Essence of the Pure Flame is DOPE for AoE farming as a Paladin. Getting a bunch of "when struck" items comboed with ret aura, seal of wisdom, and healing allowed you to stay holy while farming gold.
I was given the Essence of Pure flame by my raid leader way back in Vanilla days. At the time I was a human Paladin and I had to be ultra careful with my DKP as there were a good few of us, and we had a bidding system. Highest bid of DKP wins the item. Naturally, no one at all wanted to spend even the base price of DKP on this Item, and it would often just be sharded or, as what happened to me, just given away. My raid leader picked a random Paladin and gifted the item. I didn't know what to do with at first, as even then I thought it pretty damn useless until I started thinking. Back then, retribution aura for the paladin used to reflect damage back at the attacker on hit. There were also a good few items out there that did a similar thing. Off the top of my head there was a ring from Blackrock Depths, and a engineering shield. So, I decided that I was going to go back to all them dungeons with the intent of collecting every single piece of damage reflection gear I could. I even switched out my profession for Engineering so I could get that shield. In the end and after a good few months of collecting, I managed to get a good amount of this gear for my pala and decided to try it out in the battlegrounds. I of course took consecrated ground as well as any talents to boost my damage reflection, and I had such fun just standing and healing myself whilst rogues and hunters just murdered themselves on me without me even really doing much in the way of fighting back. So, was the item bad? yes I would say it was bad, as it took me a lot of work, some luck and me being a Paladin to even get any use out of it. But I still had a lot of fun using it.
Not a weapon/gear suggestion but it'd be awesome if you did the WoW Classic Race Picking Guide Horde Version. I've been looking forward to that and I know it was 2nd on your recent straw poll for next video so others are too.
Skullforge was insanely op against rogues, especially if you were a class without dots(Paladins). What's more is that the heal from the proc or the buff increased by a very good amount based on your +heal. Which was crazy OP when paladins used it with their tier gear against rogues who would try to restealth sap and try to bandage up only to come out of stealth and have their bandage interrupted, and as long as the dot was up the paladin would heal for nearly 1/4th of his hp while being cc'd because nearly all of their tier gear has +heal or spell power. It was a nightmare for rogues because you just couldn't stealth.
Was this changed in a patch or private server? Had this weapon for pvp against rogues and druids as paladin for quite some time but would switch as soon as rng apply the debuff. Can't say that this thing did ever more than 2 dmg or heal. Good never tryed it with gear that boosted shadowdps simply because it was reserved and or expensive.
@@Ras548 I only ever got the lawbringer set back in vanilla, so I used it along with skullforge reaver and force reactive disk almost everywhere outside raids and dungeons. It used to heal me 11 health per tick with that gear. I remember it that well because I've seen that number way too many times while playing the game than I needed to. When I switched to holy gear it would rise up significantly, around 40-50 heal per tick(with mc gear and little bit of bwl). The random spell damage items i got around ZG and AQ also boosted the spell damage tick but not that noticeably as I didn't really have that high spell damage gear, so I can confirm this as well that spell damage did affect the shadow tick damage. Not sure if its present on private servers as I stopped playing on them pretty soon as I started raiding for shady reasons. Would love to try it out again but classic is coming soon anyway. Please give feedback if this works on pservers.
@@JozuaJornandes Sry can't give you Feedback as the only Pserver I ever played was for TBC. I can only tell from my memories but could be wrong since I really only needed it for the stealthmechanic and my other gear was more a mix of AQ and Naxx with T2 mixed in. But hope that it scales with Spellpower would make the holypala pvp much more pleasant when classic comes again.
if you add Skullforge Reaver with that, it becomes insane i beleive, as the sword's proc also scales with spellpower. You have a double healing/dmg proc ON all the time.
Your videos remind me how exciting it was to initially start playing WoW and what an experience it was. I'm getting even more excited for classic WoW coming out again!
Essence of the Pure Flame is invalueable for every aoe tanking set. Typically one of the best tanking items when not tanking a raid boss (especially in instances). Make yourselves a good thorns tanking set (cloak of flames, razor gauntlets, nagelring, force reactive disk+ Ramstein trinket + the helmet from gnomeregan + eventually that thunderfury) and you can even top those damage meters in any dungeon. Force reactive disk is a bit costly and will break almost every second dungeon though. Cheap warriors will use ramsteins shield or drillborer disk instead. Throw in some Crystal Spire for maximum efficiency. Especially useful with elemental or undead invasions.
I believe some people also used it when camping Time Lost Proto-drake. Sit at spawn for hours, when it spawned it attacks you, and I believe got tapped by the thorns damage.
Very enlightening post. Thanks for the info! I knew there were thorns sets in the game, but always thought they were for low-level dungeon clearing. It's cool that even after all these years there's still more to learn.
@@madseasonshow aoe threat is a bit of a pain for warriors but thorns really does make tanking dungeons a lot easier. I would often use essence of pure flame and drillborer disk when farming Strat live.
Ya, Warriors Thorn gear was a winning strat during the Ahn Quiroj opening event. As soon as the Anubis mobs spawned they were already claimed when the video rendered. Made it essential to be in a 40 man raid just to get the ability to loot something.
@@madseasonshow It's actually very handy for classes that can aoe grind weak mobs. In particular in DM east, there's many packs of plants that can be aoe grinded easier with this item by priests, mages, druids, shamans, locks, and other classes. Decent way to farm cash and it doesn't involve being in a group or outdoors.
I'm glad that you brought this intro back. I know someone put effort into your new one, but this one has a more nostalgic and classic feel to it. AND it goes with the clip perfectly lol
Woah seeing that old Hobbs video was mad nostalgia hit for me, I remember seeing it and being so blown away by how he was able to pull that much at a time. Keep up the good work man haven't played in a while but still love watching these videos
#7 Spire of the Stoneshaper, the staff that gives 1000 armor for 10 seconds sounds like a must have for druid flag runners in bgs for when the enemy team catches up to them.
