I remember seeing my Dad playing in Stormwind during a Krull Rampage when I was a kid. I remember him telling me that the big demon was attacking the City because the Horde summoned the Burning Legion down upon the Alliance. Guess you start gotta feeding 'em the Anti-Horde propaganda when they're young.
That's PRO Horde propaganda IMO! 😂 "Oh really? Those guys sound awesome! What a cool as thing to do! Imma join Horde and destroy Stormwind with HUGE beasts!"
When I hit level 40, I was 15 gold away from getting my mount. A guy that I randomly grouped with to quest lent me the gold I needed. It was crazy that someone that I knew for maybe an hour gave me so much gold. I promised that I would pay it back as soon as I could. I grinded like crazy for 2 days to pay him back. We are still friends today. 15 years later. That is why my level 40 mount is my most memorable moment
As someone who never played wow till legion, You have helped me understand a lot of this games history and details with your videos. Of all the youtube channels that cover WoW I like this one the most. You have a way of explaining things that make it easy to understand even stuff like complex raid weapons and lore. Please never stop uploading Madseason. You have made me even more of a WoW fan.
I started on my moms account in BC but never really raided or anything until pandaria. Pandaria is,hands down, the most beautifully designed zone thus far... IMO
@@amberweakland The music on Pandaria was amazing to in each zone. And I liked that we were not being a Hero in that xpac. we were just exploring again and not trying to save the world like most other xpacs.
You got to do another of these. One of them being "Seeing a city for the first time". I had a friend who I introduced to WoW in 2005 and I remember we both rolled orcs and as soon as we got to Razor Hill he was like "wow this is s pretty big city". Then I showed him Ogrimmar telling him, "Thats not a city, this is". That moment where he was just awestruck. I had a similar experience as my first character was a Dwarf and seeing Ironforge for the first time was breathtaking, and thats just seeing the size of the gate before you enter:D
Definitely a memorable moment! Mine was in ironforge as well. I remember being awestruck by the weapon enchants in particular. The first thing I asked was how people got fire swords. That, the sheer amount of people, high level gear, the mounts - very memorable indeed. I'll add it in the list!
Aye, I remember the first time I got to Stormwind and being hit by the music and the valley of heroes. Then lagging out because my PC was garbage. But that added to it in a way, like my surrounding were too impressive to properly take in.
My experience was mediocore. I went to darnassus und the city looked pretty meh. But I wanted to go to Stormwind because my friend played a human, also I was sick of seeing this dark green all the fucking time. When I got to Ironforge I was pretty awestruck and then my computer broke down crying and I had to restart. I then didn't found my way in Stormwind + My computer all the time killed himself and after 3 Restarts I asked a player to show me where I get out. I also startet to bug my parents to get me a better computer :D
Undercity was my first big city. I played an Undead Rogue when the game launched and I remember walking through the ruins of Lordaeron and thinking "Wow, this is awesome! This is where Arthas was!" I then found my way into the throne room and heard the whispers of the moment Arthas had killed his father and was totally geeking out. I thought to myself though "Well, not much of a city, but more of ruins.." then I found the elevator.... Boy was I in for a treat. As I walked out from that creepy elevator into the ooze filled crypt sewers beneath Lordaeron my eyes grew larger and larger as I explored the Undercity. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I wanted to see Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff right away after that lol. Same feeling and same experience when I did eventually make it there. When I played my first Alliance and walking through the gates of Stormwind with that awe inspiring music I got choked up and filled with amazement, such an awesome feeling. It really does kind of suck to know that I'll never really have that feeling again, but the memories are great . :)
I remember when i first started wow I was a level 10 nelf druid and wanted to explore and travel to eastern kingdoms. I met a high level nelf and asked me to join his group to “explore a secret place”. We were all in IF at this point. It was the first time i met dwarfs and gnomes and a few humans. I was really hyped on this “adventure” but anyways he led us to loch modan and started hoping on cliffs and would show us and then we found this tunnel on the mountain and he said to go in it and everyone did.. and what do you know.. you fall and die endlessly and unable to release... great times.. great times indeed.
I drove more then a few people off cliffs in Wotlk in that motorcycle engineer mount. Was a warlock so before I would drive someone around I would put down a pad and as we went off the cliff I would just teleport to the pad or just use the engi parachute to save myself. My guild leader at the time was one of the people that fell for it Team speak was full of laughs when they heard him screaming as he fell to his death off the cliff.
@@Nihilful That's a classic troll for WoW. And he did deliver on the promise, he just didn't tell you what it was. I fell for it back in the day, and was amused as I could admit that it was a good one.
My first memorable moment in WOW was when i played with a pal and we traveled all the way to Darkshore. Eventually we made our way into Ashenvale and we were both awe struck when we entered this epic forest with that epic Ashenvale music and how beautiful everything was. It was the first zone we explored 100% on our night elves and it is still my fav zone to this day. Much later, when TBC came out, my second WOW moment was when i entered Silvermoon City for the first time with my blood elf mage. I remember i did nothing else that day but explore the city for hours, talk to every NPC, find a cool place to sleep, take dozens of screenshots and just looking at the tall building like a peasant. O.o I will never forget it.
