Xaryu Reacts to Classic WoW finally disappointed me… Somehow, that made it better.

[00:00] Everybody has been asking about the GB

[00:03] vid.

[00:03] >> This video is sponsored.

[00:05] >> We haven't seen it yet. This video title

[00:10] looks

[00:12] so darn good. Classic WoW finally

[00:15] disappointed me. I'm like, "Oh no." And

[00:17] then it says, "Somehow that made it

[00:19] better."

[00:21] I'm trying to think about what this t

[00:23] this is such a good title on a video cuz

[00:24] it's like now as a viewer I'm like,

[00:26] "Well, what is it? What made it suck but

[00:28] then made it better?" Like why why are

[00:30] you disappointed?

[00:32] Is it that you couldn't find groups for

[00:34] something but then like you made friends

[00:35] along the way? I don't I don't know. I

[00:37] don't know. Anyway guys, the amount of

[00:39] people asking if I've seen this. No. The

[00:41] answer is no. But in a second here, the

[00:43] answer will be yes. Guys, without

[00:44] further ado, episode three of GB's

[00:47] classic series. Is this episode 4?

[00:50] It might be episode 4.

[00:53] Here we go.

[00:55] Here we go.

[00:57] Here we go. ed by War Thunder.

[00:59] >> War Thunder.

[01:00] >> You know, a funny thing about my

[01:02] experience playing classic WoW for the

[01:04] first time is I've started to learn I

[01:07] might be more positive about this game

[01:09] than most WoW players are. As someone

[01:11] who's still very early on in his first

[01:13] ever 1 to 60 leveling journey,

[01:15] >> that's why it's refreshing to watch GB

[01:17] cuz everyone else is like, "This game

[01:19] sucks." [laughter]

[01:20] I've been entranced by World of Warcraft

[01:22] and everything I've run into up until

[01:25] this point. From running my first

[01:26] dungeon to grouping with kind strangers

[01:29] to stumbling across some truly

[01:31] incredible quest lines, all in just the

[01:33] first two episodes, it has genuinely

[01:36] shocked me how good this game from 2004

[01:38] still is, as I keep saying. But I do

[01:41] want to recognize for others who've been

[01:43] playing since 2004, they have bigger

[01:46] fish to fry. If you spend any amount of

[01:48] time online, it's almost impossible to

[01:50] not notice that most longtime WoW fans

[01:53] have serious issues, be it with Blizzard

[01:56] or Classic or

[01:58] >> I thought he was saying we have serious

[01:59] issues. And I'm just like, what do you

[02:01] mean serious issues, man? Not all of us.

[02:03] I mean, maybe I do, but like I can't

[02:05] just say for every WoW player that we

[02:07] all have issues. That'd be crazy.

[02:10] Um, but yeah. No. Anyway, GB's point is

[02:12] right. Like I've thought about this

[02:13] before. If you

[02:16] spend a copious amount of time online,

[02:19] like say you play WoW for 18 hours a

[02:22] day, you're going to find something

[02:23] wrong with it. You just will. If you

[02:26] play WoW for like 2 hours a day or 1

[02:28] hour a day, you're probably going to

[02:30] love it and be craving to play more.

[02:32] It's kind of the same with anything. If

[02:34] you do League of Legends for like 12

[02:36] hours a day, you're going to think the

[02:37] game sucks and you're going to think,

[02:39] "This is the worst thing ever, but I'm

[02:41] addicted." But if you play League for

[02:42] like an hour a day or two hours a day or

[02:44] something and like it's like somewhat of

[02:45] a healthy amount, you might be like,

[02:47] "Holy crap, I want to play more." Right?

[02:50] I've noticed this. So it's like, yeah,

[02:52] if you're chronically online for 15

[02:54] years like like myself, you might think

[02:56] of what you might look at WoW

[02:57] differently, like holy crap, there's so

[03:00] many things that could be better or

[03:02] improved. But if you're kind of getting

[03:03] into it for the first time and playing

[03:04] here and there, it's like, woo, this is

[03:06] like the healthy amount that like feels

[03:07] incredible to play.

[03:09] >> Tail. And you know what? A lot of those

[03:11] criticisms seem totally legitimate.

[03:13] That's why I told myself starting here

[03:15] in episode 3, I don't want to act like

[03:17] Classic WoW is perfect. I want to make

[03:19] sure that I'm not just highlighting the

[03:22] good, but that I'm being honest about

[03:24] any disappointments that I run into. And

[03:26] that's good timing because at this point

[03:28] in my playthrough, I started running

[03:30] into all kinds of disappointments. As I

[03:33] continued leveling, I kept encountering

[03:35] scenarios where the game introduced a

[03:37] new exciting thing to me, building it up

[03:39] like something amazing was coming, only

[03:41] to yank the rug out from under me over

[03:43] and over. If there was ever a point

[03:45] where I would start to sour on classic

[03:48] WoW, it would be right here and now. But

[03:50] >> totally,

[03:51] >> I'm sorry. Somehow the disappointments

[03:54] made this game even better. I don't know

[03:55] what to tell you. I think I'm broken. I

[03:58] can't stop being positive. These issues

[03:59] just made me like the game more.

[04:02] I mean, so someone in the chat said it,

[04:04] "Does that theory include Minecraft time

[04:06] played?" Totally. I'm sure there's

[04:08] things if you play enough Minecraft that

[04:11] become annoying, but for me as a first

[04:13] time Mcrafter, I'm like, "This world is

[04:15] amazing. Holy crap, what a great game."

[04:17] But I'm sure if you've played Minecraft

[04:18] for 15 years, there's things that about

[04:20] it that might annoy you, right? It's

[04:22] just how it goes. You notice those

[04:24] idiosyncrasy idioseies the longer you

[04:27] play something. I feel like I said that

[04:28] wrong twice. I'm not going to try again.

[04:31] Let's play the video.

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[06:34] now, back to the video. Okay, so quick

[06:36] recap of where we last left the series

[06:38] off. After getting hooked on trying to

[06:39] solve the mystery of the Defas

[06:41] Brotherhood and the corruption plaguing

[06:43] the city of Stormwind, I had to level a

[06:46] lot further if I wanted to continue that

[06:48] main narrative, which is how I found

[06:50] myself running through a flurry of great

[06:52] moments in our last episode. We went

[06:54] through everything from solving the

[06:56] legend of Stalvin's creepy mystery to

[06:58] setting foot in the beautiful wetlands

[07:00] for the first time to hearing about the

[07:02] saddest story in all of gaming through

[07:04] Sven's revenge. There was actually so

[07:06] much that happened during my last play

[07:08] session, I couldn't even fit it all into

[07:10] the video. Some of the simpler quests,

[07:12] like the one where I got a library book

[07:13] as a drop in Duskwood that I was

[07:15] supposed to take back to Stormwind, that

[07:17] didn't feel nearly as pressing compared

[07:19] to all the other grand narratives I got

[07:21] to see. Bro, you you guys can call me

[07:23] crazy, but watching these Duskwood

[07:26] quests play out is making me crave to

[07:28] like make another character [laughter]

[07:30] soon. Like like I just love I just adore

[07:34] Elwin, Westfall, Duskwood, Red Ridge,

[07:37] Strangle, Thorn, Alliance, like 1 to 30

[07:40] something. Oh man, I I miss it. Like I

[07:44] remember when I was watching GB's video

[07:45] from a few weeks ago or like I guess it

[07:47] was like two months ago or something. I

[07:49] was leveling my luck and I was doing

[07:50] these quests and I was like, "Oh, I just

[07:51] did that yesterday." And now it's been

[07:53] like a month or two. It's like, man,

[07:55] it's been a while.

[07:57] But of course, the most important thing

[07:58] that happened recently was I became rich

[08:01] when we got a super rare drop that sold

[08:03] for almost 70 gold at the auction house.

[08:06] And thank God you guys told me before

[08:08] that I should be selling drops like this

[08:10] at the auction house or I probably would

[08:12] have vendored it. Speaking of your guys

[08:14] comments, I'm still trying to play

[08:15] through this series as unguided as

[08:17] possible, but I have appreciated a few

[08:20] of the tips you've provided and not just

[08:22] because some of them made me rich.

[08:24] Recent comments have been teaching me

[08:26] even more helpful things. Like I don't

[08:28] need to be using an add-on to track

[08:30] threat. After all, I can just turn on

[08:32] this setting that shows the target of my

[08:34] target instead. Keeping our whole

[08:36] playthrough totally add-on free. Not to

[08:38] mention, I mean, you still might want a

[08:41] threat meter, but the target of targets

[08:42] also good, but like the I mean, you

[08:45] don't need one, but if you like threat's

[08:48] good to know, too.

[08:51] >> That's right. name plates are now on.

[08:54] From here on out, I'm going to actually

[08:55] be able to see all the enemy health bars

[08:58] outside of the selected mob that I'm

[09:00] currently fighting. Thank you so much

[09:02] for telling me to turn that on. I

[09:04] actually have a memory from very early

[09:05] on in my playthrough where I think I

[09:07] accidentally hit V on my keyboard

[09:09] turning name plates on, but I was still

[09:11] so new to the game back then that I kind

[09:13] of thought, "Oh, that looks so

[09:14] cluttered. I don't like that." And then

[09:16] I just started mashing my keyboard until

[09:18] I hit something that turned them back

[09:19] off. But now I totally see the value in

[09:22] actually knowing how much health every

[09:24] enemy has. Thank you very much for

[09:26] telling me to turn them back on.

[09:28] >> Bro, my next character is going to be a

[09:30] warrior. I I know I've done so many, but

[09:32] oh my gosh, it looks so fun to play

[09:34] warrior.

[09:34] >> It's things like this that make me want

[09:36] to make sure my playthrough isn't

[09:37] completely blind. Without your help, I

[09:39] would have missed out on so much of this

[09:41] game, including holy hell, World of

[09:44] Warcraft has fishing. When you guys told

[09:46] me that fishing was another secondary

[09:48] skill I could pick up, I had no choice.

[09:50] I'm a skiller through and through. So, I

[09:52] naturally dropped everything I was

[09:54] working on just to try and max out my

[09:56] fishing ASAP. I spent an hour or so in

[09:59] Elwin Forest leveling from 1 to 75

[10:02] before then heading over to Red Ridge,

[10:04] grinding out some more. Gosh, there is

[10:06] something about this kind of grind in a

[10:08] game that just gets me going. I don't

[10:10] know what it is I love so much, but

[10:11] getting to slowly progress toward

[10:14] improving a skill that takes hours to

[10:16] grind out, but feeling accomplished as

[10:18] you put in the kind of time that other

[10:21] players might not have the patience for

[10:22] and being rewarded with more unlocks for

[10:25] all the effort you put in. That's what

[10:27] MMOs are all about. At least

[10:28] >> that's why this guy loves Runescape.

[10:30] That's what Runescape's all about. I

[10:32] just learned about fishing. It's it's

[10:34] it's all right

[10:37] >> in my book. And it makes me so happy

[10:39] every time I discover a new system in

[10:41] WoW that lets me do something like that

[10:43] outside of the basic combat and total

[10:45] level. I also love when you get to do

[10:47] grinds like this alongside other players

[10:49] chatting as each one of you works toward

[10:51] your own separate goals. This night elf

[10:53] was super cool, too. We just chilled

[10:55] outside this dock fishing for about an

[10:57] hour or so before they eventually had to

[10:59] leave. But before they left, they DM'd

[11:02] me saying that they had seen my videos

[11:03] and liked my series, which was really

[11:05] sweet. I got to mention that actually.

[11:07] So many of you guys have seen me log

[11:09] into game and sent me nice DMs and I

[11:12] don't know how to turn DMs off. So, I've

[11:14] just been reading through every single

[11:15] comment, but they're all so nice. I've

[11:18] even gotten in-game mail from you, too,

[11:20] which not only has included more nice

[11:22] comments encouraging me to keep the

[11:24] series going, but you guys also haven't

[11:26] even tried to spoil my playthrough by

[11:29] sending me gold or useful. I was

[11:31] literally just about to pause the video

[11:32] and ask like a minute ago, what is he

[11:35] doing about people trying to like send

[11:38] over 500 gold and then it's just like

[11:41] that that really makes it not feel

[11:43] authentic, right? He's not playing

[11:46] self-found cuz it's not hardcore, which

[11:48] by the way, Blizzard, please add a

[11:50] self-found option to era. Be sick.