Besides that i enjoy most of your videos very much, i want to point out how well-fitting your choice of music is in them. I became chills, when the guitar-theme of tes3 started playing.
Essence of the Pure Flame was really good trinket for AQ40 after Sarture, that gauntlet for aoe tanking Skullforge reaver was good vs rogues as they couldn't stealth vs you Spire of the stoneshaper was used as fruid FC weapon, use and switch
Something you missed with the Lion Horn is that, flavor-wise, the idea is that everyone in the group has one. The purpose is that everyone uses as many of them as possible. That way you can potentially keep the tank's armor increased by up to 750 all the time.
my ironweave soul link warlock would keep that staff of stoneshape on this on him for when rogues vanished during pvp, procing it would force the rogue to jump you even with the extra armor up, blow a blind, or let you mount. Wasn't usable in a true stunlock, but given that I was an orc, it wasn't uncommon to resist a stun, and get this up before the gouge/blind came out.
Hi Mad! I greatly enjoy your videos and I like how you talk about old content. It brings me to my late vanilla and early BC days. Your videos are just so fun to watch on a calm and lazy Saturday morning. Keep it up!
Essence of the Pure Flame was useful for warrior AOE tanking. Often warriors would use it along with other items that caused damage when hit when fighting through the gauntlets in BWL and AQ40.
Yeah. They had the "Alliance has shamans and Horde has paladins now" coded in 2.0.1 even though you couldn't make belfs or space goats until the expansion proper dropped.
The bow/staff from the epic hunter quest was also an example of a weapon which you could transform to another on use like Vendorstrike and Benediction. The action would transform the bow into the staff and the staff into the bow. The two were only separated later on in another expansion.
Rhok'delar and Lok'delar! I had that on my Vanilla hunter main! The quest line to get that bow was fucking hard and time consuming as hell. Had to get the Ancient Petrified Leaf from Majordomo Executus' chest, AND the Mature Black Dragon Sinew from Onyxia. Then you had to solo 4 elite boss-like demons, WITHOUT a pet! Also, if you wanted the best quiver in the game, you needed to get the Mature Blue Dragon Sinew from Azuregos the ice dragon world boss while doing this quest! Such a crazy journey to acquire that bow/staff/quiver. The sense if accomplishment afterwards was unmatched though! RIP "Ubermenschy." Level 60 Troll Hunter, of guild "Eminence" My first WoW character, and main, on Deathwing, US Realm.
Essence of the Pure Flame isn't that bad, it's just really situational. That 13 thorns damage is pretty good for AoE threat, where every little bit counts.
@@Immagonko I'm pretty sure Asmongold is the arrogant twat who's vids I keep clicking 'Not Interested'. If you want a calmer look at WoW news, check out BellularGaming channel ... he's the shat. :)
skullforge reaver is actually very effective in the hands of any melee pvper and especially the right spec paladin. every leech tick will heal a pala with the right gear and spec for way more than the tooltip says, since +heal scales with the leech effect. enemies will be robbed of their ability to stealth or bandage.
more like robbed of their ability to be crowd controlled.... do a small amount of damage and healing and make them immune to sheep/blind/sap/gouge/trap/repentance etc.
I just started watching your videos and I love them so far. Definitely informative and organized in content. I really dig your list and historical videos! Your voice is easy to listen to and music that compliments the monotone calming vibe. Keep up the great work!
Essence of the Pure Flame + Engineer Shield + % Block highest stamina and armor gear = Aoe Tanking set for MC’s Dog and Imp, BWL Whelp in suppression room, a good number of trash in AQ40 and Naax. It’s not useless at all. Your videos are great, amazing editing , gorgeous voice really relaxing.
I remember farming for two Skullforged Reavers on my warrior back in the day just because they sheathed on the back. But these days I miss the option to even dual wield one handed weapons on my warrior, so freaking tired of all weapons being on my back.... One thing that has really been lost over the years with WoW is the uniqueness of your own character. Sure we have transmog which is great and one of the main reasons why I still play the game. But when it comes to play style and gear, everything just uses the same stuff.
Happy new year MadSeason! Things I love about your channel ---> Your voice. No one has anything like it. It shouldn't work, but it's terrific. Everything is 'in game' footage. Esoteric WoW knowledge. And by Helya, just a charming stroll through WoW every time. Thanks! :)
Essence of pure flames is super useful for aoe farming Plus thorns effects tank sets (with dm gloves, drillborers/engi shield, cape, and ring) Not useless at all
I Remember getting kicked from my first raiding guild back in Vanilla, because i needed on Vendorstrike as a hunter. Don't judge.. i was a very young lad back then :(
It is ok I used to need on int daggers as hunter, everyone was so noob back in the day, i thought stam and intellect are the stats for me, just seeing the numbers on the bars go up made me feel stronger 😂
I liked the wep I got it for free on my holy ola back in the day I used it to help the grind with a 2h Nobody wanted but it was really cool for me , specially for the on use effext
Paladin and Shaman gear only dropped for the wrong faction after the 2.0 pre-TBC patch. It wasn't really a bug and was never "fixed" because both factions ended up having all classes.
Chris Pratt that’s not true. I used to see pally gear all the time on horde. My roommate used to wear light forge shoulders on his warrior as a joke. We used to get pissed in MC when pally gear would drop. This was very early into raiding before BWL. We also used to put lightforge BOE bracers and stuff on the cross faction AH in Gadgetzan.