Ex-husband's friend bought this game. The friend and his fiance stayed with us at the time. It seemed your typical MMO. The husband bought the game but he was playing a different zone from them and I looked over his shoulder and my mouth dropped. It was gorgeous and I couldn't stop with the beauty that I saw around him. The trees were twisted majestically. The buildings were arched and decorated with red and green gems and gold trim. There were spirals paths up to the upper floor of the buildings. The trees had shades of gold and rush in their leaves and looked like they had been touched by God. The race he played was so beautiful with their green eyes, pointed ears and golden hair. His BE hadn't gotten too far when I asked, can I play? We got me a battlechest and I started to play the week of Thanksgiving. We created a BE Pally and my BE WL and I got to explore Eversong and marvel at the dedication the developers put into the zone. THEN I arrived at SM and my jaw dropped. Oh wow. Recently one Wednesday when the servers for retail crashed across the board from an attack, I decided to do TBC Classic and created a BE Mage. Once again I was transported back to that time of wonder and enchantment right before I also remembered the bad side of "Squish!" I think I've died about 500 times or more getting to level 30, but I've enjoyed every minute of the rehashing of old memories. :)
My first, most memorable moment in WOW was on my first character my human Paladin. At some point in the early leveling of humans in Stormwind we are tasked with delivering supplies to Ironforge. Of course this is long before anyone would have a mount of any kind. So there I am, with a quest halfway across the continent from me, no mount and no real knowledge of the game. I venture out of Elwynn Forest for the first time and into Red Ridge Mountains. It was level appropriate so not that bad, but still challenging. It wasn't until I turned north and headed into the Burning Steppes that I realized something was very wrong. Of course every mob there was a "Skull" to me, 30 levels higher than I was. Everything one shot me, I was able to run and rez and make a little progress by avoiding mobs, but after a while I finally reached out to my only friend in the game to ask what I was doing wrong. Only then did I learn of the Tram. I felt foolish for not asking for help sooner. Luckily, for me, it must have been a slow day because my friend and a few of her guildies all swooped in to rescue me, turning on free loot, and murdering everything in my path as we finished the run up through Searing Gorge and into Dun Morogh. I finally made it to Iron forge, quite a lot richer and even made a few more friends and got in a guild. Interactions like that are what made the game amazing, and one of a kind. Now I just queue for a dungeon and never talk to anyone.
I can agree to this. For me it was my orc shaman getting into a gnomergan run. From orgrimmar to UC then run to Arathi through Wetlands then Loch Modan pass iron forge to just get to the dungeon. So amazing.
and this story sounds alot like the 1st time I made a bloodelf and didn't know there was an orb in Silvermoon that teleported you to Undercity, the plaugelands is rough to a level 15 paladin. I really should have figured that wasn't the way that every bloodelf had to do it.
I remember selling dungeon runs for gnomer and deadmine. Heck can still remember a buddy of mine would run me thru deadmines when I was low level, telling me to loot everything a d me trying to explain I have no more room lol... yeah good times
Fun fact: At the beginning of vanilla until around patch 1.10 ground mounts were actually a specialization. Example you had horse riding or ram riding and the training was 10 gold while the mounts were 100g for 40 and 1000g for 60. This is why at the beginning seeing a gnome on a horse was insane because you had to grind to exalted with Stormwind AND get 1000 gold just for a horse.
The FFX music got me all misty eyed. Compound that with talking about TBC ( The expac I started in) got me drowning in two waves of nostalgia over here! Damn you, Mad. Keep up the good work. 10/10 Will swing by and feel again.
Just started TBC Classic a few weeks ago. I had forgotten the walking required to do everything, and my mind had also forgotten there wasn't as many FPs as I thought in Eversong/Ghostlands! I would have SWORN Fairbreeze had a FP! I knew the Farstrider Square didn't have one but Fairbreeze I thought did! And I had forgotten the quests back/forth/back/forth. I hadn't forgotten the Ghostlands trolls though. Many many deaths occurred this time around because I didn't have my ex-husband's Pally as a guard/healer like 13 years ago! Then it was BE WL and this time it was Mage (portals/food) which I played for the first time in that time period. TBC is hardmode in the game I swear. Made me really appreciate the upgrades in retail and compare it to the classic version. Some for the better and some for the worse. Brill, Tauren Mill, Hillsbrad and Silverpine all were better back then--even with the massive walking and the deadly quests compared to today. I think the revamping of the models for buildings and the damned sludge fields made the zones look ugly and it breaks my heart to see them. Don't get me started on the damage done to the heart of Panderia by Garrosh! Ugly sha damage everywhere in one of the most gorgeous zones in the entire MMO world. Damn him.
Also, just a memory of my own, just seeing the buildings from Warcraft 3 for the first time in WoW. Seeing the townhalls, ziggurats, barracks, farms, burrows, moonwells, all of that from my character's perspective blew me away. Here were these buildings, units, spells, that I had seen for so long from a birds eye view in a RTS now in front of me in a massive scale, that I could interact with, enter, and enjoy. It really was a magical time back then.
Wanted to say that I just recently got into WoW and your channel is amazing. Your content is really well done and is helping me get caught up on a lot of aspects of the game from a historical and community point of view
Love your videos, been watching for a while and finally had to drop a comment with a few words of appreciation.Great music, great clips of old footage and game art, in depth coverage of cool vanilla community moments, love it. Keep up the great work MadSeason!
100% you are my favorite youtuber. Have been watching youtube for more then 7 years and it's been a while since i've seen someone make videos with such passion!
3:26 I see you found my screenshot from the opening of the dark portal on PrimalWoW lol. I never actually got to witness on retail vanilla, so having that experience emulated on a private server was nice. Anyway, it's exciting to see some random screenshot that I took end up in one of your videos haha :)
"When I got [my first mount] I did laps around the ring of Ironforge is celebration... zooming past the filthy mount-less peasants that I was one of moments ago"
I love your videos! I've played since Vanilla, and watching your videos really takes me back. I love your style and how in depth you can explain everything. Keep it up! ❤
“Everyone wanted a Dragon mount and this was the closest we got back then” but the Nether Drakes are unquestionably the BEST mounts ever conceived by Blizzard!!! Why would you want any other mount?!
