Introducing Crabby:

The Dungeon Helper

Nothing But the Best

Few things are more fun than plumbing the depths of Azeroth’s dungeons with your friends, defeating scores of terrifying monsters, and emerging with your bags stuffed to the brim with epic loot pried from your enemies' cold, dead hands. However, every adventurer knows that the more fantastic the treasure, the more powerful its guardians — and some of the challenges posed by World of Warcraft’s Heroic dungeons can be quite daunting.

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a helpful friend at your side, ready to provide you with tips and hints when you’re stuck? A friend who’s there to provide encouragement, who will help you pick yourself up off the floor after the fifteenth wipe of the night? Someone who will stick with you — no matter what?

Everyone can use a friend like that… a friend like Crabby!

Someone to Watch Over Me

You’re a hero. An adventurer. A sword-swinger or spell-slinger for hire. Whatever your character’s motivation may be, if trouble doesn’t find you, it’s because you found trouble first. But what do you do when Asaad throws down a grounding field? How do you respond when the Faceless Corruptors enter Erudax’s room? Eventually, you’ll be thrown a curve ball that you can’t catch. When that happens, you’ll be glad to have Crabby at your side!

Crabby uses a complex and extensive set of context-sensitive situational heuristics to analyze your current status in real-time; that’s tech talk for "Crabby always knows what’s up." He watches your every move with his all-seeing eyes. Nothing escapes his unwavering gaze; not even the slightest nuance of your play style goes unnoticed. Before long, Crabby will know what you’re going to do before you even do it. And he will use this knowledge to help.

Crabby is able to tell you exactly what’s going on and what you should do. His many useful tips will appear in the bottom right corner of your screen, where he hangs out, ever patiently, waiting for you to need his help. Of course, whether you follow his advice or not is entirely up to you; Crabby may possess an advanced level of artificial intelligence, but we’re reasonably sure he doesn’t have any feelings you could hurt. Reasonably sure. But just in case, the ability to remove Crabby has been disabled for now.

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Few things are more fun than plumbing the depths of Azeroth’s dungeons with a trusty, unwavering friend at your side. Together with Crabby, your new companion on all your journeys going forward, you can rest assured that no challenge will be beyond your reach.

Crabby Can Help You…
Improve your Gear!

Crabby can do a quick audit of your gear and tell you where and how you can improve your equipment.

Organize Groups!

Crabby is everywhere. At all times. He is omnipresent and omniscient. This lets him find the perfect players for you to group with!

Run Raids!

Crabby knows every last detail about every boss and every encounter in the game. Follow his advice and become the perfect raid leader!

Solve All Your Problems!

Crabby is a great listener, and a good friend. You can trust him with all your problems, and he will be able to give you excellent advice (as long as your problems are World of Warcraft-related).

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Bloodandeath
Drak'thul
Bloodandeath
4/1/2011
it would be cool if you could tame him lol
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Garodus
Azuremyst
Garodus
4/1/2011
Does he count towards the "Can I Keep Him?" pet Achievement?