Yes this happened after the Tpre BC patch. I know because we were running Alt MC and BWL and we saw so much pally gear drop in BWL one night. Including double pally chest pieces. Need to dig out my photobucket account to find that screen shot.
@@rogerpodacterslastwish1520 Dungeon tier isn't locked to a class that is why it dropped, Paladin/Shaman only gear didn't drop for the other faction till the TBC pre-patch.
If you have never seen it, you need to watch " Illegal Danish Super Snacks" It's on UA-cam. One of the classic one-liners of all time for a Paladin was the Paladin saying to himself, " I should have worn a dress..." Probably THE BEST WoW inspired video of all time.
@@elrictchernovkov8083 i just love the "banter" between the rogue and warlock between the pvp stuff. Especially of course the rock/paper/scissors/mushroom of "balance".
Shazzrah, Golemagg and Sulfuron, Another thunderstrike that nobody will roll on. "Paladins, Hunters, anybody?" "I am not wasting DKP on that piece of crap!"
Skullforge Reaver isnt a bad weapon at all, only for raidiing, for pvp its slow 30sec dot, works amazing against rogues and ferals effectually removing their ability to stealth, its slow attack speed makes procs very relliable and the fact its a life steal ability makes it synergise in pvp heavily with Lifesteal enchant. Saw a Knight lieutenant holy palla use this in his pvp build and he could out duel anyone.
@@Shikaschima Well im currently playing the lightshope server, and i can assure you thats not always the case, in this match up the palla was holy spec, tanky as hell and the rogue was looking for resets, so no it wasnt over quickly went on for atleast a minit
thank you so much for adding the music used! I was able to find a music I used to hear all the time 15 years ago, didnt knew it was from FF4, thanks to it I found the celtic version, one I had in a random music CD
You know something sad?... reputation items that required exalted in BFA are way useless than these, when you hit exalted wtf are you going to do with a 355ilvl piece of gear when you are already 370+... brilliant blizzard. Sometimes I think blizzard is only keeping this game alive because of the money they make out of people's feeling of what this game used to be.
Same thing happened in TBC. The vendor epics attached to reps were KZ/T4 equivalent. By the time I hit exalted we were in SSC. Even running heroics to get alts and new guildies attuned. Yet some of the season 1 PvP rewards were massive upgrades depending on your class. I used them from KZ into Battle for Hyjal.
That Path of Exile music threw me wayyy off! Even though I play it all the time, when combined with WoW, I was sitting here "wait, WHAT ZONE IS THAT FROM?!" VERY nice use sir. Fits beautifully.
God i missed this, happy new year. Your videos got me through stress back in summer, know it sounds stupid but listening to your videos at work just made me space out. I love you for it, im serious
It's a good Shockadin weapon till you have someting better. It even scales with spellpower but like you said, it keeps people in combat and disables restealth.
im preaty sure the pala and shaman armor dropping for the oposit faction happend after the 1.12 patch. im not 100% sure, but i remember it dropping pretty often after that patch. maybe it was 1.11. I remember the disapointment every time a shaman set piece would drop...
@@stuartclarke8709 has it right, I remember we had dual shaman t2 legs drop from rag and asked a GM to fix it, all the gm said was along the lines of oh well.
@@gremlin141 I can't really blame them for not bothering to fix it. In less than a month you'd be replacing them with a green item anyway and it wasn't a bug since the pre-patch enabled it because both factions were getting access to all classes.
Incorrect on the AoE tanking bit Druids have the best aoe treat out of the tanks in Vanilla, except for when Undead were involved in which case yeah Paladins were better In terms of single target druids & warriors are pretty comprable, the reason warriors were hailed as the king over druids is mainly due to stuff like warriors being uncritable
Exactly. We had a warrior and a feral druid tank in my first raiding guild and it was pretty common knowledge that druid=spikier damage but easy AoE threat and warrior=harder to gain AoE threat but easier to heal.
Hey man I just wanna say that your an awesome dude. I haven't ever played wow or ever really want to but I love your vids. I can see and appreciate your pure passion and love you have for them and that makes them super entertaining even for someone like me who has never played. Keep it up man!
Also skullforge rever has a good use for duels. Being able to apply a bleed to someone while your kiting them in their deadzone is really important for rogues who want to beat geared wars.
I don't undestand the argument about faction armors. Why wouldn't shaman armor drop for the alliance and vice versa? It's the same f*** raid. Same enemies, same bosses. It wouldn't make sense for the world to suddenly realize it is being raided by a specific faction. Meta gamers - I hate you so much. You take depth and immersion out of games for the sake of some stupid abstract mechanics.
If I recall correctly, some of these are not flawed, but rather, lost their value when game mechanics changed during development. For example, spell damage scaling supposedly originally applied to the magical damage of several of these items, so if someone with spell damage gear equipped the skull forge reaver, the life drain proc would be considerably higher. As the game approached release, and ever in some cases after, the mechanics changed until these items became pale in comparison to their former intended design.
To say that your channel is underrated would be a huge understatement... UA-cam should promote UA-camrs like you who actually put the effort into their videos. I love your channel don't stop what you are doing and keep the awesome work up :)!
