it also goes the other way around. Asmon: This is shit. Chat: Nooo it's good!! Asmon: OK i guess its not that bad. And you see he always checks the chat before judging, especially in xmogs.
At this point, this is a comfort video for me. I think I've almost watched this video in full, close to 100 times. This is also like the best tier list video he’s ever done with the souls bosses being the second best. I miss these times man
I like the elvish zones like Teldrassil and Eversong Woods because they felt so magical and i spent so much time in them i feel kinda attached to them. The ambience, music, even some of the mobs. I absolutely love them
Howling fjord was ok-ish. But Grizzly Hills on the other hand... holy mother of god I wanna go back to that zone, erase my memory and quest in it again
Based off this comment section I’ve come to the conclusion that only 25% of his viewers actually play wow, which I’m ok with. That being said Grizzly Hills is the best
Gaia Legend yeah no doubt he’s good at giving and explaining his opinion. There isn’t a doubt in my mind he cares for this game more than any other streamer out there.
@@xXdnerstxleXx Timeless was a fucking blast, I remember logging on with my guild just to group up and PvP. Then WoD broke the guild up because it was such an embarrassing piece of trash
I agree with most of these, but icecrown is amazing for the same reason deadwind pass is pretty high. From a lore and game design perspective it was absolutely well done, you felt the despair and danger of the situation the world was in through gameplay and visual design
Icecrown was trash. A pain in the ass to navigate, even with flying mounts somehow. A few decent questlines but doing the questchains themselves felt like a chore and they were overtuned, ya the place was pretty depressing but that doesn't mean much. It was pretty scary and ICC was definitely an imposing figure in the middle of the zone, but tbh the only good thing about Icecrown was the tournament. Also, deadwind pass is bottom tier F/Awful trash.
@@xplicitmike Id say the "vibe" of a zone is pretty important, its what you'll forever remember and some of the quests were amazing and extremely lore important The Matthias questline was the reason we could actually defeat arthas + the duel between arthas/illidan and the whole zone feels completely different imo
@@BionikleFG i hope u subbed classic bc retail is dogshit right now. Even asmon says he wouldnt play it. Just the pvp dmg numbers being wrong is game breaking. Not to mention the extensive exploits.
Brandon I got retail, I don’t really mind that since I never saw what it was like before, I’m sure you’re probably right that it is worse but I never experienced the old stuff so I don’t mind it
Team Vashj'Ir for life! I loved that zone, absolutely loved it, and still do. Yes, underwater combat isn't the most exciting, and it can be quite annoying at time, but man, the visuals, the atmosphere, it blew me away at the time. For sure my favourite zone in the game.
I skipped that expansion and the next 2 because I genuinely didn't like the look and/or sound of them. I came back whilst leveling an alt in Legion... I take all my alts there now. Fantastic zone.
That's always been my absolute favorite zone! The music is amazing and extremely nostalgic for me, it's very beautiful, it's the only 3D zone in the game, the ocean is scary, there's gigantic tortoises, it's the most unique zone!
@Elias Frykholm wasn't it Karazhan tower and later the raid location? Was a few spots already set aside for tbc in vanilla, but yeah definitely loving the mystery parts haha our guild starting doing fun social nights with quizzes and treasure hunts etc so finding out some lore and secrets
My favorite part about this video is that you can really see his passion for the game. His antics are funny and he's a good player, but it's nice to see him geek out over the game like this.
Unpopular opinion but I loved Teldrassil and OG Darkshore- I loved Teldrassil’s aesthetic and then flying to Darkshore and seeing these huge threshers underneath the murky waves made the whole area feel mysterious and somewhat ominous. It was so cool back then.
the threshers part! as a kid i always wondered if i will ever be strong enough to fight them and why there are even there? yessss thats a memory unlocked right there
My most amazing and memorable moment in the game was the first time I sailed into Howling Fjord. The music was that haunting whaler instrumental. You could hear the grinding crunch of the snow pack glaciers. I stood in the bow as the ship navigated between the high cliffs of that narrow channel. There were monsters flying up above, danger in the deeps, a forbidding keep, and up ahead...safe harbor, rustic but sturdy and the NPC clad in friendly, familiar armor.
So while I understand why Dun Morogh was placed where it was, as someone whos first character back in the tail end of TBC / start of Wrath was a dwarf paladin there's a certain nostalgia factor for sure, but here's why the zone deserves to be considered 'great' (at least from my perspective). Coldridge valley, compared to the other starting zones, was fairly large, I think the only one bigger than it is Shadowglen, but despite the size, because Dun Morogh is snow capped mountains, leaving the starting area of coldridge by going through a path between two hills / cliffs felt completely natural. Shadowglenn and Northshire had the same exits but because they were both forest it felt clear that "you're no longer in the starting area, welcome to the rest of the game" where coldridge didn't have that feeling. I remember playing for hours before I even made it to Ironforge for the first time and walking up the mountain path to the impressive walkway leading into the city, to be greeted by a canal of lava and seeing the great forge for the first time it was fucking awesome. I think I spent a day and a half of playing just in dun morogh thinking "this is it, this is the game, snow capped mountains and frost trolls, cities built into mountains" and then I was told to venture outward to Loch Modan. Unlike going from Teldrassil to Darkshore, where the enviroment is basically the same, or Elwynn to Westfall where you can see the new zone on the horizon, Dun Morogh is a valley that's basically a bowl. I remember walking through the tunnel to Loch for the first time, expecting to see more snow and ridges on the other side, but was greeted by grass and a lake that wasn't frozen over. Were the quest the most exciting thing? Not by a long shot, but the entire experience of coming into this game, with no idea of what you would see or what to expect, being in a frozen valley for the first 10+ hours of playing, being introduced to the frost trolls, helping out the gnomes around their fallen city, having a the dwarf home city lacking true "gates" like stormwind & darnassus had, instead it's just built into a mountain. And then by the end of what felt like an adventure in and of itself where you're just helping your fellow dwarves & gnomes, you get lead through a tunnel and don't even experience grass until you're through to the other side. Does it hold up to be a great / amazing zone without the nostalgia drug? Nope. Even now going back and replaying that zone, it will never be the same as the first time. However, that first playthrough, the way it was just so unique compared to the other starting zones at the time, that's what makes Dun Morogh special.
