I was one of the rare unicorns who got the full T .5 set. I worked evenings, so I never saw the inside of MC. This was my only option for better gear. I actually replaced my robe of the archmage with the T .5 chest because of how proud I was to have it. Later I got the Ironbark staff. Then TBC came out.
The thing is, that people get more money from posting two videos, because the average viewer doesnt watch long videos. Its good that he splits them up, because that will ensure more of this cool content in the future. I would prefer longer videos too, but thats not how youtube operates, sadly.
This may be an odd horn to toot, but I was actually the 1st player in NA to complete this quest (World 3rd). We logged the kill on the forums, just to see if we could score more points, but alas, the powers that be deemed the 10 man boss in UBRS, "not raid content." It took roughly 25,000g to complete quickly, with my entire 40 man raid team assisting - mostly farming arcanite, and shadow protection potions. One of the proudest moments I've ever had playing *any* game. Thanks to my guild Destined, and my boys Lazzador, Blindenvy, and Darkschneidr (Tokish, Poki, Hansel, Gretel... so many).
Good stuff, I feel your pride, was the first person on my realm to complete the chain too! Soulforge equipment which I really didn’t benefit from, but I just wanted to server first something and at that time everything else had already been done.
@Rubee Sorry, I should have mentioned that it was the cost to supply the 25 players with that assisted, with Flasks, Shadow Protection Pots, a few enchants iirc, and all the repairs. My entire guild helped out with the entire process, so the 'gbank' paid out repair money. Healthy server economy too - Burning Blade. (Human Paladin named Chrisami).
You're so right on that... since it seems so mainstream to use heirlooms these days, I just rather end up transmogging my heirlooms into something else even if the heirlooms looked a little more flashier...
@@emenalus you don't do heirlooms right if you don't unlock all the set by the DMF (if you didn't have it already) and transmog all your items while leveling
Eh, i stopped playing retail the moment classic came out, well actually 2 months before, so by the time i was that level, it was new enough to where the gear was cool again for me
@@WikiHL I don't know what you're meaning with DMF, but I do transmog all my heirlooms periodically while unlocking new sets of gear after reaching a certain level
Getting tier .5 was a real high point for me in classic. As a guild that did ZG and AQ20 primarily, it did provide useful pieces in the Helm and Chest. It took a long time and the 45 minute baron run and the last boss stand out as some of the most challenging non 40 man content I pursued.
I still have my Darkmantle set sitting in my Void Storage. It was SO satisfying finally completing the Stratholme 45-minute run. I wasn't actively raiding back then, so this was my best option for getting gear upgrades.
Wow. My dad passed down his mage to me when he stopped playing, and he's had this item called the [Extra-Dimensional Ghost Revealer] in his inventory this whole time. I've been clicking on it every once and awhile thinking I'd see dead players from graveyards or something, but to find out that it was part of this chain? I freaked out. I have the transmog for the deathmist wrists, belt, and gloves too. Thanks MadSeason. You have revealed something super cool to me.
frozentime when my dad quit I got the following characters in draenor 1 Human DK (but my main is a night elf dk) 1 Human Huntard 1 Human Paladin All lvl 100 and with 670 armor back when it was 2nd best in pvp
The fact that it take so long to travel everywhere really gives you the sense that you're travelling across continents and it gives it that classic fantasy awesomeness feeling. Also makes you feel like a proper adventurer. You're given a task that's not easy and it might take you a long time. That's why the NPC is asking YOU to do this because they can't. In current WoW the quests have no real weight to them anymore.
The full set was very much a status symbol in the early days, you#d stand in town with your full set ( in my case wildheart ) and people would actually whisper you to say how cool you look.
Sometimes I click on wow videos without realizing they are mad season videos. Then I get alittle excited when I hear his intro music and I'm like yaaayyyy mad season:)
Hah! I remember getting this set for my warrior just before Cata hit. Dungeon set 2 quests were surprisingly interesting, and even post Cataclysm you could still summon some of the bosses with the brazier. And chat with the ghost of course.
Haven't even watched yet but stopped watching Nix video and clicked fast af cause MadSeason. Edit: Finished watching. Wish I'd played in Vanilla, quest chains like this look much more immersive and probably made it feel like the reward was really worth it. Nice video as usual and can't wait for part two. :D
Man, everytime I click on a video I get flooded by nostalgia. I started playing late Burning Crusade as an excitable kid, but kinda dropped out when my first character, a bear form night elf druid, got to level 19. We only had one computer and my sister also played much more hardcore than I could, so I gravitated to other things. But then Wrath came out and my family got a new computer, so we had 2 stations for raids. I made a new character(Human Paladin) leveled up like crazy, went through all the classic raids with my sisters guild, rushed the outlands then straight to Northrand. I had so many laughs, a few arguments and fallouts, but most importantly beautiful memories. I played on and off since then, only to drop out with WoD. And everytime I click on a video it's like I'm back there, sitting on a foldable chair arguing with a warrior why my Paladin really needed the life stone from Straholme while my sister tried to explain that she needed it more than us. Your videos are just a blast to the past, and I really enjoy the work you put in. Stay awesome!
