Glorious. People down play the story in classic a bit, but that’s because they never read the quest text! Honestly the mystery of what is going on in the human kingdoms was super engaging if you followed it and you could find threads of it in nearly every human occupied zone. The fact it isn’t spelled out for you or crammed down your throat makes it more believable and real. YOU are uncovering the mystery, and nothing obliges you to do so but your own motivation. The subtly to it and the way it spans many zones makes it peak imo. Tbh I feel a bit bad that the horde don’t quite have something comparable
People down play the story. You are talking about the lore. The story is disjointed and unfinished because they were laying the framework for alot of future stories. Im not hating im just saying.
@@Hanging_Brain I think ya have it a little backwards friend. maybe have missed the point of the video if ya don’t consider this a story or at least a narrative. Something like Warcraft chronicle is more like lore I guess but it seems like a matter of semantics rather than substance
Another video idea: class quests. Those were great. I mained a warlock and those class quests were so memorable, having to travel across the word to get heartwood to learn to summon a succubus. So many classes had memorable quests.
@@taylorcantly3954 Felt so jealous of my brother's paladin once he finished it. Verigan's fist was so OP if you completed it fast. I wish shamans got something similar for when they finished their windfury totem.
The class quests and class fantasy aspects were probably my favourite parts of legion. It's something that modern wow is really lacking, to the point where a quest in TWW that had my evoker use his fire breathe to light a forge actually made me extremely excited. Compare that to the world spanning, multiple hour long quest chains that regularly occured for classes in vanilla
Hunter quest to get your bow and staff were cool, then cata happened and everything disappeared. I dont know why they didnt just phase some of the old questlines. I still have an eye of shadow for my priest in my bank but i cant do anything with it because the other item doesnt exist anymore.
Druid quest to find your aquatic form was amazing! And rogue quest as well, having to pick pocket a satyr on a branch of Teldrassil (playing as a night elf)!
It's crazy how the human journey from nothing to being one of the dragonslayers is pretty much the classic "hero journeys to slay the dragon to save the princ- I mean the kingdom" story that's been seen and heard untold amounts of times, yet wrapped in the storyline we get from 1-60, it gives it such an epic flavour that makes you not necessarily even realise what you have witnessed, but it's absolutely awesome. Thanks for the story time - it was worth it.
I remember doing the Missing Diplomat in Vanilla WoW on a whim, I accepted the quest from Thomas which was Grey to me since I was a way higher level than it, and then spent the next few hours going on an adventure, culminating in learning what happened to the freaking King of Stormwind (and the levels of the quests caught up with me too by the end, lol). Such an incredibly important plot point would never be kept in what is essentially a long side quest in modern WoW, but stuff like that is what made the original game so memorable and amazing, that you could just stumble upon stuff like this. Awesome video.
To my knowledge, the devs didn't care enough to make an overarching plotline for the Horde like they did with Alliance. Durotar kinda kicks it off, but they phase it out quietly after you do Ragefire Chasm and get to the Barrens.
TRUE! It was lightyears ahead of any other MMO at the time... there were other dev teams at the time who were Astonished that Blizz had non-instanced flight paths that you could just fly around the world in! :D
Amazing video. This is why I fell in love with vanilla wow all those years back and this is why I still love it today. The storytelling is great. And that is not even talking about the horde leveling experience and other side quests that you do and adventure through other dungeons and raids. It has so much lore.
I have a tattoo based off of this quest chain. So, my lil bro Edwin VanCleef was the leader of the builders of Stormwind. All of the builders expected to get paid because it took decades and ya know, it's a job. Katrina Pestor was like 'no, we're in debt. No.' So they were kicked out of the city they made without any payments and fully disgraced. Then they became the Defias Brotherhood. The members all have a cog tattoo on their right hands. A sign of their worker status but in a way of saying 'we built this for you, but you abandoned us.' I have that tattoo. Cuz wtf.
This is incredibly interesting! I had never connected all the dots from beginning to end on my own. I was aware of the individual chapters but never that they were part of a single narrative throughline.
Thank you for making these two quest lore videos! I love how you tell the stories and connect the, technically unconnected, quests to the great story they were build for. I hope you will do more content of that sort.
