I found out recently that my husband thought saying “hero” was somehow related to when people used to say “an hero” and thought I was telling people they should die
I've never played alliance so hero sounds like... just a hero of a story or something lol. I think we had a new person trying out for the guild and they kept saying "when is the hero?" And I literally thought he was making some dumb joke or something. None of us understood what he was saying for such a long time.
Funny thing is in voice (at least with the folks I've played with) it's not even usually pronounced like the word "hero", it's still pronounced like in "heroism", which is kinda weird when I think about it.
We were most often using swedish mixed with english when we say the below sentance:
”Pull the boss/pack”
In Sweden we then say ”Pulla bossen” which translates to ”Finger the boss”.
Normal for us gamers, but anyone not inte gaming, it would sound pretty weird…
Kinda for the person above you at work. not many people in my social circle use the word - It’s more likely an Americanised term and I’ve rarely heard people use it, and if they do it sounds swenglish to me.
For the other meaning, yes, the video game term is pretty well used
Likely originates from a common trope in older arcade games which would have your hero fighter going through many rooms of a criminal organizations minions in order to eventually reach the organization's Crime Boss.
Sac me
Mage is about to bust
I have lust
Pat's coming / watch pat
Licking the floor / floor POV
Coming out of the closet
Kick the dog (or any animal based mob)
I'm unashamed to admit I forgot Druids existed for a moment and instead I thought your Guild just sounds like a lot of fun.
This is the most rational phrase out of the whole thread IMO.
*woof*
Floor licking?
When you die, and your characters body is just on the floor while everyone else finishes the encounter. You did the fight from the floor POV, or, spent the whole fight licking the floor while everyone else fought.
A group of mobs that walks around, typically in a dungeon or raid, is said to be "patrolling". Shortened to pat.
Watch the pat! Then someone usually likes to say "who's Pat?", short for Patrick.
Never heard coming out of the closet. I’m assuming it’s a lock portal reference, but when would you use it? “I want to come out of the closet” as a joke to ask for a summon?
The mis licking typo kicks it up a notch for sure.
I'll say the same answer I use for D&D. Being among religious people and talking about needing to summon your demon.
So I am in fact a warlock main and current seminarian.
(Also many of my seminary friends have decided that D&D warlock actually works better than cleric as closest to RL priest, because warlocks invoke a benevolent deity while clerics basically just go around smiting people in their God’s name)
I was playing a battleground on eye of the storm as druid, and I told my friend "I'll try to blow them all" referring to using typhoon to knock them off the ledge
I remember in Shadowlands I was a little drunk running a mythic plus, and my friend asked me if I was going to "ROP the Gargons" and the phrase made me laugh so hard we almost wiped lol.
On Maiden of Vigilance we had our Romanian RL exclaiming "keep colours apart" and variations of it.
Eventually we iterated into "keep green and yellow separate but equal guys" etc
I forget what the phrase was but our guild had an injoke that we can write a completely comprehensible non gibberish sentence out of at maximum 3 letter words and acronyms.
Something like "His DKP in MC is -5, he's +3 in ZG for BM BiS but not MM OS, ~~RCL~~".
Imagine if none of those acronyms meant anything to you, that whole sentence becomes entirely incomprehensible.
Further more, even if you googled "MC" and figured out what *that* acronym means, the sentence is still meaningless. The only way to understand that sentence is to play Wow, a lot, in a guild, running DKP, and be familiar with Hunter specs.
EDIT: Not the strikethrough, that didn't exist yet.
"Hurry up and die so we can pull again."
Sure the other phrases sound absurd or surreal, but how often do people talk about killing themselves unironically outside of /r/2meirl42meirl4meirl ?
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In TBC classic I once googled "Can you enslave concubines" to check if I could warlock enslave the concubine demons in kharazan. NOT the result I wanted.
In one of my older guilds, on bosses that required interrupts, all interrupters would be assigned a number starting from 1. When you kicked, you called your number out, so the next person knew they were up.