/sigh.... Good one Blizzard!
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Demonplague
Rexxar
Demonplague
4/1/2011
Even though this is an April fools joke, I'd still love to be able to pick this guy up as a companion pet and have him following me around saying all sorts of silly stuff.
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Nefritit
Alexstrasza
Nefritit
4/1/2011
awesome april fool's joke. LMAO at pally's action bar being rearranged to fishing, campfire, food, etc. the AH scene is great too.
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Keltara
Shadowsong
Keltara
4/1/2011
If it seems too good to be true.. and its April fools... well do the math =P
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Dagni
Executus
Dagni
4/1/2011
Is there any way to make Crabby compatible with MS Office 2000?
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Veralie
Sargeras
Veralie
4/1/2011
"i took the liberty to rearrange your action bar" love it! And the side job to "make a little extra cash" lol'd my ass off
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Bloodandeath
Drak'thul
Bloodandeath
4/1/2011
LOL!! no i dont think so
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Ulmatis
Thunderlord
Ulmatis
4/1/2011
Someone please make this into an addon, lol
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Brexann
Ghostlands
Brexann
4/1/2011
Thank God this is a joke.. lol
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Randdoom
Aerie Peak
Randdoom
4/1/2011
<(-),,(-)> Well played Blizz.... well played.
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Dreuphoria
Darkspear
Dreuphoria
4/1/2011
Can I tame him?
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Dooddad
Bloodhoof
Dooddad
4/1/2011
Kudo's on an excellent April Fool's day article. I think this one may be the best yet. Now we need some of you wonderful add-on guru's to make this a reality!
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Bloodandeath
Drak'thul
Bloodandeath
4/1/2011
So when is this comming out?
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Krelian
Twisting Nether
Krelian
4/1/2011
it looks like you're trying to raid
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Crystalsky
Kael'thas
Crystalsky
4/1/2011
OMG its the WOW version of the annoying Word paper clip! LOL BLIZZ LOL!!
he is cuter than the paper clip i think though :O
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Epicshizz
Antonidas
Epicshizz
4/1/2011
guys this may be an april fools joke :P
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Kielbasanova
Stormreaver
Kielbasanova
4/1/2011
best thing since tinfoil hats...nice !
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Drakku
Dawnbringer
Drakku
4/1/2011
I was almost like "Wait, is this real?" Then I remembered it is April Fools Day.....
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Rathenn
Kargath
Rathenn
4/1/2011
As someone who worked on the original team designing Office Assistants (yay old Office Free Stuff website!), this may even beat Earl the Cat as the greatest assistant of all time!
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Babybijou
Gorgonnash
Babybijou
4/1/2011
Awesome! when can I pick him up :)
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Qingcha
Archimonde
Qingcha
4/1/2011
Love it!! I loled @ the new action bar arrangment!
I do think he's a cool pet though =o
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Everard
Silvermoon
Everard
4/1/2011
Why does this thing remind me of GLaDOS from Portal, steering you into dangerous territory by giving you false advice? :P
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Aerhyn
Azjol-Nerub
Aerhyn
4/1/2011
It follows you...Crabby: We are not friends. Especially after the stupid Friday song.
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Jedrail
Dentarg
Jedrail
4/1/2011
where is mine?
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Kalewind
Velen
Kalewind
4/1/2011
As evidenced by this April Fools joke, the overall intolerance for players who are just learning seems to be spreading into the echelons of Blizzard's production staff. This is not only very unfortunately, but disturbing as well. As long as your marketing department offers 10-day trials to encourage new players to join, you will continue to have noobies trying to learn the game. In fact with every expansion, you create millions more noobs that do not have the time or lack of responsibility to spend countless hours in PTR trying to be the smart assed "know-it-all" inevitably seen during the first few weeks after XPACs. Remember Blizz, gamers tired of being harassed will soon become lost customers...
PS since I'm one of the few that has the Cahunas to post with their main (or all of you really are noobs-see very low average achievement scores), on behalf of hunters everywhere take your crabs and go home!
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Mevessa
Tichondrius
Mevessa
4/1/2011
@Kalewind: Low achievement scores means noob? Is this another April Fool's joke?
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Eviltemplar
Nazjatar
Eviltemplar
4/1/2011
lol "it appears that your healer is asleep as the wheel. would you like me to poke him?" that is just good:P i would pick OH GOD IT BURNS, just because i could.
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Cindrella
Whisperwind
Cindrella
4/1/2011
Ever hear of "To good to be true?".... this sounds like something so wonderful, so helpful.... the joke is on us to believe... Life or Azeroth is not this easy or simple!
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Oingoboingo
Blackhand
Oingoboingo
4/1/2011
Crabby will be totally an awesome asset to have in the next patch when they release the all Murloc dungeon in Vash'r
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Taelan
Arathor
Taelan
4/1/2011
Is this an April Fool's joke?
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Coldmember
Vek'nilash
Coldmember
4/1/2011
good deal noobs like me may need this
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Pestilênce
Kel'Thuzad
Pestilênce
4/1/2011
lol i like the palidans action bars in that pic O.o. Did crabby help you set those up? lol
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Calvìn
Lightninghoof
Calvìn
4/1/2011
I do not care if this is a aprils fool joke. This had better be real, because I need something to make me laugh when the "OH@@*#WE'REDEAD" button comes out.
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Dathadr
Frostmane
Dathadr
4/1/2011
I REALLY want crabby as my new Non-combat pet... Crabby should be the next one released.
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Llanabelle
Silvermoon
Llanabelle
4/1/2011
OH GOD IT BURNS
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Outonames
Wildhammer
Outonames
4/1/2011
wow this is about as werid a thing as banjo was at first
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Hawkeyerick
Mannoroth
Hawkeyerick
4/1/2011
would be epic to have for players that have not done or played much of the content
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Vaasik
Hellscream
Vaasik
4/1/2011
if only crappy will talk you through the encounters lol as you play them lol
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Floofypants
Moonrunner
Floofypants
4/1/2011
He's my new best friend!