And the story continues throughout the dungeons and raids, as you uncover the machinations of the Black Dragons and the Dark Iron dwarves. This is definitely part of the reason why I adore Era so much.
I love these videos so much. I see people on forums or Reddit say all the time that wows story was never good, or that it’s summed up as kill and fetch quests with some memorable lines. What people miss is this! That there are whole troves of story and characters to be explored. The game made you feel as if you were exploring an interesting and dynamic world with cool affairs that seemed probable in the setting. I understand that times have changed, and the threat had to get larger. But the initial quest lines in the game had a cool charm and it’s clear the staff wanted to make players who grinded to their level feel more important. Today, the game has the ensemble of characters come into to say some lines about friendship or unity or about how we’re stronger together and there’s a giant big bad we have to take out. It always feels like I’m watching a movie about a journey where I don’t matter. In the past though, it wasn’t varian that killed onyxia, it was me.
2024 and I've just finished the Marshal Windsor chain for the first time. The vanilla buildup to raid content is a nice, slow burn and feels very rewarding.
I've played WoW for 18 years and while I've always loved the human zones, I've never played them this intentionally and really focused on the story. I feel like going back to Vanilla now and trying this out. I appreciate this in depth analysis of my favorite game!
I'm so glad that I did all these with a human paladin all those years ago, and especially how my particular part in it was mentioned in the human heritage armor questline. This massive storyline, the world spanning quest for the epic charger mount, the world was just bigger back then. Thank you for the revisit to some very fond memories through this and your other videos.
I ran this entire quest line near the end of Burning Crusade. A number of people who helped along the way ended up becoming guild members as we had such a bond from the quest line and effort involved. Also, many players hadn't seen the scenario play out in the Stormwind Keep before. When we spawned Onyxia many thought it was a Horde attack. It was just such a cool moment overall.
Your videos are fantastic! Even though I'm not playing anymore, videos like this make me want to dive right back in. Keep up the great work, you have lots of fans who really enjoy your presentation and style. Cheers!
I'm glad you've compiled this story. I was too young to fully appreciate it at the time when I started playing. Having gotten back into WOW recently, I did the human heritage quest and was a little confused since I wondered when this storyline took place. Cool to see how interwoven OG WOW was with its storytelling. Even better now that its preserved in video form.
It’s interesting you say that because I agree. The races themselves were the characters. Now everything is just focused on a handful of characters or faction leaders.
This story has so much awe and wonder in it, it makes you feel like a nobody adventurer gradually becoming a hero that rises to the challenge: which is of course, exactly what it should!
Wow, I never made the connection before that Katrina Prestor's line about the King being away on a "diplomatic mission" was hinting at the Missing Diplomat questline. That's some subtle foreshadowing!
chills, absolute chills. what a beautifully crafted epic tale that inspires so much love and passion for the game. So grateful to have been able to experience something through your retelling that I would have otherwise never known about
Thanks for the follow up! This has been so much fun to watch and I hope you make more along this line of following stories and quest lines of Vanilla WoW. I could literally watch these for hours while working!
As an old man that played since beta, i can tell you, this questline was one of my favourite stories I ever played through :D, still inspires some of my dnd campaigns :D
Wow, that 1-30 video did amazingly! Well deserved, and excellent work on this follow-up that concludes the story! As someone that enjoyed the leveling process of old vanilla more than the endgame, the human starting zones to the Onyxia arc in classic WoW was always one of my favorite parts of the journey.
@@villiamkarl-gustavlundberg5422 "I feel like classic WoW is too easy." Sounds like you've defeated Kel'thazad on Hardcore mode. If so, congratulations. If not, then you only find Classic "easy" because you have infinite lives.
You know, I was watching a recent video about Nintendo's CEO and his decades long obsession with the "miniature garden" idea for his games. It's a trendy toy program in Japan, largely inspired by Zen Gardens and wondrous Chinese illustrations. The whole time I watched the video, I was flooded with mental images of the Classic World of Warcraft. The wide open spaces simultaneously packed full with meaning and also a kind of natural serenity that seemed to contrast that deep history. As it was in Vanilla, the World of Warcraft was truly a set of miniature gardens.