Oh god Grizzly Hills makes me sooo nostalgic. The music alone brings tears to my eyes when I am in the right mood. Just remembering running through that beautiful environment and listening to the music....gosh. For me personally WOTLK was the best expansion/the best the game ever got. Great zones, amazing music, still complex skill trees etc but already far easier instance/PVP finding and alot better for solo players compared to Classic and Burning Crusade.
Zul'drak is amazing. Sure, some of the quests were bad, but the entire zone has one of a kind atmosphere. You are watching an empire collapse before your eyes coupled with quite literal, graphic zombie apocalypse. It's glorious.
Still remember my first char in classic a tauren hunter named taurenchief and i was amazed at how big mulgore was and it was just a testament to the unimaginable size of world of warcraft at the time, he never got past level 42 though :( Moved to other prjoect / servers before settling.
Sholozar should've been comfortable sitting in the amazing tier tbh. It's super atmospheric, the questing was smooth, the titan ruins made it mysterious, the music was completely unique. Best of great tier isn't good enough for it tbh imo fam
If you look at Sholazar Basin as an individual zone its fine but it doesn't fit the Northrend mood. It's like a tropical jungle in the midle of North Pole. A litle bit of diversity is good but it's such a huge contrast. That's why I don't like it. I rate it BAD otherwise GREAT.
the draenei starting zone has a special place in my heart because i remember pretend to be sick to stay home from school, with some snacks with me and i leveled a human paladin there. so much fun. back in tbc when i was like 11
Dude.. i was 12 and my lil bro was 7. We both pretended to be sick for a week or so, and immersed into exploring that zone together, it was fucking magical. Thank you for bringing those memories up
Ghostlands was the best starting zone area in the game for me and it still is. The quests and area were second to none. It was dark, mysterious, and the quests were so engaging compared to the ones at that time. I look back on that area so fondly and don't think many can compare to it. I was an undead main back then so it's not even blood elf bias, it was just an incredible zone. I loved teaming up with people to do the harder quests. I made multiple blood elf classes just to replay that zone back in the day.
So many cool zones. Loved Grizzly Hills, Arathi Highlands and pretty much all of Northrend lol. I think my absolute best zone was Nargrand. For some reason it just made me feel good.
I always had a soft spot for the jungle in Feralas ... it was one of those original classic zones that really showed off what the game could look like . On a sidenote, *there should have been a "Meh" category* between "Decent" and "Bad".
Guys - idk what it is about Asmon, he is just addictive to watch. He literally makes the game so much fun for me. Keep going my man hope you never stop streaming
@AIIUserNamesInvalid I was only into pvp when I left. I quit raiding after wotlk and only did pvp in cata. After so long it was just a race to grind to max level and do the same thing all over again for every expansion.
AIIUserNamesInvalid its just the fact you named midgets as an example of some preposterous sort of race like a space cow or a anthrophomorphic panda, considering midgets exist and we call them respectfully dwarves
AIIUserNamesInvalid you said midgets which is in reference to gnomes being irl midgets but the correct term is dwarf as midget is offensive just like the n word etc and is insensitive
AIIUserNamesInvalid but u made it seem like a midget was some otherwordly nonsensical race when comparing it to space goats and talking cows, when really they actually exist in the real world lol
Ok my jaw is dropped. Borean Tundra is one of my favourite zones in the entire game. But everyone I know hates it. It been put on amazing made me really happy. I am glad I am not the only one who see's how amazing the zone is.
I loved Nazmir. Blood trolls and blood worship. Naga storming the beach. Graphics with swamp, vines and shallow water. Multiple Loa storylines. Semi-hidden caves in the zone.
Thank you Asmon for this outstanding and engaging analysis of the world (of Warcraft). My favourite zone is Winterspring. I was pleased with the "high great" rating that you gave it. I love the snow. The trees. The yetis. My mind tells me I should make Boralus my home but my hearth belongs to Winterspring.
one thing I always loved about Winterspring is the massive elevation changes. Snowy mountains you can actually climb up hundreds of feet (in game) if you find the right ascent path, and the little hidden nooks and crannies all over the map
I did not expect tbh another underrating of Zul Drak. I mean, Zul Drak is literal first zone where you could see the true horrors of the Scourge, their malevolent tactics, epic tribal soundtrack, desperate deranged trolls sacrificing their gods for modicum of chance to fight off Scourge, Scourge flying fortress brought down, Loa destroying itself to avoid being sacrificed and overall fallen troll empire.
Can you rate the main cities of each race? My favorites were Undercity and Ironforge. Something about ooze and lava and being under ground just hypnotized me.
He's gonna rate Stormwind 1st and Silvermoon last, because he is extremely biased towards alliance , and it shows in this tierlist too, which is fine because he is an alliance player after all.
@@pooriyapoat7398 To be fair, Stormwind has epic music and Silvermoon is kind of a red and gold eyesore. I stopped playing in Pandaria so I don't know if any cities were upgraded since then.
I did get emotional when rescuing npcs in Zul Drak like this one dwarf dude who saw his brother dying and couldn't do anything about it bc he was dying as well, never felt more motivated to avenge some npc.
Originally I played horde, then I rolled alliance and never went back. The zones were the main reason, they're just straight up superior. A joy to look at and a joy to play.
So glad to see Scholazar Basis get recognition. I think it is one of the most interesting questing zones of all time. It's got the titan pillars giving it the warm tropical rain forest climate despite being in northrend. It has the cult destroying one pillar allowing the icecrown weather and undead to break in. The weremurloc vs weredog civil war. And a Hemet Nesingwary chain. And it's an above average looking zone of all the wilderness zone's they've done. High concept, high execution. It doesn't get much better than that. The only thing it fell short on was music.
deadwind pass, eastern and western plaguelands... maybe even trisfal glades.. These areas always gave me the biggest sense of mystery like there is more out there to explore. I also love the spooky ambience
I didn’t play that much on WoW , i played the demo in 2004 as a troll and didn’t play again until WoD as a Tauren warrior most of the time and stopped playing after it ended , and the best memory i have from that period is when i played in Ashran vs alliance and man i was leading maybe a 100 horde players through raid messages and giving them orders like a general and they followed me until we won i was yelling at them all the time to motivate them when the final push was happening like “FOR THE HORDE” and “FOR DEATH OR GLORY WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS “ “FORWARD “ “DONT STOP AT ANY COST” and the more i send messages like these they became more nd more ferocious and we kept pushing i was in the frontline as a tauren fury warrior named GURZYL and man after we won i had to go and all the horde players begged me to stay for one more and were in love with me because i was a great leader and they felt like they were in a real war vs the alliance because the roleplay i added to my strategies, it was the most heartwarming and thrilling experience in my life playing wow for that short time, i will never forget it I’m sad that i didn’t have a recorded video of it.