[11:53] Um, but yeah, I I would I would assume

[11:56] and hope that like you would just return

[11:58] it, but then it gets awkward. It's like

[12:00] this is a gift. It's like, but I'm

[12:01] trying to not do gifts. It's like,

[12:04] you know, it gets to this weird like,

[12:06] okay. U anyway, hopefully we just don't

[12:09] do that items or something like that.

[12:11] You've just been sending me cool things

[12:12] like a spy glass I can use to see stuff

[12:15] super far away or a little parrot. I

[12:17] didn't even realize there's pets in this

[12:19] game. Wow. Just keeps impressing me

[12:21] every time I log in. It is insane how

[12:23] good this game is at distracting you

[12:25] from whatever you're working toward. I

[12:27] mean, I was fully prepared to put the

[12:28] entire series on hold until I got 300

[12:30] fishing, but by the time I hit 150, the

[12:33] fishing trainer in Red Ridge said that I

[12:35] had to go to some place called

[12:36] Daroshshire to continue leveling. I

[12:38] don't know where that is, but that gives

[12:40] us another good goal to add to our

[12:42] series.

[12:42] >> Man, that's such a good thing about

[12:43] Classic WoW. You can't like it'll it'll

[12:46] be like okay now you're max and you have

[12:47] to go there but like when you're

[12:48] traveling there you're going to hit like

[12:50] another 150 things on your way of like

[12:52] well I'll do this quick quest and then

[12:53] this and then this and then this and

[12:54] then this and by the time you get there

[12:56] you're like doing something completely

[12:57] different and you forget why you were

[12:58] there in the first place.

[13:00] Was well make sure we find wherever the

[13:03] hell Daros is so I can maximize fishing

[13:05] and get the skill cape. But of course,

[13:07] our biggest goal of the series, as set

[13:09] out in last episode, is to find a new

[13:11] story to care about each episode the way

[13:14] we care about the Defas Brotherhood

[13:16] narrative that hooked me so hard all the

[13:17] way back at the start. And today's an

[13:19] exciting moment because we can finally

[13:21] continue that narrative. Cool. We've

[13:24] already learned quite a bit of history

[13:25] in how the leaders of the Alliance hired

[13:27] the Stonemasons to rebuild Stormwind

[13:30] many years ago. But when the corrupt

[13:32] House of Nobles refused to let the city

[13:34] pay any of the workers, they were all

[13:36] but forced to leave broke and seeking

[13:38] vengeance. This is what spawned the

[13:40] Defas Brotherhood gang, who were

[13:42] plotting to destroy the capital in

[13:44] retribution before we plunged into the

[13:46] dead mines, slaying their leader, Edwin

[13:48] Van Clee. After meeting up with Edwin's

[13:50] childhood friend to learn more about

[13:52] what was going on, we were told to look

[13:54] for Basil Thread Van Clee's lieutenant,

[13:57] who was currently being held in the

[13:59] Stormwind stockades. I then learned the

[14:01] stockades are the second dungeon I'm

[14:03] going to encounter in game. And

[14:05] honestly, I am so hyped to run through

[14:07] it. Not only does this dungeon mark the

[14:09] next step in the grand defas narrative

[14:12] that we're following, and not only is

[14:14] this coming off the heels of dead mines,

[14:17] which already set my expectations sky

[14:19] high for how good the dungeons in this

[14:21] game will be, but as I began running

[14:23] around the various human zones, grinding

[14:25] out levels to get prepared for

[14:27] stockades, I kept bumping into a

[14:30] >> It's tough because it's like dead mines

[14:32] is just so good and then stocks is is

[14:39] additional NPCs that were giving me more

[14:42] quests for this dungeon that made it all

[14:44] the more exciting. One guard in Red

[14:46] Ridge told me an orc named Targor the

[14:48] Dread is being held there as he was

[14:50] apparently sentenced to be executed

[14:52] until a mysterious noble stepped in,

[14:55] putting a hold on his sentencing,

[14:57] leaving us to go in and finish the job

[14:59] ourselves. Then there was a council

[15:01] person in Duskwood who told me they too

[15:03] had sentenced a person to death, Dextrin

[15:06] Ward, who was caught selling bodies from

[15:08] the cemetery to Morbent Fell until the

[15:11] House of Nobles again put a hold on his

[15:13] execution. Last night I ran into a poor

[15:16] lady in Stormwind who was bererieved as

[15:18] her grandson was a guard in the

[15:19] stockades that

[15:20] >> I just adore like I I that the text

[15:24] slowly coming up like the instant quest

[15:26] text option is turned off so it has to

[15:29] like slowly go down. I could just see GB

[15:31] sitting there like clicking on someone

[15:33] and just like reading it like I I love

[15:36] that man. been reprimanding some Defias

[15:38] prisoners who then murdered him in

[15:40] response, begging me to go in and slay

[15:42] some more Defias for revenge. The fact I

[15:45] was already so hyped to dive into the

[15:47] dungeon, and then the game kept giving

[15:49] me more mysterious narratives that were

[15:52] apparently all going to converge when I

[15:54] dove in, it just did such a good job of

[15:56] getting me excited, I even turned down a

[15:58] free shortcut. At one point while I was

[16:00] selling some stuff at the auction house,

[16:02] a random person DM'd me asking if I

[16:04] wanted a free boost through the

[16:06] stockades since apparently he was

[16:08] practicing learning how to boost people.

[16:10] That kind of sounds a little bit like

[16:13] cheating to me. I don't know what WoW

[16:14] players think about this each other is

[16:17] allowed. Maybe it's fine, but

[16:18] >> I mean it's fine, but you kind of grief

[16:21] your whole like blind playthrough idea.

[16:24] If you're going to AFK and get boosted,

[16:25] it's completely fine if it's your 10th

[16:27] character and whatever, but if you're

[16:28] trying to like play the game for playing

[16:30] the game itself, the fun in itself of

[16:32] just playing the game, it creeps that,

[16:34] right? Regardless, I turned him down. If

[16:36] stockades was just a random room where I

[16:38] had to kill a few elite mobs, then I

[16:40] might accept some help from a higher

[16:41] level player. But the game had done such

[16:44] a good job of building tension,

[16:46] signaling to me that this was going to

[16:47] be an exciting turning point in the

[16:49] story, so I wanted to experience it

[16:51] naturally. Also, side note, I have seen

[16:54] all the comments you guys have been

[16:55] leaving in recent videos telling me,

[16:56] "Wo's community isn't as nice as I think

[16:59] it is, but I just want to take this

[17:00] opportunity."

[17:01] >> WoW community is arguably more toxic

[17:03] than League was. People are being nice

[17:06] cuz you're new. A bit of a warning.

[17:08] There is a toxic element to the

[17:09] community. WoW community is at least

[17:12] just as toxic as League.

[17:19] Is this true?

[17:21] Hell take lies. I feel like

[17:26] I'm Okay, maybe I'm just the wrong

[17:28] person to ask because I'm a WoW

[17:30] streamer. I feel like the WoW community

[17:32] is pretty chill. I mean, obviously

[17:35] people can be toxic, duh. But when you

[17:38] compare it to like when you compare like

[17:41] classic WoW to like like League or like

[17:44] some of these other games like

[17:46] competitive games, it's just a different

[17:48] level of toxic because in classic WoW

[17:51] there's no huge level of competition. Of

[17:54] course you have parsing and of course

[17:55] you have speedruns but that's just so

[17:57] minimal compared to like an actual

[17:59] rating system attached which is why I

[18:00] don't want rating and classic plus by

[18:02] the way. Um, like when when you have

[18:05] that like on the line every game, it's

[18:07] just it's a different level. You know

[18:09] what I mean? Different level. Yeah.

[18:11] Maybe retail might be a bit more toxic

[18:13] because retail does have those things

[18:15] like mythic plus score, like um like IO

[18:18] and like uh rated Battleground, Solar

[18:20] Shuffle. These things create toxic

[18:22] environments because you're you're

[18:24] passionate, you care, you want to win,

[18:26] you want to, you know, improve and like

[18:28] when someone griefs your game, you get

[18:29] mad, right? Um, but with classic WoW,

[18:33] it's different.

[18:35] Once again, the toxicity is there, but I

[18:36] do think, and I'm, and I'm biased here,

[18:39] but I would go out on a limb and say

[18:41] that the classic WoW community is a

[18:43] little less toxic than a lot of other

[18:45] ones, cuz people are just playing the

[18:48] game to experience the world, and

[18:50] there's no rating attachments, and

[18:52] there's no like winning and losing. You

[18:53] just got to like log in and play

[18:58] to tell you you're all wrong. Even the

[19:00] cheaters in this game are nicer than the

[19:02] normal players I've seen in every other

[19:04] game I've played. This is an amazing

[19:06] community. Anyway, all that being said,

[19:09] we have finally hit a high enough level

[19:11] to dive into the stockades and see

[19:13] everything for ourselves. I'm pretty

[19:15] sure I picked up all of the additional

[19:16] quests I can do. And seeing as I'm in

[19:19] the upper echelon of recommended levels,

[19:21] I should have no problem running it,

[19:23] even if I have to tank again as a

[19:25] warrior. So, I head over to the

[19:26] stockades where I learn from the warden

[19:28] that apparently a riot has broken out

[19:30] under Basil Thread's command, making it

[19:32] a bit difficult for us to speak with

[19:34] him. That's where the dungeon part of

[19:35] this comes in. It is my job, as ushered

[19:38] by the warden, to go into the prison and

[19:40] quell the riots, slaying Basil and

[19:42] returning with his head. So, I start

[19:44] looking for a group, which doesn't take

[19:45] too long to fill out. And as I wait, I'm

[19:47] just getting all the more excited

[19:49] sitting here watching these guards

[19:51] prepare for the threat lurking beneath,

[19:53] seeing that there's a body of another

[19:55] player lying around. Gosh, can the riot

[19:57] actually break out of the dungeon? This

[19:59] is looking so hype. We finally fill the

[20:02] group. I'm the tank and I run in. Guns

[20:04] are blazing.

[20:07] Disappointment. There's no way he's not

[20:09] disappointed. All right, it's stalks.

[20:13] >> Not enough rage. Need more rage.

[20:17] [groaning]

[20:20] Need more rage.

[20:22] [groaning]

[20:23] >> Oh, this is this is tough one.

[20:28] >> Rage. Need more rage. [groaning]

[20:32] >> Okay, to be honest, this dungeon was

[20:35] disappointing. I'm sorry if this is a

[20:37] bad take or something.

[20:39] >> Good take. Yeah, Starks is fine to

[20:41] dislike this. You know, it's it's a

[20:43] filler episode. It's a filler thing.

[20:45] It's like uh it's like it's like Gohan

[20:47] when he's in high school. What what is

[20:49] it? Sea Man or whatever. It's like it's

[20:51] a it's you know it's it's just they're

[20:53] kind of there. Like maybe I'm about to

[20:55] bismerch a beloved classic dungeon that

[20:57] WoW players adore. But stocks felt

[21:00] nowhere near as good as I thought it

[21:02] would be. For all the hype the game

[21:04] built telling me that I was about to put

[21:06] an end to all these mysterious problems

[21:08] the House of Nobles was causing where I

[21:11] was supposed to fight. [laughter]

[21:12] I've upsetted a few Seyaman fans in the

[21:15] chat. Um, guys, look, I'm not trying to

[21:18] disrespect Seyaman, but uh,

[21:22] those were filler episodes and execute

[21:24] all of these notorious enemies of the

[21:26] Alliance who presumably were powerful

[21:29] forces to be reckoned with. There was

[21:31] none of that to be found here. Like the

[21:33] Dead Mines by comparison had this whole

[21:35] narrative arc to it where I was sent

[21:37] delving deeper and deeper underground.

