Top 10 Most Powerful Abilities in Vanilla WoW

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  • Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
  • This video will go over powerful abilities and combos that were incredibly strong at 1 point or another in vanilla wow. But this list will also cover more than just strong damage dealing abilities, and cover defensive and CC effects as well.
    Special Thanks to Captain Grim for editing this video
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    -The List-
    10-Bubble + Hearth
    9-Frost Shock
    8-Fear
    7-Cheapshot/Kidney comb
    6-Curse of Elements / Curse of Shadow
    5-Blind Prep
    4-Mortal Strike
    3-Windfury Weapon
    2-Will of Forsaken
    1-PoM
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  • @hirumaredx
    @hirumaredx  5 років тому +229

    Small little mistake in the video (Besides the number 9 thing). I should have said that "starting in TBC when shamans could dual wield" and then continued like normal. The dual wielding thing was only a thing for a short time in TBC and not really vanilla, unless you count the pre-patch.

    • @Ar1AnX1x
      @Ar1AnX1x 5 років тому +2

      great video, keep up the good work krucial

    • @Thrydon38
      @Thrydon38 5 років тому

      Names of the soundtracks?

    • @Vulkanodox
      @Vulkanodox 5 років тому

      are you also making TheDuelLogs?

    • @beirch
      @beirch 5 років тому +5

      Also, it's "escape", not "exscape"

    • @hirumaredx
      @hirumaredx  5 років тому +4

      Yes I am also theduellogs @@Vulkanodox

  • @Kosh800
    @Kosh800 5 років тому +452

    There's an OLD WoW joke that went something like, "How many people does it take to kill a Paladin? 2. One to initiate the fight, and another to finish it back at the Ironforge Inn."

    • @sylvanaswindrunner4085
      @sylvanaswindrunner4085 4 роки тому +1

      Kosh800 what’s sad is you can bubble hearthstone now in current retail wow,.. so he’s wrong on this

    • @tek512
      @tek512 4 роки тому +4

      @@sylvanaswindrunner4085It takes a glyph in retail. The ability to bubble hearth was actually taken away for a long time.

    • @SampoPaalanen
      @SampoPaalanen 4 роки тому +10

      @@tek512 there's also the fact that Divine Shield isn't really unbreakable in current WoW (sure you need a priest but those aren't exactly rare), back in vanilla only thing that could stop a bubble hearth was a DC granted the server were that unstable that DCs weren't exactly rare either.

    • @zanojo95
      @zanojo95 4 роки тому +2

      LOL

    • @MoneyHoneyBunny
      @MoneyHoneyBunny 2 роки тому

      Mages kind of could do this too via frost nova, blink, invis, and simply get far enough away to hearth, and 95% of the time it was a sure escape even against ranged targets... depending on the terrain. I mean it might be harder in like, Tanaris or Shimmering Flats lol.

  • @Aethren
    @Aethren 4 роки тому +219

    I'm a Paladin, strong and stout!
    Here's my mace and here's my mount.
    If I get in trouble, I scream and shout;
    Pop my bubble and hearthstone out! :D

    • @vzreo
      @vzreo 4 роки тому +5

      dunno if you made that or copied it from somewhere, but thankyou

    • @neighborlyfiend1484
      @neighborlyfiend1484 4 роки тому +1

      @@vzreo That was from the days during vanilla.

    • @FansForFun
      @FansForFun 4 роки тому

      typical alliance plays, FOR THE HORDE

    • @Ryno2094
      @Ryno2094 3 роки тому

      @@vincentcircharo8259 and only children call other people children

  • @cocaineinmyvein
    @cocaineinmyvein 4 роки тому +190

    When undead were classified as undead, you could hit them with Stratholme holy water, which was hilarious.

    • @thedootlord
      @thedootlord 3 роки тому +26

      It be like
      Undead player:atks a person
      Person:uses fear
      Undead:uses wotf
      Person:THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU *throws holy water*

    • @joshduckworth9245
      @joshduckworth9245 3 роки тому +7

      Could they be shackled by a Priest?

    • @thedootlord
      @thedootlord 3 роки тому +1

      Or as i call it
      *DEATH BY A CALORIE*

    • @chazfernandes9840
      @chazfernandes9840 3 роки тому +4

      @@joshduckworth9245 yup

    • @peterkent6250
      @peterkent6250 2 роки тому +5

      @@joshduckworth9245 there was a flip side though ofc hence the lack of hindsight by blizz, you couldn't use humanoid only cc's on them.

  • @gravity3268
    @gravity3268 5 років тому +48

    2:37 "Number Eight: Fear"
    Screen: 9. FEAR

    • @donjuan3524
      @donjuan3524 5 років тому

      thinking the exact same thing LOL

    • @irrelevant_noob
      @irrelevant_noob 4 роки тому +2

      First comment, by the uploader, 5 months earlier than yours: "Small little mistake in the video (Besides the number 9 thing). [...]" ;-)

  • @Mekose
    @Mekose 5 років тому +1141

    wtf is with this animation and editing?! Why was so much effort put into a top ten video?! WHY IS THIS PRODUCTION QUALITY SO GOOD?

    • @miguelvieyra7270
      @miguelvieyra7270 5 років тому +6

      because Jesus.

    • @marcuscarlson5985
      @marcuscarlson5985 5 років тому +9

      Check out Captain Grim, the guy who did that all! He rocks

    • @HighQualityLeftover
      @HighQualityLeftover 5 років тому +7

      the answer to your question is: because he didn't do them. they are machinimas... which he could've clarified after liking your comment

    • @johansermartinez9287
      @johansermartinez9287 5 років тому +2

      Parallax plug in

    • @SeanCC
      @SeanCC 5 років тому +2

      Quite a few of these are also very likely pulled from old PvP videos. There were tools that were used quite heavily by folks making PvP videos in Vanilla and TBC that used models and sets from the game for machinima, and some of these were really well done. Before PvP videos became nothing but boring clips of arena matches.

