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YouTube Comments Control My Hardcore WoW Journey Ep.2

0h 19m video Published May 1, 2026 Transcribed Jul 28, 2026 ElonCS ElonCS
Beginner 10 min read For: World of Warcraft players, especially those interested in hardcore modes and community-driven challenges.
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"Exactly what the title promises - the audience's comments dictate the gameplay from episode to episode, with clear execution."

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In this episode of his hardcore World of Warcraft challenge, the creator follows rules set by YouTube comments, which include unbinding his jump key and wasting all gold on useless vendor items. He progresses from level 5 to 10, completes key quests, and relies on community engagement to dictate his gameplay.

[00:01]
Challenge Overview

The series is a hardcore WoW challenge where the top two most liked comments determine the rules for each episode. Rules reset every episode.

[00:44]
Unbind Jump Key

The first rule implemented is unbinding the jump key, making the gameplay feel awkward and dangerous in hardcore mode.

[01:10]
Waste Gold on Vendor Items

The second rule is to spend all gold on useless vendor items like milk, which provides no benefit and fills inventory.

[03:03]
No Add-ons

The creator plays without any add-ons, making questing and navigation harder as he relies solely on in-game UI.

[04:55]
Level 6 Milestone

He quickly reaches level 6 with rested XP, but struggles with weapon skills and damage output.

[07:06]
First Cave Encounter

Enters a mine cautiously for a quest, noting the danger of respawns and high-level mobs.

[11:46]
Game Promotion

The creator promotes his free-to-play Steam game 'Cave Dude' which is a clicker incremental game.

[16:27]
Loot One-Handed Sword

Finds a one-handed sword, stronger than his current weapon, requiring him to level up sword skill.

[17:07]
Hogger and Staff Reward

Groups with higher-level players to kill Hogger, earning a staff which he plans to use after training weapon skill.

[18:15]
Level 10 and First Talent Point

Reaches level 10, gains first talent point, and asks viewers for talent suggestions.

[18:27]
Spending Gold on Milk

As per rule, he buys a large amount of milk from a vendor, leaving only 1 copper left.

The video successfully demonstrates a community-driven challenge where viewer comments directly influence gameplay, leading to unique and risky situations that are entertaining for both the creator and audience.

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Study Flashcards (8)

What two rules did the comments impose for episode 2?

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Unbind the jump key and waste all gold on useless vendor items.

00:44

What level did the creator reach by the end of this episode?

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Level 10.

18:15

What weapon did the creator get from the Hogger quest?

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A staff.

17:07

What useless item did the creator spend all his gold on?

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Milk.

18:27

Why did the creator have to level up his weapon skill after looting a one-handed sword?

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Because he had no skill in swords, only in maces.

16:27

What is the name of the free-to-play game promoted by the creator?

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Cave Dude.

11:46

How does the creator decide which rules to follow each episode?

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The top two most liked comments under the previous episode.

00:01

What happens if the creator dies in the hardcore challenge?

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The challenge ends.

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💡 Key Takeaways

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Community-Driven Challenge

Demonstrates a unique engagement method where audience comments directly control gameplay, creating a dynamic series.

00:01
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No Add-ons Gameplay

Highlights the difficulty of playing without UI modifications, which is rare in modern WoW and makes the challenge harder.

03:03
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Game Promotion Integration

Shows how creators can seamlessly promote their own projects within content without disrupting the flow.

11:46
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Grouping for Hogger

Illustrates the importance of cooperation in hardcore mode to overcome difficult enemies at low levels.

17:07
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Spending Gold on Milk

A humorous fulfillment of a viewer rule, showing the absurdity and fun of community-driven content.

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[00:01] towards max level in hardcore World of Warcraft. In this series, you guys are deciding my faith in the comments. The top two most liked comments under every episode will be the rules I have to follow for the next one. So, for the

[00:16] first episode, I decided the rules since I didn't have any comments yet, and I decided to go without a weapon. So, for this episode, we're going to check the comments immediately and see what kind of rules we have to follow for this one.

