One guy was so gung ho about trolling me that He personally led me all the way to Silverpine to find Mankrik's wife. Then He hearthstone'd out and left me stranded in Werewolftown.
What's so great about questlines like this is that they're so grounded. It's just a poor guy who got attacked by monsters and lost his wife. None of the newer takes where everyone treats you like a demigod and queries you with tasks so removed from the world you're in that they don't mean anything anymore. It feels real. And as a player makes you feel that you're part of a living world.
Try explaining that feeling to the new gen of WoW players. Its soooo boring, they would cry. Why do we gotta be demigods and chosen ones all the damn time?
@@jessehenderson2967 New player here (started in last November, am playing through all possible quests in the Starter Edition) - I prefer the more grounded, 'boring' quests of vanilla over the zip-zoop-blam-pow quests of WoD and later. I remember starting WoD, exiting the portal and being called a Champion, Hero, and Commander, all in the span of 10 minutes. I didn't even had a Garrison at that point! Like damn, calm the fuck down game! Having that one guy in Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra, Northrend, recognize me as someone who fought the Burning Crusade in Outland felt much more impressive, over every fucking NPC going ERMAHGERSH, COMMANDER, PLEASE COME OVER HERE TO TALK TO ME! OH MY GOD, EVERYONE LOOK! IT'S THE COMMANDER. Like, get off my dick. Also the whole anti-social setup of WoW. I didn't need to talk to ANYONE during my 571+ hours of Paladin. I did, a few times, but that was more coincidence/luck than something that the game encourages...
@@NostraDavid2 I know what you mean, and WoW didnt use to be as asocial as it is today. Way back in vanilla, it was effectively a different game in regard to the social aspect. I dont remember about TBC, but i do know that when i came back in WotLK, that spontaneous social aspect was pretty much gone, compared to how i remembered it and what i expected. Whether this is more due to the game itself changing, or the playerbase developing a different attitude (perhaps due to becoming more experienced for example), i cant say.
@@salemsuwareh1643 having been there for a lot of that my take has always been that vanilla was so much more social cause it was new. Nobody knew anybody and guilds weren't as solidified yet so you just talked to whomever for help. By WotLK the consistent players had probably been a part of the same guild since Vanilla and grew with those people so they developed their own little social bubbles that had everything they needed. So for new or returning players who didn't have a guild it made the game seem much more isolated, but really all the conversation just went from General chat to separate guild chats. Think way back to the first days of like middle or highschool. Everyone is way more chatty cause it's a whole new school, your lucky if your whole friend group moved with you but most likely it's all new people so everyone is talking to everyone. A few months in and friend cliques have formed that people mostly stick to except when a big reason comes to interact more with other groups.
"Shrine of Mankrik's wife" Ah, you just jogged a long lost memory. I spent way too much time in the Ghostlands telling noobs about the actual location of the Shrine because I felt bad. God times.
I legit sent a guy to Winterspring and forgot about it until he messaged me 1-2 days later… in my defense, I didn’t think the dude would have paid a warlock to summon him.
I remember back when finding this quest in vanilla, and it just made it feel like how vast the game felt. Before high level fast mounts, before flight paths everywhere, before flying mounts and a revamped world, the feel of questing in the barrens, the largest zone in the game, made the adventure feel so open and broad, that we were just humble adventurers exploring mysteries across the horizon. The game feels smaller now then it did back then, despite all the vast amounts of lands added over time
I only played Horde in vanilla, and I still found new bits in the Barrens when I played Alliance 10 years later on some private server and just went exploring
at 10:00 i think you miss the point, he gives you 2 quests. One is killing boars and looting 60 tusks and the other is look for his wife. When you retourn to him, you already have not only found his wife but also masacred the boars who killed her, So when you retourn to Mankrik you give him closure and retribution. Nothing else can be done, thank you traveller kind of thing.
Are you sure that you're not missing the point? If it was just a simple couple of meaningless quests, he wouldn't have gained the notoriety that he currently has. It is due to the ubiquity of that personal quest that attaches people to his character. If it was a simple fetch task, probably nothing would've come from it. Maybe this video didn't address the other lesser quest but it doesn't really matter. People connect to relatable situations in games. That's the point.
When i was a wee lad and started out my journey, i had no idea how to find this wife either. I quite literally just randomly ran into it when Autowalk was on!
