21:00 - lol when i first started wow, i had never played an mmo before (and only 1 rpg - ff7). started in the human start area (default male human warrior FTW :) and after derping around for ages not having a fucking clue about anything i ended up in goldshire thinking to myself : "wow this game is huge, its got a forest AND a fucking town!". then after a few more hours of dying to hogger after saving up 80s (by killing mobs) to buy a white weapon from the "travelling salesman" i got the piece of advice that ended up getting me hooked on wow : "hey, you need better gear, GO TO STORMWIND and get more from the AH"..."stormwind?"..."holy shit theres a city here too oh my god!". what got me hooked was the sheer scale of it. i had never seen anything like stormwind in a game before, a truly massive busling city full of players buying, selling, looking for groups and whatever else. i wanted to know everything at this point, like what the hell does LFG and LFM mean? whats a guild? whats this karazhan thing that ppl are talking about? and why the fuck does my warrior gear need spirit on it? when i took the loch modan quest and got myself on the tram for the first time, after reaching ironforge my mind was totally blown and it was then i decided that i wanted to know everything about this game (at this point it was mainly...how the fuck do they do this with no loading screens??), and here i am 7 (or 8?) years later. thanks for reading my uninteresting post, peace
James Blackwell kinda the same started playing as a dwarf in wotlk on my brother's account since i watched him for a bit i had a general idea of what to do but i had no idea what major cities were and when i randomly wandered into ironforge i instantly wanted to play more
James Blackwell everything u said plus being a raging pothead who started a night elf got me hooked lol. The game actually felt mysterious and actually magical. Like I'd find real treasure lol. Going back to what u said, i went into a cave amd thought it'd just be a little nook, but it was this ebook labyrinth thst blew my mind. I was like wtf all this just existed under my feet the whole time while i ram around questing?
If you can't appreciate world design simply on the basis of what faction that race's starting zone belongs to, you're a shitty person. Even though I'm Horde, I have to say I fucking despised Durotar and the Barrens even moreso. Those places blow so much ass. Nowadays they're okay, but the aesthetic still feels lacking. Silithus is a better deserty zone. Dun Morough is the only starting zone that I can say I dug much at all. Elwynn blew, Teldrassil was meh but still cool when you remember its a huge fucking tree, Deathknell was cool but the 6-10 part felt lifeless in more than the intended way. Mulgore or whatever is the reason I didn't play Tauren, although Tauren never appealed to me much regardless. BE starting area sucks, but that's mostly because of how spread out the quests are. Draenei starting area is bleh. Seriously, ONLY fucking Dun Morough I liked. Now it feels too involved and less serene than it did before Cata. and Ironforge is still my favorite city out of all of them; SW is meh and Org serves its purpose, UC is the Horde IF so its alright, TB can suck my dinger. Darnassus is *fart*.
Dude i'd listen to you even if you talked about theoretical physics. There's something about your voice, enthusiasm and wording of your story just makes it WOW. Ur the best preach. Rock on and one day i'll play with you on EU
Honestly, this is the most inspiring WoW video I've seen in a while! So much of what you said I can relate to having started with MMO's in 1999 or 2000 with an MMO called "Tibia" if anyone remembers that; the most unforgiving (lose 10% of ALL exp on death), open PvP, etc. etc.
I can't believe you kept me here for 2 hours. As someone that played wow just as intensely since day 1 as you seemed to do this story is one of the best I have heard for a long time.
Gahh this story just reminded me so much of myself. I had that realization in Kara my first time. Took me 15 days played to get 70 and my felguard dived Nightbane from the entrance and I wanded the entire time..Was so embarrassed. It was either be embarrassed or get better.
Dude this video brought back so many good memories from Firelands when I was also getting rank 1's as ret paladin. You feel like a god when you refresh World of logs and see your name slap at the top of the list and you know you're the best in the world at what you do.
watched the entire thing man. Damn that took me way back. keep it up man. one of the few gamers that keep it real and help the new and old players either keep up or catch up. Every time someone asks me in game how to play or if i have any tips on their class, i always tell them to look you up on youtube. you have helped in all of my classes so i figured it would help them.
I met a fellow in a random dungeon levelling an alt the other day. They had the most adorable noob moment. We had done 2 or 3 dungeons together as a group of randoms, and his health had been draining the entire time. As anyone who knows a warlock at all has probably already guessed, burning rush was active. Eventually I decided to ask something along the lines of "Gee, do you ever turn that off?" in a joking manner. The warlock just stopped and stood there for about a minute before sheepishly stating "I don't know how to turn it off." (We went on to explain in a friendly manner how to turn off burning rush, and other abilities - with right click or /cancelaura) I've come to appreciate these moments. It means new blood.
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That's adorable. Also hilarious if you imagine a warlock on fire and calmly saying "I don't know" ha
dude stopped playing before panda came out but watching this and the lore story lines pumped me up ... being a warrior my first char and i just related to your story's lmfao genuinely heart warming moments
wow I love this, really brings me back when you're talin about how bad you were at first. Like I had my first character who was a Rogue and I got Cruel Barb from DM and I spent all my gold to get a Beastslayer enchant on it, and just because of that enchant I used that sword til Tanaris I think.. gooooood times!
10 years later after watching this video and starting WoW. I got rank 1 logs multiple times and am now stepping down from the game due to the RNG of damage. Came full circle with this video.
I started as an undead affliction warlock in early vanilla and had the same problem with the friend who got me playing. He didn't want to help me with anything, so I became a primarily solo player to this day. His guild kicked me from dungeon runs for not having certain utility spells unlocked, like summons and curses. Nobody knew how warlocks worked, as I was the only one they knew at the time, and they had no idea how to do that stuff. I was on dial up at the time and couldn't just open another window to look it up on Wowhead, which didn't exist then anyway. I eventually quit the guild and the game for a while after being kicked from Blackrock Depths for pulling things with my demon.
