Most Embarassing Death
by Damien Barrett 
Dec 6th 2005 at 1:00PM
My most embarassing death in the game was about a year ago when I was first learning to play. I was a level 6 or so Night Elf in Teldrassil and decided to go exploring. There are a few places in Teldrassil where branches extend out over air and if you look down, there's nothing...just white sky. I thought...I wonder if I can walk out on that branch, that looks pretty cool. One mis-step later and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh, SPLAT! I don't walk out on branches that extend over nothingness anymore. What's your most embarassing death?Filed under: Analysis / Opinion
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jz Dec 6th 2005 1:28PM
I was in a group with several people, killing pirates outside of Booty Bay in STV. Long story short, I died in battle. My teammates waited for me to run back and respawn. However, I accidentally clicked 'Resurrect' too early, and I ran right back through the mob of pirates that had just killed me and they promptly wiped the floor with me a second time while my teammates looked on. Everyone in my group was laughing hysterically. I felt like a total n00b. Yeah. Good times.
VoIP Ted Dec 6th 2005 1:53PM
I have burnt to death in the Great Forge after accidentally jumping the barrier. Actually last night I burnt to death in ragefire chasm. LOL
Pete Barr-Watson Dec 6th 2005 1:54PM
When I was about lvl 20, I was *really* into exploring the whole world in WoW. Once, i ran into an area (not sure which now...) that was hot and lavery - I saw my first flaming elemental - lvl?? to me... Needless to say it killed me instantly.
Anyway, I res'd right at the other end of this game area. Cool I though, I'll run back and have a look around... Right above me I found the entrance to a cave and around it was a collection of horde and alliance vendors selling food and drink etc. I, being alliance, had a look to see what was for sale from the 'good' guys. Nothing special, so I thought I'd 'insult' the alliance npc while I was there (insulting them sometimes gives *very* funny responses). Unfortunately, I clicked on the food vendor with the wrong mouse button and was promptly attacked by her. It took three hits to kill me.
The embarrassing bit? Her weapon was a loaf of bread. Yes, people, i was killed by a french stick... :(
(cue all the 'toasted' jokes ;))
Userless Dec 6th 2005 4:29PM
In beta, I didn't realize there was a path down to the beach in The Hinterlands, so instead I thought I had to jump down where the waterfall was. Needless to say, I missed the water, hit the ground and died.
This wouldn't be a big issue now because you could run back, jump down and rez. In beta there was a bug where if you fell to far, EVEN IN GHOST FORM, you'd die again. And you'd have to run back. I tried this, like an idiot, 3 times and kept dying.
elorg Dec 6th 2005 10:56PM
I had started a new character and I was trying to do some quests in and around the Oracle Glade. I was around level 9 maybe? I found out the hard way that I was a bit too far north on the map when several spiders killed me and I died next to the waterfall right on the edge of the map.
When I went back to my body as my spirit, I wanted to make sure that I was a safe distance from the spiders when I resurrected. But whoops! During said resurrection attempt my wisp slipped off the edge of the waterfall and skidded all the way into the ocean. You can't get back up onto the island from there - the walls are too steep. I tried the auto-unstick tool but that didn't work because I wasn't exactly stuck in a wall. I couldn't talk to anyone because I was dead. Logging out didn't do any good. I had to contact a GM to fix it.
I wonder how far I could've gotten as a spirit swimming in the ocean...
Tree Man Dec 6th 2005 7:53PM
I fell off the damn tree also. I was so new to the game at that point I didn't know how to use the spirit healer so I tried number of times to land on my body (which was lodged half way down the tree for some reason) to rez. After about five tries and 5 deaths later I ended up calling the GM to get me out of trouble. I am pretty sure the GM thought I was a complete tool.
Sumeet Dec 7th 2005 7:00PM
i was in ironforge dancing in the great forge. Next thing i know i slide down into the lava and go ahhhhhh!
Casey K Dec 7th 2005 12:42AM
I've fallen off the stupid night elf tree, but my most recent one was in Booty Bay-- a level 35 mage with a terribly crappy dagger equipped (but a great fire damage bonus)-- I was trying to right-click on an NPC to talk to him to cash in on a quest, but a ?? Tauren shammy ran right in front of me all of a sudden from out of nowhere-- I sliced him for about 5 damage and instantly had 5 level 55+ goblins all over me. oops.
I was worried that when I got back the shaman would kill me again, but apparently he was either too busy or nice enough to realize that I had made a mistake and didn't follow me out of town to get his revenge. I'm such a noob. :P
Dr. Woo Dec 7th 2005 2:40AM
I've fallen out of Teldrassil twice. Definitely a forehead-smacker.
I've accidentally jumped out of the zeppelin before as well, forgetting to (or at least too slowly trying to) switch to def. stance before planting my face. (Yes, warriors, you can survive ANY fall in the game if you have at least 91% health and switch to def. stance in mid-air)
When I was still a NE druid (my first toon ever), I decided to explore Moonglade and headed south. "Oh, look at the cave. What's this furry bear-looking thing here? And why can't I see its level? It's just a stupid skull." BAM! Dead. Where do I end up? The Spirit Healer in Felwood. I don't remember if I even tried to find my body, but I rezzed there and was instantly mobbed by treants. I think I tried this about 4-5 times before I finally WALKED all the way to Darkshore to rez at a Spirit Healer there.
Pieter Dec 7th 2005 7:39AM
On my way from BB to Ratchet I thought it would be a great idea to start some PvP action against an undead priest. What happened? He casted Mind-Control on me and let me jump of the boat in the middle of nowhere. Now, that was a long way to walk in ghost form about the water...
acaurora Dec 7th 2005 10:12AM
I think Pieter tops it all. That is a real hoot ;P
Cedric Dec 12th 2005 2:26AM
Two embarrassing deaths:
1) After playing a level 60 Horde character, I started an Alliance one. The first time I entered StrangleThorne, I headed straight for Grom'Gol out of habit, where the guards promptly dispatched me. I still remember staring at the feet of several orcs laughing their butt out at me.
2) I was farming Felcloth with my Priest 60 and I was using a lot of demonic runes to keep my mana up (demonic runes give you mana at the expense of health). Of course, at some point, I didn't realize my health was already dangerously low and I killed myself instantly by activating the rune.