And across the ocean, almost the same story unfolded in life of a 14 year old Pilav. Raiding only Karazhan for 3 tiers, duels under stairs in Ironforge while in queue for arena, got the weapon in the end but never shoulders. I unironically used to be the best student in my school until TBC, but who needed school when I learned English on WoW forums 🤣 Obviously back then I had no money so the way I payed subscription was by doing dailies on 5 different accounts for some German dudes who would buy me game time. My favorite TBC moment surely was when I enchanted server's first Warglaives with Mongoose,wow,I told everyone in my school about it, guy who owned those warglaives was a rogue called Demon who we all thought was a literal God because he was good at pvp and pve. TBC Classic will not even come close to that experience , we will just zerg content down and probably quit after phase 2 or 3, but let's see what happens! Great story Asmon, I wish my mom played WoW as well though 🤣
His Mom bought Him TBC, she paid for his Epic flying. She fed Him IRL, she really is a MOM. And now years later, asmon is still living with her, taking Care of her. Even if he’s worth alot of money, and could probably live in a mansion. He’s with his Mom. Man this is what family love is all about. Respect too the both of them❤️
@@TheBrentonTaylor He got lucky i guess. As cattysplat said Asmon i like 0.001% of people who made it that way, others just have to go shitty job, because they played all the time and don't have experience and education, or just live on their parents money like parasites
A mansion? Probably not, yeah he has money but buying a mansion and then being able to consistently afford the property taxes and everything else going into that costs a lot a lot a lot.
Played thru vanilla and BC with my father. Some of the best memories of my young adult life. I go visit the rock in the water next to the dock in feather moon as tribute to him every year as he used to stand on the rock for hours and fish up stone scale eels. RIP. Thanks for the memories and the story dawg
I remember years ago when I must have been around 5-6 years old I would come downstairs in the morning and find my dad doing the Argent Tournament dailies, crazy to think that was so long ago, and just how much has changed in our lives since then :’)
facts, I wish either of my parents supported the things I actually liked as a child and not just liking the things I did that they wanted me to pursue..
Someone once said that when he watches other streamers he got a feeling like he's watching entertainment and when he watches Asmon he got a feeling like he's watching a real person. This video is a evidence of that
He’s a very genuine person, even when he’s putting on an act, there’s an undeniable aura to him that just screams human. He’s not there to impress people, nor is he trying to beat people down. The man is doing what he loves for the sake of doing it and shares it with complete transparency and it’s the most respectable thing I’ve seen on the platform, and on the internet in general.
someone else once said its all fucking pixels and you sheep forget its a screen infront of you. You know asmon just as much as you know the homeless person that asks you to borrow your phone at the gas station. The reality of it is you dumbass kids born after 2000 dont know what fucking real life is and think because you donate and he reads your message now you two are connected or some shit.
This guy knows his audience, what I truly respect is he isn't afraid to stand his ground, accept updated viewpoints, and push back when he feels it's right. Much love to all who reads this as this YT community gives off strong positive energy.
@@Mutterschwein The only thing surprising is that you find it surprising. Someone's political affiliations shouldn't even be an issue, but we all know the orange man is bad because....the TV said so.
Your story is so similar to my son and mine, we started back in early 2007, my son was 11. He played a rogue and I a Holy Priest. To this day we still play those classes, I am still on my original priest. I paid for his flying and many other things. His love of gaming led to him getting a game development degree. He too didn't do professions back then, I even leveled his lock picking so he could open my lock boxes I had saved up. He now does professions and even crafts Lariat and jokes I don't tip. Anyway listening to your story brought back so many great memories. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope my son someday has great memories of us playing together.
I love his mom, reminds me of my mom, I actually got her and her boyfriend to play DnD with me, cuz I moved 2hrs away from the group I used to play with, but was only 20min from her place so I talked em into it and we had alot of fun even though the group was small , good quality time and I got to be sober at least 1 night a week so I can remember part of my 20s that isn't WoW or Eve 🤣
I think we are under-appreciating the fact that this 2 hour long video has next to no advertisements unlike other big RUclipsrs with a 15 min video. Thicc Respect
That picture got me, especially since Cody gifted a canvas print to Zack of that same picture. It's tough losing anyone, but losing a parent is one of the hardest things go through.
@@ryanashby2481 i lost my mum on christmas eve 8 years ago and she detested WoW and could never understand why i played it; because I had friends on it
I recently discovered this video of your TBC story. First : Maybe the only 2h+ video I skip nothing. Thank you for your narration about your past stories on the game. When I heard you and see you smile when thinking about stuff that happened to you, it put the smile on my face because we can all find ourselves in some of your stories. The parts about your Mom really shows she was and will still be the MVP❤
I think my dad tried playing stuff on n64 with me, but I wish my parents played stuff like that. Also super cool that he got to play tbc with his mom, none of my friends play wow anymore and I always end up playing solo and quitting after 1 month of each expansion partially because of it
Felt like tearing up when he was talking about the story of him and his mom outside GameStop, with such a wholesome picture. I love that so much. What a great parent.
I don't know him or his mom, but cant stop crying this whole video. It really hit me in the feels everytime his mom came back into the story. What great memories he has im sure he will treasure them for the rest of his life!
I waited for 2 hours outside of gamestop for vanilla. I remember the warcraft 3 custom games called 'world of warcraft' that were nothing but a bunch of tauren chieftan and blademasters running around trees and hitting each other. good times
I've never played this game (I grew up playing runescape). But he is so passionate and proud of his history that even clueless about what he said I watched the whole video enjoying every single second. What a legend.
What a lovely story, my daughter and I had a similar story to you and your mum we were so excited to get burning crusades , I home educated my girls, and we decided that the release of Burning Crusades would be an official ‘holiday’ for us 😂..I still play and I have to say I’m still rubbish😂
@@shabnamtabatabaei Whenever somebody says "I home educated my kids", and "the thing we were most excited for was Burning Crusade" the correct response is not "You sound like an incredible parent!!". Sounds like her kids barely saw the light of day, and stayed protected and cooped up, never had much adventure, except in a video game. Kids need to get out there and be socializing in real life or it is massively detrimental towards their development. I doubt any of them turned out to be the picture of health after 16 years of staying home.
