You thought you did. We’re taking a look back at the original World of Warcraft, through the modern lens of Classic WoW. Act 2 of 2.
Timestamps:
0:00:00 – Introduction
0:06:51 – PART 7 – Adventures in the Eastern Kingdoms
0:52:31 – PART 8 – Adventures on Kalimdor
1:33:57 – PART 9 – The Midgame in Lordaeron
2:36:11 – PART 10 – The Midgame in Kalimdor
3:38:52 – PART 11 – Into the Late Game
4:40:19 – PART 12 – Into the Endgame
6:16:03 – PART 13 – Raiding
7:38:50 – PART 14 – Conclusion
Sources (Work-in-Progress)
# Part Seven
Safespotting – https://eu.battle.net/support/en/article/248210
Stranglethorn Crater in Cata Classic – https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/1chbye1/stranglethorn_waterfall_crater_still_has_water/
World of Warcraft Game Manual
Chris Metzen Draenei Statement – https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Metzen_on_lore
# Part Eight
Shuppzy – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xepy-GrJUTQ
# Part Eleven
John Staats on BRD and BRS – https://archive.is/HJFce
John Staats on Scholomance – https://archive.is/ptDVc
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What happened to felwood?
WOOOOOO YES I FUCKING LOVE THE MIDGAME IN KALIMDOR AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I managed to get into this game, play for a while and quit just in time to appreciate these videos.
can appreciate some of what your saying but you definitely come off as a nu-wow player, listing off every inconvenience or difficulty as an annoyance or negative aspect to the game. its the "why cant i just hurry up and get this done" mentality, like if you dont enjoy they game why play? it a slow paced grinding game with a 200+ hour slog to max level, believe me i get why people wouldnt like it, honestly i have a hard time understanding how people who didnt grow up playing the warcraft rts games even got into wow.
overall good review just seemed a bit "nit picky" at points, but probably because im a jaded classic andy lol
2:40:43
I know it will never happen, but I'd love to see you give a similar look at Runescape. Either old or new. It would be… Too much a timesink, probably.
The eternal inability of people to say "Maraudon" properly.
50:47
to add to Desolace, Rexxar is chilling out there not doing much. The original khan's are most likely evil because of their chaotic elemental natures, their mother literally sucking the life essence of everything around her probably being a toxic parent that turned them against their father, but thats just a head cannon.
The tauren migrated with the kodo as the centaur grew in number they would hunt tauren for sport since hit and run was so easy for them and tauren were often not grouped in large numbers. by the time we find the tauren in warcraft 3 near all the tauren clans have come together to make a last stand. Thrall steps in and makes it an easy fight, pushing back the centaur, giving the tauren a much easier time dealing with them. The centaur had no respect for nature, hunting animals to extinction and driving off local wildlife, a trait passed down from their mother most likely.
i am a tauren player and they have very little lore sadly. among the original druids of the planet, possibly the oldest race on the planet as descendants of the Yongol, worship both moons the sun and the earth, have rituals to visit and speak to the spirits (dead ancestors and elemental), can live for a long time (cairne died at 107 years old in his duel with garrosh, who knows how old magatha is), they were there fighting the legion during the war of the ancients, and honestly thats just about everything notable that they have been part of outside of what the horde does as a whole after they joined.
fun fact: there is an immortal tauren in northrend just chilling recording history for the bronze dragons at camp tunka'lo in the storm peaks.
I really enjoyed this video, same as the last one. I’d love to see a follow up, but based on the regression of the amount of detail shown throughout the video, ie footage of every boss in Deadmines to not even seeing footage of C’Thun or Kel’Thuzad, I understand if you’re too burnt out to do any more WoW content for a long time or even ever again. Still a fascinating look into a slice of the most important MMO of all time.
I agree with your sentiment about stuff not needing to be explained, we don’t need to know what a Voidlord is, we don’t even need to know much if anything about the Titans or Sargeras beyond the whispered legends and the conjecture of scholars. Ultimately, those are too big a scale for what WoW really excelled at. I’d love to see the alternate universe where Hellfire Peninsula remained a single zone on the other side in the Dark Portal, and WoW’s first major expansion was pirates battling in Booty Bay.
Another aspect which you didn’t bring up but which I’d think you’d agree with is, WoW as a sequel to Warcraft 3 and Frozen Throne, naturally building up though it’s story and narrative progression to Wrath and more specifically, characters like Arthas and Tyrion, as a grand narrative climax to the story threads laid in W3. With Cataclysm, they not only massively shifted the world that players had grown to know and love, but recapture the appeal and popularity, not to mention the climatic final battle, of Arthas as an antagonist with the character of Deathwing, without putting in the time or the development for people to actually grow to like him or the desire to see him defeated. Which I think they realized with the random pivoting of the next couple expansions and the continuous reinventing of themselves without anything to show for it, arguably continuing to the modern day. Not sure about Dragonflight or War Within though, since I know literally nothing about the story of those expansions.
It was your fault for using the S key.
Also, I'm surprised the game shattering Ravager/Ret Paladin combo didn't come up but I've probably got my expansions confused.
Looking forward to the remaining 100 parts for each zone and feature added to WoW over the 20 year history.
7:37:11 That is the LEAST of their crimes, and they deserved everything they got.
Bookmark: 03:30:00
if WoW content had actual Analysis like this I'd watch more, a lot of youtubers just talk about what has happened and I'm like "yeah, thanks man, really eye opening to repeat what I saw happened in the game" instead of having something to actually say like this dude
The whole breast milk thing is silly, not because of the event itself, that's strange and probably someone's disgusting fetish. No, the response from the company itself was to basically remove any mention of sexual innuendo in the game or just heterosexuality in general. Neutral portraits of women showing a little too much cleavage or abs? Replaced with bowls of fruit. Funny jokes players could make with /flirt? Gutted damn near most of them. Old references to movies with raunchy jokes? Banished to the Shadow Realm.
It's probably the dumbest way to make a publicity problem go away….by taking content out of the game that has nothing to do with the original problem.
John Stats? its THE guy that you call about stats
Enjoying the series however your assessment on the classic meta isn't always accurate
2:31:08
Great video, I think you nailed how much the community have changed classic. I'd be interested to see you try HC as I believe it fixes a great deal of issues you highlighted with current classic.
3:09 Imagine being a mandatory PVP advocate and then blocking people instead of defending your stance lmao, those guys are maximum hypocrites, pathetic.
Almost halfway through part 2 and still going through it. Fun lore nerd thing about the Horde conflict and Ashenvale/Feralas. The horde stumbled into their conflict with the nelves in war3, and in the nelf campaign the humans deliberately invaded against them in war3.
3:26:00
You think next you can do a game that isnt the most boring one imaginable?
2:56:00
Calling Rexxar an Orc! Blasphemy! ( well he's 50% right)
6:28:28
At 04:33:00, Something you may not be aware of is the reason for acronyms and quick speech actually comes from EQ. Before the days of Discord, TeamSpeak, or even Roger Wilco, players in EQ had to coordinate all group content via text. Any way you can type something faster and get your point across was not only helpful, but could mean the difference between losing a lot of progress on death and survival. Most early WoW players (and certainly the most experienced early WoW players) came from EQ, so the player culture started with that as a baseline and evolved from there.