This doesn't compete with some of the epic planar trains or shenanigans detailed above, but I once made a pretty big train in Permafrost, quite accidentally. I was playing my ranger in pre-Kunark, exping with a guild group. We were back in one of the far reaches of the goblin area... I arrowed a gob and it ran the wrong way. I said something like, "that might be trouble..." and a good minute or two later the train finally found its way to us. I knew we were fucked and I just laughed as it came barreling toward us... even had the presence of mind to take a screenshot as I bore the brunt of it. The screenshot is long gone, but it always gave me a laugh when I'd stumble across it... just a wall of angry blue faces and flailing arms.
When that same ranger was a wee noob in Blackburrow, I formed the hypothesis that the "trains" other players were shouting about were an intentionally coded mechanism of organized counter-attack. I didn't yet understand that when a mob fled from you its agro would transfer or it would get healed and come back for another round. My framerate was pretty terrible, so quite often I'd lose track of a fleeing gnoll, give up the chase and attack another...
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11-08-2013, 06:35 PM
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