Moar Wiping
Wipe #12: The Brainiac Wipe. The raid leader has spent loads of time reading up on the fight, has his strategy modified to match his raid make-up, and Brainiac wants to argue.
Frequently heard comments: “But when I do it the other way, I get more DPS!” “My spec isn’t designed to handle that, so I’m going to do Y,” and Y is the exact opposite of what is needed. “In my other guild, the one that cleared the Sunwell on the PTR, we did Y instead,” again, the same Y. “Dude, I told you to do X, and you completely ignored me! WTF?!”
Wipe #13: The “I Don’t Generate Aggro” Wipe. All healing and DPS must stop, dude thinks he can ignore this rule and does what he wants anyway.
Frequently heard comments: “I didn’t know drinking a potion would generate aggro.” “I didn’t know throwing a Mend Pet would generate aggro.” “I didn’t know an AoE attack would generate aggro.” “My totem shot him, I forgot about that.”
Wipe #14: The Pally Buff Wipe. Someone critical loses Blessing of Salvation, nobody knows why.
Frequently heard comments: “Why don’t you have Pally Power?” “Pally Power sux!” “I thought I had Salv, then I had Might, then I died.” “I told X to buff Salv!” “Can I get double-Salv, so when the Pallys do their drugs, I get to keep at least one Salv?”
Wipe #15: The Keyboard User Wipe. Quickness is needed, but the player wants to turn use the A and D keys instead of strafing or using the mouse.
Frequently heard comments: “All you had to do was get out of range, what happened?” “He’s walking backwards?” “Is he paying any attention? He’s just spinning when he should be running.”
Wipe #16: The DC Wipe: Main Tank or his healer’s computer goes bonkers at just the wrong time.
Frequently heard comments: “Annnd there he goes again.” “Is he AFK or… nope, he’s gone.” “Heal me!!! Oh (bleep) I got no healz!”
Wipe #17: The Forgot How to Play Wipe: Someone is on their alt and tried to do something that his class cannot do, or forgot he can do something he normally can’t.
Frequently heard comments: “I don’t have FD, that’s right, sorry.” “What do you mean, Ice Block? I’m a rogue! Oh, crap.” “My bubble must be on cooldown… if a warlock had a bubble, that is.”
Wipe #18: The One-Button Wonder Wipe. One key-press causes the whole shebang to go to h3ll.
Frequently heard comments: “Why did you shift into humanoid form? You can’t tank as a humanoid!” “You fired your gun just as the tank Taunted the boss?” “Don’t attack until the tank has aggro, that includes priests with maces. Never thought I’d have to be that specific.”
Wipe #19: The Master Loot Wipe. Specifically for Lady Vashj, the raid has to be able to pick up the Tainted Cores. Can’t do that if Master Looter is set, foshizzle.
Frequently heard comments: “And another one despawned!! That’s three in a row!!” “Oh crap, folks, I made a big boo-boo.”
Wipe #20: The Misplaced Misdirect Wipe. Hunter is allowed to pull, totally honks up his Misdirect and throws it on his pet, another member of the raid, or just misses it altogether.
Frequently heard comments: “HEY! Don’t put that on me!” “GET IT OFF ME, GET IT OFF ME!!” “And you’re planning on tanking that all by yourself, are you?”
Wipe #21: The Busted Macro Wipe. DPS has to switch targets during the fight, they make a spiffy macro to assist, and end up spelling something in a foreign language.
Frequently heard comments: “Kill the totem! The TOTEM! Why is nobody killing the totem!?” “Demononic Chains, right? Oh, well there ya go.”
Wipe #22: The Tab-Target Wipe. When people refuse to use an Assist Macro and end up busting sheep because they only know how to target the closest mob.
Frequently heard comments: “You break my sheep, you tank it, buster.” “Resheep circle! Resheep circle! RESHEEP CIRCLE!” “Only attack what the rogue is attacking, OK? Assist him! Assist. It’s a slash command.”