OMG this is so good man... You are like telling my story from back then in classic WoW... Where i "had to tank" maraudon... and i was arms worry OFC and OFC without shield, having absolutly no idea whats going on and getting twoshoted by that giants in maraudon. and group was spamming something like "where is your shield and do sunder armor" :D EPIC moments back then and realizing that you actualy suck at the game... and doing everything to get better after it... such a adventure journey. Thanx for reminding me of that with your video! Very nice work, keep it up! Thanx Preach :)
OH GOD THE FEELS!!! I love being able to identify with so much of this. It's taken me ten years, but I'm finally learning how to heal properly, and although I'm sure it's 1000x easier now than it was "back when", it's still kinda tricky. DPS is ezmode now. Now I'm pvping for gear, and using that to learn some of the intricacies of my toons (all nine 100s now), and still trying to get better both in understanding of how classes interact as well as my overall skill. I'm not super competitive, but I do have a nearly pathological need to be top dps for my gear level. That drives a lot of research, I'll tell ya. Anyhow, thanks for the vid, man. I hope one day I'll find some goal I can achieve and be epic, if only in my own mind.
I played an undead warrior back in the day on my old account. And from late Vanilla to I think it was Mid-BC I had given up prot entirely because "I never use Defensive Stance because it's boring and doesn't do any damage" or "I don't need it" - I decided if I ever were to tank again I would tank in Battle Stance with either a two-hander or not tank at all. It actually got to the point whenever I was asked to tank I would outright refuse to use sword and shield. I actually remember a conversation that took place back in BC once: Guy: "Wanna tank Slave Pens?" Me: "I accept that." (I RP'ed on a normal server, go figure) "But I won't use a shield." Never got a reply or an invite. I think got around by the time I had capped. Never looked back - even though I was a pretty awful tank.
That's needlessly aggressive, but alright. Death knights weren't around back in BC, dude. And I prefer tanking with classes you actually have to put thought behind as opposed to "bang face against keyboard" tanking, thank you very much.
So you want a spec that is more complexed than a DK's tanking spec, and yet you refused it when you were given the oppurtunity ? Sorry but that is just dumb and deserves a troll. Warrior Stance dancing back then was pretty intensive and very much needed to be a good tank, which you clearly failed to be. A warrior tanking with a two-hander would be exactly the same as a DK....
Erkan Erten "So you want a spec that is more complexed than a DK's tanking spec, and yet you refused it when you were given the oppurtunity ? Sorry but that is just dumb and deserves a troll." And I'm sorry too, because you must have misinterpreted my comment entirely - you and the first guy. That thing with me refusing to use Defensive Stance and sword and board (1h and shield) when "tanking" was *back in BC*, *NOT* Wrath or any later expansion when being a Death Knight was an option. I was a complete noob back in BC and knew jack and shit about tanks. If stance dancing was a thing back then I didn't know, because I had zero knowledge of gameplay outside of "Spam abilities until shit dies". Any thought more complex than that didn't exist, because I simply wasn't good at the game at the time. And speaking of complex, yes, I want a tank spec more complex that a DK's. That's why I don't play a DK.
MrJustinArt I know the feeling, i tanked grull once with a twohanded on my pally back then, but with was only to annoy another tank who was talking shit about my ZA shield. It was fun, but i had a shammy friend burning mana to keep me up xD
Your TBC experience was so similar to mine. I got so obsessed I eventually burnt out after Karazhan and didn't play again until right before the release of Wrath. Sitting here enjoying reminiscing about the old days, good stuff.
I am floored that I sat here for TWO WHOLE HOURS, watching this... Preach, you have one hell of an ability to lay out a story. It felt like listening to the saga of some mercenary in the days of Sparta and Greece.
The vanilla part of the story was very relevant as I'm playing vanilla on a pserver right now. Nice to know we can replay this story again on retail soon.
27:45 That moment for me occured comparatively (i started playing during the End of Wrath and had no fucking idea how anything worked) late, in Cataclysm, when BWD and BoT were cream of the crop and Firelands was still some months away. I had just ditched my first main, a Dwarf Hunter, for my second main, a Draenei Paladin, Prot to be precise because i had found that Tanking was quite a lot of fun and because playing a Tank meant instant queue times in LFD, which was a major asset to me because i really liked and still like Dungeon running. Now, my Pala started to have most of her gear. Ran all of the heroic dungeons, had the insane luck of World Epic Tank Pauldons (Pauldrons of Edward the Odd) dropping for me while doing dailies in Tol Barad, joined the occasional pug for the Halfus, and the first two Bosses in Blackwing Descent. Now here comes me, an about itemlevel 340-ish equiped Prot Pala, and there is this big progress guild on my Server, Tichondrius-EU (German), the Rag Collectors. They had been looking for a Tank for a while for doing a run on Nefarian in BWD. Then, i entered the picture. And because they were so desperate (and because they probably assumed i had cleared most of the other content up until then, which was NOT the case because i had the bad luck of constantly joining dead or dying guilds) they just took me on, gave me a nice briefing on the mechanics and what i had to do. Which was mainly to keep Nefarian in place in Phase 1 and let the Main Tank take over once Onyxia was dead. I thought i was doing a pretty good job until i realized that the healers were burning through their mana to keep me up. And then they looked at my equipment which was, all things considered not THAT bad, i had bought about 3 pieces of Tier 11 from the badge vendors and made enough money to buy the tanking belt from a Blacksmith. But i still wasn't defense capped... and had no idea that this mechanic existed. That there was a point to reforging your equipment and that enchants were actually quite important, and Socket Bonuses (back when those still existed) didn't matter all that much, hell i was confused why these even were a thing because i just had assumed that could only put in gems of appropriate color into the sockets. In fairness to the other guys, even if we didn't kill Nefarian and it was clearly my fault, they were really good sports about it. Gave me a lot of advice and such. Later i could join a regular raid guild together with my father, who sticked together all the way into Legion, when i took my second big break from the game (the first one occuring for almost the entirety of MoP, where i was shipped off to a boarding school because of the ongoing warlike divorce of my parents and simply couldn't play) My dad died in 2017 from a rare autoimmune disease and as one of the officiers and beloved guy in the guild, his loss struck a lot of the folks in the guild so hard that it died as a result just some months later. Coming back to Vanilla and TBC Classic reminded me how many of these obscure mechanics have been patched out over the years, and i think that is something that is definitely a loss for the game (although Hit Rating can stay where it is, fuck that stat) it enhances your journey to a much larger degree due to being much more complex than it is the case in retail, where it has all become about the Boss Mechanics. That gearing up in itself is an elemental part of your experience in Wow and feeling you becoming stronger. I'm maining Priest in TBC, with a Prot Pala as an ult and the difference gear makes is immense. Seeing your renew tick for 400 more on average seems so small, and yet it feels so cool. The pride you can feel when you become an essential part of any raiding team from the raw, sheer HPS you can put out, or the question "Hm, can i pull that pack too and survive?". More complex boss mechanics cannot compete with this feeling in my opinion, which is why i actually enjoyed grinding artifact power in Legion (until it got really absurd with the Argus patch) and finding all the relics for my Holy Staff. The class and encounter design of retail combined with the loot progression of classic (not the actual loot mechanics, that shit got way better over the years) would be my personal ideal version of Wow.