[00:28] Just a quick little note, this challenge will go on until I either hit max level or I die. As soon as I die, this challenge ends, so keep that in mind when you're writing the comments. So, here we have my video over on YouTube,

[00:44] liked comment, and we can see immediately here that unbind my jump key has most likes out of everything, so that is the first thing that we're going to do. So, let's go ahead immediately

[00:58] to do. So, let's go ahead immediately into the options and unbind my jump key. So, let's unbind jump. There we go. So, now we cannot do any kind of jumping, which feels really, really strange, and I hope this will not be killing me

[01:10] because I failed to remember that I cannot jump. But, let's go ahead and check the comments again. So, looking at the other comments, it's way more even, but what I can see here is waste all your gold on some useless vendor items

[01:24] has four likes, and also then we have this one right here. I like the idea for part two. I suggest you unlock as many flight points as possible by going there, at least Westfall, Booty Bay, and Swamp of Sorrows. Refrain from using a

[01:37] bring this series to an early end. I think this is a great idea. However, I think I will die if I go to Booty Bay, and if I go to Swamp of Sorrows. So, I'm actually going to go with the one that I have to waste all of my gold, and I will

[01:51] think about doing this one as well if it's possible. But, I don't know if I can go to Booty Bay at like level five without dying. And since I'm not going it's going to be very hard. And this comment here in the end is an answer to

[02:06] the question that I had if I should keep the rules from the previous episodes for the coming episodes as well or if the rules should be reset every time a new resetting the rules every new episode because that is basically the feedback I

[02:23] got on that. Everyone who said anything about it from what I could see said that I should be resetting the rules from every episode. For this episode, we are not going to be able to jump and we're going to be spending all of our gold on

[02:36] useless vendor items. So that's going to be very interesting. So I think later in all of the money that we have gained is kind of useless cuz it's only three silver and that wouldn't really be

[02:49] hurting me that much. So I think we do it later. So if you think that I am little bit more detailed in your comments because I really want to be following you guys' rules. But as we also know, we do not use any add-ons, so

[03:03] we're going completely raw and I'm not the biggest classic player, so it will can actually figure out all of the quests. So it's taking me longer than course. And we still don't have a weapon. Maybe we should actually go and

[03:18] and check at the vendor if we can actually buy something for three silver or if it's too expensive cuz I have no idea. I guess we're going to buy the cudgel because we cannot afford any of the other items here. So that one is I

[03:32] guess not a useless vendor item, but at least we spend it on a vendor item, but it's something that we really, really do need. It feels so awkward, by the way, to jumping around all the time. I have no skill on my weapon, so I'm basically

[03:46] dealing no damage. Am I even going to be able to kill this boar or is he going to I should be able to kill him, right? Okay, I got to be really aware now when I don't have any skill in the weapon. Okay, we were definitely able to kill

[03:59] him, but we need to skill up our weapon more. So, we got to be playing a little trainer has anything to offer to us. Oh, yeah, we didn't train Rend last time I did it. I'm feeling a little bit like awkward spending my gold now because I

[04:15] was supposed to buy vendor items, but I guess it's better to do it later when it is okay. I'm just going to be going around here right now and just skilling up the weapon so I don't end up in a situation later where my skill actually

[04:28] hurts me and end up skilling me that I don't deal any damage. I'm so worried all the time. I also don't really know what my rotation is. Should I be using Rend when I'm killing the mobs or should I just use the heroic strike? Like, I

[04:40] have no idea what the rotation is. But, it feels nice to be kind of fresh. I'm but it always feels good when you haven't done something in a very long it. And also like that kind of still think I'm a classic noob, you know? So,

[04:55] it feels great. We got some rested XP here as well, which is really nice. So, we're leveling quite fast. Yeah, there we go. We just hit level six already. Holy [ __ ] I'm wondering if we should pick up some professions. Hmm, maybe

[05:07] that's for later. Okay, so we pretty much have the max skill of maces now. That went quick. So, I think we're ready to go to the mine and kill these kobolds, but this mine is scary. So, I'm going to be playing this very carefully.

