WoW Classic troll obliterates max-level hardcore raiding team in 'legendary and degenerate' act that truly belongs in EVE Online
A group of unfortunate World of Warcraft Classic players have fallen victim to a troll in a scheme that took a truly villainous level of dedication, planning, and sociopathy. The event has been dubbed The 5th Horseman incident, and the most horrible detail of all is that it took place in WoW Classic's Hardcore mode with a max-level raid team that got wiped. Their characters, and the unimaginable amount of time it must take to hit level 60 in WoW Classic Hardcore, are now lost, like tears in rain.
«Arguably the greatest grief in all of MMORPG history right here,» said GeekWithChris, going on to explain what went into this: «The sheer amount of time to level to 60, never die, farm all the mats to make all these raid consumables, get world buffs, earn trust to be main tank on the specific boss that can wipe the raid solo… damn!»
The raid encounter is the Four Horsemen (hence the «5th horseman» gag) and Tinyviolin69 is one of the group's main tanks. Tinyviolin69 had been playing with this crowd for around a year, though it's unclear how he was able to gain the group's trust, because he already had a reputation as a WoW Classic griefer, to the extent he's had multiple accounts banned in the past. And you have to say the name's a bit of a tell.
The below video shows the section of the boss fight where Tinyviolin69 screws up their casting and positioning before, as the boss begins to wipe the group, they all realise what's happening. You can hear the anguish in comms. «Did he just do that?» says one player, before another plaintively answers «yeah he did.» 36 members of the group are wiped; two of the characters survive.
There's further context in an interview WoW streamer Asmongold conducted with a Hardcore Elite player
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