[21:40] First through the mining tunnels before

[21:42] entering some huge goblin smelting room

[21:44] before then getting the grand reveal of

[21:47] this huge underground cavern and Van

[21:49] Cle's weapon of mass destruction he was

[21:52] about to use to destroy Stormwind. The

[21:54] stockades didn't have any of that. It

[21:56] was JUST ROOMS WITH GUYS INSIDE. None of

[21:58] the NPCs were particularly tough to take

[22:01] down. I didn't even notice if any of

[22:03] them had special mechanics I was

[22:05] supposed to be playing around. And there

[22:06] certainly wasn't any kind of grand

[22:08] narrative I noticed. I mean, it was just

[22:09] a bunch of open cells with bad guys to

[22:12] kill. Not only that, but the ceiling in

[22:15] the actual dungeon itself was super low,

[22:18] so I even had trouble moving the camera

[22:20] around to see everything I was supposed

[22:22] to kill with all the tight corridors I

[22:24] had to go down to make sure we

[22:26] eliminated every NPC inside. At least it

[22:29] didn't seem that difficult. I mean, we

[22:30] made it through without any issues and

[22:33] killed Basil alongside all the other bad

[22:35] guys I was told to take down. Except one

[22:37] of the quests the warden gave me to kill

[22:39] a bunch of Defias Brotherhood involved

[22:42] slaying eight Defias convicts, but only

[22:45] four of them spawned in the entire

[22:47] dungeon.

[22:48] >> Yeah, they do RNG spawn, so sometimes

[22:50] you have to do it again to get the rest.

[22:53] Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is fair. Fair

[22:56] criticisms. Fair. I have to run it again

[22:58] if I want to complete this quest. Oh

[23:00] god, this was my first real

[23:02] disappointment in Classic World of

[23:04] Warcraft. I'm sorry to say. The game

[23:06] built so much hype for this dungeon,

[23:08] tying it to a big narrative, throwing

[23:11] all these additional mystery quests into

[23:13] it as well. It made me so hyped and

[23:15] built all this excitement that grew and

[23:17] grew until I was on the edge, BUT THEN

[23:19] IT JUST STOPPED. THERE WAS NO SATISFYING

[23:21] PAYOFF. I KIND OF hated it. And

[23:23] hilariously enough, this was not the

[23:25] only disappointment I was about to

[23:27] experience in this episode. As I said in

[23:29] the intro, in hindsight, it's kind of

[23:31] insane that Classic was about to hand me

[23:34] one disappointment after another in

[23:35] pretty quick succession. But don't

[23:37] worry, by the end of the episode, even

[23:39] these disappointments are going to turn

[23:40] into an element of Classic that I

[23:42] weirdly kind of appreciate. Although,

[23:44] we're still a very long way off from

[23:46] that. For now, I was just frustrated. I

[23:48] felt a little bitter, like there was a

[23:50] bad taste in my mouth, and I wanted to

[23:52] go experience [music]

[23:53] some quest or narrative that wouldn't

[23:55] leave me wanting at the end. But

[23:57] thankfully, I had just the idea. If

[23:59] there was any quest line I knew that

[24:00] couldn't possibly end on a dumb

[24:02] cliffhanger, it was finishing the defas

[24:04] narrative and finally figuring out what

[24:07] was going on with all the corruption in

[24:09] Stormwind. After defeating Basil and

[24:11] reporting back to the warden, he thanked

[24:12] me for quelling the uprising before

[24:14] letting a bit of information slip.

[24:16] Apparently, a few months ago, a

[24:18] mysterious figure started visiting Basil

[24:21] about once or twice a week. This man who

[24:23] went by the name Malik may be the next

[24:26] clue in uncovering whatever plot is

[24:28] going on. I take the name and a brief

[24:30] description of the figure back to Baros

[24:32] Alexon, who doesn't recognize him, but

[24:35] he sends me to Matias Shaw of SI7, who

[24:38] does. It turns out Malik is actually a

[24:40] fellow assassin named Marzone who's

[24:43] currently employed by Lord Gregor

[24:44] Leavar, a notoriously corrupt member of

[24:47] Stormwinds House of Nobles. Corrupt even

[24:50] by House of Noble standards. Matias is

[24:53] curious about what Marzone and Leavar

[24:55] are doing and sends me off to another

[24:57] rogue, Elling Trius, who currently is

[25:00] undercover at a nearby food shop as a

[25:02] master of cheese. So, I relay the story

[25:05] to him and he tells me that we can divvy

[25:07] out some less than legal justice to both

[25:09] Leavar and Marzone. I just need to meet

[25:12] up with his agent, a gnome named Tyrion

[25:14] in Stormwind Keep. So far, this story

[25:17] has basically just been a long day of

[25:18] telephone where I'm playing errand boy

[25:20] running messages from one NPC to

[25:22] another, which would be kind of annoying

[25:24] or tedious normally, but I actually kind

[25:26] of like it here. This doesn't feel like

[25:28] a typical boring message delivery quest

[25:31] nearly as much as it feels like I'm

[25:33] slowly uncovering this grand conspiracy

[25:35] that's larger than any one person

[25:37] [music] and requires a massive network

[25:39] of people to even attempt to take down.

[25:41] Anyway, I head up north to the big

[25:43] cathedral in the city center by Baros

[25:45] Alexon's house because I thought that

[25:47] big church in the middle of the city was

[25:49] Stormwind Keep where all the rulers and

[25:52] important people were. But on rereading

[25:54] the

[25:54] >> dude, it's like when it when Chay

[25:57] started the series, he inspired me to do

[25:59] my No Questy run, which I did on the

[26:01] lock and I did it and it was great. We

[26:02] did we won 60 and even after 60 with no

[26:05] Questy and read the quests and you can

[26:07] do all of them without Questy turns out

[26:09] and it's really fun. So, thank you to GB

[26:12] for inspiring me to do that. And now

[26:14] watching this like two months later,

[26:17] it's making me want to do it again. Like

[26:19] I'm just like holy crap. [laughter] It's

[26:20] like makes me want to level another

[26:22] character. Watching him read all these

[26:23] and like run around and turn them. It's

[26:25] like, oh my gosh.

[26:26] >> Quest dialogue as well as the street

[26:28] signs, I realize that is not the case.

[26:30] Stormwind Keep is actually this massive

[26:33] castle overlooking Old Town that I

[26:36] somehow never noticed. Talk about

[26:38] missing something right in front of my

[26:39] face. As I head to the keep, I

[26:41] immediately get flashbacks to my retail

[26:43] experience where I was sent here when I

[26:45] got to meet up with Jana Proudmore and

[26:47] Anduin [music] Ren kicking off my big

[26:49] fun adventure through Colulterus. So,

[26:51] I'm actually getting pretty hyped again.

[26:53] This building is clearly where a bunch

[26:55] of big important stuff is always going

[26:56] down. I then notice on my mini map

[26:58] there's a quest marker guiding me over

[27:00] to a little garden inside the keep where

[27:03] my contact Tyrion is hiding behind a

[27:05] brush. After relaying the story for the

[27:07] upteenth time, Tyrion lays out a plan

[27:10] that he and Elling had been working on

[27:12] involving a little spybot. I just need

[27:14] to get a few more items for a disguise.

[27:17] So, I head off to get some silk and

[27:19] apples, which again might seem like an

[27:20] unimaginative fetch quest, but because

[27:23] it's tied to this grand story, it's just

[27:26] building more hype for me. Any

[27:27] disappointment that I felt coming off

[27:29] stades has completely left my body as I

[27:32] can't wait to put an end to Stormwind's

[27:34] corruption once and for all. After some

[27:36] searching, I find the required items

[27:38] before returning to my contact.

[27:39] >> That's pretty impressive if you found

[27:41] those apples without the lookup. I mean,

[27:42] I wonder how long it took him. Probably

[27:44] at least 10 minutes, right? 15, 20.

[27:46] >> Act two lets another part of the story

[27:48] slip. Apparently, Tyrion and Elling had

[27:51] already been investigating Leavar for an

[27:54] unrelated connection to something called

[27:56] the Twilight's hammer they believed he

[27:58] had, not even knowing he also had ties

[28:00] to the Defas Brotherhood. Either way,

[28:02] now is the time for him to face justice.

[28:05] Tyrion will use the items I brought to

[28:07] disguise his spybot, who will then go

[28:09] and lure Luscoar out into this garden.

[28:12] The lord should then dismiss the guards

[28:14] shortly after so he can meet with

[28:16] Marzone, at which point I'll have the

[28:18] opportunity to attack, slaying both of

[28:20] them. I just need to stay hidden until

[28:22] the time is right, at which point the

[28:24] gnome will give me the signal. I'm a

[28:26] little nervous about this plan because

[28:27] as a warrior I always have trouble

[28:29] fighting more than one enemy at a time

[28:31] and I don't know what level each one of

[28:33] them will be. But it's too late to back

[28:35] out now. The spybot is level 28 warrior

[28:40] with world buff. He has dragon sling

[28:44] against I think it's a 32 and a 31 if

[28:46] I'm remembering correctly.

[28:50] He's going to die, right? He's he's he's

[28:52] he's probably going to die. He's he's

[28:54] Yeah, he's going to die. transformed

[28:56] into some noble lady who goes into the

[28:58] library to meet with Lecovar while I

[29:00] hide out in the garden. It seems to take

[29:02] a while and I wonder what's going on in

[29:04] there when I notice there is a quest

[29:07] marker on my mini map. I thought I was

[29:09] supposed to stay hidden, but maybe I

[29:10] misunderstood. Maybe I need to go in and

[29:13] watch a cutscene or interact with

[29:15] something to continue the narrative. So,

[29:17] I decide to run in. Oh, wait. No, that's

[29:20] the quest to deliver the library book

[29:22] from earlier. Shoot. Shoot. My bad. I

[29:24] run back out and hide in the bushes

[29:25] again, very happy to see I apparently

[29:27] did not ruin our plan. As the lord comes

[29:30] out shortly after, dismissing the guards

[29:32] so he can meet with the assassin.

[29:34] Marzone shows up shortly after to inform

[29:36] Luscoar that Van Clee sends word about

[29:39] their plans being underway. Although

[29:41] someone's been snooping about and before

[29:43] I have time to realize he's talking

[29:45] about me, I'm ordered by Tyrion to put

[29:47] an end to all of this. And oh gosh,

[29:49] they're level 30 and 31. There's no way

[29:51] I can actually do this, right? Do I ruin

[29:53] the whole plan if I die here? I quickly

[29:55] run in and begin trying to take them

[29:57] down. And thankfully, I have one of my

[29:59] >> bro gamer. He has he has demo

[30:01] >> retal instantly. World buff.

[30:03] >> He has a yo yo yo. We can

[30:05] >> more important abilities up.

[30:07] Retaliation. This is a pretty wild

[30:09] warrior skill that puts a shield of

[30:11] swords around me that instantly

[30:13] counterattack all enemies that hit me in

[30:15] melee range for 15 seconds or for a

[30:18] maximum of 30 counterattacks. What makes

[30:20] this ability so wild though is that it

[30:22] has a 30inut cool down. I thought flash

[30:25] in League of Legends having a 3minute

[30:27] cool down was absurd. How does WoW have

[30:29] abilities that are so important and

[30:31] powerful they can only be used once

[30:34] every half hour? That's

[30:35] >> lay on hands, bro. Lay on hands.

[30:38] >> Kind of amazing. The fight is really

[30:40] close. I managed to take one of them

[30:42] down and nearly died doing so, but

[30:44] managed to scrape by alive thanks to

[30:46] retaliation. And luckily, I have a

[30:49] health potion on me that allows me to

[30:51] heal up just enough that I can also slay

[30:53] the other foe, too. I actually have no

[30:55] idea how I did this. I was only level

[30:58] 28, but I'm so glad I managed to take

[31:00] them.

[31:00] >> I'm sorry for doubting you. Holy crap.

[31:04] I'm sorry. Most new players at 28 are

[31:07] dying there. I mean, he did have world

[31:10] buff and that's how and you know, he

[31:12] sent the potion and retal, but I'm just

[31:14] saying most new players are dying there.

[31:16] He He did the insta retell, insta demo

[31:18] shout and used the potion. He did what

[31:21] he's supposed to do. It worked out for

[31:22] him. W Chibbe both down. If all that

[31:25] buildup left me unable to complete the

[31:27] quest and I just died or something, I

[31:29] would have been so sad. But it looks

[31:31] like we are finally getting a payoff.