Mad, have I told you how much you rock!? Thank you for bringing back the memories on the questchain. Forgot I did it ages ago but not when it was current. I believe I did it much much later when fighting for quests to find to do the glitched Loremaster title achievement. Back when that achievement was launched and they kept resetting the numbers sometimes counting quests you did and sometimes not. This went on for about a month and a half.
Besides it being more profitable, youtube's algorithms heavily favour frequent uploads, so it seems to be something of a quadruple-win situation or something. :P
Agreed. I prefer longer videos. 20-30 mins seems to be the sweet spot where I can watch without having to browse for the next video Anyway as long as it needs to be to cover the topic without losing quality
Bro i havent played wow since cataclysm, but am an avid classic rpg player(mainly oldschool runescape). But watching these videos has me hype about wow classic! Double Subbed
Used to raid full time, but on the off raiding day our guild would run the dungeons for different things. I remember the frustration on getting my last dungeon set piece. Was the dreadnist shoulders off Jandice. It seemed every group I could pug for always invited another warlock and of course my /roll 100 sucked every single time I always lost. I finally did get the shoulders. Then I could start the quest line for the upgraded items. Another guy in our guild was doing the same quest chain, but he was a Druid. It wasn’t hard to ask guild for the hard fights required for this quest line. I did finish this quest chain and got all the Deathmist pieces. I am sad that they have added these set looks to the game via the dark moon fair. To me it feels like it cheapens the rarity of my hard work on this quest chain. All the hours spent pugging. I had them on my classic raiding char for years. I never did throw them out when transmog became I thing. I just couldn’t. Not after all the work I did to get it. Side note I wish I had kept my necropile set. For all the times I ran scholo to get those shoulders I did get that set, but sadly I did have to toss it due to lack of bank space near the end of classic. Wish I could get those back. Still kick myself over selling those 5 pieces. Thanks for the video. Brings me back a lot of memories.
The replica items have "replica" in the name. You can still tell when someone is wearing/mogging the actual gear. I understand your disappointment, but it's also silly to not put some method of acquiring them into the game when almost nobody finished their d2.
What I find insulting is in my collection my Desthmist comes up as a darkmoon fair set and not something more prestigious I guess. This quest chain took a very long time and to have it read as Darkmoon fair stuff is just sad.
not true kael, I have the originals, still in my bank and everything, but when mogging that set it still calls it "replica" maybe don't make statements about things you do not understand?
I just checked on my warlock. I did the set as transmog and it doesn’t say its replica. It just calls each piece as they are in my bank. Under the sets tab it comes up as Deathmist raiment, under that it says darkmoon fair. I get that they had to add these sets in for those that didn’t play classic. I’d just like my set to say “no longer obtainable or quest chain.
Thank you for the memories. I remember doing this quest with my priest. It was so difficult! The money was not a problem, to be honest, the quests take days to complete, and you need a lot of help for the unique objectives to do inside the dungeons. We did Strat in less than 45 min. in order to save a NPC... was insane! for one quest. And of course, the reward wasn't worthy... Was easier to find a Molten Core group... and get better items from there. But yeah... the memories... do it for the fun!
Shit I remember going through all this quest chain too. Those bosses were *savage* by the standard of even T1 raid bosses... way more complex than tank & spank the early bits of MC.
Hey man. Just wanted to comment and say how much i love your channel. I played vanilla back when I was really young and had no idea how deep the game went, and your videos bring a sense of nostalgia that makes me want to make a new character and grind to 60 TONIGHT. Keep it up man.
+deenman23 lol jeez calm down, people are allowed to enjoy different things from you. Believe it or not some of us like the immersiveness of long quest chains and how that actually adds to an RPG
I knew it was gonna be good when it's MadSeason and my favourite sets in WoW ever. Great video as always! Getting full D2 set is actually one of my main goals when WoW:Classic hits. I remember the thrill getting it back in the time and I absolutely love the quest chains.
So glad you did this! These sets were awesome but went almost entirely overlooked since they were so overshadowed by Raiding & Rank 14 gear. They're all incredibly well-rounded. Great PvP sets for those that don't have the time for the Rank 14 grind, and great PvE upgrades for those that aren't really all that interested in raiding. Looking forward to part two! Glad you answered my question from way back when! Keep 'em comin'!
Nice video! One very interesting part of upgrading the set is that the set bonuses become reversed in order. This is really great, considering the best bonus was the 8 piece bonus on the tier 0. Might be worth mentioning in part 2!
I really loved getting 0.5 as a rogue. Darkmantle is arguably one of the best 0.5 sets in the game with the 4 set energy bonuses. I wore it along with tier 2 as my guild first cleared AQ as my bis. Was amazing.
