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* [http://www.wowpedia.org/Saurfang_facts If Saurfang] [[Driven to Suicide|killed himself]], [[Memetic Badass|everyone else would die instead.]]
** Only [http://www.wowpedia.org/Hogger_(tactics) Hogger] would stand a chance against him. Or they could team up and look for [http://www.wowpedia.org/Mankrik%27s_Wife Mankrik's wife]. <ref>Hogger's infamy is also likely due to the fact that for many Alliance races (human, gnome, and dwarf) he's the very first Elite they ever see. First timers tend to not understand precisely what the Elite tag means, go at him, and get slaughtered. In this sense, he has something of a Horde counterpart in Flat Tusk. Not to mention the fact that Hogger has exactly [[Number of the Beast|666]] health points... as does Flat Tusk, oddly enough.</ref>
** Saurfang? Pfft. Lord Darius Crowley ''cleaves with his fists.'' ,<ref>Saurfang's fame originated from when he could be mind controlled by Alliance players raiding Orgrimmar. He was a very effective Horde-killing tool, with Cleave as his signature move. Hogger is a low level elite quest mob in Elwynn Forest who used to have a bugged aggro radius that often resulted in him charging new players out of nowhere, who would die before they knew they were being attacked (which, combined with the fact that [[Wake Up Call Boss|he's the first Elite human players will likely fight]]</ref>, caused him to be deadly to new players). He's somewhat of an ascended meme: one of the statistics tracked by the game is "deaths by Hogger" and in Cataclysm he's {{spoiler|the final boss of the Stormwind Stockades instance.}} <ref>Lord Darius Crowley, as mentioned, cleaves with his fists and is generally badass in the Worgen starting zone. And in the Barrens, there is a quest given by an orc named Mankrik to look for his wife. She was incredibly hard to find, which would often result in new players using the zone's general chat to ask for help. </ref>
*** The Mankrik meme has reached [[Ascended Meme|ascended]] status: in a quest in Thousand Needles, the player has become haunted by a troll's ghost; in one of his randomly appearing monologues, he reminisces about the Barrens, then asks, "Hey, did they ever find out what happened with Mankrik's wife?"
*** Saurfang can do the same, he just uses the less powerful axe so we can still have a world to play in.
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* My staff is a good one.
** LOOK IT OVER
* [http://www.wowpedia.org/Alamo CAT DURID IS 4 FITE!!!] <ref>There was a guy named Halbrium who did the same thing for shamans, but sadly it failed to catch on.</ref> <ref>Nah, Halbrium is quoted just two lines down. It's ironic that his most memorable quote was the one about druids.</ref>
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* OH NO WHY IS ANIMALS ON MY FACE? <ref> From Halbrium's guide to shaman PVP, when detailing how to fight druids.</ref>
* [http://www.cwsargeras.com/2009/03/scourge-chat-log-1.html >8<] [http://www.cwsargeras.com/2009/03/scourge-chat-log-2.html spider] [http://www.cwsargeras.com/2009/04/scourge-chat-log-3.html pride]
* doodad_nox_door_spider02 <ref>In Naxxramas, one of the openable doors in the Arachnid Quarter showed this as its tooltip when moused over.</ref>
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yBY-T2MDkU IN THE MOUNTAINS]
* Hello Barrens Chat! <ref>Barrens chat, since alleviated by Cataclysm, has become infamous due to the fact that the Barrens are huge, and for the most part, empty. Bored people leveling and questing would often post things on general chat. And the Barrens cover about 20 levels worth of quests, so there were a lot of people for a long time.</ref>
* Arise, my champion! <ref> Said by Inquisitor Whitemane when she [[My Rules Are Not Your Rules|flaunts every rules of a priest and puts everyone in the group to sleep using the overpowered version of a defunct spell and then resurrects the final boss while in combat.]] Also used to mock bringing old bosses back before Kael'thas invented a new meme for that (see above)</ref>
* /waggle <ref>The tails of female draenei draw attention to the way they sway their [[Hartman Hips|exaggerated hips]] when they run. Since a lot of players consider them attractive, this quickly became a meme. The forward slash is a reference to the game's emote system.</ref>
* The Ashbringer...
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* Gamon will save us! <ref>Gamon is a very low-level NPC in Orgrimmar who rogues must pickpocket in an early quest. To be pickpocketed, he has to be attackable. As such, many Horde players like to kill him on sight for the sake of a laugh. When Horde Death Knights first ride into Orgrimmar, Gamon chases after them, claiming he will save the city. In ''Cataclysm'', Gamon becomes a ''level 85 Elite'', as if to mock his reputation for weakness.</ref>
** Since becoming a minor raid boss, it is possible to ''wipe entire Alliance raids'' by kiting Gamon into them.
* Your heart... will explode... <ref>Whispered to random players during the Ahn'Qiraj raid by the boss C'thun: this particular threat was apparently deemed silly.</ref>
* Basic Campfire for Warchief! <ref>From a lost forum thread where the poster created an initial list of 50 better choices for Warchief then Garrosh Hellscream. One of them was 'Basic Campfire', the fire any character can make to cook food: the posters seized on that one and ran with it. With the publishing of a Garrosh-centric article on [[WoW]] Insider, this mutated into "Abesik Kampfire".</ref>
* "This pear... so delicious." <ref>Captain Falric in the Halls of Reflection says "Despair... so delicious." during his fight. Many players misheard this.</ref>
* Genn. Motherfucking. Greymane. <ref>Genn Greymane has become [[Rated "M" for Manly|a man among men]] to his fanbase shortly after it was revealed the worgen were confirmed for Cataclysm.</ref>
* FLESH FROM BONE!
