So glad you got to experience this bit of gaming history. To. This. Day. There are those that will scream this legend's name while running headfirst into danger or certain death. The spirit of Leeroy lives on.
The neighbours, deciding they’ve let Hannah live oblivious to Leeroy for too long: *’Alright time’s up let’s do this* (to Hannah) *LEEROYYYYYYY JENKINSSSSSS!’*
@@HannaHsOverInvested ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-75xqO53pDjc.html this is a pretty good lore one that's not mainstream but it also has a song at the end made by a player :) (it's the halloween event)
Leeroy is playing a plate wearing class, Paladin. That boss is optional and dropped the priest shoulders which paladins could wear. They were planning what to do (if you touched the eggs the spawn dragon whelps) and he just charged in screaming his name and wiped the whole party. I know you’ve already recorded a bunch, but for Halloween I definitely recommend PlatinumWow’s video on the HeadlessHorseman ( yes real life Hollidays are in the game)
Furthermore, the very-detailed plan that the raid leader is discussing before Leeroy just ran in...? It's completely nonsensical if you know what that encounter is like and what the mentioned abilities do. Divine Intervention, for instance, puts a bubble of invincibility on a targeted ally (and took them out of combat) at a cost of the paladin's life. Also, the ally in question can't attack or cast spells for the duration. Using it on a mage is absurd. It was normally used on a healer if the raid was about to wipe, so the healer could resurrect everyone after the encounter reset. In short, to regular World of Warcraft players, this video is an absolutely hilarious parody of hard-core raiding guilds. As a footnote, the real Leeroy Jenkins appears in person in the "15 Years of World of Warcraft" celebration video.
Wasn't Leroy afk (away from keyboard) getting food (hence the line "at least I have chicken" at the end) and came back and just charged in getting everyone killed?
That was the skit essentially, yeah. The party was planning this whole intricate battle plan, and Leroy was AFK at the time. As soon as he got back, he instantly shouts his battle cry and runs into combat, without even checking if the rest of the party was ready, let alone knowing the plan they had just made.
04:00 In that area of the dungeon there is a small room full of dragon eggs. When you get close to one it will hatch a small dragon. There are literally hundreds of those eggs in that small room and they were running around hatching huge numbers. They now have a title you can get there by killing like 50 of them in 15 seconds. The Leeroy Jenkins title.
It's a much simpler joke than it initially seems. Basically these guys are all planning thoroughly--very serious about this, and their probabilities and whatever. And then Leeroy basically just wakes up, and charges into battle with nothing but a battle-cry & chicken. They're forced to join him in the fight, and whatever plan they were brewing up goes RIGHT out the window. Basically, their whole adventure into the dungeon was ended by 1 guy being really hilariously stupid, and way too eager. Here's a short, based on it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Rj22DbRoAPM.html
Classic :D wasn't expecting you to react to this! An explanation of the skit if you'll appreciate it: High level characters in World of Warcraft can decide to group up to tackle some of the hardest dungeons in the game. At the time of that comedy sketch, Leeroy and co were about to do one of the hardest of the hardest, but while the group was discussing tactics, leeroy was ostensibly away from his computer making chicken, and when he got back, he decided to charge in xD The rest of the group tried to carry the plan out while trying to do some last ditch efforts: Divine Intervention (a particular type of player can sacrifice themself to protect the MVP) and Soul stones (a particular type of player can preemptively reserve themselves or another player so if they die, they can bring themselves back to life) but none of these were enough to save the group. throughout the ordeal, Leeroy ran round the dungeon room causing all the dragons to hatch (careful players can move around the eggs to avoid engaging them), which of cause overwhelmed the group and caused everyone to die (wipe). but at least he had chicken :D
@@axelpio9446 lol yeah, it was totally a sketch. It was deliberately meant to be absurd :P I wasn't sure at first but in hindsight having things like that dude give them a number crunch was a bit of a giveaway
Omg 😂 I think the thing that I love most about your videos is that you're just so "game" to see/experience/learn about things, no matter how obscure, nerdy, ridiculous they may be - haha you're a beautiful soul and I'm so glad I found this channel!
That boss was a difficult one at the time ...certainly doable, but it required a lot of cooperation and planning to know what you were going to do. So they sat outside the room planning in detail how they were going to kill the boss... and then out of the blue Leroy Jenkins "wakes up" and having ignored all the planning just runs in and attracts ALL the enemy mobs in a wild beserker fashion...getting his entire group killed. It was very funny...it was also a set up. They planned and acted out the entire skit. It was hilarious and made them legends!
