A random thought popped into my head and I have nowhere else it may be seen...ZG hardmode activated by the order in which bosses are killed. Like if you go the 'shortcut' route it's just normal ZG, but following another path could change some boss mechanics & damage/health values with additional or new rewards for the harder fight. Still the 'same content', but with a little extra for those who can.
It will never be the same as 2004. 😢 season of discovery was great for a few months. I hope a fresh reset or the classic plus comes out soon. I just can’t stand retail… it’s not the same game I grew up with anymore.
If your first exposure to WoW was playing it on someone else's computer, the experience of booting it up on your own computer in your own room for the first time was euphoric
We, (those that left), all want the happy feelings to return, but those that don't return know why. We don't want the woke. We don't want the flamboyant alphabet people shoving ideas into the game that censor things and make normal people try to feel others "triggers". We don't want the trolls, but can handle them if there are none in a guild. We want the cool raid experience, but not the long wait times for people to get online, or go afk, or sign up and not show...that's why experienced people become solo players, so the cool raid experience goes away. We want the ability to play the game without the nerf bats because people don't want to "learn" the class, but would rather play victim to it being too hard and having developers who have no idea how to balance screw it all up. We want to be able to put in tickets about bots, and have them responded to. We want to be able to play what WoW once was, not what WoW is.
Those were the days when social media practically didn't exist. People were logging to WoW to simply chat with others. That's why we had more social interaction IC or OOC. People were nicer too, attention spans were longer, social media reactions didn't dictate digital behavior. Streaming wasn't a thing. It wasn't just the people that was different, it was the internet. Internet changed, and it changed people. it changed mankind.
it was also before the mentality of the average mmorpg player wasnt hyperfocused on efficiency and ppl wanted to play the game mostly to have fun and explore not to treat it as a second job
@@ricsouza5011 very true, but I would add that the hyperfocus on efficiency and productivity isn't unique to gaming, it's all around us in our modern world, in every aspect of our lives.
People act like it’s all nostalgia but I did t start playing wow till 2010 and didn’t even experience classic until 2019 and it’s hands down the best wow experience I’ve had. The leveling was unrivaled, currently I’ve been messing around on hardcore waiting for fresh or plus.
I played Vanilla WoW when it came out but I was very young, didn't understand the game, and could only play when my parents weren't on and my siblings weren't hogging the computer - or arguing enough to get us grounded. When Classic WoW was announced I was excited to learn why my parents and uncle talked so fondly about this game and what made this game so good. Sure I probably had a small amount of nostalgia but I was much older and understood how MMOs work. Classic WoW in my opinion, is a perfect MMORPG. The classes are simple to pick up and play but have a ton of complexities that are rewarding to master. The world is deadly and alive. There is barely any instant travel which means you have downtime between objectives, and this designed downtime is what's missing in current MMOs. It gives you the option to get up and walk around, to check messages and chat with friends, to double check what objectives you are working next. You don't feel like you're on a railroad going from one destination to the next thanks to the downtime you have between destinations. Do I wish the classes were better balanced? Yeah. Classic WoW isn't a perfect game, but it IS a perfect MMORPG experience that no MMORPG, including WoW, has been able to replicate. I only just realized this after being frustrated losing yet another character in Classic Hardcore and this time I'm going agane but I've deleted the guide addon (though I'm still keeping Questie).
This hit home so hard for me. My older brother who recently passed would always say the same things. "Slow down, read the quests bro, stop rushing man," and I never considered it till I lost him how right he was. One thing I am happy tho, because he was the older brother I had to listen to him so with every expansion we always leveled the first max level together. Great video tho, I agree with you 100%
It’s crazy how many years we as brothers of WoW all have spent together. I too lost my brother through the years of our journeys through Azeroth. I probably wouldn’t have ever been introduced or played WoW if not for my older brother RIP an now I continue to play it in his memory and I wish I could enjoy this world and WoW with him again. My condolences for your loss and keep gaming in the WoW universe you have many brothers still here.
@@dylancash5243 my condolences for your loss. It truly is a whole grief of its own when we lose our sibling who also was our best friend in life 💔 I’m glad you’re playing in his memory, I see it that way also. People always say “focus on the good times” well not only can we focus on it, but we can play the good times all over again thx to Azeroth! If you know, you know!! Wish you the best bro!
There is an addon called VoiceOver (Classic) that dubs every quest in the game, It's really refreshing playing with it and made me wanna do all the quests I could. Give it a try.
@@frostyisland5028 Yeah, Obviously i want to try a private server instead of playing the one I pay for. No, classic + needs to come and it needs to be as good as turtle wow, or better.
Why is it that every time one of these videos shows up the Turtle WoW crowd has to rear its head when this is obviously what they want the official game to be? These people 10000% know about Turtle WoW already and have clearly decided that they want that stuff in the official client and do not want to have to play on a private server.
@@zedorian6547 no one wants to have to play on a private server. plus most people don’t even know what turtle wow is. I have heard the name turtle wow before I have no idea what it is. People 1000% know what this is? no one knows what it is.
I don't care about missing out in this game anymore. I play the way I want and in the pace I want. TWW is out, I bought the expac but I am leveling a new toon from level 1 and don't care about missing out the first few weeks with the new zones and the new content. I will get there whenever and that's fine. Stressing about it, geeking out and following the meta like it's a job is over for me.
I started in Classic again 2 months ago after quitting around the release of Cata back in the day. My own pace. And it feels spectacular again. I only dinged 60 2 days ago because I took my sweet time with profs, exploring, meeting people. And the community is still very much alive. A lot of people level a ton of alts so I find no problem finding a group for any dungeon on any level. Yesterday I hopped in a premade for AB and had a great evening on discord talking to some random people playing some bg’s.
100% When we were kids the idea of “zooming” through and skipping everything made sense. We wanted the end goal. The prize. Every kid does. Now that we’ve gotten older we appreciate and understand better the journey, a community that we can build and belong in, and the time it takes to become great. Unfortunately over the years the game lost that meaning, but I think there is a resurgence back to its roots. It’ll take some time, but it’ll get there.
The issue is not "end goal vs the journey". The issue is wow constantly deletes all your progress and drastically extends it's own power creep. It was a design flaw with the game from the beginning and everyone is fatigued from doing it over, and over, and over again every little patch and xpac.
I want Cata eventually, but I want to start from vanilla first. I missed the first round of Classic servers and didn't join until the end of TBC, then burned out from the catch up.
I'm surprised you didn’t talk about Hardcore. That's the mode where everyone gets to slow down and experience the world, and where every decision and achievement feels impactful.
@@denispeda You can keep most of your gold and items on an alt/bank character that sits in a main city. Also if your character dies you can Free transfer it to a non-hardcore server to continue to play it.