I never thought of it till now but Mankrik really just be the Goblin Slayer before there was a Goblin Slayer. All these threats but he only cares about slaying Quilboar for the murder of his wife. #RESPECT
I'm glad I never was dumb enough to ask from the chat, I had max level friends and if they didn't know something I used my brains.. Sometimes I went to wrong direction but usually I didn't take too long with quests
The story of Mankrik is a heartwarming one. From a player standpoint and attention standpoint, that is. The love and attention we gave him and his essentially little nothing quest, turned into loads of love and attention for him from Blizzard, which lead to even more love and attention for him from even more players. While his story in game ended in tragedy for him and his lover, it ended in pure success when it comes to the transition from the inside of the game to the outside. Take note for all games. THIS is how you make a great NPC. Rags to riches in NPC form. That is what was so great about Blizzard from back in the day. I don't think modern Blizzard does it nearly as much nowadays, outside of just cashing in on old characters/NPCs like that they've already made in the past, but as far as I remember and through my time playing diligently up to BFA (I kinda fell off at the start of Shadowlands) , they don't end up making fresh NPCs like Mankrk anymore, that we can just latch on to that capacity and get that emotionally attached to in the same manner and way as we could Mankrik. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Either way, that aside, Mankrik is just a character you can't help but grow fond of and feel for. And he's a symbol for how pure and strong love can be.
I played on the mankirk server, the best line i saw in barrens chat has to be either "maybe we're all mankirks wife?" or "what if mankirks real wife was the friends we made along the way?".
I really enjoy your content. You make interesting character analyses without a bunch of purple prose so many other YTbers are guilty of. You pack a punctual punch and don't dally on that needs to be said. I'm sure you'll rocket to success. That being said... I'd love to see you tackle these characters: Walker - Spec Ops The Line Ulysses: New Vegas Lonesome Road TenPenny - San Andreas Zant - Twilight Princess Any Diablo 2 villain large or small Handsome Jack - BL2/Pre-sequel Shodan - System Shock 2 AM - I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream Heinrich Himmler or Frau Engel - Wolfenstein Nightmare/Siegfried - Soulcalibur Lord Vitiate - SWTOR The Master - Fallout Lucien - Fable 2 I like the villains you discuss with proper motivations and not so black and white motivations whilst still appreciating that motif like Jack of Blades. Great stuff dude!
I remember doing this quest I was just running down the gold road checking each and every location around there until I found her. My cousin who got me into WoW taught me to never ever trust Barrens Chat.
My experience is after someone memed someone else always gave the the right answer telling the first player off for trolling. In fact we had a saying in Ironforge chat "the best way to get someone to answer a question is to anwer it wrongly and ten people will correct you"
A lot of the nostalgia surrounding classic is more about how games in general. internet culture and the experience of something brand new. The same people who complain about community and being friendly will complain when someone doesn't pull "correctly" in Wailing Caverns
Same with me and it also applies for other games he covers. I realized this with god of war II. I didn't really wanted to play the game, but I wanted to learn about it.
As of now, you can go to the Trading Post in Orgrimmar and occasionally see Mankrik asking for some flowers as a gift for a new, mystery love interest. So he's finally moved on from his grief.
Honestly I really wish Blizzard did another type of cata world revamp, just to see the world progress and move forward in time, it's probably my favourite part of cata, just seeing how these old zones evolved and progressed
Can confirm as of last week in classic, Chuck Norris jokes are still a thing in Barrens chat. Also, Chuck Norris once walked down the street with a huge erection, there were no survivors.
I've just found your channel and wow you do vids on all my fav games. I can't believe I haven't seen any before! So happy to have something to binge watch for the next few weeks 😅 your writing, your voice and visuals are great! 😁
3:00 Thta's not why, the reason is that there wasn't yet intersecting flightpaths and the crossroads was a great flightpoint. Crossroads not Orgrimmar was the capital of the horde.
Oh man. I can tell you Barrens chat always goes or went off when Mankrik is mentioned. It’s literally one of the best things about fresh servers and playing when WOW was packed with new players. The crossroads is easily up there in the games best zones. AN*L DIRGE
Mankrik's hearthstone card was powerful enough to become a stable in most meta decks for a few expansions following his release After he's played, his wife's corpse is shuffled into your remaining deck and when it's drawn a enraged Mankrik summons and attacks the enemy player screaming "OLGRAAAAAAAA" It gets me, every, single, time
One of the most memorable quests even though I had only found her like twice in all the years I had played and ACTUALLY leveled and paid attention in classic WoW...