I'm so glad I found your channel, I've been laughing nonstop at your reactions in different videos about gaming and I'm not even a fan of reaction videos, but you're hilarious!
Moar dots is another famous WoW meme video that went mainstream around the same time. The raid leader was known for being highly aggressive towards his raiders, but you cant deny... he cleared dungeons effectively.
Dungeon raids are all about teamwork where everyone has to do their part. Your group could spend hours dying ('wiping') on the same boss before you got it right. One person could get everyone killed. Just an FYI: A standard dungeon requires a tank (the person who must 'hold aggro'), the healer (the person who keeps everyone alive) and three dps (the people who do the majority of damage). Holding aggro is creating a high threat so all the baddies attack you and not the other players. The big raids use to have 40 players, which was a lot of fun.
It's the dragon whelp egg room in Upper Blackrock Spire. Basically if you touch the eggs in the room, they burst open and create a dragon whelp. If you're a bunch of idiots, you chaotically run about like tools and spawn whelp after whelp, the group gets overwhelmed and everyone dies. The boss is at the end of the room, so you have to carefully make your way to them. It's an optional boss, and 99% of groups just skip it because the loot is bad and it's a painful room. The only reason the group attempts the room, is because Leeroy wants an extremely sub-optimal for him piece of loot from the boss. The group makes a plan to deal with the room, and Leeroy isn't even listening as he's getting food delivered. He returns to his computer and immediately runs into the room and aggros basically everything. The group as a result gets completely wiped and everyone dies. But at least Leeroy has his hot chicken. Thus to "Leeroy Jenkins" something, means to run in without a plan, armed with little more than your overconfidence. It's like a Hail Mary in football, except you do it right at the start of the game when there's absolutely no need to, and you lose the entire game if it fails. Which it usually does lol.
If you haven't seen the A Toast to 15 Years video for warcraft, Leeroy Jenkins is in it and the voice acter for eyebrows, she is an old lady in the vid
It's so good because even people who have never played WOW hear about it and then the build up is just you watching a bunch of guys take it so seriously and nerding out so hard, especially to anyone who has never played a game this involved, and then a classic idiotic tv joke trope happens and you watch everyone die because of it... It's perfect LMAO.
From the looks of confusion on your face basically Leeroy Jenkins was a World of Warcraft skit that turn into a viral meme and is a reference a trope used today basically it's what happens when a person who stupidly idiotically goes out of his way to not listen to but also screw up a perfectly laid out plan to extremely difficult but manageable problem basically a person that does more damage than good by not listening or in other words a person that makes a bad situation worse than it is and wind up getting his whole squad or team killed in the process the meme/ Trope became so popular that the Army uses it as an example while training new recruits in strategy
There is a little easter egg in the witcher 3 regarding leeroy and its a post that says Leeroy's Dead The knight known as Sir Leeory has died during a one-man raid against monsters, carried out of his own volition and against everyone else's better judgement. He left no family or relations of any sort. He wanted to be a hero. May he rest in peace. All those who are interested are hereby informed that a funeral cefemony conducted according to Lebioda's rite will be held in three days 💀💀💀
Ok real talk, considering the current "situation" we are all in worldwide, I really recommend you check out a video talking about the famous World of Warcraft Corrupted Blood incident (or read about it). Today I Found Out's video is pretty good detailing it.
Wait, Leeroy Jenkins was a skit?... Damn, I thought it was real... That kinda makes it less good... But still... The legacy stands, the legacy stays. LEEROOOOOOOOOY JENKIIIIIIINNNSSS
Okay, so the gag is that there's a group trying to get past a very infamous encounter and they've been dying to it and "Leeroy" decides to go get something to eat while they're discussing and gameplanning out how to beat it, then he just comes back and runs into the fight, killing the group yet again. It became a meme about foolhardy and senseless behavior that ends in disaster. It's thought that it was actually staged but even if it is it's just hilariously funny, especially if you have any experience in playing in groups. It's spread way beyond even WoW, like the term zerging spread beyond Starcraft.
That section of the video the Air Force TOC is hilarious. But I couldn’t figure out how they were using it. I think someone customized a computer alert signal, like an incoming message “ting” or beep. I once sang the McDonalds menu song from microphone at my work station to another operations center across the world cause you can get kinda stir crazy on late night shifts. Almost got in serious trouble...lol
Leeroy is funny because he's that one guy that is in every world of Warcraft Raid group that runs in and does something stupid that gets everyone killed this became so popular that they added the title Jenkins to the game so that you can run around with that name on the end of your character's name so for example say your name is lightheart it would be lightheart Jenkins. During warlords of draenor they added a quest to the game in one of the dungeons where you escort Leeroy through this dungeon to get his devout shoulders you have to kill everything before he runs through and makes everything attack you.
