"Good" Griefing Stories

This thread is beginning to put Andy Kaufman to shame. I can't tell who is being fully serious versus wry satire in several of the posts above.

Well it's fairly easy to just head over to SA and check the CoH thread. I called pre-emptive shenanigans earlier, and it looks like I was right.

I was one person on that raid. Yes, the griefers were annoying, but the league leader didn't help, rage quitting at the drop of a hat, when I'm pretty sure we could have recovered and finished the thing. And ohmigods, the swearing from that guy. Now I've been known to use the occasional cussword when something cheesy or stupid happens, but I don't drop the F-bomb multiple times in one message, screaming at the whole league about how put-upon I am, because oh how awful, I'm running it all on my own. Especially after volunteering to run it on my own.

And yes, I did petition the griefer. Not only was he griefing, he also had a name that was a clear reference to genitalia- just another rope to hang him with. And yes, I heard quite a few others doing the same, which is the proper thing. I didn't argue with the griefer, just petitioned and encouraged others to do likewise.

I, too, am deeply offended by clinical terms for parts of the anatomy located in the same general area as the naughty bits, regardless of how innocent they seem on the surface. Why, I once reported a saucy gent by the name of Pelvis Presley because science has proven that thinking about the pelvis puts the innocent mind in jeopardy by its inextricable association with the butt

And let me tell you fellows, thinking about butts NEVER leads anywhere good!

For what it's worth, it sounds like the raid leader kinda sucked too. As he's described, even without any griefers, it probably would have failed because someone wasn't "doing it right." I admire people for trying to run an event like this, but part of being a leader is keeping your cool and working with out-of-the-ordinary situations.

When X-Funk was still around he'd break up PvP farms on Pinnacle...one time he TP Foed a victim to all the Explore Badges in Warburg before finishing him, ending with a message like: "You're welcome for the badges, from Nites of Darkness!"

Classic stuff.

Then there was the time some people on Champion went under the Hive's map during a Hami raid and Snow Storm pulled GMs into the bowl, or the other time they just attacked Hami from under the map, thankfully enough of us rushed in to get our hit in.

Awesome stuff.

When I petitioned that guy, a GM showed up shortly after and asked me to confirm the player name I was referring to. I've never had that happen before, so I'm guessing he was looking into it, at least.

PK Squadron on Guardian used to behave exactly like what I'm hearing about Goon Squad. Though I have heard it said that they mostly obeyed the directives of their masters: Ownage.

I think this entire thread is one big grief.

Does griefing your own raid count? I organized a Hamidon raid about 3 months ago and was entirely too overconfident. I made sure we all had EoEs and Break frees, then had our league of somewhere between 24 and 32 people engage in a 100% push. Hamidon really couldn't touch us, but eventually it became clear that merely surviving against Hamidon wouldn't net a reward - defeating the heals put out by his Greens was part of the equation that, in my glory-lust, I completely forgot to factor in. The strategy can work for 6 full teams of incarnates, but part of leading a raid is working with what you have instead of expecting a "one-size-fits-all" approach to tactics.

Outside of that the only griefing I know about is the Kronos vs. Hamidon battle, which was pretty amazing and creative. If you keep the game in perspective random events can add to the fun and epic-ness of an encounter. Or fill your server's end-game "black list." Either way it's important not to lose your head.