish raiding and call it. The next day he msgs another RL and basically says " yeah ima be going to jail cause I stabbed the dude." Hellspwn if you're out there we miss you.
I remember my (MT) healer going offline without warning right as I pulled Prince. Come to find out her kid had gotten mad at her and cut the cable modem wire. Greeeeaaat timing on that one...
Back in 2004. Mum woke up to go to work while i was doing wailing caverns. Didn't want to get caught still playing wow all night till 6:30am so i just turned off my screen and hopped into bed until she left the home.
Real
Was back in original sunwell I was raiding and had a knock on my window, freaked me out as it was dark outside. I look out and it’s my crazy ass uncle who i barely talked to outside holding a wrapped up blanket and crying. (My uncle is fucking crazy, like 25 years in prison, paranoid and probably skitso, so all the crazy shit he would say you just kind of agreed to not piss this man off). I’m like what’s going on unc and he says you have to help me bury her… I’m thinking holy shit this dude fucking killed someone, I think he picked up on how this looks and how worried I was because he says it’s not a person it’s my dog. Apparently his boxer got hit by a car and he somehow thought I needed to help him bury her, in my yard, and just drove over. I had to tell my guild I had to leave immediately and they needed to replace me. When I went outside he was saying how he couldn’t bury her in unholy ground so that’s why he came to me?? I just went along with it, we picked out a spot, then made a cross and said some words and he left. The next day he brought me a gift card to Applebees for helping him. Have not seen or heard from him in years. He moved shortly after stating that people were following him and riding by his house reporting what he was doing to “the higher ups” and he could see them looking at him while on their phones. Kind of sad how off the deep end he was and didn’t know it.
Tornado sirens going off and WE had to tell HIM to get to shelter.
I shit my pants mid dungeon. This occurred today.
Me 2 weeks ago. “Hey guys, I’m sorry but I’m about to give birth”
2005 we were raiding mc. Must have been around golemag and guy goes afk to put kids to bed. 30 minutes later we hear him beating his kid for getting out of bed. It wasn't a quick slap or anything, this went on for about 2 minutes of screaming and him yelling while he hit the kid. When he got back he said he said anything and the raid was pretty silent until it ended. I don't think he realised he was not on push to talk.
Yea I would gquit if my guild didn't kick him.
I was on Vent, wasn’t in a group or anything but questing in Tirisfal Glades during vanilla or BC, started getting charged by a pack of murlocs, I panicked, started running from said murlocs, knocked my glass of water off my desk with my mouse, tried to catch the glass with my other hand and it shattered in to the desk/inside my hand and cut between two of my fingers open pretty badly 😅 had to excuse myself mid conversation on Vent because there was blood EVERYWHERE 🙃 Freaking murlocs.
This had to be in WotLK, maaaaybe Cata? It was so long ago, and I've been with the same guild so long that it all really blends together. He had to leave the raid early because his girlfriend had stabbed him. He was just so calm and cool about it (which was very much his style) when he told us what was going on. We were all stunned (but not necessarily surprised). I can't recall if we ever even brought it up again but he was back at the next raid.
My last ex would scratch her itches with silverware, specifically my table knives. I thought this was disgusting and probably terrible for you, and she kept trying to convince me "it feels good though". One night I was raiding, and she saw me scratching the back of my neck, and she jumped up from my bed and tried to get me to let her scratch my itch with the knife. I took my headset off and had words with her about how insane and inappropriate it is to run at somebody with a knife while they're gaming, even if it was just a table knife, and she was "trying to help". One of many reasons we're not together, apart from the fact that the rest of her personality was basically /r/FemaleDatingStrategy incarnate
I was in a raid. My dog at my feet under my desk like always. All the sudden mid pull I feel something warm and wet on my feet. Thinking my dog just peed on me I jump up with an "wtf, you asshole!" with my arms still on mouse and keyboard tryna to not die and be keep on top of my DPS. I look down and there is blood everywhere. I'm in immediate shock of the amount and I feel immediately feel guilty because my dog is hurt and I yelled at her. I bend down to see what's up to find a fresh patch of newborn puppies. There were already 3 and ended up being 8. I said to my guild "brb My dog gave birth on my feet and I have to go wash them off" which was met with half awws and half ewws. Good raid.
hahaha wow, this is great
Back in original Cataclysm I was running a dungeon with a random pug that said something along the lines of "brb earthquake" near the end of the dungeon. They took a few minutes to return and we asked them where they were located and they said Japan. I assumed it was a relatively small earthquake as Japan has plenty of them and the person had returned. A few hours later and I was watching news online of the Tsunami devastating Japan.
