You can definitely see all the hard work that was put into this video. I forgot so many things that happened over the years... Loved the humor in the video!
Played off and on for years but only started really paying close attention to the story during BfA. The fact this man talked for 14 minutes straight then hit us with “this marks the start of the game” is insane to me
@@Banana-cc5rx No that's been basically the story of warcraft since vanilla and...actually since the beginning too. (all 3 RTS games) Bad dudes show up good guys face them, some stuff gets blown up, some characters (people will hopefully care about) die for 'drama'. Then repeat that again and again because hey it works so why change things? Heck just make a big bad guy (or gal..) show up with a different flavored apocalypse almost happen every other year that the champions are fated win against eventually (and with ample "asspulls"), they must stop these baddies because otherwise everything gets blown up (every single expansion), that sure won't get old anytime soon...
@@telvannicouncilor In WoW's defense, many of the expansions they highlight a new villain where there wasn't much lore for the villain before, which definitely makes it feel like these villains come out of nowhere. Hence why Ulduar and ICC are heiled as the best raids, because there was three expansions worth of plot leading up to them.
I never realized that the gnomes, dwarves and humans came from titan races I knew about the elves but the other races was news to me. It really shows how terrible the game are at conveying lore.
For real, a small group of 20 players can pretty much kill ANYTHING, even commit deicide easily while entire armies numbering in the thousands, demonic beings, and dragons can't really accomplish jack shit 🤣. It literally makes zero sense, but whatever.
I demand an update of Shadowlands and Dragonflight! No seriously, this was absolutely amazing and extremely informative while not taking a ton of your time. And I have not done a good job of following the storyline through the last 2 expansions so I need this guy to break it down again xD
Well we discovered that there were 5 powerful not titans in the afterlife that controlled their pocket whatevers and they then banished the diet Artus to a place called the Maw where they forgot about him and basically allowed him to build an army when Sylvanus made a deal with him and burning the tree is apart of their plan somehow, then Sylvanus was reunited with herself because Diet Artus wants to rule everything. Anduen was corrupted by jailer and used as a puppet which messed up his head then Sylvania committed suicide I guess. Not too long after Deathwing's experiments woke up to find the Primalist are awake and have the greatest munchies
Well, this is the story of WoW, to get to the story of WoW you gotta go over BEFORE the events of warcraft 1 and the 1st invasion, WoW doesnt start till after warcraft 3
(1:26) Also related: * 14:43 Illidan and Kael'Thas steal a floating chandelier-ship * 15:39 Velen purifies the Sunwell by throwing a dead chandelier into it
Hey why blaming them. Whe the myghtiest heros, slayer of gods and savior azeroths (Player characters) can be resurrected then why not the bad guys too?
"Illidan promises he's done consuming demonic power to stop the legion" "Illidan then promptly consumes more demonic power to stop the legion" That's just gold
"Remember Deathwing? Well the old gods have been whispering to him for 10,000 years so now he's even crazier than before, escaping deepholm and blowing up a large portion of Azeroth and flooding fantasy Utah" FANTASY UTAH. IM FUCKING WHEEZING AT THAT.
You and literally everyone playing classic. Classic is for people too confused by the games huge amount of lore and just wanna kill things and make "friends" (more like cults). People playing classic never cared about the game. They just wanna play JRR Tolkien's version of secound life. 🤣
@@jasonmnosaj not really. I played classic so I can understand the basis of the story and start it slowly. It's the foundation of the lore and it's easier to follow and decide if you want to learn more or just remain in classic. I'm now updated with the lore and bought Shadowlands (waiting not so patiently), but I wouldn't be here without Classic. I recommend the journey to anyone who wants to take it slow but learn lore at the same time. Read the quests and don't skip all the time! :D
@@jasonmnosaj Dude, I just started playing WoW and I had to make a classic account because all the changes to the world that come with each expansion makes the storyline incomprehensible. "Ok, this area takes place in cataclysm, but the quest is during legion. Wait, didn't I just kill that guy? Why am I doing quests for him now?" Modern WoW has what I've been referring to as "quantum storylines". You can be in one area but have 3 different storylines from 3 different expansions going at the same time, which makes it very confusing to figure out what on earth is suppose to be going on. So the current plan is; play classic, figure out what content is old, and what is new, and why the cat people still don't have voice lines. I got a character to level 50 just in time for shadowlands so when I'm ready I can go through each expansion one at a time and hopefully figure out what on earth is going on to satisfy my massive lore bone lol.
Did the quest line in Stonetallon where Hellscream gets mad at one of his lackeys for blowing up a city full of civilians. Next quest I do, Hellscream blows up a city full of civilians. What happened?! Send lore!
19:46 This is a common misconception. There is no actual rule against using magic in Makgora duels. The rules are typically decided by the participants themselves. People just saw the rules that Garrosh and Cairne agreed upon and just assumed they were universal.
I think it had to do with the Old Gods burrowing so deep into the planet. The Titans did kill Y'Shaarj by pulling it out like a tick, but it did more harm to Azeroth than good at the time.
@@SaturnYoshi In truth the Old Gods we fought aren't as dead as you can think. Their spirit are still around and they might revive in their prison with enough time. The only exception would be N'Zoth very recently because we killed him in his own "world" (a vision of another Azeroth to sum up a bit what Ny'alotha is)
@@SaturnYoshi I always felt it was their massive size, basically the difference of trying to remove a bullet from a wound with a scalpel (we the "Children of Azeroth") vs using one of those drills you drive around with in construction sites (The Titans)
I thought it was a widely known fact that the "old gods" that we killed were just Avatars and their real, gigantic bodies are still trapped beneath the ground/sea
I enjoyed this so much. I was laughing and saying Yep through the whole video. Also he did in 23 minutes what I've been trying to explain to someone who started in Pandaria and Ive been playing since vanilla! Thank goodness for the share button
I played until Cata, quit, then JUST NOW came back after my boss all but insisted I play with him. WHAT. THE ACTUAL. FUCK. DID THEY. DO?! What the HELL is going on here?! I am so lost it beggars belief!