After seeing Leeroy Jenkins I guess it’s time for all the cinematics for Hearthstone. After that clip Leeroy became a card in the game and makes an appearance in the League of Explorers Announcement Trailer. Bet you would have fun with these;3 Keep up the good work^^
Since you NOW know about Leroy Jenkins (which is also a title within the game now when Blizzard saw this) You should react to the Classic reveal song. Has voice actors from the game and popular Pro players of WoW also. Even has Ronda Rousey
Btw it's funny cause you can feel the bond\connection with each other player with him as he coordinates his game plan with a variety of other ability potential and strength to win and yes the gaming lingo is def another beautiful thing to know 😂 cause it sounds like another dialect of English for some masses and i find it funny cause I understand them but know those who don't and glad I came accros your channel to see you enter the world of oddities as I should say respectfully and playfully while fully referring to the term gamers 😁 may chicken be with you
Part of the joke of the original Leeroy Jenkins video, is: The plan the group made (Casting Divine Intervention on their mages, and knocking back the Whelps with Intimidating Shout) was *BATSHIT INSANE,* and doomed to fail from the start. First, Divine Intervention: Nowadays, it simply saves the life of a Paladin if they take a hit that would've killed them. But back then, Divine Intervention *instantly killed* the Paladin who used it, and put a shield on the ally they targeted. The ally in question would be completely invincible, but unable to move or attack. The intended use of Divine Intervention was: If you knew you were about to wipe (A "wipe" means everybody in your party is dead, as in "wiped out"), you'd have a Paladin cast Divine Intervention on, for example, a Priest. The Priest could then resurrect the party (Since resurrection abilities technically aren't "attacks", Divine Intervention didn't block them). Because of this, casting Divine Intervention on a Mage was *absolutely stupid.* Because not only did it take one of your Paladins (a character who could both soak up damage and cast some extra healing spells) out of the fight, but when cast on a Mage, it basically paralyzed them (No attacks = no damage being dealt, and Mages are *built* to deal damage). Second, Intimidating Shout: The plan discussed in the video was for one of the Warriors to use Intimidating Shout (An ability that forces low-level enemies to run away from you for a few seconds); after that, another Warrior would use Intimidating Shout, and then a third Warrior would do the same. At that point, the first Warrior would Shout again; rinse, and repeat. The thing is, though: This would only keep the Whelps (You know the swarm of flying monsters that killed everyone in the video? Those were Whelps) away from the party for a short while, before dumping even more on them. Finally, the plan was *completely unnecessary* to begin with: The Whelps only spawned if you ran over their eggs. A competent party wouldn't need such an overly convoluted and counterproductive plan in the first place, as they could simply *not break the eggs.* And if you watch the original video, the player who's recording does *nothing but* stomp on the eggs. So, in conclusion: While Leeroy's actions may have hastened their defeat, the party was going to get themselves killed anyway due to their own asinine plan. Edit: Fixed a few typos.
They were planning out a boss fight in the next room, the raid leader was giving the game plan on how to not wipe but Leeroy was AFK (probably went to grab some chicken) so before the raider leader could finish Leeroy came back and jumped the gun and hauled ass into the room and the rest of the team who wasn't prepared got wiped out hilariously.
craig r did a pretty good job of explaining the general situation, but there are a few bits of lingo you may not be familiar with; AOE- stands for "area of effect," the abbreviation is used to refer to any spell or ability that affects an area instead of a single target. Intimidating shout- an ability that causes a temporary fear effect among nearby enemies, causing them to run away for a few seconds divine intervention- classic.wowhead.com/spell=19752/divine-intervention causes the target to stop taking damage for a bit, but neither they nor the caster can move or take action for the duration
It's obviously a set up skit for that particular room. It's just a room with a ton of dragon eggs inside and a bunch of decent larger enemies, the lizard centaur dudes, that your group has to progress through on the way to the boss of the whole particular dungeon/raid. It's actually a tough room to get through if you're group is trying to speed run given there is so many enemies inside that you have to fight all at once, basically. Not to mention, there is an in-game achievement for beating that room quickly and at this point I believe the achievement references Leeroy Jenkins, if I recall.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Oh, I'm sorry. My apologies. I made a bunch of those comments on your videos last night after work. I was tired and too quick worded. I was just happy to see a non-gamer reactor of sorts looking deeper into the lore of such things given most just stop at the trailer and never look any further than that.
