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Word of the day: Trickle-down death

Main Entry: trick·le-down death
Function: Noun
: A death that happens slowly, with an intermittent stream of damage that adds up to more damage taken over a period of time than healing received in the same period. Requires a longer time frame to finally kill the tank (more than a few seconds). Trickle-down deaths can be ameliorated with increased mitigation (armor mostly), and avoidance. Common in Icecrown Citadel.

Antonym: The Ulduar Splat

March 12, 2010

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  1. Tijeras
    March 12, 2010 at 2:52 pm #

    Funny I died from that last night in VoA. I got literally 0 heals and the other tank did not taunt until I went splat. With all that and cycling cooldowns I lasted quite a bit and got to 15 debuffs, before AD could save me no more.
    .-= Tijeras’s last blog ..Protadin: @anafielle I let him thank the capt guy who has the annoying stun all the time ;) =-.

  2. Antigen
    March 12, 2010 at 3:18 pm #

    Main Entry: Ulduar splat [uhl-d??-ahr splat]
    Function: noun
    : When your tank gets “insta-gibbed” by the ridiculously spiky damage contained within the Titan complex known as Ulduar. Such an occasion is usually met with frazzled sighs from both tanks and healers alike.

    • Rhidach
      March 12, 2010 at 3:26 pm #

      Haha, great definition man!

  3. Antigen
    March 12, 2010 at 3:18 pm #

    Oh poo, it wouldn’t let me use those awesome dictionary-esque o’s.

  4. gamerunknown
    March 17, 2010 at 10:28 pm #

    Trickle down Ulduar death: I can shield block plasma blast right?