His mom was a godly player yet it took him so long to finally realize how to shift bind and macro? Makes me feel like my 13 year old self raiding mount hyjal as a spirit healer is more amazing than this bloated story
I love hearing you talk about your mom, I can totally relate with how much my mom did for myself growing up. I am so grateful to have had her for as long as I did.
This is so poetic... When he starts talking about his mom money talent around 54:35, the "Invincible" melody also begins... She will be always with you Asmon, looking proud on to you from heaven!
those screen shots paid off, what an amazing look into what its all about really makes you appreciate what gaming is and has become. truly an amazing tale Asmondgold very much enjoyed it
@@jefftX Introduction, why do you want to join, what can you contribute, what is your gear, what is the hardest dungeon/raid you have cleared, references from other players/members of the guild, print screen of dps meter if you were dps etc. A basically a full on job application.
@@genitxlz well, yes, but we're not talking about that, he's saying that her money making skills in an mmorpg is epic and inspiring. which it isn't, really.
I'm from Russia. And I also have the most vivid and sentimental memories of TBC... I'm not very emotional in life, but I cried on this video. Thank you very much Asmongold, you breathed life into vivid memories of the carefree best time of my damn life.
This is the most legendary story I've ever heard‼️ You just had to be there to understand it. asmongold was a normal kid like us who just loved the game. Those days can never be repeated or duplicated thanks for the nostalgia my man‼️
This put me on quite the nostalgia trip this morning. Thank you so much for putting this together, I felt like I was back right in my teens. What a great time that was
This brings back so many memories... I have horrible memory lost do to a head trauma. I remember my 1st guild it was Silver Blades of Azeroth. I do have some great memories from years in WoW that I didn't lose. I played from the 3rd week after release till Legion. I was in labor with my daughter and was main tanking a raid, I main tanked all of BC an on for my guild. I was horde at one point, my guild did the for the horde. We killed Swifty, doing it and then all created gnomes with Swifty in the name and mobbed Iron Forge. There are days I want to go back to WoW but I dont know if I could play anymore, and a lot has changed. PS I love that your mom played with you!
Dear Zack, your Story is so amazing, really, but the most heartwarming feels i had, when you told about your Mom, she must have been such an amazing Mom and Person. I began play WOW in 2011, shortly before Pandaria was released, when i met my real Love and Partner. Before i never had played, and i got hooked right on. And the first time, i ran through Orgrimmar it was a complete new World to me and i liked it right away.
I used to play TBC with my dad when i was 8, we both had trial accounts and I came across this one guy that was also Dutch, so i followed him which was my first encounter with people in the game. The first time I ever played WoW was one of the best times in my gaming history, even though i didn’t quite understand the point of the game, sometimes my sister even hopped on with me and this one time I knew i was about to ding to lvl 5 and I was so proud of that that I got my mom to show her and she was so excited for me. I didn’t know what i was doing but I was having a blast, later my dad and I both got a subscription (he bought it for me) and I remember that I played WOTLK a few years later damn this game has taught me so much, especially english, forever grateful for WoW. It just brings people together, made lots of friends and i’ll forever have memories about those days that i’ll cherish and I will never forget those❤️
Nagrand was def the best zone there ever was. Listening to this just made me so nostalgic of my childhood, being 11 playing TBC with my step brother Zakk. We were hunters and clicked 90% of buttons, didnt know about questing, and couldnt save up gold for flying because we would buy gems and enchants for every piece of gear that we would upgrade lol. Man, I miss those days. Man, I miss my homie Zakk, RIP brother, why'd you have to blow your brains out over a chick. Still love ya man, see ya in the shadowlands irl brother.
Because it's some dude flexing about him, his mom and buddies playing a video game, stealing items and making other player's experience miserable. No direction, no interesting screenplay, no meaningful dialogues, no action sequences, no pacing, no mystery to uncover, no original score, the only thing that this video shares with a good movie are relatable characters, since we've all played this game at some point.
None of my friends growing up had a PC and none of them liked how much a nerd I was. I loved WoW, The Sims online, Motorcity online, and final fantasy online. They were all playing Cod. I wish I knew people like this growing up lol. The fact you recorded and took screenshots in 2007 and beyond is bonkers. You have definitely taken the title of Favorite Gamer. Shout out to your mom 🐐. Thanks for making this video. Literally took me back to my childhood and remembering game install waiting time, camping outside stores for midnight releases. Truely a different way of living.
Asmon's mom reminds me of this lady I've played with and met since vanilla in 2005. She always had gold and knew how to make it. I remember one time she had the item to get the one of the dragon mount in Pandaria. So she made a pay group then invited me for the last slot. After we finished and everyone got the mount, she gave me all the gold she got from them. I was shocked. It was the most gold I've ever had. I was just happy to get the mount but she gave me all the gold.
Dude all the deaths and tears in that game, all the ganging upon me the first fly mount... WoW was just such an incredible game for its time, never seen before and nothing was as live and as intense as it. I remember just thinking about WoW all the time and spending all my free time around the game it was magical. Nowadays TBC is just reminding me of the pure and amazing game it used to be when I was a kid.
I know this is an old af video of yours but i just wana say that, i was kinda sad, dk why, maybe depression or something that tries me, and my tv was running next to me running your clip, with this great music and the story of you. i looked at the tv and I smiled. Life is beautiful and you are great!
The fact all those screenshots and videos etc were worth capturing and remembering speaks volumes about how good games were back then, especially WoW. Good times.
