Fighting a horde of undead without a cleric "It's been an honor fighting at your side" Cleric shows up "We better move or she's not going to leave anything for us to do"
@@DaDunge I finally got an opportunity to use Turn Undead and make some run away from me off a cliff, but before I had my turn, someone else just broke the cliff and sent them all tumbling down. I was like: “but I…..ok…”
That's pretty much ho it happened in the campaign. She astral projected in, got a nat 20 on a jump check to land in the center of the horde, and turned/destroyed undead.
Yeah more like Thor in infinity war was given Pikes entrance from the campaign lmao. This was a pretty accurate entrance to the actual campaign moment.
I love how, what started as "how do I shoehorn in Ashley for one session?" became a mini redemption arc, with a God-mode entrance. best moment of the season.
I played a cleric in Curse of Strahd and I just remember one encounter where I killed an entire encounter with turn undead. My DM had to quickly improvise a group of werewolves so that we could have an actual combat.
I'm DMing a Curse of Strahd campaign right now and we're onboarding a new grave cleric. I'm going to have to start getting creative with encounters so he doesn't just end the fight in two rounds
In one of the campaigns I played a cleric in a few years ago the DM made an entire dungeon full of undead in the middle of the lake complete with a lich at the end… one forbiddence spell later and we just strolled through to collect our loot and leave with no combat. God taking down undead as a cleric is satisfying.
Played a tempest cleric. Once I got it, Spiritual Weapon and Call Lightning made the DM always work on spacing his mobs so I couldn't wallop two or more with one maxxed out lightning. And spiritual weapon kept me safe.
Yeah, and "I need a hero" is legit the best epic song. I don't know if you saw the avengers one but that was also great. Senjuwu definitely chose the best song to do.
Because they did a very good job of syncing the high points in the song with the climaxes in the story. The song choice is great, but the editing is what makes it.
Now this may sound rather odd But sometimes the best in the squad Is the one with the cross Who can smite like a boss By harnessing the Bitch-Slap of God. With a mace that even ogres will flee You’ll cast and crush things with glee Some think they’re not strong And those people are wrong Welcome to a crap guide to D&D
I loved this scene so much. It completely shatters the "good and pious little healer" trope by having her swear like a madman and be a freaking badass.
Even better, Everlight herself tells Pike "any life can be a righteous one". Pike thought she had to choose between her friends & her faith. NOT THE CASE!
You kids and your assumption that clerics are nothing but healsluts. Back in the good old days of your cleric wasn’t smashing everything in their path like CODzilla then you’re doing something tremendously wrong
Not the best Goku moments in Season 1, though. Keyleth's Spirit Bomb against Sylas Briarwood and Pike's energy quarrel with Delilah Briarwood are such hard DBZ vibes it's unreal.
@@tzvikrasner6073 : Just goes to show how anime can influence the larger society. And when Pike shows how powerful she _really_ is, it gave me legit goosebumps. As if despite everything, to show there was a chance to make things right.
@@zacharydaly5328 Doesn't sound far fetched to me tbh, as someone who knows little about the process it feels like that'd also help contribute to a good pacing and flow.
From a DM to all players who don’t play cleric: You’re maybe proud and happy of your characters. Your paladin with the record damage of the table, your barbarian tanking everyone, your fighter being a lesser version of both of then, your druid wild shaping, your rogue sneaking, your bard singing, your warlock Eldricht blasting, your wizard counterspelling, your monk stunning, your ranger trying and your sorcerer missing (because who plays sorcerer in 5e?) But while you all cheer up and have the time of your lifes, one of you is looking at the DM and smiling as if they were smilling to Death itself, knowing they always have the last laugh. That player is silent, never realy much perceived, but is also the reason every single one of you are alive. To all cleric players: You give me nightmares. Keep playing cleric.
My favorite pure Cleric I played was a Death Cleric. Only used Animate Dead a scant few times but I had a blast upcasting Bane and Blindness/Deafness on enemies.
I was really looking forward to this moment in the animation. It didn't go exactly the same way as it was described in C1, but it was still pretty badass.
@@scottnewman522 Still, this version is pretty epic. When the streak of light flashes through the sky and Pike drops down killing that giant, i always think something like "Citizens of the Dawnfather! The Everlight sends her regards!"
