The first wow was inspired heavily by d&d were most enchants granted you spells and abilities from other classes. I think the only thing that still carries the torch is trinkets but are limited to temporary hulk smash button.
That was nice topic to talk about! Maybe next would be simillar topic of Armor set bonuses? i do Rememmber how Wrath of the Lich King had few Game changing ones, which makes me curious about a top 10 list.
#1 would have to be the 4 piece season 4 arena gear and 4 piece tier 6 gear at the end of TBC. Having all the set bonuses from both sets at the same time, it was pretty broken.
This is what I loved about old wow, I know there are downsides to it and having someone with a specific weapon as a requirement to down a boss can also be considered gatekeeping. But I just love the synergy of these items, and let weaker geared people still be incredibly useful by getting them these weapons.
@@josejuanandrade4439 Which seems to be a large percentage of players WoW manages to retain. I feel like every second person is running around with titles like Hand of A'dal which have been unobtainable since 2008, that was 15 years ago. There are now people playing this game who couldn't get those titles or items because they weren't even born when they were available.
@@frtzkng so true. I like to run around with my Marshal tittle, which only my warlock can use. But my dh uses often hand of a'dal or champion of the naaru for the giggles. specialy that last. Or tittles like Justicar that are also hard to get nowadays, tho i think thAt one is still avaliable?
@@josejuanandrade4439 I think some older titles should be made available again. People had more than a decade to rub their feat of strength under everyone's nose. As it stands, 28% of the titles in the game are impossible to obtain.
@@josejuanandrade4439Well the fact we can timewalk with chromie time yet can’t ACTUALLY timewalk to vanilla (or tbc/wotlk’s vanilla/pre-cata landscape on kalim/eastern kingdoms) is dumb as hell. who cares if vanilla didn’t have a set “story”? it had its own quests, layout, lore, etc. but that would be too difficult for them. 🙄 and they want to funnel people into their various classic servers.
The two Champion swords showcase just how insane some Vanilla items could be. The Khorium version is a full 12 levels higher in requirement - with the same proc. Exactly the same proc. 120 strength for 30 seconds is super strong. Its also why they nerfed Vanilla flasks and potions too going into the expansions - they were way too strong. Some Vanilla items are still almost as good as Wrath ones - the +30 ranged hit rating scope, for example is only marginally lower in stat budget then +40 crit or haste ones - and 20 levels behind!
I really love the dept of every topic touch in this channel, I love your videos, I have some suggestions like, History of first in the world, toching every class usefulness in that fight, and a top 10 weapons per expansion will be nice, we have top 10 weapons in general, but divided for expasion could bring more info and history, this video is almost a top 10 vainilla crafted weapons
I remember stormherald. Lots of arms warriors using that in arena, the proc wasnt super reliable, but could be absolutely nasty. If I remember right, combat rogues had a talent to make one handed maces have a chance to proc too, stuns for days.
It was crazy for arms warriors when combined with the mace specialization in the arms spec. Had a stun proc. Rogues and warriors ran arena back during early tbc because of the mace stun procs... I don't remember exactly when but i remember the switch to armor pen as the mace specialization buff was a pretty big nerf at the time
never messed with this stuff while raiding back in the vanilla days but it was still cool to see these in the game, there were plenty of people back then who couldn't raid so obtaining a decent blue or epic of any kind was a big deal
maybe for a top 10 also about crafting you could do crafted dragonflight gear/weapons? although it might be better to wait until the end of the xpac for that
only needed to be a master Axe smith to make the annihilator axe, once it was crafted anyone with 1h axe skill could equip it, i know because my pally tank would use it in classic and he was herb/engineer
I'd like to see a video essay on whether obscure combinations of stuff that can oneshot bosses unexpectedly or buff DPS by over 100% etc. - 'fun' that Blizzard apparently likes to remove - should actually be allowed to stay in the game. A discussion on the pros and cons of having stuff like that from someone as well versed in historic WoW as yourself and your team.