I played on a pvp server the entire time I played wow and all of its expansions, so I know STV as stranglethorn Vietnam and for that reason its a Great zone for me.
My fav zones per Addon: Classic: Westfall BC: Nagrand WotLK: Grizzly Hills Cata: Mount Hyjal MoP: Valley of the Four Winds WoD: Shadowmoon Valley Legion: Suramar BfA: Drustvar
So, I just started playing wow my first wow experience was the first night classic wow actually. I've been playing retail a lot. I love hearing Asmon talk about these zones that I don't know much about. The way he talks he makes me want to play more classic, maybe I will idk I've been leveling a lot of characters in retail but obviously the way the leveling is now some of these zones are just not the same. Listening to Asmon talk about how these zones we're back in the day really makes me sad that I was not into PC gaming when I was a kid, I wish I could look back at WoW how most WoW players do, really.
Point with certain areas of vashj'ir is our humane fear of depths and "prehistoric creatures going around every corner" and the fact that it was mostly all grey and you were very near the imsta death fall out of world. Made every movement a damn gamble... Had to do navigate through it in some glitched parts of it on my scuffed bfa private seever where your character and half the terrain disappeared and all. And the fact that i hated depths as a kid ( fucking semi realistic images of damn sea dinosaurs made me fear that too much) and vashj'ir enbodied that for me
Ashenvale is easily in the amazing tier, and you could put it there just on the basis of music and atmosphere, nevermind other cool stuff like the elite dragons and the raid boss in Bough Shadow, the quest Ranae's Cleansing which throws some light on the creation of the Worgen, the quest with the Satyr where Elune herself speaks to you, the fact that you can find Mannoroth's broken polearm at Demon Fall Canyon etc. And of course, Warsong Gulch and all the epic PvP raids that went back and forth in the area.
Would love to see you do a ranking like this for every Dungeon and also a ranking of the raids in World of Warcraft. Really like your content and that you explaine way you feel the way you do of the rankings of the zones.
Dude that comment about burning steppes and it making it feel like a world of warcraft hit home. That was one of my most memorable experiences in vanilla. I didn't play seriously, just level capped and god bored, but man I remember that moment 15 years later...
When I first started playing wow, it was right before the release of WotLK. My first character was a Draenei hunter, so Azuremyst Isle and Bloodmyst Isle hold a special place in my heart :) That said, I think for my fave it's Duskwood, with Darkshore a close second.
grizzly hills and nagrand to me and my guildies back then was our favorite.. to me it so much memory and joy just thinking about it now. duskwood too is great ..
I never felt more threatened in vanilla than questing and mining in UnGoro Crater. I love the vibe of that place, the swamps, dinosaurs, apes and crystal caves. The shoddy little hubs and super fun quests.
RED RIDGE MOUNTAINS WAS WHAT WOW WAS SUPPOSED TO BE! IF YOU PLAYED WOW 15 YEARS AGO YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE MEANS THAT SHIT WAS THE BEES KNEES OF WOW!
Hi asmongold, i have 2 month watch your stream, i love your vidéos and i love world of war craft but i dont have pc , so i watch from my phone your stream wish some day i well buy pc and i well played again. Thank you .
By far my favorite zone this far is Ny'alotha, the Waking City. I am very new to this game, but when I visited this zone for a few minutes in DF, it blew my mind. This dark ass atmosphere, these creepy buildings with eyes and the voices whispering to you, trying to drive you insane, just absolute perfection! Is there any way to return to this place? I find the era of the Black Empire and the old gods very fascinating and would like to get a deeper look into it. It's very, very dark and I absolutely love it!
I remember playing this game ten years ago as a *said with Vork's voice* casual player (my God, the horror!) But the sheer level of detail Asmongold shares for every single zone is truly astounding.
Always hated trying to navigate Ashenvale when you have to leave the roads, even when flying. You cannot see the forest for the trees. The quests were okay though.
Am I the only one who liked leveling in Blade's Edge Mountains? Sure it was no Netherstorm but I enjoyed the quest progression and visuals quite a bit.
Big fucking props to Catdany and Daily Dose for taking time to add all of those time stamps, it wasn't necessary at all but it really adds quality to this video
I'm shocked by the dislike for Ashenvale, easily one of my favorite zones in Classic. Probably the most visually stunning, plus some beautiful music. A huge zone, it had one of my favorite lower level dungeons, and it had Warsong Gulch! Plus, it was basically the first zone you start getting into pitched fights on PvP. Love Ashenvale!
it's just the pathing and terrain is quite difficult to navigate without a 40% mount at least. Although the lore and zone, music etc is beautiful for sure
The fact he didnt rate the hinterlands as an amazing zone is a shame. really was the best mid 40’s - 50 zone. It gave you a trinket for 1% hit 20 attack power. Molten core didn’t have a trinket that good. You didn’t take that off until you were sure you had enough melee hit. Hit was a rare commodity until later tiers. It gave a fantastic necklace, woven ivy necklace, with 10 strength, 9 stam, and 6 agility (I think) that could be used until you did tirion’s questline. As a horde player, you went into an alliance base and put up a big ol “fuck you” sign to the alliance, and then had to make a last ditch getaway when all the guards would chase after you. You had the altar of zul to give you the mallet for zul farrak to summon gahzranka for your carrot on a stick, the best questing trinket ever made. 3% mounted movement speed. The turtle questline from revantusk gave you a +20 fishing pole, and fishing back then was essential for an alchemist. That +20 rod would never need to be replaced if you couldn’t do the fishing tournament. Also, world boss green dragon ysondre over in the northeast. He really did that zone dirty with just a good rating.