It reminded me of just how fucked Blizzard has been as a gaming company. Asmongold talks about how those of us that achieved Grand Marshall/High Warlord in OG Vanilla WoW were “gods...” I got HWL back then myself, in 2005. I led a team everyday for months on end, and it was the biggest time-suck and required dedication ever out of every game I’ve ever played in my life. I had a blast doing it, but it was essentially a full-time job without getting paid, and instead paying a monthly subscription for it lmfao. In the last couple of months on that grind, I barely slept at all. And in the last 2 weeks, I even needed a friend to play my toon for a few hours when I did sleep/shower, or else I wouldn’t be able to get rank 14. This was because the random solo fux that refused to play with us on the server teams and instead would pay real world money for foreign pvp farmers to earn the title for them. If we didn’t have a friend play our toon a bit at that point, the solo fux would halt our progression when it was our individual turn to get top rank (after the many months long grind we had put in, where we were always watching our progress closely so we wouldn’t screw over teammates that were ahead of us in working for top rank). And then what did Blizzard do? Made all that time and dedication and teamwork be for _NOTHING_ with the first expansion (TBC). Raising the level cap from 60-70made our hard-earned gear be for nothing! And then, to rub salt in the wound, they made it so everyone and their mother could get high end pvp gear and earn the top tier pvp titles. Like, everyone started walking around with my HWL title, akin to when the millennial generation all started getting trophies in school so “nobody would feel bad for losing.” Fuck that shit! I stuck around for a little bit, but essentially only used my main to be an auction house addict/farm up gold essentially, making lvl 19 alts I’d gear the hell up to do pvp on them, wrecking people. I wasn’t going to waste anymore time grinding for _ANYTHING,_ as Blizzard showed they had *NO* respect for the blood, sweat, and tears we put in for shit that took a ridiculous amount of time and commitment/dedication to earn. I maybe played a month tops of the third expansion and left for good. For me, they totally ruined what was my favorite game of all time there for awhile.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Blizzard didn't do anything wrong there. What did you expect exactly? That your gear was just going to be the best for all time? Every single game goes through level cap increases and every time they need to add better gear or else people will stop having things to work toward. It's just how it works. It's unfortunate but you're in the very low percent of players to cater to and you can't expect them to bend around what you want like that, it's bad for the company that way. Your teamwork meant something and you accomplished what lots of people would be jealous of. You should be proud of your achievements but you can't expect it to stay that way forever. Times change, and you holding this big of a grudge over it is a little overboard. Wish you the best man
@@FuriousFiveMonkey I like how you are talking about vanilla WoW when I played as if it came out a year ago or something, with a litany of mega-populated MMORPGs behind it. There was no standard of *“THIS IS HOW THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE, BECAUSE THIS IS HOW MMORPGs ALWAYS ARE”* back then. WoW _SET STANDARDS._ There was only a couple other small MMORPGs before WoW (like Everquest) and that was it - hardly anyone was playing those games compared to how huge WoW became overnight. There was many options that Blizzard could have chosen to show damn respect to their customers who spent as much time and dedication to achieve the hardest goals Blizzard offered, yet they decided to give the finger to _ALL OF THEM._ I’m not the one with a screwed up head over it - that would be Blizzard and those that excuse their BS. Blizzard is simply a greedy company that doesn’t respect it’s customers, period. They really thought that they can just eff people over like that to such a huge extent and they’ll continue to stick around. The world doesn’t work like that. I was happy to give my money and time to other games/developers instead. They took their most dedicated customer base for granted is what it comes down to. I wasn’t surprised at all when I heard how gross things were for employees working at Blizzard behind the scenes. They’re a bunch of jerkoffs in a litany of ways.
I'll be honest, Asmongold's mom has got to be one of the coolest people ever. She's elderly, but she plays World of Warcraft, is fantastic at a part of the game most don't think about but makes her astoundingly helpful, she's generous in helping her friends and family, AND she's got the spunk to cuss out her son when he's being a twit. I can never blame Zack/Asmongold for staying with her and taking care of her all this time. She really is an amazing person.
Also, Asmon let's her buy all the stuff she wants with his money. I bet she never expected him to become so successful as a streamer a few years later. What a crazy life those two have!
The fact that your mom played wow, and played with you... nothing more wholesome than that. Nothing can top that. And I know nowadays we have plenty of mom and dads who play vidya gaemz with their kids, but it's 2021. This was 15 years ago. My mom barely knew how to turn one on. EZ CLAP to your mom. And typing "fuck you" in chat... what a master of the art of telling you to go to hell. Incredible story. It made me sad for a lot of stuff but one of them was being so sad about other stuff that I never took pics of myself and also a lot of screenshots and stuff, I deleted because over time I felt they were pointless. Now I know. Shoulda kept them. Edit: Elon Musk, millionaire. Owner of Tesla. AsmonMom, millionaire, owner of Teslan.
I was in U.S. as a graduate student during the release of WLK. I spent time playing, and I have real memories of my experiences in the game. Who is to say what's real and what is pure fantasy? Isn't "real" life full of forced accomplishments and vanity? WoW, in my humble impression can be very real, it's a World! A world! I was never in a raid. I was always alone. I didn't understand the social subtleties of social interaction within the game. Whowever I can relate to the amazing human narrative you shared in this video. I bow to your greatness as a human and as a mythological member of The World of War Craft. It makes wonder that "reality" is at the end what one choses it to be. Thanks for the enlightenment you have provided me.
so wholesome, really enjoy this kind of content, so awesome you kept all the screenshots and share this kind of fun memories with your mum. Man I can´t believe it, your mum was really helping you boys out alot, heartwarming af.
This is like a movie and I bloody love it. I absolutely love that every now and then his mom would make an appearance to save the day. She is so sweet.
Watched this because TBC was my era. My man, you are a storyteller and you have an oddly engaging eyebrow habit that enhances your story and that seems to have played a part in repaying your mom's faith and support. What a beautifully odd coincidence. Glad you have found an audience and way, way more glad if it really has helped your mom.
@@ChinnuWoW I think they're just showing appreciation that a Wow streamer makes them so entertained without actually ever playing the game before.I was like that too at one point then after binge watching Asmon i had to play too
Only 39 minutes into the video but this is actually really wholesome. Edit: I know it would be impossible to track the people down but I would love to see a semi-documentary of the people who had interacted with Asmongold over the years. Especially over the vanilla and The Burning Crusade years.
2:48 This picture is amazing. I can't help but get in my feels looking at this picture. There's something so perfect about it, so poetic and incredible. Everything about this picture is incredible.
Look at the way the light shines in the center of the picture, highlighting Zack and his mom. How was this captured? It's so beautiful it brings tears almost.. These are the kinds of pictures you cherish for the rest of your life. I don't know her situation (is she disabled?) but there is truly something gentle and special about their bond. It's hard to fathom the power this photo holds for Zack and his mom. Look how emotional it is for us viewers. This was taken in 2006, 15 years ago. They can look at this and remember everything they were doing that day and during 2006. It's majestic. 😃💖
People forget how hard dungeons use to be. They absolutely required cooperation and a group leader to keep everyone in line doing what they need to be doing. Normal dungeons required cc and buff coordination. Heroics made CC even a bigger deal, because in raids CC was a requirement for a lot of Karazhan encounters.. Karazhan was a great dungeon.