I'm gonna admit something I've never admitted before. I started playing WoW around Christmas of ... 2008? Right after WotLK launched. I started on free trial after seeing the Mr. T "Night Elf Mohawk" commercial. I rolled Night Elf Warrior, and went on my way. I didn't really understand how huge the game was, I think it was great starting as Nelf because I went through to Darn and thought wow, this game is really big, and look at this city! Then I got over to Darkshore (RIP Auberdine), and started looking at the map... And I slowly realized that I had only seen a small island. It was amazing, that realization hitting me. Anyway, I had no idea what I was doing, I didn't know about all the websites and guides, and how to focus my talents or skills or stats... I just grabbed whatever looked like the numbers were bigger. I got to around level 25-28 maybe, and I had met like one person to play and quest with. She was around level 32 I think. We decided to go to Gnomeregan. We thought we'd 2-man it as far as we could go. We actually ended up beating the slime boss and getting through a good portion of it as I recall. Anyway, regardless of whether it was that first run or a second run with more people, it was very early because Hydrocane dropped. I got it and was like, wow, this is higher DPS than what I have now, and it's blue! So off I went as a Nelf Warrior noob with Hydrocane equipped. I remember questing and someone stopped and inspected me and laughed. He told me to switch it out ASAP. I asked him why and argued my point about it having more DPS than my previous weapon, etc. He explained a little bit to me and gave me a couple of websites to read about the game and Warriors. Probably the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me in the game. I played from just after WotLK launch to just before BFA, with a short hiatus from Timeless Isle through the end of WoD. I miss it sometimes, my characters and everything, but I'm done. Free at last. Long live Fourthirteen, Night Elf Warrior, US-Stormrage and my alt army in . And my Horde alts, too...
Thunderstrike was a weapon that is fairly fondly remembered in our guild. There was a player that ahd somehow managed to make it work as the proc was triggered very often, causing a lot of cleave damage among groups of enemies. It made trash clearing a lot more efficient0
10:04 - Just for clarification, Thrown weapons weren't removed in Cataclysm, they were simply revamped to durability. They were then fully removed in Mists of Pandaria.
YEEEE hobbs way of pulling was the best stuff on youtube way back. all i was thinking of before you shouted him out was "but hobbs woulda used that for sure"
Allthough it's still very narrow and situational, there is a use for the Spire of the Stoneshaper, for Druid FCs in WSG. You'd wanna pop it together with a FAP tho, since you won't be able to shapeshift out of slows and roots for 10 seconds. But for a dash across field it can be nice with a bit of extra armour while legging it ^^, but thats about it. Fun video =) and Happy New year!
Essence of the Pure Flame is DOPE for AoE farming as a Paladin. Getting a bunch of "when struck" items comboed with ret aura, seal of wisdom, and healing allowed you to stay holy while farming gold.
Thorium Shield Spike too.
I was given the Essence of Pure flame by my raid leader way back in Vanilla days.
At the time I was a human Paladin and I had to be ultra careful with my DKP as there were a good few of us, and we had a bidding system. Highest bid of DKP wins the item.
Naturally, no one at all wanted to spend even the base price of DKP on this Item, and it would often just be sharded or, as what happened to me, just given away.
My raid leader picked a random Paladin and gifted the item. I didn't know what to do with at first, as even then I thought it pretty damn useless until I started thinking.
Back then, retribution aura for the paladin used to reflect damage back at the attacker on hit. There were also a good few items out there that did a similar thing. Off the top of my head there was a ring from Blackrock Depths, and a engineering shield. So, I decided that I was going to go back to all them dungeons with the intent of collecting every single piece of damage reflection gear I could. I even switched out my profession for Engineering so I could get that shield.
In the end and after a good few months of collecting, I managed to get a good amount of this gear for my pala and decided to try it out in the battlegrounds. I of course took consecrated ground as well as any talents to boost my damage reflection, and I had such fun just standing and healing myself whilst rogues and hunters just murdered themselves on me without me even really doing much in the way of fighting back.
So, was the item bad? yes I would say it was bad, as it took me a lot of work, some luck and me being a Paladin to even get any use out of it. But I still had a lot of fun using it.
Another series I haven't touched in a while. Hope you enjoy! Reply with any weapon/gear suggestions to this comment if you have any.
Gargoyles Bite ;)
Not a weapon/gear suggestion but it'd be awesome if you did the WoW Classic Race Picking Guide Horde Version. I've been looking forward to that and I know it was 2nd on your recent straw poll for next video so others are too.
Honestly I have forgotten the name but the legendary mace from ulduar or the legendary daggers from dragon soul
@@biachslayer I second that. Can't wait!
Do you get your music from OC remix? Also you should do a favorite final fantasy video :)
Skullforge was insanely op against rogues, especially if you were a class without dots(Paladins). What's more is that the heal from the proc or the buff increased by a very good amount based on your +heal. Which was crazy OP when paladins used it with their tier gear against rogues who would try to restealth sap and try to bandage up only to come out of stealth and have their bandage interrupted, and as long as the dot was up the paladin would heal for nearly 1/4th of his hp while being cc'd because nearly all of their tier gear has +heal or spell power. It was a nightmare for rogues because you just couldn't stealth.
Was this changed in a patch or private server? Had this weapon for pvp against rogues and druids as paladin for quite some time but would switch as soon as rng apply the debuff. Can't say that this thing did ever more than 2 dmg or heal. Good never tryed it with gear that boosted shadowdps simply because it was reserved and or expensive.
@@Ras548 I only ever got the lawbringer set back in vanilla, so I used it along with skullforge reaver and force reactive disk almost everywhere outside raids and dungeons.
It used to heal me 11 health per tick with that gear. I remember it that well because I've seen that number way too many times while playing the game than I needed to.
When I switched to holy gear it would rise up significantly, around 40-50 heal per tick(with mc gear and little bit of bwl).
The random spell damage items i got around ZG and AQ also boosted the spell damage tick but not that noticeably as I didn't really have that high spell damage gear, so I can confirm this as well that spell damage did affect the shadow tick damage.
Not sure if its present on private servers as I stopped playing on them pretty soon as I started raiding for shady reasons. Would love to try it out again but classic is coming soon anyway. Please give feedback if this works on pservers.
@@JozuaJornandes Sry can't give you Feedback as the only Pserver I ever played was for TBC. I can only tell from my memories but could be wrong since I really only needed it for the stealthmechanic and my other gear was more a mix of AQ and Naxx with T2 mixed in. But hope that it scales with Spellpower would make the holypala pvp much more pleasant when classic comes again.
