r/classicwow • u/Bagofskates • Dec 03 '24

Humor / Meme What's the most unique excuse you've heard for leaving a raid?

A few years back (can't remember the exact raid, version, or server), we were midway through a raid after downing a couple of bosses. Suddenly, one of our newer guild members, a gnome mage, if I recall correctly., chimes in on voice chat: "Sorry guys, I need to go. My girlfriend has just shaved."

We were all a bit confused at first, but then it hit us. Booty call had higher priority than the raid. It became an instant classic in our guild and gave us some great laughs.

You got any good ones?

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u/drae- Dec 03 '24 edited Dec 03 '24

We had a guy during classic, who also raided retail. We're in Karazan, and he logs. Goes on discord to say his power went out and posts a video of his lights off, except...

Lights were on at his neighbours in the video he posted, and his discord displayed what game he was playing (retail), without the mobile icon.

This was his second bail, he had also quit a Kara raid 2 weeks prior because, and I quote:"my dog is shitting all over the place".

He also left once just after moroes to "go get weed" and didn't come back until we were on netherspite.

I gkicked him the next day. There were smarter cookies in my cookie jar.

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u/Berylldama Dec 03 '24

We had a guy talk to Varien in ICC and fuck up the ICC buff for a week. We tried to soldier on, but it was impossible and we decided to break for the week. We had had a couple of pugs that week, so we thought for sure it was one of them. We posted an officer next to Varien the next week and made a weak aura that, if it detected the buff missing, would announce it and every toon would announce their whereabouts in raid chat.
Anyway, two bossed in our TANK announces that he has just decided he wasn't a good fit with us any more. He'd been with us like a year at that point. He said he just wasn't having fun any more. So he gquit in the middle of a pull. He was the one who had SABOTAGED 24 other raiders the week before because "he just wasn't feeling it" any more.

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u/BlackCloud9 Dec 03 '24

What a prick….

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u/drae- Dec 03 '24

Yikes!

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u/gleep23 Dec 04 '24

To be fair, if he bailed twice for schedule, and you had a spare tank, you'd gkick him.

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u/Sprinklewoodz Dec 03 '24

To be fair I’ve had my power go out, and then I continue to play on my laptop with a hotspot.

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u/drae- Dec 03 '24

Iirc retail had dropped a content patch that night (we raided Tuesdays & Wednesdays) and he wanted to do that more then raid Kara with us. His retail guild was probably raiding out of schedule to get a drop on the new content.

But like, just tell us that bro, we're all gamers here.

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u/Hearing_Colors Dec 03 '24

hmm moroes and netherspite he was a rogue wasnt he lol

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u/drae- Dec 03 '24

My offtank.

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u/Hearing_Colors Dec 03 '24

oof that had to have been a pain for him to just dip mid raid then

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u/drae- Dec 03 '24

Actually he came back just in time for the only boss I needed him for lol.

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u/slapdashbr Dec 03 '24

dog one was probably legit lol