Wipe #23: The “OK, That’s Too Cool” Wipe. Someone breaks a paradigm, does something tricky and fun, causes the raid to wipe, but it’s so impressive that nobody cares.
Frequently heard comments: “Voodoo gnomes wiped us? Well that’s new.” “Barov’s Peasant Caller is all Win. No, dude, I’m honored to wipe with you.” “You fired at the audience and pulled them all? I didn’t even know you could attack them!”
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I *might* have MDed onto my pet once…and umm, yes, I MDed on to the correct tank, but then attacked the wrong mob, and well, that is enough, you don’t need to know ALL my failures. (Still raiding with the same group though, so you know it is rare.)
I’ve done the playing an alt wipe before… I’ll just feign death now… oh sh!t, I’m on my druid!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JxXnLFtukM
Look at the end.
Don’t make a hunter MAD …..
I’ve seen the whole opera audience AoE’d. Pally tanks chock full of /win.
Fricken hilarious man - I was literally laughing out loud. The ““You fired at the audience and pulled them all?” reminded me of my first time in UBRS - it was me that tab targetted the audience.
#14 - I dispute this… not as far through The Eye as you Sir BRK but I have never seen a wipe happen because someone DIDN’T have Salv. If you aren’t salved and you see yourself riding up the threat then Stop. Problem solved!
I have however seen 25man raids with tank druids and healer druids and badly setup PallyPower rigs that cause said tank druids to continually get smacked with Salv. Salv-ed tanks during Phase 1 of Magetheridon? So not a good idea.
I think what you were really aiming for was the classic “newb Pally casts Blessing of Protection on the tank” wipe. Now that one is ugly.
(PallyPower is the bomb but few people setup their sub-assignments properly. L2PallyPower people!)
I did Divine Intervention on our MT during a Vashj try. We had a perfect phase 1 going, and I was going to do my belf racial to get some mana back from Vashj, which was binded to shift+t. But I had the tank still targeted and missed the shift key. DI binded to T. First I was “wtf I died?!” on TS, thinking I got oneshotted or something, and shortly followed by the tank’s “…I got a bubble…?”, but less than a second later it dawned. Thankfully Vashj was just running wild for a second before phase 2 kicked in.
Needless to say I don’t have DI binded any more.
I guess that will be classified under Wipe #18.
Oh and if I got a cent every time we got #14, I would be lying on a beach somewhere south by now. With a drink in my hand. That’s probably cost nothing, but you need a drink.
One button wonder: “Why did you shift into humanoid form? You can’t tank as a humanoid!”
>_> Been guilty of that one. Lots of “OH CRAP” and slammin’ that bear button with that one. (Or Powershifting gone wrong is the other thing with that one. That’s happened too.)
The Forgot How to Play Wipe: Also guilty, but never wiped people with it. Normally it’s — “That’s… er… not Blink. >_>” “No, it isn’t, but you’re a druid. Go cheetah.” “Oh, right. -cough-”
Good stuff, BRK!
#23 Storm Chops wipe…
…except we didn’t.
wipe that is.
At any rate I was laughing everytime that stupid thing proc’d and our enhancement shaman volunteer trash tank would read off the stormchop damage.
(ya, it was just trash between bosses. But funny no?)
these are hilarious!!!!! lol ive seen quite a few of em lol idk if thats good or bad
Spectator wipe…er…yeah. I did that. Same as Shador & BT actually. I forget how I died, but I was dead and I didn’t get a Rez so I started running back but the group started the Rend encounter w/o me. The only way I knew to get to Rend’s chamber was by jumping over the wall, so I ran between the watching Orcs and leaped off. Next thing you know there were half a dozen very large Orcs crashing our party, chaos ensued, and death came for us all.
I didn’t own up and nobody pointed the finger at me, so Lady Karma stepped in when it came time to kite Drakk. I had him in the Beast’s room but he resisted my FD and pwnd the crap out of me. Still my death bought the group enough time to do what they needed to so they were ready for Drakk when he got back. Meanwhile I released (yes, Noob :P) and started the long corpse run back to UBRS. Of course Drakk went down before I made it back inside and so the game wouldn’t let me loot him. The group was very sympathetic as they DE’d the Beaststalker’s Tunic in front of me.
