The Somewhat Ambitious

One of the things I love about World of Warcraft is the inability to cheat. Sure, people find tiny pointless exploits, but all in all, it’s all about earning the good stuff. Which I’m aware makes me sound like gaming dad, but… shut up.

Anyway, someone has apparently gotten into deep shit for cheating in World of Warcraft, though to be fair, the circumstances are far from simple (or unamusing). In a nutshell, a gnome warrior named Karatechop and his guild, The Marvel Family, have been wiping out Ulduar and its hardest achievements with relative ease. And by relative ease, I mean effortlessly. A look at Karatechops DPS revealed his highest hit was for 353,892,967 damage. Which is almost 354 million. Apparently several Blizzard employees are still having their eyebrows retrieved from the corpses of birds which were flying in the vicinity. Beign impaled by a hairy semi-circle of surprise is no way for an innocent pigeon to die, dammit.

So, how did Karatechop and his guild obtain this terrifying item? Well, turns out Karatechop shuffled up to his mailbox one day and found THIS.

So basically he was carried through Ulduar like that kid who discovered the flat taco, one-shotting Blizzards newest and most fearsome creations, caring not a whit for lore nor pants (with that kind of power, you really need to go pantless). How could this happen, you might ask? Well, every item in WOW has at least five ID digits, and this had only two. So this is either the result of a typo, or it’s some sick social experiment to see how people handle power.

Which makes this exactly like Sammy’s Super T-Shirt*, which had a happy ending of course. This, however, didn’t; the entire guild have had their accounts banned, Which just goes to show you: T-Shirts are evil. Like their namesake.

/Paul

(Link via Wowinsider)

*Sammy’s Super T-Shirt was a movie from the 80’s which stuck in my head far easier than it should have. It concerned a nerd who found a shirt which gave him powers, enabling him to become a super-strong athlete and ladies man. During the final race, his mother had washed the shirt (against his express wishes), forcing him to run using his own skills. THE POWER WAS INSIDE HIM ALL ALONG! Ahh. Sweet, pointless magical tailoring.