"All those poor goblins and gnomes stuck on the speedbarge in the middle of Thousand Needles," laments submitter Arugadh of The Brotherhood of Iron on Wyrmrest Accord (US-H). "It used to be a big, empty salt flat in the middle of a big, empty desert, and now it's a huge, boring barge in the middle of a big, empty lake in the middle of nowhere. Of course they all drink themselves blind and bubbly." But Arugadh, weren't you getting wasted there just last Friday? "Yeah, I spend a lot of time in that bar myself. I'm a dwarf. What do you expect?"
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"Gimmlette from Spectacular Death (A-Llane) was preparing for the guild's next raid," writes Gimmlette herself. "Part of that preparation is to make sure one's weapons are ready to go. So she stopped in to see Marda Weller in Stormwind. 'See these talons on my feet?' Gimlette said. 'They aren't sharp enough. Don't mind that they're currently digging into your floor.' Marda wasn't impressed by the talons or the dragon standing in front of her. 'You'll have to go to a jewelcrafter,' she replied. 'I think you need a grinder to sharpen those. Oh, and I'll be sending your guild a bill for replacing my floor planks.'"
This is the Azerothian equivalent of shooting a buffalo in the original The Oregon Trail. You get a thousand pounds of meat, but you're only able to carry two hundred back to your wagon. Submitter Matteø of The Blades Revolution on Darkmoon Faire (EU-A) was doing some fishing on a tiny raft when he landed this enormous octopus. Thank goodness there's no collision detection in this game, or else the size differential between his raft and his catch would send that flimsy vessel to the bottom of the sea.
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Submitter Wauzledop of Doomhammer (US-A) has figured out how to get away with murder. Just kill someone that no one would ever care about! For example, an ugly bald fisherman with giant freak hands. And instead of hitting him with your spells, which would surely be traced back to you, just shove him into the water. Sure, there's no real reason for Wauzledop to drown this random human, but pointless evil is what being a shadow priest is all about. That's why they get the skulls on their armor sets.
Submitter Robbn of Power of Self on Thunderhorn (US-A) decided to bring her new Qiraji Guardling to visit the hills above Ironforge. What a wonderful idea! After all, it's not like the Qiraji are a rapidly breeding insectoid race that brings destruction and pestilence wherever they go. I cannot possibly foresee any adverse events involving a giant egg-filled nest being discovered beneath Dun Morogh occurring in a future patch.
Did anyone else play the game Dark Cloud? It was a straightforward dungeon crawler with a weird little twist where you had to collect all the buildings, trees and people for various villages and place them where the residents wanted them to go. I wonder what would happen if a designer was really lazy and just put a bunch of identical trees everywhere? Why am I asking? No reason. (Submitter Taedran of Guilty as Charged on Silvermoon [US-A] is responsible for this high-res overview of the Black Morass instance.)
"Up in the Kun-Lai Mountains, an old pandaren sits glowering at a hapless grummel over an innocent game of mahjong," writes frequent submitter Arugadh of The Brotherhood of Iron on Wyrmrest Accord (US-ALLIANCE ALLIANCE ALLIANCE, as she so loudly reminded me.) "But evidently things are about to take a turn for the worse. Run, little grummel, RUN!" Someone's about to have some mahjong tiles shoved down their throat ...
"Angler's Wharf disappeared right out from under me during my daily hunt for the mimic octopus," writes submitter Thecolonel of Calamitous Intent on Malorne (US-H). "It even stayed gone after I logged out and came back in. Good mimicry, mimic octopus. Good mimicry indeed." You know, I feel like Blizzard could really have had a lot of fun quests with the mimic octopus and they wasted that opportunity. You could go run around your capital city and try to figure out which NPC is really the octopus in disguise!
Hi, I'm a Hyldnir! I know it must be startling for you to see me here in Dalaran, far away from my home in the Storm Peaks. But I've been hired by Bethesda Entertainment to deliver messages to a few select gamers. Hasn't it been a while since you've played Skyrim? There's a few expansions out now, and I bet you haven't finished all the Daedric quests. All you have to do is log out and click on the Steam logo. Here, I'll even open it up for you. Wait! Stop! Don't kill me! Accept that advertisements are everywhere these days! Nooooo! (Thanks to submitter Eralis of Hardcore Mortals on Dalaran [US-A] for the screenshot.)
Unless she was particularly lucky, this pandaren probably spent hours and hours camping various spawn sites to get her Unborn Val'kyr pet. But it was all worth it when she finally caught her little horned angel. Now when she kills innocent level one critters, the Unborn Val'kyr rips them from their eternal rest and brings them back to life, so she can torture them over and over again! Yay! Aren't battle pets just so adorable?
