You’ve probably noticed many dances in World of Warcraft look familiar. No wonder, as they all have real-world counterparts. MeinMMO presents 20 dances and their origins – and you can directly test how many of them you already know.
With emotes, you can express your thoughts in WoW even without text and voice, communicate with friends or mock enemies. You can’t /spit on anyone anymore, but you can laugh together, and Blizzard even just brought new emotes into the game – while others were removed because they were supposedly too controversial.
What still exists is dancing, an activity that everyone probably knows from raid breaks between pulls, from bored traders in the auction house, or when that annoying guy with his flute comes along and forces everyone to move. There’s even a dance studio in WoW.
All dances you find in the MMORPG have a counterpart from the real world. Some of them come from music videos – in which a lot of dancing was done back then (yes, WoW is from “back then”, that was 2005) – or are based on an existing dance from pop culture.
You can also build your own dance studio – housing makes it possible:
Not all dances from WoW are based 1:1 on the template, some are assembled from various music videos, show only a snippet, or have been slightly adapted. Nevertheless, they all have more or less well-known foundations:
- Mechagnomes dance to the “Robot”
- Male undead headbang to… some metal song
- Male gnomes perform the “Bad Touch” by the Bloodhound Gang
To make the article not too dry, we have directly linked it with a small quiz so you can check how many of these dances you have recognized in the game. Have fun!
Note: We have not listed all dances because some do not have a clear source.
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