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The Birth of a Legend - LEEROY JENKINS & 12 Years of Yolo - World of Warcraft - MMORPG.com
World of Warcraft News - It's hard to believe that twelve years have passed since the birth of the World of Warcraft legend that is LEEROY JENKINS! The yolo moment that wiped a raid has been in circulation nearly as long and, in remembrance of the moment, we bring you the full audio and video masterpiece from one historic moment in WoW.
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But I don't think WoW was ever good. It's always been a stupid cartoon.
The rookery wasn't that difficult. They just intentionally made every possible mistake in the video for the sake of comedy. Intimidating shout scattered the whelps which spawned more, they purposely ran over every possible egg to spawn more, casting divine intervention at the beginning for no reason when it was only intended for use immediately before a wipe, because that spell killed the paladin who cast it and froze the person who it was cast on.
The developers of those legendary suck games misinterpreted the RPG acronym as Repeat-Pay Grind. And the rest is history. Everkill 2 is better than World of Warcrap, but it's still a piece of warmed-over garbage.
Dude, we get it. You don't like WoW...or apparently even MMOs. You've posted what? 4 times in this thread? I think we've got your point....though you ARE helping put WoW in the trending games and providing a number of hits. So here's a backwards THANKS from the staff! ^_^
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It is all so cut and dry now. In and out like a Chinese hooker.
No offense to the Chinese.
Or hookers.
Originally posted by Arskaaa
"when players learned tacticks in dungeon/raids, its bread".
MMOs really don't foster community anymore, they are designed from the ground up to be single player RPGs these days, so events like this are fall less likely to happen.
reminds of times we really didn't know how to fight properly in dungeons and would die for pulling too many mobs.
Basically clicking away text windows ruins every MMO, try to have fun instead of rushing things. Without story and lore all there is left is a bunch of mechanics.
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Despite this video being staged, the truth was this was pretty much exactly what kept happening in there no matter how much we tried to explain people the tacs outside the room.
I however loved silly people back then, before Leroys became the norm, something we all have to endure in all instances these days, because everything is now an encouraged rushfest regardless of difficulty lvl in all things.
And there is not much sillyness in the people doing it now, its not so cute now, cause todays Leroys gets you kicked if you dont keep up with the chaos during fast and disorganized pulls.
Anyway, Vanillas versions of Leroys is just one of those things that is part of the past now, fun to remember, but now colored by the cold current reality.
Its sad it has to be that way, I am sad (in moderation, its just a game after all) that every time I remember something nice from the past in WoW, its followed up by sadness. So I have stopped caring for flash backs and dont share the stories from back then anymore either.
As a small positive note though, which Im sure will be destroyed asap as anybody at Blizzard takes notice that anybody is actually expressing some fondness of an element in their current game, is that the Leroy moments are often still experienced in random bgs.
I love how we stand there at the starting gates and some guys eagerly hand out tacs to people, that is followed up by the gates opening and everybody in the raid rushing off in all directions.
This is still fun to me, I enjoy these moments greatly, even though Im well aware it is probably only a matter of time before Blizz change things again again again and ruins it all.
But the real Leroy moments ergo still exist in bgs and that is the only reason I log in still.
At least I have chicken.
It's why I usually just let his opinionated off the wall verbal diarrhea ride with at most, a LOL now and then. Every little hit helps
And yeah, the Leroy bit never gets old.
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There's been a lot of ridiculous claims of "advertising" and "sponsored content" on these forums recently, but this one takes the cake.
That idiot Hunter that would tab-target the wrong group of mobs and "Rain of Arrows"? That wuz me.