Breakfast Topic: Feats of Fail
by Robin Torres 
Sep 17th 2009 at 8:00AM
I am not normally a Dinger in guildchat -- that's just so EQ -- but this time, I had to announce the dubious honor of dinging while dead. A guildie suggested that Blizzard implement Achievements specifically to commemorate events like this: Feats of Fail. The Achievement for leveling while dead could be called "Better Late than Never". (See what I did there?)
I would love to see this implemented and there would be so many I could easily get, like an Achievement for dying in the Undercity Elevators X number of times. (It's a Doozie!) I'd also easily earn one for how often I've shape changed on my druid in a small space and gotten stuck. (Time to Change Classes.) The Spousal Unit has accidentally drowned so frequently, he deserves a "Not a Witch" Achievement.
What Feats of Fail would you earn?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics, Humor, Achievements
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 10)
Matchu Sep 17th 2009 8:05AM
"It Burns!!" - Hellfiring yourself to death.
"I'll save you!" - accidentally divine interventioning your main tank
nyctef Sep 17th 2009 8:17AM
You're Doing It Wrong: Kill General Bjarngrim while engaging a trash pack, while he has a Temporary Electric Charge and with both Lieutenants alive.
Zenith Sep 17th 2009 8:19AM
Hellfire suicide is not really something of a failure, I do it all the time in raids(after lifetapping to almost dead) when something has hit the fan and the wipe order has been given, saves me a lot on repairs
raspybunk Sep 17th 2009 8:53AM
My guildies and I discussed this last easter time when we were trying to put bunny ears on a female troll who although we waved and cheered kept running around aggroing tons of mobs and killed themselves.
Glaras Sep 17th 2009 10:50AM
Zenith, I learned about that trick a few months ago. So I make a point, when the 'locks are trying to avoid repairs like that, of healing them with everything I have left, to keep them upright until they die like the rest of us.
If I'm losing gold, so are they...
Garviel Sep 17th 2009 11:13AM
"And by 'slow' I mean 'F'ing slow'" - successfully do the least DPS on any raid boss.
artifex Sep 17th 2009 12:32PM
Zenith: Hellfire is how I slipped into dungeons when I didn't have the key :)
Figured out eventually that if I didn't have the key, I wasn't gonna be great at soloing the instance...
Thyen Sep 17th 2009 9:40PM
Glaras - Seriously, that's the most petty thing I've heard in a while. "If I'm losing gold, so are they." I'm surprised nobody's called you out on that before... I'd hate to be in your raid or 5-mans. I'd go as far as to kick you for pulling that kind of thing if you were in one of mine.
But on topic.... "Never Ready"... click 'no' to ready checks 100 times. "Where the Heck Are You" be afk for 100 ready checks
Mr. Tastix Sep 18th 2009 7:39AM
Glaras, that's extremely petty.
Umehte Sep 17th 2009 8:05AM
I would have to go with "High Speed Dirt" (Falling to your death in each faction's capital city.)
I hope achievements are retroactive.
Miranda Kali Sep 17th 2009 8:10AM
Or perhaps... "Wile E. Coyote - Super Genius".
ROB13 Sep 17th 2009 8:07AM
"You Can Dance If You Want Too"
Wipe on the Heigen Dance =(
PeeWee Sep 17th 2009 8:43AM
That is so made of win I don't even know where to start :D
Rai Sep 17th 2009 10:24AM
"You Can Leave Your Friends Behind".
Staying out of the room while the rest of your raid wipes on the Heigan dance.
artifex Sep 17th 2009 12:39PM
One of those should be "No Friend Of Mine," because of how the song goes.
Hangk Sep 17th 2009 12:44PM
Going with the theme...
"Your Friends Don't Dance": Be the only living raid member when Heigen is defeated.
Orrine Sep 17th 2009 8:07AM
Be killed by another player 100 times in a row without getting honorable kill between whose deaths.
Yes, I suck in PvP that much :P
Orrine Sep 17th 2009 8:10AM
Don't really know how to call this achievement. "L2P" maybe.
/sigh
impurezero Sep 17th 2009 11:27AM
Don't really know how you missed the entire point of the article, which is, "Thing's youve done that sucked and would be funny to get "anti-achievmenets' For. Maybe you can only see a few parts of your screen at a time with that obviously massive ePeen you're sportin' sparky?
How about L2f***ckingread.
Nolls74 Sep 17th 2009 12:17PM
Genius, Orrine was trying to think of a name for his/her own achievement of sucking at pvp. So maybe if you learned to read yourself, you would have figured that out without needing to troll around on the wow.com comments page.