Thank you so much for doing a follow up video. I know the human leveling a storyline is kind of uniquely in depth for WoW, but I hope we might one day get you take on some of the other races. I played a dwarf for my first character and crunching through the snow towards Ironforge was an experience that has stuck with me to this day.
This is why even if you can't be asked to read everything at least get the ADdon that reads it for you once, the story + duskwood stories and even the horde stories like the story around WC are great
One topic I was always interested in is these ley lines. Never noticed the lore here until wotlk. Maybe that would make a great video too - exploring the lines and where they meet in the game.
I remember taking so many guild members down the jail break line, to get them atuned for Ony & MC... non-guildies as well, coz why not.. We were all communicating and helping each other.. Fun times :) As I was a priest, playing on a PvP server, I often helped out horde players too, on solo quests.. Like mind control him, and land a greater heal on him. Or psychic scream off multiple foes to allow him to escape. They must've noticed this, and mentioned my unusual name, as I was rarely ganked by anyone on my server. Good times.
Very nice and interesting video. I only play WoW Classic, BC and WotK with bots on a singleplayer repack from time to time to replay the storys. Feels nice. I quit my active WoW time with cataclysm. Now I can play for 10 to 30 mins, make a few quests, sit in taverns and get drunk with my characters and go offline without missing something.
Vanilla questing felt more immersive as it wasn't as much of the on-rails, spoon-fed sort of hubs/chains in the expansions, especially later expansions...
Just join a private server for free like Turtle WoW and you can play through 1-60 yourself on an insanely populated server with all of the base content and a bit extra.
Another good video man, keep up the good work! After switching gears to Turtle WoW I am getting some blurred lines on what was in Classic and what is added. These videos are great to keep track of official lore and if you ever want to possibly switch gears for some of their lore I'd definitely watch because you seem to add that magic to make it so interesting.
Any chance you will be doing other Races from Classic? I really dig your narrative style and the quality of the video. Hope we see more content in the future!
There's also this weird sense of how lived in and homely Redridge and Westmarch feels. Redridge most of all, the town, the little lake, the people and the fights they have to deal with- It feels so real, most of those zones could be center zones for expansions in some distant timeline. A shame WoW never went back to really look at these places after Cata, they should have small content added to them.
one thing I love about this quest chain is that the player can leave it at any time and nothing would change. something player could not say about the Battle for azaroth expansion or many of Catas quest chains that presumed the player did stuff. Like here player starts at level 30 does the duskmasrsh quest chain it self contained (the player will just be left a bit more in the dark). aka you can play as a elf and pick it up midway because you never whent to Elwynn/westfall and it would still work.
So true! Classic has that aura of... timelessness that modern expansions lack... everything is BAM BAM BAM gotta stay current with the newest patch or else you miss out on a lot!
Hi Jedi! I wish every race could have gotten an epic campaign like this. I have some thoughts for what the orc and night elven journeys could be, but some like the gnomes, I'm still stumped on.
I agree! Gnomes and trolls were the last two races added and as such didn't really have time to get fleshed-out stories... gnomes kinda stop at Gnomeregan and trolls.... hmmm...
I was just thinking about how complete and fleshed out this was last night. Especially comparing it to the horde. They have something similar, with the burning blade and demons. But it ends after RFC and doesnt continue into the lvl 30's nor pick back up at 60. A real shame too! its not like theres a lack of demons around durotar. It could go durotar -> the barrens -> ashenvale then pick back up in desolace, winterspring or azshara. I'd love to see it in a classic+
I am so glad human legacy armor quests brought back the original history of Onyxia downfall. Varyan slaying the dragon was put down as propaganda to prop his popularity. Stormwind officials recognised Maxwell role and agreed to pay him homage. And the random "adventurers" were the ones going to her lair and killing her.
Retail player here. I reinstalled Classic Era WoW just to experience this questchain myself. I know it's a disjointed sequence to follow in-game, but it's worth a try nonetheless. At the end of the day it's about the journey. I could care less about the Classic raiding scene.