I started hardcore a week ago on skullrock which is a year old and it was like a fresh server, people at all levels running everywhere and much more helpful than regular classic.
amazing video.. as a 40 year old I started back in 2004 (sophomore/junior year of college) i played alliance daggerspine and sargerus servers up to 2011 cata when I quit wow for good.. came back in 2019 for.classic played up to wrath and jumped ship to hardcore and sod currently..thank you this video because it really hit home for an old timer like myself ❤💯💪🏿
About the same timeline for me. I quit in Cata after clearing Dragon Soul (before the first wave of nerfs), since Deathwing was the only big bad guy left from WC2&3 I hadn't killed. Considered it 'mission accomplished', then they announced Classic and I dove back in.
I played in highschool into college 2005-2010, and I'm glad I got to play (still have some buddies to this day from back then), but I'm glad I quit before gradschool not long before Cata came along.
Great video! I'm in much of the same situation. Played vanilla a ton back in the day, TBC and WOTLK, then it kinda died out. Wasn't ever too focused on end game though. Now I'm back for a second round of classic. Somehow I enjoy things a lot more now. The nostalgia, setting as slow a pace as I like, taking time to help others even on their quests, focus on levelling fishing for a few hours. Play a new class, taking the time to actually read the quest lines once in a while. All things that actually add to the enjoyment of the game. I'm 40+ and at a stage where I just need to unwind and have fun for an hour or two. WoW gives me that, and for that I'm thankful.
I started playing when the re-release of WOTLK came out. I always enjoyed watching my uncles play wow, mostly around MOP. Im born 2007 and I enjoy playing classic more than retail. I LOVED the experience of exploring/discovering everything in classic!
This is spot on and very relatable. We all wish we can go back but the gaming of landscape has changed so much. I feel a lot of us on classic both love and hate parsing culture and the current landscape of gaming. Hands down though going back for an expansion is not the same as going back for "fresh". I really think it could have been a popular idea for blizzard to add 1 new pve and 1 new pvp server everytime they launch a "new" expansion for classic wow. Make it fresh characters only and launch the day of the expansion (or even a week or two before for a pre-leveling phase). Don't allow any server transfers so it's a brand new economy etc. I think this might attract more players back to the classic servers who are hesistant because of the current state of existing players gold, achievements gdkps etc. Just food for thought.
dead on. it really comes down to this. in vanilla we didnt know there were going to be expansions. I remember thinking when i got a BIS item that that was going to be pretty permanant, now we of course know better and that is why we can never recapture that with wow. it would take a different/new universe to recapture that experience.
It's how the expansions were done. Completely replacing the Azeroth world with a few small expansion islands. Flying over everything so no grounded experience.
There's a lot more to it than that. There was no meta, no 877349857345 streamers or guides to tell/teach you what the best approach is or addons like restedexp that make you a slave to the yellow arrow and so on. You had to find your own way of doing things and there was a feeling of achievement/pride when you succeeded or discovered a "better method" of doing something. Nowadays that's really not the case because 98% of the game is discovered just hours after release. Your creativity or input means nothing beyond mindlessly grinding for longer if you want to have an edge over the rest. Edit: I genuinely think that streaming and content creation ruined online gaming
Wow great vid bro, the music, your words, the pace. I am back to playing some classic, was missing it for 3 months. Thank you keep up the good content!
i think one of the biggest reasons for fresh hype is directly tied to FOMO. fresh means everyone is on an even playing field, nobody is miles ahead, etc. as well as the fact that the more game knowledge you have, the easier it is for you to get a strong start. FOMO is literally the reason fresh is as popular of a concept as it is
yeah starting fresh and building your account from the ground up in a fledgling economy where everyone is scraping by is awesome and you only get that with a fresh start
I disagree. Fresh is fun because of all the coordination between players. And because no one has enough gear to absolutely obliterate the content for a few months.
Really? For me it has nothing to do with FOMO but with the fact that there are simply SO MANY people online that I can make new friends with and have good old time with.
It's kind of weird, I started in BFA 8.3. And that's my form of nostalgia when it comes to WoW and my favourite moments as it was with my friends, they all quit and i'm still going hard solo in TWW. But my absolute favourite experience was hardcore, as someone who particularly wasn't a fan of classic due to it's slow based gameplay and being quite easy. But because i only had one life, it made the slowness of the game itself feel so much more impactful and i wanna experience that again!
Hey @Cephyr ! Just curious here. When you say classic is easy, do you mean the raids? Or that it is a simpler gameplay? Because the times I have played retail I just felt like I can take 15 mobs, while in classic I need to plan to kill like 3. As I haven never seriously played retail I wonder if I have the wrong impression.
@@Andrei-xb1pzyea the open world in vanilla wow is far more dangerous and punishing if you die due to extrremely long corpseruns. You feel scared taking on 2 mobs at the time.😅 Retail you feel immortal.
This is the first video I have ‘liked’ in a long time. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make this. My feelings and your are both completely bang on.
Im 32 and just started my free trial acct. I have 3 level 20's and currently a level 12 rogue. I playy the game similair to fallout. THe single player playablity is where its at for this game PLUS the fact that you have a world with real players.
Can relate. Saw my friends first play Nov 2004, was in awe.. then bought my own copy Feb 2005 (it was sold out a lot of places). 32yrs old now as well.
Well made video, I 100% agree and have felt this way for a long time about vanilla(classic). I am one of those that doesn’t hit FOMO and the rush. I’m one that gets left behind and has no one to play with so I cant experience the game as I wanted it to be. I get slowed in my mid 40’s, left grinding mobs to level, then when I hit 60 to collect pre-bis, no one does those dungeons anymore.
I played Vanilla WOW back in December 2004. Always been a " Helper " , where I helped lower level players with quests. Quit WOW when Cata came out and 2019 came back to WOW in Classic. 2020 when Corona happened it was Fun playing Classic as most countries were in Lockdown. Waiting to Classic +.
Hey Hammer, Rascar here 😁 I really loved the video, of you’ll do similar concepts in long versions 😉 As usual the video was really well realized and it must have ask a lot of work so big thumbs up for that. About the video I completely feel the start because it was the same for me, i could go play only on some friends, level a character in the beginner zones. And watch their big brothers play on their high level characters who looked so badass 😂. After that, you pointed out rightfully the age range 25-45 I think, and you mentioned they had more responsibilities. Which is damn right. It’s the reason why I had to start the rush sod with you guys to go back on euro serv as I could no longer raid at 4am because I had a job 😂. But you didn’t mention something that in my view would have been great on the same time : Our comfort of playing increased trumendously. This 25-45 years generation is having the money to pay themselves setups and be able to game efficiently and quickly when they want to. Which was not the case when we were kids with no incomes at all 😉. So I think that explains also a little bit this need to be the best and rush, do pvp on good material, be more competitive and able to defend on the wilderness. Because that’s what was cool about sod, no flying mounts = world pvp lvl max and it feels so good. Everyone wants to be ready for a rogue ganking him 👀. Take care man, Rascar
Man, similar story to me. My friend had a good computer and I’d play at his house. He stopped playing, but I’ve never been able to shed it. Fresh is an opportunity to feel some of that and awaken that inner child.
Thank you for making this. While watching, I created a new Era character that I will level and take my time with. Beautifully crafted video. You deserve my sub and like
I'm a tad older and this was me with classic Everquest. There's just something special about that first experience with a new & raw MMO from around that time that's hard to convey but everyone who's experienced it understands what "that feeling" is.
