Breakfast Topic: Top 5 reasons you die in WoW

I love the forums on Tuesdays. That's when you tend to find a lot of really silly and fun threads about the most mundane aspects of the game. Several of them have become "Tuesday topics" on my guild's forums. Most are the most simple things that oftentimes you don't even think about, like this thread from yesterday...
Fortuna from the Zangarmarsh realm started up a thread titled "Top 5 reasons you die in WoW." It made me stop and think, because over the last couple of years, I think I've died just about everywhere, and in a myriad of ways. There was the first time I walked into the Cathedral in Scarlet Monestary when we pulled Mograine before we cleared the whole place. Oops. Then there was the time when I learned that the undead in Stratholme can see through stealth very easily. Not good. But then I got to thinking about the reasons I tend to die, and that was a whole other ball of wax.
Here's what Fortuna's list had to say:
5. Stupid Fel Reavers
4. I didn't know that using a gnomish shrink on Rag was going to do that.
3. It's only a rare mob. How hard can it be?
2. wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww1111111113333333333333. O crap.
1. Girlfriend walked into the room nekkid.
I have to admit, 5 and 2 have happened to me too -- a lot! Just for the sake of amusement, my list (across all of my highest characters) comes up something like this:
5. Playing crazy games with my guild mates (there's a post coming on this)
4. Falling off Aldor rise ( I swear, I can be on a flying mount and I'll still run off and miss that elevator. I just don't die anymore.)
3. Mage grinding: *aoe* *aoe* *aoe* *aoe* oom uh...
2. /cast
1. [ Disconnected from server ]
How about you? If you had to rank the top 5 reasons you tend to die in game, what would they be?
[via the general forums]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Breakfast Topics, Humor






Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Kirby1612 May 9th 2007 8:18AM
5) Server DC
4) AFK browsing thottobot/internet
3) Getting food without telling my group in an instance
2) Logging in and my flying mount is gone and not hitting flight form quick enough.
1) WARLOCKS!!!
mewyn May 9th 2007 8:26AM
I usually die from doing something that was too high a level for me (although soon that won't be a problem), running OOM, not watching my health (bad habit, in a group I watch everyone else's health but my own ~.~), the classic bad pull, and the number one reason I die... HORDE! If we can only get rid of them, it wouldn't be a problem. :)
Lucas May 9th 2007 9:03AM
Currently Top 5 Reasons I die is.
(I'm PvE Healing priest spec'ed)
5. Alliance sees me grinding they even have time to do a /lol /point /spit before finishing me in a orgie of crits and stuns.
4. Fat fingers hitting wrong buttons at wrong times - like Fear instead of fade (looks a whole lot alike if in a hurry).
3. Casting H.., H.. oh.. it was elite! :-/
2. Jumping off my flying mount, hitting the levitate to late, due to lag, as it needs to draw the last mobs on the ground.
1. Me jumping up and down in places where one should most surely not jump around.
Toolio May 9th 2007 8:26AM
5) Hogger hits hard
4) Failed to tame Ornery Plainstrider, forgot to put on Aspect of the Monkey
3) Stupid Pet Can't Hold Aggro
2) Hard to play and watch Dave Coulier Stand-Up routine simultaneously
1) Carpel Tunnel
Tony May 9th 2007 8:26AM
5) Server Disconnect
4) Pulling that one extra mob
3) Stumbling upon an elite rare mob, Nerubian Overseer FTL
2) going OOM
1) Can't find/forgetting I have Lay of Hands
TV Genius is a Dumb ass May 9th 2007 8:47AM
5) My ADD (Tend to wonder afk often)
4) Pats >.<
3) Thottbot, Allakhazam, WoWHead...
2) 70's think there cool
1) Mutilate Crit...Eviscerate Crit (Bosses usually don't like that)
Darkfibre May 9th 2007 8:46AM
5) Fishing at the elemental plateau
4) Wonder if the tank can keep aggro if i do(fill in the blank here)
3) Stupid rogue ganked me while i was fighting mobs
2) Stupid stealthed druid ganked me while i was fighting mobs
1) I'm a warlock, I can solo anything. Oh wait, that one's immune to fear...