I love leveling in vanilla. Won't stop till I've got everything at 60 on both factions. So far I've got everything on horde at 25 with my mains being 60 war/sham. And a war on ally at 60, starting to hit the 20 bracket on the ally alts.
After playing some TWW beta, I realized how much I missed classic, so here I am once again in Westfall, killing pigs without liver. And it feels great! :D
For those wondering what the text in the end card says, it's a caesar cipher with a shift of 17 which translates to:
"into the nether"
For me the second half is 40-60.
Glorious. People down play the story in classic a bit, but that’s because they never read the quest text! Honestly the mystery of what is going on in the human kingdoms was super engaging if you followed it and you could find threads of it in nearly every human occupied zone. The fact it isn’t spelled out for you or crammed down your throat makes it more believable and real. YOU are uncovering the mystery, and nothing obliges you to do so but your own motivation. The subtly to it and the way it spans many zones makes it peak imo. Tbh I feel a bit bad that the horde don’t quite have something comparable
Preach!!!
People down play the story. You are talking about the lore. The story is disjointed and unfinished because they were laying the framework for alot of future stories. Im not hating im just saying.
@@Hanging_Brain I think ya have it a little backwards friend. maybe have missed the point of the video if ya don’t consider this a story or at least a narrative. Something like Warcraft chronicle is more like lore I guess but it seems like a matter of semantics rather than substance
Use voiceover
Does voiceover still work? Mine doesnt @@rastiqp
Another video idea: class quests. Those were great. I mained a warlock and those class quests were so memorable, having to travel across the word to get heartwood to learn to summon a succubus. So many classes had memorable quests.
Indeed. The low level Paladin quest to get the 2h mace is awesome as well.
@@taylorcantly3954 Felt so jealous of my brother's paladin once he finished it. Verigan's fist was so OP if you completed it fast. I wish shamans got something similar for when they finished their windfury totem.
The class quests and class fantasy aspects were probably my favourite parts of legion. It's something that modern wow is really lacking, to the point where a quest in TWW that had my evoker use his fire breathe to light a forge actually made me extremely excited. Compare that to the world spanning, multiple hour long quest chains that regularly occured for classes in vanilla
Hunter quest to get your bow and staff were cool, then cata happened and everything disappeared. I dont know why they didnt just phase some of the old questlines.
I still have an eye of shadow for my priest in my bank but i cant do anything with it because the other item doesnt exist anymore.
Druid quest to find your aquatic form was amazing! And rogue quest as well, having to pick pocket a satyr on a branch of Teldrassil (playing as a night elf)!
It's crazy how the human journey from nothing to being one of the dragonslayers is pretty much the classic "hero journeys to slay the dragon to save the princ- I mean the kingdom" story that's been seen and heard untold amounts of times, yet wrapped in the storyline we get from 1-60, it gives it such an epic flavour that makes you not necessarily even realise what you have witnessed, but it's absolutely awesome. Thanks for the story time - it was worth it.
SO TRUE! I love it so much :)
I remember doing the Missing Diplomat in Vanilla WoW on a whim, I accepted the quest from Thomas which was Grey to me since I was a way higher level than it, and then spent the next few hours going on an adventure, culminating in learning what happened to the freaking King of Stormwind (and the levels of the quests caught up with me too by the end, lol). Such an incredibly important plot point would never be kept in what is essentially a long side quest in modern WoW, but stuff like that is what made the original game so memorable and amazing, that you could just stumble upon stuff like this. Awesome video.
Such a great story! :D
I'm begging you for a series like this on the horde. It's been amazing so far
I would be interested!
That would be pretty cool. I never played Horde much in Vanilla, so there's probably quite a lot I missed.
Horde are mid though...
To my knowledge, the devs didn't care enough to make an overarching plotline for the Horde like they did with Alliance. Durotar kinda kicks it off, but they phase it out quietly after you do Ragefire Chasm and get to the Barrens.
Morally Grey Lore no thx
Vanilla wow is the greatest gaming masterpiece ever created. Especially for the time.
