Hello everyone! You all voted for what card I was going to talk about next and the clear
winner is the one and only: “Leerooooooy jenkins”
Let’s do this!
It was the year 2006, in the early days of
youtube, when a guild by the name of Pals for life decided to make a fun warcraft video.
In it you can see them standing within upper blackrock spire, discussing if they have to
do the optional boss Solakar Flamewreath. In front of them lies 1 of the most dangerous
chambers within UBRS, the rookery, where many raids before them have wiped since people cracked open the
eggs and spawned the whelplings inside. For that reason, many raid groups would skip this optional
boss but Leeroy the paladin had to get his cloth devout shoulders since it would help
him heal better and give him more mana. “sigh christ”
The group prepaires for the epic challenge ahead, calculations are made and they come
up with a thirty-two point three three uh, repeating of course, percentage, of survival.
That’s a lot better than they usually do so as they’re about ready to head in, Leeroy
returns from heating up some left over kfc. “Alright chums lets do this leeeroooooooy jeeeenkins”
'omg he just ran in' Leeroy charges in, the group quickly follows
as they try to stick to the plan but the whelps, they’re simply too many.
The party whipes, they don’t have a soulstone
and so a legend was born. 'Leeroy you are just stupid as hell' “Atleast I have chicken”
This video quickly turned viral within the warcraft community and keep in mind that this
was in the early days of youtube, right, this was something special. Everyone and their
mother knew about Leeroy and the name quickly became an expression for doing something idiotic
like ninja pulling or just rushing in headfirst without thinking about the consequences. Over the years leeroy’s influence moved
beyond the warcraft community and it’s been referenced or mentioned in many different
things like Jeoparty, mass effect, toyota commercial, adventure quest, scrubs, dragonfable,
south park, moonlight, guild wars, how i met your mother, tosh.o and even the warcraft
movie had leeroy pitched as a character in the early drafts as a private eager for battle,
breaking ranks and rushing forward into battle. The strangest thing has happened to the leeroy
youtube channel though. If you check out where the video comes from, it seems like Leeroy has had a change of heart when it comes to
the content that he enjoys or perhaps the channel is sold or hacked...we may never know...
Needless to say, Leeroy Jenkins or Ben Schulz as the player behind it is actually called,
has made its mark upon the world, so much so that I can’t even list all the little
things that he’s mentioned in. Now going back to the lore, last we saw of leeroy was
him dieing within UBRS as the whelps overwhelmed their group. An achievement in his honor was
later added to UBRS. Kill 50 of the rookery whelps within 15 seconds and you would earn the
Leeroy achievement as well as the Jenkins title. With Warlords of Draenor, Leeroy’s
story continued as adventurers were given the opportunity to resurrect his dead body:
As Leeroy cooks his not rotten angry chicken,
the party quickly moves on ahead clearing all the trash in front of them and making sure that Leeroy can't pull
anything which could potentially kill him. After 900 seconds the legend himself charges
upstairs finally finishing the quest he started so long ago:
And so ends the story of Leeroy Jenkins as
he mysteriously knows about garrisons and even has a hearthstone to take him there.
Now the players can use him as a follower within the garrison which some might say is a fate worse then
being killed by thousands of whelps, either way, that’s the story of Leeroy for now.
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