Nazmir and zuldazar are by far the 2 best zones of the expac. Asmon clearly never quested horde side in BFA. Those zones are packed with cool areas and put the alliance ones to shame even drustvar to an extent.
im sO happy im not the only one who thinks that of vashjir. i think it was the best high level cataclysm zone. great scenery, sometimes silly but also serious and interesting storyline, not super grindy quests but not necessarily too simple of quests, it was expansive and i liked the mobility it gave you once you got the seahorse because like yeah, you can fly in any zone, but because vashjir is underwater and underwater has a lot of dips and towers and plants, theres just more things to traverse in that extra y axis. I would probably think the same of a zone that was just that but a cloud city zone, but that wouldnt even come CLOSE to matching the scenery of vashjir. The scenery really sells it. Bright exotic sea plants but soft green sea grasses and kelp filler, a big bright red expanse, and a deep and dreary colored but still poppingly colored part thats supposed to be an abyss. a giant sea creature that is literally apart of the zone? amazing. beautiful.
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Chat: bad bad bad bad bad
Asmon: I don't know visually it's decent
Chat: decent decent decent decent
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it also goes the other way around.
Asmon: This is shit. Chat: Nooo it's good!! Asmon: OK i guess its not that bad.
And you see he always checks the chat before judging, especially in xmogs.
Because its different people writing and memeing depending on what he's saying, to be fair
@Stoogs yup, his chat is just sooo dumb
If you see someone pluck their own asshair wouldnt u do the same?
Mad respect to the editor that added all the different marks for each zone.
Wow, no joke!
@@devonchafe2764 what else have they added?
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Dragonblight also has the cave where Arthas found Frostmourne and abandoned Muradin to save his people back in Wc3, which is amazing too.
Oooh did not realize that was in dblight, but it makes sense as it was around the nerubians
But that doesn’t make sense, he found it in northrend
Asmongold: "Darkshore is beautiful, mystical, haunting, mysterious."
Also Asmongold: "Darkshore is literal trash"
At this point, this is a comfort video for me. I think I've almost watched this video in full, close to 100 times. This is also like the best tier list video he’s ever done with the souls bosses being the second best. I miss these times man
I like the elvish zones like Teldrassil and Eversong Woods because they felt so magical and i spent so much time in them i feel kinda attached to them. The ambience, music, even some of the mobs. I absolutely love them
Teldrassil is so good, the music is top tier
I feel that way for Dwarven or Gnomish zones.
The barrens and Teldrassil is the best
Me too, and it has nothing to go with my first character back in Wrath was a Blood Elf Protection Paladin. xD
Agree 100%
Howling Fjord was probably my favourite zone ever
Me too
Borean for me. Loved the blue dragonflight place. Also dehta. Theres an achievement called dehtas little pita. Pita is pain in the ass. Felt good
Me too!
@@sandrogzirishvili6800 you coming memories come Woltk i Play this
Howling fjord was ok-ish. But Grizzly Hills on the other hand... holy mother of god I wanna go back to that zone, erase my memory and quest in it again
Based off this comment section I’ve come to the conclusion that only 25% of his viewers actually play wow, which I’m ok with. That being said Grizzly Hills is the best
Gaia Legend yeah no doubt he’s good at giving and explaining his opinion. There isn’t a doubt in my mind he cares for this game more than any other streamer out there.
Hard to swallow pills.
The quests in Grizzly Hills are not all that great.
GH was great and I feel the old ashenvale was fantastic, the music by itself is amazing tier without adding the zone in. fk you asmon
It's been 12 or so years since I've played, but I do concur. I loved flying around that area.
@@xXdnerstxleXx Timeless was a fucking blast, I remember logging on with my guild just to group up and PvP. Then WoD broke the guild up because it was such an embarrassing piece of trash
I agree with most of these, but icecrown is amazing for the same reason deadwind pass is pretty high. From a lore and game design perspective it was absolutely well done, you felt the despair and danger of the situation the world was in through gameplay and visual design
Icecrown is a lame zone. The developers just didn't use its potential and weren't faithful to its original design from the Frozen Throne Main Menu.
Icecrown? Don't you mean Mordor?
Icecrown was trash. A pain in the ass to navigate, even with flying mounts somehow. A few decent questlines but doing the questchains themselves felt like a chore and they were overtuned, ya the place was pretty depressing but that doesn't mean much. It was pretty scary and ICC was definitely an imposing figure in the middle of the zone, but tbh the only good thing about Icecrown was the tournament.
Also, deadwind pass is bottom tier F/Awful trash.
@@xplicitmike Id say the "vibe" of a zone is pretty important, its what you'll forever remember and some of the quests were amazing and extremely lore important
The Matthias questline was the reason we could actually defeat arthas + the duel between arthas/illidan and the whole zone feels completely different imo
Hahaha was machst du denn hier, freut mich
i am addicted to this dude i dont even play wow and still watch a tier list of the zones that are there lol wtf is wrong with me
Lmao don’t feel too bad, most of his audience is the same way haha.
Same
Croslee he got me into WoW, I just subbed for my first month and I’m enjoying the game so much
@@BionikleFG i hope u subbed classic bc retail is dogshit right now. Even asmon says he wouldnt play it. Just the pvp dmg numbers being wrong is game breaking. Not to mention the extensive exploits.
Brandon I got retail, I don’t really mind that since I never saw what it was like before, I’m sure you’re probably right that it is worse but I never experienced the old stuff so I don’t mind it
Team Vashj'Ir for life! I loved that zone, absolutely loved it, and still do. Yes, underwater combat isn't the most exciting, and it can be quite annoying at time, but man, the visuals, the atmosphere, it blew me away at the time. For sure my favourite zone in the game.
I skipped that expansion and the next 2 because I genuinely didn't like the look and/or sound of them.
I came back whilst leveling an alt in Legion... I take all my alts there now. Fantastic zone.
