Well done, Verigan. This brings me back to the fantasy that WoW once was. I was an undergrad when Vanilla WoW came out in November of 2004. I was part of a great guild back then named Obsidian Spur on the Sargeras realm. We raided jointly with another Horde guild named Team eXecute and ran almost all of the 40-man content back in Vanilla with the exception of a few bosses in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj and most of the Naxxramas bosses. My good friend and college roommate at the time was fascinated in the Ashbringer questline, and we would talk about if often. He played a Tauren warrior named Jt, and I played an undead/forsaken priest named Wretchedmist. I remember the Durnholde Keep references to Ashbringer as well. I became guild master of Obsidian Spur during The Burning Crusade. Indeed, he had to wait until Legion to finally wield the weapon. By that time we had transferred Obsidian Spur over to the Thrall realm due to Horde player volume, which is where the guild still resides. The original guild shell still exists on Sargeras, though. My friend died a few years ago at the age of 37 on 10/29/2020. I just recently stopped playing WoW in June of 2022 due to the ever-increasing tedious nature of running a mythic raiding guild as raid leader and guild master. The mythic end-game raiding content in WoW became so horribly overtuned over the years, becoming less accessible and more demanding in terms of time and energy. It just wasn't worth it. Raiding, as well as the game as a whole, lost the fantasy, exploration, storytelling, and community element. Players nowadays don't value guilds the way they did in the past, and a big part of that problem is changing game designs over many years. I currently have the guild on hiatus. I'm not sure I will return to retail WoW. I might go back to Classic and try that for the first time. I'm happy with my incredible memories of WoW. The best time I ever played was during Vanilla. For those who didn't get that opportunity, I wish you did. I've never experienced anything like it. It truly was a great adventure. The memories are seared in my mind forever, and I relive them through the soundtracks.
MMO's in general back then were experimental takes at "imagine what a virtual world would be like" much more than they were games. Honestly the actual game was secondary in a lot of ways to how much effort they put into just making an online social experience. I don't know when it happened, but we moved away from that to putting all our focus on grindy MMO gameplay, which was never the selling point anyway
@@SirProdigle not only that, players nowadays have 1 goal: meta game only, screw fun. (Meta gaming AKA playing in the most efficient way possible, even if you have to sacrifice fun for efficiency). Meta gaming has really destroyed gaming in general, because nobody is trying to have fun anymore at this point.
@@haunted5311 yes. Information space race. so easy to work out statistically the best strategy that games have to design around it. I ended up recapturing a lot of that old "fun for funs sake" with actual couch co-op and indie games, but it's hard to set up now. TTRPGS are also great for that!
Sorry for your loss. Way too young. It's not only that mythic became overtuned, theres no magic. A raid should have one difficulty, it should have attunement quests that do worldbuilding and make you traverse the world, the first few weeks maybe months the handful of last few bosses should only be available to the top 5% and then get nerfed over the span of months, legendaries shoudl be legenday etc etc etc etc It felt like a world everybody was in together and retail is just...... personalized instances of the newest boss encounters. I dont know theres just a different feeling from getting ported instantly to a raid, and then get personalized loot and the peace out compared to talking with your guild, walking there together, raging about loot descisions and dkp systems etc etc. Old WoW created stories
It has come to my attention I have been mispronouncing Naxxramas as 'Naxxaramus' I will carry the guilt of this mistake with me for the rest of my life
There was a quest in TBC that was pretty long from a blacksmith which eventually rewards you with a blue weapon reward, the rumor was that he was originally supposed to be the guy to get to the next step for the Ashbringer. It was such a long quest that made you do several end game dungeons that it wasn't worth the reward and ultimately was either a red herring or they scrapped the original purpose for that content.
Do you happen to remember what the name of the blacksmith is or the start quest? I'd like to take a look at this, I have a mild obsession with the old Corrupted Ashbringer and the what the purifying questline might have been and I would to see what this questline is.
@@shadowdragon8168 I've been trying to look it up and I'm having such a hard time finding it. I remember the pain in the ass of doing the quest and how big of a let down the reward was for doing it, but all I can remember about the quest giver is he's a human black smith and he's hidden in some forest part of a zone that's real hard to find on your own. I want to say it started with an item that drops off one of the mobs in the dungeons around Tempest Keep. I seriously spent a good hour going through quest rewards on wowhead on the TBC page and couldn't find the quest. Seriously the only reason I remember it was because it was such a pain in the ass to finish and this was back in like February of 2007.