The idea of this poor half-dead Orc asking literally hundreds of people to help him find his wife and they all just start mocking him, eachother, and his probably dead wife.
Gammon needs a video like this. The first time I went into Orgrimar as an Orc I killed Gammon because I was like oh I can fight this guy and get some exp!
do gamon next! i remember during cata pulling him on my rogue and kiting around to the back of the building he was inside of and yelling "GAMON IS BUGGED GET HIM" and the first person who touched him would get turned to dust
I had to be the only person in the world who had zero trouble finding his wife, man. He said they were at a small tauren camp near the gold road. Since he is in the sourthern part of the crossroads, I took the gold road south and saw the camp in the distance and looked around. Took me 10 minutes. I... was just like. Read the quest. All of the clues are there.
As somebody who didn't have the money/router to play WoW back in the day I really missed out on a lot. But videos like these help me experience this game in all it's former glory vicariously , and for that i'm grateful , thanks for making these .
Damn this video was such a nostalgia trip! I absolutely loved it mate. I'm working on a video about quest and map design in MMOs, would you mind if I referenced this video?
Memorable on a large scale? hmm. That I cannot do. I'm just a poor boy from FFXI online, an MMO older than WoW but far less successful in terms of player count... but what the hey. I'll list some characters anyway. FFXI did keep Square Enix in the black through all of their financial blunders of the early-mid 2000s/2010s after all. Naji the door guard member of the Mythril Musketeers Ayame the most skilled member of the Mythril Musketeers Louverance (Red Headgear) Louverance (Purple Headgear) -> This is actually an example of an NPC impersonating another NPC, and its conclusion was murky as I recall. It was also a main part of the Chains of Promathia expansion. Prishe - Mostly known now for being a Dissidia character. She's an Elvaan cursed with immortality, stuck in her teenage body that's still taller and more muscular than a Hume man. Thought at one point to be the bringer of the apocalypse or whatever. Rather boisterous and lovable. The Shadowlord - Actually rather similar in some ways to the Lich King, but not like point for point, just overall. Heh, weird to think that Blizzard may have lifted part of the Lich King's plot points from FFXI. Ehh probably not, but... He was once a Galka, and he died in the frozen north, where he was enveloped by The Dark Divinity. Soon he raised a castle and ushered forth an army of demons, enslaving the Gigas and driving all Beastmen to war against the more humanoids races. Nag'molada - a Kuluu seeking to gain what the Zilart did by erasing the Emptiness from his soul in The Chamber of Eventide. Luzaf - A noble corsair prince from the lost naval nation of Ephramad, returned from the Underworld while Cerberus wasn't looking. Soul sworn to the Dark Divinity, tasked with destroying/preventing the summoning of Alexander. Excenmille and The Young Griffons - A literal NPC reflection of the young players in the player base. A marvelous story and writing. Their leader Excenmille grows up to lead the PVP faction for the Elvaan kingdom of San d'Oria, and you meet his child form in the time travel expansion, "Wings of the Goddess."
this quest is just a legend. I always do it when I'm coming up lol. it's a right of passage! rest easy mankriks wife! (can't remember if she had a name) you are both legends! 🤘🤘 Long live the Chuck Norris jokes! 🤣🤣
So strange, ive had your Oblivion ones recommended for some times now, but then i type in Mankrik Lore, plz do more WoW npcs, i vote Lillian Voss next shes so cool
mankrik's wife is north of ashenvale in tanaris
Pretty sure she's in Mt Hyjal. Trust me bro, there's a cave to the north to get in.
@@BrixelGaming She is literally in the Cow lvl! I seen her she is the cow race!
@@n0etic_f0x Aah yes... The cow level. How was I so foolish, of course.
Silverpine Forest under Dalaran. 100%
Wait, no I'm sorry she's actually behind the portal in Storm Wind. My mistake.
I remember I was once in Elwyn Forest looking for Mankrik's wife
One guy was so gung ho about trolling me that He personally led me all the way to Silverpine to find Mankrik's wife. Then He hearthstone'd out and left me stranded in Werewolftown.
@@chesterstevens8870 LMFAO. i miss the old days of gaming
She gets around.
What a journey
What's so great about questlines like this is that they're so grounded. It's just a poor guy who got attacked by monsters and lost his wife. None of the newer takes where everyone treats you like a demigod and queries you with tasks so removed from the world you're in that they don't mean anything anymore. It feels real. And as a player makes you feel that you're part of a living world.