I was the same way with MKII didn't play one on console because I had a SNES and they didn't have the real fatalities....and they had an MKII machine across from my school. I was....the best....still remember all the fatalities and every shang sung transformation lol
Thankfully my awaking in WoW wasn’t as harsh. My Uncle got me and my cousin into the game, me and my cousin are the same age and were in the same grade at the same school so we got home at the same time and would log on and level together, then when my uncle got home from work he would run us through dungeons on his level 60 hunter. My uncle was mostly a solo player player but he occasionally did Strat or Scholo, lots of pvp, but never any raids. He didn’t get into raiding until me and my cousin hit cap. I learned about addons when people linked damage meters in dungeons while leveling, so I realized early when I was competing with my cousin on damage meters that I needed to learn more about how to play my character correctly. By level 40 I was looking up top rogues and their builds, videos on what addons people were using and stuff like that. I had a pretty good idea of what I was doing but I still had a lot to learn, as we all did back then. I didn’t hit 60 before TBC came out but I did start raiding at level 63 with my guild, doing classic raids while I was leveling to 70 on my rogue and priest.
With Legion in my opinion being one of the most exciting and lore-driven expansion I've had the joy of playing in some time, now would be an optimal time of playing. Just be sure to choose the right class to start with. :)
i let my youtube vids play while i fell asleep, woke up to this video, decided to listen to it for a minute and then i ended up watching this for 2 hours lol XD
when he was getting top dps ranks in firelands, i was playing mage and trying to get the max on Alysrazor the fucking greatest fight ever if you were the fire mage flying through the sky. I remember looking up logs and a chinese guy doing 160-165k and a german just over 150k and the 3th was like 30k and more lower. I was looking in there logs which is annoying since the spells are listed in their language and i found out the secret for that fight. But then taking weeks trying to perfect it and hitting the rng required for it. You had to slightly bug ignite so it would go over the 100k cap and keep going to 300k. And on some pulls you manage but then you wipe and on the kills you didnt have the rng and had to settle with 200 or 250k ignite's. And you needed the luck twice as well. In the end the best i got was a top 25 rank because 1 tank didnt interrupt and bring the add to the boss. Which meant the 1 gcd to spread your dots you missed that target so your 300k combustion that tick 4-5 times a sec didnt land on it; That meant that on my best rank i could of had 8 mil dmg more (the add had 8m hp) which meant 20k dps. While 160k was top 25, 180k would of been in the top 5. Even though it sucked the fight is one ill never forget. From the very first time when you got 100k combustion tikking 15 times a sec on your screen without scrolling text addon meaning your screen was filled with numbers since everything was crit so displayed bigger. To the week after with an addon seeing those numbers scrolling by so fast it went to the top of your screen. Wonderful times
Well done! I love the topic and I love your videos. I haven't been on twitch in over a year and am actually convinced to drop in now. Subscribed for the time you put into everything. Learn so much from you on a daily basis. I am an altaholic and cant tell you how many of your videos I have watched.
I miss my Vanilla days. I wanted to tank from the off, coming from UO as a dexxer (melee) with parry (shields) I loved being able to mitigate damage and stand tall where others would die. My first tanking experience came early. Nelf Warrior. Gnomeregon. I did well, using the skills I'd practiced soloing and my understanding of positioning and mechanics from a lifetime of gaming. I kept aggro on most mobs, multiple mob pulls and adds. I marked before pulls and got the cc I wanted (I'd leveled a mage for a friend to "try the game" and though I'd done it solo, never bought skills and hit cap in SM gear, I'd learned about cc :P) Midway through, complaints started. I would lose aggro on a mob, and chase it down desperately trying to win back threat. "Use taunt!" I was told. I explained "I don't want to use a cooldown I might need later" :3 After more moans I used it in spite, and found that the cd was much shorter than I'd initially thought. Think that's probably the worst tanking mistake I've made :P (except the silly ones, like refusing to use anything but my Dragon's Call to tank, because it was epic!) I miss those days. I honestly think the over simplification of tanking (making it into a dps class with more threat) is the worst mistake blizz ever made, understandable though it is with the lack of real tanks to go around)
thats sooo true,I'm definitely like how you described the Shaman, back in the day. If there was more melee in the group who were geared well id use windfury to help their dps out as a resto.
That's why the new change to Arena was a great one. B4, new people couldn't arena because they would make so many mistakes and eventually the other person would leave the team.
Trying to impress a horrid guild. We've all been there. My first TBC guild I was in and they spat on me constantly for being a paladin tank and I wanted to prove myself to them but it changed nothing in their views. Well I laughed last in that expansion as I reached Illidan when he was still the end boss of the fucking game while they never killed Magtheridon.
This video is longer than most movies... Watched it all - entertained all the way through. The beginning was brutal though, the sadistic MK mindset. Creeped me out, man.
Haha. I ran a lot of people through the Onyxia attunement. But no one that was too lazy to do it on their own. I did it because it was fun. I loved BRD.