Your Paladin Trilogy has been such a neat look back into Classic WoW. Esp. as someone who played a Paladin throughout the classic era of WoW himself. I was one of those fools scouring Outland for any and all clues about the Ashbringer back in the mid-to-late 00's. Anyway, whatever game you cover going forward, I'm excited to see it. I like your style, and you got a nice voice to listen to.
So that's it - the trilogy is complete. Onto the next adventure! I'm a bit ashamed of my sloppy editing in this one, and RUclips's compression seems to have quietened the audio quite a bit for some reason, but I've been working on this for a month and I've been dying to get to work on the next projects, so here it is! Please let me know what you think.
RUclips only softened your video's audio because it's way too hot. RUclips's "Stats for Nerds" shows it being reduced by 11 dB, you can do this on your own end and when uploaded to RUclips, it'll sound fine. This video is indeed quieter than others whose videos aren't being manhandled by RUclips. Otherwise, it's fine.
An NPC in the Terrokar Forest was initially supposed to be the "lost son" called David Wayne. He abandoned the Sons of Lothar to live on his own, he is a weapon smith, he can create demonic/exotic weapons, when talking to him he said "that he has a feeling to be part of something great". But then for some odd reason, blizzard decided to bring out the mentioned Ashbringer comic and retconning everything planned so far. And this is how we ended up with the current lore.
They were probably writing the Wrath lore before TBC release, and decided that Tyrion was getting the Ashbringer. In that case, they'd scrap the original quest, which they did, only saying prior to Wrath launch "Uh... we forgot."
@@colecote1432 yes and no… I think it should have been more obtainable… but giving it out like that was kinda disappointing after the first “omg I have it”. Like a wrath classic level legendary would have been perfect. Everyone and their mother has a shadowmourne now.
These videos are very bittersweet. It brings the nostalgia of the good old days while reminding you of what blizzard left behind in pursuit of money. Keep up the good work.
@@cococock2418 why so toxic? this guy longs for better RPG storytelling and you insult him because (you think) he doesn't have.. high damage? you are everything that is wrong with WoW
@@OrchinX “better rpg storytelling”? Go play a single player game. And I don’t “think”. I know. These comments are never said by people in method lmao, it’s always garbage players. You want lore, play classic. Retail blows.
I love the assumption that a massive amount of people actually raided in vanilla, when most raid completion barely hit double digits until BC/Wrath, with Naxx having the lowest participation of them all. which lead to it being the first raid of wrath with reused assets.
The vast majority did not raid beyond mc because the player base in general was less knowledgeable. It was how you established who was good and who was not. The only real difference between then and classic was that EVERYONE started world buffing and using full consumes, even for MC. World buffs and consumes can get even a lackluster guild to clear BWL, and most bosses become an absolute joke. I never once saw sons on Rag while playing classic or pserver, where my vanilla guild saw sons for the first few months until our dps got better gear (rag was nerfed several times after that, especially his health pool and raid damage). At the time, we only used world buffs when we were trying for a first kill on something like nef after a night of wiping to sort through mechanics and such. It's a shame, since seeing my buffed feral with 14k hp and capped armor was pretty awesome.
Verigan I am beyond obsessed with your wow videos. Your story telling, and reverence for the game are so so engaging. I'll happily follow any WoW adventure you go on, please keep making these videos.
At the start of Classic I prayed to the loot gods for Corrupted Ashbringer specifically and nothing else. I formed and amazing guild and played the entire game as its GM, even getting the Scarab Mount. When we got to Naxx, my prayers were answered, not only did we get a Corrupted Ashbringer…we got FIVE of them. The PvP video of four warriors and one paladin all with Ashbringers is still amazing. Two were night elves and we did Arena and once beat a Rogue/Mage/Priest as 3 warriors. I have to imagine seeing one lone human warrior with Ashbringer riding a Scarab then getting jumped by his two night elf warrior guards in stealth was a surreal pvp experience. I felt like a hero unit at the end of the game lmao.
I truly believe the first minute of this video is a crowning achievement in media story telling and If I was a game director at a AAA studio, I would reach out to you with a contract for lead cutscene designer based off of that alone.
4:11 was so hilariously unexpected holy shit you just made my day and nearly made a grown man shed a tear. Pure genius reference. Halo was so far beyond its time, I miss the atmosphere of those games so much.
Wow, what an amazing video! I knew this lore back in Vanilla, in 2006-7, but my guild had only made it part way thru AQ40 when TBC hit, (as a matter of fact, no guild in my server had cleared Naxx when TBC launched) so I never actually got to see how the events in SM actually go down when you wield the Ashbringer! So, 18 years later, i appreciate being able to see it!