Absolutely agree. I took a break for like 1 year next month I'm planning to come back to classic. This time I'm not gonna rush but take my time to explore and enjoy
Great video, I liked it! I have a new strategy now with WoW Retail. I main a drood to cover all roles that I rush (healthy way, no side quests kind of thing) to max level, gear it up for casual pvp with BGs and wait for LFR. While waiting for raids to open (or anything really that is timegated), I then level up an alt slowly enjoying my time to max level. You folks should try it, it's much less stressful.
Must: I'd like to see a new area 1-50 zones, new dungeons, new "classic feeling" items. Rebalancing bal druid and paladin. Maybe: 1 new race per faction (ogres and some draenei etc). Not more abilities like SOD, but maybe items to allow for offspeccing
This is literally my experience for the last like 10 years and I've been playing since 2005.... I think the closest I ever got to the original feeling was Hardcore because it really forced you to view the world in a whole new way because you had no option but to see the dangers.
I’ve been playing Defias Pillager horde side rogue named Forsakenone. This was my very first character I reached 60 with in 2004-2005. I have raided as a sweat through most expansions. I have reached rank14 grinding honor in classic wow.. I’m leveling this rogue on hardcore taking my time, leveling all professions. Engaging with the community in paying respects to fallen players in chat constantly.. it’s been a great time.
I'm playing on Harcore Server, and because of the difficulty of my game, I'm constantly in the face of death. These moments of fear have become addictive to me. 6 - 7 of my characters died before reaching level 30 and I opened a new rogue character today. And I'm waiting to go home and play with excitement. (I really like the image of people using the roads to get from one place to another :) )
Even the views for this video reflect how beloved Classic is - videos about it still draw large crowds, and that's not even the game itself. I really like going back to fresh servers but I'm personally holding out for a TBC classic permanent announcement.
Hey man! Awesome video. Off-topic question - what is the pixel font you are using during the video? Would love to use it in some of my design stuff. thanks!
There's nothing wrong with being a casual gamer, just exploring and making new chars every few weeks. The Lvl 0-30 experience is relaxing and satisfying, and the world immersion is a great mental health break, especially without the stress of high level competition or raiding schedules. As long as you're enjoying yourself, don't let anyone give you crap for not grinding to 60 and raiding every night.
I never really played wow back in the day. i was only 5 years old in 2005. however, the first time I logged on and played (hardcore, because of the hype) i fell in love. I only made it to level 7 before i was killed by murlocks, but my god if it wasn’t the most fun i’ve had in years. I still get the itch to go back and play hardcore sometimes, and i might in november once the hype comes back again. WoW is probably one of the greatest games ever made, I really just wish they would restart or reset everything though, retail just doesn’t feel enjoyable to me, however the world seems so vast and there seems like there’s so much to do. Hopefully one day we get the classic+ we all deserve.
Everyone in gaming want to see results faster and faster now. I'm happy that I got to play videogames at a very young age. Playing singleplayer games long before playing online competitive games made me the gamer I am today. My friends would never fully enjoy a game like Skyrim out side the launch hype. It's all about the hype and ranks/prestige and showing off now.
Man I started playing early 2006 and i can agree with you, I played for hours on end starting at 4pm and playing until midnight or pulling all nighters on weekends. I was lvl 30-45 for the longest time because i simply just ran around and played with people and had fun.
Oh shit that’s wild I’ve been listening to a warcraft podcast lately and didn’t even realize you’re on it sometimes until I heard that one guys voice lmaoooo
as someone whos played since a kid, and is now mid 20s, i relate. so many good memories from when i didnt know how to play... now i just rush for LFR since i dont have a guild.. i gotta slow down lol
What made vanilla, and even up to some measure the early expansions amazing was this long endless adventure leveling into the world and discovering cool new stories and then rediscovering them long after you forgot them. The problem was how wow became about the endgame only and the gear treadmill, rather than on how to flesh out and make that leveling experience even cooler. Past the first extra 20 levels we didn't need a longer leveling experience, which is what they simultaneously did by adding levels, and then nerfed the xp needed to it took less time, and thus less time immersed in the world, we needed more zones, quests, NPC's, cool new boat routes and dungeons in the mid levels. Imagine a wrath expansion that not only released with max level zones and the new continent we got, but with lots of scourge questlines and maybe new quest hubs fleshing out the plague lands .
Great video, Hammer. You nailed the feeling of that 2005 era. I was just nodding along the whole time, lol. I really hope we hear more soon on the Classic+ front. I've got the itch and SoD just doesn't scratch it.
my only qualm with sod and why i kind of lost the hype while still loving it was knowing it would be temporary 😢. I loved the idea the ability to really do things I had always wanted to do on all of my favorite classes/being able to play long lost specs such as gladiator stance. I know people use the retail minus meme as a descriptor for it but if this was what retail had become, I'm not sure I would have ever stopped playing the game.
Great video! That 2004 feeling is near impossible to recapture. HC is the closet thing to it. Endgame starts at lvl 1....everything you do matters! Hopefully they can get back to the roots for classic +
So many memories of coming home after school and trying to get on the family PC to have a a couple of hours, then a little later in life my parents stopped paying the sub and only gave it to me as a reward or present, on birthdays/christmas and I remember going to local gaming stores and getting as many trial codes as I could just to play. Anyway I spent many hours on WOW and it felt like winning the lottery when completing the hardest quests in the game, I even cried when I spent months to get the paladin charger mount because of only have a couple of hours at a time to play some days not even being allowed to play damn you family PC.
There's needs to be another expansion focused on just fishing, agriculture, and trade skills. Maybe also randomly appearing randomly generated dungeons in the wild with weird randomly generated loot. Add a new class Bard. With lots of instruments.
Yeah, I sub for a month every once in a while. Sometimes, I just do it so I can level a character and read the quests and explore areas. When you read why you have to kill 10 Kobolds or gather 4 Iron Ores..... the quests seems really fun. My favorite zone where I leveled and read all the quests were Grizzly Hills and Howling Fjord
awesome video. i know SOD has gotten some hate, but this phase has been so fun. I don't know if I could level all of my toons again like I've done twice haha.
Hahaha the RIFT reference was funny. I actually fucked with that game hard. Started at the beginning of BC and played till Cata. Then like you and most, came back a few times on and off and play Classic, SOD, pretty much exclusively. Love this game. Good video.
I enjoy the Turtle Wow. Exactly the changes i always wanted in Vanilla (maybe except the Paly OPness). It doesn't matter (for me) how many times Bliz would reset their Vanilla servers - they'd still offer Vanilla with it's shortcomings: the meme classes + op classes...the limited number of endgame dungeons...and so on.
Me and buddies started at the the middle of BC in the summer. 1-70 took July to October. I remember getting on the bus where my best friend was waiting, I was 69.8 or so, and i asked him if he got there the night before. For some reason i cant get the image of him holding up his hands and saying "it's done... Finished." Will, you only just began. He is still actively raiding today. I have since taken my longest break yet. But I will be back.