@@Archris17 Lol! The game has changed quite a bit and will take some getting use to as you quit so long ago. Almost everyone is enjoying dragon flying (not me you'll find me face planting mountain after mountain or going splat on a building or tree) as it's a freebie at max level. Stick with it lol This video gets you through the lore so that's a plus.
Hmm couldn't have anything to do with activision .....or you know everyone who created WoW being gone...🤷♀️ this video is hilarious and informative though. I enjoyed it
Great summary. One thing, though: Illidan wasn't imprisoned in Outlands, he was killed. In Legion the players go through a lenghty mission to ressurrect him and almost fail.
well, yes and no. He was killed but he can't be killed. As a half-demon, his soul is immortal just like all other demons, it went to the Twisting Nether where he could have resurrected himself. However, because the wardens imprisoned his physical body, he was unable to do that, which was their point. That's why Gul'dan stole his body and why we had to get it back before he could be resurrected.
I've played Warcraft 2 and 3, WoW, watched the cinematics, some of the movie, played Hearthstone, etc. And this video managed to explain everything I didnt understand in 23 minutes. *Legendary!*
I have spend years learning world of warcraft history, but this video... It's just pure gold. Great work, really had lots of fun watching it and its quite accurate!
@@vamborala it's pretty clear that they decided last minute to make it much smaller Than originally planned to shift focus on Shadowlands instead. And it was probably for the best. The 8.2 events are not in the video by the way which are kind of important to some extent.
@@sombrego2260 They should have done a rising of the Dark Empire, with a random but menacing minion of N'Zoth as the final boss ( a bit like Helion back in the day ) which we would eventually kill and realise what Sylvanas is doing, and be torn between "staying in Azeroth to deal with N'Zoth" or "Go to the shadowlands", and finally opting for the later as "more important", then returning for 10.0 in a ravaged Azeroth where the world is split between old god forces and resistant of various races.
It's been two years, so some addendums: The Death Dimension is being terrorized by a big angry bald maned called The Jailer who wants to enslave everyone for some reason. He kills the super judge of the afterlife called The Arbiter with the help of Sylvanas who kidnaps various important people for the Horde and Alliance and even turns Andiun into another Lich-King lookin' dude but the ghost of his dad and some orc tell him 'don't do it, bro, you're better than this' and he pulls his sword apart. The Jailer is successful in whatever he was doing, but Sylvanas turns on him after he kills the arbiter because she's tired of being an underling. The Champions of Azeroth do what they do best and run over the Jailer and make a new arbiter, who puts Sylvanas on trial for the bad things she done. Sylvanas got her humanity (her living soul or something? idk) back and now feels bad for setting a giant tree-house on fire. Tyrande, who lived in that tree-house, demanded Sylvanas to go and collect souls for at least half an eternity. Basically every major fetch quest ever. Everyone else comes back to the realm of the living like nothing ever happened, except Anduin who felt bad about being another Lich King who's now walking around in the forever box. And now there's dragons. Like, a lot of dragons. Like you know that 300 meme where 'our arrows shall blot out the sun?' That, but with dragons. And also smaller humanoid lizards, too, who were created by Deathwing before he was Deathwing and apparently teamed up with Malygos to seal all his babies away for twenty thousand years. There's also apparently this big stormy elemental dragon that wants to rid Azeroth of the TItan's influence even though Azeroth itself is like a baby titan or something but who cares falling with style is a helluva lot of fun! The big main Dragons are trying to make the powers so they can become Aspects again, with Alextraza, Norzdomu, Kalegos, and Merenthil (who is Ysera's daughter) for Red, Bronze, Blue, and Green. Two of Deathwings kids are fighting to become the aspect of the Black dragons: Wrathion, who was Andiuns BFF, and some dude who was only seen briefly in The Outlands. But who cares, Falling with Style is a helluva lot of fun!
I love time travel stories and that was just confusing crap. I guess they ran out of ideas or got lazy and decided to bring back old characters for profit, but didn't work well so they tried something even more radically stupid with the jailer.
That and Tauren. But there were a lot more trolls and they did a lot more with their time. Actually, of all the 23 races in the game, including Allied Races, only 11 are native to Azeroth. And that's counting the ones that are just subtle offshoots like the slightly shadowy bois that are the void elves. You have the four elves, two trolls, two tauren, goblins, pandaren, and vulpera. So Azeroth (the titan) is definitely a furry. Oh man, looking at that list I realize it's mostly Horde. Pandaren play both sides, but then Horde has 8 and Alliance only has 2 native races and they're the oldest and youngest elves. Their other races are: 2 space aliens and 7 titanspawn. Meanwhile, the Horde also has 2 space aliens but only 1 titanspawn. So really, the Horde is the faction that's more native to Azeroth while the Alliance is the invaders. Form a certain point of view.
Shenanigans! How can you not mention the part where Arthas uses his own father's urn and replaces the ashes with Kel'Thuzad's? That was so awesomely horrible!
@@flamingblood8447 ”Like because that’s because what actually happened.” Do you just refrain from communicating to people or just gave up when you realized you were bad at it?
@@Gnossiene369 what even was that clap back even? it wasnt even clever. “oh u said words in a way i think makes u sound dumb hardy har ima boomer” this isnt r/murderedbywords and u arent the main character. dont look down on someone just for the way they say things, it makes u look like a clown 🤡
Thanks for the recap bud great jobs telling the storyline in a quick manner as well LOL I was afraid the full history would take 10hrs or more to digest it fully - so thanks again mate 🤠!!!¡¡¡!!!