That's always been my absolute favorite zone! The music is amazing and extremely nostalgic for me, it's very beautiful, it's the only 3D zone in the game, the ocean is scary, there's gigantic tortoises, it's the most unique zone!
yep, i never understood the hate, the zone is fucking fantastic
Not my favourite zone but damn its up there, great atmosphere, great story, very varied and different.
Least favorite zone because I have always been afraid of deep water in this fucking game
Don’t agree with a whole lot of this but he is absolutely correct in saying Grizzly Hills is the greatest WoW zone of all time.
I don’t know what it is about deadwind pass but I like it. It always felt quiet and peaceful despite the dead bodies around.
I remember being terrified of going anywhere near Deadwind Pass while leveling in Duskwood. It was like a zone I shall never enter, back then.
I was really happy when i saw it in the wow movie for some reason
Reminded me of LOTR "Dwimorberg - The Haunted Mountain" From the Return of The King, an eerie area where none passes.
@Elias Frykholm wasn't it Karazhan tower and later the raid location? Was a few spots already set aside for tbc in vanilla, but yeah definitely loving the mystery parts haha our guild starting doing fun social nights with quizzes and treasure hunts etc so finding out some lore and secrets
wtf. this actually creeped me out xd. i hate the feeling of alone. and deadwind pass gives me that feelin...
My favorite part about this video is that you can really see his passion for the game. His antics are funny and he's a good player, but it's nice to see him geek out over the game like this.
Top reasons why Vashj’ir is an AMAZING ZONE:
1. Nazgrim says Thrall’s Balls
2. See above
3. Sea above
4. See above
Unpopular opinion but I loved Teldrassil and OG Darkshore- I loved Teldrassil’s aesthetic and then flying to Darkshore and seeing these huge threshers underneath the murky waves made the whole area feel mysterious and somewhat ominous. It was so cool back then.
the threshers part! as a kid i always wondered if i will ever be strong enough to fight them and why there are even there? yessss thats a memory unlocked right there
best 1-20 experience in the game, after maxing out 50 plus toons those are the only two zones in that bracket i can still play without getting bored.
Who hates teldrassil!!!??? I need a strong word with them.
@@buttlerubbies747 Both zones are garbo generic purple NE tree trash.
I'm glad your tree burned.
They were brilliant
My most amazing and memorable moment in the game was the first time I sailed into Howling Fjord. The music was that haunting whaler instrumental. You could hear the grinding crunch of the snow pack glaciers. I stood in the bow as the ship navigated between the high cliffs of that narrow channel. There were monsters flying up above, danger in the deeps, a forbidding keep, and up ahead...safe harbor, rustic but sturdy and the NPC clad in friendly, familiar armor.
hard fucking agree , i can remember getting there the first time and it was truly great
So while I understand why Dun Morogh was placed where it was, as someone whos first character back in the tail end of TBC / start of Wrath was a dwarf paladin there's a certain nostalgia factor for sure, but here's why the zone deserves to be considered 'great' (at least from my perspective).
Coldridge valley, compared to the other starting zones, was fairly large, I think the only one bigger than it is Shadowglen, but despite the size, because Dun Morogh is snow capped mountains, leaving the starting area of coldridge by going through a path between two hills / cliffs felt completely natural. Shadowglenn and Northshire had the same exits but because they were both forest it felt clear that "you're no longer in the starting area, welcome to the rest of the game" where coldridge didn't have that feeling.
I remember playing for hours before I even made it to Ironforge for the first time and walking up the mountain path to the impressive walkway leading into the city, to be greeted by a canal of lava and seeing the great forge for the first time it was fucking awesome. I think I spent a day and a half of playing just in dun morogh thinking "this is it, this is the game, snow capped mountains and frost trolls, cities built into mountains" and then I was told to venture outward to Loch Modan. Unlike going from Teldrassil to Darkshore, where the enviroment is basically the same, or Elwynn to Westfall where you can see the new zone on the horizon, Dun Morogh is a valley that's basically a bowl. I remember walking through the tunnel to Loch for the first time, expecting to see more snow and ridges on the other side, but was greeted by grass and a lake that wasn't frozen over.
Were the quest the most exciting thing? Not by a long shot, but the entire experience of coming into this game, with no idea of what you would see or what to expect, being in a frozen valley for the first 10+ hours of playing, being introduced to the frost trolls, helping out the gnomes around their fallen city, having a the dwarf home city lacking true "gates" like stormwind & darnassus had, instead it's just built into a mountain. And then by the end of what felt like an adventure in and of itself where you're just helping your fellow dwarves & gnomes, you get lead through a tunnel and don't even experience grass until you're through to the other side.
Does it hold up to be a great / amazing zone without the nostalgia drug? Nope. Even now going back and replaying that zone, it will never be the same as the first time. However, that first playthrough, the way it was just so unique compared to the other starting zones at the time, that's what makes Dun Morogh special.
I love how giving him a single dose of nostalgia changes his entire view of The Zone he's talking about
Oh god Grizzly Hills makes me sooo nostalgic.
The music alone brings tears to my eyes when I am in the right mood.
Just remembering running through that beautiful environment and listening to the music....gosh.
For me personally WOTLK was the best expansion/the best the game ever got.
Great zones, amazing music, still complex skill trees etc but already far easier instance/PVP finding and alot better for solo players compared to Classic and Burning Crusade.
Did you play it again in classic?
@@pogo8050 I started again just 3-4 weeks back and just finished leveling thorugh Burning Crusade
I am very much looking forward to Grizzly Hills
The music sounds exactly like Swedish folk music and it just adds to that nostalgic beautiful feeling.
Zul'drak is amazing. Sure, some of the quests were bad, but the entire zone has one of a kind atmosphere. You are watching an empire collapse before your eyes coupled with quite literal, graphic zombie apocalypse. It's glorious.
zuldrak was ass. hated that place
good aesthetic, AWFUL to quest in
Asmongold: “yeah man I hate the pop culture references in Uldum”
Also asmon: “ungoro crater is a great zone” *literally exclusively references*
Still remember my first char in classic a tauren hunter named taurenchief and i was amazed at how big mulgore was and it was just a testament to the unimaginable size of world of warcraft at the time, he never got past level 42 though :( Moved to other prjoect / servers before settling.