Your opening music gives me the feels of being a kid and hearing the opening theme of my favourite children's show, "oh goodie! I'm going to hear a story!" I named my character Rhyder in wishful thinking mode, for the day I would get there. I remember questing in Arathi Highlands, god awful place as the quests were SO spread out, running down the road to hand in the quest that would push me to 40. Longest hike ever. And yes I was a lock so I knew I could afford it!
The most memorable moment for me was realizing I could put all my DOTs on someone then Mind Control them. The best feeling was DOTing someone then MC them off a cliff in Arathi Basin.
I wonder if that 1 dislike from the time I was watching this is from that GM you mentioned about the saronite bomb incident. Lmao. As usual great video!
Flying in TBC is actually a thing that made me start playing - for me it was first MMO game that felt really 3d and open, not like you're going through a glorified set of corridors and invisible walls.
You can achieve that effect by simply hiding your UI using alt-z, going into walk mode, then strafing right or just walking right and moving your camera around. There used to be a program called free far sight which did this smoothly but it hasn't been updated. So you have to do this stuff manually in-game with your character and that's jerky and subject to latency, hence you get a cut every two seconds. I'd very much appreciate if Mad could explain how he gets his footage at some point perhaps in a future video, but I'm almost 100% that's what he's doing.
Hey Madseasonshow thank you for making this awesome videos! It's such a pleasure to my heart and a balm to my soul to watch your content and wallow in memories in this cold and rainy time of the year (damn winterdepression).
I always found comments about fans telling youtubers how fast they grew,to be boring because it would happen eventually...but oh my god your channel grew so fast! It was like 2 weeks ago you were at 80k subs or something. Keep up the great work and original content.
That launch with the Death Knights in AV was ridiculous lol. Especially when they still had self-resurrection ability, because the death knights would kill each other until they died and did it again in undeath/goul form. It was wild XD.
Omg I literally turned to me friend and said “it was so annoying you’d just get death gripped all around the world over and over again and just had to sit back until someone actually started fighting you” and then you said it!!!!! 😂
I still remember the rush of getting my first mount at level 40 - I had painstakingly saved all my money through picking every herb in Azeroth. The wonderful experience of riding through Elwynn Forest back to Stormwind. I felt the wind through my hair! Glorious.
I was a Paladin back then, the most memorable moment for me was when I completed the quest for the 100% mount (the quest-line was more than 1kG, so no free mount there). I collected a group of friends and went to Scholomance for the last encounter. That was an epic battle, my party almost died (last man standing was a druid who was kind enough to battle-rez me), and I finally understood the system of seals. Oh, and that incident in Blackrock, when someone pulled both rooms before some minor boss. And when I tucked our priest to the wall when there was a wipe incoming in Stratholme. Miss you guys.
Your character looks just like my old warrior from vanilla,and even more so in other videos. I very much enjoy your work. Makes me want to play WoW again
Wow was such a fun time in the early years. I played for a bit in BC, but mainly played in vanilla. The first level 40 mount will always be one i remember, but besides that I found getting into places Blizzard didn't entail for most to get into was really fun. Hopping on a torch and jumping into a wall to get under Stormwind or getting into Hyrul before it was released and seeing that beautiful "This is under construction" sign will always be my most memorable moments.
I still remember when I first got to Stormwind..... And the music started playing. That's my most memorable moment of wow for me, even after 10 years of playing it was me being a total noob discovering the game for the first time that really sealed the deal for me.
I remember the dark portal event on my server- I was level 52 and in Ironforge when Kruul showed his ugly mug, hurling volleys of Shadowbolts and killing everyone within range. One of the funniest things in trade chat that moment was when someone called out for the top Alliance guild at the time to save us all!
Hay gente que hace videos, y hay gente que sube contenido de este tipo, no solo bien hechos, sino con mucha pasion por lo que hace. Tengo la "suerte de poder" apreciar todos sus comentarios y lamento que muchos se lo pierdan por la barrera del lenguaje. Great job and amazing video as usual MadSeasonShow. Happy New Year!
i got hit with nostalgia when you mounted on a tiger in the nightelf starting zone thats when i saw the 3 quest givers walking down the path on a mount and was the first time i saw a mount so i was freaking out back then
I remember when TBC first came out. There was actually a rumor going around that Kel'Thuzad would drop the Spellbook of Medivh which allowed a Mage or Warlock to open the Dark Portal allowing players to enter Outland properly.
I remember when I got my felsteed. I was so happy, was so much better then walking... then I immediately had to have the green mechanstryder for my gnome since I loved the idea of a mechanical ostrich
Thanks for another great video. As usual most informative and entertaining. Although I would contest the comment about the Warlock and Paladin "free" mount. There were mats you had to either buy or farm. The quests took quite a while to even at level 40, much longer than grinding 100g. In fact both my paladin and warlock had both "normal" mounts before getting the "free" mount. I would speculate that the time/gold investment was equal when all things are considered. I would also submit that having all faction mounts were also very memorable. Running all the different factions to exalted was a long as very satisfying task.
I remember the Dark Portal event. I (human Paladin with Dungeon 2 set and the mace from battle grounds) didn't go through to a few days after though, severs were taking a beating. But when I did, I was exploring, and then I heard a giant robotic horn. A huge Fel Reaver was approaching. I moved out of the way, just in case, but was curious. Did this guy agro without being attacked, or did you need to attack to get it? A horde Taurn warrior in full epic PvP gear was not to far away and in the path of the Reaver. So, I sat and watched. Once I saw the cowburger meat, I knew not to mess with those!!
