The Egotistical Priest
An irreverent and opinionated discussion of the many classes
in the World of Warcraft gaming universe.
Lucky Charms
by Vonya
Wait, how did Thursday get here already? Egads!
Short post today (ha! We’ll see how long THAT prediction lasts, shall we?) but it’s something I’ve actually been curious about.
What are your lucky charms?
What things do you do when you’re hoping for a drop?
Let’s face it, we’re humans, we’re superstitious creatures. There’s a reason that so many sports stars have lucky socks, or shorts, or whatever. The reason isn’t necessarily because they actually ARE lucky, but rather because the player thinks they are.
So what are your lucky charms?
For the Ego crew, it’s kind of silly. The person who really wants a drop has to /yell “Zar Kieldaz!” sometime during the bossfight.
Alternately, /yelling “I don’t need your steenkin loot!” has been known to work.
The second really doesn’t need much explanation. The bosses are perversely more likely to drop the loot you’ve been waiting for if they believe you no longer need it. You have to really be convincing when you do the yell, or else it won’t work.
The first probably needs a bit of explanation.
Any of you ever seen the movie “Better Off Dead” ?
It’s a classic. And I mean that in the way that means it’s a good movie and also in the way that means it’s old and kinda funky when compared to the stuff that comes out today.
Anyway, in this movie, the main character has a lot of subplots that weave their way around the central plot. One of those plots is this newspaper boy on a bicycle. Apparently our hero owes two dollars for the newspaper stuff, but for various reasons, he keeps putting the kid off, again and again.
As the movie progresses, the kid keeps showing up on his bike, asking for his “two dollars, mister”.
Again, and again, and again he gets put off. It starts to get creepy, and by the end of the movie the main character finally yelps and pays the kid, who smiles and bikes off.
Well, how often do you feel like that kid, asking for your “two dollars” from the bosses?
Right, well, the OLD good luck charm used to be /yelling “Two Dollars!”.
As an aside, I have a pair of socks that say “Two dollars, Mister” and have a little kid on a bike woven into the design. No, they aren’t lucky socks, but they’re funny as hell.
Anyway, one of us who needed the loot was afflicted by Curse of Tongues, which some of you may remember, turns all of your speech into Demonic for the duration.
When he yelled out for his loot, instead of the familiar “Two Dollars!”, we heard “Zar Kieldaz!”
So there you have it. The Ego lucky charm is shouting “Zar Kieldaz!” at the bosses, channeling the dogged determination of that newspaperboy with all our might. We’re not giving up till you hand over the loot, so you might as well hand it over. We WILL be back.
ZAR KIELDAZ!
June 26th, 2008
Hehehe. Love that movie. “Gee, I’m really sorry your mom blew up Ricky”
June 26th, 2008
My lucky charm is to buy the badge/uber-crafted upgrade that is superior to the piece I want. Works without fail.
June 26th, 2008
I don’t have one for obtaining particular pieces of loot, per se. However, before every arena match and before every battleground that I go to with my hunter, I must first ensure that my pet is summoned and active, and then I must put up aspects in this very order: Aspect of the Hawk, Aspect of the Monkey, Aspect of the Cheetah, Aspect of the Beast, Aspect of the Pack, Aspect of the Wild, and then Aspect of the Hawk (again). This must be done before the match begins and my pet must be active. If I mess up, it is too late and I will have to fight without luck on my side. However, it has proven to help me out in most cases that it is performed correctly.
June 26th, 2008
Whenever some guildies and I do BGs together, we have to pat the Hunter’s pet (a tiger named Chloe). If said hunter is with us, Chloe will help us through if we’re nice to her. But if you happen to think that this works on a regular basis and that she is a cheap luck trinket or something (i.e. – pat her before an instance run instead of a BG), may God have mercy on your soul, you inconsiderate self-centered whelp!
June 26th, 2008
We don’t have one for particular loot drops, but we do know that no matter what, we can NOT feed the tree-druid any food consumables.
