To celebrate the release of Phase 2, we have a NEW Paladin themed shirt over on the store, if you all want to check it out: tinyurl.com/2ks7jz3m Aside from that, how are you all enjoying Season of Discovery so far?
5:25 I like your message it’s a powerful point that I haven’t seen anyone discuss, even in the hardcore community. The magic of world of Warcraft back in 2004 was playing this game with no mods and no guides. Actually having to read quests, interact with others, and reference know locations to give you guidance is the full experience.
that broken sword you found is not a new SOD thing, has been in the game always. funny that there are so many weird minor things in the game that you could easily mistake it for something new.
Is it not new? I feel like they make a lot of interesting things like this but end up making minimal to only 1 of these things so players end up skipping over them. would be fun to see these types of items get expanded on through leveling and end game.
Things like this are missing from retail. Yeah retail is more streamlined, but without that large scale journey and sense of scale, and with items all literally being the same just different item levels.. it's just not the same as how cool loot used to be.
Yup I found tons of these when I was playing on Classic. I was so excited when I found it for the first time and was actually able to craft it, then everyone I knew was finding them and sending them to me to fix if I wanted to. So many that it was no longer useful and I couldn't sell them on the AH. But that first time finding it and the unique way of acquiring that item, very cool.
The two blue sword parts in Zul'Farrak, Jang'thraze the Protector and Sang'thraze the Deflector make one epic two hand sword Sul'thraze. My first epic item I got on my Warrior back in vanilla WoW. I only knew about this item do to the strategy guide.
2:13 this. I’m the player that always tries to spam dungeons, but this time I’m taking it slow and rediscovering my love of the world. Started a new toon on a new server, and got to 25 yesterday. The only dungeon I’ve run is WC and only once, at 24. It feels slower, but better. I really think the phrase “it’s about the journey, not the destination “ is so true for classic era wow.
Duskwood was WILD on release! It was hectic, but it was also awesome to be constantly group up with people to complete simple quests just to kill ghouls! Felt very connected and very MMO.
I've been having a lot of fun with the new phase. My only worry was the blood moon in Stranglethorn Vale being easily abused. I was genuinely excited for it, but I expected it was just going to be heavily min-maxed. And it is, it's almost exclusively controlled by large groups of players forcing individual players to opt out of the event because Blizzard didn't decide to make it a true free-for-all. Nothing quite like going on the boat to Booty Bay, realizing the blood moon is active and there's a group of 20 people standing there, ignoring each other and killing everyone on the boat and then spawn-killing them. Blizzards brilliant idea to counter the spawn killing was to make sure players weren't rewarded for it. (Because, you know, people totally never went around murdering people 50 levels under them regardless of rewards before)
Okay here's my experience so far: I started my journey in an RFK group, grinding mobs. That turned out to bore me though, so I went out after reaching 26 and did BFD with a friend. That dropped me the hydra, which basically made me feel like high society for the rest of the day. I then walked towards thousand needles. I never quested there back then, so I wanted to do that. In between questing, I got my stuff for the brutal armor questline, and sold some reagents to make bank. After I basically did every quest in upper thousand needles, I went to the shimmering plains. And oh boy. The whole time I was like "I don't know why people dislike this zone. Yeah having to walk up everywhere is annoying, but it's not that bad" - and then there was shimmering plains. I'm not gonna complain about the design, but this was just fighting for scrap in an empty desert. There were players EVERYWHERE. It was actually insane. After some time of being miserable in this zone, I went away and did some graveyard runs with a friend. That dinged me to 30 and ended my first 2 days.
Once upon a time, we had this feeling with skyrim, being totally new to game, being prisoner for the first time and opening eyes in beautiful world of skyrim. It was like magic and i miss this adventure soooo much 😢
Been loving phase 2 so far, but if I were to come up with one complaint about it is this: Multiple Classes requiring the same elementals from the same areas with a very VERY slow respawn rate for their class quests. Example; Warriors on their Whirlwind Weapon questline requires the Whirlwind mobs in Desolace, but so do multiple classes for their Rune unlocks.
