in 2006 my PC could barely handle running 5 man dungeons above 20 fps. My first blue screen ever happened because of the opening of AQ. I ran all the way from the closest flight point i had as a level 45 Human Warlock (Tanaris) and the moment i stepped foot into Silithus, my pc froze and Blue Screened. Clearly the greatest wow event in history for everyone who got to take part in it...
I remember when the gates opened on my server. I was still leveling to 60 in Silithus, a bunch of my friends were there and I asked why. They said come meet us over on the southern part of the map. I got there, and got stepped on by an Anubasath Guardian. xD
My reaction was mostly along the lines of "What the hell is that?! Why is it chasing me? It's a skull!" Then heard friends laughing followed by "you guys are assholes." But its what made me want to really get into raiding because I saw all these guilds fighting these things I knew I wanted to do that.
My server Arthur us opened to gates about March, man was that a cool even leggy as all hell but so awesome. Sadly my guild had only started clearing bwl at the time and never made it far into aq. But the effort and drive behind it and the community is something that no game has been able to replicate since.
I ran into one of those Scarab Lords last week, in LFR Antorus, of all places. He had the title and the black battle bug. I didn't expect someone that hardcore to still play WoW, let alone run LFR, which many say killed WoW.
he/she probably has adult things to do now.. like so many of me and my friends. LFR is a way to experiencing content without having to set aside 5hrs at a set time.
Jesus, they weren't kidding when they said this questline was Insane. I can't imagine anyone would be willing to do something This insane again. (...aww who am I kidding, I'm sure some guild's would kill to do it)
ppl did that mount puzzle not long ago (it nothing compared to this i know) so i think there are still ppl willing to dive into to this type of quests :)
mikehdx3 more like the ones who were able to do all that shit, I took part in the event but because I couldn’t find a raid guild to join I couldn’t even attempt the sceptre quest. Hated that it involved raids then and I resent that due to it I missed out on the mount
@@illid4nstormr4ge You clearly weren't dedicated enough to deserve the mount and title then. It was a gift to those who dedicated time and resources to that.
I remember when the gate opened on my server and I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't hit end-game content yet. Never bothered to learn much but AQ40. Big thanks for the video.
I still remember the AQ opening event, the character who opened it on my server was called Gideon from the guild The Last Watch, back before cross servers when exceptional people and guilds made names for themselves in the community. Truly legendary event.
I was probably a little bit optimistic when I asked for this video five days ago. That looks like a lot more work than anyone can do in five days. Good work, great video, thanks mate!
i found a book from a rare spawn in Silithus this is what was written in it. Ogmot's dream journal Ogmot was just puny boy fightin at da war camp when da Masters first blessed me wit da visions. I come to Silithus, to da great wound. seeking wonders. Make ogmot your vessel, Masters! Last night, Ogmot dreams of great battle. Two fleets bashin on ocean of blood. Shadows twistin beneath da ships. risin. Risin. Ogmot so happy watching da carnage! Then Ogmot gets waked up by skitterin sounds. Stupid bugs! Dont matter Ogmot knows dese dreams soon come true. Life comes back to dis wasted land. First da bugs come. Now da gobbies skulkin round... Dey cravin da world blood... Ogmot am sure of it! BAH! Let dem have dese drippins! Soon Ogmot gonna drink rivers of blood! Da Masters promise! Today smoke rises up from da campfire. Smoke tells Ogmot good story. Ogmot sees lady wrapped in dark swirlies. She leads herds of blind sheep. Da sheepies follow her everplace she go. Do everthin she say. Never doubt lady. She guide dem over tall cliff! SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT! Stupied sheepies! Da crows get fat eatin da sheepflesh. Da lady laughs as crows eat! Ogmot laugh too! Dat blade has shiney eye. Always watchin us. Why you no see it? Three lies. Da first one been told. Bound by that throne? No. Free. Free! Da next gonna come soon. Maybe dey see dis one. Other hammers here now. Dey talk and talk about Argus. Bout da one dat got wakened. Bout great victory dat our enemy not even notice. But only ogmot sees da visions. Other hammers not blessed by da Masters! Ogmot share his dreams wit da others, but da skinny one just laugh. Ogmot no like her. Many days pass wit no visions. Did Ogmot make da Masters angry? Me gonna make sacrifice! Please da Masters. Remember Ogmot! Da star watching Ogmot. Too shiny! Ogmot gonna hide from it! Da dagger spoke true. It been too long since Ogmot got drowned. Masters! No forsake Ogmot! Da bones got picked clean, but Ogmot still get no visions. Da others laugh. Say Ogmot not devoted. But me is da chosen one! Ogmot no lose faith! Another sacrifice? Yes! One more of them aint gonna be missed... Roused by her screams. Stirred by da whispers. A blessin comes from da Masters. Now Ogmot understand! A door. A path. Ours... Ours... Fool! Da circle awakened us all!
I have no idea from which timezone you are, but you always post new video during the night and my morning cofee ritual is always beautiful when I start my day (or week) with your video. Keep on the good work.
ah, the good old war effort. i was leveling my first character at that time. an orc warrior i still have to this day. she put forward some herbs and bandages, but i didn't have access to the other components. i also remember waking up at 4 in the AM to watch my dad participate in the opening of the gates(i was only level 45 or so at the time, so i couldn't survive the trek through ungoro, let alone silithus). fun times. i had thought initially "there are only like 8 guys coming out of the gates, is this supposed to be dangerous?" about 5 seconds later they started cleaving through the assembled horde and alliance players and i went from "thats it?" to "welp... they're screwed"
Finally managed to get the 'Veteran of the Shifting Sands' achievement on 11/30/10. At higher levels it was much easier to complete many of the quests solo, getting through BWL with the by then rare random raids, having them fall apart at the first few bosses or not winning the Elementium ore was infuriating. When I watched the video I kept thinking 'did I really go through all that?', couldn't remember half of it.