I spent the end of vanilla feverishly trying to acquire this set for my warlock. I had everything save for 1 piece. Wiped on the summonable UBRS boss for it at 5%. I eventually went back to UBRS in bc to finally complete the set. Thanks for sharing this one. That dungeon boss Lord Valthalek can eat it.
Quest chains like this are part of what made vanilla special I think. I didn't complete this one personally back in the day(was raiding at the time), but it's one of the longer ones so it must have been a very rewarding feeling for those who did completely it fully back then.
Indeed was rewarding and fun. I got to complete my warlock, paladin and warrior sets. I still have the summoning items on my warrior... but sadly, many of the locations where you could summon the unique bosses are gone or non functional... Like Rhaz Laboratory in Scholomance. I think i can still summon the night elf priest in Eastern Dire Maul, the group in Ring of Law in BRD, and the druid in LBRS, tho this last one i am not quite sure. I think the twin brothers in live Strath are gone and of course Val'thalak.
The travelling was awesome indeed... But the gold investment, oh boy As a leatherworker for example you were extremely fucked, because you didn't have as much money as other professions So this whole chain depends on your profession, which makes it either impossible or even more time consuming to farm stuff you can sell, so you can buy MORE stuff which is then needed for the Q🤔
I remember getting my Shadowcraft set on my Rogue back in the day; and even got a few pieces of Darkmantle before I ran out of money. Felt so nice getting a group of armour that all matched; and I think that was what really got me into transmog back in the day.
I didn't start playing until WotLK. I wasn't very good at raiding so rarely went with my guild, instead I concentrated on old content. I think I did every quest that still existed and I still remember doing this and the Shifting Sands quest chain for the lore and fun. I liked Cataclysm zone changes for leveling but I miss some of the old content. Thanks for making this,
At first I thought your voice was mildly annoying, but after binging a lot of your videos, I've grown to really like it. Solid videos, man. Solid videos.
As someone who plans to be doing 5 mans as my endgame (because I don’t think I’m good enough to raid ever) I don’t think this is too bad. If you do the entire mission chain with your 5 man band you should have a mix of professions. I mean you’ll be grinding a lot more. But at least it’s grinding together.
I think a cool short segment for your time warped series would be on WoW’s old website, pre-battle net. I remember navigating through the whole thing and reading some of the lore and looking at the pictures of the sweet tier gear and dungeon sets for the different classes. It was completely different from the nice looking website we have now, just a thought :)
i loved the vanilla epic questchains, they were awesome. i still have the whole set, the banner and brazier (and other old quest things) in my bank :) everytime i look at them when i open my bank i get a feel of nostalgic happiness
1:02 to see all this sets reminds me of the old days. I played a tauren and got the warlock-sets hood, shoulders and robe. Added the burning trident from brd to my look and got my preferred outfit when being in Orgrimmar.
Have finished this with my n811-warrior on the german privat-server Nefarian 3 Month ago, had to wait several weeks to complete because that d1-boots did not drop. Mainreason for the most people today on privat-servers to do this is nowadays style-gear and the key-item to spawn the several questbosses for the superior blue items for friends and little guildmates. And for extra-shards. (But the glorious blue warrior D2! Prettiest set ever! My Paradeuniform!) Can not wait for the next part of your video! :)
I used to run people through the timed event for free, it was great to see people on my server were really involved in it. Also wiping people with urn in UBRS was priceless.
I remember these quests... managed to get Soulforge on my Paladin. This quest was absolutely brutal compared to the difficulty of just coasting through MC. You'd get props even from people decked in full T2 for completing this questline. I'm pretty sure the quest/gear was intended for those "capped" at having completed the full dungeon but who never got the chance to do serious raiding; it's long and expensive but can be broken up over a lot of time. Mad respect for anyone else who completed it.
I remember having tier zero and even after having most of tier 1 giantstalker i made it a goal to get tier .5 but never finished it off. The preraid gear was amazing looking back then.
you sir are my favorite wow content provider and I will be using your videos for sure when classic comes out...so many things I have forgotten about. I was going to do this quest but since I started six months into BC my guild leader said..not worth it...now I wish I had. Cataclysm ruined wow for me..even though I have played ever since with the exception of Cata...I took a long break after seeing what they did to the game.
Finish my rogue d2 set about month before cata I'm so glad I finish that quest chain for good relic. I still use the look on all my gear for good memories of the old wow days
Omg, brings back lots of memories running dungeons to vet my devout set. And you are very correct in saying the .5 set was super expensive. I think i only managed to upgrade a cpl pieces before it dawned on me that raiding was more fun, gave much better gear and was way cheaper lol.