I missed out on the Classic WoW re-launch back in 2019 because I just didn't feel like getting back into WoW, but was talked into coming back for Dragonflight last year. I was tempted to sub back for Classic back then though, so I made sure to be ready for the SoD experience right at launch to revisit the Azeroth I grew up with. And I've got to say, as much as I've had fun with Dragonflight, it hasn't ever really given me the same feeling the original WoW gave me that SoD has, the feeling that I'm not just playing a great game, I'm going on an adventure.
i Dno, logged in and got 1 lvl and logged out. Think the classic leveling has been done a billion times by now the past few years, can hardly stomach another session of it.
Same. The toxic bs had me quit within a week and any time I make a comment on any WoW content my replies remind me of why I hate that community. Addicts will always be so vitriolic in defence of their addiction.
@@Psilocybin77do you think that you might get toxic replies cuz you yourself are being toxic and aggro towards ppl that love the game? Referring to them as addicts, delusional to how bad the game really is. Based on your comment here I’m guessing most comments you leave are just you shitting on the game and anyone who plays it or enjoys it. Sod is my first time playing wow since I was in elementary and middle school. Not everyone has been playing nonstop for 20 years, I never thought I’d enjoy such a slow paced old mmorpg so much but it is a lot of fun. I do think a large portion of the wow community needs a break or to quit wow including you. Video games are supposed to be fun and if you aren’t having fun you should find something else to do that will bring you enjoyment. I’ll say as a newcomer it makes the game less fun for me to play when I join groups that are filled with ppl like you that sound like they are clocked in at the worst job of their life, that they’ve been stuck working for 20 years. Everytime I meet someone like you in game I genuinely tell them they should take a long break from wow or quit altogether. The game is great, some of the community that never took a break just seems tired and it’s time to move on to a new game or new things
Hey Nixxiom glad you are having a good time. Don’t let the negative people in the comments or in game get you down. I can’t wait for the “it is a you problem” or “no skill” replies to this comment cause most WoW players are deeply psychologically disturbed (who knew ppl addicted to a 20 yr old video game would have mental health challenges)
I’ve honestly found that questing and leveling is the most fun aspect for me. I am not excited for phase 2 or at least, not as much as I was for SOD launch, but meh. I’ll play till 40 some day
The sleeping bag is so worth it the quest exp for doing the full chain is amazing you get a free 12 slot bag along the way and some other nice bits and bobs and the sleeping bag is use every 3 hours for 2 hours of 3% extra exp and its just a fun journey who ever said its not worth it has no idea what they talking about
I don’t get how one just simply finds these runes it’s like pick up this random item in a random location, talk to this NPC you would otherwise not talk to, do this quest line that you may never touch, etc. I want to find them myself but similar to phase 1 I’ll just be looking them up on wowhead lol
My one minor complaint of SoD is that it should have come out years ago. I've played this game wayyyy to much so it's not too fun for me. I like it and do have SoD toons, but it would be so much more fun if it had come out much earlier.
Id like to see a race of Humans on the Horde, we fight Human nps so it makes sense imo that we could have a race of Humans on the horde side. We have elves on both alliance and horde now I wish they did the same with the other races not all races are totally bad or good so why aren't we having alliance tauren for instance.
I agree about talking to ppl. I prefer asking around and making friends by sharing information. Sadly most will openly mock and berate you as though you’re some lazy illiterate that can’t use google. I made a guild of only the classic and chill.
doesn't 99% of the playerbase have it so over-meta'd that they've pre-bis'd gearing to level like...35? Is that "amazing" or is that one of the founding reasons SOD is just joke-fiesta since week 3? The only thing more cringe-worthy than the 4k gold items in the AH are the bots and the players who PAY the bots screaming "we hate bots"
Being a Vanilla Hater of both gnomes and that terrible hole in the ground, I choose to sit out P2 raiding. Talk about killing the vibe with the single worst dungeon in th history of ever.
