Fun was detected!
What if Fun was a raid boss in WoW and we actually had to kill Fun? I don’t typically crosspost between the Official Forums and here but I’m rather proud of this post. https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20759507655#1
As you know, Fun is a dangerous thing in World of Warcraft, and Blizzard needs to make sure to kill Fun as much as possible. Think of all the Fun things that were nerfed in the past... transmogging heirlooms and sending them to your alts, Ai-Li's Skymirror, the Toy Train Set, Bronze-Tinted Sunglasses... just to name a few.
I have it on good authority that a raid boss in Battle for Azeroth will be Fun itself. During the first raid tier, Blizzard is going to make us kill Fun once and for all.
In order to access Fun, each member of the raid will have to pull out a toy simultaneously. Suddenly, Fun will be detected! It will emerge from beyond the fog and silence/disable all of the active toys while shouting, "YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD HAVE ME? I WILL NOT BE CONTROLLED!"
Fun is very dangerous, however, and we will have to put it down. Since the anniversary event will not be up during this raid tier, the entire raid will be disoriented every 30 seconds because we cannot wear our Bronze-Tinted sunglasses to block out the brightness Fun exudes. Then Fun will transmogrify all of your equipment to look as mismatched and out of place as it did in Vanilla! But - what's this - its item levels have been reduced? Fun hasn't just transmogged your gear, but changed it entirely! Good luck hitting a level 122 boss in that level 60 gear. At least it has nature resist though, right?
Simply survive Fun to this point and you unlock Phase Two: the toy train! Fun un-mogs your gear and allows you to hit it again, but now you're subjected to the endless cacophany of your entire raid CHOO CHOOing until you can wear Fun down to 50% as you roll around Fun in circles like you're literally on the tracks. Hope you don't get motion sickness.
In Phase 3, random toys begin to spawn, but don't click on them! They're also Fun, and you simply can't have that! Fun randomly transforms players in the raid into Gamon for 1 minute, and that player is required to tank Fun until the next player is randomly selected. The player will, of course, shout, "I, GAMON, WILL SAVE US!" which will be hilarious in its irony if the player is a clothie healer who has absolutely no ability to tank a raid boss, but RNG is Fun, after all, and Fun will be Had by All!
If you manage to kill Fun, he screams in agony, "FUN.... NOT.... ALLOWED..." and he drops absolutely no loot. But -- your screen will change from colorful to a sepia tone for the next three days, because Fun has been defeated. The game will also open a dialogue box for you to post your most recent complaints to General Discussion, because everyone knows, the best way to have Fun is to complain about it on the official forums. Defeating Fun will allow you to advance to the rest of the raid, with a "No Fun" buff (or debuff, if you will) that decreases drop rates, gold acquisition, and frame rate. Random opposing faction Rogues will pop up out of nowhere and oneshot players during trash packs, because what is WoW without the Fun of getting ganked?
But Fun has been defeated, finally, and now the true vision can be realized: No fun, only endless RNG and grinding allowed.