Try explaining that feeling to the new gen of WoW players.
Its soooo boring, they would cry.
Why do we gotta be demigods and chosen ones all the damn time?
@@jessehenderson2967 New player here (started in last November, am playing through all possible quests in the Starter Edition) - I prefer the more grounded, 'boring' quests of vanilla over the zip-zoop-blam-pow quests of WoD and later. I remember starting WoD, exiting the portal and being called a Champion, Hero, and Commander, all in the span of 10 minutes. I didn't even had a Garrison at that point! Like damn, calm the fuck down game!
Having that one guy in Valiance Keep, Borean Tundra, Northrend, recognize me as someone who fought the Burning Crusade in Outland felt much more impressive, over every fucking NPC going ERMAHGERSH, COMMANDER, PLEASE COME OVER HERE TO TALK TO ME! OH MY GOD, EVERYONE LOOK! IT'S THE COMMANDER. Like, get off my dick.
Also the whole anti-social setup of WoW. I didn't need to talk to ANYONE during my 571+ hours of Paladin. I did, a few times, but that was more coincidence/luck than something that the game encourages...
@@NostraDavid2 I know what you mean, and WoW didnt use to be as asocial as it is today. Way back in vanilla, it was effectively a different game in regard to the social aspect. I dont remember about TBC, but i do know that when i came back in WotLK, that spontaneous social aspect was pretty much gone, compared to how i remembered it and what i expected. Whether this is more due to the game itself changing, or the playerbase developing a different attitude (perhaps due to becoming more experienced for example), i cant say.
@@salemsuwareh1643 having been there for a lot of that my take has always been that vanilla was so much more social cause it was new. Nobody knew anybody and guilds weren't as solidified yet so you just talked to whomever for help. By WotLK the consistent players had probably been a part of the same guild since Vanilla and grew with those people so they developed their own little social bubbles that had everything they needed. So for new or returning players who didn't have a guild it made the game seem much more isolated, but really all the conversation just went from General chat to separate guild chats.
Think way back to the first days of like middle or highschool. Everyone is way more chatty cause it's a whole new school, your lucky if your whole friend group moved with you but most likely it's all new people so everyone is talking to everyone. A few months in and friend cliques have formed that people mostly stick to except when a big reason comes to interact more with other groups.
And then you meet Mankrik's wife in Shadowlands and she's just as bloodthirsty because... orc?
[1. General - The Barrens][ogabog]: mankrik wife in stonetalon
[3. Local Defence] The Crossroads is under attack!
Pretty sure 11 year old me went to Stonetalon to look for her. Hahah.
"Shrine of Mankrik's wife"
Ah, you just jogged a long lost memory. I spent way too much time in the Ghostlands telling noobs about the actual location of the Shrine because I felt bad.
God times.
#God moment
Dude, I will _always_ love the Barrens, I spent soo much time leveling there, meet so many people, all of us ofc trying to find the mans wife
I genuinely love the feel, the format, the information and the person behind each of these videos, keep going and blow up on the tube buddy
I legit sent a guy to Winterspring and forgot about it until he messaged me 1-2 days later… in my defense, I didn’t think the dude would have paid a warlock to summon him.
I remember back when finding this quest in vanilla, and it just made it feel like how vast the game felt. Before high level fast mounts, before flight paths everywhere, before flying mounts and a revamped world, the feel of questing in the barrens, the largest zone in the game, made the adventure feel so open and broad, that we were just humble adventurers exploring mysteries across the horizon.
The game feels smaller now then it did back then, despite all the vast amounts of lands added over time
I only played Horde in vanilla, and I still found new bits in the Barrens when I played Alliance 10 years later on some private server and just went exploring
at 10:00 i think you miss the point, he gives you 2 quests. One is killing boars and looting 60 tusks and the other is look for his wife. When you retourn to him, you already have not only found his wife but also masacred the boars who killed her, So when you retourn to Mankrik you give him closure and retribution. Nothing else can be done, thank you traveller kind of thing.
Are you sure that you're not missing the point? If it was just a simple couple of meaningless quests, he wouldn't have gained the notoriety that he currently has. It is due to the ubiquity of that personal quest that attaches people to his character. If it was a simple fetch task, probably nothing would've come from it. Maybe this video didn't address the other lesser quest but it doesn't really matter. People connect to relatable situations in games. That's the point.