@@joshualastimosa5713 that's actually true. In lore it says that the Titans are too strong and will destroy the azeroth if they will try themselves. They understood that by killing 1 oldgod and ripping a hole in Azeroth. So they made an army instead to fight for them.
Pretty sure the Titans could but they didn't because the old gods had attached themselves to the growing titan inside Azeroth because apparently all planets are titan eggs???? Also something to take note of the guardians left behind aside from dragon aspects actually possess titan powers which the new races of Azeroth gained from their machines who were turned into people so it's not as far fetched as one might think.
My brother literally asked me why we could but the titans couldn't three days ago. I just said because we are most definitely more powerful then a titan
The Titans could most definitely kill the old gods, one of them rips Y'shaarj out of the world like a parasite but they realise that if they did that they would kill the world soul. The Sha in Pandaria is the remnants of Y'shaarj.
Anyone else listen to this, look back on the past decade of gaming and only just now realise why you did half the things you spend endless hours doing? xD
Just hit 110.. with all the XP boosts I think I went through pandaria, wod and legion in 2 days. This made some sense of what the heck happened. Thanks.
That started right around when all the original creators of the warcraft universe started leaving & Blizzard merged with Activision. AKA, it's the shameless corporate money generator that's used in basically every industry. Marvel is the exact same.
True. It goes from fresh, original, and interesting stories - to "Timetravel" and every defeated villain randomly coming back. Everything after Mists of Pandaria was fucking awful and made no sense.
Earlier warcraft was simple and easy to follow. Later it got more and more convoluted and entangled, but that only makes it more interesting - it still makes sense once you take in all the sources like the novels and the chronicles as well as what you learn ingame. Everything new keeps adding to previous loose ends. The unfortunate thing is that you need those external sources to make sense of it all, they fill in the blanks the game does a poor job telling you about.
@@SaltyMaud wrong. Earlier on the game was much more difficult and hard to experience. There was no looking for raid - no raid book telling you about all the bosses and their abilities - there were way more stats - and you get the do long attunement quests about the lore of the raid before you even entered it. The lore was brilliant too - with very little of that ridiculous nonsensical and illogical time travel bullshit. Modern Wow is a streamlined joke and caricature of what it used to be.
@@FrankLucas-pw5hs I was talking warcraft, which includes wow, but is not limited to it. From 1994 to maybe the second or third book of the world of warcraft series, though the war of the ancients trilogy already did a bunch of world building most are totally oblivious to. I'm talking about keeping track of the different threads that make up the story and explain the characters, conflicts and their motivations, i never commented on the game. Early warcraft story was pretty typical fantasy orcs humans elves stuff that didn't go down too many layers to keep it easy to follow. Later warcraft story, and lore that was tacked on keeps adding more and more layers and connecting different threads to the point where most players have no fucking clue about what's going on, who the characters are, what their motivations are, what lead to the events we are seeing in game and why we are even doing what we are doing. But the information is out there, you just need to care enough to look for it. Nothing written so far is strictly against the rules of the warcraft universe, especially since the rules aren't firmly established and they are added on as we go. Why are you even bringing up the game, we were never talking about the game. I thought the "vanilla was hard" meme had already died now that people can relive old game on classic anyway.
This had no business being this funny lmao. *In short:* Somebody yells: OPEN THE PORTAL Somebody else yells back: CLOSE THE DAMN PORTAL Proceed to kill old gods in between opening and closing portal activities
Absolutely, hands down, the best WOW video I have seen and I have been playing since WOW was birthed. I have gotten so confused with all the expansions and whatnot over the past several years that i just couldn't put it all together. Now, everything makes sense...well, not everything because some things don't make sense, but at least the dots are all connected!
Congratulations. This has been the first video of yours that I saw and it was all tremendously researched, edited and presented. The references, the images, the videos, everything was spot-on. This felt like watching a less musical Bill Wurtz video. Definitely a must-watch for everyone who loves Warcraft.
@@vora320 Garosh was left as a watchief while Thrall goes to help the dragons with their Deathwings problem. Garosh decided to go on a war with everybody destroying the work of peace Thrall worked hard on. Garosh was unfit to rule so Thrall fights him and then helps imprison him
Seriously tho, the title is kinda misleading. I expected a history of the game itself as in roots, development, notable patches, shitstorms etc. This is just Warcraft Lore.
![The Story of Warcraft - Full Version 2.0 [Lore]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RKsNKZi5Ct8/mqdefault.jpg)
If the audio is too fast, I recommend setting the custom speed to 0.9, it slows me down a bit without making me sound drunk like 0.75 does.
Enjoy!
that was really nice and memey, you did a good job
You can definitely see all the hard work that was put into this video. I forgot so many things that happened over the years... Loved the humor in the video!
This was really well done!! Great voice over and humour throughout, you should be proud of your effort
Easily the best and most fun WoW summary to date, really gj dude!
So tell me this, how old is Tyronde if she fought in the War of the Ancients?
Meanwhile a quest asks me to kick fish back into the river
Ha! Gold ticket right there
Don’t forget..
*A turtle made it to the water!*
hillarious!
Don’t forget herding cats while the legion is destroying the entire universe.
I hope this is not going to start another space war and another shitty addon. Don't do it
'Alexstrasza tries to save him by setting him on fire with questionable results.'
That line is golden.
"Because it turns out without magick, mages are just frail nerds" absolutely sent me
Played off and on for years but only started really paying close attention to the story during BfA. The fact this man talked for 14 minutes straight then hit us with “this marks the start of the game” is insane to me
Meh, he said beginning of *WoW* at 14:14, since the games really start at 6:14. 🤓
Tbf there are 3 games before wow and even lore books
Yeah, I thought I knew so much about the game but I'm way over my head here.