  • @marvink786
    @marvink786 5 років тому +593

    The animations in this video are very cool

    • @conley852
      @conley852 5 років тому +1

      Kampftrinker can’t even win bunderslinga

    • @marvink786
      @marvink786 5 років тому +5

      @@conley852 Yeah, only the record holder with 28 titles

    • @Zkillscreen
      @Zkillscreen 5 років тому +1

      we salute you fellow 10 year old

    • @marvink786
      @marvink786 5 років тому +3

      @@Zkillscreen I probably have played this game longer than you were alive, kid

    • @Zkillscreen
      @Zkillscreen 5 років тому

      @@marvink786 i started mid Vanilla, kid.

  • @Raoul9753
    @Raoul9753 5 років тому +250

    Warlock PvP in a nutshell:
    Fear - DoT - DoT - DoT - Fear - Drain Life - Fear - Drain Life - Coil - /spit - /lol

    • @Reeepaaa
      @Reeepaaa 5 років тому +7

      until you fight a warrior

    • @Malphas87
      @Malphas87 5 років тому +25

      @@Reeepaaa idd. What was the skill csalled? Unbridled wrath or something. I had no problem fucking up some warlock princessess, The real fight was trying to survive all those goddamn dots after killing the lock.

    • @Ithrial420
      @Ithrial420 5 років тому +10

      Then there was also the
      Fear-Dot-Dot-Dot-fear-dot-die
      Let them die above you then
      Ss-/spit-/pathetic/-lol

    • @serge2cool
      @serge2cool 5 років тому +3

      gONNA copyPastA that for later.

    • @pmarreck
      @pmarreck 5 років тому +1

      kek

  • @McwillX
    @McwillX 5 років тому +4

    As a warrior in classic, I loved to do Sweeping Strikes + Retaliation. Sweeping Strikes allowed every attack to hit a second target. Retaliation countered every incoming attack and lasted 30 seconds back then. I'd run into a large group of mobs, pop those 2 abilities, and my warrior just went crazy until everything was dead. The only downside is that Retaliation also had a 30 minute cooldown.

  • @hirumaredx
    @hirumaredx  5 років тому +189

    Special Thanks to Captain Grim for editing this video! You may know him from Kurcials videos and his "Varian" video in particular. Hopefully this video will just be the first of many from Grim. (I still write the script and do the voice lines though)
    Grims channel - ua-cam.com/channels/H-tGwTWxek2CJuwnccBJlw.html

    • @murph1337157
      @murph1337157 5 років тому +4

      You should do some videos on Legion nostalgia like top 10 worst legion glitches or something. With everyone so down on BFA, a reminder of some of the ugliness that was throughout legion might be a nice wake up call.

    • @GPIA
      @GPIA 5 років тому +4

      Made a rare trip to the comments just to compliment the editing.

    • @delsin1126
      @delsin1126 5 років тому +1

      hirumaredx the animation is top notch, love it

    • @basillah7650
      @basillah7650 5 років тому +2

      The human racial when first added was a low cooldown free pvp trinket that removed everything

    • @Kyrrua_
      @Kyrrua_ 5 років тому

      top 10 most iconic one hand weapon next, but besides thunderfury.

  • @tripbunny
    @tripbunny 5 років тому +24

    I remember when Trolls had +5 to throwing, very overpowered.

  • @masabye
    @masabye 5 років тому +14

    Good list! One thing that could've been included is the orc passive racial, which is 25% extra chance to resist stuns.

    • @SryBut
      @SryBut Рік тому

      Ture. But if I remember correctly, it was never working.
      Like, it SHOULD have worked, but Orcs never had this "resistance"

    • @rumers100
      @rumers100 11 місяців тому

      It was working the same way like windfury.
      Once dueled a rogue as or warrior and i resisted all his stuns.
      The duel lasted for few seconds.

  • @darksidedearth5824
    @darksidedearth5824 5 років тому +270

    I LOVE the editing on this video, hiruma. Keep it up, love your vids!

    • @OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa
      @OnEiNsAnEmOtHeRfUcKa 5 років тому +1

      It's not him, for once. Captain Grim. Check the pinned comment. :P

  • @godlyobject6509
    @godlyobject6509 5 років тому +14

    I've watched a lot of your videos but the visuals in this one are next level! Very well done, lad!

  • @elegy69
    @elegy69 5 років тому +41

    In Vanilla, warlock had to 2 Demo talent options that normally no sane warlock would skill together:
    demonic sacrifice and master demonologist.
    sacrificing your succubus would give you an 15% shadowdmg buff and master demonologist (with 5 points) would give you a static 10% dmg buff if you have your succubus active (and alive).
    As a Horde warlock you could sacrifice your succubus and let it get rezzed by a troll priest to have both buffs at the same time. you must have a troll priest with berserk active to rezz your succubus because the corpse would disappear before a normally casted rezz would get through.
    PVP: with curse of shadows on the target you would 2 shot people during 1 seduction without resistance (if standing on max castrange) because the first shadowbolt would hit the target and break seduction when the 2nd one is already flying towards your enemy.
    PVE: 25% damage buff on shadowbolt, man this was the best time to play a warlock in Vanilla Molten Core time

    • @gtetrakai
      @gtetrakai 5 років тому +5

      I'm glad that I'm not the only one who did this. Every time I bring this up in Reddit or forums, people react like I'm out of my mind or something.
      It's also the reason why I picked up engineering. In addition to all the crazy pvp stuff you get, goblin jumper cables had a short cast time than healers rez spells. It was only a 50/50 chance, but I wasn't reliant on having a troll priest for my op buffs.

