I Died in The Auction HouseFollow

So yesterday I was in the AH in Orgrimmar, logged in as my level 1 banker character, and I died twice. I wasn't flagged, I wasn't fighting, I was just loading stuff on the AH and searching for potions, browsing, la la la, and I died, came back and died again about 5 mins later.

What's going on?

There were no defence messages appearing, no warnings, zip diddly squat. I just appeared to die suddenly without warning and for no reason. Me and a couple of other guys as it happens.

Is this some new alliance trick? Was it a bug? Do I need to work a character up to a higher level to stop it happening again?

Any knowledge anyone?

Many Thanks....

I watched a shammy named Gotti to this in the Org AH yesterday. He was Flagged and dropped a totem and the low lvls near him died. Not sure which totem, maybe magma?

Thunder bluff was the target for an ally rogue yestarday on my server. He was ganking the Auctioneers so I gave up trying to bank. Thought it was sad that the 5-10 level 70's couldnt stop this rogue from repeatedly killing them...maybe it a game wide fad for allys to do this.

My snaketrap won't kill lowby Hordies anymore, so I don't think it'd work for some shadowmelded nelf.


I don't know what it could be, maybe if it keeps up contact a gm and find out what the problem is.

Just happened again 3 times in a row, it's a group of Horde members would you believe, who apparently think its funny to set off totems and kill low levels in the AH and by the mail box. I know because I asked them an dthey all just laughed at me and killed me again. Nice. Must be kids or come to think of it I know kids better behaved and more sensible than that.

SO NOT IMPRESSED

Am trying to get to my epic mount 5k growllllllllllll

Will screen shot if it happens again. It was a lvl 5 Fire Nova totem I think, hit me for 412 damage from memory and that was enough to kill me. Haha! I have no armour etc, just a level 1 banker, so to speak...

I suppose it is funny in one way, but not funny when you just want to play the game and do your buying and selling as fast as possible. Went back as my lvl 67 hunter to get on with what I wanted to do and some of the guys that were doing it are all currently lying dead, scattered about outside the bank and AH. All seems very strange. They were definitely horde though because I was whispering them, asking them why they were doing it. You are right though surely friendly players should suffer no damage.... most strange...

in my opinion i say the whole situation sucks . i mean why would a horde member wan to kill and other horde member, i just don't see the point.

On one of my servers they are using it to Kill the Gold Spammers

So i say good to that..

I can tell you it happened in the SW AH last evening - some shammy around lvl 35 started doing this. I have never wished so fervently for the ability to gank your own faction as I did last night as all these poor lowbies around me were dropping like flies.

I hope Blizz fixes this soon. Of course, the jerks doing this will just find something else equally as annoying to do...



Edited, May 9th 2008 1:39pm by katluvr

I read the thread on WOW and from that and the replies here and it seems it was initailly aimed at the goldspammers, fun and fine to some degree.... but as a consequence it is killing any low level Horde (and I guess Alliance in their cities) too. Some people seem to simply be enjoying the fact they can kill low levels in their own factions. Nice. It is also not actually stopping the goldspamming. Seems some folk are gleeful about killing low level banker characters as well, they obviously don't understand about Outlands.

Hopefully they will grow bored of their idiocy soon enough and go back to playing WOW for the real fun, gameplay and challenge it offers.

Thank you everyone for your information and views, at least I know what is going on now even if there is nothing I can do to avoid the effects.

As someone said above, I never expected to want to be able to kill my own faction...

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Edited, Aug 27th 2008 12:53am by kawainui

If that's what they're doing, then fine.

Questions is whether or not there was a gold spammer about - on my server they do hang around the Org bank, but its inevitably in front of it and not near the mailbox so the odds of a bank alt getting fried are pretty low.

If you dont want too many people to know it might just not be a very good idea to post it on a forum -.-