My first character was a warrior. I started in the middle of BC. I did not hit 70 ever while Bc was out. I wouldn’t reach level cap for the first time until Wotlk was released and close to late first phase. I can not begin to speculate how many hours I spent in STV as a mid 30s or so warrior. I was terrible at pvp but trust me when I say I loved it. When I was 80 I expired my first raid team. It was a mom and pop style guild. Very laid back, very very slow progression. I can’t even put into words how much this did for me as a kid with parents who were absolutely absent. Then during Cata and Mop I expired my first large scale pvp guilds/pvp and I was hooked. Playing Arena and RBGs at a time when it was also extremely growing and prevalent on RUclips and Twitch. I met some of my best friends on this game. Several I’ve met in real life now that I met as a lowbie in STV. I’ve attended weddings, surprise parties, baby showers and even unfortunately funerals. Now I’m dad, I have little free time to play but I’m enjoying Cata so much. I’ve been exclusively PvPing since I returned. However a few nights ago I decided to do something different. I hit Alt+7 and just walked around Stormwind and a few other major cities. It did not disappoint, I found so many overlooked small details that I had never realized or noticed. It was in that moment I remembered why I loved this game so much growing up. There was always something new, there was always something to do and it provided a family and friends when the real world struggled to do that for me at times. I love my family, they had their reasons and circumstances and I’m by no means blaming them for anything, but times were different my parents did everything they could. If you come across this comment. Take it for what it’s worth, I’m not saying go fish in game for 12 hours. Open up the game map, close your eyes, spin the mouse around a bit and go walk to or fly to wherever it landed. Once there just RP it up a little bit, first person view or close 3rd person. Turn off the UI with alt z and just look around. Take it in, because right now, even though we’re living through past memories, these will eventually be our past memories. Enjoy it while you can, don’t get overworked about some stupid guild or raid drama. When you look back in a few years you’ll be thankful.
I definitely understand this whole video I started in 2007 and my computer died permanently just before wotlk and totally crushed me and now here I am 16 years later I'm working on building a new computer and my complete goal is to get back into this game and I agree that I'm going to basically sit there and take my time all these people who are rushing to level 80 is just ridiculous I will definitely say I miss the burning Crusade
Great video. WoW to me has always been about the Journey and not the destination. This is primarily why I can be considered a "Classic Andy." I feel Wrath broke that journey and exclusively started focusing on End game. It's also why I feel P1 in SoD was so great.. so many alts redoing that Journey. P2+ killed it for me and I feel everyone shifted focus to grinding to each phases End game encouraged by Dev (not limiting dungeon spamming, Joyous Journeys, incursions, etc...) Hopefully, Classic+ focuses more on that journey..
I agree bro this hit deep, 26 2 kids gets stressful. But once I see that classic load screen I’m just a kid again inside and remember when times were simpler. For Azeroth
Reminds me of my journey with wow Started in 05, which coincided to moving to a new area for work. With no friends in the area nothing to stop my from Wowing in all my free time. Eventually the changes alienated me and I logged off for what I thought would be the last time. Classic brought me back for a while, but with everyone knowing exactly how to min/max everything that was challenging and fun became easy and boring. Solo leveling, which I remembered as challenging, was substantially easier even on hardcore simply because I knew where to get the best items and how to max abilities. Still remember the first experiences with WoW and it's magic and as much as I want to see a Classic+ with new material I've come to realize nothing will recapture that 05 experience. Social media, developments in technology, prior experience make it impossible to go into it with the same clean slate, but I will certainly log on again at some point.
Oh my god, you are SO RIGHT! I always complain about how the people that more complains about the game is the same that play it rushing without enjoy it I know many people hate this expansions, but, to me, even shadowlands becomes fun when you just stop and sees the characters, the music, the gameplay, the world itself! I mean.... is a game! It was supposed to exist to be fun! Btw, you captivate me here, yeah, i'm going subscribe in your channel and take a goood look in your videos Thank you for this amazing video and sorry if my english is shitty >3
I appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on this video
A random thought popped into my head and I have nowhere else it may be seen...ZG hardmode activated by the order in which bosses are killed. Like if you go the 'shortcut' route it's just normal ZG, but following another path could change some boss mechanics & damage/health values with additional or new rewards for the harder fight. Still the 'same content', but with a little extra for those who can.
It will never be the same as 2004. 😢 season of discovery was great for a few months. I hope a fresh reset or the classic plus comes out soon. I just can’t stand retail… it’s not the same game I grew up with anymore.
If your first exposure to WoW was playing it on someone else's computer, the experience of booting it up on your own computer in your own room for the first time was euphoric
REAL, my first was on my uncle's pc, he let me kill some mobs for his quest while he went to grab coffee and like the video said, i was HOOKED
AGREE!!!
100%!!
My dad used to let me do his daily’s in WOTLK i thought it was so cool until i hit 80 and had to start grinding them myself 😂
You never quit WoW.. you just take longer breaks
My current break is 5 years long no desire to return.
Facts....
We, (those that left), all want the happy feelings to return, but those that don't return know why. We don't want the woke. We don't want the flamboyant alphabet people shoving ideas into the game that censor things and make normal people try to feel others "triggers". We don't want the trolls, but can handle them if there are none in a guild. We want the cool raid experience, but not the long wait times for people to get online, or go afk, or sign up and not show...that's why experienced people become solo players, so the cool raid experience goes away. We want the ability to play the game without the nerf bats because people don't want to "learn" the class, but would rather play victim to it being too hard and having developers who have no idea how to balance screw it all up. We want to be able to put in tickets about bots, and have them responded to. We want to be able to play what WoW once was, not what WoW is.
@@Cirathos oooooooooo scary
@@MuffHam you'll be back. Why else would you be watching this video?
Those were the days when social media practically didn't exist. People were logging to WoW to simply chat with others. That's why we had more social interaction IC or OOC. People were nicer too, attention spans were longer, social media reactions didn't dictate digital behavior. Streaming wasn't a thing. It wasn't just the people that was different, it was the internet.
Internet changed, and it changed people. it changed mankind.
it was also before the mentality of the average mmorpg player wasnt hyperfocused on efficiency and ppl wanted to play the game mostly to have fun and explore not to treat it as a second job
For the worse
@@ricsouza5011 very true, but I would add that the hyperfocus on efficiency and productivity isn't unique to gaming, it's all around us in our modern world, in every aspect of our lives.
well stated my man, absolutely agree
People act like it’s all nostalgia but I did t start playing wow till 2010 and didn’t even experience classic until 2019 and it’s hands down the best wow experience I’ve had. The leveling was unrivaled, currently I’ve been messing around on hardcore waiting for fresh or plus.
the formula is simple. Open world, challenging and hostile environments, simplicity.
yep. been playing as a kid, and while the nostalgia is nice, there's just something about how classic wow played that hits different
Dude I feel this 🔥
For me it's the leveling feeling like going on an actual adventure
I played Vanilla WoW when it came out but I was very young, didn't understand the game, and could only play when my parents weren't on and my siblings weren't hogging the computer - or arguing enough to get us grounded.