    • @nordicmonkeymcnerdrage8517
      @nordicmonkeymcnerdrage8517 5 років тому

      Jumper cables worked too.

  • @Shercko
    @Shercko 5 років тому +6

    Great video, sir. Well scripted, performed and cut. Oh, and very informative of course! Thank you :)

  • @nameisdan6877
    @nameisdan6877 5 років тому +754

    Back when classes were unique and had an identity.

    • @Tjimpz
      @Tjimpz 5 років тому +69

      And were broken

    • @ifyourequiet
      @ifyourequiet 5 років тому +82

      Kim Henriksson yeah, but every class had something broken about them that’s what gave them that identity. If every class does something better then everyone else, that something is what defines them.
      Except druids. Druids didn’t do anything better than anyone else, except mobility. But the could do everything at least partially/in some aspect of endgame. Resto was worth bringing to a raid for certain utility spells but they won’t out heal any other healer. Feral dps existed, but wasn’t optimal. Feral tanks actually did make decent off tanks depending on the raid and balance was surprisingly good in pvp.

    • @Frazzledotd
      @Frazzledotd 5 років тому +25

      So unique that rogues and warriors dominated pvp for years :)

    • @MaXiMoS54
      @MaXiMoS54 5 років тому +5

      @@ifyourequiet Half the specs in the game are next to useless lol wat. All RDPS except maybe warlock is trash when compared to Mage and Ret is not even on the map.

    • @Spengey
      @Spengey 5 років тому +41

      vanilla players are actual morons

  • @machiniman01
    @machiniman01 5 років тому +28

    The editing is so f*king cool !!! Keep doing those !!!

  • @darkchiron
    @darkchiron 5 років тому +4

    All that Frost Shock talk gave me flash backs to that Crafting Worlds video.
    "CAST FROST SHOCK!!!!"

  • @Nacksrammas
    @Nacksrammas 5 років тому

    I can remember watching you years ago. Your editing has sincerely gotten so good. Great job.

    • @Poisonjam7
      @Poisonjam7 3 роки тому

      He doesn’t edit the videos himself, he has an editor.

  • @Inevercared3540
    @Inevercared3540 5 років тому +69

    Production value of this video is on point :D

  • @SpunkMcKullins
    @SpunkMcKullins 5 років тому +48

    Really like the editing style for this one.

  • @option_n
    @option_n 5 років тому +9

    What I will always remember... the Fan of Knives days where everythink just went down while silenced!

  • @SpyZ86
    @SpyZ86 5 років тому +3

    I would also add Shadowmeld+ Aimed shot for NE hunters. Up until a certain patch, SM would only take you out of stealth at the *end* of your cast (pretty handy with HS as well, like a stealth version of Pally bubblehearth)
    Additionally, well geared hunters could frequently 2-shot clothies with aimed shot+ multi but aimed shot had a long cast time that allowed opponents to deadzone you before the cast ended. SM allowed you to preload that cast in stealth and perform the AS+MS combo without being noticed, essentialy “oneshotting” clothies from stealth

  • @Blarchar
    @Blarchar 5 років тому +50

    I am glad you are only setting the Premiere for about 30 minutes ahead. It is still annoying, but at least you aren't doing it for, like, 3 days away like some channels do.

    • @DaKdawg
      @DaKdawg 5 років тому

      Using the flurry axes with the two ranks of windfury gimmick was solo good. I do miss using windury on the Tuf. Good stuff.

  • @derbigpr500
    @derbigpr500 5 років тому +93

    "Game is too crowded/too many people" - That was a statement you could pick as the reason you're quitting the game in Vanilla. How ironic.

    • @Amphitera
      @Amphitera 5 років тому +11

      yep, and today it is "my server is dead/ I have no one to play with" 😂

    • @BadassRockets
      @BadassRockets 5 років тому +11

      before they copied the server method of Eve Online, you could lag out in org

    • @Gronze
      @Gronze 5 років тому

      I remember before going to school i had to loggin to my Wow account and sit on the Que, got home after being in school half the day and i was either still in que or got online to the server.. Took ages to get in on the server on a high pop server.

    • @tdmc6428
      @tdmc6428 5 років тому +1

      Gronze happening to me atm

    • @imasspeons
      @imasspeons 4 роки тому

      In early vanilla, some servers were legitimately too crowded.

  • @Noskur
    @Noskur 5 років тому

    nice editing & animations :) looks really awesome. Good content dude

  • @shtroizn
    @shtroizn 5 років тому

    Really enjoyed this video! Ah! So many memories! I've an itch to play WoW Classic - for old time's sake. Orc Warlock most likely as a main character.

  • @DexaqtEU
    @DexaqtEU 5 років тому +6

    I really love your improvement in editing, it looks sick!

  • @Doser78
    @Doser78 5 років тому +3

    So much work in this video, it's so pleasing to watch ! Good job !

  • @deth2munkies
    @deth2munkies 5 років тому +5

    This video seems focused on PvP which is probably right because that's where OP abilities would be more frustrating, but there were a lot of abilities that were overpowered in PvE, many of which were faction exclusive and the source of consternation:
    Tremor Totem - Trivialized several bosses and wasn't available to Alliance players.
    Blessing of Kings - The single most powerful raid buff that any class could do and it was Alliance only.
    Fear Ward - Alliance only that also trivialized several boss mechanics (free Ony kills when your tank didn't know how to stance dance).
    Berserker Rage - This one kind of applied to PvP too, it was a huge amount of free rage and long form fear immunity.
    Blessing of Protection - Utterly trivialized several boss mechanics and was Alliance only.
    Divine Intervention - Easy wipe recovery and trivialized several bosses before Blizzard fixed it (Razorgore/Vael).
    That Resistance Totem I can't remember the name of - There was a totem that gave certain resists (I think there was one for Fire/Frost and one for Nature, but not sure) and made it so Horde didn't have to farm quite as much resistance gear.

