In MMOs like World of Warcraft, there are many ways to tease your fellow players. Here, we present the meanest troll variants to trick MMORPG fans.
If you are traveling in World of Warcraft, you have likely been tricked by fellow players in one way or another. Often, it’s just playful banter from friends or complete strangers who reveal the fun later. Sometimes, however, you might fall into a nasty trap and be annoyed for hours about how foolish you just were. We reveal to you the oldest and most effective schemes that WoW players have been trolled with.
Most of these “tricks” can of course be applied to any other MMORPG. You just need to exchange the chat commands or locations, and it will work …
Dwarves have such a cool /camp animation!
Especially in the trade chat, you often read sentences like:
“Wow, the dwarves got such a cool /Camp animation with the patch!”
Since curiosity is in human nature, many players immediately try to investigate and happily type “/camp” into the chat. Instead of a great animation, however, they end up in the character selection menu, because “/camp” is just another logout command.
The icing on the cake is when the player returns and confused explains that their game suddenly closed.
You have been robbed!
Also frequently seen is the sentence:
“Schurkius has used [Pickpocket]. You lose 17 gold, 32 silver, and 19 copper.”
Of course, no one loses gold here, and this emote is just typed out. It has no effect. Yet the corresponding rogue can enjoy whispers from upset players who complain or even threaten with a GM if the gold is not returned.
Usually, the only solution is to repeat the emote and slightly alter the stolen gold value so that it doesn’t become suspicious …
Alt+F4 for FPS display
As old as PC games is the “trick” that you should press the Alt+F4 keys to get some specific setting. Opening a menu, showing FPS, or unlocking a specific weapon. Most Windows gamers probably know that ALT+F4 does nothing but close the current application.
So if someone in the trade channel asks, “How do I unlock the allied races?” occasionally the response is, “With Alt+F4 the quest starts” … and bam, the player is gone.
You are afk!
In battlegrounds, you can always see some jokers who write the following sentence as an emote in the chat:
“Ralf has reported you afk due to lack of participation. You will be removed from the battleground in 60 seconds due to inactivity. Type “/afk” to cancel this process.”“
Of course, this is not a real warning. If you type “/afk”, you will indeed show as “away” and will simply be removed from the battleground. Time and again, people fall for this trick, and in almost every BG, there’s someone who tries it – there are always new victims.
In contrast to the other trolls, where no one gets hurt, the trolled player here is sanctioned and given a “Deserter” debuff. So one should refrain from harming other players like this.
/gquit and /gkick are sitting on a tree…
The following prank is also fairly simple and actually easy to see through. However, the curiosity (or ambition) of many players makes it work time and again. In large guilds of WoW, for years you have read sentences that look something like this:
“/gquit and /gkick are sitting on a tree /gkick falls down, who else is sitting on the tree?”
The result is that everyone who has typed “/gquit” into the chat has now left the guild. Why this works time and again is more or less a mystery – inattention, curiosity, or simply the desire to be the first to write the right answer in the guild chat could be the triggers here.
Meanwhile, there is also an extension of this prank. You simply claim:
“What a pity that with /gquit you now get a security query, back then you could troll so many players with it :(“
Again, the curiosity of people is triggered. The truth is that this query does not exist. And once again, a few clueless players have left the guild…
The eternal gold trade
In almost every MMO with a large capital city, you will find them: gold beggars. They usually come from another server and are already accustomed to wandering through the game world with many inventory slots or substantial capital. Because they do not want to start all over again, they spend the whole day begging other players for gold. Often for several hours – even though one could have farmed the desired amount in that time.
If such a guy then also becomes unfriendly, a simple “trick” helps: you grant the player their request. Find them, trade with them, and put a gigantic sum of gold in the trade window. 100,000 gold or more, whatever you can muster.
But: You do not confirm the trade. Just leave the trade window open without completing the transaction. Now you have plenty of time to watch some anime or clean the apartment. Because the other player will definitely not leave. When you come back, you will often see a whole block of whisper messages, shifting from thankful to doubtful and then to really angry.
Is this evil? Definitely. Can it be fun? A little!
Have you ever fallen for one of these schemes and got upset? Or did you take it with humor?
