Talk:Hamstorm

Is this a common slang term?
I've never seen it used anywhere. 19:44, 26 February 2006 (CST)


 * Sounds more like a sandwich to me. "I'd like a Hamstorm on wheat with mustard, please."  --Rainith 20:14, 26 February 2006 (CST)


 * A Warrior using Meteor Shower is a person with serious psychological issues. And Fire Storm has been irrekably broken for 6 months now. :( This is bogus. If I see a tank casting MS before going in (PvE or PvP) I would code a "Kick" butting into my version of GW just to kick them. This is ridiculous. Interestingly enough, I did go with one of these in a Galrath quest once. Most absurd thing ever, and he kept saying "MS ftw" and stuff. Ugh. --Karlos 20:59, 26 February 2006 (CST)

It's a joke build from a little while back. For a couple days you could see teams of W/Es doing this in tombs (or what was tombs). I think it started because of a screenshot on the game box of a warrior doing it. --68.142.14.9 21:58, 26 February 2006 (CST)
 * People were using this, even if it was just for fun? If that's the case, we should probably leave this up as a slang term. ;) --130.58 01:49, 27 February 2006 (CST)


 * I do not think the term exists, regardless of the build. --Karlos 18:03, 27 February 2006 (CST)


 * Karlos, regardless of the article content, do you think calling the article "Charr doodoo" in the delete tag is appropriate? -- 20:45, 27 February 2006 (CST)


 * Yes. --Karlos 21:23, 27 February 2006 (CST)


 * I, respectfully, disagree. --130.58 21:59, 27 February 2006 (CST)


 * So, you've seen it used in PvP arenas and outposts? --Karlos 22:09, 27 February 2006 (CST)


 * Yes. Do a search on any of the large forums if you're in doubt.  It'll be clear that people know what "hamstorm" means, even if it's not a viable build. --68.142.14.9 00:00, 28 February 2006 (CST)


 * I, personally, have not. The above thread of discussion is about what's "appropriate" in the delete tag, not the article's accuracy, however.
 * It's not anything to do with politeness, either (though politeness is nice, too, I suppose). What I object to is the strongly biasing nature of that statement. If you, as an admin, saw a page made by an unknown contributor with "This is utter crap and I know for a fact that not a lick of this is true --(one of the biggest wiki contributors)" in the delete tag, would you think twice about wiping it?
 * When what you really mean is "I've never encountered this myself," this is (unintentiounally) disingenuous: the perceived level of certainty is far greater than your actual certainty on this topic. By making such a strongly emphatic statement, you heavily bias the decision and occlude the actual facts of the matter, whatever they may be. --130.58 00:54, 28 February 2006 (CST)
 * I find it amusing that this is causing such a big hullabaloo, and yet when another contribueter put "He's gay" as a reason to ban a vandal yesterday, it caused no such outrage. --Rainith 01:10, 28 February 2006 (CST)
 * Chuiu was mimicking the vandal's vandalism, which you might have noted was replacing text in pages with "Rob's gay" or some such. I too was taken aback at that ban message at first. It was, perhaps, too clever. 02:57, 28 February 2006 (CST)

Hamstorm is the build of awesomeness!! (the term does exist) 22:31, 27 February 2006 (CST)

A cursory search reveals that the term is used, though not widely, and that the build has popped up in HoH as a joke. --130.58 00:54, 28 February 2006 (CST)