When Classic WoW was announced I was excited to learn why my parents and uncle talked so fondly about this game and what made this game so good. Sure I probably had a small amount of nostalgia but I was much older and understood how MMOs work.
Classic WoW in my opinion, is a perfect MMORPG. The classes are simple to pick up and play but have a ton of complexities that are rewarding to master. The world is deadly and alive. There is barely any instant travel which means you have downtime between objectives, and this designed downtime is what's missing in current MMOs. It gives you the option to get up and walk around, to check messages and chat with friends, to double check what objectives you are working next. You don't feel like you're on a railroad going from one destination to the next thanks to the downtime you have between destinations.
Do I wish the classes were better balanced? Yeah.
Classic WoW isn't a perfect game, but it IS a perfect MMORPG experience that no MMORPG, including WoW, has been able to replicate.
I only just realized this after being frustrated losing yet another character in Classic Hardcore and this time I'm going agane but I've deleted the guide addon (though I'm still keeping Questie).
This hit home so hard for me. My older brother who recently passed would always say the same things. "Slow down, read the quests bro, stop rushing man," and I never considered it till I lost him how right he was. One thing I am happy tho, because he was the older brother I had to listen to him so with every expansion we always leveled the first max level together. Great video tho, I agree with you 100%
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It’s crazy how many years we as brothers of WoW all have spent together. I too lost my brother through the years of our journeys through Azeroth. I probably wouldn’t have ever been introduced or played WoW if not for my older brother RIP an now I continue to play it in his memory and I wish I could enjoy this world and WoW with him again. My condolences for your loss and keep gaming in the WoW universe you have many brothers still here.
@@dylancash5243 my condolences for your loss. It truly is a whole grief of its own when we lose our sibling who also was our best friend in life 💔 I’m glad you’re playing in his memory, I see it that way also. People always say “focus on the good times” well not only can we focus on it, but we can play the good times all over again thx to Azeroth! If you know, you know!! Wish you the best bro!
There is an addon called VoiceOver (Classic) that dubs every quest in the game, It's really refreshing playing with it and made me wanna do all the quests I could. Give it a try.
This why I think for Classic + new content should be added at the beginning of the game not just at the end of the game.
try turtle wow
@@frostyisland5028 Yeah, Obviously i want to try a private server instead of playing the one I pay for.
No, classic + needs to come and it needs to be as good as turtle wow, or better.
Why is it that every time one of these videos shows up the Turtle WoW crowd has to rear its head when this is obviously what they want the official game to be? These people 10000% know about Turtle WoW already and have clearly decided that they want that stuff in the official client and do not want to have to play on a private server.
Agreed. Nobody wants to sit through molten core etc all over again for the 30th time
@@zedorian6547 no one wants to have to play on a private server. plus most people don’t even know what turtle wow is. I have heard the name turtle wow before I have no idea what it is. People 1000% know what this is? no one knows what it is.
I don't care about missing out in this game anymore. I play the way I want and in the pace I want. TWW is out, I bought the expac but I am leveling a new toon from level 1 and don't care about missing out the first few weeks with the new zones and the new content. I will get there whenever and that's fine. Stressing about it, geeking out and following the meta like it's a job is over for me.
That's the best way to play the game. I feel like rushing through it just kills the immersion. I like playing at a slow pace.
I started in Classic again 2 months ago after quitting around the release of Cata back in the day. My own pace. And it feels spectacular again. I only dinged 60 2 days ago because I took my sweet time with profs, exploring, meeting people. And the community is still very much alive. A lot of people level a ton of alts so I find no problem finding a group for any dungeon on any level. Yesterday I hopped in a premade for AB and had a great evening on discord talking to some random people playing some bg’s.
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When we were kids the idea of “zooming” through and skipping everything made sense. We wanted the end goal. The prize. Every kid does. Now that we’ve gotten older we appreciate and understand better the journey, a community that we can build and belong in, and the time it takes to become great. Unfortunately over the years the game lost that meaning, but I think there is a resurgence back to its roots. It’ll take some time, but it’ll get there.
The issue is not "end goal vs the journey". The issue is wow constantly deletes all your progress and drastically extends it's own power creep. It was a design flaw with the game from the beginning and everyone is fatigued from doing it over, and over, and over again every little patch and xpac.
we weren't supposed to get to catacylsm, lets hit rewind and go back to fresh classic
Cata is when the game started to lose me. That were back there for classic makes me lol
@@nonplayercharacter596I also quit wow during cataclysm. Got to level 85 and was like damn this doesn’t feel the same anymore
@@nonplayercharacter596 The end of Wrath is when the wheels started coming off
I want Cata eventually, but I want to start from vanilla first. I missed the first round of Classic servers and didn't join until the end of TBC, then burned out from the catch up.
I'm surprised you didn’t talk about Hardcore. That's the mode where everyone gets to slow down and experience the world, and where every decision and achievement feels impactful.
i would play hardcore if you could keep something, like bop items or gold
@@denispeda You can keep most of your gold and items on an alt/bank character that sits in a main city.
Also if your character dies you can Free transfer it to a non-hardcore server to continue to play it.
This, I just started playing hardcore and it feels exactly like back in the day. You can't rush through hardcore, ever.
I started hardcore a week ago on skullrock which is a year old and it was like a fresh server, people at all levels running everywhere and much more helpful than regular classic.
Yes bro!! Hardcore really forces you to slow down and enjoy questing more
amazing video.. as a 40 year old I started back in 2004 (sophomore/junior year of college) i played alliance daggerspine and sargerus servers up to 2011 cata when I quit wow for good.. came back in 2019 for.classic played up to wrath and jumped ship to hardcore and sod currently..thank you this video because it really hit home for an old timer like myself ❤💯💪🏿
Lol you're avoiding cata onwards like the plague.
About the same timeline for me. I quit in Cata after clearing Dragon Soul (before the first wave of nerfs), since Deathwing was the only big bad guy left from WC2&3 I hadn't killed. Considered it 'mission accomplished', then they announced Classic and I dove back in.
we were on the same server then (daggerspine) - guess we played together without knowing it.
I played on Daggerspine (Horde) as well too! till around 2010
I played in highschool into college 2005-2010, and I'm glad I got to play (still have some buddies to this day from back then), but I'm glad I quit before gradschool not long before Cata came along.
Great video! I'm in much of the same situation. Played vanilla a ton back in the day, TBC and WOTLK, then it kinda died out. Wasn't ever too focused on end game though. Now I'm back for a second round of classic. Somehow I enjoy things a lot more now. The nostalgia, setting as slow a pace as I like, taking time to help others even on their quests, focus on levelling fishing for a few hours. Play a new class, taking the time to actually read the quest lines once in a while. All things that actually add to the enjoyment of the game.
I'm 40+ and at a stage where I just need to unwind and have fun for an hour or two. WoW gives me that, and for that I'm thankful.
this randomly showed up in my recommended, and wow. Wonderfully paced beautifully made video. Keep it up man.
Thank you! More to come
This man is goated. Amazing video, truly a throwback in terms of feelings.