I used to run Arenas with that exact same setup. Windfury procs could proc the Stormherald stuns, so it was really freaking strong despite TBC heavily encouraging Enhancement Shamans to go dual-wield.
Nice list, but i kinda miss some of the new effects you can get on your Weapons via Embelishments in DF. Jeah, it is nothing a Weapon comes with automatically, but they are kinda nasty to, at least some of them ^^
There’s plenty of neat attachments you can add to crafted items now in DF that are pretty fun and neat if you like that unique and fun stuff. I personally enjoy Shadowwreathe
I would love to see classic plus with more recipes for stuff like this, pre bis crafted options and maybe some phase 1-2 bis items for classic, more op crafted stuff for lower levels, and maybe recipes that require previous drops, like if you get the fang set you can upgrade it at level 30 and 40/50 etc Making more use out of lower level enchanting and crafting materials to make more twink ish items for pvp brackets and just to overhaul how gearing is handled like later expansions you can buy your alts gear off the AH to level into, Classic never had that as much. The pieces should really be tailored for items the leveling or dungeon experience don't provide, like the Scarlet gear covers a couple of pieces, so at that level for mail/plate make the other slots. It'd make crafting more of a thing also collecting all the recipes from weird places and having recipes upgrade of other ones (preferably those with high drop chances, having a 1% drop upgrade into a bis item would be frustrating if done too often)
Phantom Blade is not one of a kind tho, there's also the epic BoE sword called Dazzling Longsword which is pretty nice to pair with the Phantom Blade as MH and Dazzling as OH
@@casuallyfilthywhat he is saying is BS. Blizzard just moved these gimmicks from weapons to trinkets and tier sets. If anything we have more now than ever
@@ventu7907 yes thats correct and in terms of crafted items there is SO many of them with some special effects. You said if well, blizz just moved to other items with these special effects
Why do youtubers keep insisting on using the ''new'' stat squished tooltips for the items in their videos instead of the original tooltips when they are so easily available? Seeing Phantom blade with 2-5 dmg and 1.3 DPS is just silly. So annoying, especially when they want to showcase some ''OP'' procc but its ruined by the squished tooltip with a proc barely having any stats lol
I remember i farmed for months just to get nightfall for my enchancement shaman, it was trash but i didnt care it was so cool. i was probebly the only one on my server with it
These top 10s are really fun. I don’t have time for WoW anymore, your videos give me a way to remember the good times.
Preach
Same
The old expansions had such interesting items. A lot weapons had weird abilities like stuns, faerie fire, disarms, thunderstrike, and so much more.
The first wow was inspired heavily by d&d were most enchants granted you spells and abilities from other classes. I think the only thing that still carries the torch is trinkets but are limited to temporary hulk smash button.
Barov's trinket was funny to me love scholomance
They were also super broke and heavily abused by min maxers
That was nice topic to talk about! Maybe next would be simillar topic of Armor set bonuses? i do Rememmber how Wrath of the Lich King had few Game changing ones, which makes me curious about a top 10 list.
Oh yes! I remember how my pala got his hand on a thorium Armor back then at vanilla.
#1 would have to be the 4 piece season 4 arena gear and 4 piece tier 6 gear at the end of TBC. Having all the set bonuses from both sets at the same time, it was pretty broken.
Druid cat sprint from battleground gear, could go 300% speed in WSG
This is what I loved about old wow, I know there are downsides to it and having someone with a specific weapon as a requirement to down a boss can also be considered gatekeeping. But I just love the synergy of these items, and let weaker geared people still be incredibly useful by getting them these weapons.
"Removed in Cataclysm" has been the bane of collectors for almost 13 years now
Yeah what a shame right? :)))
I mean for those that did not start playing in very very very early vanilla :)
@@josejuanandrade4439 Which seems to be a large percentage of players WoW manages to retain. I feel like every second person is running around with titles like Hand of A'dal which have been unobtainable since 2008, that was 15 years ago. There are now people playing this game who couldn't get those titles or items because they weren't even born when they were available.