[05:21] There is a lot of mobs in this mine that is just aggroing. So, I think we're going to be clearing mostly outside. I am seeing something quite juicy over here. A battle chest. I guess the thing that we really want to get now is a good

[05:34] weapon because the weapon we have is really not good. We got a long boost staff. Cannot use staffs, sadly. I think I can if I were to train it somewhere, but that we cannot do right now. Oh, [ __ ] A double pull. Let's see. I hope

[05:48] we can handle it unless they start to dodge everything. Holy [ __ ]

[06:02] a little bit scary. I don't know. It just felt scary. Maybe it wasn't even close, but it felt close. Holy [ __ ] We are getting quite a lot of linen cloth, so I guess we will be spending that on learning first aid. Just getting first

[06:15] aid as a warrior is probably quite huge. Okay, here we got a full gang of people. I don't know what's going on, but uh hello. of leveling. Seems kind of fun. They're

[06:28] nuking stuff, but I'm getting no mobs. They're getting all of the mobs and I am too scared to go inside this freaking cave. I just looted the cracked butler. That is good. Some extra armor that we take. I just realized though that I

[06:41] actually have to go in to the mine to finish that quest, which makes me really, really afraid. If we can loot like a healing potion or something, it would feel better, but um if we cannot, I'm not really sure. Now I

[06:54] looted that two-handed mace, but I cannot use that either. Maybe it's only sword and maces I can use. Sword and one-handed maces, I guess. It shouldn't be that far into the cave that I actually have to go, so maybe I can do

[07:06] it slowly. But I'm afraid of some like weird respawns. Let's go in here and see how it goes. Okay, it was only that far we needed to go. That wasn't that far. I'm just going out immediately. I'm too afraid. Maybe I need to show this though

[07:20] every episode, like the buff here that it says never known defeat so you know forgot in the last episode, but maybe that's good. Oh, no. That guy just stole my battle chest. Ay ay ay. That's not good. Or is he Ah, he's in combat with

[07:35] Yeah. He's level 11 as well. That's quite high level. Another two-handed weapon dropping, Cobalt Mining Shovel. I just realized that I have finished all of the quests. Just cuz I I'm so used to having

[07:50] like add-ons or any pop-ups, but yeah, I finished all of the quests. So, let's go fun to see that there is quite active realms like people playing on these hardcore realms. That's very interesting. I didn't know what to

[08:04] a lot of people everywhere. Of course, I'm still low level. I guess a lot of people die and they try again, but still. Like look at this, it's so many people. It's even late night now. Bag of Marbles decreases target's chance to hit

[08:17] by 25%. That one can maybe come in handy sometime. Okay, there we go. Level seven. Absolutely amazing. We got another debuff here that we can use on the mobs. I tend to always forget to use these items. So, I would really love to

[08:31] get another weapon though. Let's just check the skills really quick. Axes and swords. Is this included like two-handed swords or not? Let's see here vendor. It's actually not. That is pretty boring. So, I have to play a one-handed.

[08:44] I would like to be wearing a two-handed instead and just going absolutely ham. now we cannot do that and we can't afford it. Okay, so the quest I have now is Shipment to Stormwind, Further Concerns, and Jasperload Mine.

[08:59] Jasperload Mine I know is like up here in a mine, which feels too high level for now. This one, the Further Concerns, it wants me to go to like over this area. It's It's also high level quest. Isn't there any lower level quest here

[09:15] or is my or is it the way to go to Stormwind next? Might be the way for me. I actually have no idea. I don't remember what to do right now. Like what Stormwind. Bring William's Shipment to Morgan Pestle in the Stormwind Trade

[09:30] District. Okay, here we go. Morgan Pestle. Let's complete this and see what we should take here. Thinking the explosive rocket actually, that can save us. Also, maybe that's a little bit more fun to do. Here is a quest we can take,

[09:45] wine shop advert. Go to the Okay, let's just take that one. What I'm going to do right now is we're going to be learning two-handed swords. So, if we get a drop of a sword, we're going to be able to equip it cuz I want to be a two-handed

[09:58] maybe it's smarter, but it's also a little bit more boring cuz I want to get those high crits. So, now we have that and now we're not going to be spending any more gold this episode because now we're going to be spending it on useless

[10:13] vendor items later. So, now let's see if we can get our hands on a two-handed sword somehow and then we can start, hopefully, nuking stuff and see some bigger crits. That would be so much fun. Looks like we found the winery here.