I did not find Mankirk's wife, but at least I found the stolen silver after I killed 130~ raptors! :))))
Just got off the phone with my local tailor. They agreed to produce pillows that read "Love. Land. Dead Quillboar." I just have to provide the mats.
chuck norris once threw a grenade that killed 50 people. then it exploded
classic
chuck norris once shot down a WW2 fighter plane by pointing at it and yelling "Bang!"
the only time Chuck Norris was ever genuinely impressed by reading a book was when he read his autobiography
What a tragic story. Too bad people won’t ever disclose where his wife’s damn body is located! Looking at you Original Barrens chat.
Love your lore videos man. Definitely deserves more views.
When i was a wee lad and started out my journey, i had no idea how to find this wife either. I quite literally just randomly ran into it when Autowalk was on!
I never thought of it till now but Mankrik really just be the Goblin Slayer before there was a Goblin Slayer. All these threats but he only cares about slaying Quilboar for the murder of his wife. #RESPECT
Based Mankrik
Well someone has to stop things from getting quillboarinated.
Aight you’re close with the Mank, but I’m looking for AR CAMORAN
i love your commitment to your cause. it shall happen
@@Ghostcharm I appreciate that, really looking forward to it
I haven't played or thought about this game in years, what a blast from the past.
I'm glad I never was dumb enough to ask from the chat, I had max level friends and if they didn't know something I used my brains.. Sometimes I went to wrong direction but usually I didn't take too long with quests
6:20 6:23
I mean this is Horde players we are talking about.
This channel is so underrated and deserves more views
The story of Mankrik is a heartwarming one. From a player standpoint and attention standpoint, that is. The love and attention we gave him and his essentially little nothing quest, turned into loads of love and attention for him from Blizzard, which lead to even more love and attention for him from even more players. While his story in game ended in tragedy for him and his lover, it ended in pure success when it comes to the transition from the inside of the game to the outside. Take note for all games. THIS is how you make a great NPC. Rags to riches in NPC form. That is what was so great about Blizzard from back in the day. I don't think modern Blizzard does it nearly as much nowadays, outside of just cashing in on old characters/NPCs like that they've already made in the past, but as far as I remember and through my time playing diligently up to BFA (I kinda fell off at the start of Shadowlands) , they don't end up making fresh NPCs like Mankrk anymore, that we can just latch on to that capacity and get that emotionally attached to in the same manner and way as we could Mankrik. Correct me if I'm wrong though. Either way, that aside, Mankrik is just a character you can't help but grow fond of and feel for. And he's a symbol for how pure and strong love can be.
I played on the mankirk server, the best line i saw in barrens chat has to be either "maybe we're all mankirks wife?" or "what if mankirks real wife was the friends we made along the way?".
I really enjoy your content. You make interesting character analyses without a bunch of purple prose so many other YTbers are guilty of.
You pack a punctual punch and don't dally on that needs to be said.
I'm sure you'll rocket to success.
That being said...
I'd love to see you tackle these characters:
Walker - Spec Ops The Line
Ulysses: New Vegas Lonesome Road
TenPenny - San Andreas
Zant - Twilight Princess
Any Diablo 2 villain large or small
Handsome Jack - BL2/Pre-sequel
Shodan - System Shock 2
AM - I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
Heinrich Himmler or Frau Engel - Wolfenstein
Nightmare/Siegfried - Soulcalibur
Lord Vitiate - SWTOR
The Master - Fallout
Lucien - Fable 2
I like the villains you discuss with proper motivations and not so black and white motivations whilst still appreciating that motif like Jack of Blades.
Great stuff dude!
everytime i see or hear anything related to the barrens, all i can think about was how long it took to get that damn water totem. so much running.
I remember doing this quest I was just running down the gold road checking each and every location around there until I found her. My cousin who got me into WoW taught me to never ever trust Barrens Chat.
My experience is after someone memed someone else always gave the the right answer telling the first player off for trolling.
In fact we had a saying in Ironforge chat "the best way to get someone to answer a question is to anwer it wrongly and ten people will correct you"
@@DaDunge Lol that's nice. I was warned to never ever listen to the Barrens chat.
A lot of the nostalgia surrounding classic is more about how games in general. internet culture and the experience of something brand new. The same people who complain about community and being friendly will complain when someone doesn't pull "correctly" in Wailing Caverns
I've never played WoW but I certainly love your videos.
