The people who named their death knight Getoverhere deserve all the bad PUGs in the world. Some of these top 10 names are so generic that I want to puke.
Bandagespec would be a better name for a warrior, in my opinion, but I guess it works for a priest as well. Why don't we have Power Word: Hug in game yet? Make it happen, Blizzard. Anything rock and roll or music-related that is a decent pun usually isn't too awful. Vanhealin, Deepfriar, and Crossblesser got a chuckle. Take a picture of your face after reading that sentence again and look at it. Here's a true story: I had a rogue that I server transfered and renamed "Shankers." A few minutes after I loaded up for the first time, "Shankerz" with a "z" messaged me and accused me of stealing the name. I'm going to give rogues a 4/10 for originality because, frankly, just naming yourself after an ability or throwing in "hemo" somewhere isn't praiseworthy. Rogue names all stem from abilities it looks like, except the Assassin's Creed reference Altaìr and Mercader, which is most likely a reference to the prominent PVP YouTuber Mercader. I'm not going to lie - Backstabbath made me laugh. Arrowdynamic works when you have a bow, but what happens when you equip a gun? My immersion! Interestingly enough, only one of the most popular names for hunters references traps. On the other end of the spectrum, you have Eatshot and Bowme, both hilarious in their own right but just not as prop-deserving as Actæon. In Greek mythology, Actæon was a hunter who was transformed into a stag and killed by his own hunting dogs after Actæon had come upon Artemis taking a bath in the forest. The people who chose Actæon get gold stars in my book. Hunters, who knew that you would be the most cultured of the classes up to this point? I am happily surprised. Some paladins will have to help me out with Thrasius, but are you guys referencing the Warhammer 40k character? Because if so, that's awesome. Unstopbubble and Bubbleøseven are the clear originality winners here, with Popmybubble just being lazy. It's been almost seven years of bubble jokes. "Bubble" is the popular paladin, well, everything. Layonhooves is the closest thing I will give to being funny, but even then, tons of other people are just as "clever" as you. If you don't know me, you only have to be aware of the fact that to me, there is nothing more grating in World of Warcraft than an awful Tauren paladin pun name. If you know me, you can already guess my reaction to the paladin names list above.
Not that I'm complaining, of course, but please excuse me while I go save Sunderwear on my server for a future Pandaren warrior. Notice that every single one of the top warrior names has either rage or a skill name in it, which just goes to show you that the prevalence of puns in online games vastly, vastly outweighs the immersion factor.
Sunderwear and Executie are particularly inspired, however. Maybe it's a reference that I am missing. Glitterstorm at the top of the list is surprising. My Night Elf warrior, for the brief time that I was raiding on the Alliance side of things, was named Rageleaf. I'm actually a culprit of this phenomenon, except I like to think I was clever about it. Warrior characters love using skill names or the rage mechanic in their names. Let's have a look at the most popular names in World of Warcraft. As you'd expect, the pun meter is off the charts. After mining out 11 million character names, GuildOx has sent us the most popular character names by class in World of Warcraft. GuildOx, one of the premier services that ranks, tracks, and parses the top guilds and their progression in WoW, has been using Blizzard's new character APIs to some pretty hilarious ends.
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