The Evolution of World of Warcraft Episode 1: Vanilla
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- A series that gives an in-depth coverage of how World of Warcraft has evolved to the game that it is today, all the way back from it's launch back in 2004. In this episode, we go over the base game, "Vanilla"
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I coukd have easily kept watching for those two hours very entertaining
Same
Firebourn94 definetly
Agreed.
same here
True!
you are like the Bob Ross of wow
A happy little raidboss. =)
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I made a thing. Thanks for watching!
Update: Part 2 here: ua-cam.com/video/JjV1E4Tj27U/v-deo.html
You are such a barbar, heh :)
Most Excellent work. Well done.
Fucking fantastic
Beautiful video man, thank you :)
Awesome! Keep up the good work...
>Doesn't want to take up too much of my time
>Implying I haven't been listening to all his videos for the last 8 hours at work
I seriously can't believe how well you integrated the music into this series. And your voice is extremely relaxing, yet easy to follow. Can't wait for the next one!
@@wyatt5542 yeah cause wow is always about relaxation while leveling and playing dangeons
play at .75 speed for the 2019 mad season experience
Hahaha pretty close. Listening to his videos while driving around at work. When this video started playing I assumed he had caffeine injected straight into his forehead.
Amazing.
Because this is from 2017
@@tliltocatlalbopilosa1513 They don't. I helped them understand
@@McconneIIRet anyone know why he started talking much slower?
I loved your Arnold impression haha.
from what movie is the arnold scene? have to watch the original.
@@chouleo It's from Conan
Really came out of nowhere mid sentence just changed. Hilarious.
M1K3Mc533 - when in the video?
@@bonechip01 what what?
Back in grade 9 when my friends were out going to parties and getting girlfriends, I was clearing AQ40 on my undead rogue and got 2 bosses down in naxx before the raid scene fell apart before BC hit. NO RAGRATS LOL
Same here. Best time of my life. I mean I could catch up on all the parties later, what I actually did. But experiencing WoW at it's primetime (Vanilla/TBC/LK) - it's something that is gone forever and there is no chance anymore to catch up on it. So I'm very glad that I could be part of it.
I was in university and damn this game ruined my grades. But it also saved me a lot of money for not attending all kinds of partying etc. :)
Pretty much the same happened to me with Naxx. First of all our guild migrated to other server and I didn't want to follow since many many friends were in the realm and that is where the game started. Before the migrate we got up to Gothic, Thaddius and Loatheb.
IIRC we didn't yet get all those down (Maexxna was killed). I had to take a break when we moved to a new apartment and after I came back from the break they guild decided to migrate.
So I had to start finding new guild and it was some kind of left overs from other good guilds that alread had stopped raiding. Left overs wanted to continue. But we never got so far with the progress.
Then the BC pre patch came and literally almost everyone quit raiding :(
I wish Vanilla had continued like 6 months more at least. There still was the content except for the very small % of top guilds.
Good video!
I spent the past 7 years on private servers ;-) feenix, nostalrius, elysium and much more... I played them all ;-)
But it's not the same. The feeling is not the same. Like MadSeasonShow told in his video, WoW was the first MMO for most of the people. It was fun to be a noob and play with noobs. The whole generation was different back then. For many it was even the first time to communicate to someone else trough the internet. I remember before WoW I didn't even have an internet connection at home. People were so polite and friendly, completely different behavior compared to nowaday's bunch of assholes. There was so much hype around WoW, it had it's own culture, nearly everyone in my class played it, you heard people talking about it while sitting in a bus, walking down the street or waiting in a queue in a store. There were also so many community web pages, audio books, animations, magazines and so on... I remember coming home from school, throwing my schoolbag into the corner, turning on my pc and first checking out guild website, the wow news, scrolling trough people's comments, discussing and laughing. It was full entertainment around the game itself. Then I would log into the game, proudly look at my character and log in... I would recieve a friendly "hello" from my guildies and my friends. People would ask me to to help them or doing stuff with them. I felt important and useful. I would come on Teamspeak and ingame friends would tell me what they experienced ingame today and we would play together. I would immerge with the game, forget the time, it would pass by fast, only after like 10 hours, which would feel like 2, I would notice that it's time again for me to go to bed. But i wouldn't be sad, cuz I knew on the next day I will continue my adventure...