I completed this quest before it was removed, wish I could go back and do it on another character. My most frustrating part was trying to get the chest to drop from UBRS so I could continue the quest or start it can't remember, think it took 20 runs! Great content, keep it up
I state with great pride that I completed this quest chain and got my full Sorcerer’s set. It was grueling and my guild wondered endlessly why I was bothering. The truth was, back then I worked during prime raiding hours. Upgrading my tier 0 set was the best I could do. I only ever saw one other player with a full tier .5 set. The hardest parts (besides getting enough gold) was running Dstrat in under 45 min and Lord Valthalak, the final boss, which required a raid to defeat. This quest chain was a testament to the epic nature of classic wow. I hope it is available before MC is released so we see more people trying for it.
I got the Heroism set when it was current. Being one of few people on my server who completed the quest chain, I was often asked to go to Dire Maul and Lower Blackrock as I was able to summon the bosses who were able to drop the ranged slot items for non-ranged classes (ex. Paladin Librams). I did this for free for guildies, especially ones who helped me complete the quest chain. For non-guildies I often charged them to try to recoup some of the gold I spent. On a side note: I only completed the Heroism set, but my in my transmog sets I have the Soulforge armor set available on my Paladin.
I don't remember if I ever ended up getting any of these pieces, but I remember being pretty excited for them because at the time I didn't really have a good enough connection to handle raiding and wanted some means of experiencing more end game content.
Loved this quest chain, I already had better gear on my main but thought the dungeon set was badass. Managed to finish the whole chain at the very end off vanilla. My go to transmog set
lol i remember doing this questline... think i saw it pop up randomly and was confused as to why suddenly a quest was there and just followed the chain out of curiosity
Great job with this questline explanation! Only suggestion I'd make is using a darker colour for the arrow marking nuetral (both Alliance and Horde) traveling across the world map. Maybe black, or anything more visiable than bright green.
Ah haha, I remember doing some of the D2 sets in Vanilla. I did not quite understand what the point was, but I still have some Darkmantle gear on my very very first character. Good memories.
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I was one of the rare unicorns who got the full T .5 set. I worked evenings, so I never saw the inside of MC. This was my only option for better gear. I actually replaced my robe of the archmage with the T .5 chest because of how proud I was to have it. Later I got the Ironbark staff. Then TBC came out.
WE DO NOT MIND LONG VIDEOS
at all.
Behealial Klo he probably does tho lol that’s why he keeps asking
i wish his vids were longer too but remember he needs to edit the vids too
#agree
The thing is, that people get more money from posting two videos, because the average viewer doesnt watch long videos. Its good that he splits them up, because that will ensure more of this cool content in the future. I would prefer longer videos too, but thats not how youtube operates, sadly.
This may be an odd horn to toot, but I was actually the 1st player in NA to complete this quest (World 3rd). We logged the kill on the forums, just to see if we could score more points, but alas, the powers that be deemed the 10 man boss in UBRS, "not raid content."
It took roughly 25,000g to complete quickly, with my entire 40 man raid team assisting - mostly farming arcanite, and shadow protection potions.
One of the proudest moments I've ever had playing *any* game.
Thanks to my guild Destined, and my boys Lazzador, Blindenvy, and Darkschneidr (Tokish, Poki, Hansel, Gretel... so many).
if true, respect+
Good stuff, I feel your pride, was the first person on my realm to complete the chain too! Soulforge equipment which I really didn’t benefit from, but I just wanted to server first something and at that time everything else had already been done.
Why did it cost that much? All the mats and gold should only be about 1000g.
@@mattbrown4833 We went through 200+ Shadow Protection Potions (for UBRS boss), plus repairs, and a few other inflated things.
@Rubee Sorry, I should have mentioned that it was the cost to supply the 25 players with that assisted, with Flasks, Shadow Protection Pots, a few enchants iirc, and all the repairs. My entire guild helped out with the entire process, so the 'gbank' paid out repair money. Healthy server economy too - Burning Blade. (Human Paladin named Chrisami).
Hey man it’s 2022 and I’m still playing private servers. These videos are still appreciated.
Love your Vanilla Videos!
Thanks for watching
Heirlooms ruined the looks of those sets for me.
disappointingly yes
You're so right on that... since it seems so mainstream to use heirlooms these days, I just rather end up transmogging my heirlooms into something else even if the heirlooms looked a little more flashier...
@@emenalus you don't do heirlooms right if you don't unlock all the set by the DMF (if you didn't have it already) and transmog all your items while leveling
Eh, i stopped playing retail the moment classic came out, well actually 2 months before, so by the time i was that level, it was new enough to where the gear was cool again for me
@@WikiHL I don't know what you're meaning with DMF, but I do transmog all my heirlooms periodically while unlocking new sets of gear after reaching a certain level
Getting tier .5 was a real high point for me in classic. As a guild that did ZG and AQ20 primarily, it did provide useful pieces in the Helm and Chest. It took a long time and the 45 minute baron run and the last boss stand out as some of the most challenging non 40 man content I pursued.
I've decided to binge watch all your videos until classic comes out lol
You're killing it with this series. I really love to know more about these rare weapons and armors. Keep up the good work!!
