A Guide To Failure... Epic Failure
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Failing in World of Warcraft is a common occurrence. Perhaps you lagged and that mob got a lucky crit in before your heal/potion/Vanish/Feign Death went off. A terrible right mouse button misclick may send you plummeting to your death. Maybe your greedy self finally got burned by a Pickpocket resist. Failing isn't only a normal occurrence, but one that can come in many shapes, sizes and varieties. The most hilarious of which is failing epically.
My personal definition of failing epically has a pair of possible meanings. The first is the inability to do something gimmicky, such as the numerous Super Mario Bros. type of deaths (Frogger (mobs after him), Safety Dance, Chilly Willy, etc). The second is exponentially more painful. Not only does it include yourself dieing, but you take someone with you, by accident. The idea of an accident means sitting on a hunter who popped Feign Death to save on a repair bill does not count as an epic failure. That is just endlessly hilarious and entertaining.
A few examples of epic failure include Thaddius wipes, allowing people to die in Maexxna's web, allowing the tank to beat you in the DPS meter (assuming you are full DPSing), and rolling anything but a female dwarf. I am by no means perfect and have been a part of these shortcomings along with most of the WoW populace, but I personally added a new category to the topic of doing things incorrectly, Lemmings.
During a quick run of The Nexus everything was going quickly and smoothly until I decided to take a shortcut. After dropping Anomalus like a bad habit we headed towards Ormorok's wing. I decided to cut out the middle man and jump from the ledge rather than taking my time walking down the ramps. "Look before you leap" is an intelligent colloquialism, wrong ledge. As I plummeted to my death I hit my push-to-talk button to allow my guildies to hear me laughing at my own stupidity. When Solidsamm went *SPLAT* another maniacal laugh cut across my own, followed by another *SPLAT*. The mage mistook me for someone who knew what I was doing, and followed me to the bottom of The Nexus. I had managed to create Gnome Lemmings!
No one is perfect, but we all love embarrassing stories so that is one of mine. What other ways have you failed epically in WoW? Remember, it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the end.
As for the PL dungeon crew, we want a blooper reel!
Reader Comments (44)
Went up to the Purple Parlor in Dal to have a look at the view. Managed to walk myself right up and over the little fence while trying to get a better look. Splatted on the front steps of the Violet Citadel in the middle of a huge crowd, who lol'd, /cried, and /mooned my corpse
2 examples...1 anyone who read BRK would prolly remember his disengage off of anomalous platform story lol. And tonight while running 10 man naxx with my guild our OT ran up to stallag and while trying to manuever him to the back of the platform accidentally hit auto run and ran off the back of the platform pulling stallag away from the tesla coil and wiping the raid lol
On Kologarm, during some 5th attempt, everything was going smoothly. I was on Add duty, and we cleaned them up.
I tried to run back to the boss, and ran right through him, falling to my death. We laughed So Hard on Vent.
My Quote: "I Didn't Even Know That Could Happen!?"
I was so excited, my shammy just got her rez spell and I was itching to use it. I was in Ratchet and there was a dead toon just laying on the dock with resurrectalbe on his name. So I fire off the spell and get flagged. The two bruisers rush and me and kill me in two seconds flat. My boyfriend almost peed his pants he was laughing so hard.
Mine usually involve the Aldor Platform, and getting down to the lower level. One of my favorite things to do with my Paladin (and one reason I went Aldor with my Paladin) was jump off and Divine Shield on the way down.
What's embarrassing though is not being able to find where you recently moved the Divine Shield action button to make it easier to find before going splat... or forgetting to make sure you didn't have Forbearance... or to make sure that your actually playing your Paladin and not your Shaman. >.<
One of my favorites on Project Lore was when Zand accidentally sent Jimmy in on Skarvald and Dalronn in the Utguard Keep episode. "JIMMY!"
... and when Zand walked off the ledge in Occulus.
One of the best ones is what my wife did. We were in Darkshore on our Alliance toons questing, and there is this escort quest in the Southern part of it. There was a high level Troll player hanging around dancing and so I was skeptical, but we are on a Care Bear server and we both knew how not to get flagged etc.
So, we start the escort quest and the Troll follows us around a bit... great. At one point during the escort quest it spawns an ambush. At that moment, the Troll decides to attack our NPC. I wasn't very surprised, and me and the wife just decided to finish off the ambushers and move on.
Suddenly I notice she is dead... and flagged! I'm like WTF? Did you attack the troll? She's all like no. While she makes the corpse run I'm looking back through the logs to figure out what exactly happened, when I see her res and immediately get killed again by the troll!
So I advise her to wait out the PvP flag in ghost form and while we are waiting I find this little gem in the chat log " makes a rude gesture at ." I had to LOL that she took the time to target him and do an emote then it hit me... "Were you wanding?"... "Yes". She auto-wanded the Troll and got flagged while making a rude gesture at him. :D
I had a great laugh at that one, but she didn't find it so hilarious. Auto-wand FTL!
this is really embarrassing, but when i started i didn't understand all of the classes and what they did. i was playing with my two friends who recruited me and we were questing outside silvermoon. they started charecters with me (two mages) i played a 10 paladin(first char ever) now i thought that mages dealt with magic and that magic meant healing, and they told me that paladins should tank and that meant pulling a bunch of mobs while healers healed you. so i pulled about 10 quest enemies and waited for 2 mages to heal me!
Falling of edges, autorun stuck, taunting wrong target, clicking offensive spell instead of defensive spell, ...