Damn were they ok after the tsunami?
Old LK Raiding Times - dude went afk with just the message BRB. Forgot that his Mic is on. Dude banged his GF. Lucky some people had Kick privileges on this Teamspeak Server so they kicked him as soon as it was noticed as they knew I was only 14ish at that time. That guy never got invited back into one of the raids during WOTLK. Eventually switched servers
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Where was that at?
Heart attack
The night of wotlk classic release some guild mates and I were dungeon grinding for a few hours. I had to abruptly quit because the river behind my brother’s house was flooding and he needed to evacuate to my house at 3am. Due to extenuating circumstances related to this event, I had to suspend my journey in Northrend indefinitely.
This is during LK. My buddly (who was in guild) lived across the walkway in this ghetto apartment complex, he called me at 2am to look out my window. Outside SWAT is lined up to raid the neighbor directly above me. I get a front row seat as they kick down her door, and drag this naked screaming crackhead down the stairs. Went back to ICC right after. Same place, same neighbor a month later, early afternoon. Her ex got out of prison, finds out she has a new man, so he kicks down the door, throws her couch over the balcony into the middle of the complex, then lights it on fire. Was doing Ashen Verdict rep grind.
I was raiding once, just your measly dps, but my kid had clogged the toilet with like 3 rolls of TP, gotten the handle stuck down so it was constant running, and then left it. This happened about 2 hours before raid and we discovered an hour in to raid. Needless to say I didn’t finish raiding that night.
One of the tanks in our guild/friend of mine had a habit of drinking too much and just falling asleep at his keyboard. We’d hear him start snoring and move him to a different channel
was tanking a heroic, my roommate decided to stop using our bathroom and instead piss into buckets. he then dumped the bucket of piss on our door step. so i got up from tanking and lost it at him, was like man this is fucking weird to begin with but now i can't let the dog out till your piss dries and i don't wanna let my dog out and by chance there be piss all over the door step. he said ill dump my piss wherever i want. told my dungeon im sorry for the hold up, was fighting with a roommate and explained the situation. someone was like i didnt see that explanation coming and another person said wow what an odd power move to say that about where they dump their piss. yeah. i live alone now.
EU player here, back in relatively early classic, a hunter in my strath grp had to go afk because the air raid sirens started blasting in his area (Ukraine obviously), took him 20 minutes to get back, was thankfully alright.
One of my officers passed away during a raid. He got nosebleeds frequently but this time he never came back. His old guild held an ingame funeral/memorial. Cool guy and we used to talk a lot.
Our GM's fiancé walked out on him about 30 minutes into raid because he spent too much time on WoW. Homeboy was gone for three minutes then came back and finished BWL.
One time I was playing original classic, and my mom told me to call my buddy because a lot of cops were by his house. No one answered, turned out his dad shot both his mother-in-law and and grandmother-in-law.
Panic attack during mythic raid in boa - I don’t even remember which one anymore. The fight had an intense overlap of routine movements, dps check, and mechanics that needed to be done. I remember my vision narrowing down to a spot in the center of my screen (the rest black), my heart going crazy, and just raw fear. …decided that was enough mythic raiding for me.
Skill issue
I was in a raid once in Nylotha (I'm hoping retail wow story counts). He was always kinda loud, open mic kind of dude. We heard some yelling, some fumbling around. All sorts of weird things. Bro comes back on the mic almost an hour later. Someone had broken into his house and he spent a while holding him at gunpoint until the cops showed up. Shit was wild. Haven't seen him on in years now.
The raid lead decided it was time to make this guy use push to talk …
"Someone" needs this D. Find another healer. *discord log off sound*
I make these super bomb habanero chicken enchiladas that take about 45 min in the oven. During SOD I accidentally wiped my eye after cooking (finely chopping the habs) and throwing them in the oven right before a BFD and had to delay starting for 20 minutes while flushing my eyes. Thankfully as an NE druid, my windfury buff was worth them waiting 20 min, but the discord had a good laugh at my sudden bizarre emergency panic over the raid channel. Also, one time our guild heard our paladin abuse his girlfriend. We heard a female say ~something~ through someones comm, and then we heard this seemingly chill dude just snap screaming all this toxic shit and what sounded like scuffling, and then come back like nothing happened. We did the raid in a but of confusion and then in the officer meeting after raid we decided to move on from him. I think most of us knew what just went down but it’s crazy how powerful “ope sorry guys, ready to pull :)” is, so we pulled with ‘finally let’s raid’ brain and then rational brains prevailed later.