Love your take on the difference between getting your lvl 40 and 60 mounts in Vanilla. Getting that 40 was a milestone while the fast mount was more or less a novelty, something for the super rich or super lucky to have. I got lucky on my second 60's mount (I switched to Priest from Rogue for the guild, don't ever do that, play you for you!) and got a epic world drop that covered about 80% of the cost. Things like that diminish the accomplishment of that very first lvl 40 mount.
Being a druid was also quite good in vanilla with the mount situation, while the travel from wasn't quite as good, it was certainly better than running.
Dude as a hunter I had to choose between spending my gold to get a mount or to upgrade to mail armor/buy a full set of mail from the AH... I was so excited to hit lvl 40 lol. Brings back so much memories
madseason ur use of the roblox death sound is the most masterful use of an overused meme ive ever seen it actually turns it around and makes it funny again
i remember getting my first mount. i was a lock, and it was AMAZING. left a big impression, ever since, I've always been a huge fan of mounts, and it's my favorite goal to set in the game. i got lucky with my 60 mount, it was during tbc and I had guildies run me through DM easily. it was less amazing to me. However, I eventually grinded in BGs in order to get the Black War Tiger. THAT was another huge moment! i LOOOOVE that mount so friggin much, easily the best mount. i felt like such a badass riding around with that mount. i wasn't even that good with pvp either, but it didn't matter.
My son still loves to tell the story of when he was carrying my mom around Dalaran in Wrath on his mammoth mount. He jumped off Dalaran, telling her it was safe, and they died on landing. He was apparently unaware that they had changed the siege engine status of the mount so that, while previously he wouldn't take fall damage while mounted on it, that was no longer the case. I think she's still a little distrustful of him because of it. lol
I really miss the feeling of "FINALLY!" in terms of the game. After 7-8 years everything just starts to seem so plain and ordinary! I still remember getting my first pet, mount, epic item, level 80, first flying mount and all of that. That feel you can't really get anymore, unless it's a new expansion with some new cool content to do. Really rare!
I remember seeing my Dad playing in Stormwind during a Krull Rampage when I was a kid. I remember him telling me that the big demon was attacking the City because the Horde summoned the Burning Legion down upon the Alliance. Guess you start gotta feeding 'em the Anti-Horde propaganda when they're young.
dis make me very zug zug
"Me not that kind of orc."
Hahahaha
@ComocosonoEWL lmao why are you so salty over this?
That's PRO Horde propaganda IMO! 😂 "Oh really? Those guys sound awesome! What a cool as thing to do! Imma join Horde and destroy Stormwind with HUGE beasts!"
When I hit level 40, I was 15 gold away from getting my mount. A guy that I randomly grouped with to quest lent me the gold I needed. It was crazy that someone that I knew for maybe an hour gave me so much gold. I promised that I would pay it back as soon as I could. I grinded like crazy for 2 days to pay him back. We are still friends today. 15 years later. That is why my level 40 mount is my most memorable moment
That's honestly a nice tale on how honesty, transparency, and dedication to returning kindness overall make great friendships. :D
As someone who never played wow till legion, You have helped me understand a lot of this games history and details with your videos. Of all the youtube channels that cover WoW I like this one the most. You have a way of explaining things that make it easy to understand even stuff like complex raid weapons and lore. Please never stop uploading Madseason. You have made me even more of a WoW fan.
I started on my moms account in BC but never really raided or anything until pandaria. Pandaria is,hands down, the most beautifully designed zone thus far... IMO
@@amberweakland The music on Pandaria was amazing to in each zone. And I liked that we were not being a Hero in that xpac. we were just exploring again and not trying to save the world like most other xpacs.
@Texas Man That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard lol, not about BFA being bad, but the other stuff lol
You got to do another of these.
One of them being "Seeing a city for the first time".
I had a friend who I introduced to WoW in 2005 and I remember we both rolled orcs and as soon as we got to Razor Hill he was like "wow this is s pretty big city". Then I showed him Ogrimmar telling him, "Thats not a city, this is". That moment where he was just awestruck. I had a similar experience as my first character was a Dwarf and seeing Ironforge for the first time was breathtaking, and thats just seeing the size of the gate before you enter:D
Definitely a memorable moment! Mine was in ironforge as well. I remember being awestruck by the weapon enchants in particular. The first thing I asked was how people got fire swords. That, the sheer amount of people, high level gear, the mounts - very memorable indeed. I'll add it in the list!
Thank you and keep up the good work :D
Aye, I remember the first time I got to Stormwind and being hit by the music and the valley of heroes.
Then lagging out because my PC was garbage.
But that added to it in a way, like my surrounding were too impressive to properly take in.
My experience was mediocore. I went to darnassus und the city looked pretty meh. But I wanted to go to Stormwind because my friend played a human, also I was sick of seeing this dark green all the fucking time.
When I got to Ironforge I was pretty awestruck and then my computer broke down crying and I had to restart.
I then didn't found my way in Stormwind + My computer all the time killed himself and after 3 Restarts I asked a player to show me where I get out.