Same with me
Same with me and it also applies for other games he covers.
I realized this with god of war II.
I didn't really wanted to play the game, but I wanted to learn about it.
I only played WoW for like a couple hours and then my potato pc blew up but damn wouldI love to play it
hehehe, i remember convincing a whole group of newbs that you had to jump off one of the mountains to find mankriks wife once.
As of now, you can go to the Trading Post in Orgrimmar and occasionally see Mankrik asking for some flowers as a gift for a new, mystery love interest. So he's finally moved on from his grief.
Honestly I really wish Blizzard did another type of cata world revamp, just to see the world progress and move forward in time, it's probably my favourite part of cata, just seeing how these old zones evolved and progressed
The Keanu jokes of the first weeks of barrens classic, fucking perfect.
Just the soundtrack alone gives me so much nostalgia.
Can confirm as of last week in classic, Chuck Norris jokes are still a thing in Barrens chat. Also, Chuck Norris once walked down the street with a huge erection, there were no survivors.
I've just found your channel and wow you do vids on all my fav games. I can't believe I haven't seen any before! So happy to have something to binge watch for the next few weeks 😅 your writing, your voice and visuals are great! 😁
This is steadily becoming my favorite channel.
I honestly don't understand how you don't have more subs and views. Your videos are really well made. Keep up the good work!
Sugestion
Villainpedia: Eliphas the Inheritor
This made me grin ear to ear, took me back to youth. Thanks bro!
3:00 Thta's not why, the reason is that there wasn't yet intersecting flightpaths and the crossroads was a great flightpoint. Crossroads not Orgrimmar was the capital of the horde.
The Keanu reeves chat has me crying. God this is great
How does this video miss the legendary story written about Mankrik and his wife on the old forums?
I don't know if there is enough content for a whole video, but wuld love to se a NPCpedia about Timmy from Warcraft
You deserve more subs. Great videos
Oh man. I can tell you Barrens chat always goes or went off when Mankrik is mentioned. It’s literally one of the best things about fresh servers and playing when WOW was packed with new players.
The crossroads is easily up there in the games best zones.
AN*L DIRGE
Mankrik's hearthstone card was powerful enough to become a stable in most meta decks for a few expansions following his release
After he's played, his wife's corpse is shuffled into your remaining deck and when it's drawn a enraged Mankrik summons and attacks the enemy player screaming "OLGRAAAAAAAA"
It gets me, every, single, time
It ain't much, but it's *FOR THE HORDE*
"Iz dat ah post?"
"New bait, Grug come up with yesterday."
*Found Mankrik's wife! Right near Stonetalon.*
I honestly had more fun in 1 hour of questing in Barrens (+ chat) than in any of the post-wotlk raids.
One of the most memorable quests even though I had only found her like twice in all the years I had played and ACTUALLY leveled and paid attention in classic WoW...
You had me at "barrens chat." Oh man, what I'd give to experience it for the first time all over again...
The idea of this poor half-dead Orc asking literally hundreds of people to help him find his wife and they all just start mocking him, eachother, and his probably dead wife.
Gammon needs a video like this. The first time I went into Orgrimar as an Orc I killed Gammon because I was like oh I can fight this guy and get some exp!
One of the most nostalgic of my wow experience 2 hours of searching the barrens till I found her. My orc brain doesn't work so well.
great job as usual and thank you.
RIP southern golden road patrol.
Great video. I was a bit disappointed that there was no mention of "The Littlest Murloc" and the adventures of Ned Tugget and Scratchfever, though.
Never played Wow but your videos are that entertaining that I can watch this with no experience and still enjoy myself
The music at the start gave me some nostalgic chills 🤤
Mankrik become the "Goblin Slayer" of the Quillboar.
The answer to all of the worlds issues were on the Barrens general chat
I remember wasting hours in the barrens chat forgettjng I logged on to level my character
"I understand. Thank you."
Mankrik based af.
Love this video, I’d love to see more NPCpedias or Worldpedias over the World of Warcraft.
do gamon next! i remember during cata pulling him on my rogue and kiting around to the back of the building he was inside of and yelling "GAMON IS BUGGED GET HIM" and the first person who touched him would get turned to dust
Been binging your content, I swear to god you’re missing a few zeroes at the end of your sub count. Too high quality dude. Love it.
thanks for being here buddy. we will get there!
On my server a lot of people called him "Mankirk".