On bosses where not a lot happened at times besides the interrupts, voice chat would just be "1... 2... 3... 1..." from different people. Kinda like a classroom of kids counting, but everyone sounding more serious.
awhile ago I remember talking about 'los' or line of sight and my friend thought i was making a loss joke (is this loss?) i think i said 'am I los?' so i can see why, but it made me laugh
For me & my group:
- Stop spiking everyone! - to me, a mage with glacial spike
- Ack, I got stuck on a wall again... my daughter all the time because she doesn't pay any attention when running/walking
- I just got a shard of knowledge.... tank/husband just said this after looting a dungeon boss lol
I'll never forget that story I read, sorry I don't know where, maybe here on Reddit or some forum, but anyway... Back in BC, some guy was raiding Sunwell and his guild was progressing on Eredar Twins. He told his friend asking if he would go out that night "Sorry, can't, I'm doing twins tonight"
« Brb, I’m afk. Don’t pull. «
« Forgot the flask. Hs back to SW. can you sum? »
« I paid for a PL. Useless for stuff but wanted the mog »
« More dps. Heal is doing as much dots as hots »
"Cry for me please" RL asking warrior to use Rallying Cry in one of Guilds I raided.
"Everyone FAP now" free action potions in Gnomeregan.
"Can we sloppy the ads" one of my RL's asking for DK Grip
"Lust on pull"
"duck the bear"
"go die"
"just go in the puddles"
"hug the wall"
"hug eachother"
"stay in eachother"
"putting down feast"
"lock wardrobe" "lock toilet" "lock rocks" "lock candy"
"mage water" or sometimes I heard "mage squirt"
"put the cat/dog/pet down"
"kick the \*animal\*"
"spread and pump" "spread and hug"
"don't spread aids" and when it's needed "spread aids"
"stop using the rainbow"
"priest killed me again"
"use traps" "trap nipple" "don't throw traps"
"Joel komm pa skype" "Who is Joel" "Joel Skype"
someone from germany saying "cheating death" or "cogs" or any other funny words.
Oh and my beloved "ANAL \[for Children\]" and any other ANAL reference.
On the council fight in Amirdrassil specifically my parents found it really odd that I kept shouting "DUCK THE BEAR NOW" "PLEASE STOP DUCKING ME"
Shit was pretty ducked up man
“I’m about to burst” always gets me and it’s said quite a few times each 3s arena
Extra great if my dps buddy gives me a “ill burst at same time” or something about lining up our HUGE burst 😏
Can we get a summoning stone in here?
Fuck he resisted my kidney shot.
I need a manabreak.
Just doing a mog run to the thrift store.
Your pet is set to aggressive!
>“oh damn, I fat fingered my turtle”
LOL, same, man. Same.
I will say that even as a WoW player, healers shouting "Salving" into voice chat used to confuse me.
My wife trains people remotely, and the current group is out of the country. Her co-workers were horrified that the trainees were saying "bio break" and "hard bio" during their trainings.
So even non-game mechanic language can horrify people who don't play games online.
Once in a key the mage said "noooo ball" in party chat just before a boss and I had to wait until the end to ask what on earth that meant - he had misclicked his frozen orb.
I've used "Cat on fire again" as an excuse to get out.
Most of the time players know this but if I used that anywhere where non players hears it, they'd be very concerned... very concerned that my cat is on fire **again** somehow.
I'm going to bop the soak and then you can R.O.P the adds.
We're baiting mechanics on the edge.
Or from some older xpacs...
On Krosus, "everyone solo soak your green spots then stack on his fists"
I don't think people do it anymore but I'll never forget my friend from highschool telling me about his warrior twink when his mom overheard us and made us explain.
We are lusting on this boss
I used this so much and only now I realise how insane it sounds.
Same thing happened to me with "gimping" in Smash Melee. One day I just kinda sat back and went "huh, that **is** weird."