Season of Discovery phase 1 was fun. Phase 2, so far, not so much. The overcrowding is just too much to deal with right now. Trying to quest is an absolute nightmare. I have played since the second or third week of WoW's release and have never seen it this bad. This is the first time in WoW's history that I have went to quest and seen ZERO mobs to kill, I literally mean ZERO mobs. So many people everywhere that you go, it's out of hand. You simply cannot quest. Sure, if you want to dungeon grind to level, but even that get's old real fast as you do not get to experience the phase 2 world as intended. If they do not add new servers, or seriously crack down on, what I call, "super-farmers", then SoD will go the way of retail and just fall off the mmo map. I post this so that if folks are experiencing the same bad things that I am, maybe we can all start speaking out until they add more servers.
Just because some people manage their video game addiction and aren’t playing 23 hours a day , doesn’t mean they aren’t playing 😂. This is why I don’t play video games any more. I realized there are far too many angry mentally ill people who can’t find a healthier way to deal with their lack of purpose in life.
It’s amazing how many ppl like you are still in this community watching all the wow videos playing the game and keeping up on all the forums, and all you do is hate. If I were you I’d genuinely consider unsubscribing from all wow content, unsubscribing from wow and uninstalling, and finding a new game or hobby in life. Video games are supposed to be fun and if you aren’t having fun you should quit. This is my first time playing wow again since elementary school, many irl friends who have played wow when they were kids too or have never played before are playing sod, there’s a lot of us out there that haven’t been playing 20 years straight and aren’t tired of the game. Move on with your life brother
See for me i csnt stand questing at all, it puts me to sleep and i have a very hard rime focusing, so i end up dungeon fsrming as its the only eay i like leveling.
yeah bro so beautiful being forced to do either quests or buttom mash instances for 20 hours of arbitrary bulllshit before being able to play the game @@j.flux87
To celebrate the release of Phase 2, we have a NEW Paladin themed shirt over on the store, if you all want to check it out: tinyurl.com/2ks7jz3m
Aside from that, how are you all enjoying Season of Discovery so far?
so its retail without the quality of life features so you get that classic feeling? lol no thanks...
your enthusiasm for Season of Discovery is so earnest and *enthusiastic*, I am happy to watch you experience joy in WoW again. Cheers mate.
The sleeping bag quest is absolutely worth it and right down your alley my dude
5:25 I like your message it’s a powerful point that I haven’t seen anyone discuss, even in the hardcore community. The magic of world of Warcraft back in 2004 was playing this game with no mods and no guides. Actually having to read quests, interact with others, and reference know locations to give you guidance is the full experience.
Nixxiom, I always like your enthusiasm for the game and a lot of what Blizzard has been doing has renewed my interest.
that broken sword you found is not a new SOD thing, has been in the game always. funny that there are so many weird minor things in the game that you could easily mistake it for something new.
Really, never heard of that, lol, or perhaps just didn't remember.
Is it not new? I feel like they make a lot of interesting things like this but end up making minimal to only 1 of these things so players end up skipping over them.
would be fun to see these types of items get expanded on through leveling and end game.
Things like this are missing from retail. Yeah retail is more streamlined, but without that large scale journey and sense of scale, and with items all literally being the same just different item levels.. it's just not the same as how cool loot used to be.
Yup I found tons of these when I was playing on Classic. I was so excited when I found it for the first time and was actually able to craft it, then everyone I knew was finding them and sending them to me to fix if I wanted to. So many that it was no longer useful and I couldn't sell them on the AH. But that first time finding it and the unique way of acquiring that item, very cool.
The two blue sword parts in Zul'Farrak, Jang'thraze the Protector and Sang'thraze the Deflector make one epic two hand sword Sul'thraze. My first epic item I got on my Warrior back in vanilla WoW. I only knew about this item do to the strategy guide.
By the way, the broken sword you mentioned has been there for many, many years :) Remember doing it on my warrior back then.
2:13 this. I’m the player that always tries to spam dungeons, but this time I’m taking it slow and rediscovering my love of the world. Started a new toon on a new server, and got to 25 yesterday. The only dungeon I’ve run is WC and only once, at 24. It feels slower, but better. I really think the phrase “it’s about the journey, not the destination “ is so true for classic era wow.
Duskwood was WILD on release! It was hectic, but it was also awesome to be constantly group up with people to complete simple quests just to kill ghouls! Felt very connected and very MMO.