If Harken eats a consumable, the raid wipes. To the point where, now, when we have an unexpected wipe, nearly the first thing that gets asked in vent is – “Harken, did you eat anything?”
June 26th, 2008
I must not be human… I don’t do anything of the sort.
June 26th, 2008
Anna-
I have heard that story before I think on lightnatured.com. I wonder if you , the druid or someone else in your group posted that there. Either that or maybe feeding trees is just bad!
June 26th, 2008
Oh posted to Anna and forgot about the actual post….I do not use anything at all for good luck.
June 26th, 2008
I’ve actually taken to keeping a http://thottbot.com/i3300 in the last slot of my bags everywhere I go.
No matter how starved I get for bag space, the foot is always with me.
Heck, I’ve started giving them out to close friends when I happen to get extra.
Ya never know
June 26th, 2008
I want my two dollars! haha I love it that movie.
For me it is mostly just a shot of tequila and a healthy ‘yeeeehaaaaw!” But then again I don’t really care about loot that much either lol
June 26th, 2008
Oh yeah. I forgot sometimes I just yell “Bring the mother effing RUCKUS!!!”
June 26th, 2008
I’ve found the only reliable good luck charm for me is to not be present for the drop. Works without fail. Every single piece of armour that I’ve ever wanted only drops if I’m not there. If I am there and the piece drops, then someone else will get it. Only once no one else needs the drop, am I ever allowed to get loot. Because the game hates me. A lot.
Although, recently, I have taken to having one of my guildmates accompanying me wherever I go, since she has the best loot luck I have ever seen. Seriously. Took her to SM the first time, the epic ring dropped. Took her again a week later so she could do the quests, epic ring dropped AGAIN. Took her to Mauradon, every single bit of pallytank loot that could drop, did drop (and she’s a pallytank.) Took her to BRD, a BOE epic drops. The girl has had more epics drop for her in just a few months than I’ve seen outside of raids since release.
June 26th, 2008
hahaha my entire guild /yell “CHUTAR A BUNDA”.
Chutar a bunda is “kick ass” in brazilian portuguese
soo we yell, fight and one shot everyone >:3
June 27th, 2008
Back in the day, my brother and I used to yell “For the Thunderfist Clan!” before we’d charge into boss battles. Then again, that was when we would go into Scarlet Monastery and roleplay the entire damn time, pissing off the newbies we were pugging with. But our close friends, they loved every second of it. The two drunken dwarven elders, one healing, the other pally-tanking, just having a go at it and drinking more ale mid fight, because, well, why not?
Yeah. Good times. Now my Priest rots in a guild I don’t play in anymore and sits in healing gear and a Shadow spec. *sigh* I wish I could play him again as the Healer he should be.
June 27th, 2008
Before I stopped raiding (or doing anything at 70 in fact) we had a certain little thing that helped out. My Draenai priest did the easter egg quest to get the chicken non-combat pet. I got this around level 14 or something and it went to every single instance and raid I did with the guild. What we didn’t know was that the chicken had supernatural powers of loot magnetics.
If someone wanted a particular piece of loot the chicken would need to be summoned before the fight and supplicated with the name of the particular drop. Our MT farmed Steam Vaults (I think) for the tanking cloak for weeks without it dropping. I go with him for the first time, flop out the chicken and lo and behold, first time through it drops. This particular chicken also enjoyed using his powers of wipe avoidance. If were were struggling with a particular fight, we’d turn to his royal poultryness and 9 times out of 10 we’d get through the fight without any problems.
I love that chicken!
June 27th, 2008
Two words:
FISHING ROD.
June 27th, 2008
Human and not superstitious.
July 1st, 2008
We had (no longer have) someone in our raid who was constantly yelling at us to use our trinkets-every 30 seconds. It go annoying quickly, and soon became a joke once the person left. So if we’re feeling goofy we yell “Scrawww! Trinkets!” or some variation (like that bird boss-I forget which instance they’re in). It gets laughs and does gently remind everyone to use their trinkets.