Weapon procs like this and spell dots are why I always carried Potions of Restoration on me.
if you add Skullforge Reaver with that, it becomes insane i beleive, as the sword's proc also scales with spellpower. You have a double healing/dmg proc ON all the time.
Worst items in wow classic
Me: oh he's going to show my entire gear
Your videos remind me how exciting it was to initially start playing WoW and what an experience it was. I'm getting even more excited for classic WoW coming out again!
Have a great year, you beautiful monotone marauder of my heart
Happy New Year!
@@madseasonshow OMG I've been noticed! Ty, MadSeason!
@@LokiTheAnsuz Hahaha, Congrats!
Sneaking in some Morrowind covers for background music, nice.
Great video, mate.
came here to see if anyone else heard it.
there wasn't too much music in morrowind but the exploration tracks are pure gold
This is the video I didn't know I wanted so badly, thanks man
The video we need, not the video we want (or something) :D
Essence of the Pure Flame is invalueable for every aoe tanking set. Typically one of the best tanking items when not tanking a raid boss (especially in instances). Make yourselves a good thorns tanking set (cloak of flames, razor gauntlets, nagelring, force reactive disk+ Ramstein trinket + the helmet from gnomeregan + eventually that thunderfury) and you can even top those damage meters in any dungeon. Force reactive disk is a bit costly and will break almost every second dungeon though. Cheap warriors will use ramsteins shield or drillborer disk instead. Throw in some Crystal Spire for maximum efficiency. Especially useful with elemental or undead invasions.
I believe some people also used it when camping Time Lost Proto-drake. Sit at spawn for hours, when it spawned it attacks you, and I believe got tapped by the thorns damage.
Very enlightening post. Thanks for the info! I knew there were thorns sets in the game, but always thought they were for low-level dungeon clearing. It's cool that even after all these years there's still more to learn.
@@madseasonshow aoe threat is a bit of a pain for warriors but thorns really does make tanking dungeons a lot easier. I would often use essence of pure flame and drillborer disk when farming Strat live.
Ya, Warriors Thorn gear was a winning strat during the Ahn Quiroj opening event. As soon as the Anubis mobs spawned they were already claimed when the video rendered. Made it essential to be in a 40 man raid just to get the ability to loot something.
@@madseasonshow It's actually very handy for classes that can aoe grind weak mobs. In particular in DM east, there's many packs of plants that can be aoe grinded easier with this item by priests, mages, druids, shamans, locks, and other classes. Decent way to farm cash and it doesn't involve being in a group or outdoors.
I'm glad that you brought this intro back. I know someone put effort into your new one, but this one has a more nostalgic and classic feel to it. AND it goes with the clip perfectly lol
It's always so relaxing to watch your videos . Keep up the great work !
I know! Right? I'm glad to know I'm not the only one.
I used to watch his vids when i had troubles with anxiety. It's so interesting and chill, i love it
I still have my Lion Horn of Stormwind in my bank from way back then as purely a status symbol of age. So many fond memories.
Woah seeing that old Hobbs video was mad nostalgia hit for me, I remember seeing it and being so blown away by how he was able to pull that much at a time. Keep up the good work man haven't played in a while but still love watching these videos
"An item so bad it even has a grammar mistake in its description" LMAO
I love the Hobbs shoutout, really takes me back to watching his videos 11 odd years ago and being blown away
That Path of Exile music though..
#7 Spire of the Stoneshaper, the staff that gives 1000 armor for 10 seconds sounds like a must have for druid flag runners in bgs for when the enemy team catches up to them.
7:08 - Disguise check failed.
Your comment should have much more likes! xD
Mangs "Lok'ta-I mean, grettings fellow human!"
An Illusion! What are you hiding?
Besides that i enjoy most of your videos very much, i want to point out how well-fitting your choice of music is in them.
I became chills, when the guitar-theme of tes3 started playing.
Essence of the Pure Flame was really good trinket for AQ40 after Sarture, that gauntlet for aoe tanking
Skullforge reaver was good vs rogues as they couldn't stealth vs you
Spire of the stoneshaper was used as fruid FC weapon, use and switch
@Professor Thinker Yes it is.
@Professor Thinker Please go read more tutorials and guides how to and come back to trash talk theory craft like a big boy.
Something you missed with the Lion Horn is that, flavor-wise, the idea is that everyone in the group has one. The purpose is that everyone uses as many of them as possible. That way you can potentially keep the tank's armor increased by up to 750 all the time.
The stoneshaper went ok for carrying the flag in old war warsong gulch
Skull of impending doom has prio for FC
@@furianrage6864 Nerd.
@@uncledaydays What? Someone who plays wow is a nerd?? that's impossible.
@@furianrage6864 Lol....nerd
my ironweave soul link warlock would keep that staff of stoneshape on this on him for when rogues vanished during pvp, procing it would force the rogue to jump you even with the extra armor up, blow a blind, or let you mount. Wasn't usable in a true stunlock, but given that I was an orc, it wasn't uncommon to resist a stun, and get this up before the gouge/blind came out.
Hi Mad! I greatly enjoy your videos and I like how you talk about old content. It brings me to my late vanilla and early BC days. Your videos are just so fun to watch on a calm and lazy Saturday morning. Keep it up!
I'll have you know, Socks are my favorite gift.
I asked for socks last three Christmas myself
My bois
I look forward to getting socks every year for Christmas!
Wow, that was socking to know!
Essence of the Pure Flame was useful for warrior AOE tanking. Often warriors would use it along with other items that caused damage when hit when fighting through the gauntlets in BWL and AQ40.