Man, I miss that times soooo much :(
Nearly the same here, played MMORPGs at their primetime (mainly WoW (Classic, BC, LK), but also EQ2) for 5 years, instead of going to university. Was fun, Good time, no regrets. miss the time, and the players. the players and communitys were A LOT BETTER and far far less toxic.
Vanilla wow is probably the only thing that makes me wish I was born 10 years earlier. I was 5 at the time and lacked an internet connection so there was no way I was able to play until wrath which I barely caught at the last week before Cataclysm. Im always intrigued by vanilla wow and its a shame that its something that will never return.
Only 7 minutes in. I want to communicate that I appreciate this video immensely, being a vanilla player and starting my relationship with this incredible mmo in 2004.
Looking forward to the rest of this video and the ones to come. Thanks man.
haha same here such nostalgic feeels
I personally only started playing WoW after the Summer of 2007, I really loved this. I must add that, at least for me, Cataclysm ruined a lot of my fond memories back when I was levelling my very first char..
I started december 2005.. While i do agree that Legion is very different from the old WoW.. its still Warcraft for me and i just love the entire Universe. I really hope that the Warcraft Movies have great success so that they can continue the Story for movies :)
October 2006 for me. I wish I had started sooner. I used to look at the old snap shots and wish I had been part of that.
Garrett, we get to relive the glory days! Classic WoW!
I was 14 when the game was released. Skipping the last hour of school to go and buy this game with all my friends was a day i will always remember.
Now im sitting here all these years later. My wife and kids asleep, sipping wine and looking through all these memories. Simply amazing. The best video on UA-cam without doubt. Sir, you have earned my and my friends subscriptions. Cheers.
Mreow it's incredible to look back upon all the memories that we've created and how far we've come.
I was 14 as well. My friend bought the game, and we all went to his house that friday after school and were blown away. He created his first character (a tauren druid), and we had so much fun watching him play, and rolling our own characters. we had no idea what we were doing, and there were no guides online; it truly felt like a world of wonder and mystery as NO ONE knew what they were doing. I went and bought the game the following weekend (struggling to convince my mom, as to why a game needs a subscription), and played until the launch of Cata.
So many amazing memories of playing this game. Nothing will ever beat the sensation of playing vanilla on a rainy day, cozy in my room with some hot chocolate and listening to ambient music of WoW. Every now and then when my wife is asleep, i'll hop on to a blizzlike private server and just take in all the memories.
:')
to me that is the difference between a good game and a great game, a good game is engaging and entertaining for a few hours, a great game is a medium that life long memories are structured in.
this was lovely dude. i was too young to play in vanilla but i wish i started in bc. it must be so special to say you were with this game from day 1. it has such a special place in all of our hearts
what did you eventually do? What do you work?
I hate you dude... you just make me want to find a time-machine so much to be able to go back to 2005.... shitty voice chat quality and dial up connections, epic long leveling journey and a big world to explore.... aaaaaaaaaaaaaw..... :D
It was something else to play WoW at 20 fps..... 10 in cities.
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Blizz official legacy servers are a thing now:D you can!
Man, this is art. I love your channel dude!
Hätte dich nicht hier erwartet. Aber ja, großartiges Video
I wish I could reverse the time and experience WoW again for the first time. It was truly magical and one of a kind game.
Yes man, the community and internet in general was so different.... Damn, felt truly like another world back then.
most likely wont see this comment, but i can tell you that kids are starting this game with the same awe and magic that we had all those years ago. I still very much play the game and will always love it but in the guild im in now we have this guy who got his 15 year old kid into the game and everything he sees has him saying how awesome the game is and seeing and raiding old and new content has him obsessed. The magic is still there my friend just you already got to taste that New world of warcraft taste.
I was in the 8th grade when it came out. I remember it taking forever to get to 60. Like 6 months lol. Didnt even know what endgame content was.
i wish i wasnt like 5 years old back then so i had a chance to experience this, from the stories i've heard it sounds amazing and immersive.
It fucked my life up for a good while! It's cool to hear about but the wowcrack was real!
Ah yeah... Talent Trees. Almost forgot about them. But what I miss even more are class trainers. It was always exciting to get a level up, beeing all curious about what new stuff you might learn from them and then WHAT? This skill is expensive!