@@irrelevant_noob Nope, it's the complete history of "world of warcraft" not just "warcraft" therefore the game starts at 14:14
What's more amazing is the extremely drastic shift in quality storytelling before WoW came out and after...
I love how, once World of Warcraft starts, the story just devolves into "guy tries to be evil, champions run him over"
blizzard story writing after Wotlk basically
@@Banana-cc5rx
No that's been basically the story of warcraft since vanilla and...actually since the beginning too. (all 3 RTS games) Bad dudes show up good guys face them, some stuff gets blown up, some characters (people will hopefully care about) die for 'drama'. Then repeat that again and again because hey it works so why change things? Heck just make a big bad guy (or gal..) show up with a different flavored apocalypse almost happen every other year that the champions are fated win against eventually (and with ample "asspulls"), they must stop these baddies because otherwise everything gets blown up (every single expansion), that sure won't get old anytime soon...
@@navilluscire2567 very true
Evovels*
@@telvannicouncilor In WoW's defense, many of the expansions they highlight a new villain where there wasn't much lore for the villain before, which definitely makes it feel like these villains come out of nowhere. Hence why Ulduar and ICC are heiled as the best raids, because there was three expansions worth of plot leading up to them.
I'm still trying to process the fact that the elves used to be trolls...
And the trolls used to be squirrels!
Talk bout a glow up
slugg ee I thought the squirrels fucked the trolls to make elves?
I never realized that the gnomes, dwarves and humans came from titan races I knew about the elves but the other races was news to me.
It really shows how terrible the game are at conveying lore.
A cutscene from w3 frozen throne, a naga witch said that the nagas were used to be night elves? so much evolution here going on
"Everyone kills themselves in order to beat up the Grim Reaper"
I laughed pretty hard at that. What an ending!😂
"So both factions begin to recruit new soldiers from among their citizens to depopulate the local wildlife." 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
That's the classic experience right there 😊
Haha, good one.
and to commit genocide on radical parties and criminals
From killing squirrels to killing the grim reaper, boy Lovestosplooge really is a champion.
I refuse to kill one more zebra for their hooves, whoever developed questing in the barrens, was a major troll....that place can kick rocks lol
I love how the players are visualized as an unstoppable wave of destruction
For real, a small group of 20 players can pretty much kill ANYTHING, even commit deicide easily while entire armies numbering in the thousands, demonic beings, and dragons can't really accomplish jack shit 🤣. It literally makes zero sense, but whatever.
players are fourth natural disaster
@@Travybear1989 we're just built different don't worry about it
Player characters are like a force of nature in Azeroth. It can't be stopped.
Just have everyone in the world steamroll from one end of the map to the other and hope the problem is one of the many things that die along the way.
I demand an update of Shadowlands and Dragonflight!
No seriously, this was absolutely amazing and extremely informative while not taking a ton of your time. And I have not done a good job of following the storyline through the last 2 expansions so I need this guy to break it down again xD
💯
Well we discovered that there were 5 powerful not titans in the afterlife that controlled their pocket whatevers and they then banished the diet Artus to a place called the Maw where they forgot about him and basically allowed him to build an army when Sylvanus made a deal with him and burning the tree is apart of their plan somehow, then Sylvanus was reunited with herself because Diet Artus wants to rule everything. Anduen was corrupted by jailer and used as a puppet which messed up his head then Sylvania committed suicide I guess.
Not too long after Deathwing's experiments woke up to find the Primalist are awake and have the greatest munchies
This weirdly makes sense@@reddin-on8mm
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I was sitting there sweating the whole time you watched it hoping I didn't make some massive error.
I saw it all live, I witnessed history, so exciting
"We can kill old gods, but the Titan's can't , because reasons" No line has ever been more true, or more confusing LOL
they want to hire a hitman
Titans are REALLY big and can destroy a baby planet by just slapping it really hard. Mistery solved.
Technically they respawn again :P.
i thought that we never actually killed the old gods, just put them back in their prison?
You clearly didn't pay attention. The Titans would kill azeroth if they killed the old gods.
I feel that as the franchise progresses, the writers of WoW gradually shifts from high fantasy into the realms of magic mushroom fantasies.
So from high fantasy to high fantasy.
its started logic enough but i lost it when time travel got involved
seems like they stopped taking mushrooms and started doing lsd
Would certainly explain a lot.
It seems like they have adopted warhammer's mixed sci-fi-fantasy approach
14+ minutes in: "and that starts the story of world of warcraft."
WHAT
My thoughts exactly 😭😭
The funniest part is that the prehistory of world of warcraft sounds a lot lot better than its history.
@@davidc1179 thats why i love warcraft 3
@@davidc1179 that's because it is
Well, this is the story of WoW, to get to the story of WoW you gotta go over BEFORE the events of warcraft 1 and the 1st invasion, WoW doesnt start till after warcraft 3
"Velen prayed for guidance from a race of sentient chandeliers" I fucking lost it
(1:26)
Also related:
* 14:43 Illidan and Kael'Thas steal a floating chandelier-ship
* 15:39 Velen purifies the Sunwell by throwing a dead chandelier into it
they are not chandeliers, they are being of lights (can see them in shattrath) but the video is a bit ironic in some points
@@TheWolfalpino you need to look up the definition of "joke"
Definitely need to watch this a couple more times. This was the BEST synopsis of the WarCraft universe!! Thank you!
yeah I watched it on 0.5 and I still need to watch it again to fully understand what is happening.
There's a lot of, "We killed this guy but someone resurrected them so we have to kill them again." events in this game.
"But for real this time..." uhhuh.. X) and we all know Blizzard ^^"
Hey why blaming them. Whe the myghtiest heros, slayer of gods and savior azeroths (Player characters) can be resurrected then why not the bad guys too?
Probably for whenever they are too lazy to make a new character
Soap opera with orcs and furries, but hey if it was good enough for the Greeks etc!