Ty bro!! ❤️
Both of yall and Jtello keeping me alive 💙
@@mrsantana931and nohitjerome all 4 kill it...
You spoke my language !
I started playing when the re-release of WOTLK came out. I always enjoyed watching my uncles play wow, mostly around MOP. Im born 2007 and I enjoy playing classic more than retail. I LOVED the experience of exploring/discovering everything in classic!
vanilla experience was crafted with soo much love by the devs that no expansion can surpass it, never
I'm dying for an official Classic+ announcement! C'mon Blizz!
That Mincraft music in back teleported me.
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Aria math is goated
@@KilhoAsh What's the name of the track?
@@cattysplat Aria math lol
Beautifully put, Hammer. nice job.
@@MrZacksmiley thank you!
Awesome video dude, really good! This is why I love HC so much. It forces me to play slow and enjoy the game. Gives me an excuse not to rush
This is spot on and very relatable. We all wish we can go back but the gaming of landscape has changed so much. I feel a lot of us on classic both love and hate parsing culture and the current landscape of gaming. Hands down though going back for an expansion is not the same as going back for "fresh". I really think it could have been a popular idea for blizzard to add 1 new pve and 1 new pvp server everytime they launch a "new" expansion for classic wow. Make it fresh characters only and launch the day of the expansion (or even a week or two before for a pre-leveling phase). Don't allow any server transfers so it's a brand new economy etc. I think this might attract more players back to the classic servers who are hesistant because of the current state of existing players gold, achievements gdkps etc. Just food for thought.
Hammer, more content like this, you did a great job on the script, the editing l, just A+ material.
@@IanChase09 thank you! I have more stuff in the works already! Going to be doing stuff like this more often alongside the normal stuff
Great job dude! I would love more content like this in the future. I’m sure it takes vastly more time and editing, but I love content like this!
Have a few more videos planned so far and currently am writing the next one!
dead on. it really comes down to this. in vanilla we didnt know there were going to be expansions. I remember thinking when i got a BIS item that that was going to be pretty permanant, now we of course know better and that is why we can never recapture that with wow. it would take a different/new universe to recapture that experience.
The exact moment was that first quest in BC (Hellfire Pen.) that replaced my hard earned gear all too easily. That was when it all changed.
It's how the expansions were done. Completely replacing the Azeroth world with a few small expansion islands. Flying over everything so no grounded experience.
There's a lot more to it than that. There was no meta, no 877349857345 streamers or guides to tell/teach you what the best approach is or addons like restedexp that make you a slave to the yellow arrow and so on. You had to find your own way of doing things and there was a feeling of achievement/pride when you succeeded or discovered a "better method" of doing something. Nowadays that's really not the case because 98% of the game is discovered just hours after release. Your creativity or input means nothing beyond mindlessly grinding for longer if you want to have an edge over the rest.
Edit: I genuinely think that streaming and content creation ruined online gaming
For sure I get an item all I think is that it doesn't matter and will soon be useless.
Wow great vid bro, the music, your words, the pace. I am back to playing some classic, was missing it for 3 months. Thank you keep up the good content!
i think one of the biggest reasons for fresh hype is directly tied to FOMO. fresh means everyone is on an even playing field, nobody is miles ahead, etc. as well as the fact that the more game knowledge you have, the easier it is for you to get a strong start. FOMO is literally the reason fresh is as popular of a concept as it is
It's levelling with other people. Nobody wants to level in a dead world, alone when the party's at endgame.
yeah starting fresh and building your account from the ground up in a fledgling economy where everyone is scraping by is awesome and you only get that with a fresh start
@@cattysplat I do....the single player playablity is where its at.
I disagree. Fresh is fun because of all the coordination between players. And because no one has enough gear to absolutely obliterate the content for a few months.
Really? For me it has nothing to do with FOMO but with the fact that there are simply SO MANY people online that I can make new friends with and have good old time with.
beautiful vid first one ive actually been able to pay attention to and not get bored of, editing was beautiful
Great video man, very impressive. The nostalgia, I think, is why we all ended up here.
Thank you!!
Just found your channel. This video hit the nail on the head. Looking forward to more vids.
It's kind of weird, I started in BFA 8.3. And that's my form of nostalgia when it comes to WoW and my favourite moments as it was with my friends, they all quit and i'm still going hard solo in TWW. But my absolute favourite experience was hardcore, as someone who particularly wasn't a fan of classic due to it's slow based gameplay and being quite easy. But because i only had one life, it made the slowness of the game itself feel so much more impactful and i wanna experience that again!
Hey @Cephyr ! Just curious here. When you say classic is easy, do you mean the raids? Or that it is a simpler gameplay? Because the times I have played retail I just felt like I can take 15 mobs, while in classic I need to plan to kill like 3. As I haven never seriously played retail I wonder if I have the wrong impression.
@@Andrei-xb1pzyea the open world in vanilla wow is far more dangerous and punishing if you die due to extrremely long corpseruns. You feel scared taking on 2 mobs at the time.😅 Retail you feel immortal.
This is the first video I have ‘liked’ in a long time. Thank you for taking the time and effort to make this. My feelings and your are both completely bang on.
Just started played 3 days ago from a 7-8 year break. I’m amazed by all the changes WoW has now!
Im 32 and just started my free trial acct. I have 3 level 20's and currently a level 12 rogue. I playy the game similair to fallout. THe single player playablity is where its at for this game PLUS the fact that you have a world with real players.
The leveling journey will always beat endgame for me, awesome vid man
Can relate. Saw my friends first play Nov 2004, was in awe.. then bought my own copy Feb 2005 (it was sold out a lot of places). 32yrs old now as well.
Great video! Would like to see more wow classic video essays like this.
Well made video, I 100% agree and have felt this way for a long time about vanilla(classic). I am one of those that doesn’t hit FOMO and the rush. I’m one that gets left behind and has no one to play with so I cant experience the game as I wanted it to be. I get slowed in my mid 40’s, left grinding mobs to level, then when I hit 60 to collect pre-bis, no one does those dungeons anymore.
Great video. Loved the menu at end.
I played Vanilla WOW back in December 2004. Always been a " Helper " , where I helped lower level players with quests. Quit WOW when Cata came out and 2019 came back to WOW in Classic. 2020 when Corona happened it was Fun playing Classic as most countries were in Lockdown. Waiting to Classic +.
Hey Hammer, Rascar here 😁
I really loved the video, of you’ll do similar concepts in long versions 😉
As usual the video was really well realized and it must have ask a lot of work so big thumbs up for that.
About the video I completely feel the start because it was the same for me, i could go play only on some friends, level a character in the beginner zones. And watch their big brothers play on their high level characters who looked so badass 😂.
After that, you pointed out rightfully the age range 25-45 I think, and you mentioned they had more responsibilities. Which is damn right. It’s the reason why I had to start the rush sod with you guys to go back on euro serv as I could no longer raid at 4am because I had a job 😂.
But you didn’t mention something that in my view would have been great on the same time : Our comfort of playing increased trumendously. This 25-45 years generation is having the money to pay themselves setups and be able to game efficiently and quickly when they want to. Which was not the case when we were kids with no incomes at all 😉.
