Posted by iTZKooPA on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 - 45 Comments
Tags: blooper, blooper reel, chilly willy, epic failure, failure, failure is an option, frogger, gnome lemmings, looks before you leap, maexxna, safety dance, super mario bros., thaddius, the nexus
It Looks High Due To Gnomish Relativity, It's Actually Only 3 Tauren Lengths
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!
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By metall on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 11:44 am
i managed to wipe on hogger. you know the one in forests end.
and there were three of us, i tanked him right into a bunch of mobs and when we ran for our lives we ran into another group. i decided to stop and fight and the rest followed me. bad decision.
By Kimeghale on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Died by gamon’s hand on my lvl 10 warrior,
By Kalgorn on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Had a full 25 man raid togethar and we had just buffed and summoned everyone. Just the normal start to a raid right? We were going to start on Arachnid Quarter, no biggie right?
We pulled the first AoE pat mob, and began to burn them down. Nothing unusual so far.
Then we wiped. All 25 raiders in our group wiped on the first AoE mob.
I was dieing from laughing so hard. Im not sure why we wiped, apparently there was some mis-communication amongst the healers and who was healing who but, as a hunter, i just threw up volley and watched as our raiders fell one after another.
Don’t worry, this wasn’t a crappy group, we cleared 3 quarters before we had to call it. But that was just a hilarious start.
By kurt on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
my guild was doing naxx yesterday. so we got to maexxna and about 65% of the way through our mt dies and OT couldnt pick him up so 2 dps die. and the druid brezes our Mt as the Ot dies so we do a switch. as tank dies again, Maexxna is at 5% so we basically kite him. hes at 1% and we only hav a mage and a healer up. the mage wins and we downed maexxna, BUT the spiders kill the pally and mage. So we won and noone but wiped and noone could rez. we had to release and run back. i think that is a fail
By Tyzz on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Wow. The return of the lemmings not only happened to you i am afraid. After dropping anomalus, my group headed out. i stopped to dring first, me being the only mana user in the group, and everyone else headed out. I watched them run and jump the edge and one by one i saw their party icons go grey. I went to see what had occured and laughed excessively. then i proceeded to try to see their bodies but hit the right mouse button causing me to join my comrades.
Then there was the announcement for a server restart in 15 min and we rushed to complete the instance. To make up for our lemming-esqe failure, we finished the instance with 1 min to spare.
By coltsfan on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
i remember the first time i went to naxx and we were on thaddius, which is a tough fight if u dont have the dps for it.
So we downed stalagg and feugan and i went for the jump and missed, in fact i missed 5 times in a row.
So on the last time i jumped i got it and went to wrong side and wiped the raid, needless to say i felt stupid but we got back and killed thaddius no problem and i have never missed jump again.
I think i really had an epic fail there
By Shnoo on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Archavon wipes are failure… i mean.. i solo healed him with one mildy (mostly 10 man/heroics) geared tank and no dps higher than 2.5k. We somehow downed him, with 2 sec to go before he enraged… now when i wipe on him i just want to rip my eyes out of my sockets…
(btw my pally is also in mostly 10 man/roic gear)
By Sakkari on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
i actually have a pretty good win story. at lvl 13 with a shaman i accidentaly fell off the shrine of eternal flame. before i hit the ground i was already screaming that i would 1 take durability loss and 2 do a stupid corpse run. however to my great suprise somehow i survived the fall and got the achievement Going Down? achievement at lvl 13!
Sylx
Spirestone
(check it out if u dont believe me)
By Raethos on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
God, my guild wipes all the time because someone (usually the GM) accidentally aggros something, and we aren’t ready. We usually laugh it off and keep going, but one time, when we were getting ready for 25 man flame leviathan (yes, the ulduar vehicle-combat boss) I tried to hit a hotkey to reset Recount. I hit ‘1′ instead and sent not one, but somehow two rockets right into the boss. 45 seconds later, there was no raid. /sad
By Raknor on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Ive jumped off a cliff with my horse out instead of my Drake, by accident. Horsey didnt like.