We need more Exile effects and less Destroy effects in WoW.
15:50 “cause without magic, wizards are just frail nerds.”
There’s jokes for everyone in this epic recap
Dude Illidan running screaming "I AM MY SCARS" gets me everytime
great vídeo, much fun.
"Without magic wizards are just frail nerds" most accurate statement I've ever heard.
*frail nerds frantically trying to invent magic to become wizards*
I've played enough D&D to assert that even with magic, wizards are still frail nerds (d4 hit dice? really?)
I'm in this statement, and I don't like it. Lol.
number 500
"they plugged in Gul'dan like a 9 volt battery" LOL
There's a lot of, "We killed this guy by someone resurrected them so we have to kill them again." events in this game.
@@johnhunt4634 Just like us in the game, we keep coming back 😁
I appreciate the 4 hours you spent typing up everything you said so people like me could use subtitles. You’re cool Dan.
Same!
I feel like I need to pause after every sentence, go back, and read all the text on screen.
replay value
I changed the playback speed 😁 he sounds funny as hell, but you can certainly hear and process the information alot better lol
@@Makooz31 Yep watching at 0.75 speed right now
Heather MsMarvel you to?
Right?? Information overload!
"Anduin is now High King of the Alliance, and also kinda hot!" Exceptional work friend :D
I mean *he is* 👀
"Illidan promises he's done consuming demonic power to stop the legion"
"Illidan then promptly consumes more demonic power to stop the legion"
That's just gold
classic illidan
He is his SCARSSSSSSSSSS
" HAHA SIKE "
taavs if you haven’t watched Azerothian Supervillains... it’s a gem.
No thats illafan eating more demon substance to kill more of them
This shit is hilarious. That Lich King alarm clock was gold
" murder time" 🤣🤣🤣💀
... and Varian gets disenchanted by Gul'dan :')
"Remember Deathwing? Well the old gods have been whispering to him for 10,000 years so now he's even crazier than before, escaping deepholm and blowing up a large portion of Azeroth and flooding fantasy Utah" FANTASY UTAH. IM FUCKING WHEEZING AT THAT.
Even back when I was playing WoW in the first few years, this story went completely over my head. I was just killing murlocs and spiders.
You and literally everyone playing classic. Classic is for people too confused by the games huge amount of lore and just wanna kill things and make "friends" (more like cults). People playing classic never cared about the game. They just wanna play JRR Tolkien's version of secound life. 🤣
Lmaaaoooo
@@jasonmnosaj not really. I played classic so I can understand the basis of the story and start it slowly. It's the foundation of the lore and it's easier to follow and decide if you want to learn more or just remain in classic. I'm now updated with the lore and bought Shadowlands (waiting not so patiently), but I wouldn't be here without Classic.
I recommend the journey to anyone who wants to take it slow but learn lore at the same time. Read the quests and don't skip all the time! :D
@@jasonmnosaj Dude, I just started playing WoW and I had to make a classic account because all the changes to the world that come with each expansion makes the storyline incomprehensible.
"Ok, this area takes place in cataclysm, but the quest is during legion. Wait, didn't I just kill that guy? Why am I doing quests for him now?"
Modern WoW has what I've been referring to as "quantum storylines". You can be in one area but have 3 different storylines from 3 different expansions going at the same time, which makes it very confusing to figure out what on earth is suppose to be going on.
So the current plan is; play classic, figure out what content is old, and what is new, and why the cat people still don't have voice lines. I got a character to level 50 just in time for shadowlands so when I'm ready I can go through each expansion one at a time and hopefully figure out what on earth is going on to satisfy my massive lore bone lol.
Did the quest line in Stonetallon where Hellscream gets mad at one of his lackeys for blowing up a city full of civilians.
Next quest I do, Hellscream blows up a city full of civilians.
What happened?! Send lore!
"Now everything is on fire, and Fantasy Utah just got flooded" Never heard a better description of Thousand Needles than this (pre-Cata)
19:46 This is a common misconception. There is no actual rule against using magic in Makgora duels. The rules are typically decided by the participants themselves. People just saw the rules that Garrosh and Cairne agreed upon and just assumed they were universal.
Even so, both Gul'dan and Sylvanas were cowards in their respective makgoras.
@@Breakability Neither of them had any intention of fighting honorably
"Varian gets disenchanted by Gul'dan." That is the best line I've heard all year.
Omg I can't stop laughing, that was too much 🤣
You gotta get those dusts
i laughed my ass off when this came
who in his turn gets disenchanted by Illidan!
I wonder what mats he got out of Varian
"We can kill the Old Gods that the Titans can't because reasons.." rofl
I think it had to do with the Old Gods burrowing so deep into the planet. The Titans did kill Y'Shaarj by pulling it out like a tick, but it did more harm to Azeroth than good at the time.
@@SaturnYoshi In truth the Old Gods we fought aren't as dead as you can think. Their spirit are still around and they might revive in their prison with enough time. The only exception would be N'Zoth very recently because we killed him in his own "world" (a vision of another Azeroth to sum up a bit what Ny'alotha is)
@@SaturnYoshi I always felt it was their massive size, basically the difference of trying to remove a bullet from a wound with a scalpel (we the "Children of Azeroth") vs using one of those drills you drive around with in construction sites (The Titans)
"Because reasons" is the legendary weapon that can pierce plot armor. There must be a weapon like that In Game with transcendental stats.
I thought it was a widely known fact that the "old gods" that we killed were just Avatars and their real, gigantic bodies are still trapped beneath the ground/sea
I enjoyed this so much. I was laughing and saying Yep through the whole video.
Also he did in 23 minutes what I've been trying to explain to someone who started in Pandaria and Ive been playing since vanilla! Thank goodness for the share button
I played until Cata, quit, then JUST NOW came back after my boss all but insisted I play with him. WHAT. THE ACTUAL. FUCK. DID THEY. DO?! What the HELL is going on here?! I am so lost it beggars belief!