So I think that explains also a little bit this need to be the best and rush, do pvp on good material, be more competitive and able to defend on the wilderness. Because that’s what was cool about sod, no flying mounts = world pvp lvl max and it feels so good.
Everyone wants to be ready for a rogue ganking him 👀.
Take care man,
Rascar
Man, similar story to me. My friend had a good computer and I’d play at his house. He stopped playing, but I’ve never been able to shed it. Fresh is an opportunity to feel some of that and awaken that inner child.
Thank you for making this. While watching, I created a new Era character that I will level and take my time with. Beautifully crafted video. You deserve my sub and like
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I'm a tad older and this was me with classic Everquest. There's just something special about that first experience with a new & raw MMO from around that time that's hard to convey but everyone who's experienced it understands what "that feeling" is.
You hit the nail on the head with this one. I’ve got chills because the nostalgia is that real. Next fresh when?
Hammer you killed it with this one amigo, much luv to you & the hammer community 🔒🔒🔒
Thanks dude!!
Absolutely agree. I took a break for like 1 year next month I'm planning to come back to classic. This time I'm not gonna rush but take my time to explore and enjoy
Madseasonshow sounds different.
Hey guys, mad season here
Great video, I liked it!
I have a new strategy now with WoW Retail. I main a drood to cover all roles that I rush (healthy way, no side quests kind of thing) to max level, gear it up for casual pvp with BGs and wait for LFR.
While waiting for raids to open (or anything really that is timegated), I then level up an alt slowly enjoying my time to max level.
You folks should try it, it's much less stressful.
Great video. It took me back to the magic. TY
Thank you for making this video ❤
You’re welcome! More to come in the next week!!
Good Video mate. This is so good! Brings back nostalgia!
Must: I'd like to see a new area 1-50 zones, new dungeons, new "classic feeling" items. Rebalancing bal druid and paladin. Maybe: 1 new race per faction (ogres and some draenei etc). Not more abilities like SOD, but maybe items to allow for offspeccing
That’s called Cataclysm 😂
@@GretaThanos Yes it is, the only thing i don't like about cataclysm is how easy the leveling is, all the rest is objectively better for me at least.
Audio on point mate, good job and great vid.. this banger will do well
This is literally my experience for the last like 10 years and I've been playing since 2005....
I think the closest I ever got to the original feeling was Hardcore because it really forced you to view the world in a whole new way because you had no option but to see the dangers.
I’ve been playing Defias Pillager horde side rogue named Forsakenone. This was my very first character I reached 60 with in 2004-2005. I have raided as a sweat through most expansions. I have reached rank14 grinding honor in classic wow.. I’m leveling this rogue on hardcore taking my time, leveling all professions. Engaging with the community in paying respects to fallen players in chat constantly.. it’s been a great time.
I think we’re all at a point where we can pace ourselves. When I was younger I didn’t know how to just chill out.
I'm playing on Harcore Server, and because of the difficulty of my game, I'm constantly in the face of death. These moments of fear have become addictive to me. 6 - 7 of my characters died before reaching level 30 and I opened a new rogue character today. And I'm waiting to go home and play with excitement. (I really like the image of people using the roads to get from one place to another :) )
Yup, nailed it. 31 now, played back in 2008-2010. Exact same experience.
Even the views for this video reflect how beloved Classic is - videos about it still draw large crowds, and that's not even the game itself. I really like going back to fresh servers but I'm personally holding out for a TBC classic permanent announcement.
Hey man! Awesome video. Off-topic question - what is the pixel font you are using during the video? Would love to use it in some of my design stuff. thanks!
There's nothing wrong with being a casual gamer, just exploring and making new chars every few weeks. The Lvl 0-30 experience is relaxing and satisfying, and the world immersion is a great mental health break, especially without the stress of high level competition or raiding schedules. As long as you're enjoying yourself, don't let anyone give you crap for not grinding to 60 and raiding every night.
I love this style of video. You could talk about anything, and it Would still work. Gj
I never really played wow back in the day. i was only 5 years old in 2005. however, the first time I logged on and played (hardcore, because of the hype) i fell in love. I only made it to level 7 before i was killed by murlocks, but my god if it wasn’t the most fun i’ve had in years. I still get the itch to go back and play hardcore sometimes, and i might in november once the hype comes back again. WoW is probably one of the greatest games ever made, I really just wish they would restart or reset everything though, retail just doesn’t feel enjoyable to me, however the world seems so vast and there seems like there’s so much to do. Hopefully one day we get the classic+ we all deserve.
Everyone in gaming want to see results faster and faster now. I'm happy that I got to play videogames at a very young age. Playing singleplayer games long before playing online competitive games made me the gamer I am today. My friends would never fully enjoy a game like Skyrim out side the launch hype.
It's all about the hype and ranks/prestige and showing off now.
man i remember playing wow a little after wrath came out. i was just a kid and i played druid. i had so much fun
Man I started playing early 2006 and i can agree with you, I played for hours on end starting at 4pm and playing until midnight or pulling all nighters on weekends. I was lvl 30-45 for the longest time because i simply just ran around and played with people and had fun.
Oh shit that’s wild I’ve been listening to a warcraft podcast lately and didn’t even realize you’re on it sometimes until I heard that one guys voice lmaoooo
Lmao, yup that’s blazzinbob!
as someone whos played since a kid, and is now mid 20s, i relate. so many good memories from when i didnt know how to play... now i just rush for LFR since i dont have a guild.. i gotta slow down lol
Nice lil video to watch while I eat before jumping into the world of classic Azeroth for the day
What made vanilla, and even up to some measure the early expansions amazing was this long endless adventure leveling into the world and discovering cool new stories and then rediscovering them long after you forgot them.
The problem was how wow became about the endgame only and the gear treadmill, rather than on how to flesh out and make that leveling experience even cooler.
Past the first extra 20 levels we didn't need a longer leveling experience, which is what they simultaneously did by adding levels, and then nerfed the xp needed to it took less time, and thus less time immersed in the world, we needed more zones, quests, NPC's, cool new boat routes and dungeons in the mid levels.
Imagine a wrath expansion that not only released with max level zones and the new continent we got, but with lots of scourge questlines and maybe new quest hubs fleshing out the plague lands .
I never played rushing to the end. Always enjoyed the journey!
like mental therapy for wow players! well done :D
Thank you!
I literally just gravitated back to Classic WoW and I joined a wonderful guild that has made it fun to play.
Great video, Hammer. You nailed the feeling of that 2005 era. I was just nodding along the whole time, lol.
I really hope we hear more soon on the Classic+ front. I've got the itch and SoD just doesn't scratch it.