Found your channel and love your approach and commenting style. Subbed and wish all the success to you man 👍
Clone are season 1. That takes me back.
Nathanos was not part of the lore until he became the self insert for you know who.
I had to be the only person in the world who had zero trouble finding his wife, man. He said they were at a small tauren camp near the gold road. Since he is in the sourthern part of the crossroads, I took the gold road south and saw the camp in the distance and looked around. Took me 10 minutes. I... was just like. Read the quest. All of the clues are there.
The crossroads is no longer under attack :’(
Underrated video and channel man. Keep up the good work!
Oh how I miss barrens chat
Another great video man!
Real Legend Hours
As somebody who didn't have the money/router to play WoW back in the day I really missed out on a lot.
But videos like these help me experience this game in all it's former glory vicariously , and for that i'm grateful , thanks for making these .
I hated cataclysm too, look what they did to orgrimmar! My beautiful valley of spirits, defiled by those goblins and their burning trash!
2:00 I mean some of us had played the Beta.
Thottbot was amazing
Damn this video was such a nostalgia trip! I absolutely loved it mate. I'm working on a video about quest and map design in MMOs, would you mind if I referenced this video?
Go for it buddy
Have you tried going to Silithus man ?
when people asked where is rexxar i tell them he went to the bathroom he siad hes coming back in 5 mins
Memorable on a large scale? hmm. That I cannot do. I'm just a poor boy from FFXI online, an MMO older than WoW but far less successful in terms of player count... but what the hey. I'll list some characters anyway. FFXI did keep Square Enix in the black through all of their financial blunders of the early-mid 2000s/2010s after all.
Naji the door guard member of the Mythril Musketeers
Ayame the most skilled member of the Mythril Musketeers
Louverance (Red Headgear)
Louverance (Purple Headgear) -> This is actually an example of an NPC impersonating another NPC, and its conclusion was murky as I recall. It was also a main part of the Chains of Promathia expansion.
Prishe - Mostly known now for being a Dissidia character. She's an Elvaan cursed with immortality, stuck in her teenage body that's still taller and more muscular than a Hume man. Thought at one point to be the bringer of the apocalypse or whatever. Rather boisterous and lovable.
The Shadowlord - Actually rather similar in some ways to the Lich King, but not like point for point, just overall. Heh, weird to think that Blizzard may have lifted part of the Lich King's plot points from FFXI. Ehh probably not, but... He was once a Galka, and he died in the frozen north, where he was enveloped by The Dark Divinity. Soon he raised a castle and ushered forth an army of demons, enslaving the Gigas and driving all Beastmen to war against the more humanoids races.
Nag'molada - a Kuluu seeking to gain what the Zilart did by erasing the Emptiness from his soul in The Chamber of Eventide.
Luzaf - A noble corsair prince from the lost naval nation of Ephramad, returned from the Underworld while Cerberus wasn't looking. Soul sworn to the Dark Divinity, tasked with destroying/preventing the summoning of Alexander.
Excenmille and The Young Griffons - A literal NPC reflection of the young players in the player base. A marvelous story and writing. Their leader Excenmille grows up to lead the PVP faction for the Elvaan kingdom of San d'Oria, and you meet his child form in the time travel expansion, "Wings of the Goddess."
Went to shadowlanda and we didnt see his wife
this quest is just a legend. I always do it when I'm coming up lol. it's a right of passage! rest easy mankriks wife! (can't remember if she had a name) you are both legends! 🤘🤘
Long live the Chuck Norris jokes! 🤣🤣
You wanna talk wow memes, be sure you mention that one sword everyone talked about
great video, thanks for making it!
What's the song from 5:22 to 6:30, and 13:06 to 13:40 ?
Subbed and liked keep up the good content brother
This made me sad. But I still like, comment and subscribe.
you are on an impressive streak my good man
I didnt even know orks practiced marriage
So strange, ive had your Oblivion ones recommended for some times now, but then i type in Mankrik Lore, plz do more WoW npcs, i vote Lillian Voss next shes so cool
Is that expendables parody a machinima im not aware of?
Ty!
do you think you could do one on johnny awesome? (most agravating character on azeroth I say.)
or perhaps Nat Pagle.
absolute legend
5:24 music pls!!!!
PLEASSSE HELP
Temple of the Moon
@@Ghostcharm 🙏
Nothing like taking a look at MMO chat to see what level of embarrassment the human being can stoop to.
Love this, big wow fan but a pretty niche audience compared to your other content.