@@Archris17 Lol! The game has changed quite a bit and will take some getting use to as you quit so long ago. Almost everyone is enjoying dragon flying (not me you'll find me face planting mountain after mountain or going splat on a building or tree) as it's a freebie at max level. Stick with it lol This video gets you through the lore so that's a plus.
This amazing video actually does something incredible... it lets you feel the exact moment the warcraft lore writers went "yeah... fuck it"
In wod? 😂
@@rastax123 that's the impression I got. WOD kind of made some sense but had a whole lot of problems, everything since WOD made no sense.
Hmm couldn't have anything to do with activision .....or you know everyone who created WoW being gone...🤷♀️ this video is hilarious and informative though. I enjoyed it
I think bfa was pretty cool with the whole sylvanas thing but why did the horde even go to zandalar in the first place:/ cant remember
@@lynnaenelson3417 hey activision made cata and mop, not best expansions but not awful from coherent lore perspective
"Varian gets disenchanted by Gul'dan" got me unprepared xD
He said disintergrated?
@@VibrantDesigns I heard disenchanted, he said it again with Illidan too.
This had me rolling honestly 😂
Vibrant Designs He said “Disenchanted” twice..
best line, lol
God, I want to have a part 1 1/2 asap, just to see how the new expansion fits in!
GREAT work!
it doesn't, at all.
"A turtle made it to the water" words that will ring in my ears for all eternity!
Aahhhh the most annoying world quest. 🤩
The cycle of life can be cruel
I literally spent nearly half of my life playing this game, living through these in-game events and this video is even overwhelming for me hahaha
Thank you. The countless 30min+ videos for all of the expansions are exhausting. Nice to find one concise place
"in a stunning display of nepotism Aegwynn gives her infant child the powers of a guardian" - LOL I loved that line
I really love the running gag of the “secret ingredient”
dont get it
a new horde is formed by garrosh, secret ingredient: racism
SFOLSKFLDSJFKSDFJ
what is the next secret ingredient going to be? gae?
Great summary. One thing, though: Illidan wasn't imprisoned in Outlands, he was killed. In Legion the players go through a lenghty mission to ressurrect him and almost fail.
well, yes and no. He was killed but he can't be killed. As a half-demon, his soul is immortal just like all other demons, it went to the Twisting Nether where he could have resurrected himself. However, because the wardens imprisoned his physical body, he was unable to do that, which was their point. That's why Gul'dan stole his body and why we had to get it back before he could be resurrected.
“Anduin is now king of the alliance and also kinda hot” lol
Easily one of the best WoW videos ever
watched it a couple of times. its so great. I wish he would make an updated version of it
I've played Warcraft 2 and 3, WoW, watched the cinematics, some of the movie, played Hearthstone, etc. And this video managed to explain everything I didnt understand in 23 minutes. *Legendary!*
Heartstone isnt exactly lore accurate
@@ekroizm I figured as much lol, I was trying to clarify that I basically did way too many things "WoW" related!
I've only played BoA and seen a few older cinematics. This video taught me that history repeats itself and Illidan is super old.
Sentient chandeliers... I'll never call them the naaru again.
I have spend years learning world of warcraft history, but this video... It's just pure gold. Great work, really had lots of fun watching it and its quite accurate!
Event: *occurs*
Champions of Azeroth: it’s murder time
I gotta get new pants!
That's it, that's the whole story line.
I like how the latest patch takes 2 seconds to finish.
8.3 is unquestionably one of the worse patches in this game's history, lore and gameplay wise. It's on par with selfie patch.
@@vamborala it's pretty clear that they decided last minute to make it much smaller Than originally planned to shift focus on Shadowlands instead. And it was probably for the best.
The 8.2 events are not in the video by the way which are kind of important to some extent.
@@sombrego2260 They should have done a rising of the Dark Empire, with a random but menacing minion of N'Zoth as the final boss ( a bit like Helion back in the day ) which we would eventually kill and realise what Sylvanas is doing, and be torn between "staying in Azeroth to deal with N'Zoth" or "Go to the shadowlands", and finally opting for the later as "more important", then returning for 10.0 in a ravaged Azeroth where the world is split between old god forces and resistant of various races.
Took him longer to recap it than it took them to make it.
@@gerardlacroix6015 in 10.0 the main enemies would probably be the Armies of the Light
It's been two years, so some addendums:
The Death Dimension is being terrorized by a big angry bald maned called The Jailer who wants to enslave everyone for some reason. He kills the super judge of the afterlife called The Arbiter with the help of Sylvanas who kidnaps various important people for the Horde and Alliance and even turns Andiun into another Lich-King lookin' dude but the ghost of his dad and some orc tell him 'don't do it, bro, you're better than this' and he pulls his sword apart. The Jailer is successful in whatever he was doing, but Sylvanas turns on him after he kills the arbiter because she's tired of being an underling.
The Champions of Azeroth do what they do best and run over the Jailer and make a new arbiter, who puts Sylvanas on trial for the bad things she done.
Sylvanas got her humanity (her living soul or something? idk) back and now feels bad for setting a giant tree-house on fire. Tyrande, who lived in that tree-house, demanded Sylvanas to go and collect souls for at least half an eternity. Basically every major fetch quest ever. Everyone else comes back to the realm of the living like nothing ever happened, except Anduin who felt bad about being another Lich King who's now walking around in the forever box.