5:22 THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
gachibass
So that's why he's MADseason.
this has to be the coziest classic wow channel
Didn't the shaman/paladin tier set drop incorrectly only during the TBC prepatch though?
pretty sure that was the case. got that primo double shaman drop off nef during that.
Yeah. They had the "Alliance has shamans and Horde has paladins now" coded in 2.0.1 even though you couldn't make belfs or space goats until the expansion proper dropped.
The bow/staff from the epic hunter quest was also an example of a weapon which you could transform to another on use like Vendorstrike and Benediction. The action would transform the bow into the staff and the staff into the bow. The two were only separated later on in another expansion.
Rhok'delar and Lok'delar!
I had that on my Vanilla hunter main!
The quest line to get that bow was fucking hard and time consuming as hell.
Had to get the Ancient Petrified Leaf from Majordomo Executus' chest, AND the Mature Black Dragon Sinew from Onyxia.
Then you had to solo 4 elite boss-like demons, WITHOUT a pet!
Also, if you wanted the best quiver in the game, you needed to get the Mature Blue Dragon Sinew from Azuregos the ice dragon world boss while doing this quest!
Such a crazy journey to acquire that bow/staff/quiver.
The sense if accomplishment afterwards was unmatched though!
RIP "Ubermenschy." Level 60 Troll Hunter, of guild "Eminence"
My first WoW character, and main, on Deathwing, US Realm.
Essence of the Pure Flame isn't that bad, it's just really situational. That 13 thorns damage is pretty good for AoE threat, where every little bit counts.
I like the addition of the Path of exile music in these kinds of videos, keep up the great work man!
ASMONGOLD IS BALD
Great video btw.
AsmonP
Who is Asmongold?
when kids get so desperate for attention from someone they'll never get to be friends with
nah he only bas a big 4Head
@@Immagonko I'm pretty sure Asmongold is the arrogant twat who's vids I keep clicking 'Not Interested'. If you want a calmer look at WoW news, check out BellularGaming channel ... he's the shat. :)
Thanks for your videos. Your intro tune in my mind is one with the memory of the Classic WoW nostalgia
skullforge reaver is actually very effective in the hands of any melee pvper and especially the right spec paladin. every leech tick will heal a pala with the right gear and spec for way more than the tooltip says, since +heal scales with the leech effect. enemies will be robbed of their ability to stealth or bandage.
Ja
more like robbed of their ability to be crowd controlled.... do a small amount of damage and healing and make them immune to sheep/blind/sap/gouge/trap/repentance etc.
I just started watching your videos and I love them so far. Definitely informative and organized in content. I really dig your list and historical videos! Your voice is easy to listen to and music that compliments the monotone calming vibe. Keep up the great work!
I quit wow and I still LOVE your stuff! :)
You haven't fully quit then
Essence of the Pure Flame + Engineer Shield + % Block highest stamina and armor gear = Aoe Tanking set for MC’s Dog and Imp, BWL Whelp in suppression room, a good number of trash in AQ40 and Naax.
It’s not useless at all.
Your videos are great, amazing editing , gorgeous voice really relaxing.
I remember farming for two Skullforged Reavers on my warrior back in the day just because they sheathed on the back. But these days I miss the option to even dual wield one handed weapons on my warrior, so freaking tired of all weapons being on my back.... One thing that has really been lost over the years with WoW is the uniqueness of your own character. Sure we have transmog which is great and one of the main reasons why I still play the game. But when it comes to play style and gear, everything just uses the same stuff.
Happy new year MadSeason! Things I love about your channel --->
Your voice. No one has anything like it. It shouldn't work, but it's terrific.
Everything is 'in game' footage.
Esoteric WoW knowledge.
And by Helya, just a charming stroll through WoW every time. Thanks! :)
"The Hobbs way of pulling"
:'(
did he die or something?
Vendorstrike may not be the best weapon out there, but it was the very first epic I ever got back then, so it will always hold a special place for me.
Essence of the pure flame was a best in slot trinket for multi-target tanks
This video is way more funny than I think because of your chill voice.
Essence of pure flames is super useful for aoe farming
Plus thorns effects tank sets (with dm gloves, drillborers/engi shield, cape, and ring)
Not useless at all
Everytime you pick very cool covers of music, nostalgia hitted me very hard on the ff4 themes. Nice video like always :)
Yes, my number 1 was my wallet. It was so small.
Man.. For real.. I love your videos. Thank you for making these, they get better and better.
Spire of the Stoneshaper could be used when you have no mana)) You can't suffer from silence if you have no mana to cast spells)
I don’t understand why/how anyone can ever dislike your videos! Keep up the fantastic content buddy!
That PoE music actually fits your voice and WoW content tho
You make amazing videos man. This is the only UA-cam subscription that I actively recommend to friends. Ty for all your hard work.
I've always wondered if there is a reason, but I want to know if there is a story behind your transmog.
Xalotha its the bis gear for warriors in vanilla
@@marklyngaas6898 not really, this is just the pre AQ40 bis set
hats off to the choice of music; PoE, TES, Chrono Trigger, FF4
All great renditions as well.
I Remember getting kicked from my first raiding guild back in Vanilla, because i needed on Vendorstrike as a hunter. Don't judge.. i was a very young lad back then :(
I think that should be a feat of strength, actually.
It is ok
I used to need on int daggers as hunter, everyone was so noob back in the day, i thought stam and intellect are the stats for me, just seeing the numbers on the bars go up made me feel stronger 😂
I liked the wep
I got it for free on my holy ola back in the day
I used it to help the grind with a 2h
Nobody wanted but it was really cool for me , specially for the on use effext
I don't think I'll ever get tired of your content. Awesome as always
Paladin and Shaman gear only dropped for the wrong faction after the 2.0 pre-TBC patch. It wasn't really a bug and was never "fixed" because both factions ended up having all classes.