I could recognize the Fable 1 intro within the first 0.5 seconds, and the Morrowind music in 0.00000000000000001 seconds. The music beams serotonin direct into my brain. Love your work as always Verigan, Keep at it! btw, your editing on this video was really great. I loved the old school Halo style scene transitions.
These videos about classic WoW have really resonated with me. I was maybe 5-6 years old when my dad first showed me this incredible world during The Burning Crusade, and I've been so deeply invested in it ever since. I never got to appreciate the original run in 2004 in full, so 2019's re-release of Classic allowed me to experience the next best thing. Your story of trekking to the Scarlet Monastery made me sad that I didn't have memories of "the golden years", as some may call them. Though, after watching a little longer, it occurred to me that I *did* have some tales of my own - like while playing my undead mage and deciding that, on a whim, me and 4 other random people should just go run Deadmines at level 16 (which was a hell of a journey in of itself). I may have pushed the highest level of progression raiding during the vanilla - tbc - wrath re-releases, but those smaller memories are just as important. Please keep telling stories, no matter what games and worlds they originate from. They evoke emotions that are near impossible to describe.
Even though the "Paladin Trilogy" is over, I do hope you'll someday talk about the Battle of Darrowshire questline. I've heard over and over that it's one of the most epic and emotional quests ever written, and I feel like your storytelling style would really do it justice.
Poor little Pamela, that story is so sad. I played a feral druid on p servers and classic, so I had to do that chain many times for the ring. The other rewards weren't great (other than tea with sugar)
Verigan, you make engaging videos and bring great stories alive. Don't care what game/story you are exploring, just like the way YOU do it. Please continue with what you are doing and I will continue consuming.
This is so nostalgic omg QQ. The memories from this era of WOW were some of the absolute best gaming memories I still carry with me. Also very bittersweet.... The friends I made and got to know in game so well have all dispersed and lost touch. I Have played it off and on since then, but it will never be the same as back then. Great video mate!
Enormous Like - very good narration and montage. You brought a lot of memories and spirits back! I started playing in TBC... I regeret not being a part of great classic lore and community.
I think these warcraft stories you're chronicling are going to become so much more relevant very soon - we need more high quality videos like this to give context to content that SoD will (supposedly) be expanding on. Awesome work yet again :)
1. Great video! 2. While it was inconvenient back in those days the trek to the Scarlet Monastery was very worth it to Alliance players. It really wasn't hard to find a group, you just had to be the right level for the wing you wanted to take down since they all varied significantly. Armory and Cathedral were the more popular wings because of the gear. 3. While it does suck that the progression concerning the Corrupted Ashbringer ends abruptly after the cathedral scene, you do make a very valid point about Blizzard not focusing on it more. Naxxramas only saw about 6-7 months of relevancy before Karazhan became the new black. Raiding then was certainly a lot of trial and error.
Great video. Recently acquired my Ashbringer on my Paladin after almost 20 years of hunting! The Morrowind music in the background somewhere was a tasty touch. I enchanted lifestealing on it. :)
A bit late to comment, but if you ever read this : The Fable OST is just perfect for WoW, may it be the Elwynn Forest to the tune of the Summer Fields, wandering the Duskwood listening to the Darkwood/Witchwood, questing with friends while the Greatwood song kicks in, just perfect
10:30 That ambiguity is some _very_ good writing. Is the Ashbringer, the force that obliterated hordes of undead in minutes, the Naaru-core sword of vengeance? Or was it Alexandros, who could be both righteous and furious, unlike the modern Scarlet Crusade? If you ask the Argent Dawn, it was the latter.
This video has SOOOOO many Halo references, I LOVE it!!! Also the oblivion music is insane, it feels like this video was made for me 😂😂!! Great work!!!
After going through all the abandoned quest threads of classic I am surprised you didn’t actually discuss the Legion quest line for the uncorrupted Ashbringer skin that recreated a quest line using all those old theories and threads from Dire Maul, Nat Pagle, Timolains Phylactory, etc. it was an excellent homage to the old theories and would have been a great closer for this video after you had already laid out the origin of all those threads earlier in the video
I wondered if you were cover it. Back in the day there was indeed a blacksmith tucked away on on the edge of terokkar forest in a spot that required flying to reach, but he ultimately had no use if I recall. It was speculated at the time that he would be involved in the BC ashbringer questline that never happened.
Just stumbled upon this, and it was very entertaining and well put together. Loved the narration, good job! Now to watch the rest of the videos on your channel
this video is fkin amazing. fantastic story telling. ive been a ret paladin from the very beginning. across all servers. all expansions. anywhere i went. i played a retribution paladin. obsessed with this blade. now knowing the story behind it makes it so much better. i cant wait to have one of my own when released in Season of Discovery. Thank you for sharing this story and telling it in this way.