Preach, can you do a video about going from an average class to #1? What resources, both people and boards/sites, did you use to train with? Hours spent with a training dummy will improve, but only if you're improving in the right ways. I'd like to pick up my dps (on both mage and blood dk), but don't know where to find the resources to learn from.
my moment I figured out I was shit was I was instructed to go healer (druid) through MC and BWL. On razorgore a big group of mobs kept running across the room to rape my arse and someone called me on it... I had no idea what healing agro was. I stayed shit through BC though, didn't even know what a rotation was, I had to be instructed to keep the scorch debuff up. Still managed to get server second kael'thas though. 2nd archimonde too, though I was such a terrible mage I was told to JUST decurse. Nothing else. Decurse people, don't slowfall into the well. Looking back that guild was really really nice to me... I did end up getting server first malygos and sarth +3 but the guild split due to the content drought of early wotlk and I never raided HC again.
Preach Gaming did your whole guild felt like you at the end. Were they like ''yeah! we helped 1 of OUR members to be world first!'' Because it still takes a big deal to make you have the chance to pulll it off.
Listening to this post classic... im pretty sure Agi/stam are the best leveling stats for warrior! Dosent really matter if it comes from leather or mail. This would later get turned on its head of course, but in Vanilla, you rock that agility all the way until level 60 when you can pick up preraid bis or get carried through a few MC's
good times.. wow was such a POS when it came out. my strongest memory from beta was i was in gnome land went into a troll cave stood next to a wall and walked into winterspring and got owned and was lost for hours. that and introduction of environment effects in patch 3.something STV blew everyones mind
Brofist to you Preach. Remember DKP in those days. Fukkin sucked. I got lots of DKP, never got gear with it. I was a Priest back in MC days, it was horrible. I was horrible.
I just started a guild on Darkspear-Horde (US), and our 10m is almost complete. Sadly though my hunter who is my most geared toon and has legendary cloak is rusting away because I have to tank or heal every time we raid. To be honest I don't know what toon I like playing the most, I enjoy Guardian tanking, but I also enjoy the hunter and the utility that comes with it, but healing is fun too at times. I still have a lot of time to decide what I want to do for WoD, and with it being Flex I have more options, but I just hate the fact that my hunter and the cloak and all the warforged gear I have on him is going to waste. My officers don't have as many geared 90's as I do, so I am the one who is stuck doing it. I don't mind, but I hope it doesn't stay that way.
Hey Sylvanas was my first and mostly only server i ever played...man did i suck back then :D I want to play the game again and i hope ill do a better job this time. Loved the story man :D
nice video, atm trying to join WOD. So far best professions I've seen for resto to work really well with Shamans is enchanting/tailoring, because of the ring and mana cloak enchant. What do you think? Any better combinations for new expansions? Last time I played I was a "Blacksmith Hammersmith Enhancement Shaman" back in BC.
God, my turning point in this game. . . I started as a Holy Paladin wearing Strength gear and rocking a level 70 2h sword. . . In WotLK! Didn't know what was up until I was level 80 and a guildie asked me to come do a normal dungeon because he saw I was a Holy Paladin then I rode my 60% ground mount into the dungeon. In retrospect, I'm pretty lucky, he didn't let me do that dungeon, but he certainly set me on the straight and narrow and I was in a raiding guild come ICC.
I was a 1600 shitlord, happened to befriend 2 Multi-Glads who taught me PvP, got 2300 the same season I met them. Still play with them too. Turns out they were friends with Maldiva and Xaryu, who I I got the chance to run RBGs with as well.
Here we are in 2024 and I’m watching this for the 11 millionth time.
Same lol
And you realise that 10 years of playing Warcraft is now 20. What the fuck.
Same here brother
I have listened to this about 7 times already. Classic. Great motivation preach.
21:00 - lol when i first started wow, i had never played an mmo before (and only 1 rpg - ff7). started in the human start area (default male human warrior FTW :) and after derping around for ages not having a fucking clue about anything i ended up in goldshire thinking to myself : "wow this game is huge, its got a forest AND a fucking town!". then after a few more hours of dying to hogger after saving up 80s (by killing mobs) to buy a white weapon from the "travelling salesman" i got the piece of advice that ended up getting me hooked on wow : "hey, you need better gear, GO TO STORMWIND and get more from the AH"..."stormwind?"..."holy shit theres a city here too oh my god!". what got me hooked was the sheer scale of it. i had never seen anything like stormwind in a game before, a truly massive busling city full of players buying, selling, looking for groups and whatever else. i wanted to know everything at this point, like what the hell does LFG and LFM mean? whats a guild? whats this karazhan thing that ppl are talking about? and why the fuck does my warrior gear need spirit on it?
when i took the loch modan quest and got myself on the tram for the first time, after reaching ironforge my mind was totally blown and it was then i decided that i wanted to know everything about this game (at this point it was mainly...how the fuck do they do this with no loading screens??), and here i am 7 (or 8?) years later.
thanks for reading my uninteresting post, peace
James Blackwell kinda the same started playing as a dwarf in wotlk on my brother's account since i watched him for a bit i had a general idea of what to do but i had no idea what major cities were and when i randomly wandered into ironforge i instantly wanted to play more
James Blackwell everything u said plus being a raging pothead who started a night elf got me hooked lol. The game actually felt mysterious and actually magical. Like I'd find real treasure lol. Going back to what u said, i went into a cave amd thought it'd just be a little nook, but it was this ebook labyrinth thst blew my mind. I was like wtf all this just existed under my feet the whole time while i ram around questing?
i love listening to these in the backround as i do WoW dailies / other things :)
I was leveling charecter just now, while listening to the story :)
It may sound funny, but it's kind of inspiring :)
same!
Dun Morough!!! I know that exact feeling. I remember old Dun Morough, it was so serene. I loved it so so much.
Yess
What was different from the new one ? Only played since late cata
If you can't appreciate world design simply on the basis of what faction that race's starting zone belongs to, you're a shitty person.
Even though I'm Horde, I have to say I fucking despised Durotar and the Barrens even moreso. Those places blow so much ass. Nowadays they're okay, but the aesthetic still feels lacking. Silithus is a better deserty zone.