[31:32] The noble and assassin are now dead and

[31:35] I'm sent back off to Elling to deliver

[31:37] the good news. He then bounces me back

[31:39] to Mias where I report the two enemies

[31:41] demise where the rogue assures me I just

[31:44] did the people of Stormwind a great

[31:46] favor even though I'm actually feeling a

[31:49] little bit hollow inside. I mean that

[31:51] one noble wasn't the main source of all

[31:53] the corruption in Stormwind, right? Have

[31:55] I actually solved anything by killing

[31:57] him? Matias warns me not to tell anyone

[31:59] I was the person who killed the noble as

[32:01] if to confirm my suspicions before

[32:03] sending me back to Alexston. But any

[32:06] worries in the back of my mind fly right

[32:07] out the window as Baros Alexon tells me

[32:10] he's giving me a report to take to the

[32:13] king, telling me to deliver it to

[32:15] Stormwind Keep, informing him of

[32:18] everything that's occurred with the

[32:19] Defias and House of Nobles. Personally,

[32:22] this is so cool. I don't think I've seen

[32:25] a king in the Warcraft universe since

[32:27] Arthus succeeded his father all the way

[32:29] back in Reign of Chaos. for all the

[32:31] adventuring I've done so far. I didn't

[32:33] even realize there was a king in

[32:35] Stormwind Keep. When I went to do my

[32:37] mission, the quest shot me over to the

[32:38] garden and library, leading me

[32:40] blissfully unaware I had just missed out

[32:42] on seeing the throne room right ahead.

[32:44] The report seems like a good summary of

[32:46] everything that's occurred so far. Maybe

[32:48] this is where the story can finally

[32:50] resolve, where the stonemasons can be

[32:52] paid reparations and everything can get

[32:55] wrapped up in a nice tidy bow. So, I'm

[32:57] giddy as I take the report and run

[32:59] straight for the keep. This time,

[33:01] heading straight down the hall, ready to

[33:03] meet whoever the ruler of all the land

[33:05] is. But then,

[33:11] where's the king? I thought he was

[33:13] supposed to be here. It's not this kid,

[33:15] right? Okay, so in the center of the

[33:16] throne room, there's some general guy,

[33:19] some noble lady, and a boy who is the

[33:21] king for now. I guess I actually

[33:23] recognize the kid, Andin Ren. That's the

[33:26] guy who eventually becomes the king of

[33:27] Stormwind. I saw him when I tried retail

[33:30] and being kicked off with that big

[33:32] cinematic of him crying in the war

[33:34] within. But he can't be the king now,

[33:36] right? There's no way he's who I'm

[33:38] supposed to deliver this report to. My

[33:40] quester tells me to speak to Lady Katana

[33:42] Prestor, an important looking person

[33:44] who's kind of a jerk just glaring at me

[33:47] for no reason. I hand her the report and

[33:49] she says I should be commended for my

[33:51] work. If Van Clee had been successful,

[33:53] he would have done considerable harm to

[33:55] the kingdom. Something that should be

[33:57] obviously avoided. Okay, what the hell

[33:59] is with this terrible writing? The

[34:00] writing in WoW has been so good up until

[34:02] now. But suddenly this lady is speaking

[34:04] in the dumbest, most stilted way

[34:06] possible. And wait, that's actually kind

[34:08] of cool. I never noticed that. The fact

[34:10] that he noticed without knowing that's

[34:12] Anie is like kind of sick,

[34:15] right? That's kind of sick that he

[34:17] noticed.

[34:19] Not only that, she also tells me the

[34:22] king is apparently away on a diplomat.

[34:24] >> Yeah, that's actually that's actually

[34:25] goated. Yeah, that's actually sick that

[34:27] he noticed

[34:27] >> mission and isn't returning for some

[34:30] time. So, she has to be the one to give

[34:32] me this ring as a token of appreciation

[34:34] for all my hard work. I mean, the ring

[34:36] is awesome. It's a really great upgrade

[34:38] compared to anything else I had. But

[34:41] that's it. Is that really the end of the

[34:43] story? There's no follow-up quest. That

[34:45] can't actually be the grand finale, CAN

[34:47] IT? WHAT ABOUT THE STONEMASONS? WHAT

[34:49] ABOUT THE REST OF THE CORRUPTION in the

[34:50] city? [laughter] THE GAME JUST GOT ME SO

[34:52] HYPED TO SEE THE KING, BUT HE'S NOT EVEN

[34:53] HERE. THAT'S A WHOLE NEW MYSTERY I don't

[34:55] even know how to solve. Once again,

[34:57] World of Warcraft built up this exciting

[34:59] hype narrative just to yank a satisfying

[35:02] Oh, I have to say though, this is

[35:03] actually sick. Like knowing more than

[35:05] knows. The fact that you walk up and

[35:07] there's no king and it's just a boy and

[35:09] the fact that uh Katrina Pster is like

[35:13] kind of being vague and weird. To the

[35:15] greater story, it's actually a W. But to

[35:18] the small story, it kind of sucks, you

[35:20] know.

[35:20] >> Inclusion out from under me a second

[35:22] time. I WAS LEFT ON edge again. The game

[35:25] keeps edging me. Now I'm left with more

[35:27] questions than answers. I guess when it

[35:29] comes to our goal of finding a story to

[35:31] care about each episode, I technically

[35:34] did that here. I definitely cared about

[35:36] this story and I care about finding a

[35:37] way to finish it because I refuse to

[35:39] believe that's the end. But I can't stop

[35:41] playing now. That can't be how the video

[35:43] ends. I just got hit with two awful

[35:45] disappointments back to back. I need

[35:47] something satisfying to cleanse my

[35:49] pallet. That's why at this point I made

[35:51] a resolution that I would not stop

[35:53] playing World of Warcraft or wrap this

[35:55] video up until I found something that

[35:58] gave me a satisfying narrative payoff.

[36:00] Either that or until I find Daroshshire

[36:03] so I can get back to fishing. But

[36:04] unfortunately, things are going to

[36:06] somehow get even worse from here on out.

[36:08] Okay, so the first thing I did was just

[36:10] open up my quest log, trying to find as

[36:13] many tasks as possible to knock out one

[36:15] after another, hoping that one of them

[36:17] would end up with a satisfying climax.

[36:20] Seeing as I was still here in Stormwind

[36:22] for the time being, I figured maybe the

[36:24] first task should be knock out that last

[36:27] stockades quest I never got to finish.

[36:29] Yeah, I don't know why I thought that a

[36:31] second run of stockades would lead to

[36:33] anything other than more disappointment.

[36:35] This one was even worse. I had to sit

[36:36] around for like half an hour just trying

[36:38] to find a group that wanted to run the

[36:40] dungeon legit since apparently everyone

[36:42] gets boosted through this one.

[36:44] Eventually, I did find a group and we

[36:46] ran the dungeon no problem. But

[36:48] obviously, there wasn't really anything

[36:50] special of note here. Just killing the

[36:52] same bad guys in the same boring

[36:54] dungeon. And this quest didn't even have

[36:56] any kind of follow-up. It was just a

[36:58] nice chunk of XP as a reward. The one

[37:00] exciting thing that did happen this time

[37:02] around was I managed to get my first

[37:04] neck slot item, the bassalt necklace of

[37:06] the bear, which seems pretty good for my

[37:08] level. With how disappointing everything

[37:10] else had been, this drop felt like

[37:12] Christmas morning when I got it. After

[37:14] finally being freed from the

[37:15] >> in classic one, when you get your first

[37:16] head, neck, or cloak,

[37:20] >> sick, great feeling.

[37:22] >> Of my quest in the stockades, I tried to

[37:24] think about where else I could go to a

[37:26] story line that had more great narrative

[37:29] potential. And I did have one idea.

[37:31] Earlier on in my playthrough, when I

[37:33] first set foot in the wetlands, I ran

[37:35] into a dwarven mining party up on the

[37:37] side of a cliff.

[37:38] >> Guys, getting your first cloak when it's

[37:40] like, okay, maybe this wasn't me. Hold

[37:42] on. Let me let me share my experience. I

[37:44] remember when I was a kid and I had all

[37:47] these dinky little cloaks on, you know,

[37:49] the little tiny ones like an orange

[37:51] triangle and then you get a cloak drop

[37:53] like the bright cloak or you know that

[37:57] nice long cloak. It's green. It has some

[38:00] stats on it. It's a big deal. First long

[38:03] cloak that's like flowing down your back

[38:05] and it's like, "Oh my gosh, that's a

[38:08] cloak." That's what I meant by cloak.

[38:10] But yeah, shoulders even better. for

[38:12] excavating something when they got

[38:13] trapped by dinosaurs. As cool as the

[38:15] dinosaurs were, I cut this quest line

[38:17] from last episode since it seemed like a

[38:19] relatively simple issue of just slaying

[38:22] some mobs and getting some XP as a

[38:24] reward. But then I remembered one of the

[38:26] notes I had to carry calling for help

[38:28] from Menithil Harbor mentioned that the

[38:30] mining team had excavated some Titan

[38:33] artifacts, which is what caused the

[38:35] raptors to begin swarming them. Which,

[38:37] if I remember my lore correctly, aren't

[38:39] the titans basically the gods of WoW?

[38:41] Like Sargeras was a Titan who created

[38:43] the Burning Legion, right? That's

[38:45] definitely something I could sink my

[38:46] teeth into. I'm a huge lore nerd when it

[38:49] comes to in universe mythologies like

[38:51] this. When I was a kid, I probably

[38:53] worshiped Gothics so much back in

[38:55] Runescape that I broke the first

[38:57] commandment. If you ever wondered why I

[38:59] quit Runescape around the time of RS3,

[39:01] now you know. So, I ran up to the

[39:03] wetlands, seeing if there was any kind

[39:04] of follow-up quest I missed because a

[39:07] big epic adventure uncovering god

[39:09] artifacts is the exact kind of quest

[39:11] line that would make for a satisfying

[39:13] finale to the video. Except I couldn't

[39:16] find anything. Maybe I'm not a high

[39:18] enough level for whatever quest comes

[39:19] next. Or maybe this was just a one-off

[39:22] thing with nothing more to do. But

[39:24] either way, this was a brick wall. At

[39:26] this point, I just tried to go process

[39:27] of elimination and began knocking out as

[39:30] many quests as I could do in an attempt

[39:32] to find something worthwhile. And I did

[39:34] eventually run into one interesting

[39:36] bright spot. Later on, I went back to

[39:38] Red Ridge to do what I thought was my

[39:40] last quest in the zone. One [music]

[39:42] telling me to slay 15 black rock

[39:44] champions in a camp north of Lakeshshire

[39:46] when I ran into a lost human

[39:50] Corporal Kishin. I recognized this name

[39:52] when I first set foot in Red Ridge. I

[39:54] saw there were two signs outside of the

[39:56] inn. One that gave me a quest to kill

[39:59] Lieutenant Fangor, while the other

[40:01] seemed to just be a note saying that a

[40:03] local corporal had gone missing.

[40:06] This is so impressive to me

[40:09] when like I I do not possess this at

[40:13] all.

[40:15] Like when you go into a town and you

[40:16] read a note and then later you're like,

[40:18] "Oh, that's the same note that I read

[40:19] earlier." Like piecing that together. I

[40:21] would have just forgot. is like type one

[40:23] in the chat if you're like me if there's

[40:25] no way you ever remember this guy's name

[40:26] or type two if you're like Gbe and you

[40:29] would totally piece that together and be

[40:30] like oh cool

[40:32] okay so there are a lot of ones too I'm

[40:34] not like crazy here but like there's D

[40:36] I'm so impressed by the twos out there

[40:37] that the two people my wife is a two

[40:40] well my wife is a 10 but my wife is a

[40:43] two person like she remembers names like

[40:45] this

[40:47] any she's beautiful but good okay

[40:51] >> this sign for the corporal didn't have

[40:52] any quest attached to it. So, I thought

[40:54] it was just flavor, something Blizzard

[40:56] added to the world to emphasize the dire

[40:59] state that Redidge found itself in. But

[41:01] no, there actually was a Corporal Kishan

[41:03] up here in this cave, and he gave me a

[41:05] quest to escort him back to Red Ridge

[41:07] safely. Now, this certainly wasn't a

[41:09] disappointment. It was genuinely cool

[41:11] the way that this quest was given to me,

[41:13] and I had another great community

[41:15] interaction with a guildmate and a

[41:16] stranger who helped me complete it. But

[41:18] even this was kind of a disappointment

[41:21] narratively speaking because it wasn't

[41:23] some grand adventure I was tasked to go

[41:25] on. It was just a simple escort mission.