Much better to enjoy the journey than min max and farm dungeons. Thats what I do aswell, just enjoy!
I've been having a lot of fun with the new phase. My only worry was the blood moon in Stranglethorn Vale being easily abused. I was genuinely excited for it, but I expected it was just going to be heavily min-maxed. And it is, it's almost exclusively controlled by large groups of players forcing individual players to opt out of the event because Blizzard didn't decide to make it a true free-for-all. Nothing quite like going on the boat to Booty Bay, realizing the blood moon is active and there's a group of 20 people standing there, ignoring each other and killing everyone on the boat and then spawn-killing them. Blizzards brilliant idea to counter the spawn killing was to make sure players weren't rewarded for it. (Because, you know, people totally never went around murdering people 50 levels under them regardless of rewards before)
Okay here's my experience so far:
I started my journey in an RFK group, grinding mobs. That turned out to bore me though, so I went out after reaching 26 and did BFD with a friend. That dropped me the hydra, which basically made me feel like high society for the rest of the day. I then walked towards thousand needles. I never quested there back then, so I wanted to do that. In between questing, I got my stuff for the brutal armor questline, and sold some reagents to make bank. After I basically did every quest in upper thousand needles, I went to the shimmering plains. And oh boy. The whole time I was like "I don't know why people dislike this zone. Yeah having to walk up everywhere is annoying, but it's not that bad" - and then there was shimmering plains. I'm not gonna complain about the design, but this was just fighting for scrap in an empty desert. There were players EVERYWHERE. It was actually insane. After some time of being miserable in this zone, I went away and did some graveyard runs with a friend. That dinged me to 30 and ended my first 2 days.
Must be something in the air, I recently started playing oblivion again and I've been having a great time.
I did 8 bfds... 27 on four characters and 32 on my main.
My wife left me though.
Once upon a time, we had this feeling with skyrim, being totally new to game, being prisoner for the first time and opening eyes in beautiful world of skyrim. It was like magic and i miss this adventure soooo much 😢
Your friends lied, the sleeping bag is 100% worth it. You get a consumable item that gives you rested xp, easily compensating for the time spent.
not to mention the quests involved combined gives like 12k exp.
Hey man, 3% bonus exp is 3% bonus exp! Dunno why we would say no to that
Been loving phase 2 so far, but if I were to come up with one complaint about it is this: Multiple Classes requiring the same elementals from the same areas with a very VERY slow respawn rate for their class quests. Example; Warriors on their Whirlwind Weapon questline requires the Whirlwind mobs in Desolace, but so do multiple classes for their Rune unlocks.
melee hunter dream became real with SoD
It’s been fun, but its gonna be even better when the melee specialist rune is found
Lvling a rogue atm, I feel like rogues and hunter just switched roles 😂
With a bear pet (or bear druid), we can cosplay Rexxar! lol
I need to try this!
"Melee hunter dream" is like said "i want a Warrior Range all this years" wtf
No one mentioned the insane transition when phase 2 went live.
What happened?!
Nixiom, couldn't've said it better myself. The game feels alive again 🙂
Are past seasonal runes still out there? Or if you missed season 1 runes they are gone forever?
Tank Shaman is one of the best tanks now and arguably our best spec now. Thank you Blizzard!
Love your vids man I like your opinion and your content is amazing Im subbin for sure
I missed out on the Classic WoW re-launch back in 2019 because I just didn't feel like getting back into WoW, but was talked into coming back for Dragonflight last year. I was tempted to sub back for Classic back then though, so I made sure to be ready for the SoD experience right at launch to revisit the Azeroth I grew up with.
And I've got to say, as much as I've had fun with Dragonflight, it hasn't ever really given me the same feeling the original WoW gave me that SoD has, the feeling that I'm not just playing a great game, I'm going on an adventure.
i Dno, logged in and got 1 lvl and logged out. Think the classic leveling has been done a billion times by now the past few years, can hardly stomach another session of it.
This
Same. The toxic bs had me quit within a week and any time I make a comment on any WoW content my replies remind me of why I hate that community. Addicts will always be so vitriolic in defence of their addiction.