TRUE! It was lightyears ahead of any other MMO at the time... there were other dev teams at the time who were Astonished that Blizz had non-instanced flight paths that you could just fly around the world in! :D
Yes it was lightning in a bottle
Amazing video. This is why I fell in love with vanilla wow all those years back and this is why I still love it today. The storytelling is great. And that is not even talking about the horde leveling experience and other side quests that you do and adventure through other dungeons and raids. It has so much lore.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
I have a tattoo based off of this quest chain.
So, my lil bro Edwin VanCleef was the leader of the builders of Stormwind. All of the builders expected to get paid because it took decades and ya know, it's a job. Katrina Pestor was like 'no, we're in debt. No.' So they were kicked out of the city they made without any payments and fully disgraced. Then they became the Defias Brotherhood.
The members all have a cog tattoo on their right hands. A sign of their worker status but in a way of saying 'we built this for you, but you abandoned us.'
I have that tattoo. Cuz wtf.
That's so cool! :D
@Jediwarlock :D thank you :D
@@hospitalcakewalk vaguely reminds me the indie game Bastion (devs that went on to make Hades 1 & 2)
This is incredibly interesting! I had never connected all the dots from beginning to end on my own. I was aware of the individual chapters but never that they were part of a single narrative throughline.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :D
Your videos are so relaxing to listen too, really enjoy the lore and storytelling. Takes me back to the days of vanilla WoW.
I'm glad you're enjoying them :)
Thank you for making these two quest lore videos! I love how you tell the stories and connect the, technically unconnected, quests to the great story they were build for. I hope you will do more content of that sort.
Thanks so much! Hopefully I'll make more in the future :)
And the story continues throughout the dungeons and raids, as you uncover the machinations of the Black Dragons and the Dark Iron dwarves. This is definitely part of the reason why I adore Era so much.
Very true! Era is exactly what Classic needs to be. :) Classic+ is another discussion...
I love these videos so much. I see people on forums or Reddit say all the time that wows story was never good, or that it’s summed up as kill and fetch quests with some memorable lines. What people miss is this! That there are whole troves of story and characters to be explored. The game made you feel as if you were exploring an interesting and dynamic world with cool affairs that seemed probable in the setting. I understand that times have changed, and the threat had to get larger. But the initial quest lines in the game had a cool charm and it’s clear the staff wanted to make players who grinded to their level feel more important. Today, the game has the ensemble of characters come into to say some lines about friendship or unity or about how we’re stronger together and there’s a giant big bad we have to take out. It always feels like I’m watching a movie about a journey where I don’t matter. In the past though, it wasn’t varian that killed onyxia, it was me.
You make great points!! I agree :)
We NEED more of these. This narration was incredible and enjoyed every bit of it
Perhaps in the future ;) I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
2024 and I've just finished the Marshal Windsor chain for the first time.
The vanilla buildup to raid content is a nice, slow burn and feels very rewarding.
100% true! :D
I've played WoW for 18 years and while I've always loved the human zones, I've never played them this intentionally and really focused on the story. I feel like going back to Vanilla now and trying this out. I appreciate this in depth analysis of my favorite game!
Thanks so much for watching! Classic Era is always there for you to try them out! :)
I'm so glad that I did all these with a human paladin all those years ago, and especially how my particular part in it was mentioned in the human heritage armor questline. This massive storyline, the world spanning quest for the epic charger mount, the world was just bigger back then. Thank you for the revisit to some very fond memories through this and your other videos.
You are very welcome! I'm glad you've enjoyed these :)
I ran this entire quest line near the end of Burning Crusade. A number of people who helped along the way ended up becoming guild members as we had such a bond from the quest line and effort involved. Also, many players hadn't seen the scenario play out in the Stormwind Keep before. When we spawned Onyxia many thought it was a Horde attack. It was just such a cool moment overall.
That's super cool! :D
Your videos are fantastic! Even though I'm not playing anymore, videos like this make me want to dive right back in. Keep up the great work, you have lots of fans who really enjoy your presentation and style. Cheers!
Thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words :)
I'm glad you've compiled this story. I was too young to fully appreciate it at the time when I started playing. Having gotten back into WOW recently, I did the human heritage quest and was a little confused since I wondered when this storyline took place. Cool to see how interwoven OG WOW was with its storytelling. Even better now that its preserved in video form.
Humans always felt like the main characters of the game (behind Azeroth, of course).