Dun Morough is the only starting zone that I can say I dug much at all. Elwynn blew, Teldrassil was meh but still cool when you remember its a huge fucking tree, Deathknell was cool but the 6-10 part felt lifeless in more than the intended way. Mulgore or whatever is the reason I didn't play Tauren, although Tauren never appealed to me much regardless. BE starting area sucks, but that's mostly because of how spread out the quests are. Draenei starting area is bleh. Seriously, ONLY fucking Dun Morough I liked. Now it feels too involved and less serene than it did before Cata. and Ironforge is still my favorite city out of all of them; SW is meh and Org serves its purpose, UC is the Horde IF so its alright, TB can suck my dinger. Darnassus is *fart*.
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Dude i'd listen to you even if you talked about theoretical physics. There's something about your voice, enthusiasm and wording of your story just makes it WOW. Ur the best preach. Rock on and one day i'll play with you on EU
You saying preacher can preach?:p
I agree, I listen to him while I do homework.
I just watched the whole video in one sitting..nostalgia and the lust for reaching the top of the dps meters hit me so hard, can't believe it.
I discovered preach like a week ago when I watched his vannilla wow videos, and he is now one of my favourite channels! keep it up preach!
About a week ago, week ago
Damn his forehead is brighter than my future.
+TheLordGodric I giggled way too much at this.
+TheLordGodric that buttchin thou
Well then your future isn't all that bright considering he doesn't focus all his lighting on his forehead
Honestly, this is the most inspiring WoW video I've seen in a while! So much of what you said I can relate to having started with MMO's in 1999 or 2000 with an MMO called "Tibia" if anyone remembers that; the most unforgiving (lose 10% of ALL exp on death), open PvP, etc. etc.
I can't believe you kept me here for 2 hours. As someone that played wow just as intensely since day 1 as you seemed to do this story is one of the best I have heard for a long time.
Gahh this story just reminded me so much of myself. I had that realization in Kara my first time. Took me 15 days played to get 70 and my felguard dived Nightbane from the entrance and I wanded the entire time..Was so embarrassed. It was either be embarrassed or get better.
Dude this video brought back so many good memories from Firelands when I was also getting rank 1's as ret paladin. You feel like a god when you refresh World of logs and see your name slap at the top of the list and you know you're the best in the world at what you do.
watched the entire thing man. Damn that took me way back. keep it up man. one of the few gamers that keep it real and help the new and old players either keep up or catch up. Every time someone asks me in game how to play or if i have any tips on their class, i always tell them to look you up on youtube. you have helped in all of my classes so i figured it would help them.
I met a fellow in a random dungeon levelling an alt the other day. They had the most adorable noob moment. We had done 2 or 3 dungeons together as a group of randoms, and his health had been draining the entire time. As anyone who knows a warlock at all has probably already guessed, burning rush was active. Eventually I decided to ask something along the lines of "Gee, do you ever turn that off?" in a joking manner. The warlock just stopped and stood there for about a minute before sheepishly stating "I don't know how to turn it off." (We went on to explain in a friendly manner how to turn off burning rush, and other abilities - with right click or /cancelaura)
I've come to appreciate these moments. It means new blood.
That's adorable. Also hilarious if you imagine a warlock on fire and calmly saying "I don't know" ha
you know what, I have listened to this storytime multiple times in the past, I think it is time to do it again.
Had only seen drama fridays up until now, watched the entire 2 hrs man. awesome stuff.
Quality Preach, jeez I miss WoW but I just can't commit the time to it to make it worth while paying the money... The feels
I can't believe I was watching this for two hours, amazing story though.
dude stopped playing before panda came out but watching this and the lore story lines pumped me up ... being a warrior my first char and i just related to your story's lmfao genuinely heart warming moments
wow I love this, really brings me back when you're talin about how bad you were at first. Like I had my first character who was a Rogue and I got Cruel Barb from DM and I spent all my gold to get a Beastslayer enchant on it, and just because of that enchant I used that sword til Tanaris I think.. gooooood times!
Well said preach, wow can teach you a lot about your personality. Keep it man, enjoying all your videos!
10 years later after watching this video and starting WoW. I got rank 1 logs multiple times and am now stepping down from the game due to the RNG of damage. Came full circle with this video.
Awww, time to rewatch. Watched it years ago, but got my first rank one a while ago, time to get the nostalgia rolling.
this was inspiring. i love hearing about people's journeys to mastery
oooooooh yeah, time to settle in for a long haul!
First movie from anyone that had almost 2 hours but I watched the whole thing. Awesome.
Excellent story, last 10 minutes had me on the edge of my seat
I started as an undead affliction warlock in early vanilla and had the same problem with the friend who got me playing. He didn't want to help me with anything, so I became a primarily solo player to this day. His guild kicked me from dungeon runs for not having certain utility spells unlocked, like summons and curses. Nobody knew how warlocks worked, as I was the only one they knew at the time, and they had no idea how to do that stuff. I was on dial up at the time and couldn't just open another window to look it up on Wowhead, which didn't exist then anyway. I eventually quit the guild and the game for a while after being kicked from Blackrock Depths for pulling things with my demon.
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OMG this is so good man... You are like telling my story from back then in classic WoW... Where i "had to tank" maraudon... and i was arms worry OFC and OFC without shield, having absolutly no idea whats going on and getting twoshoted by that giants in maraudon. and group was spamming something like "where is your shield and do sunder armor" :D EPIC moments back then and realizing that you actualy suck at the game... and doing everything to get better after it... such a adventure journey. Thanx for reminding me of that with your video! Very nice work, keep it up! Thanx Preach :)
this is so fucking fun, im listening to it for a second time. Thanks for making my WoW experience that much better!!!
OH GOD THE FEELS!!!
I love being able to identify with so much of this. It's taken me ten years, but I'm finally learning how to heal properly, and although I'm sure it's 1000x easier now than it was "back when", it's still kinda tricky. DPS is ezmode now. Now I'm pvping for gear, and using that to learn some of the intricacies of my toons (all nine 100s now), and still trying to get better both in understanding of how classes interact as well as my overall skill. I'm not super competitive, but I do have a nearly pathological need to be top dps for my gear level. That drives a lot of research, I'll tell ya.
Anyhow, thanks for the vid, man. I hope one day I'll find some goal I can achieve and be epic, if only in my own mind.