I find it amazing that he thought of taking these screenshots at the time of playing. I always thought screenshots are more art thing rather than documentation. But this is brilliant.
And across the ocean, almost the same story unfolded in life of a 14 year old Pilav. Raiding only Karazhan for 3 tiers, duels under stairs in Ironforge while in queue for arena, got the weapon in the end but never shoulders. I unironically used to be the best student in my school until TBC, but who needed school when I learned English on WoW forums 🤣 Obviously back then I had no money so the way I payed subscription was by doing dailies on 5 different accounts for some German dudes who would buy me game time. My favorite TBC moment surely was when I enchanted server's first Warglaives with Mongoose,wow,I told everyone in my school about it, guy who owned those warglaives was a rogue called Demon who we all thought was a literal God because he was good at pvp and pve.
TBC Classic will not even come close to that experience , we will just zerg content down and probably quit after phase 2 or 3, but let's see what happens!
Great story Asmon, I wish my mom played WoW as well though 🤣
PILAV POWER ! You both guys are legends of the game
Bratcie moj kocham cie.
WoW in the old days was a gem, almost everyone pretty much had the same experience.
So he sees the comments...
*interesting*
Karazhan never gets boring, such an amazing raid to do every week with your friends.
His Mom bought Him TBC, she paid for his Epic flying. She fed Him IRL, she really is a MOM. And now years later, asmon is still living with her, taking Care of her. Even if he’s worth alot of money, and could probably live in a mansion. He’s with his Mom. Man this is what family love is all about. Respect too the both of them❤️
True, I never had such understanding with my mom, kinda sad
@@TheBrentonTaylor He got lucky i guess. As cattysplat said Asmon i like 0.001% of people who made it that way, others just have to go shitty job, because they played all the time and don't have experience and education, or just live on their parents money like parasites
@Zero Clutter Ultra Yooooo :0
A mansion? Probably not, yeah he has money but buying a mansion and then being able to consistently afford the property taxes and everything else going into that costs a lot a lot a lot.
Being a mommy's boy has it's cons also
I love how he's telling this like old war stories with friends he lost during that great war... it's touching.
You ever Make the Eight?
Ye
The great nerd wars of 2007, they were long and freinds were lost
Dude, him saying "The only person I knew that was online.. was my mom" brought the biggest smile to my face. Rest in peace.
you didn't get the context
@@bungiechungus8253 Because it's wholesome as hell.
@@SnuSnu91 what was the context?
Cool that your mom was not only supportive but wanted to be part of your gaming experiences . Sounds like an awesome lady
Boogie woogie
Wish this was a podcast lol
It was more hes mom getting him into the game
Me and my dad played wow, but never played together q.q
F in chat for those of us who have parents that refer to everything gaming related as Nintendo.
Played thru vanilla and BC with my father. Some of the best memories of my young adult life. I go visit the rock in the water next to the dock in feather moon as tribute to him every year as he used to stand on the rock for hours and fish up stone scale eels. RIP. Thanks for the memories and the story dawg
This made me cry. Rest in peace to your father and keep on grinding bro
damn dawg :( Glad you have a good spot where you both share good memories to memorialize him
Damn made me tear up. Much love
Ayyyy this hit me hard as someone with not a very good relationship with his father. Cherish these moments, rip.
I remember years ago when I must have been around 5-6 years old I would come downstairs in the morning and find my dad doing the Argent Tournament dailies, crazy to think that was so long ago, and just how much has changed in our lives since then :’)
“I had no job, no girlfriend, lived with my mom, barely went to school. Greatest time of my life.”
Facts
Asmon's mom is the realest one. Most kids never get to experience the kind of love Asmon has.
facts, I wish either of my parents supported the things I actually liked as a child and not just liking the things I did that they wanted me to pursue..
I barely got any memories including my parents. they just didnt care enough to be there.
She is the GOAT of this whole story
Someone once said that when he watches other streamers he got a feeling like he's watching entertainment and when he watches Asmon he got a feeling like he's watching a real person. This video is a evidence of that
So fucking true
He’s a very genuine person, even when he’s putting on an act, there’s an undeniable aura to him that just screams human. He’s not there to impress people, nor is he trying to beat people down. The man is doing what he loves for the sake of doing it and shares it with complete transparency and it’s the most respectable thing I’ve seen on the platform, and on the internet in general.
definitely
someone else once said its all fucking pixels and you sheep forget its a screen infront of you. You know asmon just as much as you know the homeless person that asks you to borrow your phone at the gas station. The reality of it is you dumbass kids born after 2000 dont know what fucking real life is and think because you donate and he reads your message now you two are connected or some shit.
I've watched this video about 5 times now, but coming back to it and hearing Asmon talk about his mom really hits different now.
Rip Asmom.
It really dose. Such an amazing person. Rest in power Asmom
His mom supporting him even in the game to pay for his epic flying made me sad too...
Lost my mother too, man this hits different after everything...
Same keep listening like a podcast on repeat
Same.
This guy knows his audience, what I truly respect is he isn't afraid to stand his ground, accept updated viewpoints, and push back when he feels it's right.
Much love to all who reads this as this YT community gives off strong positive energy.
much love to you as well man have a great day bro :)
Much love boys :)
@ISitOn MyArm Was he joking when he said that or is he really just pro-Trump?
@adolf hitler Easy. No need to be defensive I was just curious. Though I must say I am surprised by how open he is about it if that's really the case.
@@Mutterschwein The only thing surprising is that you find it surprising. Someone's political affiliations shouldn't even be an issue, but we all know the orange man is bad because....the TV said so.
Your story is so similar to my son and mine, we started back in early 2007, my son was 11. He played a rogue and I a Holy Priest. To this day we still play those classes, I am still on my original priest. I paid for his flying and many other things. His love of gaming led to him getting a game development degree. He too didn't do professions back then, I even leveled his lock picking so he could open my lock boxes I had saved up. He now does professions and even crafts Lariat and jokes I don't tip. Anyway listening to your story brought back so many great memories. Thank you for sharing your story. I hope my son someday has great memories of us playing together.
You are awesome
Yes@@Randall_D_Clark
Anybody else tear up a little when he showed the picture of him and his mom?