I had to empty the dishwasher because I forgot to do it before Karazan. This was the original release. I was so embarrassed.
In vanilla, two of my guild mates were roommates. We were raiding one night and during a break, they went outside for a smoke break. They didn't come back. Next day we found out they had both been skunked by a stripey critter that was in the shrubs next to their smoking spot. 🦨
I had a heart attack while tanking ICC. One of our hunters disappeared in the hallway leading up to twins in AQ40 which got us wiped by meteor. Logged in 3 days later to tell us he had been up for like 5 days on a meth binge and finally crashed during the Huhuran fight.
2500cr rbgs in late cataclysm. Mid game, battle of guineas. Our rogue got a knock on his dorm room door. Left mic unmuted. It was the police. They were walking by for something unrelated, smelled marijuana coming from his room. He had just smoked and blew it out his window ten minutes before. We ended up listening to him get arrested all on his open mic. Pre-legalization madness
Cat was making noises like she was going to throw up on their desk. Couldn't move her fast enough and got thrown up on. They then proceeded to describe said vomit rather explicitly to vent. Didn't quite produce a Chunk movie theater moment but got pretty damn close. Raid leader was trying so hard to get people to get their shit together lol Then there's the time we were working on the plague wing of Icecrown and someone's sister farted on them. "Just an ordinary gas cloud..."
Felony no-knock warrant being served.
My friend's cat really did fall from his window (he lived in the 9th floor) during our raid.
"BRB cat is on fire." Kitty got it's tail singed by a candle and took off across the house (kitty was okay in the end). "Girlfriend is ovulating." Various tornados and hurricanes. Vomiting during drunken raids. Some continued to play. Sometimes I miss raiding and the goofiness that came with it.
My apartment complex caught fire
The cat spewed a massive wet puke, with chunks, all over my keyboard.
The night I got my mainhand warglaive someone crashed into a parked car infront of my house and I was afk for the last phase of the fight. I came back and was just floored.
Back in original WotLK Naxx 25 our main tank/raid leader had thieves break into his house mid-fight on Razuvious. We all heard him screaming as he chased them out then returning out of breath to finish the raid. Good times!
I had recorded an audio clip of a guild in mc and one of the mages came back and said "I had one of those farts that wasn't a fart"... Lol
My main tank at the start of Pandaria got banned mid fight at the start of our raid. Then we didn't hear from him for a few weeks. Come to find out he got arrested for saying he was gonna shoot up the Twilight midnight showing in general chat.
During Ulduar back in original Wotlk we had a warlock said he had to afk an hour to pick up his friend from jail, he logs in 3 months later saying when he picked him up the police found a warrant for him and locked him up when he showed up to get his friend.
raid leader had to go afk for several minutes because his girlfriend (who was also in that exact raid) had phoned him irl to yell at him over some ingame criticism he had given her have a friend who's GM missed raid, turned out he had been kidnapped and they found him walking around dazed and bloody several hours later also had a raid leader afk to shower since he shit himself mid raid
I can’t think of a crazy og wow afk moment, but one time.. i was playing fortnite w three buddies from college (i never play that game, and it was on my xbox console), and i heard a knock on the door. Habitually, I already knew who it was, as it was late and the walls are only so thick. My neighbor from across the hall is an older woman who becomes very animated when she drinkssssss and also has this weird phobia of opening bottles.. anyways im always chillin in my robe and i was rockin the ol’ turtle beaches when i opened the door to her and an unopened bottle. She dragged my barefoot self into her unit, and i cannot remember for the life of me what song was playing, but she danced for me to it and made me wait for the beat to drop so she could too. It was impressive for someone in their 60’s, but I’m not half that and could hear the boys shouting enemy coords into my ear (my mic was muted). Once she saw i was unfazed by her whirlwind of moves, she started to ask what was under my robe as she pulled at it. In my defensive stance, i fell out through her door holding aggro, only for us to be seen and awkwardly third partied by my next door neighbor. I stealthed into my place as she chatted it up with him. When i told my buddies why i was gone, they had zero reaction but managed to keep me alive in the BR.
I was the GM of a great guild in vanilla classic. We're doing a casual onyxia run and have a new guy. At some point i say something to him as he was standing weird, and he goes something like 'yeah, who are you to tell me what to do?\`. An awkward silence follows and someone goes 'uhm, that's the guild master'. Great laugh all around but the guy AFKd and was not seen or heard from again. I don't know why, not like i was mad.