Great video, lovely narration. The only thing I would've wished to had see was a short section about all the hoaxes regarding the sword. As someone who was a part of the hunt for the sword back in the day; there were a ton of convincing images, videos and the such from players who were playing 'single player' private servers at the time who could spawn the weapon and doctor footage.
The Ashbringer should have never been in players hands. Some legendary items were completely diminished when you logged in and saw 40+ copies of it running around Dalaran. That might be a little harsh, but it sure as hell shouldn't have been something just handed out as a participation trophy. Ok, never is a bit harsh, but it should have been exceedingly rare to see.
your videos are wonderful there was another incomplete quest that was very promising. the one starting after looting the essence of eranikus in the sunken temple. at one point, Itharius sends you to find a person in a remote corner of winterspring who is supposedly able to help you, but right after this person says something that implies he has a task for you, there's no following quest or anything at all. I'd love to see a video of this too = ) but I'm sure you already have many ideas
Huh... for some reason it never clicked in my head that the entirety of vanilla happened BEFORE the Ashbringer comic! I always thought the comic was the origin of this whole story, while in fact it was rooted in the game all along, that's awesome
What I've always found interesting about Ashbringer [weapon] in Classic, is the fact that boss which drop it might look quite generic on the first sight, due to nature of fight when you battle against 4 "mobs" at once, not a someONE special.
Hello,
No it's not.
xD
Do elaborate good sir/madam
@@Atlas8813 I do not need to, gentleman.
@@Aztonio understandable, have a nice day.
If the internet was this comment section, it'd be a much nicer place. Have a nice day.
Well done, Verigan. This brings me back to the fantasy that WoW once was. I was an undergrad when Vanilla WoW came out in November of 2004. I was part of a great guild back then named Obsidian Spur on the Sargeras realm. We raided jointly with another Horde guild named Team eXecute and ran almost all of the 40-man content back in Vanilla with the exception of a few bosses in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj and most of the Naxxramas bosses. My good friend and college roommate at the time was fascinated in the Ashbringer questline, and we would talk about if often. He played a Tauren warrior named Jt, and I played an undead/forsaken priest named Wretchedmist. I remember the Durnholde Keep references to Ashbringer as well. I became guild master of Obsidian Spur during The Burning Crusade. Indeed, he had to wait until Legion to finally wield the weapon. By that time we had transferred Obsidian Spur over to the Thrall realm due to Horde player volume, which is where the guild still resides. The original guild shell still exists on Sargeras, though.
My friend died a few years ago at the age of 37 on 10/29/2020. I just recently stopped playing WoW in June of 2022 due to the ever-increasing tedious nature of running a mythic raiding guild as raid leader and guild master. The mythic end-game raiding content in WoW became so horribly overtuned over the years, becoming less accessible and more demanding in terms of time and energy. It just wasn't worth it. Raiding, as well as the game as a whole, lost the fantasy, exploration, storytelling, and community element. Players nowadays don't value guilds the way they did in the past, and a big part of that problem is changing game designs over many years. I currently have the guild on hiatus. I'm not sure I will return to retail WoW. I might go back to Classic and try that for the first time. I'm happy with my incredible memories of WoW. The best time I ever played was during Vanilla. For those who didn't get that opportunity, I wish you did. I've never experienced anything like it. It truly was a great adventure. The memories are seared in my mind forever, and I relive them through the soundtracks.
"Mythic"
See, that's your issue, you were playing RETAIL. That's probably why you quit, retail is hot garbage.
RIP to your buddy.
MMO's in general back then were experimental takes at "imagine what a virtual world would be like" much more than they were games. Honestly the actual game was secondary in a lot of ways to how much effort they put into just making an online social experience. I don't know when it happened, but we moved away from that to putting all our focus on grindy MMO gameplay, which was never the selling point anyway
@@SirProdigle not only that, players nowadays have 1 goal: meta game only, screw fun. (Meta gaming AKA playing in the most efficient way possible, even if you have to sacrifice fun for efficiency).
Meta gaming has really destroyed gaming in general, because nobody is trying to have fun anymore at this point.
@@haunted5311 yes. Information space race. so easy to work out statistically the best strategy that games have to design around it.
I ended up recapturing a lot of that old "fun for funs sake" with actual couch co-op and indie games, but it's hard to set up now.
TTRPGS are also great for that!
Sorry for your loss. Way too young.