[41:27] Although if I thought that was bad, it

[41:29] was about to get even worse. My brain

[41:31] must have

[41:32] >> I wonder if the difference between the

[41:33] the one and the two is literally just

[41:34] like type A, type B, you know,

[41:37] personalities. The the go go go go go

[41:41] versus the [sighs]

[41:45] probably is probably very similar. Yeah.

[41:48] broken at this point from one

[41:49] disappointment after the next because

[41:51] for some reason I thought maybe it would

[41:53] be exciting if I returned that lost

[41:55] library book I had in my inventory. As I

[41:58] made my way back to Stormwind, I also

[41:59] found a guy in the Cathedral Town Center

[42:01] who apparently needed a book checked out

[42:04] from the library, too, as he's about to

[42:06] give some speech on metallurgy or

[42:08] something and could use it to assist

[42:09] him. Perfect. Those are two great, very

[42:12] exciting grand adventures. So, I go to

[42:14] Stormwind Keep, turning in the lost

[42:16] library book, and finding out the book

[42:18] that the speech guy needs is currently

[42:20] on loan to Northshshire Abbey. Of

[42:22] course, that means I have to run all the

[42:24] way from Stormwind to Northshshire since

[42:26] there is no flight point to Elwin

[42:28] Forest, only to learn that the monk at

[42:30] the AB. I just love quests like these,

[42:32] though. So, you're level 29, you're a

[42:35] human warrior, you've come a long way,

[42:38] you know, you've played for a few weeks

[42:39] or whatever, and it has you run to the

[42:42] starting zone. It's just brilliant in my

[42:45] opinion. You go to the starting zone,

[42:47] you see a bunch of new players making

[42:48] their characters for the first time, and

[42:49] you're like, "Oh, I was just a level

[42:51] one, and now look how strong I got. All

[42:52] these wolves like you can then

[42:54] one-shot." The world doesn't scale with

[42:55] you. See, you're you feel strong and

[42:58] powerful, and at the same time, those

[43:00] level ones see you. and maybe they're a

[43:03] new player, they've never played before

[43:04] and you have shoulders on and a helmet

[43:06] and a long cloak and it's like what is

[43:07] there a level 29 doing here? Like gives

[43:09] them something to to aspire towards.

[43:11] It's such good game design, right? Game

[43:14] loses this at some point where all the

[43:16] high levels just sit in the high level

[43:17] area and all the low levels are like out

[43:19] leveling in some sharded area where you

[43:21] don't see anyone else at all or maybe

[43:23] only other low levels but like it just

[43:25] separates all the players. I I love

[43:27] this. Right. TBC. Yeah, TBC it kind of

[43:30] happens, right? All the high levels are

[43:32] in Outlands beside coming in briefly for

[43:34] Cara, but you don't really see them too

[43:35] much. And then all the low levels are

[43:38] like in the in the old world. That's why

[43:39] TBC hardcore doesn't hit the same

[43:42] because when you're playing, you don't

[43:43] actually see the high levels playing.

[43:45] You just see a bunch of other low levels

[43:47] playing and all the high levels are are

[43:48] are segmented. They're completely off.

[43:50] They're out in Outlands. It's like in

[43:53] TVC automatically that that feeling is

[43:55] lost. Yeah. So that's why Classic Plus

[43:56] someone's like, "Oh, should you do

[43:58] Outlands and Classic Plus?" Like, "No

[44:00] way, dude. keep everyone in Azeroth,

[44:02] right?

[44:02] >> He can't give me the book until he uses

[44:04] it to make some new ink. And he's all

[44:06] out of Wbban ore he needs. So, I have to

[44:09] run all the way to Red Ridge to pick

[44:11] some up. When I reach Redidge, the guy

[44:13] whose job it is to have Wreathb ore

[44:15] doesn't have any Wrathban ore, meaning I

[44:17] have to go deep into a cavern to acquire

[44:19] some before then running all the way

[44:22] back to Elwin to trade the ore for the

[44:24] book and then running all the way back

[44:25] to Stormwind to finally complete the

[44:27] quest chain. This was for the grand

[44:30] reward of receiving some caster boots

[44:33] that might have been as useless as

[44:36] anything I could have gotten at this

[44:37] point. Okay, as annoyed as I was, there

[44:39] actually was one really cool thing about

[44:41] this quest. I loved the fact that I

[44:43] could have gotten the ban ore I needed

[44:45] from this cavern by either mining the

[44:47] mining nodes or by getting it from drops

[44:50] through killing mobs. That was actually

[44:52] really awesome. That meant there were

[44:53] multiple solutions to this puzzle. one

[44:56] involving basic combat, but one that

[44:58] allowed me to completely bypass combat

[45:00] if I wanted to through having a certain

[45:02] profession. That was really cool to see.

[45:04] This quest kind of felt like it was an

[45:05] immersive sim or something. Am I playing

[45:07] World of Warcraft or DSX here? But that

[45:09] aside, talk about a disappointing

[45:11] anticlimactic quest line. I had to run

[45:13] on foot through all these regions just

[45:15] to do busy work that seemed so mundane

[45:18] and trivial. Actually, looking back on

[45:20] it now, all of these disappointments

[45:21] I've had in Classic WoW have basically

[45:24] been because of that. I thought I was a

[45:26] big important adventurer braving epic

[45:28] quests, but so many of the quests I run

[45:30] into keep me feeling small. The

[45:33] stockades wasn't a grand narrative where

[45:35] I got to solve mysteries. It was just a

[45:37] typical prison riot that I had to put

[45:39] down without much fanfare. The

[45:41] >> Okay, I put it together. When he played

[45:43] retail a few months ago, his problem was

[45:46] that like he was like the savior of the

[45:48] world and he was just the greatest thing

[45:50] ever. But he's enjoying in classic that

[45:53] he's not the main guy. At least right

[45:55] now he's kind of just like a side story

[45:57] and he's he kind of appreciates that in

[45:59] a game. I think that's what he's going

[46:00] to say at least. That's what that's what

[46:01] I'm guessing that he appreciates it's

[46:04] not just like oh you do one quest here

[46:06] give you a legendary sword another quest

[46:08] here let's give you like you know full

[46:09] epics. It's like no I'm going to give

[46:11] you some useless boots. That was

[46:13] helpful. Thanks for getting the ore for

[46:14] me. Here's some cloth boots that you can

[46:16] vendor for 10 silver. That's I think

[46:19] what he's going to say is he appreciates

[46:20] that. It's not just like shoving it down

[46:23] your throat of like here's a full bis

[46:24] loot. You're the best thing ever. You're

[46:26] saving the world. Oh my gosh. Like all

[46:28] these other MMOs, you know, Fire's

[46:30] conclusion didn't make me feel like a

[46:32] hero. As big as that story was, I was

[46:34] kept small, given very simple tasks to

[46:36] do with the one heroic thing being

[46:39] something I'm not even allowed to talk

[46:40] about, all for an ending that seemingly

[46:42] went over my head. Everything else, too.

[46:45] The wetlands discovery felt like a grand

[46:47] narrative, but one I'm apparently not

[46:49] allowed to take part in yet. Corporal

[46:51] Creed was a simple escort mission that

[46:54] >> guys, no, everyone's saying pre-watch. I

[46:56] haven't pre-watched anything. I've read

[46:57] the title and I've read his other vid

[46:59] watch his other videos why he didn't

[47:00] like retail as much. And that was one of

[47:02] his criticisms and now he's already

[47:03] saying it. I haven't pre-watched it, but

[47:05] I can piece it together. Oh, more like

[47:07] his story than mine. And running around

[47:09] for ages to find a library book. That's

[47:11] perhaps the least heroic thing I've DONE

[47:13] IN MY ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGH. But you know

[47:14] what? This is the moment that either my

[47:18] brain completely broke from all the

[47:19] disappointing buildups or I realized

[47:23] this is kind of genius. See, the one

[47:25] theme that tied all of these

[47:27] disappointments together was that they

[47:29] made me feel small or like I wasn't the

[47:32] protagonist. I'm getting to peek at

[47:34] grand narratives, but not ones where I

[47:37] get to be a leading man. Most of the

[47:39] time, I'm treated like a helpful but

[47:41] replaceable person who's given tasks

[47:43] that anyone might be able to accomplish.

[47:46] And as much as that kept me feeling

[47:47] small and unimportant, it kind of made

[47:50] the world feel all the more big. This

[47:53] actually gets at the heart of a problem

[47:55] MMOs have always had, which is that MMOs

[47:57] by their nature want to have these grand

[48:00] epic worlds with wild storylines they

[48:03] send players on. But how can you make

[48:05] the player a hero who comes along and

[48:07] saves the world when there are literally

[48:10] millions of other heroes just like them

[48:12] all around? Runescape is a master class

[48:15] in how to still tell great epic stories

[48:17] in an MMO. I'm sorry to bring up

[48:19] Runescape again. I keep talking about

[48:20] Runescape in my WoW videos.

[48:22] Specifically, if you've ever played old

[48:24] school Runescape, you probably know the

[48:25] game has a running joke where all the

[48:28] NPCs openly acknowledge there are a

[48:30] bunch of annoying adventurers running

[48:32] around asking for quests. It's something

[48:35] so common place, it's clearly gotten on

[48:37] the nerves of most citizens in the

[48:39] world, and as a result, most NPCs refuse

[48:42] to give out quests or will only give

[48:45] players stupid little busy work that

[48:47] they can't be bothered to do. However,

[48:49] >> I think the some of the Runescape

[48:51] dialogue was really good for that

[48:53] reason. Like the writers of the dialogue

[48:55] play these little jokes on you like just

[48:58] like Gbe saying and if you read it's

[49:00] just like holy crap that actually is

[49:01] funny. It's like a joke within a joke.

[49:02] It's like man this guy's annoying or

[49:04] something. It's like fantastic. I'm

[49:06] trying to think of more examples. Um but

[49:08] it's like all it's literally all over

[49:10] the place in the quest. It's like it's

[49:11] just great man. The game has still found

[49:13] a way to thread some huge world-defining

[49:16] narratives that include the player into

[49:18] major quest lines with a kind of funny

[49:20] trick. Namely, most of the bigger quest

[49:22] lines in the game start off when the

[49:25] player accidentally helps out a villain.

[49:27] For example, early on in the elf quest

[49:29] line, players think that they're helping

[49:31] out the noble king of East Ardoine, who

[49:34] eventually sends you off to slay his

[49:36] brother as he tells you his brother is

[49:38] some evil foe causing havoc in the elven

[49:41] lands of Tyranninan, only to learn after

[49:44] you kill his brother that the king

[49:46] you're helping is trying to summon the

[49:48] dark lord and his brother was one of the

[49:50] last people standing in his way. It

[49:52] makes sense then that after you messed

[49:54] everything up, the actual good guys show

[49:56] up. all but demanding you assist them in

[49:59] correcting your mistake. And then you

[50:01] can be sent down an epic world-defining

[50:03] quest line with huge adventures and

[50:05] major rewards. And this setup lets you

[50:08] have the best of both worlds. The logic

[50:10] of this being an MMO still works since

[50:12] [music] there can be thousands of other

[50:14] adventurers all running around alongside

[50:16] you. It's just that you were the only

[50:17] one dumb enough to help the bad guy

[50:19] almost cause the end of the world. But

[50:21] with this setup, it still lets the

[50:23] player go on epic quests where they get

[50:25] to be a protagonist and forever change

[50:27] the physical land in a significant way.

[50:30] Obviously, I haven't really seen WoW use

[50:32] this setup of accidentally helping out a

[50:33] bad guy in my playthrough, but the trick

[50:36] that it's using might be just as genius.

