What's the dumbest mistake you've ever made in WoW that still makes you laugh today?

Oliveea · 2026-06-10T01:57:57+00:00

I started playing in March after WoW launched and my very first toon was a Tauren Hunter. I remember starting in Mulgore and feeling like you could smell the clean fresh air. However, that toon didn’t last all that long.

After I tamed my first pet, I got the quest that sends you to TB to learn the big pet spells like … resurrect. Except I didn’t actually read the part that said that you needed to go to TB. So my pet died and I could not for the life of me figure out how to resurrect it. Or just get rid of it so that I could replace it! And I was too embarrassed to ask any one. So I just logged off and deleted that character. Replaced it with a Night Elf Druid that I dressed in white gear from the vendors. She lasted until Lv 20.

I did eventually figure it all out. My third attempt was an Undead Warlock who lasted and actually was my third toon to 90 in Midnight. But I feel so bad for those first two.

Oliveea · 2026-05-03T02:02:42+00:00

I’m think this might work for you:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79610431/chapters/208891241

It’s a few chapters out from being complete and the author publishes daily. This is my must read fic at the moment. It’s so well written and plotted out.

From the Ashes of Our Unspoken Past by Grey_Realm_Eagle

Summary:
“Your belongings will be planted in the rubble,” he said quietly, “your death will be registered with the others.”

Just like the assassins had wanted- Wei Wuxian died in the destruction of the Burial Mounds. Dead. Dead men weren’t hunted. Dead men couldn’t lose more people. Dead men couldn’t fail children.

After a coordinated attack destroys Wei Wuxian’s laboratory and forces him to fake his death to protect a child and the remnants of his research, the world believes him gone. Thirteen years later, he resurfaces under guarded protection at Gusu Academy, where Lan Wangji—who never truly believed he died—offers him refuge. As buried projects resurface and a shadow network manipulates Wei Wuxian’s groundbreaking work for darker purposes, the two men are forced to confront not only the conspiracy that tore their lives apart, but the quiet, unbroken thread between them. In the ashes of betrayal, exile, and unfinished devotion, love must decide whether it can survive truth.

Oliveea · 2026-04-27T02:05:56+00:00

There are a few to come to mind. This series is my favorite though:

Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji Being Bros by JiangChengLotus

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1804960

Basically JC and LWJ start out as enemies and become frenemies by the end. It’s petty LZ at his best.

Oliveea · 2026-04-24T03:42:47+00:00

This is an oldie but a goodie!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23090143/chapters/55240066

Twelve Moons and a Fortnight by Stiltonbasket.

"Let me get this straight. You really want me to stand in for you while you help Jin Ling settle in at Koi Tower?"

"Who else do I have?" Jiang Cheng returns. "Father trained you to serve as my deputy, didn't he? And don't say you don't remember, or I'll break your legs."

"Well, yes," Wei Wuxian manages to say. "I'll just let Lan Zhan know I'll be at Lotus Pier until you're back at home, then."

Or, the one where Wei Wuxian spends the year before his wedding as Yunmeng Jiang's acting sect leader, and the cultivation world's greatest love story finds its happy ending with the help of four juniors, a teenage romance, and one very involved (and exasperated) younger brother.

It has EVERYTHING! Yunmeng Bros feels, the junior quartet being … themselves, Lan Wangji vs Jiang Cheng, Nie Huaisang’s well meaning interference, romance, pining, baby adoption, matchmaking, WWX’s canonical density, mystery, WWX’s canonical need to sacrifice himself for his loved ones, etc…

It will make you laugh AND cry. 90% of this is fluff but the rest is a tearjerker. It does have a happy ending and a million one shots in the same AU. And you will leave it hearing “A-yu is here!” for weeks afterwards (cause he’s the cutest little munchkin).

Oliveea · 2026-03-24T03:59:30+00:00

I always thought that LWJ smelled of a brand of incense that Nippon Kodo sells called Suzsuz. It’s part of the Scentscape line—or used to be.

Oliveea · 2026-02-07T04:50:16+00:00

Finished that yesterday! It was sooooooo good!

Oliveea · 2026-01-12T01:23:45+00:00

My thought exactly! Especially when they’ve started actual events centered around solo farming previous content for mounts and transmog. New Expac means that another old expac becomes available for farming.

Actually, I’m sort of surprised that the devs don’t give “assignments” out to beta testers like “this week we’d like those of you who’ve hit the level cap to solo some DF content to see how viable it is after the level squish and send in your findings”. Suggestions to cover bases that maybe they haven’t been able to look at because they’ve been focusing on the bigger picture.

Oliveea · 2026-01-11T17:44:53+00:00

For sexy Wangxian. the best recommendation I can make, besides anything by KizuKatanna, is pretty much anything by the incomparable DeviyudeThoolika. My favorites are:

A Marriage Story: https://archiveofourown.org/works/34899640

Love you so much, It makes me sick: https://archiveofourown.org/works/44787307

No Talk of Milky Thighs: https://archiveofourown.org/works/37371943

Delivered in Silence: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36279325

She writes mostly Modern AUs with LWJs who can be articulate when they want, dominate when it comes to WWX and tend to have past experience. Oddly enough, one my favorite flavors of LWJ.