    • @user-gb5pw3ei7z
      @user-gb5pw3ei7z 5 місяців тому

      I don't think you realized that most of the things you mentioned were horde or alliance only which is probably why they did that in the first place because you had to balance what you thought was going to benefit you more. Which is cool because there was actually a discernable difference between horde and alliance. Nowadays everyone has everything so there's no thought put into anything.

  • @ThreshAllden
    @ThreshAllden 5 років тому +1

    Love the editing effects on the video

  • @BussyBoi69
    @BussyBoi69 5 років тому +12

    Damn, what you did differently for the images and editing in this one, keep that up :)

  • @dansmith8356
    @dansmith8356 5 років тому +173

    I'm in this video! I'm the rogue at 10:25 that rides past the windfury shaman and dismounts

    • @tandee7
      @tandee7 5 років тому +2

      So cool! Do you remember when the vid was recorded?

    • @dansmith8356
      @dansmith8356 5 років тому +2

      @@tandee7 prolly 06

    • @AzIgazDerek
      @AzIgazDerek 5 років тому

      How can you tell?

    • @dansmith8356
      @dansmith8356 5 років тому +29

      @@AzIgazDerek unbreakable was on my server, frostmane. In the better res version you can read my name. If you check my page here, I have my own pvp vid uploaded from around a similar time

    • @alvnbn
      @alvnbn 5 років тому +2

      That's me man, why are you lying?

  • @Slanderbot
    @Slanderbot 5 років тому +2

    Incredibly video quality, editing, efx.

  • @GamerX000000
    @GamerX000000 5 років тому +6

    Before weapon normalization, a hunter equipped with Bloodseeker could one shot a tier 1 raid clothie in pvp with crit aimed shot. This was especially awesome if you were a night elf. You could shadowmeld and it wouldnt break til you finish the aimed shot cast.

  • @cationiccoffee
    @cationiccoffee 5 років тому +5

    good choices all around, I would have given an honorable mention to the night elf racial and hunters. Shadowmeld + Aimed shot or Shadowmeld + Feign death. Which aren't so strong in retail WoW but we're free kills or combat escapes in PvP and PvE. (having goblin jumper cables added value as well)

  • @khaunleper
    @khaunleper 5 років тому +76

    I wouldnt say its overpowered, but night elve's shadowmeld worked differently. Basically, the way shadowmeld used to work was it it didnt break until an attack was actually cast. So during the cast time, you were still invisible. Night elf hunters could shaowmeld and then aim shot someone while still in stealth. It wasnt until they got hit with aimed shot, that the NE got kicked out of stealth. This made it pretty easy for NE hunters to win fights like that.
    Additionally, night elves could be priests, so you could meld, then mind control someone. It was fun to do to people trying to do MC attunment.

    • @sinklar7946
      @sinklar7946 5 років тому +2

      Couldn't shadowmeld also be used to "dodge" enemy spells by using it before the enemy's cast went off?

    • @HeavenShallBurn16
      @HeavenShallBurn16 5 років тому +2

      @@sinklar7946 it was out of combat only

    • @arcaneemain8309
      @arcaneemain8309 5 років тому +2

      @@sinklar7946 it can now, with the right timing. its kinda hard tho

    • @basartv5880
      @basartv5880 5 років тому

      NE og Dwarf priest in Classic?

    • @basartv5880
      @basartv5880 5 років тому +1

      @-Genes- Thanks. Had a high survivability with my Night Elf Shadowpriest in TBC and Wrath. Cant think of how OP it could be with a dwarf.

  • @NinjavomWolfstor
    @NinjavomWolfstor 5 років тому +1

    I loved being a mace Rogue, no need for stun, double maces and the additional stun especially with the flurry mace... Free Action Potion, the Engineer Reflectors were cool to have fun with...
    It was fun to get a nice 2 hander and Windfury it as a shaman :)

  • @jond2697
    @jond2697 5 років тому

    Beautiful video! Good job Hiru and friends!

  • @crimsonfanzine9341
    @crimsonfanzine9341 5 років тому +6

    POM+Pyro for first. I see you are a man of culture as well.

  • @sammyoak5378
    @sammyoak5378 5 років тому +31

    Reckoning Bombs were in definitely a thing in the game for more than "a day or two". The only "fix" that came from the infamous Lord Kazzak incident was that they made so you could only "store" 5 attacks at a time with Reckoning, whereas previously there was no limit.
    This still made it a very powerful ability for PvP, especially vs Rogues.

    • @iQwimby
      @iQwimby 5 років тому +7

      Agreed. There used to be a paladin on my server called Baconn who would constantly come with a group of friends to kill duelists in front of Orgrimmar. The trick was: he would duel a friend, then spam /sit as his friend allowed him to accumulate 5 stacks of Reckoning. Then, he would heal up and charge into the front of Orgrimmar with his small death squad and 1 shot someone. It was hilarious and the cause of a rivalry that I will never forget. P.S. God damn you, Baconn.

    • @spthetoker
      @spthetoker 5 років тому +1

      haha i read the comments before i posted what you said lol
      "Reckoning has been in the game for a long time, instead of a day or two as you stated. The bastard speccing made it possible as it was originally a protection talent. Some smart mofo figured out how to use it and hense the reason why it was fixed so quickly"

    • @tek512
      @tek512 4 роки тому

      The bastard that publicized his Kazzak feat ruined one of our best kept secrets. We made his online life for it.

    • @Dunhilina
      @Dunhilina 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah, this still works even into Classic. If a Rogue doesn't kill you before their stunlock is over, you just turn around and 1 shot them because you are pretty much guaranteed to have 5 attacks stored up.

