What is your Lame Claim to Fame in WoW?

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They say everyone has their fifteen minutes of fame. Have you yet had yours in WoW?

I think my biggest claim was a thread on Cro Threadstrong way back in the day that kicked off the investigation of some very clever environmental storytelling Blizzard had done. I found it on the Wayback Machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20071205101929/http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3168332440&sid=1&pageNo=1

Eventually, we got some developer attention, and the “story” even progressed a little as the expansion went on with some subtle nods to the thread.

Have you yet had your time to shine?

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Digital fame eternal in my case:
https://www.wowhead.com/npc=158544/lord-herne#screenshots:id=963434

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Also, for reference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3vBvlT1i_k&ab_channel=alyankovicVEVO

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I’ve got two:

  • Set a bunch of dps world records back in TBC

  • Wrote a theory about the Ashbringer back in vanilla that was used as the basis for the hidden Ashbringer skin “quest” chain.

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I got the name Garrosh on one realm and Mechagnome on another.

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I probably read your theory back in the day. I remember the “clues” leading us to Outland and the Dire Maul stuff… that was quite some time ago, though, so I can’t recall the specifics.

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Here’s the original post:

http://web.archive.org/web/20051110023839/http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-general&T=4970408&P=1

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I’ll have to give it another read when I get home!

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Server 2nd for the Mechanohog back in WotLK. Was racing with an Alliance player who beat me by about twenty minutes. After mine was done we met up in Dalaran and had drag races around town and people were paying us to ride in the sidecars.

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I started the “mammoth train” phenomenon back in Wrath. I remember getting trolled heavily for trying to start it up on 2 different servers. Now its a thing that happens.

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This character is in some dudes YouTube video about the ridiculousness of the selfie camera being added to WoW.
Tho I can’t find the video anymore.

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I wrote a question on the launch of the WoW Classic servers to Ion and he answered it.

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have you ever heard the tragedy of darth plagueis the wise…?

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Not in WoW, and not anywhere, ever. Well, maybe my 40th and 50th and 60th birthday parties. Speaking of 60… I still have time for fame!

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Which question?

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yes and no.

I HIGHLY doubt many (if any) know that I broke the game way back in the early days of Worgen race.

I (somehow) managed to get out of the questing zone into deadmines and died and then somehow didnt get put back in worgen starting area and was stranded in Westfall.
hearth didnt do anything as it was a different phase.

Had to wait a few hours for GM to contact me throguh ticket and they were shocked i had managed to get out of the area before i should of.

i logged out waited a bit and came in so the GM could put me back where i should be.

Its not much, but I can say I have that memory of WoW fame.

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Reminds me of an instance glitch we had in those first few weeks of raiding.

So we all start filing into Molten Core to get the week’s raid in. Ragnaros hadn’t even been downed on our server yet, but we were getting close and were hoping we might see him this week. We did. But not as we expected.

Anyone who has raided MC knows about those two Molten Giant doormen that greet you and stare while the raid forms up. Oddly… they weren’t there. Raid leader asks if anyone had been in the raid previously that week, and no one had. It was still Tuesday. Once we had 20 or so of us in, we started to venture in deeper to investigate.

Bosses are missing.
Runes are doused.
What is going on?

Then, we hear it. Ragnaros is yelling about stuff?! We head back to his chamber, and 'lo and behold… there’s an Alliance raid group there in the midst of an attempt.

We wiped them, naturally.

Apparently there was a hiccup that assigned the same raid ID to our group’s leader that had already been assigned to that Alliance raid. It was a truly unique experience, and I still hear it alluded to from time to time on our server.

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I’ve got the fastest dab in the west.

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I started a war at the main Songflower in Classic on my realm this past week. I’m not proud of it but there it is.

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Cannot say I’ve ever done anything of note in this game. And you know, I’m alright with that, as I get older I’m less concerned with making a mark than I am just living my best life, I guess.