Chris Pratt that’s not true. I used to see pally gear all the time on horde. My roommate used to wear light forge shoulders on his warrior as a joke. We used to get pissed in MC when pally gear would drop. This was very early into raiding before BWL. We also used to put lightforge BOE bracers and stuff on the cross faction AH in Gadgetzan.
Cross-faction gear only dropped after the BC pre-patch.
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Yes this happened after the Tpre BC patch. I know because we were running Alt MC and BWL and we saw so much pally gear drop in BWL one night. Including double pally chest pieces. Need to dig out my photobucket account to find that screen shot.
it didn't "only" drop after the patch, perhaps you were just lucky enough that you never had them drop for you prior to the patch.
@@rogerpodacterslastwish1520 Dungeon tier isn't locked to a class that is why it dropped, Paladin/Shaman only gear didn't drop for the other faction till the TBC pre-patch.
I can’t believe you’re almost at 200k subs. Congrats dude you earned it. Hope you keep making amazing videos for me to relax to for years.
Essence of the pure flame is certainly not bad.
Can be used for AoE tanking.
oh my god the shoutsouts to the hobbs way of pulling made me so freaking happy
Paladins in cloth you say? Guess we've evolved since then to priests in plate
If you have never seen it, you need to watch " Illegal Danish Super Snacks" It's on UA-cam. One of the classic one-liners of all time for a Paladin was the Paladin saying to himself, " I should have worn a dress..." Probably THE BEST WoW inspired video of all time.
@@elrictchernovkov8083 I suddenly want to watch world of roguecraft
@ confushisushi LOL I actually watch a streamer who does Roguetech a mod of BattleTech
@@elrictchernovkov8083 i just love the "banter" between the rogue and warlock between the pvp stuff. Especially of course the rock/paper/scissors/mushroom of "balance".
I love your series!! Playing like 10 years and still didnt have any idea about some of this items
Plus your voice is 10/10
Druid tanks lacking threat in vanilla? Riiiight...
also paladins only able to tank one target... not as if they are the best aoe tanks...
Shazzrah, Golemagg and Sulfuron,
Another thunderstrike that nobody will roll on.
"Paladins, Hunters, anybody?"
"I am not wasting DKP on that piece of crap!"
Skullforge Reaver isnt a bad weapon at all, only for raidiing, for pvp its slow 30sec dot, works amazing against rogues and ferals effectually removing their ability to stealth, its slow attack speed makes procs very relliable and the fact its a life steal ability makes it synergise in pvp heavily with Lifesteal enchant. Saw a Knight lieutenant holy palla use this in his pvp build and he could out duel anyone.
... you ... know how quick PvP was over in Vanilla? As in "The fights take less than 5 seconds" quick over?
@@Shikaschima Well im currently playing the lightshope server, and i can assure you thats not always the case, in this match up the palla was holy spec, tanky as hell and the rogue was looking for resets, so no it wasnt over quickly went on for atleast a minit
thank you so much for adding the music used! I was able to find a music I used to hear all the time 15 years ago, didnt knew it was from FF4, thanks to it I found the celtic version, one I had in a random music CD
You know something sad?... reputation items that required exalted in BFA are way useless than these, when you hit exalted wtf are you going to do with a 355ilvl piece of gear when you are already 370+... brilliant blizzard. Sometimes I think blizzard is only keeping this game alive because of the money they make out of people's feeling of what this game used to be.
They were pretty useful for a short period of time. This has pretty much been the case for a few expansions now with rep gear
Same thing happened in TBC. The vendor epics attached to reps were KZ/T4 equivalent. By the time I hit exalted we were in SSC. Even running heroics to get alts and new guildies attuned.
Yet some of the season 1 PvP rewards were massive upgrades depending on your class. I used them from KZ into Battle for Hyjal.
Nah. I mean, yeah, it sucks, but it's always been that way.
They were usefull if you grinded exalted in the first 2 weeks..
@@vitorsantos3971 yes but... why?
That Path of Exile music threw me wayyy off! Even though I play it all the time, when combined with WoW, I was sitting here "wait, WHAT ZONE IS THAT FROM?!" VERY nice use sir. Fits beautifully.
Hey guys, Hobbs here.
Hey
God i missed this, happy new year. Your videos got me through stress back in summer, know it sounds stupid but listening to your videos at work just made me space out. I love you for it, im serious
Skullforge Reaver isnt that bad, its used for PvP to keep players in combat.
It's a good Shockadin weapon till you have someting better. It even scales with spellpower but like you said, it keeps people in combat and disables restealth.
Love the videos man
Specially that outro
Too comfy to watch and hear
Always waiting for more
im preaty sure the pala and shaman armor dropping for the oposit faction happend after the 1.12 patch. im not 100% sure, but i remember it dropping pretty often after that patch. maybe it was 1.11. I remember the disapointment every time a shaman set piece would drop...
I believe it was the pre TBC patch when the set items would drop for the wrong faction.
@@stuartclarke8709 has it right, I remember we had dual shaman t2 legs drop from rag and asked a GM to fix it, all the gm said was along the lines of oh well.