It's not only that mythic became overtuned, theres no magic. A raid should have one difficulty, it should have attunement quests that do worldbuilding and make you traverse the world, the first few weeks maybe months the handful of last few bosses should only be available to the top 5% and then get nerfed over the span of months, legendaries shoudl be legenday etc etc etc etc
It felt like a world everybody was in together and retail is just...... personalized instances of the newest boss encounters. I dont know theres just a different feeling from getting ported instantly to a raid, and then get personalized loot and the peace out compared to talking with your guild, walking there together, raging about loot descisions and dkp systems etc etc. Old WoW created stories
It has come to my attention I have been mispronouncing Naxxramas as 'Naxxaramus'
I will carry the guilt of this mistake with me for the rest of my life
Many players pronounce it Naxxaramus ❤
as you should you massive let down.
How do you sleep at night?!
TIL that I too have been saying it wrong. I must reevaluate how I pronounce "Christmas" now
Just wait till you do the AQ opening in Syphilis.
There was a quest in TBC that was pretty long from a blacksmith which eventually rewards you with a blue weapon reward, the rumor was that he was originally supposed to be the guy to get to the next step for the Ashbringer. It was such a long quest that made you do several end game dungeons that it wasn't worth the reward and ultimately was either a red herring or they scrapped the original purpose for that content.
Do you happen to remember what the name of the blacksmith is or the start quest? I'd like to take a look at this, I have a mild obsession with the old Corrupted Ashbringer and the what the purifying questline might have been and I would to see what this questline is.
@@shadowdragon8168 I've been trying to look it up and I'm having such a hard time finding it. I remember the pain in the ass of doing the quest and how big of a let down the reward was for doing it, but all I can remember about the quest giver is he's a human black smith and he's hidden in some forest part of a zone that's real hard to find on your own. I want to say it started with an item that drops off one of the mobs in the dungeons around Tempest Keep. I seriously spent a good hour going through quest rewards on wowhead on the TBC page and couldn't find the quest.
Seriously the only reason I remember it was because it was such a pain in the ass to finish and this was back in like February of 2007.
@@shadowdragon8168 its the Bane of the Ilidari questline
@@antoniomatias307 Thank you so much!
Your Paladin Trilogy has been such a neat look back into Classic WoW. Esp. as someone who played a Paladin throughout the classic era of WoW himself. I was one of those fools scouring Outland for any and all clues about the Ashbringer back in the mid-to-late 00's.
Anyway, whatever game you cover going forward, I'm excited to see it. I like your style, and you got a nice voice to listen to.
So that's it - the trilogy is complete. Onto the next adventure!
I'm a bit ashamed of my sloppy editing in this one, and RUclips's compression seems to have quietened the audio quite a bit for some reason, but I've been working on this for a month and I've been dying to get to work on the next projects, so here it is! Please let me know what you think.
You did good. 👍
the editing was extremely good keep doing what you do!
RUclips only softened your video's audio because it's way too hot. RUclips's "Stats for Nerds" shows it being reduced by 11 dB, you can do this on your own end and when uploaded to RUclips, it'll sound fine. This video is indeed quieter than others whose videos aren't being manhandled by RUclips.
Otherwise, it's fine.
You're a good storyteller - thoroughly enjoyed this. Makes me want to take the rest of the day off and go to Azeroth!
You are right to be ashamed. You can learn and do better if you wish it. It'll be fine.
An NPC in the Terrokar Forest was initially supposed to be the "lost son" called David Wayne. He abandoned the Sons of Lothar to live on his own, he is a weapon smith, he can create demonic/exotic weapons, when talking to him he said "that he has a feeling to be part of something great".
But then for some odd reason, blizzard decided to bring out the mentioned Ashbringer comic and retconning everything planned so far. And this is how we ended up with the current lore.
They were probably writing the Wrath lore before TBC release, and decided that Tyrion was getting the Ashbringer. In that case, they'd scrap the original quest, which they did, only saying prior to Wrath launch "Uh... we forgot."
“Some Reason” the reason ended up being so all Pallies could get it in legion. This is the best option.
@@colecote1432they had no idea legion was going to exist back then haha
@@tainicon4639 no doubt about that. But it worked out for the best.
@@colecote1432 yes and no… I think it should have been more obtainable… but giving it out like that was kinda disappointing after the first “omg I have it”. Like a wrath classic level legendary would have been perfect. Everyone and their mother has a shadowmourne now.
These videos are very bittersweet. It brings the nostalgia of the good old days while reminding you of what blizzard left behind in pursuit of money. Keep up the good work.
Classic is just fine bozo, as will sod be. Just because you parse grey and quit doesn’t mean the rest of us did.