@@frtzkng so true. I like to run around with my Marshal tittle, which only my warlock can use. But my dh uses often hand of a'dal or champion of the naaru for the giggles. specialy that last. Or tittles like Justicar that are also hard to get nowadays, tho i think thAt one is still avaliable?
@@josejuanandrade4439 I think some older titles should be made available again. People had more than a decade to rub their feat of strength under everyone's nose. As it stands, 28% of the titles in the game are impossible to obtain.
@@josejuanandrade4439Well the fact we can timewalk with chromie time yet can’t ACTUALLY timewalk to vanilla (or tbc/wotlk’s vanilla/pre-cata landscape on kalim/eastern kingdoms) is dumb as hell. who cares if vanilla didn’t have a set “story”? it had its own quests, layout, lore, etc. but that would be too difficult for them. 🙄 and they want to funnel people into their various classic servers.
Serenity was cool! So many fun interactions with items that carried on long after the expansion.
was awesome rocking stormherald back in TBC.
Stormherald is my number 1. What an utter legend.
Stunherald was sooo much fun 😂
Stormherald on enhancement shammys or the double stun procc on mace warrior holy crap every arena fight against these was buttclenching
The two Champion swords showcase just how insane some Vanilla items could be. The Khorium version is a full 12 levels higher in requirement - with the same proc. Exactly the same proc. 120 strength for 30 seconds is super strong.
Its also why they nerfed Vanilla flasks and potions too going into the expansions - they were way too strong. Some Vanilla items are still almost as good as Wrath ones - the +30 ranged hit rating scope, for example is only marginally lower in stat budget then +40 crit or haste ones - and 20 levels behind!
I also liked the felsteel longblade,plus black-bluish transmog were pretty cool for belf my combat rog .
I really love the dept of every topic touch in this channel, I love your videos, I have some suggestions like, History of first in the world, toching every class usefulness in that fight, and a top 10 weapons per expansion will be nice, we have top 10 weapons in general, but divided for expasion could bring more info and history, this video is almost a top 10 vainilla crafted weapons
I remember stormherald. Lots of arms warriors using that in arena, the proc wasnt super reliable, but could be absolutely nasty. If I remember right, combat rogues had a talent to make one handed maces have a chance to proc too, stuns for days.
It was crazy for arms warriors when combined with the mace specialization in the arms spec. Had a stun proc. Rogues and warriors ran arena back during early tbc because of the mace stun procs... I don't remember exactly when but i remember the switch to armor pen as the mace specialization buff was a pretty big nerf at the time
Skillherald* FIFY
never messed with this stuff while raiding back in the vanilla days but it was still cool to see these in the game, there were plenty of people back then who couldn't raid so obtaining a decent blue or epic of any kind was a big deal
the other thing that made stunherald op in tbc was that it had 3.8 speed, it hit really hard compared to the other weapons which had 3.6 speed
maybe for a top 10 also about crafting you could do crafted dragonflight gear/weapons? although it might be better to wait until the end of the xpac for that
what about a video regarding all the nods and references to real people in the game that have since passed away.
What about the world drop leather patterns, one that was in Winterspring, along with the early 'mythic' gear from the thorium brotherhood there.
Having not played since WotLK I found it funny how old all of these were.
my warrior still got 2 Dragonstrike and Stunherald in bags from old BC. mace spec and that 2hand was more than fun in arena
only needed to be a master Axe smith to make the annihilator axe, once it was crafted anyone with 1h axe skill could equip it, i know because my pally tank would use it in classic and he was herb/engineer
I'd like to see a video essay on whether obscure combinations of stuff that can oneshot bosses unexpectedly or buff DPS by over 100% etc. - 'fun' that Blizzard apparently likes to remove - should actually be allowed to stay in the game. A discussion on the pros and cons of having stuff like that from someone as well versed in historic WoW as yourself and your team.