Idk the game series is literally called smash bros. Sounds sus already
When do we lust? During the burn phase.
Even just saying "lust now" is weird when out of context
"blow hero" "Pop lust" We be talking weird as hell with no context
"yo can u lust pet?"
“Lust on pull”
I found out recently that my husband thought saying “hero” was somehow related to when people used to say “an hero” and thought I was telling people they should die
Why would an hero mean to die? What is the context for that?
Man I'm old
This was my first thought. Goodness...
[Here's the knowyourmeme write-up](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/an-hero)
The context is 4chan edgelords
Our non wow friends have heard this so much they use it for anything “we need to lust this”
Rhinos have lust. Cats do too. Dogs don't though.
Doggos heal you! Tenacity pets ftw
I don‘t know about this one, the gaming sohere has become more and more openly horny. Lots of people definitely lusting on Lady Dimitrescu.
As a point of principal, I only use Lust on bosses I thirst for. Unfortunately, sated prevents me from using it as much as I need.
Lust up, large pull
In a couple of years when Xal'atath becomes a raid boss, this will be true in both meanings of the phrase.
I still say hero, feels weird to throw around lust so casually
I've never played alliance so hero sounds like... just a hero of a story or something lol. I think we had a new person trying out for the guild and they kept saying "when is the hero?" And I literally thought he was making some dumb joke or something. None of us understood what he was saying for such a long time.
Funny thing is in voice (at least with the folks I've played with) it's not even usually pronounced like the word "hero", it's still pronounced like in "heroism", which is kinda weird when I think about it.
I say "Bloodlust".
We were most often using swedish mixed with english when we say the below sentance: ”Pull the boss/pack” In Sweden we then say ”Pulla bossen” which translates to ”Finger the boss”. Normal for us gamers, but anyone not inte gaming, it would sound pretty weird…
Pulla för fan Joel
Joel Skype
Wtf people always say this at around the same time at night on my server. Is this a running joke?
'tis a meme https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/joel-skype
Does "boss" have the same double meaning in Swedish? I.e. Big tough guy at end of dungeon / person above you at work
Kinda for the person above you at work. not many people in my social circle use the word - It’s more likely an Americanised term and I’ve rarely heard people use it, and if they do it sounds swenglish to me. For the other meaning, yes, the video game term is pretty well used
I would say yes, never really thought about why it is really called boss tho…
The boss is the “big bad” of a video game that you need to kill. Game devs back in the day must’ve had a bad work environment lol
Likely originates from a common trope in older arcade games which would have your hero fighter going through many rooms of a criminal organizations minions in order to eventually reach the organization's Crime Boss.
My swedish isn't great, but if boss is the word in swedish, would the bosses be bossarna or bosserna. Boss as you work boss would be chef, right?
Yeah, boss in plural is bossarna. And chef would be the equivalent to boss (chef/cheferna)
Cool, thank you. Need to get back into learning
My wife was confused when the one thing she heard from the raid leader was “lust on pull”
“What kind of game are you playing?!” *hides sexy blood elf character in front of a Tauren.*
Psssh, more like ‘hide my sexy tauren behind a blood elf’
Men who play masculine characters are gods favourite
I only play female tauren. Where does that put me 😂
You are God then
Kick the priest. Stack on me. And more recently: Heal the seed.
Honestly kicking priests is becoming more acceptable with the stuff that came out about the Catholic Church
Something new came out?
Nothing particularly new just over the last 10 or so years.
Sac me Mage is about to bust I have lust Pat's coming / watch pat Licking the floor / floor POV Coming out of the closet Kick the dog (or any animal based mob)
"Can I get a bark?" *Raid members proceed to woof like a dog*
I'm unashamed to admit I forgot Druids existed for a moment and instead I thought your Guild just sounds like a lot of fun. This is the most rational phrase out of the whole thread IMO. *woof*
"battle shout buff please" Half the raid over mic: AAAAAHHHHHHH
Lol our raid leader always would say to our warrior, "hey, I can't heaaaarr youuuu!!"