I did unironically :*)
No
Hell no you manchild >:(
Yep
Nope
Moral of the story: Asmons mom is too good for this world and must be protected at all costs
agreeeeeed
Lmao ok
Yes.
I love his mom, reminds me of my mom, I actually got her and her boyfriend to play DnD with me, cuz I moved 2hrs away from the group I used to play with, but was only 20min from her place so I talked em into it and we had alot of fun even though the group was small , good quality time and I got to be sober at least 1 night a week so I can remember part of my 20s that isn't WoW or Eve 🤣
widepeepoHappy
Seeing him talk about his mom makes tear a little for my mom. I miss you mom
be strong my man
Same here i miss my dad
Personal highlights:
3:31 - First time seeing Overdose
4:40 - Initial group quests
6:00 - Day 2
6:34 - Coolest zone ever
7:29 - Biggest NPC
8:15 - Level 70
11:25 - Guild since Vanilla
14:40 - First Arena Team
17:46 - Gorehowl
25:17 - Closest kill
31:00 - Leaving Silent Asylum
32:37 - Space Balls fiasco
36:12 - Jeff and Cody
39:46 - Can't spell
40:49 - Alienated
41:32 - Netherdrake
42:36 - Alone and bored in BGs
43:35 - New guild
45:59 - How long till member?
46:20 - Alts with Zack
47:29 - Zack did the thing
53:10 - Epic flying
58:06 - Tier 5 =/= Tier 6
I think we are under-appreciating the fact that this 2 hour long video has next to no advertisements unlike other big RUclipsrs with a 15 min video. Thicc Respect
👏👏👏
u know this is not his channel right fam ?
@@samuel9294 you must be fun at parties
@@SystemFummblez im watching a wow video, do u think i go to parties ?
@@samuel9294 you do know he owns the channel right? He owns it and let's two people run it
Held back tears seeing the pic of Asmon and his mom, what a lovely lady.
so sweet.
That picture got me, especially since Cody gifted a canvas print to Zack of that same picture. It's tough losing anyone, but losing a parent is one of the hardest things go through.
Same here, makes me appreciate my mum too
@@ryanashby2481 i lost my mum on christmas eve 8 years ago and she detested WoW and could never understand why i played it; because I had friends on it
Thx for time stamp. Moron.
I have no knowledge of WoW, but this was super interesting.
The storytelling was on fire.
True. I'm an hour in at 3:00 AM and I'm about to go to sleep so I can watch the rest in the mornin.
disagre, you can tell hes a bad story teller
@@ThatsN0tFair You can tell you’re bad at spelling
@@will-oftheconvictionsforge your comment made me realize it's a 2 hour long video lmao
I recently discovered this video of your TBC story. First : Maybe the only 2h+ video I skip nothing.
Thank you for your narration about your past stories on the game. When I heard you and see you smile when thinking about stuff that happened to you, it put the smile on my face because we can all find ourselves in some of your stories.
The parts about your Mom really shows she was and will still be the MVP❤
I think we can all agree Asmon's mom is a literal god.
Mother of God*
*Godess
I think my dad tried playing stuff on n64 with me, but I wish my parents played stuff like that. Also super cool that he got to play tbc with his mom, none of my friends play wow anymore and I always end up playing solo and quitting after 1 month of each expansion partially because of it
Asmons mom carried the shit out of him and his boys lmaooo
@@bladekrause1522 *Goddess
Felt like tearing up when he was talking about the story of him and his mom outside GameStop, with such a wholesome picture. I love that so much. What a great parent.
Asmon-mom is so cute. It's good to see parents not only supporting their child, but wanting to be a part of their interests.
Also saying "fuck you" when he leaves the arena group, lols
'Cute' isn't the word I would use.
I don't know him or his mom, but cant stop crying this whole video. It really hit me in the feels everytime his mom came back into the story. What great memories he has im sure he will treasure them for the rest of his life!
2 hours long? I will wait for the 4 hours long Snyder' cut
I waited for 2 hours outside of gamestop for vanilla. I remember the warcraft 3 custom games called 'world of warcraft' that were nothing but a bunch of tauren chieftan and blademasters running around trees and hitting each other. good times
Hi if u need anything
its actually pretty good i watched the whole thing
Asmon's Cut: Bald Edition
but wait for the Black and white cut with extra jesus scenes.
Honestly the photo of he and his mom is so freaking sweet.
I've never played this game (I grew up playing runescape). But he is so passionate and proud of his history that even clueless about what he said I watched the whole video enjoying every single second. What a legend.
Grew up on RuneScape, wow.. you poor soul
@@thewildhealer541 that's 100% subjective.
What a lovely story, my daughter and I had a similar story to you and your mum we were so excited to get burning crusades , I home educated my girls, and we decided that the release of Burning Crusades would be an official ‘holiday’ for us 😂..I still play and I have to say I’m still rubbish😂
❤
You sound like an incredible parent!
@@shabnamtabatabaei Whenever somebody says "I home educated my kids", and "the thing we were most excited for was Burning Crusade" the correct response is not "You sound like an incredible parent!!".
Sounds like her kids barely saw the light of day, and stayed protected and cooped up, never had much adventure, except in a video game. Kids need to get out there and be socializing in real life or it is massively detrimental towards their development. I doubt any of them turned out to be the picture of health after 16 years of staying home.
@@DoNotFearTheReapa Shut up, loser.
@@DoNotFearTheReapaHome education is better in my opinion, but i agree with u about them having probably gamed too much
Asmon playing the game with his mom is so sweet. May she rest in peace.
Damn
The part about how him, and his mom did all that together is just so heart warming. It's probably the sweetest thing I've ever heard.
I almost spit my coffee out when he said his mom typed "fuck you" in chat when he left the arena team.
Lmao for real
His mom was a godly player yet it took him so long to finally realize how to shift bind and macro? Makes me feel like my 13 year old self raiding mount hyjal as a spirit healer is more amazing than this bloated story
I love hearing you talk about your mom, I can totally relate with how much my mom did for myself growing up. I am so grateful to have had her for as long as I did.
This is so poetic... When he starts talking about his mom money talent around 54:35, the "Invincible" melody also begins... She will be always with you Asmon, looking proud on to you from heaven!
We all just get stuck in an infinite respawn timer.
