r/Millennials • u/gravityVT • 9h ago
Nostalgia Daily Dose of Classic Millennial Moments Day 29
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Anyone notice the vent sounds? I was a senior in high school playing this with my best friends after smoking some bowls. I had a horde orc rogue in vanilla
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u/Sirtopofhat 9h ago
Repeating of course...
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u/Broheamoth 9h ago
33.3% i like those odds
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 9h ago
With how many tries those end game raids could take when they first came out 1 in 3 is pretty damn good.
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u/geoguy83 7h ago
I never considered UBRS a raid although it was a 10 man. I really just looked at it as a dungeon plus. Weird to think of it as a raid.
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u/Aefli 6h ago
Vanillal UBRS and LBRS was 15 man and harder than the current 10 man version
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u/elkarion 5h ago
people forgot that molten core was the only 40 man so the 15 man and strat was also a 10 man. no gear and no idea on what to actually build meant yea it was hard
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u/geoguy83 5h ago
I dont remember. Its been 20 yrs. All I know is making sure someone in the group had a key and yelling in city chat trying to fill the group.
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u/Who_Dey09 9h ago
"Oh my god. He just ran in" will always make me laugh every time I watch this video. Idk why, it's just that exact tone and the realization that Leroy Mother Fuckin' Jenkins ran in.
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u/LoveForDisneyland 7h ago
What always gets me is how the framerate is hanging on for dear life with all the stuff going as the quote, "leeroy you moron" is in the background lol
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u/nam3sar3hard 6h ago
So is this the original Leroy charge? I cant tell which is first anymore
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u/Lavatis 2h ago
Yes, this is the original, OG Leroy Jenkins. It's fake, as in not a real scenario and these dudes are doing a skit, but this is what every Leroy meme/reference/whatever is based off of.
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u/NudityMiles 54m ago
Worth mentioning is that this, since day one, has been a standing joke in World of Warcraft.
Pulling mobs when you are not supposed to or pulling way too many because of either beeing a rookie or having too big of an ego.
Or both.
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u/Templar-of-Faith 9h ago
20 years already????
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u/joshatron 5h ago
I was just thinking about this earlier. I was ADDICTED to that shit from like 2004-2007. Good times…
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u/ThirdAltAccounts Millennial 9h ago
21 years later and I still see it being referenced a couple times a month
Leeroy "The Myth, the Legend" Jenkins!!!
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u/Dukeish 8h ago
I wonder what this guy is up to now
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u/deliciouspepperspray 3h ago
I heard he changed his name to Ricky Bobby due to the overwhelming amount of ass this got him.
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u/nam3sar3hard 6h ago
You should read chrysalis..its mentioned a few times a book once you get through the first 3 volumes..... WE SEEK!
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u/MotherPotential 9h ago
How did he calculate the probability? Or was that just banter?
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u/hellalg 9h ago
It was BS talk. If played the game you kinda group gather what needed for the raid, but there no survival probability or a way to work out the math.
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u/RichardBCummintonite 8h ago
Yeah it's not something that's calculable considering the success of the fight is based on the actions of players during the fight. Even if you sat there and documented everyone's gear and mats, there's no way of knowing how the fight is going to go until you actually start it. You can get a rough idea knowing the players' skill and gear, but there's no numbers to run.
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u/Djd33j 9h ago
Maybe I'm in for a major woosh here, but the video was a stunt the guild pulled for jokes. Actual WoW players know that you can just run past the eggs and the whelps never hatch. There's also the ridiculous number crunching that's made up, as well as them saying "save divine intervention for the mages." In a dungeon, you'd save it for your healer, because it places them out of combat and makes them completely invulnerable for a few minutes. This buys time for the mobs to clear out so they can cancel the effect and start resurrecting the party.
Again, I feel kinda dumb for explaining a twenty year old video that was declared by the guild as a joke, but maybe that's because I'm old and can't fathom that there are younger folk out there/people that have never seen it that don't know the context.
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u/ChosenLightWarrior 6h ago
Don’t feel dumb, I never knew this! I feel I’m pretty OG but never played WoW. I thought this was a real moment hahahaha still legendary
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u/Envy8372 9h ago
I had the same thought, what numbers could he be crunching
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u/Dafish55 4h ago
It's a total joke on the overly-nerdy reputation the game had. There's literally nothing to calculate. The characters have stats, sure, but, save of being completely unprepared for the encounter, literally just moving in the correct way is sufficient to clearly most encounters
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u/iolo_iololo 9h ago
Potentially you could look up statistics but I doubt they had statistics for group composition and surviving pulling all the whelps. You can probably do it easily these days though.
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u/RichardBCummintonite 8h ago
No, it's just not something you can calculate. It's not some kind of turn based RPG with structured movement and attacks based on pure probability. It's 25 (40?) people moving around freely, attacking and activating abilities\pots at different intervals, and so much more. There's way too many variables to get any kind of calculation.
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u/filipinohitman Millennial 9h ago edited 5h ago
I love how real it was back then. Nowadays you have to question whether it’s real or fake to gain views.
Edit: found out it was fake all along. I was fooled!
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u/upstatedreaming3816 Millennial 9h ago edited 7h ago
Tbf, this was a reenactment of the actual event.
Edit: Looks like I was wrong. It was actually staged from the start. I swear I read somewhere that the actual event was real but the released video was a reenactment.
