One of My Best WoW Moments In a Long Time
Last night I had about an hour to level my new druid and figured the best way to maximize XP was using the dungeon finder. Being that I was level 20, of course the finder chose Deadmines. I queued as a tank for the quick queues and I'm not too terrible at it. So we're going along and right around the goblin foundry the rogue has to leave. The dungeon finder gets us another player who's a 17 warrior. Now he's got all his talent points in the fury tree, but he's got a sword and shield on. He starts taunting the mobs off me and trying to tank through the foundry until we get to the cove. Now is when it gets really fun.
As we are about to board the ship before Smite, I ask him if he wants to tank. He says "I'm not really good at it but I can." I said "Let me tank then and stop taunting and pulling" and told him to take taunt off his bar. He says "OK" but continues to do so. We kill Smite (with him taunting the adds off me) and we move up the ramp to the ship. He face pulls the first couple groups on the ship and we kill them. Healer needs mana so we rest. As we head to the next mob, the warrior charges in and starts attacking. At that point, I just sat my bear down and watched. Fortunately, the other players were competent too, so they just sat down right there with me about 50 yards from the warrior, no healing, no dpsing. We all just sat and watched as his health bar go down. He ended up killing the mob and didn't die, but the point was rather obvious. He didn't taunt again after that.
If only I had FRAPS'd it or thought to have screenshotted it. I was honestly laughing too hard. It's very unusual almost 6 years into this game and that low level of a dungeon to find people that would actually go along with a "sit-in". I'm sure the others in the party had done this instance countless times as I had, but it's these kind of events that make it not so ho-hum. You get zombiefied doing heroic after heroic after heroic, not a lot really can happen to make it new and exciting. It was definitely refreshing to see that there is a human element left in the otherwise monotonous World.