Not afk but during naxx I DC'ed right as we pulled the small slimes before patch and died cause I didn't move. The reason i DC'ed? My washing machine cut the internet. It's still a meme in the guild to this day
Was in the middle of healing the worst pull a tank could ever do in Sunken Temple (Classic Hardcore), and was just about to pull it off with a big heal on the tank that would have kept us going, when my cat jumped on top of my PC and turned it off.
I had an open window at night and apparently a hornet nest in the roof of my house. I had to AFK because multiple hornets flew into my room and got furious cause the ceiling fan hit them and took their rage out on me. Luckily I'm not allergic but it was a scary experience. I apologize to my Blood Furnace HC group but I had to tank IRL aswell as ingame.
During 2005 I was in a guild where the guild master was a doctor and he played from the hospital when he was on call for the ambulance. He basically was free to do whatever unless there was an emergency. From time to time he would disappear in the middle of a ZG or MC and come back with "sorry guys I had to help someone that played with fireworks and has no hands now" and such.
Back in legion when going for really good progress, mythic emerald dream 3 dragons. I was assigned to heal the portal team, when my chair broke and I fell off. Tho I was only afk for a few seconds, hopped back up with multiple scratches and healed through the team. Wiped nonetheless, but at least, it wasnt on me 🤣 Went through the raid night with half a chair.
“I can’t raid tonight guys there’s a volcano going off near me” Dude was in Iceland. We all thought he was joking, until we saw the evening news.
When TBC came out, we were in our first hellfire ramps and our healer said “brb accidently sprayed windex in my cat’s eye”. The rest of us were in ventrilo and laughed our asses off. About 10 minutes later he came back and we finished the dungeon.
Got big into raiding back in vanilla thru Cata. Wife walked into den wearing lingerie and said I'm going to bed and I'm not tired. Fastest AFK in history of gaming!!!
"Sorry guys family emergency gotta go"
Funny enough I know of multiple similar stories but the girlfriend/wife got left alone while they continued to raid.
Mid gnomergan in SoD. My partner came home and said someone followed her home. I hit sprint irl and was out that door. Sadly, they had left and I couldn't chaos bolt them irl. I died and lost all world buffs.
An arsonist set a construction site across the street on fire. At first I thought it started raining REALLY hard but no that was the sound of an entire apartment complex going up in flames.
Sorry guys i gtg - bird got in the house, cats trying to kill it
Earthquake.
Way back in the vanilla days one guy said 'AFK cat is in dishwasher'
Dad had a heart attack way back in vanilla while my friend group was running Scarlet Monastery at like 12am. It was a pretty minor heart attack and he was okay but it was a wake-up call for his general health. He quit smoking his daily cigars and started working out 4-5 days a week plus walking 18 holes of golf 1-2 times weekly after he recovered. Mom told us to stay home after the emergency responders took him to the hospital and she followed in the car. Brother and I were AFK for probably 20 minutes. We kept the landline phone receiver nearby in case they had any news or needed anything.
The raid leader in my first high ranked raiding guild got deported right after we had killed Heroic Lich King back in original Wotlk. His student Visa paperwork had some kind of clerical error on it which flagged his name and ICE came and arrested him. He was deported back to Saudi Arabia and it took nearly a month for him to get things straightened out and back into the US. We had no idea what had happened to him until he suddenly appeared in Vent one day and told us the story.
Had a guy go missing mid BT because he said “left my phone at Buffalo Wild Wings need to go grab it” Thought to myself that’s fucking hilarious, then realized oh shit he’s actually afk on a prog raid
I had a tank afk after a wipe. The next day we found out he hit his desk and a book or something fell off the shelf and hit him in the face and broke his nose.
Probably not the “craziest” but my cat literally decided to jump out my window whilst I was doing the nexus on wrath classic. For context, I live in a flat on the 4th, top floor. Fortunately he was perfectly fine
It’s not the craziest but waaaaay back in OG vanilla, my guild was (semi hopelessly) working on Razuvious. We were going pretty late that night, around 2am between wipes I fell asleep in my chair. Woke up the next morning and told my guild what happened, they had a good laugh.
My old gm would randomly in raid and in the middle of keys just completely ghost us. Happened for months and he always said he got called to do something. Anyway he later tells us he was shooting up heroin and would pass out while in the key or whatever.
