April Fools Day jokes\tricks!

[HeretoDLstuff]

I have no jokes to start with but, pleas tell all youre April Fools Day jokes\tricks here.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

I'm sure the forum staff would LOVE to talk about the two marvelous Aprilf fools they just pulled off.

They did it better than blizzard anyway.

 

[Rao Dao Zao]

Cling-film over the toilet.

Classic.

 

[brad.dude03]

No, the best April Fools joke ever was Blizzard's Evil 1.11 Patch Notes last year. My favourite part: Night Elves will lose 1 xp every time they jump." rofl.
Here are some of the funnier bits:

Flightpath Scenery Improvements!
Tired of seeing the same old flightpaths? We've completely reworked each flightpath in the game so that the angle and view are shifted just enough to give all of Azeroth's traveling inhabitants the feeling that they are headed to an all new destination. That's not all, each flightpath has been fleshed out to ensure that the player sees every single detail of the passing terrain, which means that for the same reasonable traveling cost, you'll purchase a ride that's twice the length, and in some cases three and even four times as long!

Number keys can no longer activate character abilities. In many cases, this gave certain players a slight advantage over those that used their mouse to activate their abilities.
Black Tabby now called Little Cat.
Jumping while mounted will now automatically dismount you.
Night Elves will now lose a small percentage of experience after jumping.
The non-combat pet 'Murky' will now be required from every player wishing to enter Onyxia's Lair as we wanted this raid encounter to feel very special.

Various emotes have been disabled for Mac users, including /dance, /smile and /thank.

· Each player will only be allowed to pick up one flag per game in Warsong Gulch. While this decision is slightly restrictive, we do feel the value of teamwork it will teach by allowing each player more opportunity to shine outweighs any negative side-effect.
· 'Friend of Deserter Debuff' will now apply to those chatting with players under the effect of the Deserter Debuff. This has the same effect as the standard Deserter Debuff, except other players do not risk penalty when engaging in a conversation with you.
· New Level 1 only Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin bracket available!
· If a match-up begins and drops everyone due to lack a lack of players, Horde automatically wins.

Druid
· Run speed reduced by approximately 20% when in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form. It should now feel more "bear-like" for players when changing into these forms.
· Innervate now only works on caster.
· Gnomes can now select Druids as an available class! New Cub and Kitty forms available!
· Shapeshifting will now only be possible outside of dungeons.

Hunters
· A simple check mechanic has been implemented which will prevent Hunters from rolling on items that are more optimal for another class in the party, when using the group loot system.
· Hunters can now be affected by their own traps. This should add a sense of danger, and increase the Hunter's need to strategize his decisions.
· Pets have a small chance to attack the Hunter when hungry. The chance increases with each passing moment that the pet isn't fed.

Paladin
· Paladins will now receive a 2% increase to DPS for every cloth item worn. In addition, chance to crit will increase by 5% if a dress is worn. This is to encourage a wider variety of itemization for the Paladin.
· Paladin can no longer target self with Lay on Hands as the spell was intended to help others.
· New Form: Bear Form and Dire Bear Form! This new ability should help the Paladin tank in five, ten and twenty player-capped dungeons.

Rogue
· Moving while stealthed has a very small chance to break stealth. This was to reduce the frequency at which players were being ambushed or backstabbed in player vs. player environments.
· Discovering a stealthed rogue will now produce a large alert symbol above the rogue's head similar to the Hunter's Mark. The alert can only be dispelled by using the Vanish ability.
· Vanish has been increased to a 30 minute cooldown.
· Fixed bug which allowed Rogues to wield two weapons at the same time.

Shaman
· Physical damage will no longer destroy totems.
· While in Ghostwolf form, the Shaman is now considered to be only partly connected with the real world, as a result dodge and armor have been improved by 35%. To ensure that the Shaman would want to take advantage of these improvements, all spells and abilities will be useable while in this form.
· Troll Shaman will gain the full benefits of Berserk despite their percentage of health.
· Reincarnation will now only have a cooldown of 30 minutes, untalented. Reagent cost doubled.
· Shock spells no longer share the same cooldown.

Warlocks
· Standard bags will no longer hold soul shards. This should make obtaining larger size soul shard bags feel more rewarding. To compensate for the change at lower levels, we've added new soul shard bags to various vendors throughout Azeroth. These bags are designed to hold between 4 and 12 soul shards, depending upon the size.
· Using friendly emotes will now significantly increase the Infernal and Doomguard's chance to remain loyal to the Warlock.
· Friendly emotes are no longer available to the Warlock.

Warriors
· There will now be a 15 second cooldown when changing stances to prevent players from breaking Fear effects too often.
· Dwarf Females now generate rage at a rate three times greater than normal.
· Intimidating Shout now has a chance to intimidate its user.

