Murphy's laws, the famous batch of cynical sayings about life, can be modified to fit almost every situation. So it's no surprise that someone has rewritten them for WoW.
- If something can be nerfed, it will be nerfed.
- The only times you see rare herbs, rare mineral veins or chests on your minimap is when you're on a gryphon.
- The moment you decide you can ninja AFK a minute is when the raid leader is watching you.
- The items you so desperately want from an instance never drop until the first time you're there with an alt. Who can't use it.
- The one time you roll a 99, someone else will roll 100.
- Anyone who plays more than you has no life. Anyone who plays less than you is a scrub.
- The moment you fly into a port is the moment you will see your ship sail away.
- Nightfall only procs when the last mob dies.
Can you think of any immutable laws of WoW?
















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
5-07-2007 @ 8:47AM
Glocky said...
* The person who posts the most about your class in the Blizz forums, is the least knowledgeable about your class, but most practiced at qq. *
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5-07-2007 @ 8:50AM
Ecko__18 said...
For Paladins:
Your holy light will always be .01 second too late on a bad pull
Vengence will proc at the end of the fight, everytime
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5-07-2007 @ 8:51AM
RogueJedi86 said...
The best herbs/ore will always be behind the mobs that would beat you to a pulp 10 times over if you got close.
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5-07-2007 @ 8:58AM
Kirby1612 said...
Newtons Laws Rewritten Here
1)A flight path in motion will remain in motion until you log out, only to land at the nearest point.
2)Gear equals time raiding multiplied by gold times progression.
3)To every nerf, there is an equal and opposite buff.
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5-07-2007 @ 8:59AM
Swiss said...
This is a Scientific Law of Battlefield 2 that can easily be applied to WoW...
"The probability of killing someone is inversely proportional to how much you want to kill him."
Source: http://forums.bf2s.com/viewtopic.php?id=2428
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5-07-2007 @ 9:28AM
Aurendar said...
I am convinced that the lift in Zangramarsh has proximity sensors right near the bridge as you approach the dock. It can tell when you are approaching and quickly pulls away from the dock and rises leaving you impatiently waiting for it's SLOW return!! GARRRRR THATS FRUSTRATING!
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5-07-2007 @ 9:55AM
SeiferTim said...
The ONE time you finally end up with a decent, well-balanced, friendly, and intelligent PUG will be the one time you suddenly have to quit the group for real-life reasons.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:01AM
the six winger said...
@Kirby
I call BS on the third law there. You have obviously never played a holy priest.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:02AM
Chris Anthony said...
"The items you so desperately want from an instance never drop until the first time you're there with an alt. Who can't use it."
Corollary (based on yesterday's experience): The BOP items you so desperately want from an instance for an alt never drop until you decide to log onto your main to help a group get through.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:02AM
Chris Anthony said...
@8: He didn't mean "an equal and opposite buff to the same class/spec"... ;)
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5-07-2007 @ 10:03AM
tim said...
@six winger
the buff doesnt necessarily have to be on the priest class. :D
i.e. nerf priests, buff warlocks.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:17AM
Jacob Marley said...
If a mob can poison, place disease, debuff with magic or otherwise and it gets only one shot in, it will place that on you as it's dying act.
Hate that on my rogue. . . Nice 10 minute disease. No stealth for me!
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5-07-2007 @ 10:20AM
Dave said...
Your computer/game will wait to crash until you've just pulled the first mob in a long fight.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:23AM
Rich said...
If Fury Warriors have begun obtaining a new tier of endgame gear since the last patch, there will be a a Warrior nerf in the next patch, likely affecting all specs and completely failing to address whatever issue there might be.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:31AM
the six winger said...
ahh in which case I agree. Every tooling holy priest have gotten have buff warlocks. that makes sense now.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:39AM
Addie said...
If you need 8 thingies from killing mobs, the last one will take twice as long to drop as the other 7 combined.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:50AM
jarvik said...
@16 QFT.
I really wish Blizz would get rid of the find X items of Y% drop. If you want me kill 50 mobs to collect 8 items, just make it 50 items!! I will admit that sometimes it would be ok, but most of the time its like collect 10 furs from wolves. Who's shaving such a large percentage of the Wolves of Azeroth to made it a chore to collect furs?
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5-07-2007 @ 10:55AM
Boonie said...
@16...
only twice as long... mate.. you're lucky! I swear it's longer than that.
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5-07-2007 @ 10:58AM
mrkleen said...
All of your crits and chances on hit will occur on the first of many mobs, not to be seen again for awhile. I just love it when your crit occurs when the mob is pretty much dead anyway.
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5-07-2007 @ 12:40PM
Bodah said...
Clearcasting will only proc on a killing blow, then run out before you can use it on the next mob.
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