And now there's dragons. Like, a lot of dragons. Like you know that 300 meme where 'our arrows shall blot out the sun?' That, but with dragons. And also smaller humanoid lizards, too, who were created by Deathwing before he was Deathwing and apparently teamed up with Malygos to seal all his babies away for twenty thousand years. There's also apparently this big stormy elemental dragon that wants to rid Azeroth of the TItan's influence even though Azeroth itself is like a baby titan or something but who cares falling with style is a helluva lot of fun! The big main Dragons are trying to make the powers so they can become Aspects again, with Alextraza, Norzdomu, Kalegos, and Merenthil (who is Ysera's daughter) for Red, Bronze, Blue, and Green. Two of Deathwings kids are fighting to become the aspect of the Black dragons: Wrathion, who was Andiuns BFF, and some dude who was only seen briefly in The Outlands.
But who cares, Falling with Style is a helluva lot of fun!
Just started playing WoW... Much needed. Thank you. Now to watch it like 3 more times to absorb everything properly.
I was following along great for around the first 3/4 of it and then they time traveled for the second time and everything got really confusing.
Same
I mean at this point WoWs story goes on for the sake of going on.
I got around half the video before getting confused
I love time travel stories and that was just confusing crap. I guess they ran out of ideas or got lazy and decided to bring back old characters for profit, but didn't work well so they tried something even more radically stupid with the jailer.
@@Mediados It's nice
I love how the players just instantly stomp everyone.
I like that the artistic representation of Azeroth looks like a Troll, considering Trolls are pretty much the "most native" species of the planet.
At least of the sentient races
Yeah, it’s one of the big reasons I liked it too! It was done by Hipnosworld over on deviantart and used with their permission!
That and Tauren. But there were a lot more trolls and they did a lot more with their time. Actually, of all the 23 races in the game, including Allied Races, only 11 are native to Azeroth. And that's counting the ones that are just subtle offshoots like the slightly shadowy bois that are the void elves. You have the four elves, two trolls, two tauren, goblins, pandaren, and vulpera. So Azeroth (the titan) is definitely a furry.
Oh man, looking at that list I realize it's mostly Horde. Pandaren play both sides, but then Horde has 8 and Alliance only has 2 native races and they're the oldest and youngest elves. Their other races are: 2 space aliens and 7 titanspawn. Meanwhile, the Horde also has 2 space aliens but only 1 titanspawn. So really, the Horde is the faction that's more native to Azeroth while the Alliance is the invaders. Form a certain point of view.
Honestly "In a stunning display of nepotism" is the best line in this entire video, and there are some serious winners
I was a big fan of "because without magic, Wizards are just frail nerds"
Shenanigans! How can you not mention the part where Arthas uses his own father's urn and replaces the ashes with Kel'Thuzad's? That was so awesomely horrible!
20:48
“Anduin is now high king of the Alliance and also kind of hot!” Lmfao that was great
The legion is defeated and illidan stays behind to BULLY sargeras.
I consider that entirely canon
That's because it is... Like that's actually what happened lol
@@flamingblood8447 ”Like because that’s because what actually happened.” Do you just refrain from communicating to people or just gave up when you realized you were bad at it?
@@Gnossiene369 what even was that clap back even? it wasnt even clever. “oh u said words in a way i think makes u sound dumb hardy har ima boomer” this isnt r/murderedbywords and u arent the main character. dont look down on someone just for the way they say things, it makes u look like a clown 🤡
@@Gnossiene369 yikes
Thanks for the recap bud great jobs telling the storyline in a quick manner as well LOL I was afraid the full history would take 10hrs or more to digest it fully - so thanks again mate 🤠!!!¡¡¡!!!
"the mages (of dalaran) don't like that as without magic wizards are just frail nerds"
"we can kill old gods, but the titans can't because REASONS" LMAOOOOO
Hahah maybe the titans are just too powerful, might overkill azeroth xD
@@joshualastimosa5713 that's actually true. In lore it says that the Titans are too strong and will destroy the azeroth if they will try themselves. They understood that by killing 1 oldgod and ripping a hole in Azeroth. So they made an army instead to fight for them.
Pretty sure the Titans could but they didn't because the old gods had attached themselves to the growing titan inside Azeroth because apparently all planets are titan eggs???? Also something to take note of the guardians left behind aside from dragon aspects actually possess titan powers which the new races of Azeroth gained from their machines who were turned into people so it's not as far fetched as one might think.
My brother literally asked me why we could but the titans couldn't three days ago. I just said because we are most definitely more powerful then a titan
The Titans could most definitely kill the old gods, one of them rips Y'shaarj out of the world like a parasite but they realise that if they did that they would kill the world soul. The Sha in Pandaria is the remnants of Y'shaarj.
I’ve been playing wow for 14 years and thanks to this video I finally understand the story! Great job!
“Unplug Gul’Dan and just let him walk away for some reason” 😂
I’d give you a like but you’re currently at the perfect number
I think this is probably the funniest lore video I've seen.
Thank you!
Was that the killian experience?
This is one of my favourite videos on youtube and i've never played wow in my life
I loved Illidan's running "I AM MY SCARS!" gag.
Also, Helm of Domination going "Ow!Ow!Ow!Ow!Ow!Ow!" while Sylvanas rips it in half was great.
I love "because without magic, wizards are just weak nerds"
Story of how Heroes of Azeroth became genocidal kleptomaniacs
Let's be fair, they were genocidal kleptomaniacs from jump street.
Probably not best to start us off with "Hey, kill all these Kobolds!"
They shoulda know what would happen next.
Did someone say fat loot!?
@@jaywilkey1323 They were hoarding all the candles, they deserved it.
And for really good pants!
gotta love how the lore went from, strong beeings doing this & that too we dont even know
Anyone else listen to this, look back on the past decade of gaming and only just now realise why you did half the things you spend endless hours doing? xD
I love how our motivation as "Champions of Azeroth" to do anything, is basically just to get *pants* XD 100% accurate!
Please make another one!!! This is awesome!
I fucking love how he show's the champions of azeroth steamrolling through everything
Just hit 110.. with all the XP boosts I think I went through pandaria, wod and legion in 2 days. This made some sense of what the heck happened. Thanks.