Lady Karma has an evil sense of humor.
#20… Almost been there.
Leo, all goes well initially. Everybody does they job and relax. First hunter MDs on pull, and now it is my turn to MD after first WW. Carefully I put it up 10 secs ahead, load up Aimed Shot for a massive starter.
BAM! Crit on Aimed, looks good… But what it this? Leo continues towards me? Quick quick, do the last two shots fast. Argh… now he passes the MT, no response. Nooo… poor Flappy.
“Wtf happened Fel? You pet was just sitting there like an innocent little girl and Leo came all that way to whack him.”
Another wipe:
The ROFL Wipe.
Guild jester writes something awfully funny at the right time (or wrong time depending on your rank) and everybody just have to answer in /ra with ROLFs and LOLs. Everybody are thus distracted critially when the boss does a really nasty move.
Common comments. “Focus FFS!” (RL) “I nearly fell off my chair. Damn a wipe is bad, but this was worth it.” “OMG, did we just wipe because of THAT?”
o.O
Well, and I by no means consider myself an expert at WoW, just peeling off the layers of noobness day by day but… I totally didn’t know drinking a potion generated aggro.
Thinking about it though, a healing potion would probably count as a heal but what about mana potions? And elixirs?
What about the ”oh shit i think its a wipe”, when maybe a tank dies and people starts to run out of the instance because they think its a wipe>.< Mostly on trash not bosses;P
Happend to my raid a couple of times^^,
Wipe #18: The One-Button Wonder Wipe. One key-press causes the whole shebang to go to h3ll.
All ready to go mental on Magtheridon, I have Hunter’s Mark up and am all ready to MD the first tank as he pulls the channeler. Then I move my hand to my mouse and brush against it. Side button on the mouse is set to “Pet Attack”. Oh Noes. Before I can blink Lazarou is tearing lumps out of the channeler, the other channelers are running all over the place cause people aren’t ready for them, no-one, knows what the hell is going on. Maggie breaks free with three channelers still running wild and no-one except the people they’re destroying know where they are. We’re all dead. Oops. My bad…
LOL
If you don’t mind I’m gonna transalate theese two post to spanish and publish them, linking the originals of course.
Great posts!
xD
“Resheep circle!”
“Can’t!”
“Why the [BLEEP] not?!”
“‘Cause circle just killed all the mages!”
This has happened no less than nine times.
I also had High Kind Maulgar misdirected to me once =D
My favourite wipe in recent memory was quite a small one, but still amusing.
We were probably on try #13 of the evening whilst learning Gertogg Bloodboil, I did my usual aimed-shot-whilst-MDing-to-the-MT-pull, boss calmly walks over, splats the bemused hunter with a single blow to the top of the head, then wanders back to where he started again.
Once the raid recovered from the hysterics long enough to rez me, it apparently helps to actually click one’s /cast [target=focus] Misdirection button whilst pulling…
Although the funniest example from the last category was back in the days of Molten Core, when the GM (also a hunter) pulled two bosses and a lava pack back to Garr’s room, all with a single scorpid sting.
@ MeWulf - that vids so funny!!
@ Kiltrieser - guilty of that too (sending pet in by accident)
Is there one for ‘Running with a pug that’s pissed me off’ wipe?
Md pug of your choice, pull and then HS the hell outa there…..
‘Boosting lowbies’ wipe?
So incredibly bored that you decided to pull everything you can just to ’spice things up a little’ - weel, that was my excuse anyway.
I’ve seen Voodoo Gnomes wipe and also a Blessing of Protection wipe, the latter being on Curator in Kara. The pally involved in that one did, indeed, receive a gkick expeditiously.
Very well written and fun!
I give another perspective on wiping on my blog.
http://larisamage.blogg.se/2008/may/different-kinds-of-wiping.html
I’m the guild leader of a small guild thats regularly run instances and just started Kara - I look forwards to seeing all of these in the future.