@@cococock2418 why so toxic? this guy longs for better RPG storytelling and you insult him because (you think) he doesn't have.. high damage?
you are everything that is wrong with WoW
@@cococock2418wrecked lol
@@OrchinX “better rpg storytelling”? Go play a single player game. And I don’t “think”. I know. These comments are never said by people in method lmao, it’s always garbage players. You want lore, play classic. Retail blows.
@cococock2418 you proved his point with your own. Parses.
I love the assumption that a massive amount of people actually raided in vanilla, when most raid completion barely hit double digits until BC/Wrath, with Naxx having the lowest participation of them all. which lead to it being the first raid of wrath with reused assets.
The majority of players never got to 60 back then, never mind raiding
The vast majority did not raid beyond mc because the player base in general was less knowledgeable. It was how you established who was good and who was not. The only real difference between then and classic was that EVERYONE started world buffing and using full consumes, even for MC. World buffs and consumes can get even a lackluster guild to clear BWL, and most bosses become an absolute joke. I never once saw sons on Rag while playing classic or pserver, where my vanilla guild saw sons for the first few months until our dps got better gear (rag was nerfed several times after that, especially his health pool and raid damage). At the time, we only used world buffs when we were trying for a first kill on something like nef after a night of wiping to sort through mechanics and such. It's a shame, since seeing my buffed feral with 14k hp and capped armor was pretty awesome.
Verigan I am beyond obsessed with your wow videos. Your story telling, and reverence for the game are so so engaging. I'll happily follow any WoW adventure you go on, please keep making these videos.
At the start of Classic I prayed to the loot gods for Corrupted Ashbringer specifically and nothing else. I formed and amazing guild and played the entire game as its GM, even getting the Scarab Mount. When we got to Naxx, my prayers were answered, not only did we get a Corrupted Ashbringer…we got FIVE of them. The PvP video of four warriors and one paladin all with Ashbringers is still amazing. Two were night elves and we did Arena and once beat a Rogue/Mage/Priest as 3 warriors. I have to imagine seeing one lone human warrior with Ashbringer riding a Scarab then getting jumped by his two night elf warrior guards in stealth was a surreal pvp experience. I felt like a hero unit at the end of the game lmao.
I truly believe the first minute of this video is a crowning achievement in media story telling and If I was a game director at a AAA studio, I would reach out to you with a contract for lead cutscene designer based off of that alone.
4:11 was so hilariously unexpected holy shit you just made my day and nearly made a grown man shed a tear. Pure genius reference. Halo was so far beyond its time, I miss the atmosphere of those games so much.
The Fable music and the halo sound effects into boarding the covenant ship was fantastic.
Hahahaha dude I immediately heard that and knew! Funny enough, I listen to fable music all the time when I play classic. It’s so fitting. Cheers!
Same, I recognized right away. The other tracks were great too. I was happy to see the track list in the description 😊
Wow, what an amazing video! I knew this lore back in Vanilla, in 2006-7, but my guild had only made it part way thru AQ40 when TBC hit, (as a matter of fact, no guild in my server had cleared Naxx when TBC launched) so I never actually got to see how the events in SM actually go down when you wield the Ashbringer! So, 18 years later, i appreciate being able to see it!
Your videos are so cozy and atmospheric! Such a treat to watch!
Love the transition at 20:30 and the editing in general, the chapter titles and the anecdotes. Great work!
This is just brilliant. Not just the story, but you and your creativity and wordplay. Love it
Absolutely awesome video man, love to see it and very much enjoyed the Paladin Trilogy. Can't wait to see what's next, keep it up!
I could recognize the Fable 1 intro within the first 0.5 seconds, and the Morrowind music in 0.00000000000000001 seconds. The music beams serotonin direct into my brain. Love your work as always Verigan, Keep at it! btw, your editing on this video was really great. I loved the old school Halo style scene transitions.
These videos about classic WoW have really resonated with me. I was maybe 5-6 years old when my dad first showed me this incredible world during The Burning Crusade, and I've been so deeply invested in it ever since. I never got to appreciate the original run in 2004 in full, so 2019's re-release of Classic allowed me to experience the next best thing. Your story of trekking to the Scarlet Monastery made me sad that I didn't have memories of "the golden years", as some may call them. Though, after watching a little longer, it occurred to me that I *did* have some tales of my own - like while playing my undead mage and deciding that, on a whim, me and 4 other random people should just go run Deadmines at level 16 (which was a hell of a journey in of itself). I may have pushed the highest level of progression raiding during the vanilla - tbc - wrath re-releases, but those smaller memories are just as important.
Please keep telling stories, no matter what games and worlds they originate from. They evoke emotions that are near impossible to describe.