I love the amount of crying about people getting a mount for putting in effort years ago. "They exploited the system!!!" So what? You farm rep and old instances nowadays to get mounts, is that exploitation as well? "Most of them aren't even playing anymore!" Okay, but the rest of them have been playing since pre-Cata, which is quite some time. Like half the forums on patch day of 7.3.5 were posts of kids whining about a mount they could've never obtained because they've only played for a month.
I mean, they already got their rewards 12 years ago in the form of a mount and title, did they really need another mount on top of that one? People bitch and moan all the time about people being handed stuff for doing nothing, and that's exactly what the new Black Qiraji mount is. You could've played back in Vanilla and been the one to bang the gong quit and never came back until today, and bam a free mount. Also, the original mount hasn't even been available for like 10 years now, so not sure what the "only played for a month" comment is all about. I also don't think most are demanding that Blizz give it for free to everyone, but to have something challenging to acquire it. Maybe not something as crazy as that quest line, but something that still takes a massive amount of effort. Also the best tinfoil hat theory on its addition? Ion Hazzikostas himself is a Scarab Lord. He just wanted an extra mount to his collection! lol
Yeah, people are extremely entitled these days, they should have been pleased Blizzard even informed them but you know, give them a finger.. +Xyruk Why care if Blizzard makes a bonus mount for some vets anyway?
I remember when the gate opened on my server, low population yet there was still nearly a thousand people in Tanaris ready to charge in. Then the massive Anubarath fuckers came out and started tearing through the crowds. So glad I decided to watch from a distance using eagle eye.XD
I remember the Gates of AQ event. Most of my guild were going. We got the boat from Menethil Harbour, well we got on the boat, which dumped random players in the sea, resulting in stages of corpse swimming back to the dock, and waiting for the next ship. Now my guild was split up, but we all eventually got to Theramore. From there we ran through S.Barrens down Thousand needles and Tanaris, and arrived via Un 'Goro crater. The whole of Silithus was full of giant statues like Anubis and creatures that could one shot the players. The servers kept breaking. It was very hard to see what was happening, or work out what you were supposed to be doing in a laggy sea of players and mobs. Once you did start collecting the servers would go down again. It was chaos, it was glorious, it was the one event I know I will never forget.
I had no idea it was that involved. I know the joke was that you had to do a lot to get in. But this? This is INSANE. Thanks much for doing all of this research. It must have been fascinating.
Hello Nobbel, I love your videos. You always give so much effort to very single one of them. I think we can never say enough thanks to you, since yoi bring you joy and positive energy to al of us. Please, never change, good man. We love you. :)
Nobbel, what are your thoughts on what will happen to the order halls? Seems weird that you were the best of the best in your class and had so many respect you and follow you, to now only just go and ditch everything you built to fight for the alliance and horde again. What do you think?
Dude, I remember Kalahad! He was one of the best warriors on the server for atleast the next few expansions, or atleast from what I remember. I had the opportunity to group up with him a time or 2, but I didn't realize he was this famous within the community.
I here I thought after all these years of playing WOW I had seen all of the most stupid/long/hard/insane quests but that book one sure as hell got.Holy fucking shit man.
Hoooly shit, now I understand what an insane and long grind Vanilla WoW was....on my BC server was always wondering what role those 40 man raid dragons play etc. ..very interesting and very revealing video, love all the details that u've put effort researching!
i doubt any of these kids now would be up for something like this and would go to the forums to complain about how long and hard it is and that they can only play for a few hours due to whatever reason
well mounts are limited to event but hopefuling the rare silithids become tamable though, only red one is i really want the green one in new silithus revamped by sargeras big long sword!
I thought of commenting this to Nobbel's newest video to up my chances of getting an answer. I want to know Anduin Lothar's story but Nobbel hasn't made a video on him. But I'm sure he is bound to appear in other characters' stories so I want to know: Which video or videos of Nobbel should I check to get some story on Anduin Lothar?
Xal The Nobbel videos I could best recommend for pieces of Anduin Lothar's story is in the Khadgar videos and the Alleria and Turalyon videos. Unfortunately, while Lothar is a huge character lore wise, not much is known about him from before the first orc invasion.
I started playing wow when this opening the door event was going on. I was so confused lol. I was like why do these dudes need my bandages? Ah well, guess I can make a bunch. I was totally new to MMOs so I didnt even know what a raid was lol. Wow was different then, good times. Still miss those days. Which is why AQ has a special place in my heart.
The opening of the gates had to be the most epic event in game so far. I wonder if the person who rang the gong first is still playing. I've never seen the Scarab Lord title or the mount.
You should consider saying something about the Ysera Server and this event. A single person waited until minutes before the servers shut down and rang the gong. Because of this only one person on the server ever got the mount. Supposedly that is why they never did anything like that again with a limited time frame for a mount.
I tend to avoid Slithus because it is too ugly. For high level zones I go with Un Goro Crater and WInterspring. I am amazed by the cool story in Silithus. There is even an old god. It is an example of don't judge a book by its cover. That questline is really complicated. It makes modern questlines look like a cakewalk.