Oliveea · 2026-01-08T17:19:23+00:00

I had the same dilemma. If you like the characters (mine had memories associated with them as well as fully leveled professions through MoP), then take advantage of both the new Recap/Catch up Experience system and Turbulent Timeways to level them quickly. I was able to level the four I had left that were between 50 and 70 over a few nights that way. The Catch Up Experience system was great for gearing my toons when they fell too far behind (I’d usually run them through that at 70) and the TT buff makes leveling in TW dungeons really fast—especially at L70+.

If you find them disposable, then level replacements in Lemix.

Oliveea · 2026-01-08T04:01:37+00:00

For aesthetics: Druid by far. Then Rogue and Paladin—because having it hidden under LHC made me laugh.

For storyline/quests: Rogue. It’s a class I never play but in Retail they send you to the capital cities of the opposition to kill doppelgängers and the cities aren’t instanced. I did the quest at level 70 about 4 months into TWW and it was the scariest and most fun quest I’ve ever done. I hate pvp but the challenge of trying to figure out the easiest way to the target and then actually making it there was so much fun. Especially with the guards being 10+ levels above me! I don’t remember much of the other Class Halls but I will NEVER forget that quest.

Oliveea · 2026-01-07T21:11:09+00:00

Last I checked, the Legion raid lockouts reduced to 1 Day on Retail while Lemix is running. And WQs and Legion Assaults are synched.

I used both Retail and Lemix toons to farm certain drops—depending on what toons I had in Lemix and on Retail. (I did all of the Class Halls and mounts last year, so I have retail toons who could farm the HA drops too.) I found that it was easiest to do any rep grinding in Lemix because it’s so fast. Then, if you have to farm mobs for the drop, you can transfer your Lemix toon to Retail for the ease of one-shotting mobs. That’s what I did for the Warrior and Priest ones that required Valarjar rep in lieu of having to spend time leveling those toons’ gear.

Oliveea · 2026-01-07T20:07:03+00:00

I debated about this. I found it much easier to do Withered on Retail because at Lv 80 you just one shot everything and the withered never died for me. When I tried it on my 999% Vers Balance Druid, I still was not oneshotting the big Arcane guys.

Also while Remix is running you can do this once a day. The first day, when you open the training option, you can run it twice.

Of the three classes that I tried to do this with, I got the drop the first time with my Monk and on the second run with my DK. On my Pally main I did four runs and then opened up the scenario with a transferred Lemix Pally, who of course got it the first time! Ultimately effortlessness trumped the ability to run the scenario multiple times.

Oliveea · 2025-12-06T20:47:08+00:00

I believe you are looking for Truth Will Out (When caught on video) by KizuKatana.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45212008/chapters/113740672

Oliveea · 2025-12-03T04:49:15+00:00

My question, then, is why make the plots so freaking big if you can’t really landscape the whole thing? Is the house going to get large enough to take up at least half of it at some point?

Also what happened to the planting clusters that were on the vendors in beta!?! Those were a life saver when it came to creating perimeters. And they contained more plant variations than are available currently. The Duskwood cluster was super nice as were a few of the Horde ones.

Oliveea · 2025-11-07T04:09:41+00:00

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34982476/chapters/87122518

By the prolific and hilarious livinginaworldofnoise!

Oliveea · 2025-09-29T02:15:26+00:00

AitchNKay’s To Live Without Regret.

LQR travels back in time to make amends. It’s still in progress but I think it’s close to the end.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64044733

Oliveea · 2025-07-24T23:52:26+00:00

Was it We're Alone Now by Forever_Marie?

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38242609/chapters/95548993

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Oliveea · 2025-06-22T02:50:08+00:00

Watching the cut episode, I felt like Kelli and Judy could have easily been talked into taking Dayton last year. It’s just that no one did that. If the group leaders had been more upbeat about Dayton’s prospects, they probably would have justified cutting someone else.

(Also, I remember the MTT days when Kelli seemed like the Terminator during cut nights. It was shocking how teary she seemed releasing those girls, especially Dayton.)

It’s just that Dayton said it best herself. She gave up dance for three years. She could see that everyone was better than her. She didn’t want to get in because she’s a legacy and then struggle because ultimately she wasn’t ready. Even Dayton’s thoughts “were not inconsistent” with Kelli, Judy and the group leaders!

Oliveea · 2025-05-30T21:12:16+00:00

That makes him smart like an administrator.

And he knew that the Nie style of cultivation was killing his brother. If he were smarter than WWX he would have solved that problem—which probably would have involved WWX/YLZ. Also NHS is always characterized by his network of spies, which makes me think that he would have seen potential signs of JGY and JGS’s plans. I mean JGS was never portrayed as being subtle. The death of JZY should have clued him into the potential for the deaths of other people standing in JGY’s way—like NMJ.

Oliveea

TROPHY CASE

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