By Jason on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
I have chopper which can lead to come fails, Like jumping from a cliff thats to high or forgetting that your passanger is to low for the zone and getting them aggro. Most times it not to bad though, as the people I drive around with get a fair warning that driving with a gnome at the wheel can be very dangerous at times.
Also, there the standerd wipe chances with a hunter or rogue (which is me) with a misplaced MD. I’v never done it, but I’m come close to tricks’ing to the healer a few times. Bad days if you do that.
By Rhev (koopa's GM) on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
I remember one time I failed epically….
I invited Koopa to my guild.
Since then for some reason we just have too damn much gnome…. I think they are breeding behind the guild bank personally.
By Rhev (koopa's GM) on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Oh, on a serious note tho…
They recently changed it so you take falling damage while on a chopper, you never used too. Im notorious for taking people off cliffs, then dismounting and popping my parachute cloak as they fall to their death.
Anyways, the other day Im giving someone a ride after PROMISING not to dismount and laugh as they fall to their death. However as we fly off the cliff, we both splat on the ground and die.
I don’t know if that’s epic fail on my part or bliz for the nerf.
*grumbles about how F***ed up engineering is now*
By lawman30 on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
I admit that I am worse than a lemming.
When I first started playing the game, 2 of my friends were running me and my 2 nephews (whom I had convinced to take up the game, as well) through Sunken Temple. We had just finished clearing the room on the main floor with all the dragon kin when one of my friends says in party chat “ok you’re the tank you gotta jump in that hole in the floor first.” I looked in said hole and saw that it was a long way to the bottom and typed back “what for?” “Trust me we all gotta jump but tank’s gotta go first. WE’RE RIGHT BEHIND YOU.” I jumped and went KER SPLAT! on the steps below while the rest of the group said they all nearly wet their pants they were laughing so hard (apparantly my friends had informed my nephews of the trechary and they said nothing!).
Ah well, live and learn, right? =P
By André on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Taunting the boss instead of the add
By Kurotenshi on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
This was a fun one this happened today we Where in H HoS we where at the Tribunal of Ages fight…all was going well until Searing Gaze started up and I guess a few people didnt know that it hurts you…so one by one we started to fall…I surpisngly was the last to survive but I died shortly after…and as we saw the Mobs rushing towards Bronzebeard we all figured it was over….but with 1 HP left we won so with a complete party wipe we managed to hold them off long enough to win
By Juinia on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
We were buffing up and getting ready to run TK, when all of the sudden, our guild leader goes charging into the first set of mobs, and keeps running! Everyone is panicking, half of us ran out, the other half wiped. We were yelling in vent, when all of the sudden we hear her pic up her mic and tell us her three year old grabbing the mouse when she went afk, lol.
By Trial on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
i always fall in nexus -.- ..lol…
gnome lemmings ftw xD
By Moo cow on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
For me you cant beat putting misdirect on a mage on1 trash mob and watch them panic. I run with the same mage so we laugh about it unless his ice block is on cooldown XD
By jimbob on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Jumped off a ledge in nexus and died, hands up! Along with about 2 or 3 guildies!
And female dwarves ftw!!!
By Davo on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
There’s a lot of embarasing stories I have to tell, but the most notable one would be in 25man OS 3 drake. Before the whole story is described you should know i’m an 80 holy pally, assigned to MT healing. So our MT is tanking the boss and everything is going well, when I move something out of my bar. I’m pretty OCD about these things so I grab what I think is missing, which was DI (divine intervention). I’m clicking it back on my bar and bam, doubleclick. DI’d the main tank and the entire raid just goes down in 10 seconds.
Why were we made with “I lose” buttons?