Dear god, the memories. The Alliance needing to gather Linen cloth and the Horde needing to gather Wool cloth was hell. Back then the Horde had a great way to farm it in Ragefire Chasm and the Alliance had a great way to farm it in Deadmines. So it lead to both sides needing to try and run each other's dungeons and encourage people not to attack them when they came into hostile territory.
I personally believe that they should allow 1 new scarab lord per server per event every year moving forward. It stays limited but it makes it to where it isn't completely unobtainable. Scarab lords are so rare now.
I don't mind that I'll never have the mount, even if I did I don't see myself using it at all. What's important to remember is that it's not a small number of players receiving the updated model, it's more like 0. How many people actually rang the gong, and how many people STILL PLAY? 1 person? I'd have a hard time believing 2 people still have the mount and play. Vanilla was such a massively different game that many of the players who were around at the start don't like the current game and left years ago.
omygodsword I think that's one reason why people are a bit mixed on the new model, since so few from back then actually still play. Many feel it's a waste of resources from what I've heard. I've never ever seen the black battle tank in game, and have only ever seen one Scarab Lord in my nearly seven years of playing, and I saw that Scarab Lord back in late Cata. But I'm not bothered by their decision since I wasn't even around back then.
I can't help but wonder if the new qiraji mount is to separate those who earned it back in vanilla, and those who will earn it on classic servers. You get both if you already have it, but only get the old one if you earn it on classic, or something like that.
Does it really matter? I highly doubt that the Classic servers will in any way connect to the current servers. I also highly doubt the gaming community of today would work together for such a long tedious questline to reward 1 person
While you have a point, and I generally agree with it. It still makes me wonder if they are planning on making things earned in classic apply to your wow account for live, so we may see more hunters with Rhok'delar, more benediction, and possibly more scarab lords.
“Wars ain’t cheap” Remember that part of wrath of the lunch king where both factions on the server had to contribute goods to fund the war effort? ..... oh wait
About the updated black quiraji mount: What if with WoW Classic there will be a feature to carry over now unobtainable items to the main game such as mounts, pets and transmogs.
What i really started to wonder is why are the sky in Ahn'qiraj suddenly a dark space as that of caverns of time? It makes it look so odd, like its a simulation or twisted universe dislocated from azeroth
Anyone else notice that the Doctor Weavil character is a reference to Weavil from theYugioh tv show? Weavil throws the cards and the doctor throws the pages from a book
So, anyone else found that rare elite named Ogmot that drops a journal about the old gods? Ogmot's Dream Journal: Ogmot was just a puny boy fighting at da war camp when da Masters first blessed me wit da visions. I come to Silithus, to da great wound, seeking wonders. Make Ogmot your vessel, Masters! Last night, Ogmot dreams of great battle. Two fleets bashin on ocean of blood. Shadows twistin beneath da ships, risin. Risin. Ogmot so happy watchin da carnage! Then Ogmot gets waked up by skitterin sounds. Stupid bugs! Dont matter. Ogmot knows dese dreams soon come true. Life comes back to dis wasted land. First da bugs come. Now da gobbies skulkin round... Dey cravin da world blood... Ogmot am sure of it! BAH! Let dem have dese drippins! Soon Ogmot gonna drink rivers of blood! Da Masters promise! Today smoke rises up from da campfire. Smoke tells Ogmot good story. Ogmot sees lady wrapped in dark swirlies. She leads herd of blind sheep. Da sheepies follow her everplace she go. Do everthin she say. Never doubt lady. She guide dem over tall cliff! SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT! Stupid sheepies! Da crows get fat eatin da sheepflesh. Da lady laugh as crows eat! Ogmot laugh too! Dat blade has shiny eye. Always watchin us. Why you no see it? Three lies. Da first one been told. Bound by dat throne? No. Free. Free! Da next gonna come soon. Maybe dey see dis one. Other hammers here now. Dey talk and talk about Argus. Bout da one dat got wakened. Bout great victory dat our enemy not even notice. But only Ogmot sees da visions. Other hammers not blessed by da Masters! Ogmot share his dreams wit da others, but da skinny one just laugh. Ogmot not like her. Many days pass wit no visions. Did Ogmot make da Masters angry? Me gonna make sacrifice! Please da Masters. Remember Ogmot! Da star watchin Ogmot. Too shiny! Ogmot gonna hide from it! Da dagger spoke true. It been too long since Ogmot got drowned. Masters! No forsake Ogmot! Da bones got picked clean, but Ogmot still get no visions. Da others laugh. Say Ogmot not devoted. But me is da chosen one! Ogmot no lose faith! Another sacrifice? Yes! One more of dem aint gonna be missed... Roused by her screams. Stirred by da whispers. A blessin comes from da Masters. Now Ogmot understands! A door. A path. Ours... Ours... Fool! Da circle awakened us all!
Quick unralated question... I'm playing a character in the eastern plagueis for after a long long time and I just made some quests in Zul'Mashar... What about that city and its inhabitants? They are mostly alive but up to something and their leader is called "Betrayer" by the troll now who joins you in the caravan... What's up there? It's not explained during the quests...