There was a later episode (don't remember the number) in which Pike exits Scanlan's Magnificent Mansion and starts cracking skulls with the Mace of Disruption - and I am dying. Like, "uh, Ashley maybe use destroy undead??????" And then she did. It was a Sarenrae / Michael Bay style destruction of undead you can only hope for as a cleric player.
@@FinnMcRiangabra To be fair to Pike, if I recall correctly she was smashing her way through some strong pent up feelings regarding Scanlan and his return at the time.
When I saw this scene in the original show for the first time I was losing my MIND. Pike came in JUST at the right time and literally saved everyone's asses; this is by no means an exaggeration. It was magical and emotional and they did it such justice in the animated series.
@@shadowscall7758 I mean considering that the main party (about to die) was fighting a horde of undead (already dead, for quite a long time)...seemed like the right time lmao
@@lunarstream2105 I'm talking about the people who died seconds before she arrived, like the poor guy who got ripped in two by the giant in the background when Percy is telling everyone to retreat. The perfect time would have been before anyone died at the tree.
a single, half-decent cleric on the field would have been plenty. the second-best thing to a clerical avatar of a god of light? yeh, I don't reckon they'd have bothered to run if they could. :P and enchanting every weapon on the field with divine light? if that's not a powerplay, I don't know what is. :D
@@snuckytoes8427 An underrated Paladin spell because of Concentration on a Pally and not being a Divine Smite... but with enough allies and Warcaster feat, it is a VERY useful buff.
Do you wanna tank? Do you wanna fight? Do you want a gnome that'll instant fright? Pick up a mace and keep the undead at sight, cause you wanna make sure they eat this clerics [Destroy-undead]
@@peteralexandergraae2830 why did I think this was a lantern oath "Do you wanna tank? Do you wanna fight? Do you want a PC that'll instant fright? Pick up a mace and keep the undead at sight, cause you wanna make sure they eat this Clerics Light"
As someone whose first full campaign was playing as a cleric, this scene was so nostalgic and makes me miss her. Though I was a much higher level before I even glimpsed this level of Epic.
Briarwoods: *proceed to act smug as their undead army overwhelms Vox Machina* Vox Machina: *proceeds to feel mortal terror, hopelessness, and a touch of last stand bravado as usual.* *Suddenly Pike.* Briarwoods: *proceed to lose the smug satisfaction as their undead army is overwhelmed by a single cleric, as usual for dnd* Vox Machina: *proceeds to, as Grog puts it, "kill fucking everything"*
Pike/Ashley wasn't there all the time in vm but when she was there it was always a special treat. I'm glad we've got to have Ashley around more in these later seasons.
This guy feels like he thinks ammo is much to expensive to use and he asks the DM constantly if they have 10 minutes of pause so he can use inspireing leader.
THIS is what it means to be a WAR CLERIC!!! Massive type advantage against undead and buffing your allies. This is... literally _the_ best scenario for Pike's build.
The last character I took all the way to max level was a cleric back in 3.5, and the max level of the campaign was 30. It is EXACTLY like this. You can nuke all the undead with a thought, your weapon is an instrument of divine wrath, and you literally glow with the power of your deity.
@enderskunk7644 Back in the 3.0 and 3.5 Era, there was a book called the Epic Level Handbook, which had rules and guidelines for levels above 20. As opposed to the page and a half in the current DMG.
@@cphtfluke7565 Some of the stuff in the ELH was just insane though, but for damn good reason. I especially loved Elven High magic being brought into play and the Epic dragon that no matter the colour made even an age cat 12 dragon look like an infant
This hits different when I found out Pike's "Connection" was actually a reference to her IRL player who had internet connection issues when trying to play the campaign online with everyone else
this is the best version of this AMV I've seen yet. The cuts to the video, combined with the tweaks to the song make the package work MUCH better than any other version of this project.
This was so awesome, but watching this I couldn’t help but wonder how these crazy fights played out mechanically (especially the last one with the Briarwoods).
the original DnD episodes are all on RUclips, the Briarwoods fight is CR campaign 1 episode 34! This zombie fight in particular involved Pike leaping off Keyleth's Wall of Stone into the middle of the horde, with a clutch Destroy Undead which instantly annhilated 30+ zombies in one go. The critical role wiki has pretty good episode summaries as well
Ah, yeah I had a ClericMoment™ similar to this/Thor in infinity war (though it was actually about three months before Infinity War came out) My Tempest Cleric had been away from the party for some time and they were hunting some Undead Sorcerer that had retreated underground. What the party didn't know was the sorcerer had a lot more undead minions underground, and they surrounded the party. Then the DM hands me my sheet and says "suddenly, a peal of distant thunder echoes through the cavern. Impossibly, the air begins to feel alive with energy. The undead pause, sparks dancing between their tarnished weapons. Then, from seemingly nowhere, a bolt of purple lightning strikes the centre of the horde, and the ghouls are turned to ash. Lightning leaps from monster to monster, atomising them as the light fades. Standing tall, Warhammer above his head, your old friend has returned." Felt awesome. We turned that combat around pretty quickly after that, and my character got to save the day!
