Oye. I fell for this and what's worse I went on a 5 minute rant to my girlfriend about this. It went something like this....see what I get for going back to my alliance. This kind of kid crap is why I started a horde character up. Y'know I'm just minding my own business, waiting to lose and boom. You are afk? wtf? So I type it in and then I get kicked. C'mon. See this.proves.my.point! Then I realized and felt dumb the rest of the night. I havent seen anyone in my battlegroup on horde side do it though. :P
It's probably there I just dont look now.

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A mage can put a teleport portal right over the warlock soulwell or another mage's refreshment portal. Make absolutely sure you click on the right portal.

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Can't say I've fallen for it, but I certainly get a good laugh about others who've fallen for it.

As a parallel, though:
In my last raiding guild, we had a mage who would throw up portals at the end of the night... one to Shatt, and one to Exodar. *Stacked right on top of each other*, so that when you hovered over the portal, at any angle, the tooltip would flicker back and forth between both locations.

It was a crap shoot, and funny as hell.

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Personally I'm sad that you can't cast portals in BGs anymore. When running a train we'd be "summoning our people in" with the soul portal trick. TuringTest is a good mod for auto-reporting afk-ers to try and clean things us.

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I'm just waiting for a warlock to open a "soul portal" at the beginning of AV and watch as some guy gets sac'd and have a Doomguard running around. Newbs will click on anything if it has the potental to give them free stuff.

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@3

I do that too, it's a barrel of laughs :D

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I'm sorry, but rofl!

Things not to believe in AV:

1. /AFK (and anything else) will not work, they kick you out
2. Alt + F4 will also kick you out

3. If you're Alliance (and I'm sorry to say I am), farming HK's does not get you more honor due to the low level of honor you get from others now and diminishing returns.

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In Ultima Online I formed a guild with the initials "you" and made my title " is attacking" = " is attacking, you"

Sometimes when running up to the bank, people would see that on their screen, flip out, and try to attack me back. One time about 10 people where guard-whacked as soon as I appeared in their frame. kek

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Haha, sometimes it can go the other way when people think they're being smartasses - for instance, last week I was with a group of 8 friends on our vent server and we decided to go into WSG. Two other random people were added to make our group 10. One of them was afk the whole match, but we all reported him so he got the debuff. Then the other asshat in the raid decided to say "To see a list of afk players, type /afk list".

On vent someone said "don't do it," but I spoke up and said "maybe we should, just to mess with him." None of us needed the daily quest, and even though we were winning with 2/3 captured flags, we decided it'd be more fun to leave the sucker alone in there. So we /afk'd out, all 8 of us, and left 1 dude in there with 1 other afk honor farmer.

I wish one of us had stayed to see his reaction ;p

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IMO, removing portals in BGs was the lamest thing ever. If someone is too stupid to read the tooltip before they click, they deserve it.

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I almost fell for it once. Someone put up a message about an afk bot. And to type /afk to auto report afkers. I typed in /afk and thought to myself "wait a minute"

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My best one, used to use this one alot in old AV.

Tell nubs that when your defending a banner you can control the guards like pets by standing near the banner and going /camp.

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I'm an Alliance Grand Marshal with more hours of AV under my belt than you've probably even /played, Robin, and recently I fell for the mage portal trick. I clicked it thinking it was a warlock soulwell and ended up in Exodar. With Allies like these, who needs Horde?

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@3 and 6

All you have to do to avoid (more often than not) the crapshoot is to tilt your camera so that you're looking down at the portals from above. Usually you can click the right one from that vantage point.

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@10
So they deserve what they get by failing to read the tooltip? When the whole purpose of someone throwing up a porta to a city is to get unknowing people who think it's a soul portal to click it? So they deserve to fall into a trap when they probably thought they were helping? Really weak :(

It's basically a bunch of idiots trying to make other people look stupid (instead of trying to play the game better). Especially wrong considering that AV has the longest queue time. But I suppose you get these types of people in any game - those that want to humiliate their own side rather than the opposing. What amazing players.

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Also not advisable in BG:
/camp

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I've fallen for a slight variation of this. People start saying how we should report afk'ers, they give the names of the afk'ers and say that you can easily report them by typing /afk report

Yeah...

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Ah crap...the full command they tricked me with didn't come up in my above comment...it is /afk report [name]

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Yeah, you were surely in a premade group. I've never seen people do that in a pug. I've been in organized groups that have done it, but I always found it pretty distasteful. They should just get rid of going /afk in a BG. I mean, who actually deliberately /afk's in a battleground? People go AFK mind you, they just don't actually type it out.

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