It’s interesting you say that because I agree. The races themselves were the characters. Now everything is just focused on a handful of characters or faction leaders.
Very true! Even back then they were given the most attention/development time :)
This story has so much awe and wonder in it, it makes you feel like a nobody adventurer gradually becoming a hero that rises to the challenge: which is of course, exactly what it should!
So true! :)
Wow, I never made the connection before that Katrina Prestor's line about the King being away on a "diplomatic mission" was hinting at the Missing Diplomat questline. That's some subtle foreshadowing!
Totally! :D
This story even hooks into the 10-25 Defias story.
You got it! Part 1 went into depth on that ;)
Amazing. Thank you for your great content!
I would love a video/series like this about the night elf journey, always loved the night elves.
Perhaps someday ;)
chills, absolute chills. what a beautifully crafted epic tale that inspires so much love and passion for the game. So grateful to have been able to experience something through your retelling that I would have otherwise never known about
Ooh hey you found it! Thanks so much for watching! :D
damn, that opening narrator foreshadowing is amazing
It's so good!! :)
Thanks for the follow up! This has been so much fun to watch and I hope you make more along this line of following stories and quest lines of Vanilla WoW. I could literally watch these for hours while working!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you're enjoying these :)
As an old man that played since beta, i can tell you, this questline was one of my favourite stories I ever played through :D, still inspires some of my dnd campaigns :D
Haha, that's great! :)
Wow, that 1-30 video did amazingly! Well deserved, and excellent work on this follow-up that concludes the story! As someone that enjoyed the leveling process of old vanilla more than the endgame, the human starting zones to the Onyxia arc in classic WoW was always one of my favorite parts of the journey.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
The levelling experience in Classic Wow is the greatest gaming experience I've ever had. I hope they don't mess up Classic+
I feel like classic WoW is too easy.
Everquest classic server like project Quarm may look dated, the game rewards player skill and player cooperation.
There wont be a Classic+, Season of Discovery was the best their limited talent can do.
@@AlduinDrome Season of Discovery was just a test type of thing there will be a classic +
@@villiamkarl-gustavlundberg5422 "I feel like classic WoW is too easy."
Sounds like you've defeated Kel'thazad on Hardcore mode. If so, congratulations. If not, then you only find Classic "easy" because you have infinite lives.
Who said we're getting classic+ lol
I like the touch of the human wielding ironfoe at the end
I'm glad somebody noticed! ;)
I've done all these quests many times and I never knew they were all connected like this!
I'm glad I could help you find some new details! :D
You know, I was watching a recent video about Nintendo's CEO and his decades long obsession with the "miniature garden" idea for his games. It's a trendy toy program in Japan, largely inspired by Zen Gardens and wondrous Chinese illustrations.
The whole time I watched the video, I was flooded with mental images of the Classic World of Warcraft. The wide open spaces simultaneously packed full with meaning and also a kind of natural serenity that seemed to contrast that deep history.
As it was in Vanilla, the World of Warcraft was truly a set of miniature gardens.
That's great to hear! I definitely agree with your thoughts :)
Great video. It was a magical quest line back in 2006.
So true! :)
That was truely amazing. Great job at recapturing the spirit of Vanilla with this series. Its really gave me great joy. Thanks man.
You are so welcome! :)
Thank you so much for doing a follow up video. I know the human leveling a storyline is kind of uniquely in depth for WoW, but I hope we might one day get you take on some of the other races. I played a dwarf for my first character and crunching through the snow towards Ironforge was an experience that has stuck with me to this day.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :D
This is why even if you can't be asked to read everything at least get the ADdon that reads it for you once, the story + duskwood stories and even the horde stories like the story around WC are great
True!!
One topic I was always interested in is these ley lines. Never noticed the lore here until wotlk. Maybe that would make a great video too - exploring the lines and where they meet in the game.