Sholozar should've been comfortable sitting in the amazing tier tbh. It's super atmospheric, the questing was smooth, the titan ruins made it mysterious, the music was completely unique. Best of great tier isn't good enough for it tbh imo fam
If you look at Sholazar Basin as an individual zone its fine but it doesn't fit the Northrend mood. It's like a tropical jungle in the midle of North Pole. A litle bit of diversity is good but it's such a huge contrast. That's why I don't like it. I rate it BAD otherwise GREAT.
the draenei starting zone has a special place in my heart because i remember pretend to be sick to stay home from school, with some snacks with me and i leveled a human paladin there.
so much fun. back in tbc when i was like 11
Dude.. i was 12 and my lil bro was 7. We both pretended to be sick for a week or so, and immersed into exploring that zone together, it was fucking magical. Thank you for bringing those memories up
@@vsezayelol same I would pretend to miss the bus to stay home and play world of warcraft
Suramar is my favorite zone of all time. It was such a cool expirience, every time I got a WQ there I went with joy.
**When Asmon puts that Grizzly Hills ambience on**
Me: **sniff** "How dare you make me cry..."
The editor is a champ for adding chapters, since we're all here for the starting zones, cities, stv, tarren mill, and the barrens anyway.
I started this video stating Grizzly Hills is the best zone. The music, the quests, the visuals are all top notch.
Ghostlands was the best starting zone area in the game for me and it still is. The quests and area were second to none. It was dark, mysterious, and the quests were so engaging compared to the ones at that time. I look back on that area so fondly and don't think many can compare to it. I was an undead main back then so it's not even blood elf bias, it was just an incredible zone. I loved teaming up with people to do the harder quests. I made multiple blood elf classes just to replay that zone back in the day.
So many cool zones. Loved Grizzly Hills, Arathi Highlands and pretty much all of Northrend lol. I think my absolute best zone was Nargrand. For some reason it just made me feel good.
Imo, Eversong Woods has the best Soundtrack of all WoW.
i have played wow without sound for the last 7 years lol
It is amazing soundtrack Indeed
@@blackie75 poor soul
Drustvar is my favorite music-wise, if I'm in the mood for deep immersion
I couldn't believe he put ashenvale so low for an alliance player.. Darkshore is BiS early leveling zone too
I always had a soft spot for the jungle in Feralas ... it was one of those original classic zones that really showed off what the game could look like .
On a sidenote, *there should have been a "Meh" category* between "Decent" and "Bad".
Decent is the Meh category.
I also loved the music in Feralas, and the Dragonkin elites gave a sense of danger to it
@@ichirosuzuki2252
Yeah, it was one of the better original zones.
Guys - idk what it is about Asmon, he is just addictive to watch. He literally makes the game so much fun for me. Keep going my man hope you never stop streaming
Big facts
I quit the game when MoP came out. The way he talked about grizzly hills brought me back to one of the best times I ever had in the game.
AIIUserNamesInvalid how dare they put playable midgets in my game
@AIIUserNamesInvalid I was only into pvp when I left. I quit raiding after wotlk and only did pvp in cata. After so long it was just a race to grind to max level and do the same thing all over again for every expansion.
AIIUserNamesInvalid its just the fact you named midgets as an example of some preposterous sort of race like a space cow or a anthrophomorphic panda, considering midgets exist and we call them respectfully dwarves
AIIUserNamesInvalid you said midgets which is in reference to gnomes being irl midgets but the correct term is dwarf as midget is offensive just like the n word etc and is insensitive
AIIUserNamesInvalid but u made it seem like a midget was some otherwordly nonsensical race when comparing it to space goats and talking cows, when really they actually exist in the real world lol
Ok my jaw is dropped. Borean Tundra is one of my favourite zones in the entire game. But everyone I know hates it. It been put on amazing made me really happy. I am glad I am not the only one who see's how amazing the zone is.
Lmao your dumb
There's nothing boring about borean.
I loved Nazmir. Blood trolls and blood worship. Naga storming the beach. Graphics with swamp, vines and shallow water. Multiple Loa storylines. Semi-hidden caves in the zone.
Thank you Asmon for this outstanding and engaging analysis of the world (of Warcraft). My favourite zone is Winterspring. I was pleased with the "high great" rating that you gave it. I love the snow. The trees. The yetis. My mind tells me I should make Boralus my home but my hearth belongs to Winterspring.
one thing I always loved about Winterspring is the massive elevation changes. Snowy mountains you can actually climb up hundreds of feet (in game) if you find the right ascent path, and the little hidden nooks and crannies all over the map
Nagrand (TBC) and Howling Fjords (WotLK) are by far the most iconic zones in my opinion. The scenery, music, quests, lore ...all of it amazing!
I did not expect tbh another underrating of Zul Drak. I mean, Zul Drak is literal first zone where you could see the true horrors of the Scourge, their malevolent tactics, epic tribal soundtrack, desperate deranged trolls sacrificing their gods for modicum of chance to fight off Scourge, Scourge flying fortress brought down, Loa destroying itself to avoid being sacrificed and overall fallen troll empire.
Can you rate the main cities of each race? My favorites were Undercity and Ironforge. Something about ooze and lava and being under ground just hypnotized me.
He's gonna rate Stormwind 1st and Silvermoon last, because he is extremely biased towards alliance , and it shows in this tierlist too, which is fine because he is an alliance player after all.
@@pooriyapoat7398 To be fair, Stormwind has epic music and Silvermoon is kind of a red and gold eyesore. I stopped playing in Pandaria so I don't know if any cities were upgraded since then.
@@mandykarevicius9746 To each their own kind sir
@@pooriyapoat7398 I'm a girl. No worries! Everybody has opinions!
Mandy Karevicius trueeeee
I did get emotional when rescuing npcs in Zul Drak like this one dwarf dude who saw his brother dying and couldn't do anything about it bc he was dying as well, never felt more motivated to avenge some npc.
Bit too much of an alliance bias.
Also, the belf leveling zones were amazing in so many ways.
Both fair points.
Because he plays Alliance mainly. So of course he's Alliance biased. It's opinion.
Originally I played horde, then I rolled alliance and never went back. The zones were the main reason, they're just straight up superior. A joy to look at and a joy to play.
Horde sucks ass my dude.