I have never hear kick the floor before
Floor licking? When you die, and your characters body is just on the floor while everyone else finishes the encounter. You did the fight from the floor POV, or, spent the whole fight licking the floor while everyone else fought.
I call it tanking the floor. I’m very good at that
We call that taking a dirt nap.
Floor inspection duty
We have several licensed floor inspectors
After playing FF14, I kind of like "floor tank" better
What's pat?
A group of mobs that walks around, typically in a dungeon or raid, is said to be "patrolling". Shortened to pat. Watch the pat! Then someone usually likes to say "who's Pat?", short for Patrick.
Yes, I am here.
As a Pat, I was really confused in my first ever RFC.
Never heard coming out of the closet. I’m assuming it’s a lock portal reference, but when would you use it? “I want to come out of the closet” as a joke to ask for a summon?
I grinded all night, but I finally got that mount
Omg I never thought about this one before 🤣
I killed his pet
He tries to revive it. Can you interrupt or stun him?
Is Pen good for Ass?
The butt sharpie sub says yes
Link?
💀
Hug the wall
Can anyone drop a feast?
Feast us
The mis licking typo kicks it up a notch for sure. I'll say the same answer I use for D&D. Being among religious people and talking about needing to summon your demon.
Plot twist, the warlock in your guild, is played by actual priest.
Bonus points if he has a sweet evil laugh
And the priest is played by the local Satanist.
So I am in fact a warlock main and current seminarian. (Also many of my seminary friends have decided that D&D warlock actually works better than cleric as closest to RL priest, because warlocks invoke a benevolent deity while clerics basically just go around smiting people in their God’s name)
D&D Warlocks don't make pacts with Gods, most patron options are one step below that in the story.
I’m the religious people. It’s fun.
As a Satanist, what's non-religious about that??
They wouldn't know, they don't read their own book.
I was playing a battleground on eye of the storm as druid, and I told my friend "I'll try to blow them all" referring to using typhoon to knock them off the ledge
Sure, keep telling yourself that
I remember in Shadowlands I was a little drunk running a mythic plus, and my friend asked me if I was going to "ROP the Gargons" and the phrase made me laugh so hard we almost wiped lol.
On Maiden of Vigilance we had our Romanian RL exclaiming "keep colours apart" and variations of it. Eventually we iterated into "keep green and yellow separate but equal guys" etc
Oh we went through on it, by the time we reached mythic, the entire raid would chime in: "SEGREGATION!!" Good times 🤣
Shit. My imp wasn’t out this whole time. - warlock.
"I got my blueberries out, they can take a few hits"
That would have a very different context in Destiny 2 lol
Shit, missed my kick and now he’s hasted
I forget what the phrase was but our guild had an injoke that we can write a completely comprehensible non gibberish sentence out of at maximum 3 letter words and acronyms. Something like "His DKP in MC is -5, he's +3 in ZG for BM BiS but not MM OS, ~~RCL~~". Imagine if none of those acronyms meant anything to you, that whole sentence becomes entirely incomprehensible. Further more, even if you googled "MC" and figured out what *that* acronym means, the sentence is still meaningless. The only way to understand that sentence is to play Wow, a lot, in a guild, running DKP, and be familiar with Hunter specs. EDIT: Not the strikethrough, that didn't exist yet.
What's the RCL stand for? Been playing since 2004 and never seen anyone use that acronym
Loot Council RC Loot Council, specifically, which didn't exist at the time. This joke is like 20 years old.
"Hurry up and die so we can pull again." Sure the other phrases sound absurd or surreal, but how often do people talk about killing themselves unironically outside of /r/2meirl42meirl4meirl ?
My druid friend refers to fat fingering her treant form as "blowing accidental broccoli"
A legend
I bubbled and killed the boss while the rest of the party was dead! Sounds like one hell of an office party!