By Dulica on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
farting around mining in ungoro had me running like a moron and screaming as the huge giant elite dinosaur thing got me in one stomp. Damn thing appeared out of NOWHERE (and no warning noises like those damn fel reavers!) and I was so starteled and yelling and trying get my first shot off that I hit the wrong button, and action bars not being locked, moved the spell and got splatted.
I have done my share of falling.. mostly in Shatt trying to get the ‘going down’ achievement….and failing 100%!
By Pyckles on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
To start off I am a FEMALE DWARF HUNTER..my first Fail !!
I think of myself as being well geared and I have some exp. in the main raids of the game. I was with a guild group in 25man NAXX one night. (Semi top ranked) and I manage to embarrass myself.
You know of the pipe that you walk across in the Abomination Wing..well I fell off of it TWICE.
Name of Wing + My Exp. = Auto Laugh and Red Face.
Epic Fail !! (I made is past the slimes without dieing) =]]
By Ambermist on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Some epic fails I remember:
1. My husband and the mage lead on Magtheridon. Everyone’s buffing and eating. My husband had the first channeler targeted waiting for the pull. He accidentally hit POM-Fireball. He died. The raid laughed and rezzed him. While he was getting his new buffs, the mage lead (who also had right clicked the channeler to target) moved a little too close and stabbed it with his dagger. Raid wipe: successful.
2. Lots of people should remember this: Archimonde Tear Failure. You get every excuse in the book on that one. “I misjudged the distance,” “I lagged,” “I forgot to get my tears.”
3. Healer autoran into Kalecgos and pulled while we watched in horror.
Most recently:
4. Vent conversation: “Someone hit the sheep target…someone with moonfire…” (I’m the only raiding moonkin in the guild. lol)
5. Just about 4 minutes ago on vent: “If we’ve got a battle rez up, let’s get the tank…oh crap, I just walked over a bomb while I was talking.” (this from our guild master and long time raid leader).
By Wonocva on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
Hah, I find this hilarious.
Me and a friend of mine who were doing a Heroic Nexus run did the exact same thing you did. He went first and I went with him, right away so I had no time to stop or anything. We both tried to get up though because we had landed in that little broken crack off the side of the platform.
So failure? Yes. But luckily not as much of one because we could remove our gear before having to fall to our death since there was no way back up.
Yay for no durability damage!
By Conchuir on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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
By rayzer on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 12:26 am
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
By Nextgener on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 2:07 am
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!?”
By Halcath on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 5:57 am
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.
By Blight on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 6:16 am
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.
By Blight on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 6:32 am
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.
I had a great laugh at that one, but she didn’t find it so hilarious. Auto-wand FTL!
By Skjota on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 7:04 am
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!
By Quetlan of Bloodhoof on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 7:18 am
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.
By iTZKooPA on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 8:38 am
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.
By PatrickD on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 8:56 am
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.
By Asara on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 10:29 am
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.
By Sean on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Someone casting water walking on me in AN at the very long jump. >_<
By Derxor on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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.
By Ravenwba on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
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
By marsh on Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
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.
By Poliwrath on Friday, May 15th, 2009 at 1:38 am
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!.
By Josh Charles on Monday, May 18th, 2009 at 8:47 am
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!!!!
By Crosis The Pally on Monday, May 18th, 2009 at 9:14 am
I have one suggestion for all you engineers out there.
Parachute cloak for the win.
By Zool on Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 at 4:57 am
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
By Ssgefah Winterhoof on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 am
I remember a time when someone in The Barrens was spamming that the first person to find him gets 50g. Now, I know that no one ever really pays, but I accept the challenges just to see what sort of complicated exploit people put themselves in.
So I whisper him and he invites me, so I can see his icon. I eventually find the mountain he is on, and after about 2 minutes, I figured out how to get up.
I /poke him, and he turns around, takes one look at me, and jumps off the edge to his death. Fail.
Luckily, he was a good sport, and paid me in full right after I rezzed him.