Items
· The drop rate for class specific equipment will now be reduced by a small percentage for every member of a given class beyond one that is present in a party or raid. This should encourage players to seek a more varied group of classes.
· Several new items can be found at various vendors which do double and triple damage to players of a specific class or race. We'll add more each patch, but right now Gnome Stomper, Ancient Warlock Destroyer and the Roguebane are immediately available.
· Herod's Shoulder will now result in a decrease to main hand damage by 45% to compensate for the unbalanced weight.

· Scholomance is now spelled "Sko-lo-mance" to alleviate confusion about its pronunciation. In addition, a sound file has been added outside the instance portal which will phonetically sound out the name upon zoning.

· New wing added to Scarlet Monastery called the Graveyard! Check it out!
· New RageFire Chasm quests added for Alliance players as currently only Horde had quests there.

User Interface
· The global cooldown timer has been added to all spells and abilities.
· The Raid UI now allows a maximum of 3 rogues or hunters per raid.
· Target and player health updates will be limited to once every 5 seconds to save on packet traffic.
· To minimize potential abuse, you can no longer see opposing faction player names.
· The use of 'if', 'for' and other flow control statements has been deemed exploitable, and have been removed from the Lua script implementation.

World Environment
· Due to the awkward look and feel of Taurens in the Undercity, guards will no longer permit their entry and have been flagged to kill on sight. Taurens, you've been warned.
· Entering the Barrens will now flag your character for PvP, regardless of your faction or realm type. This is being done to make the zone feel more alive.
· Above the corpse of Mankirk's wife, a large red arrow will now appear and be viewable for up to 500 yards. To ensure that the associated quest offers some challenge, typing the word 'Mankirk' 'wife' or 'anyone seen' in Barrens chat will now result in experience loss.
· In order to assist with various upkeep costs, at a designated time NPC vendors will now give players an amount of gold based upon their level. This is currently slated to occur every Tuesday from 6:00 AM to 11:00 AM PST.
· Many new Sons' of Arugal have been added to Silverpine Forrest. Occasionally Arugal himself wanders the zone. During this time, players may not enter his keep.
· Due to the changes associated with the new flightpath scenery improvements, players will need to relearn all flightpaths.
· A total of 26 new flightpaths have been added to various points throughout the Barrens.
· Additional grass areas have been added to the enemy faction's zones. This grass is exceptionally green.

So funny. Blizzard, you are geniuses.

 

[Tonks]

Blizzard is wonderful with their April Fools Day jokes, in my opinion. They do one every year, and they always have something to do with something epic, something that's been predicted and begged for by the gaming community for ages.

(Can you say "foreshadowing?")

 

[Xarwin]

But in a way, blizzard is lame.

They also did some april jokes on Warcraft 3, but now 'WoW' is here they quited with it.
What a shame!

 

[HeretoDLstuff]

Lol...Now theres a joke for "warcraft 4"... http://www.battle.net/ and http://www.blizzard.com/whoa/ ...

 

[Tonks]

Damnit.. Wish I could delete people's posts.

 

[Sansui]

Not to be an ass but the staff at hive didnt do very well. It was far too obvious from the start... owell maybe a better one next year good luck guys.

all though the forum one was funny.

 

[Tonks]

Not to be an ass but the staff at hive didnt do very well. It was far too obvious from the start... owell maybe a better one next year good luck guys.

all though the forum one was funny.

In my opinion the Phoenix Contest Results one was hilarious.

It's meant to be obvious. Otherwise you can't call them fools.

 

[Sansui]

But it wasn't funny it was rude and patronizing, not to mention tasteless.
but thats just my opinion.

 

[Deleted member 126647]

I didn't help plan it, I just played along.

 

[camel's_hump]

I didn't even know what was going on until I signed on to msn and Chriz. forced me to be a dick Blame him.

 

[WILL THE ALMIGHTY]

Wc3c did it better.

try going there now

mostly since everyone will be fooled before they can even think about whats happening.

 

[Tonks]

If you're going to tell someone to grow up, it's never a good idea to start throwing insults at them. You look childish, for a start, as well as arrogant.

For your information, when you want to complain about someone, to someone, then do it through PM's. Several mod's have been rude and childish towards me, but do you see me taking a thread off-topic to complain to them? No, I took it to PM's (which honestly resulted in nothing but me being cussed at).

I will be forced to contact Ralle on your behavior

So you're going to bother Ralle because you dislike someone's behavior? That's pretty inconsiderate. Ralle is busy with the forums, and a life. He's trying to keep the forums funded, while also trying to improve them, and trying to answer error reports about new features.

Don't go crying to someone else with your problems; sort them out yourself.

 

[Wolverabid]

Whoa Nelly.

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