Ow! Guys! Stop hitting me and setting me on fire! All I said was that blue ruffled shirts and long hair are unattractive on burly man-ghosts. How are you even doing any damage to me? You're translucent. According to everything I've read, your fists should go right through me, leaving me with only a pleasantly cool tingling sensation. Were all my studies in rogue school for nothing? (Thanks to submitter Ezekington of The Gnomeland Security on Doomhammer [US-A] for the screenshot!)
"My shaman took advantage of the time spent on a taxi flight to clear some vendor trash out of her bags," writes submitter Klarisse of Tauren Brute Squad on Argent Dawn (US-H). "Among the items was a scented candle she'd picked up while working on old quests in Hellfire Peninsula. She must've tossed it out over Elwynn Forest, where this fellow found it. It was a rather awkward surprise when he showed up and declared is love for her just as she and nine friends were about to go after Megaera."
"Out in the middle of what used to be Thousand Needles, in what is now a huge deep lake, floats a joint goblin-gnome barge," writes submitter Arugadh of The Brotherhood of Iron on Wyrmrest Accord (US-H). "It's complete with a seedy maritime bar and its own brute squad to stop the inevitable bar brawls. Of course, I kind of helped those bar brawls along with a few judiciously thrown bottles, but I never said I was perfect!"
It takes a lot of work to maintain a beautiful transmogrification set. That's why Krazymonk of Apotheosis of Gnomeregan (US-A) employs another monk to constantly meditate in the background of her screenshots. It keeps the turquoise glow effects on her armor nice and shiny. The monk does cost about a thousand gold a day, but really, what price can you put on looking good?
Hoping to better empathize with her new Horde brethren, submitter Klarisse of Tauren Brute Squad on Argent Dawn (US-H) purchased a Whole-Body Shrinka' to bring herself down to the level of a goblin. But Klarisse, so used to underwhelming vanity item effects, was surprised to find that the Shrinka' actually made her much smaller than she intended. She hearthed back to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to try to find a healer, but ended up being squashed by Jorunga Stonehoof. So basically, never try to see anything from another person's perspective, or you will end up as a smear below the hoof of a giant bull. Truly a lesson for the ages.
An all-rogue guild seems like something of a disaster waiting to happen, but Vile Thorn of Defias Brotherhood (US-H) makes it work ... with an admittedly high collateral damage toll. Submitter Arli sent in this screenshot demonstrating Vile Thorn's traditional method of showing guild pride. The guy who's currently dead with a guild banner sticking out of his back might not consider rogues so playful and mischievous, but who cares what he thinks?
"I'd just sent sent the new ancient to my girlfriend, Samhhainne, so it could play with my sapling," writes submitter Macrobunker of BitTaurent on Illidan (US-H). "They didn't get along at first, but when the new 'Old Man' finally decided to show affection in his own special way, I think my tree friend was more than a little surprised." Indeed, sudden floral explosions are terrifying, at least to people who are allergic to pollen ... or bees.
"On March 14, I and four other guildies (Sycofant, Maridian, Pierogimon and Beaufort) decided to try for Challenge Modes once a week," writes submitter Sympson of Perfect Insanity on Nazgrel (US-H). "Today we finally completed all of the Challenge Modes on silver and got our Pandaren Phoenix mounts! We were all very excited to have finally accomplished our goal Our guild isn't very hardcore and we're only scheduled to begin Throne of Thunder this week after having cleared Terrace of Endless Spring last week, but that doesn't mean we're bad players! We're just pretty casual about it, which is part of why we're so happy to have finished the silver medals." 
What do you do when you're all ready for PvP but your opponents never show up? Just hang around, make campfires in the rain and construct spotlights, I suppose. "Here are five of us anxiously awaiting our mortal foes from the Alliance in Tol Barad," writes submitter Healfdene of alea iacta est salus on Earthen Ring (US-H). "We feel like a bride left at the altar on the day of her wedding. We came to fight, but instead we wait. Perhaps someday, the Alliance shall return to fight."
Goblins might be a race of ugly little green people with giant hands and horrifying taste in decor, but you've got to admire their self-confidence. These beach-partying gobbos aren't ashamed to strut their stuff and dance around in their bathing suits. Admittedly, whatever sort of liquor is in those bottles on the right might be helping them lose their inhibitions. Sober people don't usually stay at the beach during a rainstorm. (Thanks to submitter Arugadh of The Brotherhood of Iron on Wyrmrest Accord [US-A] for the screenshot!)