Interesting idea!! :)
Vanilla story gave me chills so many times
It's awesome :)
The comics explain the whole situation in full detail, and it's quite amazing
Oh nice!! :D
I remember taking so many guild members down the jail break line, to get them atuned for Ony & MC... non-guildies as well, coz why not.. We were all communicating and helping each other.. Fun times :) As I was a priest, playing on a PvP server, I often helped out horde players too, on solo quests.. Like mind control him, and land a greater heal on him. Or psychic scream off multiple foes to allow him to escape. They must've noticed this, and mentioned my unusual name, as I was rarely ganked by anyone on my server. Good times.
Good times! XD
Very nice and interesting video.
I only play WoW Classic, BC and WotK with bots on a singleplayer repack from time to time to replay the storys. Feels nice. I quit my active WoW time with cataclysm. Now I can play for 10 to 30 mins, make a few quests, sit in taverns and get drunk with my characters and go offline without missing something.
I feel the same way... grew up on WotLK private servers for 10+ years before joining SoD... solo WoW is a special kind of experience :)
Amazing video, I got chills when you put the intro narrator line
It's such a good intro! :D
Excellent video Jediwarlock, love the presentation. Gripped from start until finish.
Thank you! :)
Brilliant video. Loved the previous one and this didn't disappoint. Great job!
Thank you! :)
Vanilla questing felt more immersive as it wasn't as much of the on-rails, spoon-fed sort of hubs/chains in the expansions, especially later expansions...
100% true!
Thank you for telling the story I never got a chance to see for myself, it's great!
Just join a private server for free like Turtle WoW and you can play through 1-60 yourself on an insanely populated server with all of the base content and a bit extra.
You are so welcome! :)
Another good video man, keep up the good work! After switching gears to Turtle WoW I am getting some blurred lines on what was in Classic and what is added. These videos are great to keep track of official lore and if you ever want to possibly switch gears for some of their lore I'd definitely watch because you seem to add that magic to make it so interesting.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!! :) Thanks so much.
Any chance you will be doing other Races from Classic? I really dig your narrative style and the quality of the video. Hope we see more content in the future!
Perhaps someday ;)
There's also this weird sense of how lived in and homely Redridge and Westmarch feels. Redridge most of all, the town, the little lake, the people and the fights they have to deal with- It feels so real, most of those zones could be center zones for expansions in some distant timeline. A shame WoW never went back to really look at these places after Cata, they should have small content added to them.
So true! :)
Great storytelling, amazing video!
Thank you! :)
I was so happy when I finally got to do Jailbreak back in Vanilla. It felt like a rite of passage as an Alliance.
So true! :D
I was looking forward to seeing this video!
It's always great to watch your videos. Your narration is always very relaxing
Thanks so much! :)
I didn't get to max level until Burning Crusade, so I never got to experience this questline. Thank you for this!
You are very welcome! :)
I'm just here commenting to help feed the algorithm, since these videos are great.
Thanks so much! :)
Wow! Incredible. Would love to see a horde one next ❤
Ah, I'd like to do that someday! :D
playing only Horde throughout Vanilla through Mists. I missed this awesome quest line.
You should check this out on Classic! It's a great adventure :)
Dude. An amazing end. Would love to see the other race perspectives
Thank you! So happy to hear you enjoyed these :D
yes, yes alliance onyxia questline is great and all but havy you considered the horde onyxia which is "I hope you like Rexxar and UBRS"
The horde storyline was definitely less impressive in classic. They didn’t have time to flesh out a really compelling story.
The Horde questline is cool too, maybe not quite as compelling but still a nice adventure! :)
Half hour content drop ❤ thanks for making my morning more enjoyable it's been rough out here.
You are very welcome! :)
one thing I love about this quest chain is that the player can leave it at any time and nothing would change.
something player could not say about the Battle for azaroth expansion or many of Catas quest chains that presumed the player did stuff.
Like here player starts at level 30 does the duskmasrsh quest chain it self contained (the player will just be left a bit more in the dark).
aka you can play as a elf and pick it up midway because you never whent to Elwynn/westfall and it would still work.
So true! Classic has that aura of... timelessness that modern expansions lack... everything is BAM BAM BAM gotta stay current with the newest patch or else you miss out on a lot!
I have been searching for this exactly
:)
Hi Jedi!
I wish every race could have gotten an epic campaign like this. I have some thoughts for what the orc and night elven journeys could be, but some like the gnomes, I'm still stumped on.