Ghostlands is phenomenal
Love how he said it'll take like 30 minutes to do this..... nope....
So glad to see Scholazar Basis get recognition. I think it is one of the most interesting questing zones of all time. It's got the titan pillars giving it the warm tropical rain forest climate despite being in northrend. It has the cult destroying one pillar allowing the icecrown weather and undead to break in. The weremurloc vs weredog civil war. And a Hemet Nesingwary chain. And it's an above average looking zone of all the wilderness zone's they've done. High concept, high execution. It doesn't get much better than that. The only thing it fell short on was music.
I think the music is awesome too
Hi I just started to play WoW so I am pretty fresh n00b and now I know more about zones. It was very long but entertaining and video. Thank you!!
deadwind pass, eastern and western plaguelands... maybe even trisfal glades.. These areas always gave me the biggest sense of mystery like there is more out there to explore. I also love the spooky ambience
I didn’t play that much on WoW , i played the demo in 2004 as a troll and didn’t play again until WoD as a Tauren warrior most of the time and stopped playing after it ended , and the best memory i have from that period is when i played in Ashran vs alliance and man i was leading maybe a 100 horde players through raid messages and giving them orders like a general and they followed me until we won i was yelling at them all the time to motivate them when the final push was happening like “FOR THE HORDE” and “FOR DEATH OR GLORY WE WILL BE VICTORIOUS “ “FORWARD “ “DONT STOP AT ANY COST” and the more i send messages like these they became more nd more ferocious and we kept pushing i was in the frontline as a tauren fury warrior named GURZYL and man after we won i had to go and all the horde players begged me to stay for one more and were in love with me because i was a great leader and they felt like they were in a real war vs the alliance because the roleplay i added to my strategies, it was the most heartwarming and thrilling experience in my life playing wow for that short time, i will never forget it I’m sad that i didn’t have a recorded video of it.
STV just insane, everytime i start playing i can't wait to get there!!!
Other than the Barren STV is probably the most iconic zone in the entire game.
I played on a pvp server the entire time I played wow and all of its expansions, so I know STV as stranglethorn Vietnam and for that reason its a Great zone for me.
you forgot to put tirisfal glades in the amazing category. . .
dont say "you" asmon doesnt make these vids
He did put it in amazing lol
Silverpine forest fucking sucked though.
@@IronMaidenDoD nope
My fav zones per Addon:
Classic: Westfall
BC: Nagrand
WotLK: Grizzly Hills
Cata: Mount Hyjal
MoP: Valley of the Four Winds
WoD: Shadowmoon Valley
Legion: Suramar
BfA: Drustvar
SURAMAR🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Pre-Cata Dun Morogh is the best starting zone in the game. Fucking at me...
I wish i played the game so i would know anything about this
don't do it, if you value your life and family
wait til shadowlands
Well, reading wiki helps or at least follow nobble, he's a great lore master in terms of wow
why would you ever watch this video if you dont play wow?
@@beerisgood25 because it was in my recommended
So, I just started playing wow my first wow experience was the first night classic wow actually. I've been playing retail a lot. I love hearing Asmon talk about these zones that I don't know much about. The way he talks he makes me want to play more classic, maybe I will idk I've been leveling a lot of characters in retail but obviously the way the leveling is now some of these zones are just not the same. Listening to Asmon talk about how these zones we're back in the day really makes me sad that I was not into PC gaming when I was a kid, I wish I could look back at WoW how most WoW players do, really.
I agree about Vashj'ir being an amazing zone! It was unique, vast and pretty. I've always loved it and I'm glad it got an 'Amazing' rank :)
Point with certain areas of vashj'ir is our humane fear of depths and "prehistoric creatures going around every corner" and the fact that it was mostly all grey and you were very near the imsta death fall out of world. Made every movement a damn gamble...
Had to do navigate through it in some glitched parts of it on my scuffed bfa private seever where your character and half the terrain disappeared and all. And the fact that i hated depths as a kid ( fucking semi realistic images of damn sea dinosaurs made me fear that too much) and vashj'ir enbodied that for me
Ashenvale is easily in the amazing tier, and you could put it there just on the basis of music and atmosphere, nevermind other cool stuff like the elite dragons and the raid boss in Bough Shadow, the quest Ranae's Cleansing which throws some light on the creation of the Worgen, the quest with the Satyr where Elune herself speaks to you, the fact that you can find Mannoroth's broken polearm at Demon Fall Canyon etc. And of course, Warsong Gulch and all the epic PvP raids that went back and forth in the area.
Elwyn Forest, Westfall, Duskwood and Redridge all in amazing lol I can sense some human character nostalgia coming through here
Yeah, hes speaking out of experience and nostalgia. My first char was a nightelf and I adore Teldrassil, Darkshore and Ashenvale.
Great to see the love for Grizzly Hills. Phenomenal zone.
11:20 I love how everyone in chat is completely ignoring asmon and just jamming to the skyrim OST
I havent played WoW since a year, its nice to get some nostalgia from this vid
ashenvale is one of my favorite classic zones.
Ill never forget fighting with the alliance there at their lil island town as a level 23 orc warlock
Feat of Strength: Timestamp all the Zones
The soul of pre-cata thousand needles was pure rage when you lagged out and ran off a cliff only to have to run to the far end to get back up.
(Azshara) "Even though you didn't spend a lot of time on it."
Someone never farmed Dreamfoil in classic.
"Head to Head 1v1 vs Ragnaros" LOL dont mind Malfurion and his whole posse.
I'd put Eversong Woods in amazing. Architecture is cool, music is amazing and quests were fun
agreed
Hard agree. Ever song, Grizzly Hills & Drustvar are top 3.
Would love to see you do a ranking like this for every Dungeon and also a ranking of the raids in World of Warcraft. Really like your content and that you explaine way you feel the way you do of the rankings of the zones.
As a regular Asmon viewer and having never played wow, this is a great video to fall asleep to
Love how at the very start of the video, there is one person saying "2 hour video Pog"
you should do a dungeon tier list of every dungeon in the game
Dude that comment about burning steppes and it making it feel like a world of warcraft hit home. That was one of my most memorable experiences in vanilla. I didn't play seriously, just level capped and god bored, but man I remember that moment 15 years later...