Wish they'd make some kind of current event with unobtainables so i could brag about them to newbies... i was way too young to care about complicated events in vanilla and it makes me so irritated seeing all of these exclusives. i basically missed out on all of them all because of age, not because of being a casual player which im not. :(
Nobbel ! There's this draenei child companion thing that has a story behind her , it's like a riddle , i didn't want to spoil it for myself as you might make a video about it probably and hearing from you is best , are you planning on giving it a go ?
still raging to this day that someone on my server rang the gong at like 1am and I missed it completely even though we all agreed to wait to ring it maybe.. maybe they'll let me ring it during this event? one can dream?
Tin foil out. Alexstrazsa is the only Dragon Aspect that hasn't knowingly been corrupted and/or been killed. If she dies this expansion, maybe this is the 5th torch that lights the way ala Xal'atath. Picking off the Dragon Aspects who were part of the Charge of the Dragonflights could be a lead up to C'Thun returning.
I'm predicting that the end of BfA will be very heavily Old God themed, with a possible return of both C'Thun and Yogg'Saron (pre patch questline into Ulduar showed some Faceless beings and Old God murmurings) along with N'Zoth finally showing himself. Hell, the final patch/raid could even be in Ny'alotha. There's just too much pointing us to this fact. Especially the explicit line from Alleria of how she felt like she already died twice!
I feel like it will be a slow build up and the final boss might be C'Thun or Yogg Saron leading into an Old God expansion. Sort of like Archimonde in WoD leading into Legion. In relation to Alleria, I feel like these predictions have multiple meanings. She has dies twice. Sylvannas has died twice. Azeroth has died twice. 'King of Diamonds' could be both Magni and Gallywix. 'Five torches' the 5 pillars of creation and the 5 dragon aspects.
Eh, Sylvannas has already died 3 times though. Once to Arthas, once when she killed herself by throwing herself off Ice Crown after Arthas was defeated and another by Lord Godfry in the Silverpine ques line. As for an entire Old God themed expansion? BfA could secretly be one. The whole start of the battle between Horde and Alliance is over the blood of the planet itself, and Azshara has been confirmed as final boss of the first tier, and she's tied pretty closely to the Old Gods, especially N'Zoth.
Arent they bringing back vanilla with the new expansion? Doesnt that mean that this questline will come back and new players will eventually get a shot at getting that black mount?
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"Nothing good has ever come from Silithus!"
in 2006 my PC could barely handle running 5 man dungeons above 20 fps. My first blue screen ever happened because of the opening of AQ. I ran all the way from the closest flight point i had as a level 45 Human Warlock (Tanaris) and the moment i stepped foot into Silithus, my pc froze and Blue Screened.
Clearly the greatest wow event in history for everyone who got to take part in it...
Why did computers use to blue screen back in the days anyway? No fail-safe?
It blue screened because you play alliance
I remember when the gates opened on my server. I was still leveling to 60 in Silithus, a bunch of my friends were there and I asked why. They said come meet us over on the southern part of the map. I got there, and got stepped on by an Anubasath Guardian. xD
Ryuu515
I can't even imagine you're reaction XD
My reaction was mostly along the lines of "What the hell is that?! Why is it chasing me? It's a skull!" Then heard friends laughing followed by "you guys are assholes." But its what made me want to really get into raiding because I saw all these guilds fighting these things I knew I wanted to do that.
I was in on killing those things with my guild. It was a different time.
Nothing good has ever came out of siliths.
Also god damn all of that shit just to open a gate?!
Grey World it was ridiculous
Grey World it was glorious
Fuck Silithus
the fuck is siliths?
Not to mention you must face Vaelastrasz the guild breaker a few times. It was disaster. LOL
13:55 "And Falstad shatters the scepter"
Isnt it Fandral? Wheres Red Shirt Guy when you need him?
*facepalm* MY bad
You make mistake sir! Now everyone is gonna think a god damn dwarf with his magic hammer that shoots lightning broke a scepter. Shame on you :P
This video makes me miss the times when the dragonflights were important. :(
Me to, I wish they were more relevant.
Yeah even blizzard regret that end cinematic back in cata
@@lolosh99 do they?
You're in luck the next xpack is about dragons!
4 years later lol lets goooo!
My server Arthur us opened to gates about March, man was that a cool even leggy as all hell but so awesome.
Sadly my guild had only started clearing bwl at the time and never made it far into aq.
But the effort and drive behind it and the community is something that no game has been able to replicate since.
I ran into one of those Scarab Lords last week, in LFR Antorus, of all places. He had the title and the black battle bug. I didn't expect someone that hardcore to still play WoW, let alone run LFR, which many say killed WoW.
Game Dev Ion is a Scarab Lord...so are couple folks that work for him.
he/she probably has adult things to do now.. like so many of me and my friends. LFR is a way to experiencing content without having to set aside 5hrs at a set time.
Jesus, they weren't kidding when they said this questline was Insane.
I can't imagine anyone would be willing to do something This insane again. (...aww who am I kidding, I'm sure some guild's would kill to do it)
ppl did that mount puzzle not long ago (it nothing compared to this i know) so i think there are still ppl willing to dive into to this type of quests :)
Whenever I see anything about the opening of AQ I always wish I could've experienced it and many other things I missed back then.
legend11211 Try the Lights Hope Privat Server. We are currently doing the War Effort Quest.
I think it's cool that they're looking to reward the longest playing players that have stuck with them.
mikehdx3 more like the ones who were able to do all that shit, I took part in the event but because I couldn’t find a raid guild to join I couldn’t even attempt the sceptre quest.
Hated that it involved raids then and I resent that due to it I missed out on the mount
@@illid4nstormr4ge You clearly weren't dedicated enough to deserve the mount and title then. It was a gift to those who dedicated time and resources to that.
