Also if everyone is close to one another, it can chainstun the hell out of everyone if people keep landing in the crowd and snapping the pic. I was stuck for like 30 seconds when I did it (and then locked in combat because I guess my pet tapped it in the middle of that somewhere) so I can maybe see why some people would want to vent their frustrations a little.
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Imagine being the elekk. You spawn and you see hundreds of players with their cameras pointing at you.
How else am I supposed to farm Nether Residue?
The Westfall Messenger:
“Am I joke to you?”
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I appreciate people who bring receipts in modern times /salute
Just send in a picture of the dead Elekk and title it “Nature in its truest form” or something.
Or “LOL.” Title it “LOL.”
I did try that after reading your comment. I have a character on a dead server to experiment on. I ranged pretty far back, farther than I thought would actually work, but I got credit… and pulled aggro anyway.
Fortunately with it being said dead server, I could simply run away instead of being chain-stunned. On my more populated servers I had a lot more trouble even when I moved away from the crowd.
Photography quests like these have generally had a pretty short range. If this one is supposed to work better at long range I wish they’d make it clear. As it is, it’s kind of miserable to do.
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I’ve never been stunned or pulled aggro. I honestly didn’t know it was possible.
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Sometimes painfully true, which is why Blizz has to constantly make a ‘No mount/no toy’ zone around event NPC’s and items. I never understand why they always release content without it for a few days then finally put one in.
Also that quest with the Elekk was poorly planned.
My first time doing the quest was a bit confusing because I kept getting targeted and knocked out of camera mode, so wasn’t sure if I was doing something wrong, was standing in a bad spot or was just unlucky.
I haven’t had any problems since then though.
Sounds as if it was bugged those first days, which wouldn’t surprise me. It spawned up the hill off the side of the path, so I landed down the hill far away from it, snapped the pic and left.
I’m lucky. Between being a real photographer and growing up surrounded by bears and cougars, getting the shot without getting eaten or mauled is just second nature. 
Of course it’s impossible to do that quest without constantly asking why they’re using a flash on wildlife. 