[50:38] Namely, World of Warcraft is refusing to

[50:41] treat me like I'm the main character of

[50:44] every story. I need to grind out some of

[50:47] the more boring kill a few dozen of this

[50:49] kind of mob type quests before I'm

[50:51] trusted to play a larger part in a more

[50:55] important quest line. And even then, I'm

[50:57] more of a supporting actor in most of

[50:59] these narratives. For example, starting

[51:01] off in Elwin Forest, I had a ton of

[51:03] quests I had to do that were just guards

[51:06] telling me to help them kill cobalts or

[51:08] defas bandits before I was ever trusted

[51:11] to do anything.

[51:12] >> I love this. Yes, this is so true. It's

[51:14] not just like hey you level one soldier

[51:17] we need you on the front lines to save

[51:19] the world like that's like it's like

[51:21] what I love this in WoW it's like all

[51:24] right yeah we have a small problem at

[51:25] the mines to the north can you help us

[51:27] kill these cobalts like they start you

[51:29] off really small cuz you are it's like

[51:31] it's great I love that you know things

[51:34] slightly more important this works for

[51:36] the logic of the game since these guards

[51:38] are telling all the adventurers like me

[51:40] to go and help push back these hostile

[51:43] mobs But since through the logic of the

[51:45] game, I'm special in that I've actually

[51:47] helped a significant amount, it makes

[51:49] sense that they would start trusting me

[51:51] with more responsibility, eventually so

[51:53] much so that I can help the people's

[51:55] militia of Westfall try and take down

[51:57] the Defias in Moonbrook. This still

[52:00] allows WoW to have these grand

[52:01] narratives with epic adventures and

[52:04] conspiracies and events going on all

[52:06] across the world while not breaking the

[52:08] illusion that there are thousands of

[52:10] other players experiencing them at the

[52:12] same time like me. And in that context,

[52:15] you know, these disappointments kind of

[52:17] make the game even better because they

[52:19] make the world feel all the more big.

[52:22] The wetlands quests and rescuing Kishin

[52:24] and even finding that dumb library book

[52:27] all reinforced that I'm just a small

[52:29] person in a big world where other

[52:31] factions and NPCs are experiencing their

[52:34] own narratives that I can typically only

[52:36] assist in as a small helper. Stockades

[52:39] being nothing more than a simple prison

[52:40] riot also reinforced that I'm still a

[52:43] random adventurer with no special

[52:45] status. When I showed up at the

[52:46] stockades, the warden thought I was just

[52:48] as likely to be an accomplice to the

[52:50] riot as much as I was some hero meant to

[52:53] solve everyone's problem. And as

[52:55] disappointing as it was to not meet the

[52:57] king at the end of the Defias quest

[52:59] line, that certainly made me feel like

[53:02] there was so much more going on in the

[53:04] world that I haven't even discovered. I

[53:06] wonder if this is another defining

[53:08] attribute of classic MMOs versus modern

[53:12] MMOs. The way I like to think about

[53:13] this, and I' I've talked about this a

[53:15] lot in the past, is they're almost two

[53:16] different genres at this point, you have

[53:18] MMOs, but then you have modern and

[53:20] classic designs. I feel like like as old

[53:23] school Runescape does this well and

[53:24] classic does this as well. I feel like

[53:26] some of the other like OG MMOs might as

[53:28] well, but a lot of the modern ones, no,

[53:30] like you're the hero, you're shoved

[53:32] right into the front lines and it's like

[53:34] you get like this full epic loot within

[53:36] like an hour of playing the game, and

[53:37] it's just like you're the best, you

[53:39] know? I I prefer the classic way for

[53:42] sure,

[53:43] >> expanding Azeroth in my mind and making

[53:46] me all the more excited to see what else

[53:48] is out there. I don't know, maybe this

[53:49] is all just coping from how

[53:51] disappointing the stockades was, but I

[53:53] genuinely think that any fantasy open

[53:56] world needs to keep the protagonist

[53:58] feeling small so the world can stay big.

[54:01] I mean, I've always assumed that's why

[54:02] J.R.R. Tolken made the protagonists in

[54:05] the Lord of the Rings hobbits, people

[54:07] who are literally smaller compared to

[54:09] almost everything else out in Middle

[54:11] Earth. WoW has done a really good job of

[54:13] keeping me humble in that same sort of

[54:16] way. Even though I'm nearly halfway to

[54:18] max level now, I've never been

[54:23] [clears throat] sorry told that I'm some

[54:25] hero here to save the alliance. I'm

[54:27] mostly a side character in other

[54:29] people's stories with the

[54:31] disappointments I feel coming from the

[54:33] fact that I just don't get the kind of

[54:35] resolution I might expect. But

[54:37] thankfully, the kind of exciting story

[54:39] with a satisfying resolution I'm after

[54:41] does still exist in the world, and I'm

[54:44] about to run into one right around the

[54:45] corner. Woo! Stitchy.

[54:49] Hello, Stitchy. [music]

[54:51] The next area where I was sent searching

[54:53] for a big quest was Duskwood. And

[54:55] frankly, I should have just started my

[54:57] search here. This zone is so good. One

[54:59] of the narratives you guys mentioned I

[55:01] should follow up on is the quest line

[55:03] that continues with the hermit

[55:04] Abberrombie. Back in episode 2, I'd been

[55:07] sent by Madamea to check on an old

[55:09] hermit living nearby the Raven Hill

[55:11] Cemetery. And upon meeting him, he

[55:13] seemed like a nice enough guy who asked

[55:15] me to run an errand or two since an old

[55:17] man such as himself wouldn't be able to

[55:19] brave all the threats roaming around.

[55:21] The first of those errands was finding

[55:22] the ghost hair thread, which we got with

[55:25] the help of Madame Ava from the nearby

[55:27] ghost Blind Mary. But it turns out that

[55:30] is not the only thing he needs done. On

[55:32] returning with the hair, the hermit then

[55:34] asked me to go and find some ghoul ribs,

[55:36] which is where we last left off. And

[55:38] although this may just look like another

[55:41] fetch quest that is no different than

[55:43] all the others I'd picked up, I was

[55:45] about to see that there was more to this

[55:47] quest line than one might expect. I made

[55:49] my way back out to the Raven Hill

[55:50] Cemetery in the pouring rain.

[55:52] >> I don't want to set him up for

[55:53] disappointment here, but Duskwood has a

[55:56] lot of the game's best quest lines. I

[55:58] think not all of them, but Duskwood is

[56:01] like I mean it's my favorite zone in the

[56:02] game. I think like I don't necessarily

[56:06] know if it's just going to get like

[56:07] better from here or like the same or

[56:08] worse or like sometime may maybe

[56:10] sometimes slightly better but like

[56:12] Duskwood is just so good you know

[56:15] >> and going around and slaying some ghouls

[56:17] to

[56:17] >> which by the way is why I prefer

[56:19] Alliance and Classic WoW cuz it has

[56:21] Duskwood and Westfall and Redidge and

[56:24] Elellwin anyway

[56:26] >> to collect their ribs and thankfully

[56:28] they are not dropped at the most

[56:29] annoying drop rate I've seen. Although,

[56:31] one thing that is annoying is that some

[56:33] of these ghouls when they die, they

[56:34] spawn these two tiny flesh eater things

[56:37] I have to kill, and I don't know how to

[56:39] select an enemy other than clicking on

[56:40] them, which can be tough to do because

[56:42] they're so small and sometimes they hide

[56:45] underneath other mobs. Thankfully, that

[56:47] annoyance only killed me once before I

[56:49] finished collecting the rest of the

[56:51] ribs, returning to the who then told me

[56:53] that all of this is for some effigy he's

[56:56] building. That sounds a little

[56:57] suspicious, but he's just a nice old

[56:59] guy. How much harm can he do?

[57:01] Abbercrombie then tells me a few weeks

[57:02] ago he was picking some herbs when a

[57:04] band of ogres attacked, forcing him to

[57:06] drop an important crate of tools he had

[57:08] on his person before fleeing. He asks me

[57:11] to go find the crate, and I'm happy to

[57:13] do so, as it should be found in one of

[57:15] the last few areas I haven't explored in

[57:17] Duskwood yet, this ogre encampment to

[57:20] the south. Although, I also don't know

[57:22] what this big mysterious center of the

[57:24] map is either. I should actually mention

[57:26] that whoever designed this region did a

[57:28] great job of laying out all the content.

[57:30] Each new quest line has unveiled some

[57:33] new part of the map for me, which has

[57:35] gradually painted a picture as to what's

[57:37] going on in this zone. But there's still

[57:39] this big mysterious void that I haven't

[57:42] had a reason to go explore yet. It's

[57:44] really fitting that the most spooky and

[57:47] cursed region of the game so far has

[57:49] this weird spooky centerpiece on the

[57:52] map. Anyway, I head south to the ogres

[57:54] and I'm kind of curious why ogres are

[57:56] here in Duskwood spending a bit of time

[57:58] exploring their encampment. Happy as it

[58:00] leads to finding some more mining notes

[58:03] I can grab. I need to be catching up on

[58:04] my mining a little bit. I do manage to

[58:06] find one crate that at first I think is

[58:08] what I'm looking for. But then I realize

[58:10] it's just a food crate that has some

[58:13] healing items inside. It's a little

[58:14] annoying that I'm not getting the quest

[58:16] item I thought I was after, but again, I

[58:18] love seeing these little secret drops

[58:20] hidden around the world that reward

[58:22] exploration. I keep exploring, picking

[58:24] up some more mining nodes until I see

[58:27] this entrance, which I assume is the

[58:28] place that Abberrombie's crate is in.

[58:30] After fighting my way through a couple

[58:32] ogres, I have to pause, slightly shocked

[58:34] at how good the atmosphere is here. The

[58:37] dark red of the flames, the bones

[58:39] hanging from the ceiling. Blizzard sure

[58:41] as hell know how to build incredible

[58:44] atmosphere, even when they're so limited

[58:46] to what a computer can do graphically.

[58:49] This was all back in 2004. How did this

[58:51] game COME OUT IN 2004? THAT JUST blows

[58:54] me away every single episode. As I'm

[58:56] searching for the crate inside the cave,

[58:57] I grab some more mining nodes in the

[58:59] meantime when a random player trades me

[59:02] some resources because again, the WoW

[59:04] community is the nicest in all of

[59:05] gaming. But after some more searching, I

[59:07] can't seem to find the crate. So, I

[59:09] assume that I missed it outside and head

[59:11] back out to look for it a second time.

[59:13] My second pass around the ogre in Canada

[59:15] Fields.

[59:16] >> It's like right on It's like right It's

[59:17] like right there, right?

[59:18] >> Absolutely nothing, though. So, I then

[59:20] head back inside the cave again, only to

[59:22] still not find the crate. I feel like a

[59:24] bit of an idiot here. I mean, there

[59:26] >> No, this is a hard one to find without

[59:27] Questy. This one's tough.

[59:29] >> That many crateike objects laying

[59:31] around, and I can't seem to figure out

[59:33] where it is. Part of me though does

[59:34] appreciate the fact it's not in some

[59:37] obvious location because I actually have

[59:39] to search through all the rubbish on the

[59:41] ground that makes me notice and even

[59:44] appreciate the detail that some

[59:46] environmental artist at Blizzard put

[59:48] into crafting this part of the map all

[59:50] those years ago. Finally, I eventually

[59:52] stumble on the crate that was just

[59:53] outside the entrance to the cave I kept

[59:56] running in and out of. It was so

[59:58] heartbreaking to see when I was watching

[59:59] this footage back and seeing myself pass

[1:00:01] by it over and over. After getting

[1:00:03] Abberroby's tools, I returned to the

[1:00:05] hermit delivering them, which seems to

[1:00:07] be the last big T.

[1:00:08] >> This was like what was kind of nice,

[1:00:09] too, though. Like, how many times do you

[1:00:11] remember people saying like, "Where's

[1:00:13] Man Craig's wife?" or like, "Where's the

[1:00:15] crate?" Like, people would talk in

[1:00:16] general chat and like maybe help each

[1:00:18] other out and or like on Thoughtbot or

[1:00:21] whatever, but it wasn't just like this

[1:00:23] obvious glowing massive thing to click

[1:00:26] on with an arrow that took you right to

[1:00:28] it. This and that. It's like you Yeah,

[1:00:30] you'd have to kill mobs for a while and

[1:00:32] talk to people. Imagine, you know,

[1:00:34] >> ask the hermit then seems very happy for

[1:00:37] some reason before giving me a note to

[1:00:39] go and take to the mayor of Darkshshire.