I also startet to bug my parents to get me a better computer :D
Undercity was my first big city. I played an Undead Rogue when the game launched and I remember walking through the ruins of Lordaeron and thinking "Wow, this is awesome! This is where Arthas was!" I then found my way into the throne room and heard the whispers of the moment Arthas had killed his father and was totally geeking out. I thought to myself though "Well, not much of a city, but more of ruins.." then I found the elevator.... Boy was I in for a treat. As I walked out from that creepy elevator into the ooze filled crypt sewers beneath Lordaeron my eyes grew larger and larger as I explored the Undercity. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I wanted to see Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff right away after that lol. Same feeling and same experience when I did eventually make it there. When I played my first Alliance and walking through the gates of Stormwind with that awe inspiring music I got choked up and filled with amazement, such an awesome feeling. It really does kind of suck to know that I'll never really have that feeling again, but the memories are great . :)
I remember when i first started wow I was a level 10 nelf druid and wanted to explore and travel to eastern kingdoms. I met a high level nelf and asked me to join his group to “explore a secret place”. We were all in IF at this point. It was the first time i met dwarfs and gnomes and a few humans. I was really hyped on this “adventure” but anyways he led us to loch modan and started hoping on cliffs and would show us and then we found this tunnel on the mountain and he said to go in it and everyone did.. and what do you know.. you fall and die endlessly and unable to release... great times.. great times indeed.
Sometimes I can't comprehend how much time and effort people put into being assholes.
I drove more then a few people off cliffs in Wotlk in that motorcycle engineer mount. Was a warlock so before I would drive someone around I would put down a pad and as we went off the cliff I would just teleport to the pad or just use the engi parachute to save myself. My guild leader at the time was one of the people that fell for it Team speak was full of laughs when they heard him screaming as he fell to his death off the cliff.
LOL! That was the time you met your first WOW troll :D!
@@Nihilful That's a classic troll for WoW. And he did deliver on the promise, he just didn't tell you what it was. I fell for it back in the day, and was amused as I could admit that it was a good one.
My first memorable moment in WOW was when i played with a pal and we traveled all the way to Darkshore. Eventually we made our way into Ashenvale and we were both awe struck when we entered this epic forest with that epic Ashenvale music and how beautiful everything was. It was the first zone we explored 100% on our night elves and it is still my fav zone to this day.
Much later, when TBC came out, my second WOW moment was when i entered Silvermoon City for the first time with my blood elf mage. I remember i did nothing else that day but explore the city for hours, talk to every NPC, find a cool place to sleep, take dozens of screenshots and just looking at the tall building like a peasant. O.o
I will never forget it.
Ex-husband's friend bought this game. The friend and his fiance stayed with us at the time. It seemed your typical MMO. The husband bought the game but he was playing a different zone from them and I looked over his shoulder and my mouth dropped. It was gorgeous and I couldn't stop with the beauty that I saw around him. The trees were twisted majestically. The buildings were arched and decorated with red and green gems and gold trim. There were spirals paths up to the upper floor of the buildings. The trees had shades of gold and rush in their leaves and looked like they had been touched by God. The race he played was so beautiful with their green eyes, pointed ears and golden hair. His BE hadn't gotten too far when I asked, can I play? We got me a battlechest and I started to play the week of Thanksgiving. We created a BE Pally and my BE WL and I got to explore Eversong and marvel at the dedication the developers put into the zone. THEN I arrived at SM and my jaw dropped. Oh wow. Recently one Wednesday when the servers for retail crashed across the board from an attack, I decided to do TBC Classic and created a BE Mage. Once again I was transported back to that time of wonder and enchantment right before I also remembered the bad side of "Squish!" I think I've died about 500 times or more getting to level 30, but I've enjoyed every minute of the rehashing of old memories. :)
My first, most memorable moment in WOW was on my first character my human Paladin. At some point in the early leveling of humans in Stormwind we are tasked with delivering supplies to Ironforge. Of course this is long before anyone would have a mount of any kind. So there I am, with a quest halfway across the continent from me, no mount and no real knowledge of the game. I venture out of Elwynn Forest for the first time and into Red Ridge Mountains. It was level appropriate so not that bad, but still challenging. It wasn't until I turned north and headed into the Burning Steppes that I realized something was very wrong.
Of course every mob there was a "Skull" to me, 30 levels higher than I was. Everything one shot me, I was able to run and rez and make a little progress by avoiding mobs, but after a while I finally reached out to my only friend in the game to ask what I was doing wrong. Only then did I learn of the Tram. I felt foolish for not asking for help sooner. Luckily, for me, it must have been a slow day because my friend and a few of her guildies all swooped in to rescue me, turning on free loot, and murdering everything in my path as we finished the run up through Searing Gorge and into Dun Morogh. I finally made it to Iron forge, quite a lot richer and even made a few more friends and got in a guild. Interactions like that are what made the game amazing, and one of a kind. Now I just queue for a dungeon and never talk to anyone.
I can agree to this. For me it was my orc shaman getting into a gnomergan run. From orgrimmar to UC then run to Arathi through Wetlands then Loch Modan pass iron forge to just get to the dungeon. So amazing.
and this story sounds alot like the 1st time I made a bloodelf and didn't know there was an orb in Silvermoon that teleported you to Undercity, the plaugelands is rough to a level 15 paladin. I really should have figured that wasn't the way that every bloodelf had to do it.
Lol I used to sell flight path escort missions on my rogue to lower level characters mainly alts, used to make quite a g from that and friends as well
I remember selling dungeon runs for gnomer and deadmine. Heck can still remember a buddy of mine would run me thru deadmines when I was low level, telling me to loot everything a d me trying to explain I have no more room lol... yeah good times
Why didnt you take the subway
Fun fact: At the beginning of vanilla until around patch 1.10 ground mounts were actually a specialization. Example you had horse riding or ram riding and the training was 10 gold while the mounts were 100g for 40 and 1000g for 60. This is why at the beginning seeing a gnome on a horse was insane because you had to grind to exalted with Stormwind AND get 1000 gold just for a horse.