[10:28] Okay, we got some bottle here. Not that good, but I guess it was 130 XP at least. I think our first goal right now should be to try to get ourselves a really fun if we could start swinging like crazy with a two-handed instead of

[10:42] just having the mace and a shield. And since we're not going to be spending any more silver or any more gold cuz we're going to be using that to buy useless [ __ ] later, we're going to have to drop one. And I'm not sure if there are any

[10:54] that's going to give us a two-handed sword. We're going to give it a shot. going to be killing a lot of mobs. We're going to be trying to find quests. Since I don't use any add-ons, I'm not really sure where my next go-to is. I think I

[11:09] will go over here to the bridge cuz I know there's a quest guy there and see if he's offering any appropriate level quests cuz I'm not sure since we're only level seven. We might also go back to Fargodeep Mine cuz the chest there, we

[11:21] might be lucky to get a weapon from the chest. So, we have some options, but no matter what, we kind of need to level up because I know that in Westfall there are some quests that gives us a two-handed weapon, but that's later on.

[11:33] up a bit at least. We just got a two-hander, but that is once again a cobalt mining shovel, unfortunate, cuz that is not a two-handed sword. Oh, no, this guy just looted the chest. I'm sorry to interrupt, I just quickly want

[11:46] to say that me and my brother have made a free-to-play game on Steam. So, if you guys want to support me a lot, go ahead and try the game on Steam right now. It's called Cave Dude. Cave Dude is basically a clicker incremental type of

[11:58] game. It's really fun. Kill monsters, upgrade your weapon, train your pet, and even invest in stocks and crypto. So, please have a look at Cave Dude over on Steam. It is actually really fun. It's linked in the description below, and I

[12:11] am actually so addicted to this game right now. Big rip. Wait, he didn't take all the items of the chest. What is this guy doing? Spring water. guy doing? Spring water. Oh, [ __ ]

[12:29] chest spawn here, because I think they spawn really frequently. I'm not fully couple of mobs and see if we can get another chest to spawn. Another cobalt mining shovel. It's time to leave this area. I can't find another chest. It

[12:43] seems like it's not respawning as fast as I thought. So, let's just move on, try to find some quest, and see if we can loot like a weapon while we just at it. There we go. Here we have some quests to take. So,

[12:55] it's the princess must die quest. This one I am familiar with killing that uh big boar. Oh, a chest is up. Let's see if we can get it. Please give me a weapon. I did not get a weapon. So, I got the gold tooth quest now, but that

[13:09] middle of the mine there, so I'm going to be taking it easy on that one. My first encounter with a young forest bear. Those are pretty damn hard to

[13:21] kill. I might have to use a healing potion here. I think I actually They to. Yeah, I do it so it doesn't like randomly crit me or something. Holy [ __ ] I need to be really careful cuz that was level nine as well. I'm only

[13:33] level seven. Holy [ __ ] We need to be taking it easy. We just level up. Level eight, here we are. Maybe now we get access to some more quests. But, I'm trying to make my way over here now to the bridge. We have

[13:48] a quest to turn in there as well. So, we got a quest to kill those prowlers and the forest bears. And also, we got a quest to go up here to the murlocs. We're going to have to talk to some kind of bullish or whatever it is. I know

[14:00] this quest. I've done it so many times it feels like. But, the forest bears are hard and I think the prowlers are as well. I think we are at a little bit of 100% sure. But, yeah, they are level nine. So, it's a bit scary actually.

[14:14] apparently. I think this is not the smartest thing if we want to survive to do right now. Maybe going to Jasper load is smarter now actually. Yeah, the murlocs is all up to level 10. I'm going to ditch. Maybe a bit boring, but like

[14:27] what the hell? We can do this later on when we're at least level nine cuz I'm so scared. Hopefully, we can drop a new healing potion soon. When you have one, you feel way stronger cuz you have a lifeline. But, yeah, right now I don't.