@@asraarradon4115 can you at least be more funny if you’re going to be disrespectful
those screen shots paid off, what an amazing look into what its all about really makes you appreciate what gaming is and has become. truly an amazing tale Asmondgold very much enjoyed it
What a mom! That's amazing that she played wow with you at night. She did good as a mom.
did you had the early release or something the video posted 30 min ago
@@Burgerlly prob. watched it on stream hours earlier
Agreed, but not with his diet
@@dawn-blade i love you
@@dawn-blade Focus on yourself?
I straight up cried when he started talking about his mom. You can tell he really loved and appreciated her.
This was back when applying for a "high end" guild required submitting a resume like applying for a 100k/year job.
What did the resume have to be
@@jefftX Introduction, why do you want to join, what can you contribute, what is your gear, what is the hardest dungeon/raid you have cleared, references from other players/members of the guild, print screen of dps meter if you were dps etc. A basically a full on job application.
@@enold4ever yep
Haha I remember doing this for 2 of the top guilds on my server 😂 makes me laugh thinking about it
BRUH. Applying for a raiding guild really felt like a god damn job interview. I literally had to interview with a guy in vent one time.
Dude the music perfectly timed asmongold is a master of NOT making it cringe
Asmons mom seems real nice. Everyone tell your mom you love her if you can
I will
@@KnightsTempura so you don't love your mum thats cringe ngl
@@KnightsTempura its more cringe to not love your mom
@@KnightsTempura yeah ngl it's pretty cringe but its also wholesome
always love your mother because you won't get another
I love that you have these memories of your mom gaming with you. If only my kids were as nerdy as me to share gaming with me.
im sure you can find something else that you can enjoy with them and make memories :) and maybe one day they ask "hey can you play that with us?"
I already knew your mom was pretty epic, but damn...... she's a Legend. No less.
The first person ever to make a good use of their old wow screenshots
54:40 the way he talks about his mom and her money making skills with the music just makes it so emotional and epic and inspiring
yeah farming gold in wow is truly inspiring and emotional. 🙄
@@BladeDevil Stop being a jerk.
@@Theunholyborn cry more? that hurt your feelings? Stop having skin as thick as tissue paper?
@@BladeDevil dawg his mom died its upsetting kinda
@@genitxlz well, yes, but we're not talking about that, he's saying that her money making skills in an mmorpg is epic and inspiring. which it isn't, really.
I'm from Russia. And I also have the most vivid and sentimental memories of TBC... I'm not very emotional in life, but I cried on this video. Thank you very much Asmongold, you breathed life into vivid memories of the carefree best time of my damn life.
Wait I actually got a little choked up when your mom got you flying. beautiful
This is the most legendary story I've ever heard‼️ You just had to be there to understand it. asmongold was a normal kid like us who just loved the game. Those days can never be repeated or duplicated thanks for the nostalgia my man‼️
“Im not gonna watch a two hour wow video i dont even play wow??”
Two hours later im in literal tears. Hilarious stories
reason to start playin :D
I love how close you and your mother where. She seemed like a great mother!
RIP to Asmon’s mom. Watching this now hits different :(
what i have learned today is that Asmond has a awsome and wholesome mother
This put me on quite the nostalgia trip this morning. Thank you so much for putting this together, I felt like I was back right in my teens. What a great time that was
Aww when you were telling about those moments you had with your mom in wow i lost it and started to cry. That was beautiful
Literally the only reason we all can enjoy asmon to this day is cause his 1 of a kind mom
To some people, World of Warcraft was a game. To Asmongold, World of Warcraft, was life.
*2 hour vid*
Boys. This gonna be gud
No job; check. Hot choccy; check. blankie; check. 2 hour long Asmongold video; check. Ayup, it's cozy time boys.
P
It was
This brings back so many memories... I have horrible memory lost do to a head trauma. I remember my 1st guild it was Silver Blades of Azeroth. I do have some great memories from years in WoW that I didn't lose. I played from the 3rd week after release till Legion. I was in labor with my daughter and was main tanking a raid, I main tanked all of BC an on for my guild. I was horde at one point, my guild did the for the horde. We killed Swifty, doing it and then all created gnomes with Swifty in the name and mobbed Iron Forge. There are days I want to go back to WoW but I dont know if I could play anymore, and a lot has changed. PS I love that your mom played with you!
Anyone else catch the fact that “Nomas” is an anagram for “Asmon”? They were literally meant for each other
Bro... 💜 nice catch
Asmon and Evil Asmon
Nomsa would be the anogram, not Nomas. Random fact, Nomsa is an African girls name.
Owned @@ashezarrine
The most impressive thing is that most of this is unedited, great storytelling asmon
39:54 I literally spit my drink out.
Play tbc and stream it
@@Hislopa What's with the salt? He just stated that it was amusing, lmao.
Dear Zack, your Story is so amazing, really, but the most heartwarming feels i had, when you told about your Mom, she must have been such an amazing Mom and Person. I began play WOW in 2011, shortly before Pandaria was released, when i met my real Love and Partner. Before i never had played, and i got hooked right on. And the first time, i ran through Orgrimmar it was a complete new World to me and i liked it right away.
I used to play TBC with my dad when i was 8, we both had trial accounts and I came across this one guy that was also Dutch, so i followed him which was my first encounter with people in the game. The first time I ever played WoW was one of the best times in my gaming history, even though i didn’t quite understand the point of the game, sometimes my sister even hopped on with me and this one time I knew i was about to ding to lvl 5 and I was so proud of that that I got my mom to show her and she was so excited for me. I didn’t know what i was doing but I was having a blast, later my dad and I both got a subscription (he bought it for me) and I remember that I played WOTLK a few years later damn this game has taught me so much, especially english, forever grateful for WoW. It just brings people together, made lots of friends and i’ll forever have memories about those days that i’ll cherish and I will never forget those❤️
Nagrand was def the best zone there ever was. Listening to this just made me so nostalgic of my childhood, being 11 playing TBC with my step brother Zakk. We were hunters and clicked 90% of buttons, didnt know about questing, and couldnt save up gold for flying because we would buy gems and enchants for every piece of gear that we would upgrade lol. Man, I miss those days. Man, I miss my homie Zakk, RIP brother, why'd you have to blow your brains out over a chick. Still love ya man, see ya in the shadowlands irl brother.