She pulled a 40k imperial saint. Just poofing in, killing some abominations, granting holy enchantment to everyone's weapons, and most importantly, making moral unbreakable
I came for the Shrek 2 song, but after watching this, I think I have a new show to add to my watch list... Plus this was really cool, so thanks for this! - a random person on the internet :)
Fighting a horde of undead without a cleric
"It's been an honor fighting at your side"
Cleric shows up
"We better move or she's not going to leave anything for us to do"
Bitch was badass,I loved it!
Cleric? That's a paladin if I've ever seen one.
@@mist7326 She is a War domain cleric. Its like a cleric with a little paladin thrown in for funsies.
@@mist7326 she's definitely a cleric.
Why? Just use blunt weapons and gg. Seriously, have any of you ever played any D&D, ever?
this is every cleric player's dream
I mean a well timed turn/destory undead can basically be this.
@@DaDunge yeah but doing that with a sick entrance and epic music blasting? now thats cinematic
@@DaDunge
I finally got an opportunity to use Turn Undead and make some run away from me off a cliff, but before I had my turn, someone else just broke the cliff and sent them all tumbling down.
I was like: “but I…..ok…”
@@centurionquincy3899 I feel for you, that's grouping with full casters in a nutshell
That's their element. You play a Cleric, you want at least one instance to fighting a horde of undead.
Still can’t get over the fact that they basically gave Pike the same entrance as Thor in Infinity War. And it fucking works
Grog: *[laughing]* Ohoho, you guys are so screwed now!
Thor??? *tHoR*???
She went full on Escanor!!
PRAISE THE EVERLIGHT!!!!
That's pretty much ho it happened in the campaign. She astral projected in, got a nat 20 on a jump check to land in the center of the horde, and turned/destroyed undead.
and it actually makes a difference here
Yeah more like Thor in infinity war was given Pikes entrance from the campaign lmao. This was a pretty accurate entrance to the actual campaign moment.
I love how, what started as "how do I shoehorn in Ashley for one session?" became a mini redemption arc, with a God-mode entrance. best moment of the season.
Vox machina: we are fucked it was an honor fighting with you
The ever light + pike: GOD MODE ENTRANCE…ENGAGE DESTROY UNDEAD.EXE ACTIVATED
THe term you are searching for is "Big Damn Hero" entrance.
@@Lrbearclaw What does that make us sir? Big. Damn. Heroes.
@@paulmdevenney Ain't we just
@@Lrbearclaw shiny
The timing of Keyleth's big spell and Pike's entrance was literally perfect
Props to Keyleth. Poor woman was anxious as hell and still bought them time.
The guy who got ripped in two by the giant before Pike arrived probably doesn't think it was perfect:), but it was very well done.
@@shadowscall7758 I think he was talking about music
This is ... Accurate of how clerics deal with undead.
I played a cleric in Curse of Strahd and I just remember one encounter where I killed an entire encounter with turn undead. My DM had to quickly improvise a group of werewolves so that we could have an actual combat.
I'm DMing a Curse of Strahd campaign right now and we're onboarding a new grave cleric. I'm going to have to start getting creative with encounters so he doesn't just end the fight in two rounds
In one of the campaigns I played a cleric in a few years ago the DM made an entire dungeon full of undead in the middle of the lake complete with a lich at the end… one forbiddence spell later and we just strolled through to collect our loot and leave with no combat.
God taking down undead as a cleric is satisfying.
@@dusk_writer Good luck. With their ability to cancel critical hits, it'll be a task.
Played a tempest cleric. Once I got it, Spiritual Weapon and Call Lightning made the DM always work on spacing his mobs so I couldn't wallop two or more with one maxxed out lightning. And spiritual weapon kept me safe.