[14:40] Maybe I should have been like alchemy and stuff. Maybe that's for later. Okay, sneaky cave adventure. Let's see how this is going to go. I hope it's Okay, they are respawning. If that guy got hit by the geomancer.

[14:53] I'm going to try to Oh, I don't even have cast bars now. That's right. With no add-ons, you don't even see their cast time. I'll just see which mob this guy attacks and I'll just go for

[15:06] this one. It is hella scary being into those mines. Like if you get respawns here, it's like yeah, you can just die I guess. I hope it's not that far in with No, we already discovered it. So, we don't have to go

[15:19] further. Yeah, we're going out of the cave now since we have explored it. No way, we just looted a two-handed axe, but we don't have axes learned. [ __ ] Just want to get a sword, man. Just want

[15:34] to get a sword. Oh, there is a chest, but there's like no way we can reach it. It's like six, seven mobs or something there. We are not going to even attempt that. Okay, so now it's sending me down the

[15:46] path to the Hogger quests. I don't remember the level of the mobs there either, but I guess we will try to go there and see. I am very confused at the moment on what I should actually do to like level up more than just killing

[15:59] mobs. Here we can actually get a insanely good staff if we manage to kill insanely good staff if we manage to kill Hogger later. So maybe later on we try to get staff skill as well and like we use that staff. But I'm going to see

[16:11] what the level the gnolls are here cuz we need to kill gnolls and stuff and I level nine, so we actually going to give it a shot here now and just try to play maybe we can hit level nine along the way as well. Here I actually find a

[16:27] one-handed sword. That is kind of unlucky, but it is so much stronger than the the one that we currently have at least, so that is good. But now that I get a sword, I kind of have to level up my skill with the weapon again. So let's

[16:39] go ahead and do that. When I were at the Hogger quest and just got all of my painted armbands for the gnoll quest, there was a mage and another player here. It looked like they wanted to do Hogger, so we kind of grouped up and we

[16:53] which was really nice. So we made it possible and actually killed him at quite a low level. The warrior here was level 11 and the mage was level 17. So it was kind of easy to kill it. Luckily, I didn't have to tank it as well cuz

[17:07] that would have been scary. But this is great cuz now we're going to be able to get the staff from the Hogger quest for later and hopefully for the next episode when we can spend some more silver, we can maybe train ourselves in staff and

[17:19] we can equip that one and we can start nuking. So, that I'm really really happy about. I don't know if it would have been better to pick something else than twice about it. Maybe I should have picked like the legs or the chest

[17:31] instead, but I picked the staff. I don't know what was the best option here. We are now higher level. We are level nine, so I decided to go into the scary cave and kill Goldtooth finally, but now it was a breeze because those other mobs

[17:46] were green for me. So, I really nuked problem either. So, I just went ahead, killed him very easily and got that quest out of the way as well. So, that was perfect. And another chance at

[18:00] opening this chest, but unluckily again, we don't really get anything. We got some healing potions though, which is nice, but nothing really special. And after I did a lot of boar grinding, I actually managed to hit level 10 here,

[18:15] which is really nice. So, now we're going to be able to put our first talent point in, but I have no idea what I'm going to spec myself into. So, let me know if you have any ideas on that as well. It's time to spend our gold on

[18:27] some useless stuff on the vendor. So, I guess now we have vendored everything that we don't really need. So, sadly instead of buying something useful like a small brown pouch or training some new abilities, I guess we're going to buy

[18:41] something that is completely useless and I just got to figure out what is completely useless that we can buy. I guess we can buy a lot of milk cuz milk isn't really useful for us. So, I think we're going to go with the milk, guys.

[18:54] We just bought a [ __ ] ton of milk. So, there we go. We have one copper left. it, right? Otherwise, I could have at least given it away to like this guy, but yeah. Now we have our bag filled with a lot of useless milk. That's

[19:07] the comments what you think the rules for the next episode should be. Thank this kind of series, please let me know because I'm uncertain if you guys like this or not. Much love. See you in the next episode. Goodbye, guys.

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