I hope so too!
my only qualm with sod and why i kind of lost the hype while still loving it was knowing it would be temporary 😢. I loved the idea the ability to really do things I had always wanted to do on all of my favorite classes/being able to play long lost specs such as gladiator stance. I know people use the retail minus meme as a descriptor for it but if this was what retail had become, I'm not sure I would have ever stopped playing the game.
but SoD is the testing ground for Classic+, if you don't like SoD - it's very likely you wont like Classic+
@@happyfrietiez nvm misread ignore me XD
Great video! That 2004 feeling is near impossible to recapture. HC is the closet thing to it. Endgame starts at lvl 1....everything you do matters! Hopefully they can get back to the roots for classic +
So many memories of coming home after school and trying to get on the family PC to have a a couple of hours, then a little later in life my parents stopped paying the sub and only gave it to me as a reward or present, on birthdays/christmas and I remember going to local gaming stores and getting as many trial codes as I could just to play.
Anyway I spent many hours on WOW and it felt like winning the lottery when completing the hardest quests in the game, I even cried when I spent months to get the paladin charger mount because of only have a couple of hours at a time to play some days not even being allowed to play damn you family PC.
There's needs to be another expansion focused on just fishing, agriculture, and trade skills. Maybe also randomly appearing randomly generated dungeons in the wild with weird randomly generated loot. Add a new class Bard. With lots of instruments.
Yeah, I sub for a month every once in a while. Sometimes, I just do it so I can level a character and read the quests and explore areas. When you read why you have to kill 10 Kobolds or gather 4 Iron Ores..... the quests seems really fun.
My favorite zone where I leveled and read all the quests were Grizzly Hills and Howling Fjord
I played mine craft since 2012 i love it
And this year start wow glad to see this video
awesome video. i know SOD has gotten some hate, but this phase has been so fun. I don't know if I could level all of my toons again like I've done twice haha.
I have done probably 15ish Classic Freshes (if you count my PServer days)
What I am waiting for is Classic Plus
same, I have zero interest in fresh unless it's Classic+
Hahaha the RIFT reference was funny. I actually fucked with that game hard. Started at the beginning of BC and played till Cata. Then like you and most, came back a few times on and off and play Classic, SOD, pretty much exclusively. Love this game. Good video.
there was some kind of amazing stuff playing this game
the ending to the video, right in the feels
I enjoy the Turtle Wow. Exactly the changes i always wanted in Vanilla (maybe except the Paly OPness).
It doesn't matter (for me) how many times Bliz would reset their Vanilla servers - they'd still offer Vanilla with it's shortcomings: the meme classes + op classes...the limited number of endgame dungeons...and so on.
Me and buddies started at the the middle of BC in the summer. 1-70 took July to October. I remember getting on the bus where my best friend was waiting, I was 69.8 or so, and i asked him if he got there the night before. For some reason i cant get the image of him holding up his hands and saying "it's done... Finished." Will, you only just began. He is still actively raiding today. I have since taken my longest break yet.
But I will be back.
My first character was a warrior. I started in the middle of BC. I did not hit 70 ever while Bc was out. I wouldn’t reach level cap for the first time until Wotlk was released and close to late first phase.
I can not begin to speculate how many hours I spent in STV as a mid 30s or so warrior. I was terrible at pvp but trust me when I say I loved it.
When I was 80 I expired my first raid team. It was a mom and pop style guild. Very laid back, very very slow progression. I can’t even put into words how much this did for me as a kid with parents who were absolutely absent.
Then during Cata and Mop I expired my first large scale pvp guilds/pvp and I was hooked. Playing Arena and RBGs at a time when it was also extremely growing and prevalent on RUclips and Twitch.
I met some of my best friends on this game. Several I’ve met in real life now that I met as a lowbie in STV. I’ve attended weddings, surprise parties, baby showers and even unfortunately funerals.
Now I’m dad, I have little free time to play but I’m enjoying Cata so much. I’ve been exclusively PvPing since I returned. However a few nights ago I decided to do something different. I hit Alt+7 and just walked around Stormwind and a few other major cities. It did not disappoint, I found so many overlooked small details that I had never realized or noticed. It was in that moment I remembered why I loved this game so much growing up. There was always something new, there was always something to do and it provided a family and friends when the real world struggled to do that for me at times. I love my family, they had their reasons and circumstances and I’m by no means blaming them for anything, but times were different my parents did everything they could.
If you come across this comment. Take it for what it’s worth, I’m not saying go fish in game for 12 hours. Open up the game map, close your eyes, spin the mouse around a bit and go walk to or fly to wherever it landed. Once there just RP it up a little bit, first person view or close 3rd person. Turn off the UI with alt z and just look around. Take it in, because right now, even though we’re living through past memories, these will eventually be our past memories. Enjoy it while you can, don’t get overworked about some stupid guild or raid drama. When you look back in a few years you’ll be thankful.
I definitely understand this whole video I started in 2007 and my computer died permanently just before wotlk and totally crushed me and now here I am 16 years later I'm working on building a new computer and my complete goal is to get back into this game and I agree that I'm going to basically sit there and take my time all these people who are rushing to level 80 is just ridiculous I will definitely say I miss the burning Crusade
I’ve been thinking about wow classic lately. Might be time to resub soon
Great video. WoW to me has always been about the Journey and not the destination. This is primarily why I can be considered a "Classic Andy." I feel Wrath broke that journey and exclusively started focusing on End game. It's also why I feel P1 in SoD was so great.. so many alts redoing that Journey. P2+ killed it for me and I feel everyone shifted focus to grinding to each phases End game encouraged by Dev (not limiting dungeon spamming, Joyous Journeys, incursions, etc...) Hopefully, Classic+ focuses more on that journey..
Excellent video! Isn’t this how most people treat life as well?
ty for vid. great work.
I agree bro this hit deep, 26 2 kids gets stressful. But once I see that classic load screen I’m just a kid again inside and remember when times were simpler. For Azeroth
Reminds me of my journey with wow Started in 05, which coincided to moving to a new area for work. With no friends in the area nothing to stop my from Wowing in all my free time. Eventually the changes alienated me and I logged off for what I thought would be the last time. Classic brought me back for a while, but with everyone knowing exactly how to min/max everything that was challenging and fun became easy and boring. Solo leveling, which I remembered as challenging, was substantially easier even on hardcore simply because I knew where to get the best items and how to max abilities. Still remember the first experiences with WoW and it's magic and as much as I want to see a Classic+ with new material I've come to realize nothing will recapture that 05 experience. Social media, developments in technology, prior experience make it impossible to go into it with the same clean slate, but I will certainly log on again at some point.
I come back every year or couple years around brewfest. Idk why but it’s the holiday events in particular are so nostalgic and sucks me right back in.
Yooooo ❤ enjoyed this one
This video was fkn beautiful ❤
Nostalgic Minecraft music and classic wow content 😔❤️
Im so happy to be a kid in the 2000's ❤ Just the best time
Oh my god, you are SO RIGHT! I always complain about how the people that more complains about the game is the same that play it rushing without enjoy it
I know many people hate this expansions, but, to me, even shadowlands becomes fun when you just stop and sees the characters, the music, the gameplay, the world itself!
I mean.... is a game! It was supposed to exist to be fun!
Btw, you captivate me here, yeah, i'm going subscribe in your channel and take a goood look in your videos
Thank you for this amazing video and sorry if my english is shitty >3