I found the college girls provided better rewards than blizzard... 😄
I remember when the gate opened on my server and I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't hit end-game content yet. Never bothered to learn much but AQ40. Big thanks for the video.
I still remember the AQ opening event, the character who opened it on my server was called Gideon from the guild The Last Watch, back before cross servers when exceptional people and guilds made names for themselves in the community. Truly legendary event.
I was probably a little bit optimistic when I asked for this video five days ago. That looks like a lot more work than anyone can do in five days. Good work, great video, thanks mate!
i found a book from a rare spawn in Silithus this is what was written in it.
Ogmot's dream journal
Ogmot was just puny boy fightin at da war camp when da Masters first blessed me wit da visions.
I come to Silithus, to da great wound. seeking wonders.
Make ogmot your vessel, Masters!
Last night, Ogmot dreams of great battle. Two fleets bashin on ocean of blood. Shadows twistin beneath da ships. risin. Risin. Ogmot so happy watching da carnage!
Then Ogmot gets waked up by skitterin sounds. Stupid bugs!
Dont matter Ogmot knows dese dreams soon come true.
Life comes back to dis wasted land.
First da bugs come. Now da gobbies skulkin round... Dey cravin da world blood... Ogmot am sure of it!
BAH! Let dem have dese drippins! Soon Ogmot gonna drink rivers of blood! Da Masters promise!
Today smoke rises up from da campfire. Smoke tells Ogmot good story.
Ogmot sees lady wrapped in dark swirlies. She leads herds of blind sheep.
Da sheepies follow her everplace she go. Do everthin she say. Never doubt lady.
She guide dem over tall cliff! SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT! Stupied sheepies!
Da crows get fat eatin da sheepflesh. Da lady laughs as crows eat!
Ogmot laugh too!
Dat blade has shiney eye. Always watchin us. Why you no see it?
Three lies. Da first one been told.
Bound by that throne? No. Free. Free!
Da next gonna come soon. Maybe dey see dis one.
Other hammers here now. Dey talk and talk about Argus. Bout da one dat got wakened. Bout great victory dat our enemy not even notice.
But only ogmot sees da visions. Other hammers not blessed by da Masters!
Ogmot share his dreams wit da others, but da skinny one just laugh.
Ogmot no like her.
Many days pass wit no visions.
Did Ogmot make da Masters angry?
Me gonna make sacrifice! Please da Masters.
Remember Ogmot!
Da star watching Ogmot. Too shiny! Ogmot gonna hide from it!
Da dagger spoke true. It been too long since Ogmot got drowned.
Masters! No forsake Ogmot!
Da bones got picked clean, but Ogmot still get no visions. Da others laugh. Say Ogmot not devoted.
But me is da chosen one! Ogmot no lose faith!
Another sacrifice? Yes! One more of them aint gonna be missed...
Roused by her screams. Stirred by da whispers.
A blessin comes from da Masters. Now Ogmot understand!
A door. A path. Ours... Ours...
Fool! Da circle awakened us all!
With Ogmot's accent it seems he is a troll. And him knowing about Argus is serious...
20:00 NANI?!?!
Omae wa mou shindeiru!
I have no idea from which timezone you are, but you always post new video during the night and my morning cofee ritual is always beautiful when I start my day (or week) with your video. Keep on the good work.
ah, the good old war effort. i was leveling my first character at that time. an orc warrior i still have to this day. she put forward some herbs and bandages, but i didn't have access to the other components. i also remember waking up at 4 in the AM to watch my dad participate in the opening of the gates(i was only level 45 or so at the time, so i couldn't survive the trek through ungoro, let alone silithus). fun times. i had thought initially "there are only like 8 guys coming out of the gates, is this supposed to be dangerous?" about 5 seconds later they started cleaving through the assembled horde and alliance players and i went from "thats it?" to "welp... they're screwed"
finally I was able to understand this legendary quest! thanks fo the video Nobbel, very good job.
I have spent countless hrs watching your videos the last few months, thankyou.
Finally managed to get the 'Veteran of the Shifting Sands' achievement on 11/30/10. At higher levels it was much easier to complete many of the quests solo, getting through BWL with the by then rare random raids, having them fall apart at the first few bosses or not winning the Elementium ore was infuriating. When I watched the video I kept thinking 'did I really go through all that?', couldn't remember half of it.
I love the amount of crying about people getting a mount for putting in effort years ago.
"They exploited the system!!!"
So what? You farm rep and old instances nowadays to get mounts, is that exploitation as well?
"Most of them aren't even playing anymore!"
Okay, but the rest of them have been playing since pre-Cata, which is quite some time.
Like half the forums on patch day of 7.3.5 were posts of kids whining about a mount they could've never obtained because they've only played for a month.
I mean, they already got their rewards 12 years ago in the form of a mount and title, did they really need another mount on top of that one? People bitch and moan all the time about people being handed stuff for doing nothing, and that's exactly what the new Black Qiraji mount is. You could've played back in Vanilla and been the one to bang the gong quit and never came back until today, and bam a free mount. Also, the original mount hasn't even been available for like 10 years now, so not sure what the "only played for a month" comment is all about. I also don't think most are demanding that Blizz give it for free to everyone, but to have something challenging to acquire it. Maybe not something as crazy as that quest line, but something that still takes a massive amount of effort.
