Leroy Jenkins
There's an amazing story about a kid named Leroy Jenkins. I don't think that's his actual name, but that's his character name is World of Warcraft, and that's the name he's famous under.
People make videos of certain things in WoW. They do it for diverse reasons, chronicle achievement, amusement, instructional, and bragging rights PVP videos, but the point is that they make them and then share them over the forums. One of the them was of one of the first raids on Onyxia. Onyxia is a giant black dragon and the second hardest boss in the entire game. The fact that it's earlier makes it even harder because people haven't had a chance to figure out how best to fight the creature.
One thing to understand about raids this high level. They're incredibly complex and intricate, and as such they're rigorously planned out. Everyone has gone over how they're going to do everything, why, and what to do if they can't. The video opens on a scene of 40 people standing around arranging themselves into proper formation for the raid. People talk strategy back and forth while one person periodically announces a name followed by a %. As it turns out that person was individually evaluating people by their gear and stats then announcing their % of survival. He's almost always right, which is interesting on its' own, but isn't the subject of this story.
During the middle of this planning and orchestrating Leroy comes back from getting a Pepsi, sits down and sits down at his computer. He types out the now famous words "Ok fellas, lets do this" then bluntly charges in with no respect to formation, grouping, or agro management. What ensues is an en entirely improvised onyxia fight, an unheard of thing, and, and, a glorious victory.
Ever since that day Leroy has been known as the person who rushes in blindly and just starts fighting. It's generally not associated with victory, but with the act of rushing in with no respect for tactics or agro management. I admit that I had gone a long way to having that be called a Slyz, the phrase pulling a Slyz was the same thing before Jenkins made himself famous but only my guild used it.
My character name is Slyz btw.
It wouldn't be a remarkable story if it stopped here, it would just be another page in the great lexicon of the world of warcraft. It goes so much further. Numerous game magazines have paid handsomely for interviews with him, he was given a free pass and plane ticket to Blizz-con as a a public commendation / demonstration of some sort there. And now He's made it into the main stream. Because on jeopardy the answer was "This video game started in 2004 puts players into the world of Azeroth where heroes such as Leroy Jenkins fight evil"
I'm just waiting for the day some political humorist describes the Iraq war as Bush "Going Jenkins on the Middle East"
People make videos of certain things in WoW. They do it for diverse reasons, chronicle achievement, amusement, instructional, and bragging rights PVP videos, but the point is that they make them and then share them over the forums. One of the them was of one of the first raids on Onyxia. Onyxia is a giant black dragon and the second hardest boss in the entire game. The fact that it's earlier makes it even harder because people haven't had a chance to figure out how best to fight the creature.
One thing to understand about raids this high level. They're incredibly complex and intricate, and as such they're rigorously planned out. Everyone has gone over how they're going to do everything, why, and what to do if they can't. The video opens on a scene of 40 people standing around arranging themselves into proper formation for the raid. People talk strategy back and forth while one person periodically announces a name followed by a %. As it turns out that person was individually evaluating people by their gear and stats then announcing their % of survival. He's almost always right, which is interesting on its' own, but isn't the subject of this story.
During the middle of this planning and orchestrating Leroy comes back from getting a Pepsi, sits down and sits down at his computer. He types out the now famous words "Ok fellas, lets do this" then bluntly charges in with no respect to formation, grouping, or agro management. What ensues is an en entirely improvised onyxia fight, an unheard of thing, and, and, a glorious victory.
Ever since that day Leroy has been known as the person who rushes in blindly and just starts fighting. It's generally not associated with victory, but with the act of rushing in with no respect for tactics or agro management. I admit that I had gone a long way to having that be called a Slyz, the phrase pulling a Slyz was the same thing before Jenkins made himself famous but only my guild used it.
My character name is Slyz btw.
It wouldn't be a remarkable story if it stopped here, it would just be another page in the great lexicon of the world of warcraft. It goes so much further. Numerous game magazines have paid handsomely for interviews with him, he was given a free pass and plane ticket to Blizz-con as a a public commendation / demonstration of some sort there. And now He's made it into the main stream. Because on jeopardy the answer was "This video game started in 2004 puts players into the world of Azeroth where heroes such as Leroy Jenkins fight evil"
I'm just waiting for the day some political humorist describes the Iraq war as Bush "Going Jenkins on the Middle East"
posted by Max at 3:27 AM
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