Bro you shouldn’t have said that last part, that was unnecessary and seems like you said it to gather attention. Rip to your homie though.
@@brando9717 It's something that lies heavy on his heart, why shouldnt he say it? It wasnt unnecessary
why is this better than actual movies
it's not
@@borek92 wrong opinion 😂
Because it's some dude flexing about him, his mom and buddies playing a video game, stealing items and making other player's experience miserable. No direction, no interesting screenplay, no meaningful dialogues, no action sequences, no pacing, no mystery to uncover, no original score, the only thing that this video shares with a good movie are relatable characters, since we've all played this game at some point.
@@borek92 bro it's not a fucking movie it's a story
@@ibeta2407 I know that. That's why I said it's not better than a solid movie, referring to the original comment.
None of my friends growing up had a PC and none of them liked how much a nerd I was. I loved WoW, The Sims online, Motorcity online, and final fantasy online. They were all playing Cod. I wish I knew people like this growing up lol. The fact you recorded and took screenshots in 2007 and beyond is bonkers. You have definitely taken the title of Favorite Gamer. Shout out to your mom 🐐. Thanks for making this video. Literally took me back to my childhood and remembering game install waiting time, camping outside stores for midnight releases. Truely a different way of living.
Asmonmom needs to be protected at all costs.
Asmomgold
Momongold
Asmon's mom reminds me of this lady I've played with and met since vanilla in 2005. She always had gold and knew how to make it. I remember one time she had the item to get the one of the dragon mount in Pandaria. So she made a pay group then invited me for the last slot. After we finished and everyone got the mount, she gave me all the gold she got from them. I was shocked. It was the most gold I've ever had. I was just happy to get the mount but she gave me all the gold.
Dude all the deaths and tears in that game, all the ganging upon me the first fly mount... WoW was just such an incredible game for its time, never seen before and nothing was as live and as intense as it. I remember just thinking about WoW all the time and spending all my free time around the game it was magical. Nowadays TBC is just reminding me of the pure and amazing game it used to be when I was a kid.
I know this is an old af video of yours but i just wana say that, i was kinda sad, dk why, maybe depression or something that tries me, and my tv was running next to me running your clip, with this great music and the story of you. i looked at the tv and I smiled. Life is beautiful and you are great!
i can’t believe i watched this whole thing… asmongold is a legend, but more importantly, he is a terrific and engaging storyteller. very impressive!
LOL your mum. tell her i say hi, its been awhile since i had her in doggy position.
He did what he had to do. Nothing more or less
"We didn't know we were making memories. We were just having a good time."
-Winnie the Pooh
Asmon's mother is incredible. Very involved with his passions and dedicating time to understand them.
The fact all those screenshots and videos etc were worth capturing and remembering speaks volumes about how good games were back then, especially WoW. Good times.
Warms my heart. I spent so much time in TBC. I don't regret it.
You know what I'm jealous of? Missing out on experiences like this. 🤣 I come back just to listen to this journey and live vicariously lol
It reminded me of just how fucked Blizzard has been as a gaming company. Asmongold talks about how those of us that achieved Grand Marshall/High Warlord in OG Vanilla WoW were “gods...”
I got HWL back then myself, in 2005. I led a team everyday for months on end, and it was the biggest time-suck and required dedication ever out of every game I’ve ever played in my life. I had a blast doing it, but it was essentially a full-time job without getting paid, and instead paying a monthly subscription for it lmfao.
In the last couple of months on that grind, I barely slept at all. And in the last 2 weeks, I even needed a friend to play my toon for a few hours when I did sleep/shower, or else I wouldn’t be able to get rank 14. This was because the random solo fux that refused to play with us on the server teams and instead would pay real world money for foreign pvp farmers to earn the title for them. If we didn’t have a friend play our toon a bit at that point, the solo fux would halt our progression when it was our individual turn to get top rank (after the many months long grind we had put in, where we were always watching our progress closely so we wouldn’t screw over teammates that were ahead of us in working for top rank).
And then what did Blizzard do? Made all that time and dedication and teamwork be for _NOTHING_ with the first expansion (TBC). Raising the level cap from 60-70made our hard-earned gear be for nothing! And then, to rub salt in the wound, they made it so everyone and their mother could get high end pvp gear and earn the top tier pvp titles. Like, everyone started walking around with my HWL title, akin to when the millennial generation all started getting trophies in school so “nobody would feel bad for losing.”
Fuck that shit! I stuck around for a little bit, but essentially only used my main to be an auction house addict/farm up gold essentially, making lvl 19 alts I’d gear the hell up to do pvp on them, wrecking people. I wasn’t going to waste anymore time grinding for _ANYTHING,_ as Blizzard showed they had *NO* respect for the blood, sweat, and tears we put in for shit that took a ridiculous amount of time and commitment/dedication to earn.
I maybe played a month tops of the third expansion and left for good. For me, they totally ruined what was my favorite game of all time there for awhile.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Dude you need to chill out a bit.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 Blizzard didn't do anything wrong there. What did you expect exactly? That your gear was just going to be the best for all time? Every single game goes through level cap increases and every time they need to add better gear or else people will stop having things to work toward. It's just how it works. It's unfortunate but you're in the very low percent of players to cater to and you can't expect them to bend around what you want like that, it's bad for the company that way. Your teamwork meant something and you accomplished what lots of people would be jealous of. You should be proud of your achievements but you can't expect it to stay that way forever. Times change, and you holding this big of a grudge over it is a little overboard. Wish you the best man
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 “so that everyone and their mother..” ghee bit of an exaggeration there bud. No one’s mom’s playing with them 😂 😳
@@FuriousFiveMonkey
I like how you are talking about vanilla WoW when I played as if it came out a year ago or something, with a litany of mega-populated MMORPGs behind it. There was no standard of *“THIS IS HOW THIS NEEDS TO BE DONE, BECAUSE THIS IS HOW MMORPGs ALWAYS ARE”* back then. WoW _SET STANDARDS._ There was only a couple other small MMORPGs before WoW (like Everquest) and that was it - hardly anyone was playing those games compared to how huge WoW became overnight.
There was many options that Blizzard could have chosen to show damn respect to their customers who spent as much time and dedication to achieve the hardest goals Blizzard offered, yet they decided to give the finger to _ALL OF THEM._ I’m not the one with a screwed up head over it - that would be Blizzard and those that excuse their BS. Blizzard is simply a greedy company that doesn’t respect it’s customers, period.
