World of Warcraft/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]:

** Sylvanas is quite sympathetic, but she also holds the living in contempt and can often be fairly icy and brusque to those with whom she deals.

{{quote| '''Fandral Staghelm's Silver Coin''': The War of the Shifting Sands... I wish I could forget it ever happened.}}

** Genn Greymane, due to the events unfolding in Gilneas, including the Worgen curse and the Forsaken invasion which cost him his kingdom and the life of his son Liam.

** Hogger, the boss capable of being [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|brought down by level one gnomes]], also applies. This eventually escalated to where the best guild was pitted against an elite, ''level cap'', '''''nigh unkillable''''' version of Hogger. The Armory website also tracks each character's stats for [[Ascended Meme|"deaths by Hogger."]]

** Darius Crowley, an NPC from the Worgen starting zone, is also shaping up to be this. He, too, [http://www.wowpedia.org/Crowley_facts has his own page of Crowley Facts].

*** /Fistcleave

** Basic Campfire.

** Theldurin the Lost in ''Cataclysm''. His quest has you chase after, and then procede to land a haymaker on, ''[[Big Bad|Deathwing]], [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|In the face]]''.

** JOHN J. KEESHAN. Yes, he is so awesome his name has to be spelt in all caps at all times.

* [[Misaimed Fandom]]: You're not supposed to agree with Malygos in ''Wrath of the Lich King'', people. No matter how profoundly ''wrong'' Blizzard make their characters, there will always be someone on the official forums to claim they're right.

* [[Mis Blamed]]: The mob respawn rates at the start of ''Cataclysm'' actually weren't entirely Blizzard's fault; they were a programming oversight. The insane respawn rates were due to so many players clogging the zones at once that they respawned almost instantly. This was after Burning crusade's launch the mob respawn rate was too low so people would camp required mobs.

* [[Motive Decay]]: Sorry, Illidan, Kael'thas. We need bosses for Burning Crusade.

** Getting "corrupted" by the Old Gods tends to to this in general. Deathwing was once much more subtle.

* [[Nostalgia Filter]]: Consider how much of the game changed since its release in 2004. Several classes, especially the hybrids, actually are ''playable'' and ''actually'' work the way you would expect them to. Content is actually not being wasted by locking the majority of the playerbase out by attunement chains. (Most of the [[Can't Catch Up]] was caused by other players, though, so it's not Bizzard and Vivendi's fault since they didn't intend for selfish players to refuse to help their friends in need.)

** And the Elemental Invasion. Wait around the cities and someone's going to say how the Zombie Invasion was better and that the fandom rejoiced. This is ignoring how, during the zombie invasion, there was just as much complaining about how many people were interrupted by zombies or how much they event sucked and should have been optional.

* [[Older Than They Think]]:

** Lor'themar actually wasn't invented for WoW and first showed up in a Korean-drawn comic.

** With the Mists Of Panderia leak, some of the playerbase has accused the Pandaren concept of (among other things) ripping off [[Kung Fu Panda]]. The Pandaren started out as an April Fool's joke by artist Samwise Didier that proved so popular that it led to their debut in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, years before Kung Fu Panda even came out.

** When Cataclysm was announced, there was outcry from the fanbase declaring that Deathwing is a [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]], while in reality he has been a fixture in Warcraft lore since ''Warcraft II''

* [[Replacement Scrappy]]:

** Garrosh Hellscream replaced Thrall as leader of the Horde. Considering that Thrall is well-loved both by the player base and in-universe, some of this is bound to happen. Even if Garrosh's character was becoming [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|more likable and competent]], he would [[Never Live It Down|still get some scrappism ]] for the act of displacing Thrall alone.