Fantastic content, dude. Every WoW fan can enjoy and appreciate this.
OMG I REMEMBER!! There were so many times where I didn't have the gold to buy the skill xD
I noticed a revelation in legion in comparison to these old talents.... if we look closely at the artifact traits and put them with the normal talents, it basically looks like what an oldschool talent tree would (pointless dmg boosts for abilities and other fillers).... the only difference is that you get them all, only talents require you to choose but the "pointless" traits are all gained through grind, no decisions to make there.
But it resembles the old style talents which some only gave a flat damage boost.
This time instead of paying gold for them you pay with real life time... have to grind dem dailies. :p
member mounts? ye i member mounts, expensive stuff.
/y
Need gold for trainer plz
2 minutes into the video and I could already cry. Good old times, played WoW from 2005 to 2010 but then never touched it again. God the feels
So much fun! I did the same: vanilla in highschool, tBC into college and then WotLK into grad school where I quit pre-Cata. Good times, but glad I quit once "real life" was getting more real (if you know what I mean)!
Fantastic video with real insight. Just brought me back unforgettable memories of my gaming days.
Laz, hope to see you in Classic WoW once it is released :)
I was 12 when I started playing WoW. The amount of emotions this game evokes in me is unparalleled. BC is a close second. I remember it was winter/fall, I placed a preorder, and at lunch time during high school, I sprinted from school, passed my house, across a frozen farm, all the way to EB Games. I ran back home, put the first disk in and got it loading... by the time I got home, popped in the second disk, and saw the loading screen going through the portal, I was vibrating and literally squealing with excitement. I cannot wait for Vanilla release ❤️
Dude this is THE BEST video I've ever seen about WoW. I can't wait till you release the next. Seriously.
It is crazy how many years ago this was... I remember that my 3 best friends and I bought this game and we played together via teamspeak for hours. We had no idea what was going on because everything was new and so huge. We just ran around exploring the beautiful starting area and had no idea how to play our characters correctly, we didn't even buy any new skills from a trainer until level 16 or so. We all stopped playing WoW at some point, some earlier, some later - the last one cancelled his subscription in Cataclysm. Now I am sitting here going through those great videos because these memories came back. We all have families now and some even kids but I will always remember this time when we played for hours together, sometimes via teamspeak sometimes in someones basement, ate food in front of our computer and ignored real life for a few hours per day :)
Hey this was an awesome video! I just found you recently and have seen a few of your videos now. Your commentary is perfect, and I really enjoyed this video because I started playing World of Warcraft back in vanilla. I can't wait to see more of these videos! Subscribed!
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Being honest, just this video makes the truest wow player cry the music and the nostalgia. Just so many good times. I miss the old days. It’s just not the same man. Thank you for the video, was fantastic.
What's not the same, you or the game?
@@anenemystand5582 Both actually times are different the community is different and how the game is played has changed over the years. I would also agree that my perspective has changed over the years when looking back on all experiences . But that is how we all grow as people. We all have a different take on how it affects us.
every time i watch one of these old WoW videos i get a bit misty eyed remembering high adventure and meeting new people to group with, that i would continue seeing for years on the old realms. now its CRZ, homogenized classes, anonymity creating apathy and rudeness, and the death of realm community.
john killingsworth With the declining population, cross realms is the only way to keep the MMO in MMORPG.
or you know free migration, the population is around the same as it was in vanilla 5-6 mill
10m is not decling
Oh I was a vanilla WoW player as well and I remember the thrill of it...the expansive world and the challenge of a new zone when you were high enough to investigate it (oh my first wrong turn into Strangelthorn and getting killed by a tiger...lol). I had my first PvP in Westfall when it was being overrun...and I was even able to do some damage at the time (soloing a Mage was tough). I'm getting the itch to give it another try. Perhaps sometime in the future once I have another gaming type PC. A couple of my FB friends were due to a guild I was in as well. It was a great game and I haven't followed it since Cataclysm (I left the game shortly afterwards). Still a good time and still to this day my favourite MMO.
john killingsworth I think if the game came out today and then changed to what it used to be over time people would just be saying the same things but opposite.