At the moment, we have a “wiping on the trash, one-shotting the boss” kind of wiping going on, which makes for some interesting causes (and conversations afterwards).
Priests with maces. . . classic.
Wipe #16: The DC Wipe: Main Tank or his healer’s computer goes bonkers at just the wrong time.
Frequently heard comments: “Annnd there he goes again.” “Is he AFK or… nope, he’s gone.” “Heal me!!! Oh (bleep) I got no healz!”
We were running Gruul for the, god I don’t know anything other than that guy doesn’t stay dead permanently even if you have kilt him for the 100th time … Basically it was farm alt night.
We pull the last trash pull before gruul, the three pull, and down the first two without issue. The third one is being tanked by our main T5 pally, reference that guy every pally dreams of being.
Suddenly vent chirps as someone joins the channel as he start appoligizing because he has been DC’d for the last 20 seconds or so restarting everything … meanwhile his toon is still tanking the mob and holding agro … we didn’t even know he was gone.
“You fired at the audience and pulled them all? I didn’t even know you could attack them!”
After finishing the opera event in Kara we decided to call it a night. The mage was opening a port to Shat and while we waited I glanced out at the audience and wondered to myself if you could hit them from the stage. I right clicked on one and Wham, an auto shot fired out across the balcony and hit a member of the audience. An angry mob streaks out of the room and I watch my tracker as the little red dots make a bee line towards us. The next thing my guild heard from me was “Umm . . . shit . . run!”. Everyone but me made it through the portal in time but it took me a while to live that one down :p
““Don’t attack until the tank has aggro, that includes priests with maces. Never thought I’d have to be that specific.””
Wow, this one made me laugh a lot.
Very well written!!
Yep, definitelly Legendary Posts…
Pretty much like “The Twin Blades of Azzinoth”
Haha lovely read =D
@ Kiltreiser
My worst huntard moment so far was very similar to that. My guilds first time to Mag. Probably the first time 3/4 of us had been in there. Just get done clearing the trash, buffing everyone up outside the room, RL is explaining how the fight will go and making assignments, “okay, everyone go in and get in position, but don’t attack anything yet”……”wtf, I thought you said they wouldn’t attack us”……”well, they wouldn’t if D’s pet didn’t tear into a channeler. Everyone run to the door and die”.
“Sorry guys, I just got out of the BG’s before this and forgot that pet was set on aggressive”.
/spam head-desk
In grinding through the trash in TK, one of the pulls from the Al’ar room back to the hallway we MD onto a tank who is out of LoS to pull all the birds back. Only thing is, I forgot to cast MD, but still shot the mobs. Sigh.
I was the one that MD’d to Euripedes as stated in his comment above! The little squishy bastard ran right in front of me when I was targeting. It didn’t end well, but I laughed my ass off (microphone off, of course.)
How about the bad pet-pathing, hunter too slow to recall pet wipe? Clearing the trash on stairs before ballroom and Moroes, I sent Chester to help. About 10 seconds later, I hear my RL ask “What is that sound?” Um, that would be the spiders from below (animal boss area) coming to wipe our group. Sigh. Blizz may have improved pet-pathing but I have definitely improved my pet-recall ability.
How about the “DOT-happy Warlock” wipe?
“Resheep Moon!”
“Can’t, the lock put a dot on it”
“Trap is up, re-trap square!”
“Can’t, the lock put a dot on it”
Moar Wiping?
isnt that what you do after eating the deluxe taco platter?
“Don’t attack until the tank has aggro, that includes priests with maces. Never thought I’d have to be that specific.”
I’ve have the distinct (dis?)honor of actually seeing a healy shaman run up and whack a boss with his mace in mid-fight..
He thought it would be funny. I don’t recall ever seeing him again after that.
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[...] BRK: Moar Wiping [...]
I linked over to my guild site. They loved it and here are a few of their Moar Wipes:
Missed my fav “falling asleep” wipe.
