Breakfast Topic: Guild sayings
by Mike Schramm 
May 22nd 2008 at 8:00AM
Anteia emailed us about sayings that her guild has -- when guildies enter guild chat, apparently they say "Parn," for no other reason than at one point someone said "Hola" while their Draenei filter was on, and it came out as "parn." Thanks to a guild typo, they also use "exacrit" in place of "exactly" (as something that crits logic), and running away in cheetah form is referred to as "hauling cat out of there." That's a good one, actually.My guild has a few sayings (most of which have already sneaked into Guildwatch), though my personal favorite is simply yelling "Shaman Power!" when a Shaman in guild gets a nice drop or does something spectacular. Not nearly as catchy as Anteia's examples, though.
Has your guild built up your own jargon or sayings? When a group of people are placed in situations like this, it's almost unavoidable that they'd build up their own meanings and words among each other. What are some good sayings and phrases that your guild uses ingame?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Guilds, Breakfast Topics
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Blunderbooze May 22nd 2008 8:08AM
In my guild we say "Fail bail" when we PuG someone and he or she leaves all of a sudden for some obscure or unknown reason.That'd be the Shandris guild, btw.
Karentkd May 22nd 2008 1:21PM
The hubby is leveling a holy priest, and every time he groups with anyone, for dungeons or otherwise, he reminds them of his frail constitution by saying....
"An ogre sneezes in Duskwood and somewhere a priest dies."
Now whenever anyone dies, we say things like "Did an ogre sneeze?" "Gehzuntite!" "Watch out for ogre boogies!"
meaddrinker May 22nd 2008 8:18AM
we have a bunch of saying in clan pooh , they're all kinda rood though..
If someone's really good , they're a sick c*nt , really bad they're a sh!t c*nt , and the general retort to anything said about you is "eat a d!ck" (or just "ead" ). "Laters" is said to you if you've just died or done something stupid.
But aside from all the swearing , we're all really nice people, honest..
Whitt May 22nd 2008 8:21AM
We have a subtle tactical manoeuvre:
"Windmill In!"
amg May 22nd 2008 8:32AM
Disciples of Delusion has a few...
"You roll like a Hunter!" - Referring to the fact that our GL's Hunter tends to roll single digit numbers all too often.
"That's because I don't leave AoP on" - One of our officers Hunter Alt's forgets to turn off Aspect of the Pack. The game punishes him - but not as often as his guildees.
"Hey y'all watch this!" - Right before a bad pull.... Back in the EQ days we had a newish player who decided to jump into the pit of doom right as the group leader was explaining not to do that... he's yet to live it down.
"Asps." - Go Indie! Uttered by the back field to the Tank... it has turned into our version of "Good luck" even if Sallah meant it as a you-go-get-your-butt-kicked-first-Indiana.
Xino May 22nd 2008 8:22AM
When we are on a boss and he is very low in health we say "throw the gnomes".
orla May 22nd 2008 2:39PM
also from the old CotD days: Loot the Taggers, MEELEE IN/ OUT, Cranglish.
Also more recently: any variations of asking for a click on a mag cube. (CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK....., WTB Click, ect.)
also when ever someone says hail, we all respond with other types of weather (Hail, Snow, Sleet, Partly cloudy)
Eldron May 22nd 2008 5:26PM
hehe
My guild's second kill of Magtheridon was heading towards a wipe witrh him on about 4%, and those of us who were dead started yelling 'throw the kitchen sink at him' 'throw the plumbing' etc. Finally, I yelled out (as someone typed it as well) 'pick up the dead gnomes and throw them at him'. Bang, he died. Now, 'throw the gnomes' is a good luck call to be yelled in Vent when a boss is at les than 10% health :)
Seraya May 22nd 2008 8:23AM
Whenever someone dies unexpectedly, it's to a whirlwind. Always.
Then there's the guild motto... "We wipe on trash."
Evermore May 22nd 2008 8:24AM
If we can't make it to something in our guild we blame it on a 'Clizzard'
moink May 22nd 2008 8:24AM
When somebody screws up (e.g. moves on a flame wreath), we smear jam on them.
Also, the orange circle raid marking is known as "cheese nipple."
Jordrah May 22nd 2008 8:29AM
the orange circle was known as the condom in my old guild and we would throw it up on people that were being stupid or annoying, or if we just wanted to annoy that certain person
Rag May 22nd 2008 8:31AM
We have a saying in our guild in case we need to speed up on a boss or move faster, we tell each other to "move fast like bunnies". The GL was being very funny one day and when she said that it just stuck.
Kiki May 23rd 2008 12:31AM
Yup, orange circle for us is the "Nipple of Shame", to be dumped unceremoniously on the person with a recent Epic Fail. (eg ninjapulling HKM, hitting a warlock in Maggy while we're buffing... That kinda thing!)
Clasifyd May 22nd 2008 8:33AM
One of my favorite saying my guild has is 'One shot on the nth try!' It started on, I believe, Netherspite when we had planned on one shotting him, our first official Kara on farm week. We, of course, wiped for some ridiculous reason, so someone shouted out on vent, 'Well, so much for one-shot, let's try it again.' followed by someone else saying 'Yeah, one-shot on the second try!'
Kassel May 22nd 2008 8:14PM
When someone says "goodbye" in Guild Chat and then logs out very swiftly, thus denying anyone the opportunity to reply, we yell "Krreq'd!" as that was the trademark exit of a guild member by that name!
Krreq, buddy? This is your 15 seconds of internet fame - live it up! :-)
Vizzni May 23rd 2008 5:25PM
We call that "ninja-logging". I always do it. I'm a ninja-logger!
Goldwolf May 22nd 2008 8:34AM
"SHAMAN POWER" actually comes from this flash animation by Legendary Frog: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/315613
Watch the cartoon to get to the end, then click around for a FANTASTIC easter egg animation where the sheer awesomeness of Shaman power before 2.0 makes dragons drop dead.
Kaeb May 22nd 2008 11:35AM
that was absolutely worth watching that cartoon twice to figure out where the mentioned animation is at! (It's in Thanks to Blizzard, [for all my inspiration])
"Something else dropped! It's [Chocolate]! "
"OMG NEED!"
"Enchant it with [Peanut Brittle]!"
"+ 5 to yumminess!"
mbenitez1992 May 22nd 2008 12:59PM
'He's immune to literature!'
ROFL that so made my day! xD