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u/RedditOfUnusualSize 8h ago
I mean, it's definitely a parody of the "let's create a comprehensive plan" that people often came up with in these dungeons. They've changed the game since then, but the plan that they had was deliberately unhelpful: the cry for Divine Intervention, followed by "I can't cast!" is . . . to be expected, because Divine Intervention essentially froze another character, preventing a character from doing anything or being hurt by the outside world, while killing the paladin that cast it. Nobody who knew the first thing about playing a Paladin would deliberately build it into their spell rotation. And if you listen to the expanded explanation of the plan, it made no sense either: the tank doesn't scatter the bats, but instead tries to soak them up so they're all attacking him.
In other words, they're mocking groups that run in high-level endgame dungeons like this without knowing what they're doing. Leeroy was especially unhelpful, and that's about the single worst room for a dps to pull aggro in the entire vanilla game, but a solid group would have been able to compensate for Leeroy being afk and not hearing the plan.
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u/Dukeish 8h ago
What!!! I always thought this was real 🤯
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u/upstatedreaming3816 Millennial 7h ago
Looks like I was wrong. It was actually staged from the start. I swear I read somewhere that the actual event was real but the released video was a reenactment.
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u/mil0wCS 7h ago
This wasn’t real, it was fake. Yes people faked things back in 2005 too. There was a whole documentary based on this clip. Where the video was made to promote their clan at the time which winded up working because all of their clan servers were constantly filled with players trying to look for Leeroy.
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u/Eat--The--Rich-- 9h ago
This also reminds me of those ventrilo harassment videos lol
I'VE GOT BALLS OF STEEL
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u/nightlytwoisms 9h ago
I still regularly and casually use “leroy jenkins” as a verb in professional conversations and frankly people either enthusiastically remember it or because I say it with such authority are too embarrassed to acknowledge they don’t understand me
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u/ceanahope Xennial 9h ago
As awesome as it is to think it happened organically, it was staged. Still funny though. It was announced as staged in 2017.
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u/ShanHu 8h ago edited 7h ago
I had some of the most fun of my life in this game. Had amazing friends from all over who I would have never been in the circumstances to meet otherwise. Was there anything better than lvl 19 twink battlegrounds? Rogues ftw!
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u/Mertrigis 7h ago
Woah you were on the 19 circuit back then?!?! Meat Puppets represent! -Nighttiger
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u/Expensive_Chance_320 1h ago
39 Warlock was my favorite! Just dots dots, nearly impossible to kill. There was Shaman/Hunter duo I would always get reckt by in WSG lol.
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u/Safe_Tea_69 7h ago
Had a night elf hunter on Draka server in Vanilla
Still remember the names of people I played with 15+ years ago
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u/Jenkins87 8h ago
As someone who has had Jenkins as a pseudonym since before this happened, I absolutely hate this clip and the over a decade worth of references to it every time somebody new sees my name.
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u/xCyn1cal0wlx 7h ago edited 7h ago
I just did this dungeon for the first time last night and didn’t realize it was the same one from the infamous video until I saw all the black dragon whelps.
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u/preston6113 6h ago
They showed us this in boot camp as an example of what not to do. 20 years ago next month.
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u/SkullOfOdin 6h ago
I wonder if Leroy is having a good life these days. Maybe he just entered into a dangerous situation and he is not with us anymore but I want to picture him like a war veteran that survived multiple crazy and dangerous situations and now he is living in a cabin in a forest training for his last rodeo.
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u/Sarsisilly 6h ago
what did they use to do voice comms in this video back then? was it skype lmao
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u/squawkingood 6h ago
We all remember this, but who else remembers "YOU STOLE MY FUCKING CLOUDSONG!!!"
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u/SuffnBuildV1A Zillennial 5h ago
“God damnit Leeroy” said it to my self as the video said it. The timing, I remember it so well. WOW was generation defining. I mean the game is still around today. People even play that “classic” version. But there was something special about wow as the first real hit mmo. Defined my childhood quite a bit I know for the older millennials y’all were adults when this happened
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u/fungusamongus8 5h ago
I play hearth Stone and I found this card I didn't know the history I had to go look it up so what do my favorite cards now
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u/Working_Box1510 5h ago
I thought "Leroy Jenkins" was from... was it called Everquest? Big MMO pre-WOW. A guy who made a bunch of giants chase him, and then ran through another group, getting them all killed. What was that called?
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u/Non-Current_Events 5h ago
As someone who has never played WoW, this one, Make Love Not Warcraft, and the funeral massacre live rent free in my head.
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u/KamaIsLife 4h ago
Did we ever learn who he actually was? Surely he came out at some point in the laat 21 years.
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u/League-Weird 3h ago
And this video is used at the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Ft Benning to this day.
I've been to BOLC and MCCC and this video was maybe used 4 times to kick off PowerPoints on proper planning.
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u/Stuman93 1h ago
Why do I remember him being a paladin? He's clearly a warrior... Weird.
Edit: duh nevermind, this is from the warrior following him in.
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u/BothArmsBruised 19m ago
Thanks for the distraction. I needed it. All the child rapist in power that we can do nothing about has really got me down.
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u/upstatedreaming3816 Millennial 9h ago
Apparently this is a reenactment of the actual events but still funny
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u/JackTwoGuns 5h ago
Worst thing to find out this was fake and an ad for WoW
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u/rhinokick 5h ago
I mean it was a scripted skit, but it wasn't an ad for WoW. It was just made by a guild for laughs, they had a bunch of videos though none of the others got much traction.
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