WHY DID THIS GO SO HARD OMG, ITS SO GOOD
Good performance, good scenes, and good editing.
Yeah, and "I need a hero" is legit the best epic song. I don't know if you saw the avengers one but that was also great. Senjuwu definitely chose the best song to do.
Because they did a very good job of syncing the high points in the song with the climaxes in the story. The song choice is great, but the editing is what makes it.
Same
Now this may sound rather odd
But sometimes the best in the squad
Is the one with the cross
Who can smite like a boss
By harnessing the Bitch-Slap of God.
With a mace that even ogres will flee
You’ll cast and crush things with glee
Some think they’re not strong
And those people are wrong
Welcome to a crap guide to D&D
May the wiggler be with you friend
@@garrettlich7140 and also with you
We shall smite them with glee
by our own divine decree!
We must not worry of what is right
in order to truly win this eternal fight!
in short *DEUS VULT*
At least credit the man who came up with that.
I loved this scene so much. It completely shatters the "good and pious little healer" trope by having her swear like a madman and be a freaking badass.
I mean different gods have different ideas of what is good and bad. Makes sense to me.
In the campaign she's a war domain cleric. Soldier's gotta soldier.
Even better, Everlight herself tells Pike "any life can be a righteous one". Pike thought she had to choose between her friends & her faith. NOT THE CASE!
Are you telling me she isn't every single healer in a DnD party?
You kids and your assumption that clerics are nothing but healsluts. Back in the good old days of your cleric wasn’t smashing everything in their path like CODzilla then you’re doing something tremendously wrong
The skeleton's jaw dropping off was perfect.
Also, Goku-level entrance.
Not the best Goku moments in Season 1, though.
Keyleth's Spirit Bomb against Sylas Briarwood and Pike's energy quarrel with Delilah Briarwood are such hard DBZ vibes it's unreal.
@@isaiahwelch8066 I love how many of the DBZ attacks are now part of the popular lexicon
@@tzvikrasner6073 : Just goes to show how anime can influence the larger society. And when Pike shows how powerful she _really_ is, it gave me legit goosebumps.
As if despite everything, to show there was a chance to make things right.
Director: I want this scene to be jaw dropping
Animators: ...and we took that personally
the zombie/skeleton whos jaw droped re;ased what was gpjng to happen
It’s almost like this was planned with this song in mind, it lines up so well
tbf i did 5 cuts
@@senjuwu993 It's so well done if we can't even notice that you did. :)
@@senjuwu993 tbf fan edit usually take a lot of cuts XD
Tbf it was definitely well done
*felt pressured to say "to be fair"*
@@maxwellloughlin3742 tbf it's very tempting to say tbf
It the fact it each time the song changes up or builds up there's a key point in the animation so literaly synced perfectly.
almost like it was cut and edited to fit the song
@@ttt5020 yes……good editing is worthy of recognition
you know something? I'm not gonna be surprised if animators subtly build keyframes so they can be synced with common 4/4 beats for fan edits
@@zacharydaly5328 Doesn't sound far fetched to me tbh, as someone who knows little about the process it feels like that'd also help contribute to a good pacing and flow.
From a DM to all players who don’t play cleric:
You’re maybe proud and happy of your characters. Your paladin with the record damage of the table, your barbarian tanking everyone, your fighter being a lesser version of both of then, your druid wild shaping, your rogue sneaking, your bard singing, your warlock Eldricht blasting, your wizard counterspelling, your monk stunning, your ranger trying and your sorcerer missing (because who plays sorcerer in 5e?)
But while you all cheer up and have the time of your lifes, one of you is looking at the DM and smiling as if they were smilling to Death itself, knowing they always have the last laugh.
That player is silent, never realy much perceived, but is also the reason every single one of you are alive.
To all cleric players: You give me nightmares. Keep playing cleric.
Yes, the cleric is keeping everyone alive, but without a tank it would be a lot harder on them to do that, so I'm fine with staying that.
My favorite pure Cleric I played was a Death Cleric. Only used Animate Dead a scant few times but I had a blast upcasting Bane and Blindness/Deafness on enemies.
In Vox Machina’s case, a large reason as to how they’re all still alive is actually their Bard. In the campaign, at least.
In one of the campaigns I was in. A council of theives game in pathfinder. Our cleric WAS the tank AND healer.
@@Battleguild Yeah, I can't decide to focus more with Bless or with Bane.