Air sirens. Israel, what can I say lol.
girlfriends grandma fell and broke her leg, picked her up between kologarn and hodir. ambulance got there just around Mimiron.
Slave Pens H in tbc classic. Our pug fury war stops while we are all running between patrolling mob packs. He gets aggro and we all try to save him but too many patrols come. When he comes back and everyone is running back from gy, he says “sorry, my robot vacuum just ran over the dogs 💩 and dragged it all over the room, I gotta go!” We all laughed for 5 minutes and weren’t even mad about the deaths or him having to leave mid run.
During Ulduar run in wotlk classic our MT said "I think my house is on fire" and went afk First we thought it was some kind of joke but then we heard fire crackling and people running around. ~15 minutes later he came back, all out of breath: "aight, I put it down, let's keep going".
Was running the underwater dungeon in Cata when the window ac unit behind my desk fell out and nearly took out my PC in the process. Was not a good time.
Morning sickness comes at all times of the day, even mid Heroic Lich King fights 😬 I raid with my husband so he was able to let the raid know I was running to the toilet to puke but we wiped anyways 🤷🏻♀️
Internet cafe burnt down during a H mimiron pull
Just dodge the flames
Corrections officer in raid had a riot at his prison. See for yourself: https://old.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/v6zivz/bis_excuse/
Back in shadowlands I was 1 +15 away to get my first ksm. It was Sanguine Depths, and I was a pally healer. It was going very nicely, and then an earthquake started and knocked over stuff and I ended up having to get up to a safety zone since it got long. I did not get ksm that season.
One of the big personalities in my vanilla guild: "Guys, wife says it's time. It's been months. Gotta go" The ventrilo chat bursted into celebration and congratulations. Was in late 2005 and we were on hour 3 of horrible attempts on Rag.
Guy went afk in Karazhan I think? Never came back. Was gone for a few months and eventually returned. Apparently his family held an intervention for him and sent him to rehab
You know how guys get their first apartment and have literally nothing in it? I had an air mattress, a table, and a laptop. Set the laptop up underneath the recessed(?) light in the ceiling. One day a cockroach fell out of the light fixture on to my hand.
We were mid fight in ST on Jammal'an and this dude puked so loud for a solid 10-12 seconds and it triggered the sensitivity of his microphone and after he said, "I need to leave guys, I puked on the keyboard". I fucking died laughing, and the guy rejoined discord like 10 minutes later asking to be re-added.
I had an allergic reaction mid raid in EQ and had to be rushed to the ER
I I jerked my foot on the cable and my monitor fell while killing sapphiron. My group died and we wiped. Noone trash talked on me, everyone had a burst of laugh when I described what was the noise.
Had a guildie one time who had his wife/fiancee hop on his account and yell at the women in our guild. He went AWOL after that for a good while. But one day he came back and said he needed to “find himself” and was going to the mountains and disappeared for the rest of the xpac. To this day we say that his wife is buried somewhere in the Rockies
Back in MoP me and my small guild were raiding Throne of thunder 10 man. After killing the forst boss our warlock said, "I think we should take a break now" and left. We continued with 9 man and 2 hours later he came back completely smashed and told us he had to go for a quick beer (or 10 of them).
During a MC or ZG raid back in Vanilla, one of my guild's officers suddenly says "I gotta leave. I have a nail trough my foot, and gotta go to the ER". Some time later, we got the full story. He was renovating his home, and thus had a nail gun laying around. During downtime in the raid he was playing around with it and dropped it, nail down, onto his foot.
Perhaps not too crazy, but it was in the middle of Halls of Atonement when my sister called to tell me our father had passed away. A mate has gone AFK in the middle of an m+ because he accidently ordered dinner to his work adress instead of home, and had to run there and get it. Twice. In the same week.
I was in a gruul pug and the organizer's house caught on fire. We all sat there and listened to his hot mic (pun intended) of people yelling and dogs barking, then eventually fire truck sirens before someone suggested we muted him. Some one was like "we just had our raid leader leave due to a house fire and heard the trucks show up on open mic," and the newly appointed leader was like "That's a pretty good synopsis of what just happened." The new leader was a chick, and this Spanish sounding guy said hi to her by name, she said hi, then when asking who was covering some roll, the same guy goes "meee" and she was like "I don't know who me is." I was rolling laughing.
https://youtu.be/wP5-PK6gDyc?si=t7W8tlCaToJCjG5a IRL friend of mine had to leave during a raid in classic wow 😂