I still have my Ectoplasmic Distiller.
It still confuses the hell out of people when I drop it in raids or in Dalaran.
I still have my Darkmantle set sitting in my Void Storage. It was SO satisfying finally completing the Stratholme 45-minute run. I wasn't actively raiding back then, so this was my best option for getting gear upgrades.
Wow.
My dad passed down his mage to me when he stopped playing, and he's had this item called the [Extra-Dimensional Ghost Revealer] in his inventory this whole time. I've been clicking on it every once and awhile thinking I'd see dead players from graveyards or something, but to find out that it was part of this chain? I freaked out.
I have the transmog for the deathmist wrists, belt, and gloves too.
Thanks MadSeason. You have revealed something super cool to me.
That's still a pretty cool relic from the past though...hang onto it!
not to be rude or anything, but so u basicly didn't came up with the idea to google Extra-Dimensional Ghost Revealer in like the past 10years ?
Closerangel I just never bothered. Didn’t think it was worth it.
MadSeasonShow Wow MadSeason noticed me?! This has been a hell of a day. And I for sure will be holding onto it!
frozentime when my dad quit I got the following characters in draenor
1 Human DK (but my main is a night elf dk)
1 Human Huntard
1 Human Paladin
All lvl 100 and with 670 armor back when it was 2nd best in pvp
The fact that it take so long to travel everywhere really gives you the sense that you're travelling across continents and it gives it that classic fantasy awesomeness feeling.
Also makes you feel like a proper adventurer. You're given a task that's not easy and it might take you a long time. That's why the NPC is asking YOU to do this because they can't. In current WoW the quests have no real weight to them anymore.
The full set was very much a status symbol in the early days, you#d stand in town with your full set ( in my case wildheart ) and people would actually whisper you to say how cool you look.
Sometimes I click on wow videos without realizing they are mad season videos. Then I get alittle excited when I hear his intro music and I'm like yaaayyyy mad season:)
I was so proud of my devout set. First set I ever got and for some reason it is still on top of my list.
Thanks for yet another awesome video.
Woo! Been waiting for another madseason video! Keep it up man!
Enjoy!
Hah! I remember getting this set for my warrior just before Cata hit.
Dungeon set 2 quests were surprisingly interesting, and even post Cataclysm you could still summon some of the bosses with the brazier. And chat with the ghost of course.
Haven't even watched yet but stopped watching Nix video and clicked fast af cause MadSeason.
Edit: Finished watching. Wish I'd played in Vanilla, quest chains like this look much more immersive and probably made it feel like the reward was really worth it. Nice video as usual and can't wait for part two. :D
Man, everytime I click on a video I get flooded by nostalgia. I started playing late Burning Crusade as an excitable kid, but kinda dropped out when my first character, a bear form night elf druid, got to level 19. We only had one computer and my sister also played much more hardcore than I could, so I gravitated to other things. But then Wrath came out and my family got a new computer, so we had 2 stations for raids. I made a new character(Human Paladin) leveled up like crazy, went through all the classic raids with my sisters guild, rushed the outlands then straight to Northrand. I had so many laughs, a few arguments and fallouts, but most importantly beautiful memories. I played on and off since then, only to drop out with WoD. And everytime I click on a video it's like I'm back there, sitting on a foldable chair arguing with a warrior why my Paladin really needed the life stone from Straholme while my sister tried to explain that she needed it more than us. Your videos are just a blast to the past, and I really enjoy the work you put in. Stay awesome!
Whats a dark elf?
@@tristanbeaumont8048 I meant night elf, I don't know why I wrote that. Thanks for catching that.
Mad, have I told you how much you rock!? Thank you for bringing back the memories on the questchain. Forgot I did it ages ago but not when it was current. I believe I did it much much later when fighting for quests to find to do the glitched Loremaster title achievement. Back when that achievement was launched and they kept resetting the numbers sometimes counting quests you did and sometimes not. This went on for about a month and a half.
shoulda kicked that ashholes ash! Also, why do you keep fixating on videos being ''too long''? There is no such thing, relax!
alehzanderh I think it's more profitable to make 2 videos 10 minutes long than 1 20 minutes long. + You upload the first part faster.