I knew about the LEEEEEROOOOOOY JEEEEENKINS battle cry, never saw the full video though. Goddamnit, I actually cry laughing. I am not joking, my tears went all out confused "has anyone died? If so, why is this asshole smiling?!!!".
I'd hoped they'd include the Mass Effect version of Leeroy, an extra party member, Private L. Jenkins that is part of your group in the first battle but dies in the first combat cutscene.
Some other gaming platforms you might even see the name Leroy Jenkins, he was very famous back in the day so he is kind of a game phenomenon for suiciding/poor strategy or tactics. Glad you even found this, I laughed so hard when in Heartstone there was a card named Leeroy Jenkins. Love your reaction
Hi Hannah, great reaction. :D It might be worth looking into an iconic incident in WoW’s history called the Corrupted Blood plague, which ended up being the real life study of people researching how people would act in an actual pandemic!
I remember that.. and wasn't it like... even if you played years after... if your guy was infected.. you could still infect people long after this was done? That was crazy...
SDomething else they left out, The title of "Jenkins" can be added onto your characters name if you spawn and kill 50 Dragons at once inside of Blackrock spire. TItles are basically just bragging rights for acheivements that you get a list for and can pick and choose titles whenever you want. Like "HannahsCharacter" The seeker, the noble, the patient. You could even have assistant professor. SO you can actually be A jenkins too.
The point of the story is you have a group that is making detailed plans to accomplish a task that is derailed by a careless coworker. While they were planning, Leroy was getting chicken. Once Leroy got back, instead of communicating with the team, he ran in and started the event before they were ready. Causing them to fail the task. Finishing with his off hand remark, at lease I got chicken.
Hi, this is really late, but you should check out Extra Credit's video on the Corrupted Blood incident, a bug in World Of Warcraft that ended up causing so many problems that the devs had to straight-up reset the game, which is virtually unheard of in MMOs.
The Discord Link doesn't work for me, it says the invitation has expired or I don't have the rights to join the server :( BUT I LOVE SO MUCH THAT YOU WATCHED THIS! And so glad you like Leroy ! When I started playing Wow someone showed this vid to me, so I made it my goal to get the Achievement inspired by him to get the Title "Jenkins"! I worn that title the longest of all the titles out there! :D So many fond memories! It was such a joy to rewatch the video with you after so many years, and I am very glad you could find such a joy in it too! X3
They were trying to prepare for a big monster battle called a "Raid". They are very difficult and require a large group of players to plan and work together.
It's basically a commentary on how in a raid with multiple working parts and strategies there is always one chucklehead who isn't paying attention and wipes the group. To really understand this joke you have to be a raider and understand all the BS that entailed.
the most famous ninja pull raid wipe in warcraft history, you should check out "raid wipe animation" another hilarious raid wipe video. I had no idea Leeroy Jenkins became so mainstream. I wish I had the patience to read, the covers of your books look cool.
Fun fact: the original leeroy jenkins video was a scripted gag about stereotypes in WoW. There’s always the one guy calling the shots that meticulously overplans everything and there’s always a leeroy jenkins who’s always running in and fucking everything up by disregarding the entire plan whether on purpose or not. Edit: oh wait. The second video just explains everything. I’ll take my leave.
Ben Schults a.k.a. Leeroy Jenkins is also featured in the short video from Blizzard titled "A toast to 15 years", which they made in honor of the re-release of WoW Classic in 2019 It's on the World of Warcraft RU-vid channel if you want to watch it. /watch?v=iCn14KLCerY
It's spread even further. Author Aleron Kong has his main character and his best friend yell it towards the end of book 7 of his The Land series. It's a litrpg/gamelit series that transports the main character into a world that is run on gaming rules with character and item stats, levels, quests, etc.
HELLO ! check out destiny 2 forsaken fall of the cayde 6 - background : ( he is a hunter as a character in game he was human before and he died 6 times and that's why his name is cayde '6' and he had a son named ACE when he was a human, but he can only remember his name and he doesn't know that ACE was his son's name ! you will understand after you watch the video.) you can also watch a video full of his cutscene he has a personality like deadpool in the game. you will like it !
That channel has a lot of good videos if you're interested in current or history of esports. I very much recommend Evo Moment 37: The Daigo Parry. The greatest moment in competitive gaming.