Still waiting for that TBC episode.
we all do
Yep
same and i've watched this like 4 times... I should get out more
+BregVids You cannot ignore Azeroth's call!
Soon (tm)
Your videos are always great, but man this one was just on another level. (the nostalgia was real while watching this..i miss those days). Great content and detailed information. thanks for sharing Mad!
Personally i think people miss the "feeling of doing something for the first time" and their lives a that moment in time. (i know i do). Unfortunately you can't recreate those things no matter how hard you try. We enjoyed vanilla that much because it was so new and different, we were so different. WoW is not only a game to most of us, its a companion/friend that has been with us over all these years.
Really what I miss most is the challenge. You NEEDED people to help you complete a hard quest, or a tough dungeon. It required effort, and communication, and not ragequitting. That isn't to say those things were nonexistent in Vanilla, but your reputation actually meant something.
Velkhan I havent even played vanilla, but when i watch thus videos and see so many people want to experience it again, i just wanna be a part of it.
I just love the art style of WoW... Its amazing...
Honestly MadSeason, i'd watch the 2 hour version of this. It almost feels like a Documentary and your narration was great.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for letting me know...it means a lot!
i watched this twice and i didnt even get bored the 2nd time...i could easily watch it a 3rd time..
You did such an amazing job.. both story-telling and editing.. Well done
Beautifully put together. Informative and entertaining. Your opinions on on all things are reasonable and well though out. The whole video was also fluid and felt well constructed. Watched to the last second with many moment of nostalgia, and love. Thank you sir.
Craig, will we see you in Classic WoW? :)
Ha ha, with trepidation maybe. Looking back with nostalgia is one thing. But in reality I never saw most of the content MadSeason refers to in this video, even though I was around in vanilla. I leveled a warrior and was too intimidated at the time to tank, so u know what that means. Kill one mod, stop and eat, kill another, stop and eat. Finally find a raid willing to take me, "Can u tank?", "Tank?".....you have been removed from the group. Ha ha. So i guess my answer is yes, if they balance it properly.
11 more days till we get to go home^^ can't wait
I can't fucking wait!
You're still playing?
I also prefer the monotone manner of your voice. Leave's me open to feel the emotions your video brings out in me, rather than you. If you know what I mean.
Craig Bone monotone FTW
Great point man. We are all in the zone here. I appreciate your comment my friend
Anduin's theme is such an amazing piece of music, super epic, and incredibly ambiguous. so much can be done in the chord progression while retaining the feel of the song.
Great video man. Cant wait for the next one. Got me in the feels at some parts.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks Max
ahhhhhh you don't get it Madseason! Don't speed up your talk in post. Most of us like the slow-paced monotone voice. This is unbearable.
i prefer this tbh
@@edvinaleksandrov1417 weirdo
yes do more I love this. great fucking idea
did you used to speed your voice up
This is the best wow video I've seen in a while. I've played since late 2006 so I knew about 95% of everything you said but it was still very entertaining to watch.
Regarding vanilla vs legion is that both of them have their ups and downs just like you said. There's still some things I truly miss about vanilla like leveling a character not being a complete joke, that you had to group up with other people to do certain quests while other things like warrior tier set were only good for protection warrior and classes like paladin, druid and shaman pretty much had little choice but to go healer if you wanted to raid. I've played retribution since the beginning but it was not a fun spec of what I remember, at least. Maybe I need to take off my rose-tinted googles, I don't know... It's a completely different game just like you said
Can't wait for Episode 2 :D.
Kristoffer Andersson the profile picture reminds me of dan
"Comparing Vanilla to current is like comparing Apple to a calculator"
Hit the nail on the head on that one! It's changed so much, both good and bad, but still a great adventure!
Holy Shit... best video ive ever seen regarding WoW.
I bow down to you my good sir
Dude I remember showing my parents the game and telling them " no, really these are other people! Look I'll wave at this guy and he'll wave back at me." When the gnome waved back and we started dancing together my parents were like " oh look hes dancing too"
lol same here same thing, so funny
Awesome video man! Definitely something nice to have in the background while playing. Thanks!
Honestly, that music is making me tear up.
Comparing Vanilla to current retail is like comparing a real MMORPG to a Facebook game.