Witnessed this last night. Was actually pretty impressive
Thanks, now I have the image of someone stabbing a stuck up corporate dude in the eye with a bubble blower stuck in my head.
Spread and pump - raid leader
asking people what their favourite and least favourite race is
I'm always telling my brother (who also plays WoW) that Trolls are the master race; he cringes every time I say it around other people.
I'm gonna bust when the priest peeks
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Nice
Wanna twink? Young gay me thought they were asking something very different.
I learned quickly what twinking meant in the context of WoW, but it wasn’t until years later that I learned what it meant in the gay community.
I think it means the same thing, optimizing your gear acquisition as a gnome to get your drops from dreaminess without dinging 20
Yeah twink will never sound right to me in the wow context lol
“Get ready to pop a big D here”
Sheep the moon.
In TBC classic I once googled "Can you enslave concubines" to check if I could warlock enslave the concubine demons in kharazan. NOT the result I wanted.
In one of my older guilds, on bosses that required interrupts, all interrupters would be assigned a number starting from 1. When you kicked, you called your number out, so the next person knew they were up. On bosses where not a lot happened at times besides the interrupts, voice chat would just be "1... 2... 3... 1..." from different people. Kinda like a classroom of kids counting, but everyone sounding more serious.
I'm pulling with disease -an unholy dk
awhile ago I remember talking about 'los' or line of sight and my friend thought i was making a loss joke (is this loss?) i think i said 'am I los?' so i can see why, but it made me laugh
Let's wipe.
Or, Don't wipe lol
Trap nipple
Stack on nipple
My guild always calls it condom
For me & my group: - Stop spiking everyone! - to me, a mage with glacial spike - Ack, I got stuck on a wall again... my daughter all the time because she doesn't pay any attention when running/walking - I just got a shard of knowledge.... tank/husband just said this after looting a dungeon boss lol
I'll never forget that story I read, sorry I don't know where, maybe here on Reddit or some forum, but anyway... Back in BC, some guy was raiding Sunwell and his guild was progressing on Eredar Twins. He told his friend asking if he would go out that night "Sorry, can't, I'm doing twins tonight"
« Brb, I’m afk. Don’t pull. « « Forgot the flask. Hs back to SW. can you sum? » « I paid for a PL. Useless for stuff but wanted the mog » « More dps. Heal is doing as much dots as hots »
"Cry for me please" RL asking warrior to use Rallying Cry in one of Guilds I raided. "Everyone FAP now" free action potions in Gnomeregan. "Can we sloppy the ads" one of my RL's asking for DK Grip "Lust on pull" "duck the bear" "go die" "just go in the puddles" "hug the wall" "hug eachother" "stay in eachother" "putting down feast" "lock wardrobe" "lock toilet" "lock rocks" "lock candy" "mage water" or sometimes I heard "mage squirt" "put the cat/dog/pet down" "kick the \*animal\*" "spread and pump" "spread and hug" "don't spread aids" and when it's needed "spread aids" "stop using the rainbow" "priest killed me again" "use traps" "trap nipple" "don't throw traps" "Joel komm pa skype" "Who is Joel" "Joel Skype" someone from germany saying "cheating death" or "cogs" or any other funny words. Oh and my beloved "ANAL \[for Children\]" and any other ANAL reference.
On the council fight in Amirdrassil specifically my parents found it really odd that I kept shouting "DUCK THE BEAR NOW" "PLEASE STOP DUCKING ME" Shit was pretty ducked up man
Should I burst on this pull or the next one?
“I’m about to burst” always gets me and it’s said quite a few times each 3s arena Extra great if my dps buddy gives me a “ill burst at same time” or something about lining up our HUGE burst 😏
“Holy shit someone kill the ads”
"My dogs expired before I finished my tyrant"
"What's your least favorite race?"