Also the best tinfoil hat theory on its addition? Ion Hazzikostas himself is a Scarab Lord. He just wanted an extra mount to his collection! lol
these kids need to go somewhere with there crying, either drop the game and go to Minecraft or another MMO or just shut up and let it be
Yeah, people are extremely entitled these days, they should have been pleased Blizzard even informed them but you know, give them a finger..
+Xyruk Why care if Blizzard makes a bonus mount for some vets anyway?
You never fail to surprise me with your depth! Thank you Nob!
I remember when the gate opened on my server, low population yet there was still nearly a thousand people in Tanaris ready to charge in.
Then the massive Anubarath fuckers came out and started tearing through the crowds. So glad I decided to watch from a distance using eagle eye.XD
Hey man, I love watching or even listening to these videos! They are so informative and helpful! Keep up the awesome work man!
I remember the Gates of AQ event. Most of my guild were going. We got the boat from Menethil Harbour, well we got on the boat, which dumped random players in the sea, resulting in stages of corpse swimming back to the dock, and waiting for the next ship. Now my guild was split up, but we all eventually got to Theramore. From there we ran through S.Barrens down Thousand needles and Tanaris, and arrived via Un 'Goro crater. The whole of Silithus was full of giant statues like Anubis and creatures that could one shot the players. The servers kept breaking. It was very hard to see what was happening, or work out what you were supposed to be doing in a laggy sea of players and mobs. Once you did start collecting the servers would go down again. It was chaos, it was glorious, it was the one event I know I will never forget.
Sunken Temple was one of my favorite dungeons in game pre-cata. I really enjoyed running it. Also Zul'Farak and Maurudan.
I had no idea it was that involved. I know the joke was that you had to do a lot to get in. But this? This is INSANE. Thanks much for doing all of this research. It must have been fascinating.
i tell ya, some of the weirdest and most wonderful events were in vanilla. never forget the opening of AQ
Hello Nobbel,
I love your videos. You always give so much effort to very single one of them. I think we can never say enough thanks to you, since yoi bring you joy and positive energy to al of us. Please, never change, good man. We love you. :)
That Nobbel is the voice we need to ear to give them the actually tell the story we should feel :)
Nobbel, what are your thoughts on what will happen to the order halls? Seems weird that you were the best of the best in your class and had so many respect you and follow you, to now only just go and ditch everything you built to fight for the alliance and horde again. What do you think?
I love your videos. Gets me thru the slow times at work
Nobbel, I simply love your lore videos., Please keep up the great work!
Dude, I remember Kalahad! He was one of the best warriors on the server for atleast the next few expansions, or atleast from what I remember. I had the opportunity to group up with him a time or 2, but I didn't realize he was this famous within the community.
I here I thought after all these years of playing WOW I had seen all of the most stupid/long/hard/insane quests but that book one sure as hell got.Holy fucking shit man.
love u nobbel
Hoooly shit, now I understand what an insane and long grind Vanilla WoW was....on my BC server was always wondering what role those 40 man raid dragons play etc. ..very interesting and very revealing video, love all the details that u've put effort researching!
Was this fun in Vanila? Yes
Would i do it again? No
Oh god... the 4:1 alliance to horde ratio had me farming wailing caverns for wool cloth for soooooo long
i doubt any of these kids now would be up for something like this and would go to the forums to complain about how long and hard it is and that they can only play for a few hours due to whatever reason
Satsu fckin true
Satsu ok
Dingo dyno God stop being a little bitch
finally you did a video on this awesome Questline :D
Wonder how many people with the Scarab Lord title still play.
Bindair Dundat Like 30 or 40 originals from Vanilla. Couple hundreds from WotLK.
cthun:"Omae wa mou shindeiru"
well mounts are limited to event but hopefuling the rare silithids become tamable though, only red one is i really want the green one in new silithus revamped by sargeras big long sword!
This is my favorite video of yours. Just a dreamlike story and love the scarab/insectoid world
i hope, and hope with all my heart that this, all of this is available on the classic servers when they are live.
Dude like that questline was all of vanilla's pros and cons wrapped into one. Could you imagine having a quest like that now? People would lose it
I thought of commenting this to Nobbel's newest video to up my chances of getting an answer. I want to know Anduin Lothar's story but Nobbel hasn't made a video on him. But I'm sure he is bound to appear in other characters' stories so I want to know: Which video or videos of Nobbel should I check to get some story on Anduin Lothar?
Xal The Nobbel videos I could best recommend for pieces of Anduin Lothar's story is in the Khadgar videos and the Alleria and Turalyon videos. Unfortunately, while Lothar is a huge character lore wise, not much is known about him from before the first orc invasion.
THANK YOU!!!
Thanks for the video Nobbel!
I started playing wow when this opening the door event was going on. I was so confused lol. I was like why do these dudes need my bandages? Ah well, guess I can make a bunch. I was totally new to MMOs so I didnt even know what a raid was lol. Wow was different then, good times. Still miss those days. Which is why AQ has a special place in my heart.
The opening of the gates had to be the most epic event in game so far. I wonder if the person who rang the gong first is still playing. I've never seen the Scarab Lord title or the mount.
A TURTLE MADE IT TO THE WATER
All this new focus on silithus makes me wonder if they gonna rework the raid to BFA?
You should consider saying something about the Ysera Server and this event. A single person waited until minutes before the servers shut down and rang the gong. Because of this only one person on the server ever got the mount. Supposedly that is why they never did anything like that again with a limited time frame for a mount.