I agree! Gnomes and trolls were the last two races added and as such didn't really have time to get fleshed-out stories... gnomes kinda stop at Gnomeregan and trolls.... hmmm...
Great video, cheers for sharing.
Thanks for watching! :)
I was just thinking about how complete and fleshed out this was last night. Especially comparing it to the horde. They have something similar, with the burning blade and demons. But it ends after RFC and doesnt continue into the lvl 30's nor pick back up at 60. A real shame too! its not like theres a lack of demons around durotar. It could go durotar -> the barrens -> ashenvale then pick back up in desolace, winterspring or azshara. I'd love to see it in a classic+
Agreed! Some of the Horde zones need a bit more content to feel comparable :)
You’re going places kid
Thank you! :)
Excellent as always 🎉
Thank you! :)
Loved these two videos! Keep it going! This is nostalgia galore!!
Thank you!
this was amazing, thank you
Thanks so much! :)
Really hoping this all get tied into Karazhan in SoD since it's been so hinted at.
That's the hope! :D
I am so glad human legacy armor quests brought back the original history of Onyxia downfall. Varyan slaying the dragon was put down as propaganda to prop his popularity. Stormwind officials recognised Maxwell role and agreed to pay him homage. And the random "adventurers" were the ones going to her lair and killing her.
That's pretty cool! :D
Retail player here. I reinstalled Classic Era WoW just to experience this questchain myself. I know it's a disjointed sequence to follow in-game, but it's worth a try nonetheless. At the end of the day it's about the journey. I could care less about the Classic raiding scene.
Classic is 100% about the journey... I hope you're enjoying it! :)
UBRS was so comfy as a child
It's a really cool mini-raid! :)
I love leveling in vanilla. Won't stop till I've got everything at 60 on both factions. So far I've got everything on horde at 25 with my mains being 60 war/sham. And a war on ally at 60, starting to hit the 20 bracket on the ally alts.
Good stuff! Good luck on the rest of your journey! :)
Fittingly, the Human Heritage Armor questline, released in Dragonflight patch 10.0.7, is entirely concerned with the Defias/Onyxia quest line.
That's really cool! :D
Very nice video!
Thank you! :)
These quests alone can be used as a content story for a WoW TV series for season 1
Totally! :D
Okay, fuck it. I’ll level another Human.
Go again! :D
Great video !
Thank you! :)
This is why I still play my human char in 20 years later. After Deadmines we still weren’t finished with the traitors shenanigans …
So true!
Cheers! Bumping this up for the record - much appreciated effort on your part!
Thanks so much! :)
Great video. Looking forward to some horde content though
Hopefully I'll get to that someday! :D
Excellent as always
Thank you! :)
After playing some TWW beta, I realized how much I missed classic, so here I am once again in Westfall, killing pigs without liver. And it feels great! :D
Haha, welcome back! :)
Just hit pevel 30 as a human warrior and sweeping strikes finally lets me fight multiple mobs at once thank god
Excellent XD
Fantastique!!!
:D
Awesome! It’s an epic tale, and one that is always super fun to play through. Thank you! Now…how about the Dwarves? 😂
Oh, I'd like to do those someday!! :D
i loved every second of this video
I'm so glad to hear that! :D
Great content!
Thank you! :)
I never really read the quest text in the past but with that addon that has AI read the quest text its crazy to actually know whats going on for once
That's cool! I've heard those AddOns are really a gamechanger! :)
I read the title of this video in my head as: "The Greatest Journey in the World... of Warcraft"
XD
I missed everything after Theramore. Cool storyline.
It's super neat! :D
beautiful
Thank you! :)
One of the best videogames experiences I've ever had, now totally ruined by exp boosting, sadly...
So true! :'(
Great stuff
Thank you!
I always felt like Theramore was a fourth alliance capital city that didn't get finished.
I believe that is exactly what it was! TurboTarzan WoW has a video on it, I think ;)
Great video as always. Can you please do a video about what the Cataclysm revamp did to the questline and how it is mentioned afterwards?
Ah, that would be fun! :) I do not play on Cataclysm... but maybe someday!
masterpiece
Thank you! :)