I think I recall Sulfuras having an amazing tale of Scarab Lord drama regarding people who wanted to lock the entire server out of bug mounts, but then the entire server turned on them as a result.
What stories do you have of server-wide drama in 2019 Classic?
For those who didn’t play original vanilla, some of the most memorable things about vanilla was some of the drama that took place, and was especially visible on the server-dedicated forums we had.
The famous Serenity Now video caused a huge stir on their realm. Angwe the rogue was an infamous villain on his realm.
There are very few events that go down as truly massive, enough to transcend the realms themselves and make their way into The Lore of Drama (Tinyviolin, for example?)
So, let’s hear some legendary drama from your servers, to pass the time before SOD has the chance to create some more.
Devilsaur drama so bad that a literal blizz gm whispered our guild lead and said to ignore the flak and report anyone who was harassing people. Good times
On grobbulus right after BWL dropped a guild called Hurricane on Alliance camped the mountain so hard that it took our raid 2.5 hours to get in the dungeon. Dunno if it qualifies as drama, but it was hilarious.
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I was on sulfuras. The political divide was very strong.
The Golden Girls on Kromkrush.
This was a hyper-toxic private server guild, <GRIZZLY FROM REDDIT>, that transferred to Sulfuras after BWL had already been out for a bit. IIRC.
I was part of the biggest drama that happened besides the Scarab Lord thing, I believe, when I semi-accidentally blew up <Keyboard Turners>. It became a giant zerg guild with a petty dictator at the top that had and gave our guild a terrible reputation across the entire server. Made running my raid hell for various reasons, including having our resources siphoned away and it being very difficult to recruit solid raiders while flying that banner.
I split off my raid, which happened after a week-long Discordathon where I spoke one-at-a-time with every individual we were trying to bring along (like 95% of the raid). It was a task that took up most of my free time that week, including stepping into my car while “taking my lunch” at work most days. Unfortunately, hours before the planned meeting where I was to inform said GM and the other raid leaders of the official move someone leaked what was happening. I was trying to keep the drama to an absolute minimum and planned everything to happen so that no one would so much as miss a raid lockout; instead I had a drunk soon-to-not-be-GM-of-anything telling me that I “got him” over and over, as if the guild part of the game were itself a game instead of necessary busywork that impacted people’s actual lives.
One of the other raid leaders had his own plans for splitting off in the works, and when my raid left he decided to pull the trigger. The remaining players didn’t want to stay with the same name so the entire guild was split into three new guilds within like a week. The original GM was notorious and petty and he tried to spin everything as something he did. I continued down the path of minimal drama as best I could and so the official word in our guild was to not engage. People were still talking about the event at least months later, and I received word from one of my raid members that stayed on the server that it was talked about even as late as deep into TBC.
I didn’t stay for Naxx so I don’t know if something bigger happened during that period.
I’ll share a thread that I made from the Earthfury AQ Scarab Lord drama (pre the TV stuff because the server wasn’t always or only about that):
The “Scarab Mount Coalition” is sad - Earthfury - World of Warcraft Forums (blizzard.com)
The thread talks about it but I don’t expect anyone to read that all. Basically, certain ally and horde guilds colluded to control Silithus completely.
Still, the best part was the person/guild who was not in that coalition and got Scarab Lord regardless - despite people trying to not allow that - and they REALLY tried to stop it on the last day.
Anyway, I was annoyed at that time so I wrote that thread but that really is one of the things that makes this first version of the game so memorable because I have yet to see “player-created” things that groups of people just on one server will remember 20 years down the road on any version of WoW since.
Oh and yes the original Vanilla server forums were a lot of fun. Now it’s all Discord which is ok but I preferred those. The big thing on my Vanilla server forum for MONTHS involved a notorious for it warlock "ninjaing’ the Devout Mantle from UBRS.
I don’t do lying or misrepresentation.
I specifically set up a plan and then exhausted myself executing on it to try and cause the least amount of disruption possible. My co-GM and I decided on what we were going to do and created a list of raid members in order of who we were most certain would remain quiet (even if they didn’t want to join) to who we were least certain about. We then started pulling everyone on the list into Discord in that order, beginning right after our raid ended that week. We raided Wednesdays and so by starting that night and aiming to wrap everything up by the following Tuesday night we could give everyone the maximum amount of time to deal with any fallout before actually missing a raid lockout.
My standing request beginning our first raid night in the new guild was that no one engage in any chat arguments over the transition, or with anyone from the previous guild, and so far as I know that was 95% adhered to. There were plenty of opportunities, to say the least, but the entire point of the split was to move beyond the degrading influence of the previous GM. I stressed to everyone throughout the entire process that that was the goal, and that we wanted the move because we had run out of ways to remedy certain issues within the framework of the larger guild and believed it was what was best for our raid.
Two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead.
Big thing on my vanilla server was the top two guilds in competition with each other on opposite factions from the early days of MC. The back and forth between them was extremely toxic, down to doxxing and all the 4channery.
The raid leader of the horde guild was secretly raiding on the alliance side with a second rogue. This guy was basically the life force of the horde guild. Came up with all their strategies to killing bosses (during a time when the strat wasn’t pre-posted) and then one day just posted a picture of his alliance rogue on the horde guild’s forums and quit.
Between the two, the alliance guild was definitely the more mature/professional of them, and the horde rogue leader wasn’t really the toxic type, so he left.
The reason it was such a big deal is because that rogue had been there since the early EQ days, and the guild absolutely crumbled after he left.
Here’s video about some epic drama of my guild that imploded
Hurricane