@@Psilocybin77do you think that you might get toxic replies cuz you yourself are being toxic and aggro towards ppl that love the game? Referring to them as addicts, delusional to how bad the game really is. Based on your comment here I’m guessing most comments you leave are just you shitting on the game and anyone who plays it or enjoys it. Sod is my first time playing wow since I was in elementary and middle school. Not everyone has been playing nonstop for 20 years, I never thought I’d enjoy such a slow paced old mmorpg so much but it is a lot of fun. I do think a large portion of the wow community needs a break or to quit wow including you. Video games are supposed to be fun and if you aren’t having fun you should find something else to do that will bring you enjoyment. I’ll say as a newcomer it makes the game less fun for me to play when I join groups that are filled with ppl like you that sound like they are clocked in at the worst job of their life, that they’ve been stuck working for 20 years. Everytime I meet someone like you in game I genuinely tell them they should take a long break from wow or quit altogether. The game is great, some of the community that never took a break just seems tired and it’s time to move on to a new game or new things
Hey Nixxiom glad you are having a good time. Don’t let the negative people in the comments or in game get you down. I can’t wait for the “it is a you problem” or “no skill” replies to this comment cause most WoW players are deeply psychologically disturbed (who knew ppl addicted to a 20 yr old video game would have mental health challenges)
Your awesome and awesome video be safe out there
I'm so happy that you are happy! Fight well my friend.
Sleeping bag is worth it you can share it with others in group and getting rested xp like 100K and then trade sleeping bag for money ! :D
I wish SoD implemented retail graphics and animations, that would've been kinda dope
Maybe i should try this. I stopped playing as soon as the got the lvlboost in BC. But im afraid the botters will destroy this...
Agree so much about "dungeon spamming". I just HATED doing that when my GM kept putting me through that back "in the day". Ugh.
Totally pumped that Ironforge will be the new main city.
Love Ironforge. So much better than darnassus or Stormwind
Zygor has changed my life, I never understood how amazing it is until I tried it, thank you for opening my eyes
Epic!!!👏👏👏👏😎👍🏼👍🏼💯💥💥💥💥
Cant wait to see what they do with Zul'Farrak in P3
I’ve honestly found that questing and leveling is the most fun aspect for me. I am not excited for phase 2 or at least, not as much as I was for SOD launch, but meh. I’ll play till 40 some day
The sleeping bag is so worth it the quest exp for doing the full chain is amazing you get a free 12 slot bag along the way and some other nice bits and bobs and the sleeping bag is use every 3 hours for 2 hours of 3% extra exp and its just a fun journey who ever said its not worth it has no idea what they talking about
I just got it like 2 mins before writing this comment. Was a fun questline to do!
Dude I would love to hear about your book!
Alliance to busy handling prison riots to leave stormwind
I’m actually annoyed that blizzard listens to the SoD community but flat out ignores the classic era community
I'm like 90% sure Broken Blade of the Hero isn't new. I would craft that for people in HC as a BS.
I don’t get how one just simply finds these runes it’s like pick up this random item in a random location, talk to this NPC you would otherwise not talk to, do this quest line that you may never touch, etc. I want to find them myself but similar to phase 1 I’ll just be looking them up on wowhead lol
My fav thing to do with all my chars is just quest and enjoy the world I find it more relaxing to do that spamming instance is meh at best
My one minor complaint of SoD is that it should have come out years ago. I've played this game wayyyy to much so it's not too fun for me. I like it and do have SoD toons, but it would be so much more fun if it had come out much earlier.
Can’t decide to level my Paladin or Mage
sleeping bag quest is OP
Help yeah dude, im loving that shit.
get the sleeping bag, its alot of fun.
nice video, smileyface.
One day I’ll get to dps as a shield/one handed warrior
The broken sword has been in the game since 2004 actually
I had no idea! And neither did my guild, apparently. We were all so excited about it lol
@@NixxiomOnUA-cam yoooo you responded! Long time subscriber bro. Love your stuff
The SOD works only ones)
Nc loves you man
Great video as always but small side note: Oblivion is atrocious.