** FLESH TROMBONE! <ref>Said by Lord Jaraxxus when he uses a specific ability. [[Large Ham|He has such an exaggerated way of talking]] that almost everything he says can be memetically mutated.</ref>
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkeC9WVVsQ4 YOU FACE JARAXXUS, EREDAR LORD OF THE TRIFLING GNOME, YOUR ARROGANCE SHALL BE YOUR INFERNO!]
* LOOT THE FUCKING COREHOUNDS! <ref>If there is still loot on a mob, it can't be skinned. Corehound skins were valuable back in the day, so raid members would yell at whoever got the loot for that particular one to go back and loot it so they could skin.</ref>
* '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIVTT4fgPQI AWW DUDE]''' Four STR, four STAM leather belt?! '''[[The Immodest Orgasm|AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!]]''' Level 18? '''[[The Immodest Orgasm|UUUUH, OHHHH~]]''' (Used in Ventrilo harassment) <ref> For some context, a player was recorded saying this mockingly after finding the Forest Leather Belt, orgasm noises and all. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIVTT4fgPQI An infamous Ventrilo troll recorded it and played it later to his Vent channel], much to the chagrin of the player.</ref>
* Lor'themar Theron.
** Who? <ref>The Blood Elf leader, although having a large part in the Sunwell Trilogy manga, does next to nothing ingame. He was often referred to players as "that Blood Elf guy" but the meme really took off with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOZBU257ERE this video.] </ref>
* The ice stone has melted!
** The ice stone has melted!
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** The ice stone has melted! <ref>A bug during the Midsummer event caused this message to flood the chat boxes of players on the entire realm server, instead of just those in the 5-man dungeon where it happened. It was an event that pretty much everyone at the level cap did daily.</ref>
* [[Calling Your Attacks|BOOOOOOOOOOONE]] [[Everything's Better with Spinning|STOOOOOOOOOOOORM]] <ref>Lord Marrowgar yells this during his Bonestorm attack, in a very dramatic fashion.</ref>
*** [[The Simpsons (animation)|Cast Bonestorm or go to hell!]]
* Also similar to Kael'thas' line, Sindragosa's "SUFFER MORTALS, AS YOUR PATHETIC (insert whatever here) BETRAAAA'''AA'''AAAAYS YOU!" <ref>As with 'flesh from bone' and 'in the mountains,' this went memetic largely because it was a very difficult fight at level, so your average raid would hear this line over and over and ''over'' again in the course of a night. Her little voice-break in the middle of BETRAYS was very distinctive.</ref>
* Tauren and Draenei rogues exist, they're just so good at stealth that even their class selection button is hidden at the character creation screen. <ref>A joke about Draenei and Tauren PC's being unable to use the rogue class.</ref>
** When you go to loot a mob you killed and nothing is there? Tauren rogue (or draenei rogue).
** If you fell off Aldor Rise, a draenei rogue pushed you. If you fell off Thunder Bluff, a tauren rogue pushed you.
** Have you ever seen a tauren rogue? (No.) ''Exactly!''
* [http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e388/vertidog/catdps.jpg JOHN FUCKING MADDEN]
** Now you see, the Ogres are the biggest guys on the field. There's nobody on the field bigger than the Ogres, that's why they're the biggest guys on the field. <ref>Feral druid DPS is considered one of the most complicated "rotations" in the game.</ref>
* "We named him Dranosh..."
** It means "waste of 90 seconds" in Orcish. <ref>The Horde version of the Deathbringer Saurfang encounter is prefaced by a lot of dialogue between the death knight and his father, who has come to kill him and claim his body. One of the lines is "We named [my son] Dranosh. It means 'heart of Draenor' in Orcish." It's a touching scene, but since there's no way to skip it, players very quickly tire of having to sit through the whole thing.</ref>
* When's that new feature coming? Soon<sup>TM</sup>. <ref>Blizzard is ''infamous'' for not giving solid dates on patches and hotfixes. Not even a progress report on how they're doing.</ref>
* "[[Why Am I Ticking?]]?"