Besides it being more profitable, youtube's algorithms heavily favour frequent uploads, so it seems to be something of a quadruple-win situation or something. :P
alehzanderh cause he wants extra add revenue
That wouldnt make really much sense because ppl tend to not watch videos that are 15min+ until the end
Agreed. I prefer longer videos. 20-30 mins seems to be the sweet spot where I can watch without having to browse for the next video
Anyway as long as it needs to be to cover the topic without losing quality
Bro i havent played wow since cataclysm, but am an avid classic rpg player(mainly oldschool runescape). But watching these videos has me hype about wow classic! Double Subbed
Used to raid full time, but on the off raiding day our guild would run the dungeons for different things. I remember the frustration on getting my last dungeon set piece. Was the dreadnist shoulders off Jandice. It seemed every group I could pug for always invited another warlock and of course my /roll 100 sucked every single time I always lost. I finally did get the shoulders. Then I could start the quest line for the upgraded items. Another guy in our guild was doing the same quest chain, but he was a Druid. It wasn’t hard to ask guild for the hard fights required for this quest line. I did finish this quest chain and got all the Deathmist pieces. I am sad that they have added these set looks to the game via the dark moon fair. To me it feels like it cheapens the rarity of my hard work on this quest chain. All the hours spent pugging. I had them on my classic raiding char for years. I never did throw them out when transmog became I thing. I just couldn’t. Not after all the work I did to get it.
Side note I wish I had kept my necropile set. For all the times I ran scholo to get those shoulders I did get that set, but sadly I did have to toss it due to lack of bank space near the end of classic. Wish I could get those back. Still kick myself over selling those 5 pieces.
Thanks for the video. Brings me back a lot of memories.
Angie Haumont Nice Story😊
The replica items have "replica" in the name. You can still tell when someone is wearing/mogging the actual gear. I understand your disappointment, but it's also silly to not put some method of acquiring them into the game when almost nobody finished their d2.
What I find insulting is in my collection my Desthmist comes up as a darkmoon fair set and not something more prestigious I guess. This quest chain took a very long time and to have it read as Darkmoon fair stuff is just sad.
not true kael, I have the originals, still in my bank and everything, but when mogging that set it still calls it "replica" maybe don't make statements about things you do not understand?
I just checked on my warlock. I did the set as transmog and it doesn’t say its replica. It just calls each piece as they are in my bank.
Under the sets tab it comes up as Deathmist raiment, under that it says darkmoon fair.
I get that they had to add these sets in for those that didn’t play classic. I’d just like my set to say “no longer obtainable or quest chain.
Thank you for the memories.
I remember doing this quest with my priest. It was so difficult!
The money was not a problem, to be honest, the quests take days to complete, and you need a lot of help for the unique objectives to do inside the dungeons.
We did Strat in less than 45 min. in order to save a NPC... was insane! for one quest. And of course, the reward wasn't worthy...
Was easier to find a Molten Core group... and get better items from there.
But yeah... the memories... do it for the fun!
Shit I remember going through all this quest chain too. Those bosses were *savage* by the standard of even T1 raid bosses... way more complex than tank & spank the early bits of MC.
Christ. Now THIS is a quest chain. Great video.
Hey man.
Just wanted to comment and say how much i love your channel.
I played vanilla back when I was really young and had no idea how deep the game went, and your videos bring a sense of nostalgia that makes me want to make a new character and grind to 60 TONIGHT.
Keep it up man.
Thanks for the nostalgia crit, that final fantasy 7 music took me back to my childhood room, ps1 and tiny little tv I had in there
I've been plaything through it again....the soundtrack is great! Very nostalgiac for me as well =)
And thumbs up for that OoT piece there
I can’t wait to do this insane quest chain in phase 5. I know the gear isn’t as great as raid tier sets but cmon this quest chain is epic.
I'm gathering my 8/8 right now for priest Tier 0 , waiting for him to appear in the throne room to start the chain!
Classic wow was best gaming memories of my life. Such an epic game
+deenman23 lol jeez calm down, people are allowed to enjoy different things from you. Believe it or not some of us like the immersiveness of long quest chains and how that actually adds to an RPG
deenman23 Bad broken game.. Are you insecure about Legion or something?
deenman23 confirmed retail virgin
I knew it was gonna be good when it's MadSeason and my favourite sets in WoW ever. Great video as always! Getting full D2 set is actually one of my main goals when WoW:Classic hits. I remember the thrill getting it back in the time and I absolutely love the quest chains.
THis specific quest chain and the cool side bosses it opens up are a big part of why I want to try classic.
So glad you did this! These sets were awesome but went almost entirely overlooked since they were so overshadowed by Raiding & Rank 14 gear. They're all incredibly well-rounded. Great PvP sets for those that don't have the time for the Rank 14 grind, and great PvE upgrades for those that aren't really all that interested in raiding. Looking forward to part two! Glad you answered my question from way back when! Keep 'em comin'!
Nice video! One very interesting part of upgrading the set is that the set bonuses become reversed in order. This is really great, considering the best bonus was the 8 piece bonus on the tier 0. Might be worth mentioning in part 2!
I really loved getting 0.5 as a rogue. Darkmantle is arguably one of the best 0.5 sets in the game with the 4 set energy bonuses. I wore it along with tier 2 as my guild first cleared AQ as my bis. Was amazing.
I spent the end of vanilla feverishly trying to acquire this set for my warlock. I had everything save for 1 piece. Wiped on the summonable UBRS boss for it at 5%. I eventually went back to UBRS in bc to finally complete the set. Thanks for sharing this one. That dungeon boss Lord Valthalek can eat it.