The background signers going "hero" after like says "Sup" is the best omg 😁♥️
Reminds me of Maya from Borderlands
Whoever came up with that literally jaw dropping undead deserves a medal.
I was really looking forward to this moment in the animation. It didn't go exactly the same way as it was described in C1, but it was still pretty badass.
right? would have loved the "I cant do anything to help, but she can!" reveal
@@scottnewman522 Still, this version is pretty epic. When the streak of light flashes through the sky and Pike drops down killing that giant, i always think something like "Citizens of the Dawnfather! The Everlight sends her regards!"
@@scottnewman522 I was hoping for the angel wings when vaulting over the wall!
There was a later episode (don't remember the number) in which Pike exits Scanlan's Magnificent Mansion and starts cracking skulls with the Mace of Disruption - and I am dying. Like, "uh, Ashley maybe use destroy undead??????" And then she did.
It was a Sarenrae / Michael Bay style destruction of undead you can only hope for as a cleric player.
@@FinnMcRiangabra To be fair to Pike, if I recall correctly she was smashing her way through some strong pent up feelings regarding Scanlan and his return at the time.
"I kick ass for the lord"
- Every Cleric ever
"I speak the word of God, but these hands speak the wrath of him too" - Also every cleric
"And the Lord hath proclaimed: If thou fucks around, thou shalt find out"
Also every paladin ever
@@doctorjay8673as soon as I get 7th level spellslots...
Sometimes......the world is kind and presents us with a great gift
When I saw this scene in the original show for the first time I was losing my MIND. Pike came in JUST at the right time and literally saved everyone's asses; this is by no means an exaggeration. It was magical and emotional and they did it such justice in the animated series.
Well, the people that died before she got there probably don't think she arrived at the right time. But yeah, it was well done.
@@shadowscall7758 I mean considering that the main party (about to die) was fighting a horde of undead (already dead, for quite a long time)...seemed like the right time lmao
@@lunarstream2105 I'm talking about the people who died seconds before she arrived, like the poor guy who got ripped in two by the giant in the background when Percy is telling everyone to retreat. The perfect time would have been before anyone died at the tree.
@@shadowscall7758 The people at the tree died a day or two before VM even got to town.
@@esthermerriken4408 there are literally guards being killed in the background. The giant even rips apart a guy when Percy tells everyone to retreat.
a single, half-decent cleric on the field would have been plenty. the second-best thing to a clerical avatar of a god of light? yeh, I don't reckon they'd have bothered to run if they could. :P and enchanting every weapon on the field with divine light? if that's not a powerplay, I don't know what is. :D
Crusader’s Mantle is literally the perfect spell for this situation.
@@snuckytoes8427 An underrated Paladin spell because of Concentration on a Pally and not being a Divine Smite... but with enough allies and Warcaster feat, it is a VERY useful buff.
@@Lrbearclaw Yup. My Redemption Paladin once used it because the party was fighting a bunch of Shadows. It saved our butts.
@@Lrbearclaw you spent months/thousands of gold on an undead army?
Cute
@@snuckytoes8427that was more than 30 feet though...
The zombie jaw drop at Pike casting Hammer of Sol never gets old.
Couldn't find anything on that spell, in what book is it?
@@enderskunk7644 I'm pretty sure it's a Destiny reference. Hammer of Sol is the name of the Sunbreaker Titan's super.
Do you wanna tank? Do you wanna fight? Do you want a gnome that'll instant fright?
Pick up a mace and keep the undead at sight, cause you wanna make sure they eat this clerics [Destroy-undead]
I know it's a bit cheesy, but this was only thought going through my head when I saw that scene for the first time
Sounds like first-rate Bardic Inspiration for the W! Great job!
Proper way to end this...
"Pick up a mace and keep the undead at sight"
I may not have smite
But I don't need it, 'cause I have divine might
That's some JoCat vibes there. Well done!
@@peteralexandergraae2830 why did I think this was a lantern oath "Do you wanna tank? Do you wanna fight? Do you want a PC that'll instant fright? Pick up a mace and keep the undead at sight, cause you wanna make sure they eat this Clerics Light"
As someone whose first full campaign was playing as a cleric, this scene was so nostalgic and makes me miss her. Though I was a much higher level before I even glimpsed this level of Epic.