** "Because you are the bomb. Run!" <ref>A common trick for old (and new) bosses is to make one player actively detrimental to the others. This is the most famous example, though sadly, this raid has been removed.</ref>
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* You will melt faces as a shadow priest in PVP.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department|You will melt faces as a shadow priest in PVP.]] <ref>For the longest time people considered Shadow spec for priests to be an absolute joke in raids, and was relagated to PVP combat due to it's many "frustration" abilities. Has since died down due to many buffs to shadow's damage of late.</ref>
* I hate you so much, Cookie. <ref>From a rather humorous conversation in the draenei starting area between Cookie the cook and the captain.</ref>
* [[Futurama|Good news, everyone!]] I fixed the poison slime pipes! <ref>Said by everyone's favorite [[Affably Evil]] [[Mad Scientist]], Professor Putricide. In this case, it's from the Rotface fight.</ref>
* [http://www.wowwiki.com/Thunderfury,_Blessed_Blade_of_the_Windseeker Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]
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** [http://www.wowwiki.com/Thunderfury,_Blessed_Blade_of_the_Windseeker Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker] <ref>In city chats, the chat will often be flooded with people re-linking this one item over and over, often as part of a contest in which [[Schmuck Bait|the last person who links it will win something]], as a bid to trick people into flooding trade chat with spam.</ref>
* [[All There in the Manual|check patch notes]] <ref>When someone asks about a recent or upcoming change in trade, someone will always say "check patch notes"</ref>
* I remember it well. It was a bright, shiny day... I was just mindin' my own business, when all of a sudden, [[Big Bad|Deathwing]] appeared! [[Memetic Badass|I said to myself,]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1bP-m_BwX0 "I'm gonna punch that dragon in the face!"] <ref> "The Day Deathwing Came" has become one of the most favorited quests ever.</ref>
* The new loading screen for Northrend features [http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/images/news/2010/august/load_northrend2.jpg a very exploitable picture of Bolvar], which quickly resulted in [http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/748783-Caption-this-loading-screen! this thread.]
* World Of Warcraft.......Catacalysm (kuh-tack-uh-liz-um) will change the gameplay forever.
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* The Rainbow Generator item, which shoots rainbows at enemies. It does very weak damage, but it's recently become very popular to show people firing this thing off, one image even showing somebody hitting ''The Lich King'' with it.
* I tried to make an entry here...
** ...but I couldn't, because Hungering Cold has a cast time. <ref>The Death Knight ability Hungering Cold, which freezes all enemies close to the caster in blocks of ice, was deemed too powerful in [[PvP]]. Fair enough, but Blizzard's solution of giving it a cast time is one of the most derided Cataclysm balance decisions to date. One of the threads mocking the change was titled "I tried to stop Thrall's assailants..." (referring to a quest where Thrall is attacked while the player character is stunned and helpless), with the post itself reading "...but I couldn't, because Hungering Cold has a cast time." The rest of the thread continued in this fashion before it was [[Lost Forever|regrettably deleted.]]</ref>
* Watch your clever mouth, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch!]] <ref>Said by Garrosh Hellscream to Sylvanas Windrunner, after she mockingly salutes him. Notable because the exchange is not only uncensored, but voiced.</ref>
* Any comment regarding the Draenei's status as Blizzard's [[Unfavorite]] <ref> The draenei were a late addition to the Burning Crusade expansion, and their integration into the Alliance was, and still is, lacking. At Blizzcon 2010, Blizzard even admitted that they failed at implementing the race properly.</ref>
** "Draenei 2.0" <ref> When Cataclysm came out, the Worgen were called "Draenei 2.0" because some felt that the implementation of the Worgen race was a repeat of the Draenei fiasco</ref>
* [[Sarcasm Mode|WOW is hard]]. <ref>Frequent response to people having trouble with WOW, complaining about any aspect being too hard or even sometimes asking for advice</ref>.
* GO'EL, GO'EL, GO'EL, GO'EL... <ref> [[Shallow Love Interest|Aggra]] during a recent questline that made you save Thrall. "Go'el" is Thrall's true name, and Aggra will keep reminding you of that during said questline. Used whenever Aggra is mentioned.</ref>
* POWAH! <ref> During the long intro speech for the Archbishop Benedictus boss fight, the speech is extremely overdone and many players will /y POWAH as he says power.</ref>
** Darth Benedictus. <ref> The parallels to Darth Sidious are pretty obvious.</ref>
** Voldemort references are a decent second in popularity, due to the "there is no X or Y - only power" speech being almost identical to Voldemort's speech in the first [[Harry Potter]] movie, although ''far'' from the only obvious [[Shout-Out]] by raid bosses.
* "Can I have your stuff?" <ref> Players who feel the need to rant about the game on the forums before they quit (which 75% of the time they don't) tend to annoy the forum lurkers, they usually show absolute disinterest and ask if the person can give them their gold/gear/whathaveyou, sometimes with the implication that they believe said quitters are unlikely to be serious.</ref>
* Knowing Blizzard, he'll probably go crazy and become a raid boss. <ref> A joke on the fact that one of Blizzard's favorite ways to make bosses for raids is to have a good or neutral character go insane by various means (Examples include Kael'thas, Malygos, Fandral Staghelm and Archbishop Benedictus). Many feel this method is overused.</ref>
* '''Horde bias!''' <ref> Complaints on the official forums about Blizzard favoring the Horde got so out of hand that if someone doesn't like something, another person will humorously call this out. Even if it's a bad thing for the Horde and/or good for Alliance.</ref>
* "Break yourselves upon my body. FEEL the strength of the earth!" <ref> Ozruk, a boss in the Stonecore instance, repeats A LOT this phrase. And people tend to see in it more than one sense.</ref>
 
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