Time consuming, but really amazing! I would love to do these chain quests. I started playing in late bc
Quest chains like this are part of what made vanilla special I think. I didn't complete this one personally back in the day(was raiding at the time), but it's one of the longer ones so it must have been a very rewarding feeling for those who did completely it fully back then.
Indeed was rewarding and fun. I got to complete my warlock, paladin and warrior sets. I still have the summoning items on my warrior... but sadly, many of the locations where you could summon the unique bosses are gone or non functional... Like Rhaz Laboratory in Scholomance. I think i can still summon the night elf priest in Eastern Dire Maul, the group in Ring of Law in BRD, and the druid in LBRS, tho this last one i am not quite sure. I think the twin brothers in live Strath are gone and of course Val'thalak.
The travelling was awesome indeed...
But the gold investment, oh boy
As a leatherworker for example you were extremely fucked, because you didn't have as much money as other professions
So this whole chain depends on your profession, which makes it either impossible or even more time consuming to farm stuff you can sell, so you can buy MORE stuff which is then needed for the Q🤔
Yes, it was, indeed. the full set is carefully stored on the bank....
I sort of remember I gave mine up at the 45 Strat part.
Definitely doing this this time around again. Did it as one of the first warriors back then on EU-Argent Dawn.
This quest chain is gonna be awesome to do.
The good ol days of actually EPIC quests.
I cream my jeans every time I hear that guitar at the very beginning
Cream my jeans hahaha
Nice
Hey,
did i tell you i love your videos yet?
They are *legendary*
I appreciate it!
Really helpful for SoM servers mate, nice guide!
I remember getting my Shadowcraft set on my Rogue back in the day; and even got a few pieces of Darkmantle before I ran out of money. Felt so nice getting a group of armour that all matched; and I think that was what really got me into transmog back in the day.
Thank you very much, as always a very good video. The pace, the content, the shots, everything is on point. Again, thank you!
I didn't start playing until WotLK. I wasn't very good at raiding so rarely went with my guild, instead I concentrated on old content. I think I did every quest that still existed and I still remember doing this and the Shifting Sands quest chain for the lore and fun. I liked Cataclysm zone changes for leveling but I miss some of the old content. Thanks for making this,
At first I thought your voice was mildly annoying, but after binging a lot of your videos, I've grown to really like it. Solid videos, man. Solid videos.
As someone who plans to be doing 5 mans as my endgame (because I don’t think I’m good enough to raid ever) I don’t think this is too bad. If you do the entire mission chain with your 5 man band you should have a mix of professions. I mean you’ll be grinding a lot more. But at least it’s grinding together.
dude u are totally the literal voice of classic wow
You actually left us on a cliffhanger... I can't wait for the next episode!!!
I think a cool short segment for your time warped series would be on WoW’s old website, pre-battle net. I remember navigating through the whole thing and reading some of the lore and looking at the pictures of the sweet tier gear and dungeon sets for the different classes. It was completely different from the nice looking website we have now, just a thought :)
i loved the vanilla epic questchains, they were awesome. i still have the whole set, the banner and brazier (and other old quest things) in my bank :) everytime i look at them when i open my bank i get a feel of nostalgic happiness
1:02 to see all this sets reminds me of the old days.
I played a tauren and got the warlock-sets hood, shoulders and robe. Added the burning trident from brd to my look and got my preferred outfit when being in Orgrimmar.
Have finished this with my n811-warrior on the german privat-server Nefarian 3 Month ago, had to wait several weeks to complete because that d1-boots did not drop. Mainreason for the most people today on privat-servers to do this is nowadays style-gear and the key-item to spawn the several questbosses for the superior blue items for friends and little guildmates. And for extra-shards. (But the glorious blue warrior D2! Prettiest set ever! My Paradeuniform!) Can not wait for the next part of your video! :)
THESE ARE THE BEST VIDOES ON RUclips; I CAN’T WAIT FOR PART 2
You are so chill and just great to listen to
I used to run people through the timed event for free, it was great to see people on my server were really involved in it. Also wiping people with urn in UBRS was priceless.
Amazing video Madseason! Still enjoyed to this day. Also, awesome FF7 music choice in the background ;)
I remember these quests... managed to get Soulforge on my Paladin. This quest was absolutely brutal compared to the difficulty of just coasting through MC. You'd get props even from people decked in full T2 for completing this questline.
I'm pretty sure the quest/gear was intended for those "capped" at having completed the full dungeon but who never got the chance to do serious raiding; it's long and expensive but can be broken up over a lot of time. Mad respect for anyone else who completed it.