I tend to avoid Slithus because it is too ugly. For high level zones I go with Un Goro Crater and WInterspring. I am amazed by the cool story in Silithus. There is even an old god. It is an example of don't judge a book by its cover. That questline is really complicated. It makes modern questlines look like a cakewalk.
I completed that quest on 3 toons, during TBC tho, was so much fun
Dear god, the memories. The Alliance needing to gather Linen cloth and the Horde needing to gather Wool cloth was hell. Back then the Horde had a great way to farm it in Ragefire Chasm and the Alliance had a great way to farm it in Deadmines. So it lead to both sides needing to try and run each other's dungeons and encourage people not to attack them when they came into hostile territory.
I personally believe that they should allow 1 new scarab lord per server per event every year moving forward. It stays limited but it makes it to where it isn't completely unobtainable. Scarab lords are so rare now.
good times... goooood times.
I could listen to you tell Warcraft lore all day!
Sir: We need resources to breach the wall.
Peon: Sir what about the dark portal opening !
Sir: we wait.
I don't mind that I'll never have the mount, even if I did I don't see myself using it at all. What's important to remember is that it's not a small number of players receiving the updated model, it's more like 0. How many people actually rang the gong, and how many people STILL PLAY? 1 person? I'd have a hard time believing 2 people still have the mount and play. Vanilla was such a massively different game that many of the players who were around at the start don't like the current game and left years ago.
omygodsword I think that's one reason why people are a bit mixed on the new model, since so few from back then actually still play. Many feel it's a waste of resources from what I've heard. I've never ever seen the black battle tank in game, and have only ever seen one Scarab Lord in my nearly seven years of playing, and I saw that Scarab Lord back in late Cata. But I'm not bothered by their decision since I wasn't even around back then.
it will be interesting to relive this thing on Classic Realms
oh my god that questline... it sounds incredible
You'd think that but then only one person truly got to experience while a whole guild hoisted them up high to help.
I sooo wish they would add more questlines and temporary things like this into the game :)
I was lucky enough to finish the scepter before the cataclysm happened. It was a great fun quest line.
I can't help but wonder if the new qiraji mount is to separate those who earned it back in vanilla, and those who will earn it on classic servers. You get both if you already have it, but only get the old one if you earn it on classic, or something like that.
Does it really matter? I highly doubt that the Classic servers will in any way connect to the current servers. I also highly doubt the gaming community of today would work together for such a long tedious questline to reward 1 person
While you have a point, and I generally agree with it. It still makes me wonder if they are planning on making things earned in classic apply to your wow account for live, so we may see more hunters with Rhok'delar, more benediction, and possibly more scarab lords.
What the fuck was wrong with Classic. That quest line sounds absolutely insane! I do not have that type of patience in me
“Wars ain’t cheap”
Remember that part of wrath of the lunch king where both factions on the server had to contribute goods to fund the war effort? ..... oh wait
Dethecus server the Guild called Saga opened our Scarab Wall. I was too focused on the Plaguelands at the time.
It would make sense to update the mounts if the Vanilla Server uses the new Models because people might get the chance to earn them again.
that "small group" should be rewarded. most of the scarab lords were the most dedicated players of the best guilds of their servers in 2006.
Hate to have a red shirt guy moment but a wildhammer dwarf didn't shatter the sceptre (13:56) great video as always though dude
Falstad the elf not dorf
illid4nstormr4ge Fendrel smashed the sceptre Falstad is the wildhammer dwarf on the council of 3 hammers
I think bringing back the original event once a year would be fine, still super rare but do able.
About the updated black quiraji mount: What if with WoW Classic there will be a feature to carry over now unobtainable items to the main game such as mounts, pets and transmogs.
the world would end with the amount of rage from the players :P no way they will carry classic stuff to live servers
What i really started to wonder is why are the sky in Ahn'qiraj suddenly a dark space as that of caverns of time? It makes it look so odd, like its a simulation or twisted universe dislocated from azeroth
Hellscream told this story first, but your take is good too.
Anyone else notice that the Doctor Weavil character is a reference to Weavil from theYugioh tv show? Weavil throws the cards and the doctor throws the pages from a book
i really love this whole story and i think they shouldnt bring back the ability to get the mount
So, anyone else found that rare elite named Ogmot that drops a journal about the old gods?
Ogmot's Dream Journal:
Ogmot was just a puny boy fighting at da war camp when da Masters first blessed me wit da visions.
I come to Silithus, to da great wound, seeking wonders.
Make Ogmot your vessel, Masters!
Last night, Ogmot dreams of great battle. Two fleets bashin on ocean of blood.
Shadows twistin beneath da ships, risin.
Risin. Ogmot so happy watchin da carnage!
Then Ogmot gets waked up by skitterin sounds. Stupid bugs!
Dont matter. Ogmot knows dese dreams soon come true.
Life comes back to dis wasted land.
First da bugs come. Now da gobbies skulkin round... Dey cravin da world blood... Ogmot am sure of it!
BAH! Let dem have dese drippins! Soon Ogmot gonna drink rivers of blood! Da Masters promise!
Today smoke rises up from da campfire. Smoke tells Ogmot good story.
Ogmot sees lady wrapped in dark swirlies. She leads herd of blind sheep.
Da sheepies follow her everplace she go. Do everthin she say. Never doubt lady.
She guide dem over tall cliff! SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT! Stupid sheepies!
Da crows get fat eatin da sheepflesh. Da lady laugh as crows eat!
