Boy Saves Sister From Moose Using WoW Skills

[Regulas]

Blizzard should give him a cool in game weapon or armor for the publicity he gave them.

 

[kingssman]

Wow a great Distracting shot / feign death combo to reset aggro and force the creature into Evade to prevent a wipe.

Course then again i'm a druid and I usually do a cower followed up with a dash and high tail it out of there.

 

[Guest]

He didn't gain any experience because he didn't kill the moose.

 

[dco]

Hilarious

 

[opmopadop]

[citation][nom]chrisv815[/nom]mass fails. He should have rooted the moose[/citation]

Okm this is where my sense of humor gets a good laugh, and I could just imagine a kid trying to mount the beast.

[Yes, yes, I know Thorns/Roots is a WoW talent/skill]

 

[micky_lund]

so many epic calls today people 😀

 

[-Fran-]

Prolly his sister didn't have Frost Nova yet.

There's a typo, btw; Hunters don't have Taunt, only Distracting Shot!

Anyway, he could've tamed the moose IMO using a Freezing Trap, lol.

Cheers!

 

[razor512]

At this rate, it will be years before he levels up. he needs to get back out there and do some more grinding.

 

[pyroghozt]

[citation][nom]Jonnydough[/nom]Sounds like ignorant hate to me, most hate is. Honestly, since we've killed off all wild predators hunters help balance ecosystems. Without hunters in Michigan, deer would simply overpopulate and then die of disease and starvation. Hunting them actually helps keep their numbers up. It's the highway transportation system and development that kills them. So next time just hate people who make babies and drive cars and leave hunters out of it.[/citation]

lol Wtf? can we have more downrates for this comment please. Its really off topic and assinine.

Did I mention it made me lol

 

[caveman79]

Must have been a twink cause a noob lvl 12 would have trained the whole damn herd through town.

 

[bebangs]

Old news... i read this before... back in 2007!

http://www.switched.com/2007/12/10/boy-saves-sister-from-moose-attack-with-skills-learned-in-warcra/

 

[MisterClean]

Achievement Unlocked!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

I wonder why he didn't just use cloak of skills ....

 

[mavroxur]

[citation][nom]Article[/nom]The amount of experience points given for the encounter is currently unknown.[/citation]


It's zero if he didn't kill it Still a good story though. However if the kid would've killed the moose and some loot dropped, it would've been waaaaaay better.

 

[nahdogg]

Leeeeeroy Jeeeeeenkins!!!!

 

[wiyosaya]

It sounds like WoW got the real-world instructions correct. Playing dead can be a way to survive an animal attack, and is consistent with some of the recommended extreme situation survival skill techniques. It sounds like the moose might have been scared, or defending territory and when the kid played dead, the threat to the moose disappeared, so the moose stopped its attack. I suspect that it also helped that humans are not a potential prey animal for moose. With another animal such as a pack of wolves or grizzly / polar bears, this might not have turned out so well.

I am sure that some of you will not like what I have to say next, however, I'll caution that what the boy did is consistent with real-world nature survival skills. Think "Survivor Man" or "Man vs Wild", or techniques you learn in "serious" survival courses.

If, however, you find yourself in that kind of situation and you employ techniques from gaming, prey that the gaming techniques are consistent with real-world techniques.

If you know you could be in a situation like this before you actually find yourself in such a situation, the best thing to do is to prepare by studying the appropriate survival skills.

 

[dogofwars]

I think some people relate too much stuff to WoW. It's not the first time this type of thing happen and it's certainly not WoW that invented that.

 

[BulkZerker]

[citation][nom]Jonnydough[/nom]No offense but if you're trying to use a shotgun to kill a moose its probably already too late.[/citation]

Rifled Shotgun, not a normal shotgun. Meaning it's lobbing a slug of lead that's bigger, and heavier than a .50BMg round. The sheer damage it does to ANYTHING is rather scarry. Even a full sized bull Moose in a charge is turned into near dead weight the second the slug hits it's torso.


And the fact that the kid did this disturbs noone? Seriously? I mean this sounds like the sister dragged him out of the house from playing WoW to get some sunshine so he wasn't as white as the walls he was hiding himself under.

Props to the kid though. Did what you should do. When an animal charges you do play dead and lie still, most animals will sniff you think "WTH I made it die? Lol old animal, I win!" then walk off.

 

[Guest]

This stupid when it was reported 2.5 years ago

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2007/12/boy-survives-mo/

 

[drakennz]

[citation][nom]christopherknapp[/nom]Either that or spill oil all over it until it died.[/citation]

LOL!

 

[dEAne]

taunting, I will remember that.

 

[Jimmy22]

Excellent! Now if only i could Hearthstone out of work...

 

[Guest]

Like, i could have totally Pwn that no0b at that.
*Sarcasm*

 

[Guest]

Kids way to imba even in real life :/ sigh gg no re

 

[Guest]

My buddy Alice is a WoW player. Next time I go to some woods, I'm going to take her with me so that she can save me from any unsightly animals.