Tigraine May 9th 2007 8:44AM
5) Girlfriend
4) Chatting while taking on 3 or more mobs
3) No Vanish-Powder
2) Classic, bad pull
1) Raid Content.
Yea I know my #1 reason is kinda silly.
But I rarely die outside of Raids while trying out new bosses. So dying 20 times a day on Magtheridon while only dying once a week outside is a reason to put it on #1 :)
Ryan May 9th 2007 8:53AM
@4 Cut. It. Out.
RaydenUni May 9th 2007 9:01AM
5) Dropping off that ledge that I'm "pretty sure" I can survive, only to realize at the last moment I can't and not getting levitate off soon enough.
4) Random wandering elites. http://www.wowinsider.com/2007/05/04/around-azeroth-wish-you-were-here/
3) Accidentally getting too much aggro during a raid. Shadow priests don't generally survive many hits.
2) Thinking I can pull the number of mobs I can pull plus one more! Or running into another mob while fighting one.
1) Alliance
FadedReality May 9th 2007 9:05AM
5.) Auto-run flying mount to Skettis over the Alliance town.
4.) Forgetting that if I just drop Shadowform, I *can* heal myself.
3.) PW:S not being nearly enough to kite a Fel Reaver to Thrallmar.
2.) Panicking and hitting Psychic Scream only to have the mobs bring back friends.
1.) Not making sure I have Light Feathers before jumping.
Gamer Mommy May 9th 2007 9:13AM
5. Missing the elevator in Undercity
4. PC freeze up when Norton starts running
3. Accidentally pulling the mob way back in the instance instead of the one in front with my pet
2. Falling of a cliff
1. Elite mobs I think I can solo
Elbows May 9th 2007 9:15AM
1. Girlfriend.
2. Aldor Rise (not since 70 though).
3. This mob can aimed shot crit? ....oh wait.
4. Trying to land a chrage mid air after dismounting from reallllly high up.
5. Must....mine....ore.
Zorrg May 9th 2007 9:22AM
1-5) "And wow! Hey! What's this thing coming towards me very fast? Very very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding word like... ow... ound... round... ground! That's it! That's a good name -ground!
I wonder if it will be friends with me?"
Falgorn May 9th 2007 9:23AM
5. Going afk at a summoning stone.
4. Trying to solo the start of an Instance while I wait for the group.
3. Moroes with 1 priest.
2. Someone moving during Flame Wrath.
1. Never being able to resist de activating a Horde Flight point at Halaa
Lemming May 9th 2007 9:33AM
5. Leaving my Demon on Aggresive
4. Not understanding that Elite really means Elite.
3. Not watching my health and mana enough
2. A stupid Group Member
1. Respawns appearing around me.
Jon May 9th 2007 9:31AM
5. "Daddy, can we move Mervyn on his Gryph?" Yeah, Sure. "How do we go down? oops... sorry Daddy I you fell."
4. Damn -- in the dead zone -- back up... uh oh 4 mobs behind me.
3. Accidentally making my send pet key the same as my Vent push-to-talk key.
2. also the "wwwwwwwwwwwwwwww11111111111222222222"
1. Wife Aggro
Mystrana May 9th 2007 9:31AM
I'm on a pvp situation... I'm a holy/disc priest.. I die a lot.
1) PvP situations where I'm used as bait since I have my spirit form when I die
2) Raid situations where the tank can't hold aggro or the hunters feign death after getting hit one time
and of course
3) My "Personal Favorite": dying, and then running back to my corpse, waiting for the coast to be clear, coming back to life, and being attack by a mob that runs when pacing (Like an owlbeast or yeti in winterspring). /cry
Thalor May 9th 2007 5:39PM
5. Getting ganked
4. Drawing threat
3. Browsing web
2. Quitting quick (not waiting the time to properly do it)
1. Just being in STV or Hillsbrad
Cailleach May 9th 2007 9:45AM
#14 wins this thread for gratuitous, yet on-topic Doug Adams reference.