[1:00:41] I head back. Someone says it's a it's

[1:00:43] different with Man Creek's wife that

[1:00:45] wasn't about the quest.

[1:00:52] Wait people

[1:00:55] were trolling this whole time? I thought

[1:00:56] people were looking for Man Creek's wife

[1:00:58] for the quest. Wait, this was some meta

[1:01:00] joke that went over my head for this

[1:01:02] whole time. No, no, people were

[1:01:04] definitely asking about the quest. They

[1:01:06] weren't like it was always a meme,

[1:01:10] dude. I mean, it makes sense. I just

[1:01:12] never thought about it that way.

[1:01:15] There's no way, bro. To town to deliver

[1:01:18] the note. And as I've mentioned before,

[1:01:20] it's so cool that WoW lets you read

[1:01:23] messages that NPCs tell you to deliver

[1:01:25] to one another, learning more about the

[1:01:27] story and lore of what's going on. So,

[1:01:29] I'm pretty eager to open this one.

[1:01:31] >> That's that makes sense. Where's Man

[1:01:33] Creek's wife? Like, haha, kind of funny.

[1:01:35] Oh my god, I just never thought about it

[1:01:37] like that. Not once.

[1:01:38] >> Then I see the letters on the note

[1:01:41] flicker and dance across its surface,

[1:01:43] making it impossible to glean any

[1:01:45] information. I did not expect that. Talk

[1:01:48] about subverting expectations. Now I'm

[1:01:50] suddenly a little bit worried that maybe

[1:01:52] whatever Abbercrombie is up to isn't

[1:01:54] anything good. On showing the note to

[1:01:56] the mayor, he seems pretty confused as

[1:01:58] he's never heard of this person and

[1:02:00] certainly can't read whatever the notes

[1:02:02] about. So he tells me to take the note

[1:02:03] to the Darkshshire historian who

[1:02:05] translates it and tells me apparently

[1:02:08] Abbercrombie has done something

[1:02:10] unspeakable. Greetings, mayor of

[1:02:12] Darkshshire. I have grave news for your

[1:02:15] town. I fooled the bearer of this note

[1:02:17] into aiding me in my latest most dire

[1:02:21] creation, a fiend of flesh and bone and

[1:02:24] stone metal. As you read this, it's

[1:02:26] likely outside my humble dwelling,

[1:02:29] nashing its teeth and waiting for my

[1:02:31] word to go forth and slaughter. But

[1:02:33] you'll know soon enough the imbalmer.

[1:02:36] Okay. Oops. I take the letter back to

[1:02:39] the mayor and he promptly tells me that

[1:02:41] although I may have been motivated by

[1:02:43] kindness, I kind of just doomed the

[1:02:46] town. He then informs me the imbalmer is

[1:02:48] the name of a person told in local folk

[1:02:51] tales, apparently he was a kind

[1:02:53] alchemist until he was driven mad by the

[1:02:56] death of his wife Eliza. After

[1:02:58] attempting to restore her to life using

[1:03:00] dark magic, he placed his own heart

[1:03:03] inside his dead spouse, succeeding in

[1:03:05] bringing her back, but cursing her to be

[1:03:08] a zombie with a hunger for human flesh,

[1:03:11] forcing the imbalmer to keep her buried

[1:03:13] deep in the earth. Okay, another

[1:03:16] >> Wait, I've done this quest a million

[1:03:17] times. He puts his own heart in Whoa.

[1:03:21] Did you guys know that?

[1:03:24] I don't know if I actually knew that

[1:03:25] part. his own heart and his wow

[1:03:28] >> pretty metal story here in Duskwood. I'm

[1:03:30] then told that the imbalmer's heart is

[1:03:32] the source of his power and if I can

[1:03:34] retrieve it from his dead wife while

[1:03:36] bringing it to the mayor, we might be

[1:03:38] able to save the town. But as all that's

[1:03:40] going on, some scout enters the room

[1:03:42] telling us that a terrifying thing is

[1:03:45] headed this way with the mayor telling

[1:03:47] the man to go and prepare the night

[1:03:49] watch. I quickly start sprinting down

[1:03:51] the road towards the imbalmer's place to

[1:03:53] find his heart. And as I run, the scout

[1:03:55] sprints ahead of me, yelling, "Beware! A

[1:03:58] threat lurks in the wild." As I come to

[1:04:00] the fork in the road near the cemetery,

[1:04:02] that's where I see a scene starting to

[1:04:05] unfold. The usual quest givers here are

[1:04:07] banding together in the center of the

[1:04:09] highway, preparing for whatever threat

[1:04:12] comes lumbering down in the distance.

[1:04:14] And that's when I see the abomination

[1:04:16] from Warcraft 3 stitches. Oh god, I just

[1:04:20] saw his corpse at the end of last

[1:04:22] episode, not knowing where he came from

[1:04:25] or what he was doing. I certainly didn't

[1:04:27] know I was the one that caused the town

[1:04:29] his wrath. I pause and prepare to fight

[1:04:31] alongside the night watch. He's a level

[1:04:33] 35 elite, but with five of us here, we

[1:04:36] should be able to take him down, right?

[1:04:38] Nope. He goes off and just starts

[1:04:40] threehitting each one of these poor

[1:04:41] guards, killing them one after another,

[1:04:44] which scares me from running in to tank

[1:04:46] him until a few are already dead. By the

[1:04:48] time I jump in, I realize I can't take

[1:04:50] him down myself, not even with the help

[1:04:52] of everyone still alive. And in fact,

[1:04:55] I'm about to die. That's when I try to

[1:04:57] run away. And my Runescape player brain

[1:04:59] kicks in, trying to find a safe spot

[1:05:00] behind this fence just to stall as long

[1:05:03] as possible. But that's when

[1:05:07] >> a much higher level player comes to my

[1:05:10] rescue, seeing the pathetic scene from

[1:05:13] down the road. And thank goodness that

[1:05:14] they are a very talented hunter who can

[1:05:17] actually help subdue the abomination.

[1:05:19] This highle hunter Llin and her pet cat

[1:05:22] help me finish off stitches once again

[1:05:24] returning him to a lifeless corpse

[1:05:26] saving the town. Like we we have this

[1:05:29] discussion a lot where like modern MMOs

[1:05:31] do this thing and and retail WoW's like

[1:05:34] this and some other ones are too where

[1:05:36] like everyone levels with the world so

[1:05:39] everyone's scaled kind of like the

[1:05:42] sameish and you can group across

[1:05:44] different levels and do the same

[1:05:46] instances together and like the idea is

[1:05:48] okay the player is in charge of where

[1:05:51] they can go and the player can group

[1:05:53] with people despite the levels and it

[1:05:55] scales everyone so you can play with

[1:05:56] your friends easier.

[1:05:58] That's the concept. And that's true, I

[1:06:00] guess. But what sucks is you don't have

[1:06:02] moments like this where someone who's a

[1:06:04] higher level than you that's stronger

[1:06:05] than you and it can come in and save you

[1:06:09] or not or just run by you and you just

[1:06:11] seeing like that power of like, holy

[1:06:14] crap, I want to get there. And when

[1:06:16] everyone just scales and everything, you

[1:06:18] don't have this moment where like, wait,

[1:06:20] I'm the strong guy. I can then go help

[1:06:23] and kill things that were hard for me a

[1:06:25] few weeks ago. Like that's so critical

[1:06:27] to an MMO. Like there's some decisions.

[1:06:30] It's like OH

[1:06:33] I it's like I I don't like the scaling

[1:06:35] in any MMO, man. So bad. It's so bad.

[1:06:38] Yeah, it comes with the pros, but it's

[1:06:40] so bad. Thank you so much, Lerlin, for

[1:06:42] saving my sorry ass. This was such a

[1:06:44] cool moment. Most of the times when I

[1:06:46] play MMOs in the past, any kind of boss

[1:06:48] in a quest like this is always fought in

[1:06:50] an instance rather than out in the open

[1:06:53] world. Having the big villain of this

[1:06:55] quest line be something that's actually

[1:06:57] roaming around the world among everyone

[1:07:00] else not only makes it all the more

[1:07:02] terrifying when I see him slaughter

[1:07:05] regular questgiving NPCs, but it also

[1:07:07] makes him feel all the more real since

[1:07:09] he's something every player in the world

[1:07:12] can see and has to deal with. It

[1:07:14] genuinely feels like I really did mess

[1:07:16] everything up and almost caused the end

[1:07:17] of Darkshshire. Also, I have to love the

[1:07:20] throwback that Stitches is just an

[1:07:21] abomination from Warcraft 3. I beam with

[1:07:24] joy every time I see any kind of

[1:07:26] reference to that game. But with

[1:07:27] Stitches dead, I head back out to the

[1:07:29] hermit's shack, finding the grave of his

[1:07:31] wife lying behind it. I read the

[1:07:33] gravestone before doing anything else,

[1:07:35] which gives me a nice reminder of the

[1:07:37] motivations that kicked off all this

[1:07:39] chaos. I've always found stories to be

[1:07:41] boring if a villain is just some random

[1:07:44] guy that wants to destroy the world

[1:07:46] because he's evil or whatever. It's

[1:07:48] always so much cooler when there is a

[1:07:50] real relatable motivation behind an

[1:07:52] antagonist. And losing a loved one is

[1:07:54] something I can certainly empathize

[1:07:56] with. I dig up the hermit's wife who

[1:07:58] tries to eat me and apparently succeeds

[1:08:01] as I died not realizing I need some help

[1:08:04] to do this quest. She is a pretty tough

[1:08:06] elite herself. But after reviving and

[1:08:08] getting a couple strangers in region

[1:08:09] chat to come around, I manage to slay

[1:08:12] Eliza and grab Abberrombiey's heart from

[1:08:15] her chest cavity. I take his heart back

[1:08:17] to the mayor.

[1:08:18] >> That's also a cool thing of classic is

[1:08:20] just like

[1:08:22] assuming you're not like minmaxing world

[1:08:24] buffs like using cheesy strategies like

[1:08:27] standing on the roof and what like this

[1:08:29] and that. Assuming you're just like

[1:08:30] playing normally and you're like a

[1:08:31] you're underleveled or like the

[1:08:33] appropriate level, no world buffs and

[1:08:34] you're just kind of whatever. Like you

[1:08:36] have to talk to other people and be

[1:08:38] like, "Hey, is anyone else on this quest

[1:08:39] or can anyone help me?" And like you

[1:08:41] have to group and like it's such a good

[1:08:43] feeling, right? who thanks me for saving

[1:08:44] the town, assuring my name will be

[1:08:47] written in their history books and

[1:08:49] rewarding me with a pretty awesome

[1:08:51] shield, the crest of Darkshshire. And

[1:08:53] you know what? This story, it was great.

[1:08:56] No disappointment whatsoever. It was

[1:08:58] amazing from start to finish. You know,

[1:09:00] I was just talking earlier about how

[1:09:02] cool it is that Runescape keeps the

[1:09:04] logic of an MMO by starting off quests

[1:09:06] with hless adventurers accidentally

[1:09:08] helping out villains. I had no idea I

[1:09:11] WAS ABOUT TO RUN INTO the exact same

[1:09:12] thing. And it works just as well here.

[1:09:15] After all, it wouldn't make sense if I

[1:09:17] just came into this game and had some

[1:09:19] random NPC giving me a quest saying,

[1:09:21] "Help. You're the only one that can save

[1:09:22] us from the imbalmer attacking our

[1:09:24] town." But it does make so much sense in

[1:09:26] a world filled with random adventurers

[1:09:29] running around. that one idiot would be

[1:09:31] gullible enough to accidentally do a

[1:09:33] quest, helping out the imbalmer that

[1:09:36] almost levels all of Darkshshire with

[1:09:38] the added awesome flavor that it takes

[1:09:41] actual groups of other. Unironically, in

[1:09:44] hardcore, someone could accidentally do

[1:09:47] the quest that helps the Impalmer summon

[1:09:49] stitches and then stitches then kills

[1:09:52] someone else. So, you're effectively

[1:09:54] like killing other players hardcore

[1:09:56] characters by doing this quest without

[1:09:58] even knowing it.

