A Norwegian news site is reporting that a young boy and his sister were attacked by a moose (same thing happened to my sister once), and the boy reportedly "taunted' the moose away from his sister, and then feigned death, causing the moose to lose aggro and leave. "Just like you learn in level 30 in World of Warcraft," the boy is reportedly quoted as saying.Cynic that I am, I find it hard believing any of this is true at all-- maybe one of our Norwegian readers (and I know we have them, because I met two at BlizzCon) can let us know whether "Nettavisen" is to be trusted as a source or not. But even if it is true, I'm just as hesitant to jump to praise WoW for supposedly helping as I am to condemn it for supposedly hurting.
Still, I'm glad the kid came out of it OK, and if WoW is to thank, all the better. Now if only he'd been able to control his DPS in the first place, he'd never have aggroed at all.
[Via TN]
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12-05-2007 @ 1:45PM
Zumwalah said...
[quote]Now if only he'd been able to control his DPS in the first place, he'd never have aggroed at all.[/quote]
maybe his nub sister body pulled?
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12-10-2007 @ 9:29AM
Lossius said...
Nettavisen is one of the serious papers in Norway, and the story says more or less the same in the Norwegian versions I've read.
The kid is a hack though, he's far from lvl 30 and already knows feign death. Riiiiight! HACK!
12-05-2007 @ 1:47PM
hoeding said...
Personally, I would have let my sister tank it.
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12-05-2007 @ 1:51PM
Thanurge said...
He should have Frost Shocked it instead...
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12-06-2007 @ 4:30PM
Amalah said...
Guessing moose have high frost resist..
12-05-2007 @ 1:52PM
Keiji said...
Elite? I'd solo it ;D
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12-10-2007 @ 11:17AM
Wtf? said...
Did this happen for real or what cuz lots of ppl r saying he was an elite or may have frost resist? wtf wad this in real life or in wow?
12-05-2007 @ 1:54PM
Gustav said...
Not being Norwegian, I wouldn't know if the paper is trustworth or not, but from surfing around on it for a bit, it seems to be fairly alright. I hardly doubt that the paper made the story up, if you put it that way. Oh, and if anyone is wondering how I can know that from not being Norwegian, I'm Swedish, so I understand enough Norwegian to be able to read it...
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12-05-2007 @ 1:56PM
ThorinII said...
The n00b sister should never have gotten that close to the (obviously) much higher lvl Moose in the first place. I would have let her die and spirit run back.
Oh, wait, RL, yeah, good job kid!
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12-05-2007 @ 1:56PM
nativebrown said...
lol
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12-05-2007 @ 1:59PM
Rich said...
Hunters don't have taunt!!!!! Yet anyway... :(
If he was a good hunter he would have let the moose kill his sister, then feign death as it came for him. When it dropped aggro, hop up and use Jumper Cables on her.
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12-06-2007 @ 8:58AM
deltreme said...
Distracting shot or something :P Doubt he had a bow on him :)
I bet he turned off his sister's Growl and got aggro that way. Or he didn't feed her properly.
12-05-2007 @ 2:03PM
Wolfkin said...
I would've spammed Wing Clip and kited the moose to Ironforge....
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12-05-2007 @ 2:04PM
Hellbena said...
Obviously someone's never heard of Distracting Shot.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:06PM
Paw said...
Yeah, but what the story doesn't say is that when the kid got up to run away he was jumped by 4 crag boars his sister also aggroed when she thought she saw a peacebloom on her minimap. He made a daring run for town where he thought he would find aid from one of the guards but ended up at the camp by the lake where the locals just stared at him while he was being mauled.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:10PM
dsimon said...
MWAHAHA I AM THE MOOSE
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12-05-2007 @ 2:13PM
gg said...
Great, now blizzard can bullshit about that their shit game saved life on someone.. -.-
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12-05-2007 @ 2:15PM
Mats said...
Well, being from Norway. Nettavisen is the largest Online Newspaper (Only online that is, some paper newspapers online sites are bigger) that we have. It's run by the biggest commercial media organization in Norway (TV2 Gruppen) so this is 100% legit.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:33PM
Zegim said...
Maybe his sister was trying to tame that moose?
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12-05-2007 @ 2:41PM
Gazoo said...
This is what happens when Misdirection is applied correctly to a member of your party.
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