Talk:Horrify effect

Horror/Horrify
I decided to call the page "Horrify effect" over "Horror effect" because of the following:


 * Most effects are called after the infinitive form of the relevant verb: Disorient, Incapacitate. Calling this page "Horror effect" would suggest naming these effects after the related phenomena: 'Disorientation effect', 'Incapacitation effect'. This does not match current usage.
 * The effects themselves cause debuffs stating "Horrified", not "Horrored", which while natural enough usage within WoW, is incidentally not actually a word ;)
 * Data from Wowhead also states the mechanic as "Horrified"

Personally, I prefer "Horror effect" but the above reasoning seems to hold water ;) -- Taohinton (talk) 17:12, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

The above makes perfectly good sense. However, in this as in all things we are reminded that WoW does not necessarily make sense - especially not in its relation to the English language ;) So, we have Fear effects. Priests 'fear' people with Psychic Scream, which in correct English would actually mean the priest would end up running in terror. The Wowhead mechanic for fear effects is also not 'fear' or 'feared' but 'fleeing'. Sleep effects are similarly mis-named; you cannot 'sleep' someone, except in the sense of a domicile putting them up for the night. So... the reality is that Blizzard will quite understandably choose convenient (if inconsistent) terms for things, when the consistent/technically correct terms ("effects that induce sleep", "fleeing effects") sound a lot worse.

So really, in that vein... Horror effect is probably as good a name as any. And in the spirit of the above naming anti-convention, I declare it a much better one ;) --Taohinton (talk) 15:28, 19 January 2013 (UTC)