I played an undead warrior back in the day on my old account. And from late Vanilla to I think it was Mid-BC I had given up prot entirely because "I never use Defensive Stance because it's boring and doesn't do any damage" or "I don't need it" - I decided if I ever were to tank again I would tank in Battle Stance with either a two-hander or not tank at all. It actually got to the point whenever I was asked to tank I would outright refuse to use sword and shield.
I actually remember a conversation that took place back in BC once:
Guy: "Wanna tank Slave Pens?"
Me: "I accept that." (I RP'ed on a normal server, go figure) "But I won't use a shield."
Never got a reply or an invite. I think got around by the time I had capped. Never looked back - even though I was a pretty awful tank.
That's needlessly aggressive, but alright. Death knights weren't around back in BC, dude.
And I prefer tanking with classes you actually have to put thought behind as opposed to "bang face against keyboard" tanking, thank you very much.
So you want a spec that is more complexed than a DK's tanking spec, and yet you refused it when you were given the oppurtunity ? Sorry but that is just dumb and deserves a troll. Warrior Stance dancing back then was pretty intensive and very much needed to be a good tank, which you clearly failed to be. A warrior tanking with a two-hander would be exactly the same as a DK....
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"So you want a spec that is more complexed than a DK's tanking spec, and yet you refused it when you were given the oppurtunity ? Sorry but that is just dumb and deserves a troll."
And I'm sorry too, because you must have misinterpreted my comment entirely - you and the first guy. That thing with me refusing to use Defensive Stance and sword and board (1h and shield) when "tanking" was *back in BC*, *NOT* Wrath or any later expansion when being a Death Knight was an option. I was a complete noob back in BC and knew jack and shit about tanks. If stance dancing was a thing back then I didn't know, because I had zero knowledge of gameplay outside of "Spam abilities until shit dies". Any thought more complex than that didn't exist, because I simply wasn't good at the game at the time.
And speaking of complex, yes, I want a tank spec more complex that a DK's. That's why I don't play a DK.
MrJustinArt I know the feeling, i tanked grull once with a twohanded on my pally back then, but with was only to annoy another tank who was talking shit about my ZA shield. It was fun, but i had a shammy friend burning mana to keep me up xD
I actually found this quite inspirational. Much love, preacher.
Your TBC experience was so similar to mine. I got so obsessed I eventually burnt out after Karazhan and didn't play again until right before the release of Wrath.
Sitting here enjoying reminiscing about the old days, good stuff.
I am floored that I sat here for TWO WHOLE HOURS, watching this... Preach, you have one hell of an ability to lay out a story.
It felt like listening to the saga of some mercenary in the days of Sparta and Greece.
The vanilla part of the story was very relevant as I'm playing vanilla on a pserver right now. Nice to know we can replay this story again on retail soon.
Preach you are the best storyteller bro
27:45 That moment for me occured comparatively (i started playing during the End of Wrath and had no fucking idea how anything worked) late, in Cataclysm, when BWD and BoT were cream of the crop and Firelands was still some months away. I had just ditched my first main, a Dwarf Hunter, for my second main, a Draenei Paladin, Prot to be precise because i had found that Tanking was quite a lot of fun and because playing a Tank meant instant queue times in LFD, which was a major asset to me because i really liked and still like Dungeon running. Now, my Pala started to have most of her gear. Ran all of the heroic dungeons, had the insane luck of World Epic Tank Pauldons (Pauldrons of Edward the Odd) dropping for me while doing dailies in Tol Barad, joined the occasional pug for the Halfus, and the first two Bosses in Blackwing Descent.
Now here comes me, an about itemlevel 340-ish equiped Prot Pala, and there is this big progress guild on my Server, Tichondrius-EU (German), the Rag Collectors. They had been looking for a Tank for a while for doing a run on Nefarian in BWD. Then, i entered the picture. And because they were so desperate (and because they probably assumed i had cleared most of the other content up until then, which was NOT the case because i had the bad luck of constantly joining dead or dying guilds) they just took me on, gave me a nice briefing on the mechanics and what i had to do. Which was mainly to keep Nefarian in place in Phase 1 and let the Main Tank take over once Onyxia was dead. I thought i was doing a pretty good job until i realized that the healers were burning through their mana to keep me up. And then they looked at my equipment which was, all things considered not THAT bad, i had bought about 3 pieces of Tier 11 from the badge vendors and made enough money to buy the tanking belt from a Blacksmith. But i still wasn't defense capped... and had no idea that this mechanic existed. That there was a point to reforging your equipment and that enchants were actually quite important, and Socket Bonuses (back when those still existed) didn't matter all that much, hell i was confused why these even were a thing because i just had assumed that could only put in gems of appropriate color into the sockets.
In fairness to the other guys, even if we didn't kill Nefarian and it was clearly my fault, they were really good sports about it. Gave me a lot of advice and such. Later i could join a regular raid guild together with my father, who sticked together all the way into Legion, when i took my second big break from the game (the first one occuring for almost the entirety of MoP, where i was shipped off to a boarding school because of the ongoing warlike divorce of my parents and simply couldn't play) My dad died in 2017 from a rare autoimmune disease and as one of the officiers and beloved guy in the guild, his loss struck a lot of the folks in the guild so hard that it died as a result just some months later.
Coming back to Vanilla and TBC Classic reminded me how many of these obscure mechanics have been patched out over the years, and i think that is something that is definitely a loss for the game (although Hit Rating can stay where it is, fuck that stat) it enhances your journey to a much larger degree due to being much more complex than it is the case in retail, where it has all become about the Boss Mechanics. That gearing up in itself is an elemental part of your experience in Wow and feeling you becoming stronger. I'm maining Priest in TBC, with a Prot Pala as an ult and the difference gear makes is immense. Seeing your renew tick for 400 more on average seems so small, and yet it feels so cool. The pride you can feel when you become an essential part of any raiding team from the raw, sheer HPS you can put out, or the question "Hm, can i pull that pack too and survive?". More complex boss mechanics cannot compete with this feeling in my opinion, which is why i actually enjoyed grinding artifact power in Legion (until it got really absurd with the Argus patch) and finding all the relics for my Holy Staff. The class and encounter design of retail combined with the loot progression of classic (not the actual loot mechanics, that shit got way better over the years) would be my personal ideal version of Wow.