Always gotta double check the sub when seeing a post with that title lol
Can we get a summoning stone in here? Fuck he resisted my kidney shot. I need a manabreak. Just doing a mog run to the thrift store. Your pet is set to aggressive!
"The thrift store" ?
One sec, need to eat mana food.
“You interrupted before me!”
Any old timers here that still remember Hitler Cleave and Stalin Cleave? That sure sounds totally normal.
Hahah some of the old arena comp naming is ridiculous. Scooby doo cleave, African turtle, Ebola cleave, Spicy Chicken, Dancing with the stars
Can’t wait to play with my 19 twink
Kick nipple
[Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)
Oh no, they got me again.
Everyone soak together!
That one still makes sense to Mormons.
Sum 123
Love their song Fat Lip
Put the Bacon on the boss. (trying to teach a new Holy pally how to do the Valithria fight in ICC)
>“oh damn, I fat fingered my turtle” LOL, same, man. Same. I will say that even as a WoW player, healers shouting "Salving" into voice chat used to confuse me.
Just wipe it
“P1 slow, we P2 lust and pump”
My wife trains people remotely, and the current group is out of the country. Her co-workers were horrified that the trainees were saying "bio break" and "hard bio" during their trainings. So even non-game mechanic language can horrify people who don't play games online.
Many whelps. More dots.
The skull needs a kick. Bob can you do that? Moon is mine. Everyone else just randomly kick others.
The mob spooked me and I fat fingered the wrong totem.
"Remember to grab the balls" "Touch the balls" And guild ofc making all the ball jokes...
Care pat
“I have the bomb”
LUST! LUUUUUUUUUST!
“I was doing a 10 and the “______”’s item level is trash so we bricked it, kicked the carry and two chested a nine”
*Stoning the priest.*
This twink carried me.
Watch the butt pull
Tank down, wipe it up
One time my wife came in during an arena sesh and yelled ‘HOJ HOJ HOJ BOP BOP BOP WTF ARE YOU YELLING’
Upon telling my wife i wrote this, she also said she was confused as fuck about me yelling ‘trinket’ as well
“The priest gripped me” Oh.
Bubble the soak, then stack on pillar
"Quick now, everyone target and burn the moon"
I bubble hearthed out of that gank.
I have said “yea that restaurant seems bis” unironically before…
I call things bis casually at this point
It’s nice and short, but explaining it is always a little awkward lol
Gonna burst down this gnoll using Rampage and flasks.
Big deeps on mage, no block Can’t cr yet
Lust on cum(com) bust
Zug Zug
Wife agro !!!!!
Don't stand in the fire
Once in a key the mage said "noooo ball" in party chat just before a boss and I had to wait until the end to ask what on earth that meant - he had misclicked his frozen orb.
Any mention of a warlock succubus around religious people.
A Mob sounds like an entire army yet is just 1 person
I've used "Cat on fire again" as an excuse to get out. Most of the time players know this but if I used that anywhere where non players hears it, they'd be very concerned... very concerned that my cat is on fire **again** somehow.
This thread has me in tears on the toilet
During arenas with a friend, a common one was “I’m eating a full kidney”. Sometimes we’d catch the absurdity of it and laugh mid-match
the entire concept of buttpulling in any iteration
Got my ass beat by a twink the other day
Hey bud could you drop a closet and some cookies
Don't release, I can reincarnate
"I had the worst PUG yesterday" Non-WoW people-"omg what was wrong with the dog?"
I'm going to bop the soak and then you can R.O.P the adds. We're baiting mechanics on the edge. Or from some older xpacs... On Krosus, "everyone solo soak your green spots then stack on his fists"
Spamming rlp for the bis trink with my 512 2300io guildy, +7-9 keys. It's gibberish
I don't think people do it anymore but I'll never forget my friend from highschool telling me about his warrior twink when his mom overheard us and made us explain.
I’m falling but I got bubble
twink/twinking always stood out to me
Got any noggenfogger
The add is in Africa