Yeh and why Paladin's were awesome!
I'll never forget the wow episode of X-Play and its section about an amazing gnome who did the SW rep grind for a horse.
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yeeeeeaaah I 'member
Membe the dark portal? I membe
I remember when Kazzak made his appearance felt in Org too, not sure how they kiting him all the way there. . . but he came aknocking.
I can’t explain why but, once your intro hits I am relaxed and ready to listen to your interesting content.
MadSeasonShow ye i membeh
The FFX music got me all misty eyed. Compound that with talking about TBC ( The expac I started in) got me drowning in two waves of nostalgia over here! Damn you, Mad. Keep up the good work. 10/10 Will swing by and feel again.
I haven't played wow in 10 years, but the visuals in this video really makes me want to play it again. A+ editing and story!
I love this channel, as a player who start he's journey in WoW at 2004, i feel your vibe and love your movies. Keep it up, cheers!
"Took the way of R-Kelly, without the urine"
He Burnt My Shake that got me so bad
Idk what made me laugh more. The joke or the poor delivery 😂. Either way I was laughing with him. Not at him
Dudes a savage.
that just made me laugh out loud, damn near spit out my coffee!
or the kiddie diddlin'
That R-Kelly joke is gonna show your age
the joke is gold though, not golden shower gold but gold enough. :D
I dont get it
I belieeeeve i can flyyy
Xal r Kelly allegedly pissed in a 15 year old ... Dave Chapelle Made a Sketch about it
Laughed my ass off when he said that
'And the convince people there's not one less world boss' lmfao spit out the coffee
Bruh you hit me right in the feels talking about the mounts....lol walking everywhere waaaaas soo tedious, was so hype to get that 60 percent haha!
Just started TBC Classic a few weeks ago. I had forgotten the walking required to do everything, and my mind had also forgotten there wasn't as many FPs as I thought in Eversong/Ghostlands! I would have SWORN Fairbreeze had a FP! I knew the Farstrider Square didn't have one but Fairbreeze I thought did! And I had forgotten the quests back/forth/back/forth. I hadn't forgotten the Ghostlands trolls though. Many many deaths occurred this time around because I didn't have my ex-husband's Pally as a guard/healer like 13 years ago! Then it was BE WL and this time it was Mage (portals/food) which I played for the first time in that time period. TBC is hardmode in the game I swear. Made me really appreciate the upgrades in retail and compare it to the classic version. Some for the better and some for the worse. Brill, Tauren Mill, Hillsbrad and Silverpine all were better back then--even with the massive walking and the deadly quests compared to today. I think the revamping of the models for buildings and the damned sludge fields made the zones look ugly and it breaks my heart to see them. Don't get me started on the damage done to the heart of Panderia by Garrosh! Ugly sha damage everywhere in one of the most gorgeous zones in the entire MMO world. Damn him.
2:22 THE STATUE BLINKED
Also, just a memory of my own, just seeing the buildings from Warcraft 3 for the first time in WoW. Seeing the townhalls, ziggurats, barracks, farms, burrows, moonwells, all of that from my character's perspective blew me away. Here were these buildings, units, spells, that I had seen for so long from a birds eye view in a RTS now in front of me in a massive scale, that I could interact with, enter, and enjoy. It really was a magical time back then.
Wanted to say that I just recently got into WoW and your channel is amazing. Your content is really well done and is helping me get caught up on a lot of aspects of the game from a historical and community point of view
Are you still playing? I started up with wow classic in august and haven't stopped yet. 624 hours so far.
love the editing in every single one of these
thank you for making such wonderful and nostalgic videos.
Thanks for watching them, Chris!
Love your videos, been watching for a while and finally had to drop a comment with a few words of appreciation.Great music, great clips of old footage and game art, in depth coverage of cool vanilla community moments, love it. Keep up the great work MadSeason!
Thanks for the support my friend...it means a lot! Glad you enjoy the videos.
100% you are my favorite youtuber. Have been watching youtube for more then 7 years and it's been a while since i've seen someone make videos with such passion!
3:26 I see you found my screenshot from the opening of the dark portal on PrimalWoW lol. I never actually got to witness on retail vanilla, so having that experience emulated on a private server was nice. Anyway, it's exciting to see some random screenshot that I took end up in one of your videos haha :)
MadSeason... you continue to be one of my absolute favorite WoW content creators. Thank you for the constant high quality uploads! Cheers!
Your intro is so relaxing, that's why I always watch the entire video.
Yes part 2 i was waiting for this since the last memorable moments video!!
Hope you enjoy! Fun series to make for me.
"When I got [my first mount] I did laps around the ring of Ironforge is celebration... zooming past the filthy mount-less peasants that I was one of moments ago"
Man, that was beautiful! Gotta love that video!
Waiting formore!:D
I love your videos! I've played since Vanilla, and watching your videos really takes me back. I love your style and how in depth you can explain everything. Keep it up! ❤
i still remember hitting level 70 and grinding 5000 gold for the epic flying and then farming netherwing for weeks :D
Took me about 6 weeks had to even make a bank alt. Good times
I have only played vanilla wow, BC, and Classic. I want to play WoTLK so bad!!!!
“Everyone wanted a Dragon mount and this was the closest we got back then” but the Nether Drakes are unquestionably the BEST mounts ever conceived by Blizzard!!! Why would you want any other mount?!
Facts
Funnily, WotLK DID give us plenty of drake mounts to choose from. Like almost all flying mounts were drakes in that expansion.