Love the Cosmo Canyon music at the end too
Mad bro your editing skills are on point great video like always BIG THUMBS-UP 👍👍
I remember having tier zero and even after having most of tier 1 giantstalker i made it a goal to get tier .5 but never finished it off. The preraid gear was amazing looking back then.
you sir are my favorite wow content provider and I will be using your videos for sure when classic comes out...so many things I have forgotten about. I was going to do this quest but since I started six months into BC my guild leader said..not worth it...now I wish I had. Cataclysm ruined wow for me..even though I have played ever since with the exception of Cata...I took a long break after seeing what they did to the game.
I was working on this in wrath, and even though you could solo everything, it was still very time consuming, never finished. Thanks Cataclysm!
Madseason!!!!!!!!!! Back at it again with a vanilla video!
Finish my rogue d2 set about month before cata I'm so glad I finish that quest chain for good relic. I still use the look on all my gear for good memories of the old wow days
I really enjoyed this episode/ video. Keep up the good work Mad!
i love these wow stories bro,it never ends
I still have my full Soulforge Set on my Paladin, I was upset when they released the look in Darkmoon Faire....
these videos are better than Game of Thrones for me right now....love it
I remember doing this quest for my Heroism set. It was long, expensive, and incredibly hard. Hated every moment of it...but loved my Heroism set.
Omg, brings back lots of memories running dungeons to vet my devout set. And you are very correct in saying the .5 set was super expensive. I think i only managed to upgrade a cpl pieces before it dawned on me that raiding was more fun, gave much better gear and was way cheaper lol.
I completed this quest before it was removed, wish I could go back and do it on another character. My most frustrating part was trying to get the chest to drop from UBRS so I could continue the quest or start it can't remember, think it took 20 runs! Great content, keep it up
I state with great pride that I completed this quest chain and got my full Sorcerer’s set. It was grueling and my guild wondered endlessly why I was bothering. The truth was, back then I worked during prime raiding hours. Upgrading my tier 0 set was the best I could do. I only ever saw one other player with a full tier .5 set. The hardest parts (besides getting enough gold) was running Dstrat in under 45 min and Lord Valthalak, the final boss, which required a raid to defeat. This quest chain was a testament to the epic nature of classic wow. I hope it is available before MC is released so we see more people trying for it.
I got the Heroism set when it was current.
Being one of few people on my server who completed the quest chain, I was often asked to go to Dire Maul and Lower Blackrock as I was able to summon the bosses who were able to drop the ranged slot items for non-ranged classes (ex. Paladin Librams). I did this for free for guildies, especially ones who helped me complete the quest chain. For non-guildies I often charged them to try to recoup some of the gold I spent.
On a side note: I only completed the Heroism set, but my in my transmog sets I have the Soulforge armor set available on my Paladin.
Really digging the ff7 remix music in the background!
that warrior set is still my favorite to this day. that and the season 3 hunter set with the big moving eyeball on the helmet
I don't remember if I ever ended up getting any of these pieces, but I remember being pretty excited for them because at the time I didn't really have a good enough connection to handle raiding and wanted some means of experiencing more end game content.
I always dug the dungeon sets, especially the polished up dungeon set 2. Now I feel like doing tmog runs for em.
i always hear you say "for the sake of not making this too long we will come back to it later" nooooo we want longer episodes mad!
I lol'd a bit when you spoke about the epic travel on foot, as if Flightmasters weren't a thing in vanilla...
Yeah, real epic :-)
Thanks Madseason for
always telling stories about Vanilla
I played vanilla and never new about this! Awesome vid
Ily MadSeason!! My favorite WoW content creator :)
Heard of this never saw it as I came in BC. Very neat stuff.
This is not only part of the arsenal but also of the hardest grinds XD
Loved this quest chain, I already had better gear on my main but thought the dungeon set was badass. Managed to finish the whole chain at the very end off vanilla. My go to transmog set
I see all I have to do to finish this quest chain and all I think about is the tons of gold I'll be looting by farming it. Love it
Can't wait to have this system back in Classic.
lol i remember doing this questline... think i saw it pop up randomly and was confused as to why suddenly a quest was there and just followed the chain out of curiosity
The traveling was one of the things that made vanilla so amazing. Vanilla WoW was an amazing adventure.
Great job with this questline explanation!
Only suggestion I'd make is using a darker colour for the arrow marking nuetral (both Alliance and Horde) traveling across the world map.
Maybe black, or anything more visiable than bright green.
Awesome video as always, keep em coming
Derp sums this quest up, Literally.
I had a full set of Dungeon set 1 Dreadmist and Dungeon set 2 Deathmist... was a hell of a grind!!!
I hear that FF7 music you put in the back ground!! Appreciated!
Love your videos. Always running MadSeason on the 2nd screen 😊
Nice vid! It be cool to see a video going over different item sets from vanilla :-)
Ah haha, I remember doing some of the D2 sets in Vanilla. I did not quite understand what the point was, but I still have some Darkmantle gear on my very very first character. Good memories.
Dreadmist once was THE pvp set for casters. Thats was before they releaed AV and WSG.
awesome vids! You make me loose myself in the nostalgia !!