[1:09:59] players to set everything right. One of

[1:10:01] the more fascinating things about this

[1:10:03] quest line, though, is that I might have

[1:10:05] actually appreciated everything all the

[1:10:07] more, specifically because I was coming

[1:10:10] to this quest after I experienced all

[1:10:12] those disappointments leading up to it.

[1:10:14] I mean, I was just going through so many

[1:10:16] simple quest lines to kill a certain

[1:10:18] number of mobs or collect certain items

[1:10:21] or deliver this message. So, it didn't

[1:10:23] feel like anything was a miss as I was

[1:10:25] going and doing the exact same tasks

[1:10:27] just for another NPC. I actually didn't

[1:10:30] pick up that anything suspicious was

[1:10:31] going on until I was already a few steps

[1:10:33] in. I assumed I was just helping a weird

[1:10:36] old guy that Madameva was worried about.

[1:10:38] Actually, why did she send me to

[1:10:39] Abbercrombie anyway? She was the one

[1:10:41] that wanted me to check up on him in the

[1:10:43] first place. This is all her fault. One

[1:10:44] of the things this quest reminded me of

[1:10:46] more than any other, though, is how nice

[1:10:48] it feels when you have delayed

[1:10:50] gratification in a game. I don't know if

[1:10:52] it's just developers not trusting

[1:10:54] players patience nowadays or what, but

[1:10:56] it feels like so many online games today

[1:11:00] just throw you immediately into high

[1:11:02] stakes action. Well, I I think it's

[1:11:04] because like

[1:11:07] like the the gaming audience these days,

[1:11:09] like the kids these days, like the

[1:11:11] masses these days kind of do want to get

[1:11:13] thrown into the action. I think it's us

[1:11:15] like I don't know how old Chay is,

[1:11:16] probably in his 30s, you know, he has

[1:11:18] kids and stuff. like all of us in our

[1:11:20] 30s that like grew up playing this

[1:11:21] stuff. It's like yeah, no, we kind of

[1:11:22] want that like slow delayed

[1:11:24] gratification, but I can see why

[1:11:26] developers don't do it cuz you're like

[1:11:27] catering to like bunch of boomers and

[1:11:30] never let off the gas pedal. Everything

[1:11:32] has to hit the ground running.

[1:11:33] Everything has to be instantaneous. At

[1:11:36] least in the world of online games,

[1:11:38] people seem to come in with this

[1:11:40] expectation that they are experiencing

[1:11:42] the best and most intense possible

[1:11:44] gameplay right from the get- go, no

[1:11:46] questions asked. But, I don't know. I

[1:11:48] don't think that's as fun, at least not

[1:11:50] after a while. A story can't be non-stop

[1:11:53] action. You need to have slower moments

[1:11:55] to appreciate stillness, sit with

[1:11:57] events, and let a narrative breathe.

[1:11:59] Even in multiplayer games that have no

[1:12:01] story, you really should have moments of

[1:12:03] downtime before the exciting

[1:12:05] gamedefining action occurs. It's because

[1:12:08] of those smaller moments of buildup that

[1:12:10] the big exciting plays feel all the more

[1:12:13] big and exciting. And that's certainly

[1:12:14] true in MMOs. The excitement that comes

[1:12:17] from getting a rare drop or

[1:12:18] accomplishing a tough achievement or

[1:12:20] even doing something as simple as

[1:12:21] leveling up that only feels good because

[1:12:24] of all the hard work you had to put into

[1:12:26] it. If a game is nothing but an endless

[1:12:28] stream of shiny rewards given to you one

[1:12:30] after another, then no reward means

[1:12:32] anything. You got to let me breathe

[1:12:34] BEFORE YOU THROW ANOTHER POP-UP my way.

[1:12:36] But yeah, Abberro's quest line, it was

[1:12:38] absolutely incredible. Somehow Duskwood

[1:12:40] now has three of my favorite quests in

[1:12:43] this game.

[1:12:44] so good at making spooky regions.

[1:12:46] Trustar was also my favorite zone in

[1:12:48] retail, too. They have a real knack for

[1:12:50] this. But, you know, honestly, of all

[1:12:52] the things I've talked about in this

[1:12:53] video so far, one thing that's really

[1:12:56] surprised me the most about classic WoW

[1:12:58] in my playthrough is how the game feels

[1:13:00] like it's getting denser the longer I

[1:13:03] play. Normally, MMOs don't do that.

[1:13:05] Normally, MMOs either have content

[1:13:07] that's frontloaded at the beginning or

[1:13:09] backloaded at the end, or maybe both.

[1:13:11] Developers obviously want to have a very

[1:13:13] curated introductory experience, putting

[1:13:16] their best foot forward for new players

[1:13:18] in the early levels to actually sell the

[1:13:20] prospect of players playing their game

[1:13:22] for a few thousand hours. So, it makes

[1:13:24] sense there would be tons of well-made

[1:13:26] content placed right at the start, but

[1:13:28] you also have to make sure you're

[1:13:29] constantly adding all kinds of content

[1:13:32] to the end game for the sweaty players

[1:13:34] that max out their characters too fast

[1:13:36] and then constantly demand new

[1:13:38] challenges and items to grind for. So

[1:13:40] that's why it makes sense there would

[1:13:42] also be tons of well-made content in the

[1:13:44] end. But that means for most MMOs, if

[1:13:46] there's ever a weak point, it's the mid

[1:13:48] game where players are stuck between

[1:13:50] those two. And that's why it's so

[1:13:51] surprising to me that WoW is getting

[1:13:53] denser the more I'm entering the mid

[1:13:55] game. I am [snorts] okay. I'm actually

[1:13:58] this this will be interesting to see

[1:13:59] where it goes. So Dusk, he doesn't know

[1:14:01] this, but Duskwood's early game, but

[1:14:04] it's kind of where early game starts to

[1:14:05] end. And in my opinion, the Elwin,

[1:14:09] Westfall, Red Ridge, Duskwood, even the

[1:14:12] like Stranglethorn is like the best, but

[1:14:15] the midway is like really like we know

[1:14:17] like 44, 45.

[1:14:19] It does get slow there. It does like,

[1:14:22] you know, it just it just does. I'm

[1:14:24] curious how if GB makes it that far, how

[1:14:27] he's going to feel at like level 45 cuz

[1:14:29] it does get slow. It's like hours and

[1:14:31] hours and hours and you level up and you

[1:14:33] get kind of like nothing.

[1:14:36] And it's like there wasn't any like

[1:14:37] crazy epic quest either. So I I I'm

[1:14:40] curious how he's going to feel those

[1:14:41] like mid-40s, you know, once you get

[1:14:43] closer to 60, it's exciting, too, I

[1:14:45] think. And like the early game is

[1:14:46] amazing, but the mid game in the 40 like

[1:14:48] Yeah, I'm curious how he's going to

[1:14:49] feel. You know, seeing more noteworthy

[1:14:51] stories than ever. As I continue

[1:14:53] playing, I'm getting more areas to

[1:14:55] explore with more secrets hanging around

[1:14:57] in each one of them. I've got a quest

[1:14:59] log that's never empty. I have tons of

[1:15:01] new regions I'm about to step into. I

[1:15:03] also just found PvP and tried to queue

[1:15:05] up for my first ever battlegrounds, even

[1:15:07] though the queue never popped. That's

[1:15:09] another thing I can't wait to try. And

[1:15:11] on top of all of that, by now, the

[1:15:13] game's given me so many abilities and

[1:15:15] gear options. I bet I could spend over

[1:15:17] an hour just trying to fiddle with how

[1:15:19] to best set up my ability bar. It's

[1:15:21] incredible how much stuff there is in

[1:15:23] this game, and how I'm never running out

[1:15:25] of things to do, even as I finally start

[1:15:27] to wrap up the starting zones that I

[1:15:29] first came across. And I'm still

[1:15:31] unlocking more. While I was wrapping up

[1:15:32] the Abbercrombie quest line, a guild

[1:15:34] mate messaged me saying they noticed I

[1:15:36] hit level 30 and hinting that I should

[1:15:38] really do the whirlwind axe quest,

[1:15:40] whatever that is, I realized that's a

[1:15:42] class quest. I haven't done one of those

[1:15:43] in a while. And now I'm pumped as hell

[1:15:45] to see where that will take me. Maybe

[1:15:47] it'll take me to Daroshshire so I can

[1:15:49] actually get back to doing what I want

[1:15:51] to be doing more than anything else

[1:15:52] right now. But I'll save all that for

[1:15:54] next.

[1:15:54] >> I wonder if this guildy is like an

[1:15:57] actual guildy or just like a backseat.

[1:16:01] Cuz like if it's just a backseater, it's

[1:16:03] kind of annoying. Like you reach 30, we

[1:16:06] need like now now go do this. Like I

[1:16:09] almost just want to see where he goes

[1:16:10] himself. Or if it was just actually a

[1:16:12] guilty just being like like that, then

[1:16:15] it's kind of wholesome. But if it's a

[1:16:17] backseater like knowing that it's GB

[1:16:19] telling him what to do next, it's like

[1:16:20] no, we want to like just just let him

[1:16:22] like do his thing, you know? Uh it was

[1:16:25] definitely a backseater. Yeah, probably

[1:16:26] a backseater. But yeah, guys, like, let

[1:16:28] guys, it's so fun watching Gbeay play.

[1:16:31] Let's just let him play. You know what I

[1:16:33] mean? Just let him play.

[1:16:35] >> Wind axe pump doing what I want to get

[1:16:37] to the end of this one. If you enjoyed

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[1:16:54] >> because because yeah, like it's it's a

[1:16:56] fundamentally different experience. Like

[1:16:58] say say someone carries him through the

[1:17:00] whirlwind quest and then gives him a

[1:17:03] fiery enchant. Now your your your

[1:17:05] experience as a first time playthrough

[1:17:08] is completely changed. It's completely

[1:17:10] different. Now you have an item that can

[1:17:12] oneshot anything. Like the the whole

[1:17:14] like my character feels weak and the

[1:17:16] world is just completely ruined. Like

[1:17:18] you know as a 10th character, cool. Like

[1:17:20] have fun like do that. But as a first

[1:17:21] time playthrough, it's like

[1:17:24] it's just it'll just you know

[1:17:26] description down below and claim that

[1:17:28] massive bonus pack for multiple premium

[1:17:31] vehicles, in-game currency, and more

[1:17:33] before it's all gone. And shout out once

[1:17:35] again to all channel members for

[1:17:37] supporting me on this series. Not only

[1:17:38] had I not expected WoW to be so good,

[1:17:41] but I did not expect its community would

[1:17:43] be so kind and supportive. I have got

[1:17:45] some channel member specific things

[1:17:47] coming for you guys right around the

[1:17:48] corner. So stay tuned for that. And with

[1:17:50] all that being said, I will see you all

[1:17:52] in the next episode. But until then,

[1:17:54] thank you very much for watching. Good

[1:17:56] luck in solo Q and have a wonderful day,

[1:17:59] guys. There's going to be another

[1:18:00] episode. WGB. There we go, guys. I This

[1:18:05] video came out Friday. I knew like I was

[1:18:07] so excited to watch it, but I was like,

[1:18:08] "Guys, like we're going to have to wait

[1:18:09] for Monday cuz it's going to be like a

[1:18:10] it's like an hour long video like with

[1:18:12] how much I yap. It's going to be like a

[1:18:13] 2-hour long react, but like holy crap.

[1:18:16] I'm I'm loving this, man. I'm loving the

[1:18:17] series." Um, if you guys haven't checked

[1:18:20] out GB99, he's he's doing like a WOW

[1:18:22] series and his I don't know if it's like

[1:18:24] a playlist. He'll probably make it into

[1:18:27] a playlist at some point, right? But his

[1:18:29] his just his last like couple uploads,

[1:18:32] Classic Wow, I tried Classic Wow with no

[1:18:33] Nostalgia was the first one, I think.

[1:18:35] And then he tried retail, too. Um, but

[1:18:37] man, it's just so good. So darn good.