Ogmot laugh too!
Dat blade has shiny eye. Always watchin us. Why you no see it?
Three lies. Da first one been told.
Bound by dat throne? No. Free. Free!
Da next gonna come soon. Maybe dey see dis one.
Other hammers here now. Dey talk and talk about Argus. Bout da one dat got wakened. Bout great victory dat our enemy not even notice.
But only Ogmot sees da visions. Other hammers not blessed by da Masters!
Ogmot share his dreams wit da others, but da skinny one just laugh.
Ogmot not like her.
Many days pass wit no visions.
Did Ogmot make da Masters angry?
Me gonna make sacrifice! Please da Masters.
Remember Ogmot!
Da star watchin Ogmot. Too shiny! Ogmot gonna hide from it!
Da dagger spoke true. It been too long since Ogmot got drowned.
Masters! No forsake Ogmot!
Da bones got picked clean, but Ogmot still get no visions. Da others laugh. Say Ogmot not devoted.
But me is da chosen one! Ogmot no lose faith!
Another sacrifice? Yes! One more of dem aint gonna be missed...
Roused by her screams. Stirred by da whispers.
A blessin comes from da Masters. Now Ogmot understands!
A door. A path. Ours... Ours...
Fool! Da circle awakened us all!
i know they're supposed to be big, and scary, but everytime i see an old god, i keep thinking of lemon slices, and cocktail sauce lol.
Nobbel87 could yo make a video about Uldaman? At first glance from all the titans construction Uldaman seems to be the most trivial. Is that so?
Quick unralated question... I'm playing a character in the eastern plagueis for after a long long time and I just made some quests in Zul'Mashar... What about that city and its inhabitants? They are mostly alive but up to something and their leader is called "Betrayer" by the troll now who joins you in the caravan... What's up there? It's not explained during the quests...
Wish they'd make some kind of current event with unobtainables so i could brag about them to newbies... i was way too young to care about complicated events in vanilla and it makes me so irritated seeing all of these exclusives. i basically missed out on all of them all because of age, not because of being a casual player which im not. :(
Soon you might have the chance at the Scarab mount again!
Any chance we can get an old gods lore in the future?
Nobbel ! There's this draenei child companion thing that has a story behind her , it's like a riddle , i didn't want to spoil it for myself as you might make a video about it probably and hearing from you is best , are you planning on giving it a go ?
I'd rather have a full fun video than split bits in 320 videos , I don't have access to the thing myself sadly so i'd rather have the thing as a whole
I can't fucking wait for classic holy shit
Being on the first horde C'thun kill on my server was soooo cool...
But still, 7 world crashes at the opening of the gate was not :P
Didn't they retcon the player on Medivh realm? I seen an official trailer for the realm Magtheridon.
Wasnt arygos the One in legendary staff Quest? He who fled or was called aragos?
Hmm when you said they updated the mount for the gong ringing. i bet when they open vanilla wow they will have the event again.
still raging to this day that someone on my server rang the gong at like 1am and I missed it completely even though we all agreed to wait to ring it
maybe.. maybe they'll let me ring it during this event?
one can dream?
> not playing WoW till at least 1am
WEAK
Go back in time when azeroth was one land mass, go back to see Empire in its glory
Can you tell the story of old expansion? I would love to watch it.
How did Vaala Dawnstrike get that recording?
I dont understand WHY the wall needed to come down. Can someone explain?
They didn't have flying mounts back then. So they have to break down the wall to get in. They can't climb or fly over to get in.
13:56 Fandral, not Falstad.
Tin foil out. Alexstrazsa is the only Dragon Aspect that hasn't knowingly been corrupted and/or been killed. If she dies this expansion, maybe this is the 5th torch that lights the way ala Xal'atath. Picking off the Dragon Aspects who were part of the Charge of the Dragonflights could be a lead up to C'Thun returning.
I'm predicting that the end of BfA will be very heavily Old God themed, with a possible return of both C'Thun and Yogg'Saron (pre patch questline into Ulduar showed some Faceless beings and Old God murmurings) along with N'Zoth finally showing himself. Hell, the final patch/raid could even be in Ny'alotha. There's just too much pointing us to this fact. Especially the explicit line from Alleria of how she felt like she already died twice!
I feel like it will be a slow build up and the final boss might be C'Thun or Yogg Saron leading into an Old God expansion. Sort of like Archimonde in WoD leading into Legion.
In relation to Alleria, I feel like these predictions have multiple meanings. She has dies twice. Sylvannas has died twice. Azeroth has died twice. 'King of Diamonds' could be both Magni and Gallywix. 'Five torches' the 5 pillars of creation and the 5 dragon aspects.
Eh, Sylvannas has already died 3 times though. Once to Arthas, once when she killed herself by throwing herself off Ice Crown after Arthas was defeated and another by Lord Godfry in the Silverpine ques line. As for an entire Old God themed expansion? BfA could secretly be one. The whole start of the battle between Horde and Alliance is over the blood of the planet itself, and Azshara has been confirmed as final boss of the first tier, and she's tied pretty closely to the Old Gods, especially N'Zoth.
@@Xyruk this damn aged well mate 😂
Arent they bringing back vanilla with the new expansion? Doesnt that mean that this questline will come back and new players will eventually get a shot at getting that black mount?
Maybe they are updating the mounts so they can update the graphics for WoW Classic easily.
Ahh... Weekly Nobbel is the best way to face upcoming monday.
Moar oldschool lore plx!