Blasphemy
Id like to see a race of Humans on the Horde, we fight Human nps so it makes sense imo that we could have a race of Humans on the horde side. We have elves on both alliance and horde now I wish they did the same with the other races not all races are totally bad or good so why aren't we having alliance tauren for instance.
Get dat bag!
Nice.
I agree about talking to ppl. I prefer asking around and making friends by sharing information. Sadly most will openly mock and berate you as though you’re some lazy illiterate that can’t use google. I made a guild of only the classic and chill.
This video aged well.
Wish i had to time to play and frends
doesn't 99% of the playerbase have it so over-meta'd that they've pre-bis'd gearing to level like...35?
Is that "amazing" or is that one of the founding reasons SOD is just joke-fiesta since week 3? The only thing more cringe-worthy than the 4k gold items in the AH are the bots and the players who PAY the bots screaming "we hate bots"
"makes your buffs last EVEN LONGER" Even longer than 5minutes?! CRAAAZY 🤣😛
It's all about the journey ❤
i made it 2 levels and i couldn't stomach leveling anymore unfortunately
Who the hell goes camping in January?
yeah, so amazing .... LOL
Just dont ask about mankriks wife in barrens chat.
Why would everyone be in Duskwood? 99% of players alrdy finished Duskwood at lvl 25 P1
Being a Vanilla Hater of both gnomes and that terrible hole in the ground, I choose to sit out P2 raiding. Talk about killing the vibe with the single worst dungeon in th history of ever.
0:35 Catholic brothers unite 🤝
Season of Discovery phase 1 was fun. Phase 2, so far, not so much. The overcrowding is just too much to deal with right now. Trying to quest is an absolute nightmare. I have played since the second or third week of WoW's release and have never seen it this bad. This is the first time in WoW's history that I have went to quest and seen ZERO mobs to kill, I literally mean ZERO mobs. So many people everywhere that you go, it's out of hand. You simply cannot quest. Sure, if you want to dungeon grind to level, but even that get's old real fast as you do not get to experience the phase 2 world as intended. If they do not add new servers, or seriously crack down on, what I call, "super-farmers", then SoD will go the way of retail and just fall off the mmo map. I post this so that if folks are experiencing the same bad things that I am, maybe we can all start speaking out until they add more servers.
yea datamining its distroying the game for sure, they shoud ban any share , u can share in the guild lol but not on other platforms, f the meta
So far its season of sm spam
yooooooooooooooooooooooo
'Promo sm' 🤣
Your copium levels are insane dude wake up the game is runned by bots.
I have t been able to play being out of town. And it sux
the powercreep for players is so tremendously, that it destroyed the classic magic for me 😕
No. No it’s not. 🖖
Yes spamming dungeons is fucking amazing mate
You don’t play the game. Stop making videos.
You okay man?
He figured it out! All that footage in the videos that you see of me playing the game is actually AI generated. :(
Just because some people manage their video game addiction and aren’t playing 23 hours a day , doesn’t mean they aren’t playing 😂. This is why I don’t play video games any more. I realized there are far too many angry mentally ill people who can’t find a healthier way to deal with their lack of purpose in life.
Yeah it was great 20 years ago…
It’s amazing how many ppl like you are still in this community watching all the wow videos playing the game and keeping up on all the forums, and all you do is hate. If I were you I’d genuinely consider unsubscribing from all wow content, unsubscribing from wow and uninstalling, and finding a new game or hobby in life. Video games are supposed to be fun and if you aren’t having fun you should quit. This is my first time playing wow again since elementary school, many irl friends who have played wow when they were kids too or have never played before are playing sod, there’s a lot of us out there that haven’t been playing 20 years straight and aren’t tired of the game. Move on with your life brother
See for me i csnt stand questing at all, it puts me to sleep and i have a very hard rime focusing, so i end up dungeon fsrming as its the only eay i like leveling.
The beauty of an MMO is that, to each their own!
yeah bro so beautiful being forced to do either quests or buttom mash instances for 20 hours of arbitrary bulllshit before being able to play the game @@j.flux87