Many thanks to Agate of Eldre'Thalas for providing us with the video!
So I was out working on heroic Steam Vaults with some friends last night. Like usual Hydromancer Thespia was being a pain, and we wiped a couple of times. On one of the death walks back, fellow guildie Agate and I meet up with another group of ghosts running over to Coilfang Reservoir. Nothing new there.
Except Agate noticed a couple of guys running behind him. After a bit of moving around he confirmed that they were in fact on auto-follow.
"Hahaha, look at this, these two guys are following me. Should I have some fun?" he asks over vent.
"Yes!" the rest of the group answers back enthusiastically. After all, what better cure for the wiping blues than playing with someone on auto-follow? So off we go, merrily rolling along as ghosts to the outer reaches of Hellfire Peninsula, dragging this slacker along with us. When you're watching the video, Agate is in the lead, the auto-follower is in the middle, and I'm in the back on Osullivan.
Now granted, this might not have been the nicest thing to do – but neither is auto following a character that not only isn't in your group, but one that you don't know. The autofollow function is great for dual boxing and helping people along with quick /afks during raids. But auto following can be a dangerous thing, as is demonstrated in the video.
Eventually the person playing the toon was rezzed, just as we were about to bring him over to Thrallmar and then off to the twisting nether.
What do you think of auto-follow? Every have anyone follow your ghost around?
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3-08-2008 @ 5:23PM
JParris said...
Ahahaha once I realized where you were taking him I started laughing really hard. That was pretty epic.
I once was riding along through Zangarmarsh getting the Zabra'jin flightpath and this dude started autofollowing me who I'd never seen before. So I decided to have some similar fun. I go him all the way to Oshu'Gun before he came back and started cursing at me. XD
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3-08-2008 @ 5:44PM
Littlemouse said...
Lol, that is pretty funny:) I am wondering though if anyone else has the habit of watching WoW videos and keep trying to pan the camera around like I do >.>
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3-08-2008 @ 5:56PM
mneill said...
Very much so ... as well as checking lvl's
3-08-2008 @ 6:37PM
Jaiz said...
I try to pan up or down on websites.
3-08-2008 @ 10:45PM
Druid dude said...
I was about to press "M" to check the map...
3-08-2008 @ 5:46PM
Kraynor said...
I did something similar to a guildmate when we were questing in Feralas. He said he had to go make dinner and asked if he could auto-follow for mob exp and shared cash... Plan hatched so I didn't ask what I'd get out of it.
40 minutes later he came back, stuck between trees in Moonglade, with me happily killing things back in Tanaris, muhahahaha
He saw the fun in it... eventually
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3-08-2008 @ 6:01PM
speedytbc7 said...
oh sully how could u wipe on first boss of heroic SV? noob =P
lol wonder if the guy wispered u after he resurrected
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3-08-2008 @ 6:04PM
Adam Holisky said...
Hm...
Now who are you... ;-)
3-08-2008 @ 6:02PM
Excaliber said...
Excaliber btw ^^^
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3-08-2008 @ 6:02PM
Duncan said...
LMAO nice choice for the soundtrack as well.
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3-08-2008 @ 6:03PM
Robbie said...
Funny, But if you request a ticket then hit unstuck it sends you back to spirit.
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3-08-2008 @ 6:04PM
Swarfy said...
LOL That is very genius of your friend. and the song fits so well to. :)
props for thinking of that. And i'm also wondering, did he whisper your friend after he realized that you were leading him on a wild goose chase?
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3-08-2008 @ 7:24PM
Agate said...
Actually the guy didn't catch my name, but he did catch Osullivan's, so it was Sully who got a bunch of /whispers. None of which are printable here.
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3-09-2008 @ 1:05AM
Nacole said...
I wanna see!!!
3-08-2008 @ 7:50PM
Pete J. said...
That was epic. I'm going to have to pay more attention to when people are auto following me, I could use a good laugh.
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3-08-2008 @ 8:30PM
Nick S said...
i had a guy following me trying to steal my kills in blade's edge...
so i took him to meet one of gruul's kids.
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3-08-2008 @ 9:00PM
Reise said...
back in ubrs i had someone go afk and auto-follow me in the room before the bridge to drak... there was a warlock in the raid, so i got him to summon me, then i jumped off the bridge and accepted summon as i fell... also people following me in mc, i drag them into the lava.... good times...
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3-09-2008 @ 6:00AM
Azurelle said...
Lmao... Autofollow IS a dangerous thing. Back when I was still in my levelteens, I set myself on autofollow on one of my Guildmates, a Nelf druid. He was showing me around Darkshore heading towards some decently difficult quests for the time - I needed a quick break so trusted my character to the loving care of the Druid.
Of course, autofollowing on a precarious corner on the pier was too much for him to resist, so he did a running jump over a corner quite visually laughing as he did so. I come back from the bathroom and found that my Nelf was stuck behind a pillar in the sea, getting attacked by a Darkshore thresher.
Being the friendly nieghbourhood Druid that he was, my guild mate patiently sat on the edge of the pier, healing me...
... Whilst calling me a dumbass.
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3-09-2008 @ 6:49AM
Gurkie said...
Yes true, you can use UNSTUCK feauture to get teleported back to the spirit, but, it's still funny that you took the time to film it, good job.
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3-09-2008 @ 7:19AM
J. A. S. said...
One time when I was heading into Kara I ran into a guild member also on headed there in Deadwind. He decided to /follow me just for the hell of it and I, like I always do, jumped off the cliff overlooking the mansion. I'm a mage. He... wasn't. We had a good laugh on guild chat.
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