They really thought that they can just eff people over like that to such a huge extent and they’ll continue to stick around. The world doesn’t work like that. I was happy to give my money and time to other games/developers instead. They took their most dedicated customer base for granted is what it comes down to. I wasn’t surprised at all when I heard how gross things were for employees working at Blizzard behind the scenes. They’re a bunch of jerkoffs in a litany of ways.
This is deserving of some type of Academy Award. Excellent documentary
Hasn’t even been out long enough for you to watch it
@@raineyraine5887 git gud
@@amnesia998 your channel has great content
@@raineyraine5887 sarcasm?
I didnt know Asmom played with you in the beginnin. 🥺 Your life is such an inspiration to just be who you are and love the people who love you.
omg asmon and his mom playing WoW together is too adorable wtf
I'll be honest, Asmongold's mom has got to be one of the coolest people ever. She's elderly, but she plays World of Warcraft, is fantastic at a part of the game most don't think about but makes her astoundingly helpful, she's generous in helping her friends and family, AND she's got the spunk to cuss out her son when he's being a twit. I can never blame Zack/Asmongold for staying with her and taking care of her all this time. She really is an amazing person.
I couldn't agree with you more. Cheers.
Also, Asmon let's her buy all the stuff she wants with his money. I bet she never expected him to become so successful as a streamer a few years later. What a crazy life those two have!
Son & mom relationship goals.
The fact that your mom played wow, and played with you... nothing more wholesome than that. Nothing can top that. And I know nowadays we have plenty of mom and dads who play vidya gaemz with their kids, but it's 2021. This was 15 years ago. My mom barely knew how to turn one on.
EZ CLAP to your mom. And typing "fuck you" in chat... what a master of the art of telling you to go to hell.
Incredible story. It made me sad for a lot of stuff but one of them was being so sad about other stuff that I never took pics of myself and also a lot of screenshots and stuff, I deleted because over time I felt they were pointless. Now I know. Shoulda kept them.
Edit:
Elon Musk, millionaire. Owner of Tesla.
AsmonMom, millionaire, owner of Teslan.
There are 2 types of people in this world. People with everything left, and people with nothing left.
I was in U.S. as a graduate student during the release of WLK. I spent time playing, and I have real memories of my experiences in the game. Who is to say what's real and what is pure fantasy? Isn't "real" life full of forced accomplishments and vanity? WoW, in my humble impression can be very real, it's a World! A world! I was never in a raid. I was always alone. I didn't understand the social subtleties of social interaction within the game. Whowever I can relate to the amazing human narrative you shared in this video. I bow to your greatness as a human and as a mythological member of The World of War Craft. It makes wonder that "reality" is at the end what one choses it to be. Thanks for the enlightenment you have provided me.
Love you asmon and rest in peace MomGold... She was a great mom to you and you a great great son.
so wholesome, really enjoy this kind of content, so awesome you kept all the screenshots and share this kind of fun memories with your mum.
Man I can´t believe it, your mum was really helping you boys out alot, heartwarming af.
This is like a movie and I bloody love it. I absolutely love that every now and then his mom would make an appearance to save the day. She is so sweet.
Watched this because TBC was my era. My man, you are a storyteller and you have an oddly engaging eyebrow habit that enhances your story and that seems to have played a part in repaying your mom's faith and support. What a beautifully odd coincidence. Glad you have found an audience and way, way more glad if it really has helped your mom.
RIP Asmongold's mom. Glad to know he got to have so much fun with her while he had the time
Man Asmongold's storytelling can make afk'ing in Stormwind the most epic tale ever
lol not really...
Memories like these are what Classic and TBC great.
I was 17 or 18 yrs when tbc releases. What a time that was. Now im 37,and i miss this time so much
A mother’s unconditional love can’t be beat ❤️
I don't even play WOW, am just here for the Z-dawg
Play the game
I see this same comment on literally every one of his videos. Why? What’s the point of this repetition?
@@ChinnuWoW I think they're just showing appreciation that a Wow streamer makes them so entertained without actually ever playing the game before.I was like that too at one point then after binge watching Asmon i had to play too
Only 39 minutes into the video but this is actually really wholesome.
Edit: I know it would be impossible to track the people down but I would love to see a semi-documentary of the people who had interacted with Asmongold over the years. Especially over the vanilla and The Burning Crusade years.
This was like a cool bedtime story. Only 2 hours long and containing stories within stories! I had fun watching!
2:48 This picture is amazing. I can't help but get in my feels looking at this picture.
There's something so perfect about it, so poetic and incredible. Everything about this picture is incredible.
Look at the way the light shines in the center of the picture, highlighting Zack and his mom. How was this captured? It's so beautiful it brings tears almost..
These are the kinds of pictures you cherish for the rest of your life. I don't know her situation (is she disabled?) but there is truly something gentle and special about their bond.
It's hard to fathom the power this photo holds for Zack and his mom. Look how emotional it is for us viewers. This was taken in 2006, 15 years ago. They can look at this and remember everything they were doing that day and during 2006. It's majestic. 😃💖
momma gold clutch playing with asmon when he had no one
i need someone like this in my life
It's amazing how well the music syncs up to the story
People forget how hard dungeons use to be. They absolutely required cooperation and a group leader to keep everyone in line doing what they need to be doing. Normal dungeons required cc and buff coordination. Heroics made CC even a bigger deal, because in raids CC was a requirement for a lot of Karazhan encounters.. Karazhan was a great dungeon.
I find it amazing that he thought of taking these screenshots at the time of playing. I always thought screenshots are more art thing rather than documentation. But this is brilliant.
Lets go boys, it's 3am here. No sleep for me it seems..
same and i go fishing at 6am
@@petergrigorszky6184 Happy fishing!
Get some rest my guys 😆
@@petergrigorszky6184 just slam a beer when you get out to the water good cup of coffee for fishing
@@yotes2800 i cant sleep cuz i got a bit drunk playing darts with a few buddies any suggestions?
Holy shit those two hours went by so quick, this was so damn entertaining
The story of your mum buying cody the mount for his birthday was so sweet it brought a tear to my eye, she was a special lady, RIP ❤