Your opening music gives me the feels of being a kid and hearing the opening theme of my favourite children's show, "oh goodie! I'm going to hear a story!"
I named my character Rhyder in wishful thinking mode, for the day I would get there. I remember questing in Arathi Highlands, god awful place as the quests were SO spread out, running down the road to hand in the quest that would push me to 40. Longest hike ever. And yes I was a lock so I knew I could afford it!
11:16 ooOoF~!
See reminds me of the sound from roblox
It is
The most memorable moment for me was realizing I could put all my DOTs on someone then Mind Control them. The best feeling was DOTing someone then MC them off a cliff in Arathi Basin.
I wonder if that 1 dislike from the time I was watching this is from that GM you mentioned about the saronite bomb incident. Lmao.
As usual great video!
Flying in TBC is actually a thing that made me start playing - for me it was first MMO game that felt really 3d and open, not like you're going through a glorified set of corridors and invisible walls.
Druid epic flying is the absolute most amazing way to fly. Instant cast and your character is so small you can feel the speed more. 100% worth it.
1:00 That scrolling scene in Ironforge - how did you get that footage is it choreographed? You get really cool footage..
probably uses some sort of camera addon
you just walk sideways?
You can achieve that effect by simply hiding your UI using alt-z, going into walk mode, then strafing right or just walking right and moving your camera around. There used to be a program called free far sight which did this smoothly but it hasn't been updated. So you have to do this stuff manually in-game with your character and that's jerky and subject to latency, hence you get a cut every two seconds.
I'd very much appreciate if Mad could explain how he gets his footage at some point perhaps in a future video, but I'm almost 100% that's what he's doing.
Your use of the darkest dungeon music whilst talking about twotl is really well done. Really fitting.
8:00 in and GM intervention came in! They should have GM intervention for SOM!
Hey Madseasonshow thank you for making this awesome videos! It's such a pleasure to my heart and a balm to my soul to watch your content and wallow in memories in this cold and rainy time of the year (damn winterdepression).
"You took the way of R Kelly, except without the urine." Haha that was cold
I always found comments about fans telling youtubers how fast they grew,to be boring because it would happen eventually...but oh my god your channel grew so fast! It was like 2 weeks ago you were at 80k subs or something. Keep up the great work and original content.
That launch with the Death Knights in AV was ridiculous lol. Especially when they still had self-resurrection ability, because the death knights would kill each other until they died and did it again in undeath/goul form. It was wild XD.
Trevor Turpie wow... I didn’t even realise how much I miss the Shadow of Death talent until I read that comment.
Love the FFX musc 🤗
ffx easily has one of my fave osts :)
Was literally going to comment just to mention the music. I noticed it immediately. So good.
Love this emoji, but don't even really know what it is 🤗
think its from the forest zone
I really like the "UGH" sound effect at 11:20.
Nice video ;)
Thank you for great work showing these good clips.
Dude. GOnna post this here, but spent quite a few minutes watching your vids. F*king awesome stuff. Thx so much! 🙏
Omg I literally turned to me friend and said “it was so annoying you’d just get death gripped all around the world over and over again and just had to sit back until someone actually started fighting you” and then you said it!!!!! 😂
I still remember the rush of getting my first mount at level 40 - I had painstakingly saved all my money through picking every herb in Azeroth. The wonderful experience of riding through Elwynn Forest back to Stormwind. I felt the wind through my hair! Glorious.
I was a Paladin back then, the most memorable moment for me was when I completed the quest for the 100% mount (the quest-line was more than 1kG, so no free mount there). I collected a group of friends and went to Scholomance for the last encounter. That was an epic battle, my party almost died (last man standing was a druid who was kind enough to battle-rez me), and I finally understood the system of seals.
Oh, and that incident in Blackrock, when someone pulled both rooms before some minor boss. And when I tucked our priest to the wall when there was a wipe incoming in Stratholme.
Miss you guys.
i really really like your choice of music ! awesome work you are doing here !
love your videos man . been watching for years
Will always love your videos, you put your passion into them, and they bring good nostalgia
Your character looks just like my old warrior from vanilla,and even more so in other videos. I very much enjoy your work. Makes me want to play WoW again
Wow was such a fun time in the early years. I played for a bit in BC, but mainly played in vanilla. The first level 40 mount will always be one i remember, but besides that I found getting into places Blizzard didn't entail for most to get into was really fun. Hopping on a torch and jumping into a wall to get under Stormwind or getting into Hyrul before it was released and seeing that beautiful "This is under construction" sign will always be my most memorable moments.
Music from Macalania Forest! So awesome. Great video, my man.
From Kilika Woods not Macalania.
I still remember when I first got to Stormwind..... And the music started playing. That's my most memorable moment of wow for me, even after 10 years of playing it was me being a total noob discovering the game for the first time that really sealed the deal for me.
I love ur videos, could watch these videos for hours and hours, really good content you make ! keep up the good work! :)
I remember the dark portal event on my server- I was level 52 and in Ironforge when Kruul showed his ugly mug, hurling volleys of Shadowbolts and killing everyone within range. One of the funniest things in trade chat that moment was when someone called out for the top Alliance guild at the time to save us all!
That R Kelly joke, it's probably the best part of the video which was already thoroughly enjoyable. I'm still on the floor laughing.
Dude your videos are all fantastic, but this one was hilarious. Thank you
Your vanilla vids are the only ones that keeps me sane until classic release.