The gang was around level 11-12 at this point I believe. Clerics get to be cool pretty early on, when it comes to undead creature slaughter. ;)
Briarwoods: *proceed to act smug as their undead army overwhelms Vox Machina*
Vox Machina: *proceeds to feel mortal terror, hopelessness, and a touch of last stand bravado as usual.*
*Suddenly Pike.*
Briarwoods: *proceed to lose the smug satisfaction as their undead army is overwhelmed by a single cleric, as usual for dnd*
Vox Machina: *proceeds to, as Grog puts it, "kill fucking everything"*
Congrats you just repeated the video we all saw.
3:06 mfw watching this whole thing, I GOT SO MANY CHILLS
Pike/Ashley wasn't there all the time in vm but when she was there it was always a special treat. I'm glad we've got to have Ashley around more in these later seasons.
1:22 this moment lines up perfectly with the "today I repay my debt".
I didn't pick up on that. It's really nice, yeah...
This guy feels like he thinks ammo is much to expensive to use and he asks the DM constantly if they have 10 minutes of pause so he can use inspireing leader.
This is the exact type of moment that Cleric and Paladin players dream of.
"Nicely done Guardian. A true Titan's power was witnessed this day"
"I...uhh...I don't have a medal for this"
I saw this coming and yet it still suprised me
THIS is what it means to be a WAR CLERIC!!!
Massive type advantage against undead and buffing your allies. This is... literally _the_ best scenario for Pike's build.
with servants like our little Monstah, the Everlight can rest easy. :)
The jaw falling off at 3:04 makes me genuinely laugh out loud every single time
"Yes, yes, she's the tits. We still have to GO!"
The voice of a team leader who's had enough.
THIS SYNCS INSANELY WELL
2:31 This entire scene is the epitome of _"Get ready to recieve some Holy Spirit."_
Pike out here making Unholy Ghosts
Best entry in anime history.
Equal chills to "on your left" in Endgame, everytime.
The last character I took all the way to max level was a cleric back in 3.5, and the max level of the campaign was 30. It is EXACTLY like this. You can nuke all the undead with a thought, your weapon is an instrument of divine wrath, and you literally glow with the power of your deity.
For everything else: instant death spells and buffs out the ass.
30? How does that work?
@enderskunk7644 Back in the 3.0 and 3.5 Era, there was a book called the Epic Level Handbook, which had rules and guidelines for levels above 20. As opposed to the page and a half in the current DMG.
@@cphtfluke7565 my DM just goes, well start taking levels in another class...
@@cphtfluke7565 Some of the stuff in the ELH was just insane though, but for damn good reason. I especially loved Elven High magic being brought into play and the Epic dragon that no matter the colour made even an age cat 12 dragon look like an infant
clerics fighting anything else: "this will be a close fight!"
clerics fighting undead: 𝐑𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫... 𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋 𝐈𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄!
This is perfection, thank you so much for bringing this into existence.
The timing of the lyrics imply Keyleth and Pike are the hero, which is amazing
Given that Keyleth saves the team one two occasions with her summoning fire,once for the ghosts, the second blasting Silas with the power of the sun.
Dude, i was in love with how they did this moment in the show, i thought it couldnt get better.
but it did.
Phenomenal
I had no clue this show existed till now. That ice spell and confidence is more genuine than anything Elsa from Frozen could pull
I love Glacial Blast for that reason
Go watch, it's pretty great@
2:59 when you forget Pike is a War Domain
Damn, that fits super well! good job!
Fairy Godmother sounds kinda like Vex...
This is platinum edit, hell it’s a hood fantasy classic
This hits different when I found out Pike's "Connection" was actually a reference to her IRL player who had internet connection issues when trying to play the campaign online with everyone else
this is the best version of this AMV I've seen yet. The cuts to the video, combined with the tweaks to the song make the package work MUCH better than any other version of this project.
Percy: It was an honour fighting with you.
Vax: It was a valiant effort friend.
*Skype call sound*
Pike: 'sup.
that was absolutely amazing
oh my god this is everything I've ever wanted, I've LITERALLY thought about this song to a scene in LOVM, incredible
The fact that not only did they pair this song, but specifically the Shrek 2 version of this song with these clips is incredible.
As if the scene from Shrek didn't give me enough chills all these years later already, you just HAD to go and top it XD
Well done. Well done.
lmfao the part at 3:07. His jaw literally drops off. Thats such a great touch haha!