  • @jeremywright5036
    @jeremywright5036 5 років тому +1

    The animation of the mage literally throwing the SUN at people was hilarious :)

  • @talonarayan
    @talonarayan 5 років тому +1

    I love the animations you put into these.

  • @intzbk1
    @intzbk1 5 років тому +3

    Hey Hiro and Grim, great job! :) Hiro, can you make one of these for classic? Since classic is coming out at 1.12, most of these were fixed by then? Thanks!

  • @Zedigan
    @Zedigan 5 років тому +5

    I remember back in Mop a single ret paladin soloed the star dragon while it was current content using the ability zeal (I think that's what it was called) if I remember correctly it would have a chance to proc every time you used a spell that deals holy damage and it would increase your haste by a small amount, like %2. However it could stack on itself and didn't have a limit of how many stacks you could get. This guy got a ridiculous amount of haste by having his stacks somewhere in the hundreds(again if I'm remembering correctly) allowing him to easily heal himself and deal a fuck ton of damage as well.

    • @remyoconnor3141
      @remyoconnor3141 2 роки тому +1

      Hell yes. MoP holy paddy was the strongest spec I ever played. Literally soloed 5 man content from 1-90 and mowed over everything at max level.

  • @selmaarnarsdottir6496
    @selmaarnarsdottir6496 4 роки тому

    Great video i am enjoying your channel a lot :) i heard you gave honorable mentions to the infamous reck bomb but you only talked about the day where it was broken and you could gather infinite stacks of it, instead of how it worked throughout all of vanilla and was heavily used and insanely OP if you had bad gear as a paladin and could one shot everyone almost, where it would cap at 5 attacks and cast them all at once. I just was not sure if you knew about the normal vanilla reckbombs or had only seen the kazzak solo kill from a pally during its bugged phase where you could gather infinite stacks and like in the world kill cast like 1500 attacks at once but i figured i would comment this at least :) thanks for good videos!

  • @Zegreiart
    @Zegreiart 5 років тому

    The shaman image is legit good. I'd love to have that as a background.

  • @Kouzie28
    @Kouzie28 5 років тому +5

    ill never forget when one ovf my friends bubble hearthed out of a bg shit had me dyin

  • @samhayles401
    @samhayles401 5 років тому +11

    Always a fan of getting one shotted by a rogue rocking perditions blade with cold blood + ambush..

    • @Lesterlock99
      @Lesterlock99 3 роки тому

      rogue players = daddy issues, and 'cut' themselves to feel alive LOLOLOLOL

  • @RKNELIAS
    @RKNELIAS 5 років тому +1

    wow you sure got your level up. Really nice video.

  • @gooniefilms9938
    @gooniefilms9938 5 років тому

    Back in vanilla I use to wreck cloth with Cold Blood+Ambush>Backstab on my rogue. It was extremely powerful! You did mention the rogue stun locking abilities, which were incredible too.

  • @wowdanalise
    @wowdanalise 5 років тому +13

    @hirumaredx
    What do you mean "If you dual wielded weapons as a shaman"? Shamans cant dual wield in classic.

    • @ryanforgo7028
      @ryanforgo7028 5 років тому

      He said in tbc.... i think it was more like a lesson in wf op history :p

  • @DirtCheapFU
    @DirtCheapFU 5 років тому +4

    Seduction+Soulfire. Good one shot of that can be scene in the Sylvictus 2 opening killing.

    • @jgjohnny7964
      @jgjohnny7964 5 років тому

      yea that's what i was thinking i could swear i could one shot people with soulfire for a good while before a nerf. dont remember when/ what patches exactly tho because wasnt from day 1, had to be geared! I was a unkillable demonology warlock at start for a good while in pvp

  • @Jack__Savage
    @Jack__Savage 5 років тому

    this video is well put together, love it 10/10

  • @lucianosimmons3003
    @lucianosimmons3003 5 років тому +2

    Great video! Great research. You know your vanilla :)

  • @IBrowneeI
    @IBrowneeI 5 років тому +13

    I wouldn’t even say PoMPyro mages were the worst, I used it back then as my first spec, but then I found something that worked better. Nothing explicitly said you had to go all the way down in a spec, so I used to go far enough down in the Fire spec to get Blast Wave, and far enough down in Frost to get Ice Block.
    The main kicker of it was Fire spec was fucking ridiculous in Vanilla, Ignite being the primary reason why. A passive talent that turns critical hits into dots that damage 25% extra afterward was insane, a Fire mage could just spam Scorch and Fire Blast to kill anything easily. But the frost aspects of this spec focused more on the slows, CC’s and vulnerabilities. You could make Frost Nova so much better, and the slows from Frost Bolts. ANY ranked Frost bolt. Since Fire spec was the main spec being used for damage in pvp in this case, a Tank 1 Frostbolt was used on enemies to keep them coming at you after being Frost Nova’d. The rank 1 Frost Bolt had a slightly shorter cast time than Scorch did, which was the quickest casting Fire ability. It did fuck all for damage, but the slow effect was in as much full force as your highest rank Frost bolt.
    The reason you stopped at Blast Wave in Fire was because you really didn’t need anything below it. Combustion guaranteeing critical s was not that big a deal when you crit all the time anyway, which I can’t say how or why was the case, but it was stupidly frequent in PvP with as little as Blue tier pvp gear.
    But with that said, I used to solo defend Alterac Vally when the Horde were sitting outside Vandar’s bunker preparing. I warp back with the trinket, cast a flamestrike while this big group of Horde players hadn’t quite noticed yet, get the big damage from whichever cries happen from that, Blast wave for even more damage and cries, Frost nova the group so they stay in the flamestrike and then escape from the middle of the group with either trinket or quickly clicking ice block on and off and blinking out (or escape artist since I was a gnome, another overpowered racial), and then giving them another flamestrike while distanced.
    It was practically always guaranteed to kill 70% to 90% of this entire Alterac Vally team while they were clustered in preparation for the boss. It’s how I got to Field Marshal back in the day before BC took that away. Was so close to Grand Marshal.
    With that said, have fun in Classic WoW mages!