Tjallex And vanilla is the second one ?
Another Scout Apprentice
Hehe xd how quirky
In a different timeline, where Blizzard isn't an absolute absurd shit show, they have hired this guy to make official UA-cam content for them.
ORIGINAL CLASSIC SERVER IS COMING! JUSTICE WILL BE DONE
VERY SOON NOW THEY ALREADY HAVE DONE A DEMO FOR CLASSIC
CANT FUCKING WAIT
@@Poison Did you ever play Vanilla WoW??
Poison
then it is even more incomprehensible to me that you find the new wow far better .... wow today is fun, of course. but i m looking forward to all the rpg elements back these days. and i'm confusing how people like you not caring about the old experience. because wow has changed immensely and not "only" better ...
@Poison LOL, I loved how hard it was :-) The journey to 60 was the game. and I'm fucking hyped to play that again. but it's understandable that not everybody likes that. I am happy that you have found a wow version you love to play. # for the horde!
I miss that Druid I met in duskwood, we were only friends for a day... but I will always remember you. Rip vanilla
God, i miss vanilla
"I love this game in all of it's states"
And then Blizzard decided to put the level boost and WoW token into Classic.
Great video.. that Conan quote was gold.. like to see a spin off with profs class quests and other gems from Vanilla.. good work..
YES!!! so many hard quests that gave you literally NO info on haha
I started the month of release . I had been playing EQ since before its first expansion referred to as pre kunark , 5 years invested into EQ . I logged in on my Night Elf Hunter looked around for just a few minutes killed a few mobs logged out and canceled both of my EQ accounts . 14 years later I'm still playing and amazed that it has dominated for so long. ohh but you left out that hunters needed melee and ranged weapons in vanilla. they couldn't shoot targets at point blank like now.
*2 years later*
WE'RE BACK BABY!
=D
Rejoice! World of Warcraft: Classic is coming and you might be able to experience all of this again!
Very soon now
They made us wait a lot god damn it
It wasn't the same.
Can't believe hopw many times I've rewatched this, and still forgot to like
Good stuff man! Gonna watch this alongside researching gold farms hehe
Right on. Enjoy it and thanks brotha
"The original level cap was 60 which may seem silly these days.. "
Me, watching this video in Shadowlands prepatch 😂
Watching these videos remind me about the time when my brother and I had shared account at Sylvanas (PvP) server. We started playing back when Burning Crusade was just announced (maybe? Expansion was released in december if my memory serves right and we started playing in January next year). Most memorable moment and one of the last things I remember was when some time after Lich King raid was released my brother decided to host a raid. I was still underage so no beer for me - a good brother.
It was weekend, so naturally he was stocked up with large quantity of beer for the raid and the raid started pretty early, I'd say it was around 11 in the morning. I checked him when he started it and there he was, enjoying his beer and speaking english pretty fine for a fin. The raid was still going in 9pm so I figured I check him out and he was talking complete gibberish - having almost the whole computer table covered in bottles except for the enough space to move mouse and keyboard - before raid going against one of the bosses in plague wing( the one were the mad professor is, dont remember the name tho). Somehow, they managed to beat the boss and he concluded the raid to end.
Next day while bro was suffering hangover (That's seen as miracle in eastern europe by the way) I asked some of the guys who had been in the raid with him and one them (also a fellow guild member) had recorded the whole damn raid and you could really, really mark the spots were certain parts he has chugged x amount of beer and shit was really hilarious when people answered to his request ( as in usually being "okay" in various tones, mostly highly confused)
Neither of us play the game any longer due to the game changing too much. Tried checking wowhead what gear our characters had when we stopped, but I didn't find them - guess it's been so long that they have been deleted or they wont show up since last time the account was under subscription was when Kung-fu panda expansion came. Good luck to those who want to find at least 2 characters - Colaolli and Pyhapappi
I'm currently playing classic.. and still watching these videos
Awesome video... the intro gave me chills.
I remember being a young lad fresh to the game and delivering some cloth to an NPC in Orgrimmar for that Ahn Qiraj event, no idea what it was about back then. I participated!
20:21 LOL
Oh no, vanilla hunter. Quick, pull out the taunting!
HUNTARD!
Everything is a Hunter weapon!
Roll on Cloth, that's Hunter gear!