I loved listening to this while playing World of Warcraft!
Man those first kills were sweet. The amount of server activity with everyone crowding around onyxia's head, congratulating and stuff.
I was the same way with MKII didn't play one on console because I had a SNES and they didn't have the real fatalities....and they had an MKII machine across from my school. I was....the best....still remember all the fatalities and every shang sung transformation lol
You are my hero, I aspire to everything you do!!!!
dat typo on the thumbnail graphic
he lost me when he started talking about "personal world first"
Thankfully my awaking in WoW wasn’t as harsh. My Uncle got me and my cousin into the game, me and my cousin are the same age and were in the same grade at the same school so we got home at the same time and would log on and level together, then when my uncle got home from work he would run us through dungeons on his level 60 hunter. My uncle was mostly a solo player player but he occasionally did Strat or Scholo, lots of pvp, but never any raids. He didn’t get into raiding until me and my cousin hit cap. I learned about addons when people linked damage meters in dungeons while leveling, so I realized early when I was competing with my cousin on damage meters that I needed to learn more about how to play my character correctly. By level 40 I was looking up top rogues and their builds, videos on what addons people were using and stuff like that. I had a pretty good idea of what I was doing but I still had a lot to learn, as we all did back then. I didn’t hit 60 before TBC came out but I did start raiding at level 63 with my guild, doing classic raids while I was leveling to 70 on my rogue and priest.
I have never played WOW but your story is so awesome I want to play now
Do it, just dont let the daunting learning curve push you away, as it will try
He's the best story teller I've seen on RUclips, so fun to listen to
With Legion in my opinion being one of the most exciting and lore-driven expansion I've had the joy of playing in some time, now would be an optimal time of playing. Just be sure to choose the right class to start with. :)
human paladin
@zyrxom is that what you decided to go with? That's the same Race/Class I rolled, not a bad choice.
Did that mortal kombat thing you were talking about with SSB. My friends never played with me after I had achieved godhood, so I gave it up.
"REAL fucking dirty! Real BAD!"
I can't stop fucking laughing.
i let my youtube vids play while i fell asleep, woke up to this video, decided to listen to it for a minute and then i ended up watching this for 2 hours lol XD
Even though I was 11 and playing in an internet cafe, I remember the first times I walked into Stormwind and Ironforge, and goddamn it felt amazing.
LOL that ban was epic at 1:10, Preach did not give him/her a second chance.
Im like at the mortal kombat part of the vid and you're a straight savage preach I love it
when he was getting top dps ranks in firelands, i was playing mage and trying to get the max on Alysrazor the fucking greatest fight ever if you were the fire mage flying through the sky.
I remember looking up logs and a chinese guy doing 160-165k and a german just over 150k and the 3th was like 30k and more lower. I was looking in there logs which is annoying since the spells are listed in their language and i found out the secret for that fight. But then taking weeks trying to perfect it and hitting the rng required for it.
You had to slightly bug ignite so it would go over the 100k cap and keep going to 300k. And on some pulls you manage but then you wipe and on the kills you didnt have the rng and had to settle with 200 or 250k ignite's.
And you needed the luck twice as well. In the end the best i got was a top 25 rank because 1 tank didnt interrupt and bring the add to the boss. Which meant the 1 gcd to spread your dots you missed that target so your 300k combustion that tick 4-5 times a sec didnt land on it; That meant that on my best rank i could of had 8 mil dmg more (the add had 8m hp) which meant 20k dps. While 160k was top 25, 180k would of been in the top 5.
Even though it sucked the fight is one ill never forget. From the very first time when you got 100k combustion tikking 15 times a sec on your screen without scrolling text addon meaning your screen was filled with numbers since everything was crit so displayed bigger. To the week after with an addon seeing those numbers scrolling by so fast it went to the top of your screen.
Wonderful times
i miss being new so much, so so so so much i want to experince everything through a newbies eyes again!!!
Well done! I love the topic and I love your videos. I haven't been on twitch in over a year and am actually convinced to drop in now. Subscribed for the time you put into everything. Learn so much from you on a daily basis. I am an altaholic and cant tell you how many of your videos I have watched.
Preach u just made me want to play my frost dk again! Such enthusiasm.
I miss my Vanilla days.
I wanted to tank from the off, coming from UO as a dexxer (melee) with parry (shields) I loved being able to mitigate damage and stand tall where others would die.
My first tanking experience came early. Nelf Warrior. Gnomeregon.
I did well, using the skills I'd practiced soloing and my understanding of positioning and mechanics from a lifetime of gaming.
I kept aggro on most mobs, multiple mob pulls and adds. I marked before pulls and got the cc I wanted (I'd leveled a mage for a friend to "try the game" and though I'd done it solo, never bought skills and hit cap in SM gear, I'd learned about cc :P)
Midway through, complaints started.
I would lose aggro on a mob, and chase it down desperately trying to win back threat.
"Use taunt!" I was told.
I explained "I don't want to use a cooldown I might need later"
:3
After more moans I used it in spite, and found that the cd was much shorter than I'd initially thought.
Think that's probably the worst tanking mistake I've made :P (except the silly ones, like refusing to use anything but my Dragon's Call to tank, because it was epic!)
I miss those days.
I honestly think the over simplification of tanking (making it into a dps class with more threat) is the worst mistake blizz ever made, understandable though it is with the lack of real tanks to go around)
I love the way mike talks about his wow experiences as if its traveling through various stages of puberty!
That was a good story! Thank you, kind sir.
thats sooo true,I'm definitely like how you described the Shaman, back in the day. If there was more melee in the group who were geared well id use windfury to help their dps out as a resto.
My moment of realizing I was really bad was watching your vids lol but they've been extremely helpful!
That's why the new change to Arena was a great one. B4, new people couldn't arena because they would make so many mistakes and eventually the other person would leave the team.
Trying to impress a horrid guild. We've all been there. My first TBC guild I was in and they spat on me constantly for being a paladin tank and I wanted to prove myself to them but it changed nothing in their views.