  • @GobyTSB
    @GobyTSB 5 років тому +5

    Tell Captain Grim he's hired full time!!

  • @Tarlev
    @Tarlev 5 років тому +1

    Hosh I love your illustations and graphics :D

  • @Kamper6661
    @Kamper6661 5 років тому

    Very interesting video. Thanks bro for this trivia

  • @hathmurl8664
    @hathmurl8664 5 років тому +3

    I like the new videos. Great content

  • @StupidButCunning
    @StupidButCunning 5 років тому +12

    As far as Entangling Roots, I remember being low in my level bracket in a BG, swam to the bottom of a lake where an enemy pursued me. I used a combination of Aquatic form for infinite breath and Entangling Roots to hold my opponent there until he drowned. I wanna see he was 39 and I was low 30s, but but don't quote me on that. Either way, the difference was like that for whatever bracket it was. I was kind of proud that I won that encounter, even if I did do it by drowning my opponent like a sociopath lol

    • @mostbeautifulsinner224
      @mostbeautifulsinner224 2 роки тому

      I think that is Genius. I can totally imagine such a scenario in a movie where the Hero (your char) doesn't even want to do it but else He would die.

  • @dasgibtsdochnet101
    @dasgibtsdochnet101 2 роки тому +1

    1. Rod of transformation
    2. There was an item that Druids got at a certain point (not sure if other classes did too). It made you invulnerable for 12 seconds (like a pally shield, but you could still use all abilities). It was meant for one quest but I ket it for if and when a raidboss would come to some thousand HPs and I would be one of the last men standing.
    Still have both. Thanks to the gal/guy who told me not to end the furbolg chain soo many years before!

  • @MrWill830
    @MrWill830 4 роки тому +2

    The one time use ally quest item Will of Elune (or sth along those lines) which makes you totally immune is pretty OP and that boomerang that can stun from the Un’goro quest is pretty good too!

  • @EVIL1KS4
    @EVIL1KS4 5 років тому +73

    2:37 you put 9 instead of 8. Nice video nonetheless

  • @Diragonoman
    @Diragonoman 5 років тому +4

    Aimed shot should have at least been an honorable mention. Aimed shot used to be a beast and using a slow bow(like the one from scholomance) you could 1 shot clothies. If you were a night elf you could cast it while being in shadowmeld as well

  • @lucianosimmons3003
    @lucianosimmons3003 5 років тому

    Rogue 100-0 was easily done without prep. Especially with T1-3 gear. You could time it well enough to kill anyone. It was absurd. Another terrific video. You're great at this. Awesome voice and research and you obviously have intimate game knowledge yourself. Ty!

  • @VaShthestampede2
    @VaShthestampede2 5 років тому +2

    I used to play a priest in Vanilla. I recall that there was a certain Darkmoon Fair card that when it would proc, it would give you enhanced mana regen. I had a spell with basically no cooldown, and when I spammed it, the card would proc way more often than it was supposed to. So I could run through an entire raid and never get below 90% mana.

  • @Updukat
    @Updukat 5 років тому +7

    Lupos shadow damage instead of physical was OP as shit! Blue posts said they were gonna fix it but they waited until patch 1.9. A decision Northdale (vanila private server) players suffers from even today 14 years later.

  • @TheJeffislegend
    @TheJeffislegend 5 років тому +4

    My favourite OP ability in PVP was invisible aimed shot. Shadowmeld as a nelf hunter. The first cast never used to break shadowmeld so you could strike without being seen.
    Also while thinking about it. Shadowmeld night elf priests in black rock mountain. Mind control while stealth and then dump the horde player off the edge onto the rocks. Make sure to cancel before he hits the ground. That way it isn't a pvp kill and it damages their gear.

    • @nahmate2915
      @nahmate2915 5 років тому

      Eughh alliance

    • @TheJeffislegend
      @TheJeffislegend 5 років тому +1

      @@nahmate2915 Eww horde

    • @kwicksandz
      @kwicksandz 5 років тому

      i used to mind control cap people off the cliff in arathi basin. for the same reason unless of course they where undead which most where and had the best racial in the game.....

  • @Lazagne1234
    @Lazagne1234 5 років тому +1

    For arms warriors, If you picked the sword spec, you had a chance for bonus attacks and you could combine that with a trinket that drops on the dwarf king in BRD, and basically have windfury procs on a warrior, with the added power of MS and such, it was insane in pvp (and borderline unsuable in pve for menace generation reasons :D)

  • @MrFarnanonical
    @MrFarnanonical 5 років тому +1

    I remember windfury pre nerf I could one shot cloth wearers pretty often. It became a LOT less frequent after that UNTIL the patch for about a week or two before the burning crusade. They had buffed windfury's bonus damage to make it work better with dual wield but if you kept a two hander instead you could end up getting windfuries for about 8k+total(including the white hit) on priests without innerfire up. It was probably still better to use dual wield because the offhand bug, you just got so many procs so quickly and you actually had shamanistic rage to get mana back. That was the best time to be a shaman was that one week.