Where’s the “AFK pizza-guy-is-here” wipe?
The Wife-aggro wipe
One of my favorite wipes was in AQ40, when we had cleared to the twin emps and thought we would be clever and avoid reclearing trash the next day by keeping a couple of warlocks in the instance over night (and having them log in to avoid being ported back to the start of the instance). We all were summoned directly into the room, and then upon pulling… all those badass giant guys came rushing through the walls and annihilated us.
I have a very special one myself. Early in the MC days of Shinigami, we were still learning Majordomo. We had a wonderful run up to this point without a single wipe and minimal deaths up to that point. RL asked me to mark one of the adds to help assign targets. So I did. Wait…WHERE THE EFF IS MY PET GOING?!?! I forgot I had the mark/pet attack macro still bound to that button and viola! We pulled everything and wiped. Shortly thereafter, RL instated the “NO PETS” policy.
The Post Boss Fight wipe - After downing the rough and tough boss Sulfuron, the raid gets curious about a funny glowing mark on the wall and all rush over to see what it is. We all wipe on the lava on the wall and have to rush druids and rogues back to our corpses with cables to our bodies in time to get the loot before it despawns.
Frequently heard comments: “Dude, that was so funny…wait…we are ALL DEAD?!?! HAHAHAHA!!” “Who is doing loot?” “I cant believe that cost dura!” “OH SH*$#*!! Sulfuron is GONE MAN!!”
Cheers,
Cappy
Yet again BRk you have made my day
The Incompetent Warrior
When you have 2 druids in your party, and one is a bear and the other is a tree, make damn sure you cast misdirect on the right one.
Raid group was in Magtheridon’s Lair. As lead rogue, I was responsible for setting up an interrupt rotation for the channelers. We use a /kick macro followed by a message to the next interrupter saying “you’re up” or something similar.
Before we start, we’ll cycle through the rotation to make sure everyone’s macro is working and whispering the next toon in line. Not thinking, I had already planted myself next to the first channeler and targeted it before “testing” my macro. A swift kick to the channeler’s knees started the encounter prematurely and wiped the raid.
Fortunately my guild all had a good laugh at it. Several months later, I still catch hell whenever we head into Mag’s for a quick farming run.
“You fired at the audience and pulled them all? I didn’t even know you could attack them!”
LOL - On my rogue last weekend in Kara, we were SOOOooo stuck on Romulo and Julianne and one our raid members who is NOTORIOUSLY slow getting back after wipes is traipsing through the hallway talking smack about us all waiting for her… I REALLY wanted to chuck a throwing knife at the audience, let them kill her and then vanish. I didn’t though, it would’ve just taken her that much longer to run her slow butt back.
Note to self: Do not even bother attempting Romulo and Julianne without someone who can cure poison.
Decurser got airburted into the water Wipe
Tank’s shield broke and he didn’t notice Wipe
Mage got Fel Rage Wipe
First person who got the ghost debuff is the one guy who never played the minigame Wipe
Flame tank stands in the red fire instead of the blue fire Wipe
Guy with parasites didn’t move out of the raid Wipe
Strider tank got feared Wipe
Pally tank dies on the wave 7 pull Wipe
I could do this for ages…
“Following rogue, pet on aggressive”. Running gag in one of my old guilds after someone decided that would be a good way to AFK…
I’ve tab-targeted the Blackhand audience, too…
You fired at the audience and pulled them all? I didn’t even know you could attack them!
I missed that week in Kara when one of our Kiwis did precisely that. My one regret upon quitting the game is that I never MD’d the audience onto a friend’s Priest. The hilarity that would ensue…
“You’ve been in Sunwell Plateau for less than 5 minutes and you are already face-pulling Brutallus! WTF!!”
