World Of Warcraft

What do you think it'd be like to have Lorewalker Cho for your history teacher?

OH GOD GIANT TALKING PANDA

Also big giant "Meh". He would be good at his job though. He seems to be able to narrate things without getting too involved. A teacher though? A simple narrator? He'd do his job.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Pandas are savage beasts, man. Not kind cuddly teddy bears.

Dude,they eat bamboo all day,most docile things in world..unlike brown bears...

They're still a huge mass of muscle (and fat) with claws, they can fuck you up if you get them in a bad mood.

Bad mood is seriously the biggest thing with most kinds of bear. The typical advice to lay down and stay still is not because it fools a bear into thinking you're carrion, but because you're showing no threat, so a not-hungry bear will leave you alone.

With a hungry bear you're fucked either way.

Relevant: PvP's Running Gag about Brett being mauled by a panda.

Pandas aren't even really bears

edited 26th Mar '15 4:27:14 PM by Ultimatum

Only if you follow the old rule: if you leave them alone, they'll leave you alone.

Did anybody else get an email accusing you of doing illegal stuff in the game, and all the Blizzard links in the email went to some hokey Japanese website?

Once or twice.

It happened enough times that when I got a legitimate account suspension for suspicious activity (Somebody hopped on my account and spammed a gold trade bot) It took a while for me to realize that it was a legitimate account suspension.

Did it have numbers or an actual name in the address?

Thats just spam, I get 3 or 4 a week, do not click on it.

edited 27th Mar '15 6:39:28 AM by Memers

Phishing WoW players is big business. Do not trust the legitimacy of any email until you've gone (by manually entering the URL or using a bookmark, never by clicking a link in the email) to battle.net, logged in, and verified it.

Yeah its phishing, Most of the ones I get are rather funny as they cant seem to spell things correctly or trying to phish for games I do not even own.

Just mousing over those links and seeing the preview of where they redirect is an obvious enough tool that pinpoints "SCAM"

They cannot be more obvious with all their broken engrish if they used the jolly roger instead of the blizzard logo

HTML emails can conceal links by using tricks to make what shows up in the hover tip or the status bar not the actual URL that you're clicking on. Now, I think browsers recently stopped allowing some of those obfuscation tricks, but it's something to watch out for.

This is another use case for browsers and/or AV suites that contain "safe browsing" features; most will stop you from visiting known phishing sites.

One thing that I do on mobile browsers is tap and hold on links so that my device will preview the URL I'm visiting.

edited 27th Mar '15 8:09:32 AM by Fighteer

Never got any myself, but some of my friends did. We had a hearty laugh at mail coming from a top.wang gmail address

Heroes of the Storm is suffering from in-game phishing. "GM" Stringogibberish spams general chat with "You account is in danger of suspension, goto wowgm.chinesepirates.scam to dispute it".

These attempts truly baffle me. Especially since they're trying to fool you with the "GM site" for the wrong game. Oh, and tell everyone in a chat channel that a GM wants to talk to them for rule breaking.

edited 27th Mar '15 9:21:52 AM by Rotpar

It's intentionally bad. If someone falls for the obvious stuff, they're probably not going to catch onto the scam at any point until it's too late.

Permanent infernal pet and the Black Harvest title—I am objectively the greatest warlock ever.

Except for Gul'dan. Or anybody else better than me.

Other than that, the greatest warlock.

So.

Fuck Mythic Blackrock Foundry Trash.

I think that's ripe for some kind of In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You meme.

edited 31st Mar '15 9:18:15 AM by Fighteer

Well they just have a crapton of health. it takes forever to kill them and it is annoying.

I miss Trial of the Crusader.

Blizzard uses trash as a gating mechanic and also (occasionally) to foreshadow the abilities used in boss encounters. If you can't beat the trash, you have no business fighting the bosses, and they want raids to be more than beating up on sequential loot pinatas. Trial was an interesting variation but not what Blizzard is aiming for as the norm.

edited 31st Mar '15 9:24:25 AM by Fighteer