Hay gente que hace videos, y hay gente que sube contenido de este tipo, no solo bien hechos, sino con mucha pasion por lo que hace. Tengo la "suerte de poder" apreciar todos sus comentarios y lamento que muchos se lo pierdan por la barrera del lenguaje.
Great job and amazing video as usual MadSeasonShow. Happy New Year!
The FFX soundtrack goes well with the nostalgia! Love the videos 🙏
I choke up every time knowing that we'll never have THAT moment again, keep it up strawberry man
Love how you use Darkest Dungeon theme into this :D
i got hit with nostalgia when you mounted on a tiger in the nightelf starting zone thats when i saw the 3 quest givers walking down the path on a mount and was the first time i saw a mount so i was freaking out back then
I remember when TBC first came out.
There was actually a rumor going around that Kel'Thuzad would drop the Spellbook of Medivh which allowed a Mage or Warlock to open the Dark Portal allowing players to enter Outland properly.
I really appreciate your work, thanks for another great video madseason!
i Love the old Stories👍 Good Video
I remember when I got my felsteed. I was so happy, was so much better then walking... then I immediately had to have the green mechanstryder for my gnome since I loved the idea of a mechanical ostrich
God I love all the ffx music. You clearly share my love, so i salute you!
The Winter Sabre in Vanilla... was a great moment. That grind was just ridickleous.
"or until the game finally ends.." SACRILEGE *hisssssssss*
No king rules forever, my son.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Man, I remember kiting one of the dragon world bosses to orgimmar with some guildies of mine. Fun times.
That intro is one of the most relaxing things i've ever heard.
I'll never forget walking through that portal to Outland for the first time.... my best memory in the game!
Gawds, I remember Kazzak in Ironforge. It was Hel, but damn, seeing everyone on my server at the time attempt to take him out, bloody genius
Love your vids man! I wish you the best! Thanks for the entertainment!
Thank you for watching =)
Thanks for another great video. As usual most informative and entertaining.
Although I would contest the comment about the Warlock and Paladin "free" mount. There were mats you had to either buy or farm. The quests took quite a while to even at level 40, much longer than grinding 100g. In fact both my paladin and warlock had both "normal" mounts before getting the "free" mount. I would speculate that the time/gold investment was equal when all things are considered.
I would also submit that having all faction mounts were also very memorable. Running all the different factions to exalted was a long as very satisfying task.
Love the ffx background song! You earned my like
I remember the Dark Portal event. I (human Paladin with Dungeon 2 set and the mace from battle grounds) didn't go through to a few days after though, severs were taking a beating. But when I did, I was exploring, and then I heard a giant robotic horn. A huge Fel Reaver was approaching. I moved out of the way, just in case, but was curious. Did this guy agro without being attacked, or did you need to attack to get it? A horde Taurn warrior in full epic PvP gear was not to far away and in the path of the Reaver. So, I sat and watched. Once I saw the cowburger meat, I knew not to mess with those!!
Love your take on the difference between getting your lvl 40 and 60 mounts in Vanilla. Getting that 40 was a milestone while the fast mount was more or less a novelty, something for the super rich or super lucky to have. I got lucky on my second 60's mount (I switched to Priest from Rogue for the guild, don't ever do that, play you for you!) and got a epic world drop that covered about 80% of the cost. Things like that diminish the accomplishment of that very first lvl 40 mount.
great video man, love to watch these
My first memorable moment was finally gaining my first ever artifact weapon in Legion: The Scythe of Elune. Wielding such astral power felt AMAZING.
Being a druid was also quite good in vanilla with the mount situation, while the travel from wasn't quite as good, it was certainly better than running.
I luckily was a shaman my first toon
He’s so pure so whenever he makes an inappropriate joke it’s even funnier
Dude as a hunter I had to choose between spending my gold to get a mount or to upgrade to mail armor/buy a full set of mail from the AH... I was so excited to hit lvl 40 lol. Brings back so much memories
Level 40 was such a significant moment when levelling :) it was a pretty huge celebration to get that mount :)
Also as a warrior you get mortal strike baby!!!
The ffx music put me in such a nostalgic trance i had to watch twice just to hear what u even said lol
The music in these videos is the music of my childhood.
madseason ur use of the roblox death sound is the most masterful use of an overused meme ive ever seen it actually turns it around and makes it funny again
Thank you for the beautiful FFX music :)
i remember getting my first mount. i was a lock, and it was AMAZING. left a big impression, ever since, I've always been a huge fan of mounts, and it's my favorite goal to set in the game. i got lucky with my 60 mount, it was during tbc and I had guildies run me through DM easily. it was less amazing to me. However, I eventually grinded in BGs in order to get the Black War Tiger. THAT was another huge moment! i LOOOOVE that mount so friggin much, easily the best mount. i felt like such a badass riding around with that mount. i wasn't even that good with pvp either, but it didn't matter.
OMG CALM BEFORE THE STORM, LOVE IT.
My son still loves to tell the story of when he was carrying my mom around Dalaran in Wrath on his mammoth mount. He jumped off Dalaran, telling her it was safe, and they died on landing. He was apparently unaware that they had changed the siege engine status of the mount so that, while previously he wouldn't take fall damage while mounted on it, that was no longer the case. I think she's still a little distrustful of him because of it. lol
I remember the grind for my warlock and paladin mounts....it was EPIC!
More ffx music, it always fits so well!!! Love these vids man
I really miss the feeling of "FINALLY!" in terms of the game. After 7-8 years everything just starts to seem so plain and ordinary! I still remember getting my first pet, mount, epic item, level 80, first flying mount and all of that. That feel you can't really get anymore, unless it's a new expansion with some new cool content to do. Really rare!