So I’m one of the substitute raiding hunters in our guild. We have a BM hunter and a Survival hunter as the two main raiding hunters. They are both very skilled and knowledgeable players and I try to learn everything I can from them. One evening last week, our guild is raiding in Sunwell and I am doing my daily quests on my hunter. The raid has downed Kalecgos and is getting ready to start the trash to Brutallus. Out of the blue, I get a raid invite from our GL/RL and my heart starts pounding. I’m being asked to come to Sunwell Plateau for the first time. Since I am doing dailys, my inventory is full of greys and I do not have any of my raiding consumables with me. The raid begins to pull the trash while I get my stuff together to go. I quickly get ready and after a little while, I get Lock-summoned to Sunwell Plateau. This is the first time I have been there. The GL/RL tells the other two hunters to bring me up to speed as to what is expected of me. I have studied the fight and have an idea how the fight is supposed to go. The BM hunter is explaining to me about the Soak requirements and how to get heals during the Meteor Slash and what to do if I get the Burn de-buff. The Survival hunter then tells me to follow him. I follow him around the tree to where we are supposed to go if I get the Burn de-buff. He stops just beyond the tree and I stop next to him. The next thing I know, Brutallus is charging us and we are dead. Raid wiped…
“How the hell did you pull aggro on Brutallus? Don’t you have Omen installed? ARE YOU WATCHING IT?!?”
(approx. 3 minutes later…) So, we run back and this time get set to actually begin the Brutallus fight. I get a stack of Elixir of Demonslaying from the GL/RL and put it on my hot-keyed consumable button. I complete my pre-fight self-buffs and take my position for the start of the fight. The BM hunter MD pulls and we begin. I take my position for the Meteor Slash soak and watch the main tank build threat on Brutallus. I begin my attack, sending my pet in. After about 45 seconds, I pop the first Elixir of Demonslaying I had ever used. I immediately pulled aggro on Brutallus, got charged, and wiped the raid again.
First time in Sunwell Plateau and have wiped the raid twice in less than 10 minutes.
Later that evening after a few more wipes (that I did not cause), we downed Brutallus for the second time in two weeks. Our guild got the Maelstrom Server first kill and second kill of Brutallus to overtake the top rated guild. I have the distinct pleasure of being one of three hunters on the Maelstrom server to have killed Brutallus. I am very proud of our guild and very proud of being a Muffin Maker.
The zerg wipe: Something funky happens and people start to die. Usually someone gets feared and grabs more adds, critical crowd control fails etc… People start to die but remarkably the raid stabilizes into a brutal stalemate. People start running back/rezzing as the original stalemating group dies off. Also can be used to refer to the use of 10 Battle Rezes in one boss fight.
Frequently heard comments: “RUN BACK! RUN BACK! Random Off Tank dude has got them!” “Battle Rez the Healers!” “Everybody you should be running back right now!” “CC breaking FTL” and my favorite “I died 4 times that pull”
I’m just waiting to get into a truly AWFUL Kara so I can wipe us by pulling the entire audience on Opera.
…heheheh.
Our tank and the healer:
Tank: I did not get any heal.
Healer: you did.
Tank: No I did not
Helaer: You did
Tank: Ok, Let’s see the combat log lines. Red line, whit line, white line, red, white, white, white, red, red, white, red, white, red….oops, a blue one…
Healer: You see…
Tank: Wait a sec: it’s dark blue: says: 10% durability loss.
Healer: Uhh
I’m a Pally tank and the buffs get confusing.
Great moments in hyjal such as -
Dps - “why did we all just die”
raidlead - “because you idiots started aoe before the pally had aggro”
Dps - “we god damn waited”
RL - “you always over-aggro, why should this time be differant?”
me - “erm, sorry guys… Righteous fury ran out and I didn’t notice”
or alternatively “I forgot to debuff salv”
You need to add the “fell asleep at keyboard and hand fell on the run forward button wipe” I haven’t done that, well I’ve done it but not in a raid, not yet.
Also is there a name for “soul stoned priest or shammy popping too close to the boss and aggroing it again, wiping the hunters who just also popped from FD and were hoping to avoid durability losses, all the while laughing maniacally”? I’ve done that !
Moar wiping was so funny. I was laughing out loud and laughing so hard I was
crying.