  • @Firebourn94
    @Firebourn94 5 років тому +5

    I miss the Thousand Needles racetrack

  • @Maxze
    @Maxze 5 років тому +12

    the "Scattershot + Feign death + Trap" combo, Aimedshot as a opener, use the combo, aimedshot again and you killed basicly every class except Tank warriors

    • @limariooppa6169
      @limariooppa6169 5 років тому

      ehh double bestial wrath is more dangerous for solo. or was that during tbc? I cant remember anymore

    • @Maxze
      @Maxze 5 років тому +1

      @@limariooppa6169 was in TBC you enraged yourself and the pet, in vanilla you only enraged your pet which was pretty easy to kill since mendpet was a channel and not a HoT

    • @tartopomme8946
      @tartopomme8946 5 років тому

      Yep, if : they have no trinket, no friends to help, no pet (succubus), you could engage with aimshot, they're not playing mage or paladin and mb SL warlock, and yeah you're right :D

    • @Maxze
      @Maxze 5 років тому +2

      @@tartopomme8946 Frankly if you cant engage/start the fight by getting an aimedshot in early you shouldn't play hunter in vanilla... You have so much tools to get one in before they get close to you, for example If they are a pally you just kite their Freedom with aspect of the cheetah until it wears of and you daze em with concusive and get the aimedshot in. warlocks rarely played with sucubus in BGS and favored the felhunter since all sorts of damage took you out of the seduction.
      Mages were the only harder class but they rarely wasted blink to not let you get the aimedshot on them since it was their only kit to escape an improved wingclip or any other snare/stun effect back then.
      the trinkets in Vanilla didn't put you out of traps since it was a form of incapacitation, only ice reflector popped before you walked into it would work.

    • @tartopomme8946
      @tartopomme8946 5 років тому

      @@Maxze nah dude, engage aimshot + trap + aimshot is almost a fantasy
      Maybe it worked 10 years ago but now people know how to play
      Their is A LOT of tools, A LOT of trinkets, tips and way to play to deny your combo. Im not saying you cant succed some time but most of the time you'll fail.
      (Btw a lot of warlock play succubus now, mb more than fellhunter and fellhunter can dispell the trap anyway)

  • @Lorlic1138
    @Lorlic1138 4 роки тому +1

    I remember being a 3 minute mage. Use the talisman of ephemrial power from MC, The Zandalar hero charm from the Hakkar quest, combined with PoM, Arcane Power and Pyro and you had a nuke that was almost a literal nuke. 2 mages using that setup were able to clear Scholomance which at that time was a 10 man raid.

  • @WhatIfTheories
    @WhatIfTheories 5 років тому +2

    Shield Block value gear had no cap so when Naxx opened up Prot Warriors could bring the Boom with Shield Slam if they stacked it.

  • @ItVex
    @ItVex 5 років тому +5

    There was no 3 sec iternal CD on WF in Classic and no dual wielding. They only patched WF so no proc can cause another proc but your white hits could proc WF even with an 1.3 speed weapon on every hit.

  • @luke571
    @luke571 5 років тому +5

    nice video but you mixed something up. about the windfury.. there was no dual wielding in patch 1.11 or vanilla. this came out later with tbc but in vanilla there was only 2h/staff or 1h+shield/oh available for shamans.

  • @HamsterWheelGaming
    @HamsterWheelGaming 5 років тому +2

    Great video, love the editing and the animation! One thing though, rogues can't wear axes in vanilla ;)

    • @phuckerpower
      @phuckerpower 5 років тому

      Not until Cataclysm I believe

  • @ut561
    @ut561 5 років тому +1

    great video, lots of useful info, thanks

  • @dagucka
    @dagucka 5 років тому +5

    How would you be able to cast 2 windfury when dualwielding, when dualwielding was implemented for shamans in bc, which is also when they made the cd for all ranks as one?

    • @omni574
      @omni574 5 років тому +1

      You could dual weild in vanilla in the patch just before BC when they added the BC talent trees. Windfury also had a 30% proc rate and not 20. Mained an enhancement shaman from vanilla to draenor. The entire week and change that patch was active was the most broken shamans have ever been in the entirety of wow. But putting rockbiter on the off hand increased the damage of windfury to levels of guaranteed 1 shots against players as long as you had literally any epic main hand weapon. Also the buffs affected both weapons at once instead of just the ones they were attached to. I killed so many people at Light's Hope Chapel and in Hillsbrad that week it was unreal. Was basically globaling anyone who wasn't in AQ40+ gear, despite only being in ZG and AQ 20 gear.

    • @dagucka
      @dagucka 5 років тому +1

      @@omni574 hmm ok but i would call a pre-patch part of the addon. So it was in the first week of bc and not classic.
      Haha i remember many prepatches that completely destroyed balancing. F.e. warlocks in the bc->wotlk prepatch.

    • @omni574
      @omni574 5 років тому +1

      @@dagucka I remember how ridiculously hilarious that was because my arena partner at the time was a warlock.

  • @LooterPenguin
    @LooterPenguin 5 років тому +35

    Another name for this video could be
    "Why I'm not going to play on a PvP server in Classic"
    Or possibly...
    "Why I'm definitely going to play on a PvP server in Classic"
    Still haven't decided....

    • @jaylowry4082
      @jaylowry4082 5 років тому +3

      PVP servers gave me the most frustrating and yet most satisfying play time in Vanilla WoW, I feel your dilemma....

    • @1MoreTurn
      @1MoreTurn 5 років тому +2

      Do it. Embrace the hatred!

    • @deeroberts8090
      @deeroberts8090 5 років тому

      If you don't play with others/guilds, don't play on pvp.

    • @Uhdksurvhunter
      @Uhdksurvhunter 5 років тому

      Oooo, play PvP for sure! :)

    • @MichaelByarsWasHere
      @MichaelByarsWasHere 5 років тому +4

      Why would someone ever choose no pvp? World PvP was half the fun in Vanilla!

  • @Psykrom
    @Psykrom 5 років тому

    Quality is top notch, but what I expected was a video we can actually benefit from for classic patch 1.12.1

  • @MrEpic-qe2tt
    @MrEpic-qe2tt 5 років тому

    Amazing editing dude. Great video, my only complaint is that you use retail footage

  • @steveh5082
    @steveh5082 5 років тому +4

    Wasn't Stormstrike OP'd at first as it could stack like up to 25 times?