@@gremlin141 I can't really blame them for not bothering to fix it. In less than a month you'd be replacing them with a green item anyway and it wasn't a bug since the pre-patch enabled it because both factions were getting access to all classes.
it was in there for a while I believe, I remember pala helmets dropping from onyxia and pissing everyone off beyond belief
I've always loved your intro. Short and sweet. (not to mention the entire rest of the video always being excellent)
keep up the good work bro
Incorrect on the AoE tanking bit
Druids have the best aoe treat out of the tanks in Vanilla, except for when Undead were involved in which case yeah Paladins were better
In terms of single target druids & warriors are pretty comprable, the reason warriors were hailed as the king over druids is mainly due to stuff like warriors being uncritable
Exactly. We had a warrior and a feral druid tank in my first raiding guild and it was pretty common knowledge that druid=spikier damage but easy AoE threat and warrior=harder to gain AoE threat but easier to heal.
didnt wars only have thunderclap as aoe dmg (except the 5min aoe taunt?), bears got swipe and that dealt some good damage aswell @@Capnsensible80
@@Quitarstudent thunder clap kind of sucked, warriors typically just spammed battle cry or demo shout over & over again to gain threat
demoshout generated threat? i learn something new about vanilla every day :D@@cEighteen
Yeah, it did in vanilla & it doesnt in bfa lmfao
Love the old school Final Fantasy music in the background.
“ Shaymon” bro wtf
Shammon
Shamein
Hey man I just wanna say that your an awesome dude. I haven't ever played wow or ever really want to but I love your vids. I can see and appreciate your pure passion and love you have for them and that makes them super entertaining even for someone like me who has never played. Keep it up man!
the elder scrolls theme...
Youre getting better with the cinematic shots, they look great
Anyone who dislikes MadSeason vids should be exiled from society
Also skullforge rever has a good use for duels. Being able to apply a bleed to someone while your kiting them in their deadzone is really important for rogues who want to beat geared wars.
I don't undestand the argument about faction armors. Why wouldn't shaman armor drop for the alliance and vice versa? It's the same f*** raid. Same enemies, same bosses. It wouldn't make sense for the world to suddenly realize it is being raided by a specific faction. Meta gamers - I hate you so much. You take depth and immersion out of games for the sake of some stupid abstract mechanics.
Well said.
If I recall correctly, some of these are not flawed, but rather, lost their value when game mechanics changed during development. For example, spell damage scaling supposedly originally applied to the magical damage of several of these items, so if someone with spell damage gear equipped the skull forge reaver, the life drain proc would be considerably higher. As the game approached release, and ever in some cases after, the mechanics changed until these items became pale in comparison to their former intended design.
I love your intros...makes me feel home instantly for some reason
I don't think there's ever been more hype for a game than there is for classic wow. This community is so good.
Again, MadSeason going with the most chill music. Good memories sitting in Lioneye's Watch trying to reorganize my stash after a league ended.
Happy New Year man, glad to see you're jumping right into it.
To say that your channel is underrated would be a huge understatement... UA-cam should promote UA-camrs like you who actually put the effort into their videos. I love your channel don't stop what you are doing and keep the awesome work up :)!
@ MadSeasonShow first of all happy new year! 1st of jan and already 1st video of the year! hope to see allot more, thanks man!
I'm gonna admit something I've never admitted before.
I started playing WoW around Christmas of ... 2008? Right after WotLK launched. I started on free trial after seeing the Mr. T "Night Elf Mohawk" commercial. I rolled Night Elf Warrior, and went on my way.
I didn't really understand how huge the game was, I think it was great starting as Nelf because I went through to Darn and thought wow, this game is really big, and look at this city! Then I got over to Darkshore (RIP Auberdine), and started looking at the map... And I slowly realized that I had only seen a small island. It was amazing, that realization hitting me.
Anyway, I had no idea what I was doing, I didn't know about all the websites and guides, and how to focus my talents or skills or stats... I just grabbed whatever looked like the numbers were bigger.
I got to around level 25-28 maybe, and I had met like one person to play and quest with. She was around level 32 I think. We decided to go to Gnomeregan. We thought we'd 2-man it as far as we could go. We actually ended up beating the slime boss and getting through a good portion of it as I recall. Anyway, regardless of whether it was that first run or a second run with more people, it was very early because Hydrocane dropped. I got it and was like, wow, this is higher DPS than what I have now, and it's blue!
So off I went as a Nelf Warrior noob with Hydrocane equipped. I remember questing and someone stopped and inspected me and laughed. He told me to switch it out ASAP. I asked him why and argued my point about it having more DPS than my previous weapon, etc. He explained a little bit to me and gave me a couple of websites to read about the game and Warriors.
Probably the most embarrassing thing that ever happened to me in the game. I played from just after WotLK launch to just before BFA, with a short hiatus from Timeless Isle through the end of WoD.
I miss it sometimes, my characters and everything, but I'm done. Free at last. Long live Fourthirteen, Night Elf Warrior, US-Stormrage and my alt army in . And my Horde alts, too...
Rarely do I click a video this fast. Really like this series.
Thunderstrike was a weapon that is fairly fondly remembered in our guild. There was a player that ahd somehow managed to make it work as the proc was triggered very often, causing a lot of cleave damage among groups of enemies. It made trash clearing a lot more efficient0
10:04 - Just for clarification, Thrown weapons weren't removed in Cataclysm, they were simply revamped to durability. They were then fully removed in Mists of Pandaria.
0:58 Grand Marshal Derp 😂😂
This is why we love him folks
Damn you choice of music is perfect in your videos. PoE, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy. Amazing
Yeah! And Diablo
YEEEE hobbs way of pulling was the best stuff on youtube way back. all i was thinking of before you shouted him out was "but hobbs woulda used that for sure"
awesome beginning! :) Like your topics and videos bro! :)
Allthough it's still very narrow and situational, there is a use for the Spire of the Stoneshaper, for Druid FCs in WSG. You'd wanna pop it together with a FAP tho, since you won't be able to shapeshift out of slows and roots for 10 seconds. But for a dash across field it can be nice with a bit of extra armour while legging it ^^, but thats about it. Fun video =) and Happy New year!
Free Action Potion XD @Kathy Kat
Another video on new year? best present ever, thank you x