When I first started playing wow, it was right before the release of WotLK. My first character was a Draenei hunter, so Azuremyst Isle and Bloodmyst Isle hold a special place in my heart :) That said, I think for my fave it's Duskwood, with Darkshore a close second.
grizzly hills and nagrand to me and my guildies back then was our favorite..
to me it so much memory and joy just thinking about it now.
duskwood too is great ..
The first 4 human zones are all amazing.
Not saying he's wrong, but I think he might be a tad biased
I would just say that Duskwood is the best zone in the game. Redridge not as much though it would only be good or great on my list.
I never felt more threatened in vanilla than questing and mining in UnGoro Crater. I love the vibe of that place, the swamps, dinosaurs, apes and crystal caves. The shoddy little hubs and super fun quests.
RED RIDGE MOUNTAINS WAS WHAT WOW WAS SUPPOSED TO BE! IF YOU PLAYED WOW 15 YEARS AGO YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE MEANS THAT SHIT WAS THE BEES KNEES OF WOW!
Can't disagree with Grizzly Hills being the best.
idk if the mic quality he has is a good trade off for hearing every lip smack, swallow and the saliva in his mouth
Slurp slurp
sounds dry to me
fuck i can hear them now.
thats the best part
Watch asmon for ages never noticed but now I can't not here every slurp
When he said Dun Morogh was a bad zone I got a little defensive. That was my nostalgia he took a stab at.
Honestly the vanilla zones should've had a separate tier list for pre-Cata and post-Cata
Grizzly Hills always been the best, always will be.
Hi asmongold, i have 2 month watch your stream, i love your vidéos and i love world of war craft but i dont have pc , so i watch from my phone your stream wish some day i well buy pc and i well played again. Thank you .
Do it, Zbidi Mohamed!
Azuremyst Isle has been my favorite music and ambience since I first went there when BC launched and I made my first Draenei.
By far my favorite zone this far is Ny'alotha, the Waking City. I am very new to this game, but when I visited this zone for a few minutes in DF, it blew my mind. This dark ass atmosphere, these creepy buildings with eyes and the voices whispering to you, trying to drive you insane, just absolute perfection! Is there any way to return to this place? I find the era of the Black Empire and the old gods very fascinating and would like to get a deeper look into it. It's very, very dark and I absolutely love it!
first great was grizzly hills like ayy best zone in wrath solely on ascetic and music
I remember playing this game ten years ago as a *said with Vork's voice* casual player (my God, the horror!) But the sheer level of detail Asmongold shares for every single zone is truly astounding.
Always hated trying to navigate Ashenvale when you have to leave the roads, even when flying. You cannot see the forest for the trees. The quests were okay though.
Storm Peaks - the atmosphere, the music - made it the only place I was able to tolerate the TLPD camping. Amazing+++ zone.
Am I the only one who liked leveling in Blade's Edge Mountains? Sure it was no Netherstorm but I enjoyed the quest progression and visuals quite a bit.
yes, you're the only one
Kun-lai summet has Neverest Mountains. That alone makes it good imo.
Big fucking props to Catdany and Daily Dose for taking time to add all of those time stamps, it wasn't necessary at all but it really adds quality to this video
Nazmir is probably my favorite BFA zone and I heard he put it low so I came to check his reasoning and there literally wasn't any
I'm shocked by the dislike for Ashenvale, easily one of my favorite zones in Classic. Probably the most visually stunning, plus some beautiful music. A huge zone, it had one of my favorite lower level dungeons, and it had Warsong Gulch! Plus, it was basically the first zone you start getting into pitched fights on PvP. Love Ashenvale!
it's just the pathing and terrain is quite difficult to navigate without a 40% mount at least. Although the lore and zone, music etc is beautiful for sure
„Yeah i‘ll be done with this in 30min, i‘ll do it quick“ ends up rating Zones for 2h LULW
Redridge required me to literally get help on every quest in the area, saying that it was a brilliant experience to quest through
The fact he didnt rate the hinterlands as an amazing zone is a shame.
really was the best mid 40’s - 50 zone. It gave you a trinket for 1% hit 20 attack power. Molten core didn’t have a trinket that good. You didn’t take that off until you were sure you had enough melee hit. Hit was a rare commodity until later tiers.
It gave a fantastic necklace, woven ivy necklace, with 10 strength, 9 stam, and 6 agility (I think) that could be used until you did tirion’s questline.
As a horde player, you went into an alliance base and put up a big ol “fuck you” sign to the alliance, and then had to make a last ditch getaway when all the guards would chase after you.
You had the altar of zul to give you the mallet for zul farrak to summon gahzranka for your carrot on a stick, the best questing trinket ever made. 3% mounted movement speed.
The turtle questline from revantusk gave you a +20 fishing pole, and fishing back then was essential for an alchemist. That +20 rod would never need to be replaced if you couldn’t do the fishing tournament.
Also, world boss green dragon ysondre over in the northeast.
He really did that zone dirty with just a good rating.
Nazmir and zuldazar are by far the 2 best zones of the expac. Asmon clearly never quested horde side in BFA. Those zones are packed with cool areas and put the alliance ones to shame even drustvar to an extent.
All those years later seems like Cataclysm's quests revamp was the best thing that happened to this game.
im sO happy im not the only one who thinks that of vashjir. i think it was the best high level cataclysm zone. great scenery, sometimes silly but also serious and interesting storyline, not super grindy quests but not necessarily too simple of quests, it was expansive and i liked the mobility it gave you once you got the seahorse because like yeah, you can fly in any zone, but because vashjir is underwater and underwater has a lot of dips and towers and plants, theres just more things to traverse in that extra y axis. I would probably think the same of a zone that was just that but a cloud city zone, but that wouldnt even come CLOSE to matching the scenery of vashjir. The scenery really sells it. Bright exotic sea plants but soft green sea grasses and kelp filler, a big bright red expanse, and a deep and dreary colored but still poppingly colored part thats supposed to be an abyss. a giant sea creature that is literally apart of the zone? amazing. beautiful.
Yes YES! I was afraid that Asmon won't put Vashj'ir in amazing category but he did! Great stuff!