2.4.3 Stormherald enha sham ftw :D
I used to run Arenas with that exact same setup. Windfury procs could proc the Stormherald stuns, so it was really freaking strong despite TBC heavily encouraging Enhancement Shamans to go dual-wield.
Nice list, but i kinda miss some of the new effects you can get on your Weapons via Embelishments in DF. Jeah, it is nothing a Weapon comes with automatically, but they are kinda nasty to, at least some of them ^^
There’s plenty of neat attachments you can add to crafted items now in DF that are pretty fun and neat if you like that unique and fun stuff. I personally enjoy Shadowwreathe
Great video, but why some of the weapons in the list doesn't have picture shown with them
I pushed to make dragonstrike during BC, but sadly i could never seem to get any nether vortexes 😢
I would love to see classic plus with more recipes for stuff like this, pre bis crafted options and maybe some phase 1-2 bis items for classic, more op crafted stuff for lower levels, and maybe recipes that require previous drops, like if you get the fang set you can upgrade it at level 30 and 40/50 etc
Making more use out of lower level enchanting and crafting materials to make more twink ish items for pvp brackets and just to overhaul how gearing is handled like later expansions you can buy your alts gear off the AH to level into, Classic never had that as much.
The pieces should really be tailored for items the leveling or dungeon experience don't provide, like the Scarlet gear covers a couple of pieces, so at that level for mail/plate make the other slots.
It'd make crafting more of a thing also collecting all the recipes from weird places and having recipes upgrade of other ones (preferably those with high drop chances, having a 1% drop upgrade into a bis item would be frustrating if done too often)
VIDEO IDEA: most rare desired items of every wow expansion (maybe something that sold for a lot or did something cool)
Please show every gear model, i want to see it even if it not looks so good
Top Ten set bonuses
Idk if professions got a buff, haven't played since BFA. I wish professions were still impactful. They hadn't been for years before I quit
Top 10 enchants
Me: waiting to see something from Wotkl so I can use it.
Hiru: Classic, Classic, Classic, TBC, Classic
Ragnaros's hammer is crafted.
I miss my Skill Herald 😢
It'd be nice if crafted weapons could rival raid gear.
Phantom Blade is not one of a kind tho, there's also the epic BoE sword called Dazzling Longsword which is pretty nice to pair with the Phantom Blade as MH and Dazzling as OH
nice
double nice
Nightfall is a hunter weapon. Give it to one have him Spam wing clip
Top 10 weakest abilities that stayed in the game the longest (for a long time)
Top 10 engineering goggles
Top 10 crafted ranged weapons?
do you even whirlwind, bro?
Couldn’t a DK benefit pretty well from Nightfall? Where most of his damage is from spells if you’re Unholy that is
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game has just forgotten crafting professions...
i mean... most on the list are from classic or bc
It pains me to see every item here is from ages past because blizz since then decided to balance every class and ability to the level of utter boredom
Isn’t that some bs? Every vid I find on WoW is rarely praising any current content… it’s always about how great WoW used to be. It’s sad man.
@@casuallyfilthywhat he is saying is BS. Blizzard just moved these gimmicks from weapons to trinkets and tier sets. If anything we have more now than ever
@@ventu7907 yes thats correct and in terms of crafted items there is SO many of them with some special effects. You said if well, blizz just moved to other items with these special effects
Horde have their own section of Stratholme? Man learn something new everyday.
Why do youtubers keep insisting on using the ''new'' stat squished tooltips for the items in their videos instead of the original tooltips when they are so easily available? Seeing Phantom blade with 2-5 dmg and 1.3 DPS is just silly. So annoying, especially when they want to showcase some ''OP'' procc but its ruined by the squished tooltip with a proc barely having any stats lol
Bro two preroll ads (one unskippable) on list video. Come on
The keyboard turning gameplay in the background is almost unbearable and makes your videos a pain to watch. It's 2023, use damn keybinds.
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You'd give eminem a run for his money
I remember i farmed for months just to get nightfall for my enchancement shaman, it was trash but i didnt care it was so cool. i was probebly the only one on my server with it