Oh my god I haven’t laughed this hard in a while!! “Disenchants Gul’Dan”
had me ROLLING
Sylvanas joining the Horde:
-I want to join!
-Why?
-To avoid the consequences of my actions xD
It's like, the story of her undead life!
I just realized : Warcraft universe is basically DC and Marvel in not letting a character stay dead
As a DM you know that you dont wanna waste a good antagonist. Its hard to let your favorite characters go XD
That started right around when all the original creators of the warcraft universe started leaving & Blizzard merged with Activision. AKA, it's the shameless corporate money generator that's used in basically every industry. Marvel is the exact same.
8:55 "GREAT work, Khadgar." the laden sarcasm gave me a chuckle
First half was great, second half sounds like blizzard just started talking out of their ass
True. It goes from fresh, original, and interesting stories - to "Timetravel" and every defeated villain randomly coming back. Everything after Mists of Pandaria was fucking awful and made no sense.
@@FrankLucas-pw5hs Agree i feel like at Lich king everything goes to this cookie cutter linear hollywood script that every movie has nowadays
Earlier warcraft was simple and easy to follow. Later it got more and more convoluted and entangled, but that only makes it more interesting - it still makes sense once you take in all the sources like the novels and the chronicles as well as what you learn ingame. Everything new keeps adding to previous loose ends. The unfortunate thing is that you need those external sources to make sense of it all, they fill in the blanks the game does a poor job telling you about.
@@SaltyMaud wrong. Earlier on the game was much more difficult and hard to experience. There was no looking for raid - no raid book telling you about all the bosses and their abilities - there were way more stats - and you get the do long attunement quests about the lore of the raid before you even entered it. The lore was brilliant too - with very little of that ridiculous nonsensical and illogical time travel bullshit.
Modern Wow is a streamlined joke and caricature of what it used to be.
@@FrankLucas-pw5hs I was talking warcraft, which includes wow, but is not limited to it. From 1994 to maybe the second or third book of the world of warcraft series, though the war of the ancients trilogy already did a bunch of world building most are totally oblivious to. I'm talking about keeping track of the different threads that make up the story and explain the characters, conflicts and their motivations, i never commented on the game. Early warcraft story was pretty typical fantasy orcs humans elves stuff that didn't go down too many layers to keep it easy to follow. Later warcraft story, and lore that was tacked on keeps adding more and more layers and connecting different threads to the point where most players have no fucking clue about what's going on, who the characters are, what their motivations are, what lead to the events we are seeing in game and why we are even doing what we are doing. But the information is out there, you just need to care enough to look for it.
Nothing written so far is strictly against the rules of the warcraft universe, especially since the rules aren't firmly established and they are added on as we go.
Why are you even bringing up the game, we were never talking about the game. I thought the "vanilla was hard" meme had already died now that people can relive old game on classic anyway.
this is "the history of the entire azeroth, i guess" and it's exactly what i needed
That should be the title of the video
I just came across this and it's gold. GOLD I tell ya! "Everything is on fire and fantasy Utah got flooded." Great work!
This had no business being this funny lmao. *In short:*
Somebody yells: OPEN THE PORTAL
Somebody else yells back: CLOSE THE DAMN PORTAL
Proceed to kill old gods in between opening and closing portal activities
"Since without magic, wizards are just frail nerds."
Fantastic video!! I really enjoyed it :)
Deathwing: *wakes up on the wrong side of the bed*
Smaug: *also wakes up on the wrong side of the bed*
Little did the demons know that the best defense is having a shitty loot drop table...
Underrated comment 😂
OMG I lol'd so hard!
I like how there's so much history in WoW that players come in in the 14th minute of the video. So much history before we were "born" :D
Man you did a great job with this video! Exactly what I needed, thanks a lot !
"and plug guldan in it like a 9 volt battery" best line imo
20 Years of lore in 20 minutes of video. Well done. :)
And then 9.2 retconned this video. Good job WoW writing team.
why?
" gilneas gets over ran by a furry convention"
Absolutely, hands down, the best WOW video I have seen and I have been playing since WOW was birthed. I have gotten so confused with all the expansions and whatnot over the past several years that i just couldn't put it all together. Now, everything makes sense...well, not everything because some things don't make sense, but at least the dots are all connected!
Thank you for typing out the close captions, they really helped me watch this without rewinding 2,000 times
Congratulations. This has been the first video of yours that I saw and it was all tremendously researched, edited and presented.
The references, the images, the videos, everything was spot-on. This felt like watching a less musical Bill Wurtz video. Definitely a must-watch for everyone who loves Warcraft.
bill wurtz has more videos than just the history of the world one.
"Thrall challenges Garrosh to an unarmed orc duel, but then he looses so he just kills him with lightning instead." 😂
But why he killed him anyways? Isn’t thrall and garosh friends?
@@vora320 did you watch the vid? its kinda obvious
To be fair the lighting came from the sky, so technically he defeated him unarmed.
@@vora320 Garosh was left as a watchief while Thrall goes to help the dragons with their Deathwings problem.
Garosh decided to go on a war with everybody destroying the work of peace Thrall worked hard on.
Garosh was unfit to rule so Thrall fights him and then helps imprison him
lmao 'Varian Wrynn gets disenchanted" is easily my favorite thing said in this whole recap. Loved it!!
THANK YOU for spending time on captions
She says I never liked you anyways and flys away lol perfect explanation
Sounds like my ex-wife...
This video was honestly a solid 10/10.
Good job!
Alternate title: "History of the entire world, I guess (wow edition)"
lol
Seriously tho, the title is kinda misleading. I expected a history of the game itself as in roots, development, notable patches, shitstorms etc.
This is just Warcraft Lore.
“history of the entire world (of warcraft), I guess”