Even though the "Paladin Trilogy" is over, I do hope you'll someday talk about the Battle of Darrowshire questline. I've heard over and over that it's one of the most epic and emotional quests ever written, and I feel like your storytelling style would really do it justice.
Poor little Pamela, that story is so sad. I played a feral druid on p servers and classic, so I had to do that chain many times for the ring. The other rewards weren't great (other than tea with sugar)
Oh, is this about the long rumored quest to cleanse or reforge the Ashbringer? I had just brought this up to a friend. So excited to see this!
Love the use of Fable music in the intro
The Fable music is just so instantly comforting, it's like a balm directly on my brain.
Verigan, you make engaging videos and bring great stories alive. Don't care what game/story you are exploring, just like the way YOU do it. Please continue with what you are doing and I will continue consuming.
The Fable music at the beginning had me instantly. Wow.
Another banger video the halo transition screen editing is sick
After 19 years of WoW i've finally picked up paladin for the first time in classic hardcore. This was a lovely video to fill my soul with RP
This is so nostalgic omg QQ. The memories from this era of WOW were some of the absolute best gaming memories I still carry with me. Also very bittersweet.... The friends I made and got to know in game so well have all dispersed and lost touch. I Have played it off and on since then, but it will never be the same as back then. Great video mate!
i know that feeling
I absolutely adore your style of storytelling and montage. Thank you!
Enormous Like - very good narration and montage. You brought a lot of memories and spirits back! I started playing in TBC... I regeret not being a part of great classic lore and community.
The MOMENT I heard "Summer Fields" I knew it was gonna be a fire video..
I think these warcraft stories you're chronicling are going to become so much more relevant very soon - we need more high quality videos like this to give context to content that SoD will (supposedly) be expanding on. Awesome work yet again :)
Great video. I appreciate the lack of traditional video essayist “commentary” - it’s a breath of fresh air.
1. Great video!
2. While it was inconvenient back in those days the trek to the Scarlet Monastery was very worth it to Alliance players. It really wasn't hard to find a group, you just had to be the right level for the wing you wanted to take down since they all varied significantly. Armory and Cathedral were the more popular wings because of the gear.
3. While it does suck that the progression concerning the Corrupted Ashbringer ends abruptly after the cathedral scene, you do make a very valid point about Blizzard not focusing on it more. Naxxramas only saw about 6-7 months of relevancy before Karazhan became the new black. Raiding then was certainly a lot of trial and error.
Your voice over and script for this video is really well done.
Well played!
Great video. Recently acquired my Ashbringer on my Paladin after almost 20 years of hunting! The Morrowind music in the background somewhere was a tasty touch. I enchanted lifestealing on it. :)
The music choices in this video are peak.
I love this channel
The editing makes it feel like I'm doing the quests and exploring the world building with you
A bit late to comment, but if you ever read this :
The Fable OST is just perfect for WoW, may it be the Elwynn Forest to the tune of the Summer Fields, wandering the Duskwood listening to the Darkwood/Witchwood, questing with friends while the Greatwood song kicks in, just perfect
The quality and storytelling is so top notch, god i love when you upload these wow videos! Amazing work!
Absolutely incredible video. You have an eloquent way of storytelling. Brilliant!
You got me with the Fable music. Nice.
great video. i played back in vanilla and never made it to naxx, but i still remember the tales of the ashbringer back then
man i love the way u tell the stories haha, reminds me of all the moments and small things i did in the game collectivly making unforgetable memories
The Scarlet Crusade is my favourite faction / lore / thing about WoW. Thanks for this.
This was very well made. I enjoyed it from start to finish. You won my subscription, looking forward to see what you make next.
10:30 That ambiguity is some _very_ good writing.
Is the Ashbringer, the force that obliterated hordes of undead in minutes, the Naaru-core sword of vengeance? Or was it Alexandros, who could be both righteous and furious, unlike the modern Scarlet Crusade?
If you ask the Argent Dawn, it was the latter.
23:40 several is an severe overstatement, it took the first guild less than 3 months to clear Naxx after launch.
you are amazing at storytelling and I hope to see a horde epic soon, thanks for making these videos
Another excellent video, I look forward to see what the future holds in store for your channel!
Weapons like Ashbringer and it's lore is what makes WoW so magical.
The Library song when The Corrupted Ashbringer starts speaking is soooooo cash
I really like your style and approach to story telling.