Well I laughed last in that expansion as I reached Illidan when he was still the end boss of the fucking game while they never killed Magtheridon.
***** Feeling ya there :S
Still rocking prot pally tho :)
Best fucking class ever :3
***** Kil'Jaedan was the end boss lol
Lord Jaraxxus Before Sunwell came out Illidan was the final boss.
lmfao at the people being timed out at the start.
46:23 "Most people had died." I can't believe how fucking much I laughed at the thought of that, hilarious.
One of the best 2 hours I've ever spent, a great story :)
Attunement and fire resist gear, ahh the sucky days. It took forever to do that stuff and you needed fire resist for MC
"can't imagina a new expansion coming out and not being able to take part" legion comes out 1 day before i leave :< why blizz i cri
the unstoppable force was my first Epic.. got it on my bearded ginger human warrior.. it rocked.
Can't believe i've just watched this straight through, its fucking 3AM!
This video is longer than most movies... Watched it all - entertained all the way through. The beginning was brutal though, the sadistic MK mindset. Creeped me out, man.
this is like a movie you can just listen to
srsly dude u are the best ever person i have ever seen streaming in world of warcraft! keep going!
Haha. I ran a lot of people through the Onyxia attunement. But no one that was too lazy to do it on their own. I did it because it was fun. I loved BRD.
love your story about strat ... pretty much sums up how i got into tanking late vanilla early bc
I like a lot you talked about. great video half way through
RECKLESSNESS WAS 30 FUCKING MINUTES, and shared cooldowns with Retaliation (removed) and Shield Wall.
amazing...purely amazing. great job.
''I looked at it and then HUUUHH, whats that'' HAHAHHAHA Love your story times Preach
2 hours? well im set for awhile time to get a drink and enjoy the show
This is a awesome story same we start all @ the begin Rogue cloth gear here
Preach, can you do a video about going from an average class to #1? What resources, both people and boards/sites, did you use to train with? Hours spent with a training dummy will improve, but only if you're improving in the right ways. I'd like to pick up my dps (on both mage and blood dk), but don't know where to find the resources to learn from.
So another one! Love these
i like how you invited people thinking they were good home to you so you could destroy them in mortal kombat XD made me smile
Basically you could say that crit reduces dmg taken - the faster a mob is down, the less dmg you take xD
my moment I figured out I was shit was I was instructed to go healer (druid) through MC and BWL. On razorgore a big group of mobs kept running across the room to rape my arse and someone called me on it...
I had no idea what healing agro was.
I stayed shit through BC though, didn't even know what a rotation was, I had to be instructed to keep the scorch debuff up. Still managed to get server second kael'thas though. 2nd archimonde too, though I was such a terrible mage I was told to JUST decurse. Nothing else. Decurse people, don't slowfall into the well.
Looking back that guild was really really nice to me...
I did end up getting server first malygos and sarth +3 but the guild split due to the content drought of early wotlk and I never raided HC again.
Preach Gaming did your whole guild felt like you at the end. Were they like ''yeah! we helped 1 of OUR members to be world first!'' Because it still takes a big deal to make you have the chance to pulll it off.
Listening to this post classic... im pretty sure Agi/stam are the best leveling stats for warrior! Dosent really matter if it comes from leather or mail. This would later get turned on its head of course, but in Vanilla, you rock that agility all the way until level 60 when you can pick up preraid bis or get carried through a few MC's
good times.. wow was such a POS when it came out. my strongest memory from beta was i was in gnome land went into a troll cave stood next to a wall and walked into winterspring and got owned and was lost for hours. that and introduction of environment effects in patch 3.something STV blew everyones mind
I carried a shield as a fury warrior until 60..
I was just like 'fuck yeah, so much armor!'
Brofist to you Preach. Remember DKP in those days. Fukkin sucked. I got lots of DKP, never got gear with it. I was a Priest back in MC days, it was horrible. I was horrible.
I just started a guild on Darkspear-Horde (US), and our 10m is almost complete. Sadly though my hunter who is my most geared toon and has legendary cloak is rusting away because I have to tank or heal every time we raid. To be honest I don't know what toon I like playing the most, I enjoy Guardian tanking, but I also enjoy the hunter and the utility that comes with it, but healing is fun too at times. I still have a lot of time to decide what I want to do for WoD, and with it being Flex I have more options, but I just hate the fact that my hunter and the cloak and all the warforged gear I have on him is going to waste. My officers don't have as many geared 90's as I do, so I am the one who is stuck doing it. I don't mind, but I hope it doesn't stay that way.
Hey Sylvanas was my first and mostly only server i ever played...man did i suck back then :D
I want to play the game again and i hope ill do a better job this time. Loved the story man :D
COOL story Brah, hope you didnt miss out on to many RL milestone along the journey
COOL story Brah, he has a wife and 2 children
+SalvLav how many achievement points does that get you?
Love to hear you talk while i play!!
nice video, atm trying to join WOD. So far best professions I've seen for resto to work really well with Shamans is enchanting/tailoring, because of the ring and mana cloak enchant. What do you think? Any better combinations for new expansions? Last time I played I was a "Blacksmith Hammersmith Enhancement Shaman" back in BC.
God, my turning point in this game. . . I started as a Holy Paladin wearing Strength gear and rocking a level 70 2h sword. . . In WotLK! Didn't know what was up until I was level 80 and a guildie asked me to come do a normal dungeon because he saw I was a Holy Paladin then I rode my 60% ground mount into the dungeon. In retrospect, I'm pretty lucky, he didn't let me do that dungeon, but he certainly set me on the straight and narrow and I was in a raiding guild come ICC.
I always come back to watch this video. I miss the consistent wow content from @preach
I was a 1600 shitlord, happened to befriend 2 Multi-Glads who taught me PvP, got 2300 the same season I met them. Still play with them too.
Turns out they were friends with Maldiva and Xaryu, who I I got the chance to run RBGs with as well.
so you were carried orr??
No, I got 2300 with 2 people who had never gotten 2k before fam
Smuggs Gaming ah, i see, cool :)