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The snowball griefing era has come to a close

The snowball griefing era has come to a close

And what a glorious era it was! Tigole has announced that Blizzard has applied a hotfix which will accomplish the following:

Regular snowballs will no longer knockdown groupmates in the battlegrounds. Why? Well, with forced grouping, Blizzard doesn't want you to get stuck with a team-hating type who will constantly knock you on your butt via a well-placed snowball. Hardpacked snowballs may now only be used against the enemy. This should hopefully stop the griefing, which was apparently pretty annoying for those trying to rack up some honor. I can't think of many people being too unhappy with these changes, unless they enjoyed the thrill of annoying their teammates. Actually, there is quite the spirited discussion in the hotfix thread in the forums, as some folks will dearly miss those snowballs.

- XShadowXKingX

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  • Sepharad said 
    Wed, Dec 20 2006 7:28 PM ()

    lol

  • Wed, Dec 20 2006 7:28 PM ()

    haha yea h i though it was kinda funny too...lol i liked making people fall over!!

    - XShadowXKingX

  • Selune said 
    Wed, Dec 20 2006 7:28 PM ()

    rofl

  • gorgeth said 
    Wed, Dec 20 2006 7:28 PM ()

    Now if they could just make the regular snowballs not knock people down .. the job would be done..

  • Aeryn said 
    Wed, Dec 20 2006 7:28 PM ()

    What makes me sad about this fix is the anti-farming measures that people were able to take against AV Botters. You could give someone... oh about two minutes... to run out of the cave, and if they didn't move, then you knew they were AFK. This meant that you could use the snowballs to knock them out of the battleground, and give them deserter status. Hence, forcing the habitual AV-AFK'ers to sit out of BGs for 15 minutes.

    Sometimes, it's the little things that matter.

    -Aeryn

  • Wed, Dec 20 2006 7:28 PM ()

    hehe it was great fun alright, Guidly of mine made a movie about it :P really funny imo check it out:

    http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=33318

  • Wed, Dec 20 2006 7:27 PM ()

    hahaha Funny movie!

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