Put your stupid flea bag on passive!
20:20 made me literally laugh out loud XD
Small complaint, when you mention the Horde entering Hillsbrad via Silverpine the arrow on the map is misplaced in the Alterac Mountains.
Google it "Elysium wow" and join to thousands of players playing Vanilla right now
ProIT is it exactly like vanilla? Or are their some details and quarks about vanilla that they couldn't get right. Also how active is it? I'm thinking about giving it a try.
Yes. It's exactly like vanilla in 100%. Rate is 1x like original Wow and it's very easy to set up, all information you can find here: elysium-project.org/play
Have fun! :)
Papa Sheev I think there are a total of three changes in the entire game from vanilla: talent reset cost has a cap (25g), BG premades cap, and using dynamic respawn timers instead of set ones (meaning things that get looted/killed more often spawns a little more often).
It's vanilla with very small slight changes that you wouldn't notice
Figured its a good idea to mention that most of the playerbasw migrated to lights hope, which will shut down when blizzard launch classic. Elysium is still going, but the remaining mods are really crooked and desperate
Go Kronos, we are better
Well done. I was never a wow fan until the past couple of years. I had tried Beta but it just seemed more of the same (I was well into another mmo at the time), so I skipped out on it. I started playing a Wrath freeshard three years ago and found that the game suited my mindset better, and less than a month ago, I picked up Legion & began playing (just hit 110 on my first character this week). So this historical perspective is fascinating to me. Keep it up!
"It was harder than the modern game" well thanks to classic we know that's total bullshit. Still love this video though!
Leveling was undeniably harder. Endgame not so much.
Omg you’re talking so much faster in this older stuff. Lol , I like the mono tone. This could have been such a longer video.
wow was sooooooo much better then ... this shit we have today is nothing - rly .. no talents , no stats but basic shit , dificulty for idiots and sooooo fucking boring . remember the first encounter with hoger ... that was fight ... made some friends there too - today ... this game is just sickness good i quited after downing lk hm - coming back evry expansion but .. after 2 months of playing i get just bored and frustrated with it
You speak so fast in your older videos compared to now.
I like to travel but I hate to arrive .
It's the journey not the max level for me .
I'd play and get a Max level character, and immediately create a new character with a different class and play through again
This video, especially in the beginning got me a bit emotional. I still remember this to be the best gaming I've ever experienced. Grinding to 60, the community, all the help, glorious battle grinding to GM and the rivalry against the horde. Unreal.
Been playing since 2006 and yet I still learn new stuff everytime I watch one of your videos. Keep it up! :)
Did you hardcode this audio to 1.5x speed? This is some really fast talking for the Monotone Madness.
Haha it's crazy how much ur narrating has changed , you used to talk so fast , glad you decided to slow down and let the viewers take it all in vs feeling rushed thru the video
Been watching a bunch of your videos over the last few days. You make really good content. Just wanted you to know.
This is literally 1000% better than the IGN recap
You're a literal god
Thank you for making this series. A great idea, and I really enjoyed watching this video. I'm sure the following ones will bring a lot of good memories too and be otherwise just as awesome to watch.
One of the things I miss from Vanilla - and continuing, if I remember correctly, through a few of the post-Vanilla expansions - is the world PvP that we used to have at The Crossroads. It would usually start around noon and continue on and off through early dinner time. Sometimes it would evolve into regular faction wars where one or the other faction would travel to the gates of the other faction's city entrance, a fierce battle would ensue and then the server would crash. lol
.............
PS. I "lived" at Magtheridon-Eu as well. Back then it was a PvP server with a population of approx. 98% Horde and 2% Alliance. Kind of like it was with the Silvermoon Alliance population and has been ever since.
Is this your voice on speed?
tbh i would like to have played vanilla i love the aspect that you can't get evrything you want from 1 race ...
Rare to see retribution paladins sure, but our server (Shattered hand EU) had around 6 in the top guilds. I was one of them, and we always talked about cool pally related stuff in our special pally only chat. :) Yes all the top retri paladins on the server had 1 single chat.
My guild had 3 bosses down in Naxx, so i guess retri wasnt as bad as everyone claimed it was ;p
P.s. Love your videos :) Keep up the sweet work man!
