One of the more interesting parts of WoW tooltips, in my opinion, is flavor text. It’s not found on many items, but that yellow text occasionally gives me a little chuckle. Plus, the developers are known for putting yellow flavor text on spells, as well, especially spells that players will never see. Some examples of my favorites:
- The Fist of Subtlety from a quest in Zul’drak, which simply reads: “Not at all.” I confess to laughing way too long upon reading this one, and wishing I had a class that could use fist weapons.
- Extinguish All Life, Yogg-Saron’s enrage timer. At 15 minutes, he simply wipes the raid. Not fair at all. However, it does do almost exactly what it says: “Extinguishes all life. Kaput.”
- However, Yoggy pales in comparison to Archimonde, who – if he can’t reach anybody to smack them around – starts giving everyone the finger. Specifically, the Finger of Death, which (in addition to being a nod to D&D) “strikes an enemy with the finger of death, inflicting 20000 shadow damage upon them, their children, and their children’s children.”
Those are just a few of my favorite examples – what’re yours?
One of my all time favorites is the one that is now what used to be Blinding Powder: http://www.wowhead.com/?item=5530
There are a number of good ones though – there’s a piece of armor from Shadowmoon Valley that’s Ortor’s Cousin’s Friend’s Sisters Tunic (or somesuch). Always makes me giggle.
Found it: Grom'tor's Friend's Cousin's Tunic ("It's not mine…" – Grom'tor)
Also found you can filter just items with flavor text. 2,800+ of them!
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=41815
I just noticed this one the other day when someone linked the item.
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=36812
A friend used to link this when someone was whining about something – I don't know if he carried it around just for that. Same with this one:
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=18233
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Why do you even ask?
My favorite has to be the Tenacious Defender http://www.wowhead.com/?item=24091 from Ramparts. "It has the power…to move you." I can almost hear the guitar lick…