Best AMV execution I've ever seen. This made me want to grab a sword and jump right into the fray. Perfection.
By the Everlight, what an amazing edit. And how have i never noticed the zombie‘s jaw LITERALLY dropping when Pike arrives?
This was so awesome, but watching this I couldn’t help but wonder how these crazy fights played out mechanically (especially the last one with the Briarwoods).
the original DnD episodes are all on RUclips, the Briarwoods fight is CR campaign 1 episode 34! This zombie fight in particular involved Pike leaping off Keyleth's Wall of Stone into the middle of the horde, with a clutch Destroy Undead which instantly annhilated 30+ zombies in one go. The critical role wiki has pretty good episode summaries as well
Go find out man! The show did the stream justice 150%
This makes me think of the first time I watched the campaign, this is so perfect thank you.
I got chills. That was amazing editing. Absolute perfection.
That edit of having the choir hit as the sky splits is absolute perfection.
2:39 Mario when he gets a super star be like
Ah, yeah I had a ClericMoment™ similar to this/Thor in infinity war (though it was actually about three months before Infinity War came out)
My Tempest Cleric had been away from the party for some time and they were hunting some Undead Sorcerer that had retreated underground. What the party didn't know was the sorcerer had a lot more undead minions underground, and they surrounded the party. Then the DM hands me my sheet and says "suddenly, a peal of distant thunder echoes through the cavern. Impossibly, the air begins to feel alive with energy. The undead pause, sparks dancing between their tarnished weapons. Then, from seemingly nowhere, a bolt of purple lightning strikes the centre of the horde, and the ghouls are turned to ash. Lightning leaps from monster to monster, atomising them as the light fades. Standing tall, Warhammer above his head, your old friend has returned."
Felt awesome. We turned that combat around pretty quickly after that, and my character got to save the day!
1:34 “I would like to rage.”
I think i've watched this once a day for the past three months
She pulled a 40k imperial saint. Just poofing in, killing some abominations, granting holy enchantment to everyone's weapons, and most importantly, making moral unbreakable
Literally so perfect- omg the way they broke through the wall reminded me of the gigantic gingerbread man in Shrek 2
Beeeee goooood
The Skeleton's jaw dropping off in astonishment was classic!
No matter how many times I see this, I can't help but get chills. This is how every cleric player envisions their epic moment.
The emotions this ripped out of me. The music adds it all
This had no damn right to go THAT damn hard! 🔥🔥
*PIKE IS GOD-MODE!!*
Literally...
@3:42
+50 holy damage to everybody
“Did you say…undead?” Starts laughing is Paladin
This was amazing 😍. You did a fantastic job with the timing.
By God! Much like Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal, The Legend of Vox Machina is AWESOME!!!
that was amazingly well editted. great work
"I come bearing the word of my god... that word is BEGONE"
Proof that this song makes everything better. Well done. Fantastic execution.
Lol 1:10 is the best line I've heard in a while 😂😂😂😂
Please tweet this at the cast, I'm sure they'd love it!!
"C minor, put it in C minor."
(puts it in G minor)
When your overleveled cleric friend finally comes to your aid.
Awesome editing! This song and ABBA are always D&D-related shenanigans /gold/
Firstly, THIS is why you never doubt a Cleric
Secondly, gotta love when Pike literally calls down godly artillery on some undead dirt bags XD
Ive watched episode 34 times. And now I will never not hear this playing in the background 😂❤
Everyone being heroic and inspiring.
Grog: "LET'S KILL FUCKING EVERYTHING!"
I came for the Shrek 2 song, but after watching this, I think I have a new show to add to my watch list...
Plus this was really cool, so thanks for this!
- a random person on the internet :)
Pike’s entrance never fails to make me feel complete awe of her power. It’s such a moment of beauty and power.
when Pike appeared in a god-like light and then just said "sup" I just started laughing, what a badass
10/10 what a queen
This need 100x more likes and views, this was amazing! Fantastic Job!
Pyke channelled her inner thor
This needs more views. I loved this so much 😂
Well...that's one hell of an entrance.
And to think an Ancient Green Dragon just sat back and watched it all happen with a box of popcorn.
This was REALLY good.
never seen this show but this is amazing! thanks now i gotta go watch it
You did such a good job lining up the scene with the music bravo dude
Absolutely amazing edit. I love this!!
This video is sponsored by Scanlan Shorthalt and that's a fact in my mind
Pike is such a badass