You all know these things. That moment, 1/1000 of a second before you accualy hit the button, you feel something is wrong, and try to correct the direction of your pointer/finger. And then the big moment when you yell "NOOOOOO" or "F*CK".
My total fail moment was in the 4 horsemen. I was tanking Rivendare, when the moment came to switch, I ran into the direction of the other, pressed tab, didn't switch target, pressed tab again and it switched to the other and fast back again, and taunted Korth'azz... so now I had Rivendare and Korth'azz on me...
Didn't whipe... but was to close. Not a total fail, but this happens a lot with me and this time it ended well.
Of course I royally blew it in a raid the night I posted this.
I was standing by Sarth (OS+1D) while we were buffing and such and accidentally unstealthed when I was a little too close to her. We were all ready to go, but a raid member said "run out" in Vent, so a good portion of the raid thought it was an official call and ran out. The rest of us engaged in the fight (myself included, I figured I deserved to go down) but we obviously had no chance.
That is what I get for having my stealth button next to Escape.
So we were about to go kill some rookery whelps and discussing our strategy when this one guy, who was apparently off getting chicken and missed our tactics conversation, just shouts his name and runs in. We all run in and all die.
I forget the guy's name. Lenny Jackson? Leo Jennings?
...at least he had chicken.
I too have disengaged off a platform in Nexus. Silly button, right next to my Bestial Wrath for who knows what reason.
But my favorite fail was in Heroic Culling of Stratholme. We ran for the drake, my hubby won it, let's squash Mal'ganis and gtfo, right? He had other ideas. We got him down to 1%, when he's supposed to leave combat and start preaching. Well, he decided he wasn't going down like that, he glitch-healed to full, and kept whaling on us. Not to be beaten, we rallied and got him down to 1% again, but to no avail. He would not die, and he would not leave combat, he just kept whaling on us. So we tried to leash him. We all took off back through the gauntlet, through the inn, down the streets of Stratholme, trying in vain to get him to reset. He just kept coming.
My favorite part happened when we got outside the gates of Stratholme, where all the people are standing at attention. I stopped and turned around to check on Mal'ganis, just in time to see them all turn purple and start whaling on him too. He caught up to me shortly after and made me a smear on the ground.
Some of the group made it out of the instance, and he stayed right there at the portal, fighting Arthas. Both of them were at 1%, and neither would give up the fight. My hubby had died on the run, he tried to zone in to rez and then zone back out, but he kept getting one-shotted every time he'd zone in. Finally he made it out, and we all shrugged it off as a bad job... after we stopped laughing.
Someone casting water walking on me in AN at the very long jump. >_<
Evever got hte prob when your key gets stuck and you have you try and get back up. my fiend got that when him and his grp was trying to get the saftey dance and runs str8 into the flames and the worst of all he was healer. My over firend was pvp'in an alliance place and he died. The guild ask what happened. He awsered the lv 20 died cuase i raped him. Ever1 just went wtf and then he meant i mean rake. Also 1 time in kara when got to the opera event and faced romeo and julian thing. I kept killing them they kept rezzing we wiped 3 times. Then they tell me the strag. I just wanted the big bad wolf as i seen Pl do it and i knew the strag.
i remember when i was lving back in the day,
i had a few quest to do in the sunken temple and got a few friends to help me out.
all going well, we was wipeing out mobs and bosses like nothing, got to the part of the instance with the big hole in the center, we decided to jump down, well me beoing a mage i slow falled down and so did my friend, but my druid friend decided to jump (splat) lv 70 got pwned in a little instance, we was crying at him untill he said '' maby i could do it in cat form'' waited 5 mins for him to find his way back ''ok guys jumping now'' (SPLAT) i was waiting at the bottem and all i saw was this big cat come flying down and dieing tragicly ''your paying for my repare bill'' i never LOLed so much at a game in my life ''maby try it in chicken form and flap down'' my friend signed out
FML lol
This one is from a while ago. A buddy of mine from my guild and myself had just hit lvl 60 and gotten our epic ground mounts. We were so fascinated by how fast they moved that we went around Hellfire Pennisula aggro'ing everything. Obviously nothing was going to catch us cause we were moving so fast right? Wrong! After we had roughly 20 mobs chasing us, both of us got dismounted from taking damage. Both of us were mages so we're frost nova'ing and blinking whenever possible but there were so many they were still catching up. So here we are in Hell Pen, 2 mages running a marathon race with almost every mob on that side of the fissure chasing us. Finally we ran out of their range, narrowly escaping our deaths with our health in the hundreds. So we both stop to eat by a rock. A worm pops up out of the ground......spits on me and I died. Both of us were crying from laughter. After all we went through to survive, I died by getting spit on.
Well i had a epic fail on my hunter. 10 man group naxx (was supposed to be quick run PUG)
We wiped on the first 2 bosses in spider. I was a bit pissed and thought to safe on repair i will fd.
while FD i was chatting a bit etc.. and when all were back @ boss and ready i suddenly remembered the FD and the boss had reapeard. It has 1 min left, and i shouted. Oow, crap im still FD.
No one listened and it wore out. i pop up and agro the boss. Wipe. and group fell apart.. Oops!.
Before 3.1 when hero took 10 min's to cd i pressed it early in Naxx before a boss xD. too bad because before hand i was making fun of the Warrior in the grp. oh did i laugh!!!!
I have one suggestion for all you engineers out there.
Parachute cloak for the win.
My favorite happened in BRD, while me and my girlfriend fooled by summoning each other at the stone, jumping down and popping back to the stone.. Apparently one of our party members didn't know about the summoning trick and jumped too.. we waited for him about 10 mins while laughing our asses off