Masterpiece sir!! Love all your videos but especially the longer ones. Btw i never played wow
IF I'm going to play vanilla, it'll definitely be a Hunter. I'm casual like that.
Note to self: buy ammo pouch, ranged and melee weapon, and food for the pet.
:D I wanna roll Ret paladin because I love the playstyle especially in raids where you deal damage but you also support the raid with buffs judgements cleanses auras it's just so appealing to me
Listening to this you really learn how much Blizzard has fucked up the game now.
"All of the gear from Naxxramass was inferior to green questing items from TBC". Um NO it wasn't. I used my Naxx gear up until about level 69 so I got a lot of great use out of it.
Yea same. Even in wrath. I had my epic 70s almost up to 78. I went into Marrogar wearing some epic 70 purps. People laughed. And i was still the #1 dps. Locks OP!
"This will probably be the longest of the series"
TBC video is 55 minutes long lol
I think World first kill on Hakkar did the one of these 2 Swedish Guilds. Valhalla Legion or Immortals, they played on Burning Legion EU as I did.
BTW I subbed to you cuz I just have to see the other Episodes that will come :D
amazing video! could listen to you all day! one reason why i love vanilla so much is because the game didnt try to be balanced, an mmorpg is allowed to have UNIQUE and UNBALANCED things!
When bgs first came out the level cap was increments of 10 so 11-20, 21-30 and so on but the cap levels were too strong ie warriors with whirlwind axes. So they changed it to cap one level earlier.
I remember going into my first bg at level 10 and getting one shot by rogues
if you miss the 2019 madseason change the speed to 0.75
Really messes me up that i can't partake in your nostalgia because when y'all were killing Ragnaros i wasn't old enough to read and write. I started with Cataclysm and feel like i'm missing out big time. Weird how I'm getting nostalgic for something i haven't experienced.
As someone that joined in Warlords and is currently leveling a 27 Forsaken Warlock on a Vanilla server, I can safely say that I totally understand the vanilla fans and people that scream "NOSTALGIA GOGGLES!" don't know what they're talking about. The community is way better and leveling is actually a reasonable pace and lets you fully enjoy the questing and zones. I'm really hyped for Classic WoW and I believe it'll be a smash hit.
I fear classic will be toxic as hell and ppl are not social
idk hope not
SM, UBRS, and Scholo are my favorite dungeons of all time.
Really like your videos, they're a lot different to most others covering WoW and Classic. Good job, keep it on.
When TBC launched I was questing in Zangarmarsh about a week or two after the expansion launched. Our server had been merged and there had also been a massive influx of players, so it was rare to run into someone from "the old days" which was like 3 weeks before. But then right there running from a level 65 mob and getting his ass kicked, was the formerly best ranked tank on our vanilla server, wearing a mish mash of Tier 3 gear and random greens from the expansions quest rewards. I earthshocked the monster and took it down, and he thanked me. I said something that let him know that I was from the good old days, and he pretended that he remembered me even though he totally didn't because I was a nobody and he was THE TANK. It felt wrong. I felt sorry for him like he had been dishonorably stripped of his rank and achievements. Nearly 3 years of progress just washed away with one expansion.
i'm really excited for Blizzard Vanilla Server, hope they come soon.
@MadSeasonShow Thanks for your videos and keep up that good work.
While some of my opinions and feelings about the game changed over the course of the years, expansion after expansion, there's one thought at the back of my head that kept whispering from the announcement of TBC: the realization that anything I worked for up to that very moment was pointless, with the new expansion.
Now, this may sound naive but I found that having to reset the status quo at every new expansion, to allow a fresh start to everyone, left a very definite bitter aftertaste. Yes, it made sense from a practical perspective but still seeing any accomplishment be vane past lvl 60 made no sense from a true RPG perspective. I truly hoped they were going a different route with Classic (no level cap raising) but apparently that's not happening...
so many memories from playing for 6 years ah man I wanna come back.
@ MadSeasonShow - I have noticed some other videos with the tag Episode, however I really thought you were going to do a video per expansion ;-)
WTF I was really into this, and now I find out you haven't made the rest?? BLASPHEMY!
Nostalgia! This really take me back to the old days. Still playing the game causally, and I still love GNOMES!