Mannnn why does classic just hit different! I played back in circa 05 06 and again in re release!
i litteraly love your Warcraft Stories Videos ♥
This video was great! I like the way you present and narrated the story 👍🏼
I love your storytelling so much, its one of the best i've seen in youtube. Cant wait until you find more success.
very well made video! i dont know what it is about classic wow lore, i know all of this already but i always love watching videos like this.
the Verigan Paladin Trilogy is now a regularly watch for me on bad weather days
This video has SOOOOO many Halo references, I LOVE it!!! Also the oblivion music is insane, it feels like this video was made for me 😂😂!! Great work!!!
After going through all the abandoned quest threads of classic I am surprised you didn’t actually discuss the Legion quest line for the uncorrupted Ashbringer skin that recreated a quest line using all those old theories and threads from Dire Maul, Nat Pagle, Timolains Phylactory, etc. it was an excellent homage to the old theories and would have been a great closer for this video after you had already laid out the origin of all those threads earlier in the video
Getting to SM as an alliance was a true adventure. Heroes on their way to defeat evil!
That Fable 1 music hitting well in wow.
"But luckily for us, we have, in our hand, a grenade."
Damn you, Verigan, for making me spit my drink all across my monitor.
Terrific content! Your passion for storytelling is palpable
This really takes me back to when I used to play WoW in highschool.
Every time I hear the fable music it gets me nostalgic
I wondered if you were cover it. Back in the day there was indeed a blacksmith tucked away on on the edge of terokkar forest in a spot that required flying to reach, but he ultimately had no use if I recall. It was speculated at the time that he would be involved in the BC ashbringer questline that never happened.
Loved all the halo references, great video, keep it up!
Just stumbled upon this, and it was very entertaining and well put together. Loved the narration, good job! Now to watch the rest of the videos on your channel
this video is fkin amazing. fantastic story telling. ive been a ret paladin from the very beginning. across all servers. all expansions. anywhere i went. i played a retribution paladin. obsessed with this blade. now knowing the story behind it makes it so much better. i cant wait to have one of my own when released in Season of Discovery. Thank you for sharing this story and telling it in this way.
Really enjoyed this look back at my favorite and earliest gaming mysteries!
Great video, lovely narration. The only thing I would've wished to had see was a short section about all the hoaxes regarding the sword. As someone who was a part of the hunt for the sword back in the day; there were a ton of convincing images, videos and the such from players who were playing 'single player' private servers at the time who could spawn the weapon and doctor footage.
Love your videos! so calming and nice to just play and watch
Lovely video as always! Excited to see you grow
Very interesting choice of music, love it
Always good to hear from youtube's foremost quest connoisseur
The ashbringer black then was literally just a way to keep people looking, in turn keeping them playing.
really enjoying the idea behind your channel and this video as well!!
wooooot another verigan vid im sure its a banger! exciteed for ur new stuff
his voice is mesmerizing Verigan TO THE MOOON!!!
you do a great job with your footage and camera angles. I'm not sure if I've seen it done better than you do it here.
i love the fable soundtrack holyyyy
your videos are amazing man they are a journey
Halo references, oblivion/morrowind music, runescape music, I see a fellow child of the 2000s
very unique style and entertaining video. i found it calming and interesting
Amazing video, loved the mix of other games added to the story telling
I would love a big and condensed Fable review from you, I love hearing its OST in your videos, and its my favorite game of all time
i've had a good idea for a big fable video at some point, i'll have to get around to it at some point next year :)
@@Veriganic well, can't wait enough for it then! Best of luck, man 👍👍
My brain got bamboozled by the Fable BGM. Cool vid tho!
The Ashbringer should have never been in players hands. Some legendary items were completely diminished when you logged in and saw 40+ copies of it running around Dalaran. That might be a little harsh, but it sure as hell shouldn't have been something just handed out as a participation trophy.
Ok, never is a bit harsh, but it should have been exceedingly rare to see.
very nice video to watch while grinding
your videos are wonderful
there was another incomplete quest that was very promising. the one starting after looting the essence of eranikus in the sunken temple. at one point, Itharius sends you to find a person in a remote corner of winterspring who is supposedly able to help you, but right after this person says something that implies he has a task for you, there's no following quest or anything at all.
I'd love to see a video of this too = ) but I'm sure you already have many ideas
What an incredibly well made, enjoyable video!!
Huh... for some reason it never clicked in my head that the entirety of vanilla happened BEFORE the Ashbringer comic! I always thought the comic was the origin of this whole story, while in fact it was rooted in the game all along, that's awesome
that was a beautiful grand adventure. Thank you. I might lvl a pali next xD
Fable music was a nice touch
What I've always found interesting about Ashbringer [weapon] in Classic, is the fact that boss which drop it might look quite generic on the first sight, due to nature of fight when you battle against 4 "mobs" at once, not a someONE special.
bro i love your channel