  • @Kakio
    @Kakio 5 років тому +253

    I want windfury back.

    • @thisismine945
      @thisismine945 5 років тому +5

      Don't you have work to not do, Slakio?

    • @unixtreme
      @unixtreme 5 років тому +2

      I want CS > Kidney back

    • @delsin1126
      @delsin1126 5 років тому +21

      I want 2 handed enhancement shamans back

    • @greenchilistudioz4537
      @greenchilistudioz4537 5 років тому

      @@delsin1126 seems I am only one that likes one handed Enhancement Shaman LOL!

    • @delsin1126
      @delsin1126 5 років тому +1

      Greenchili Studioz I mean I like my enhancement shaman but I would like some diversity when it came to the spec

  • @sohcoh3432
    @sohcoh3432 5 років тому

    really nice editing

  • @downstairs2508
    @downstairs2508 5 років тому +1

    Was hoping you'd include some of the other big offenders in the honorable mentions
    Paladin: Illumination (infinite mana on geared paladins)
    Priest: Dispel Magic (utterly broken, destroys certain classes all together and is super versitile, the real reason priest is a good support isn't the healing but this single spell)
    Priest: Mana burn (nuf said)
    Druid: Travel form (immune to all roots and slows, 40-55% ms on demand it's absurd, essentially makes druid the best kiting class alone)
    Mage: Polymorph (best CC in the game)
    Shaman/Druid: Natures swiftness (amazing cooldown)
    Warlock: Fel hunter (Dispel on demand, stealth detection and keeps people in combat)
    Hunter: Viper Sting (priest bane and one of the most annoying stings for healers, instant cast too)
    Racials: Hardiness for orc and stoneform for Dwarf (each blocks the rogue combo and can break pvp)
    Engineering as a whole: Grenades, trinkets and helmets
    Lip,Lap and Fap potions.

  • @peytonibarra8992
    @peytonibarra8992 5 років тому +34

    Ice block, sheep, pirobla- wait a second... These are all Mage abilities?!?!

    • @ffarkasm
      @ffarkasm 5 років тому +8

      Ignite, blink, ice barrier?
      portals and conjure food/water for QoL?
      It was good to be a mage back then.

    • @peytonibarra8992
      @peytonibarra8992 5 років тому

      Yup

    • @alexmelik4030
      @alexmelik4030 5 років тому

      @-Genes- yop, exact reason I still don't have a single mage alt up to this day. I absolutely loathed the class.

    • @MaXiMoS54
      @MaXiMoS54 5 років тому

      yeah all rdps got buffs to their defense in wotlk to keep up with mages. Most RDPS is next to useless when compared to mage otherwise

    • @Taintedmind
      @Taintedmind 5 років тому

      There's a reason why every story that involved 1-shottin a character was always a Mage; it wasn't a coincidence, since they were actually glas cannons back then, instead of havin the same DPS as everyone else, while havin the lowest health lol

  • @kyleromus6845
    @kyleromus6845 5 років тому +4

    Slow weapon (especially if its HoR) + windfurry + stormstrike = fun, fun, fun.
    Oh, and it's not frost shock, it's FROST SHAAAAAAAWK!!

  • @devoyefolkes7066
    @devoyefolkes7066 5 років тому

    lmfao at the mage with the spirit bomb. Beautiful video!

  • @elkevermeulen7365
    @elkevermeulen7365 5 років тому

    Awesome quality vid. Thanks!!

  • @KeRowKi
    @KeRowKi 5 років тому +3

    Nice list, PoM+Pyro was my shit!
    In BC you could fly to the Ceiling Then on mount Pyro palm Pyro then slow fall.

    • @s4lk1n19
      @s4lk1n19 5 років тому +1

      When someone was capping a flag I did this. Slowfall to blacksmith from lumber mill and one shot them when I got into range.

  • @steem1203
    @steem1203 5 років тому +49

    an Honorable Mention to the hunter pet Brokentooth with it's 1.0 attack speed + Beastial Wrath just shredding casters cus they cant ever get their spells cast lol

    • @nicholi8933
      @nicholi8933 5 років тому +1

      Broken tooth was great, though the ZG bat had the same speed when it was added and if your talking about BW, then the get a crit to increase speed brought him to like .7 or something stupid. Good times.

    • @13thforswarn
      @13thforswarn 4 роки тому +1

      A friend of mine camped the Brokentooth spawn for 28 hours over two days. Then quit the game 3 days later after getting it. xD

    • @alanburton4842
      @alanburton4842 4 роки тому

      Toss a hurricane bow on with BT and casters hate you.

  • @fragiquerence
    @fragiquerence 4 роки тому +1

    honestly, was watching the video mostly because of awesome picture quaity, aminations and color corrections ^_^

  • @Mito383
    @Mito383 5 років тому

    The editing is pretty awesome.

  • @Tweepx
    @Tweepx 5 років тому +6

    Not super OP or anything, but a weird one was using Skullflame shield and ret aura to carry low level players in dungeons, grab all of them and watch them all die due to the effects

  • @oribitus
    @oribitus 5 років тому +6

    #10 was countered by Frost shock..... The bane of my paladins Bubble laughing experience :(

  • @DickMystery
    @DickMystery 5 років тому

    I know everyone is already saying this but HOT DAMN the editing is ridiculously good. Cheers to Captain Grim.

  • @tn00bz
    @tn00bz 5 років тому +1

    I don't remember the talent names, but the frost mage talent tree was set up in a way that basicaly turned you into a farming God at later levels. Basicaly all of your spells had the ability to freeze enemies and frozen enemies took more damage so you could round up a bunch of mobs and blizzard them down with the only restraint being vanilla horribley low mana.