What Wrath of the Lich King Was Really Like...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ย. 2024
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King is considered to be the GREATEST of the WoW expansions. With a rich storyline, the frozen continent of Northrend, Arthas, Death Knights, dragons and more, Wrath of the Lich King had it all in droves! As a Death Knight fan, of course Nixxiom is a fan of this expansion, and so today he's telling his story of his time playing Wrath, his thoughts on this time period of World of Warcraft, and what his plans are going forward for WotLK: Classic.
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Who here watching played WotLK back in the day or are going to be playing it here soon? Seeing how much the audience has interest in old vs new World of Warcraft.
WotLK was indeed the pinnacle of WoW. Will I play it? I'll try. But even though the game is the same, the players are not. You can't replicate the true xpac experience.
Wrath baby resubbed just for this xpac experience
I played warcraft 2, warcraft III Reign of Chaos and Frozen Throne and then I started playing wow during late vanilla, 2-3 months before TBC release. Played the games in that order so I was a massive lore fan and knew everthing about the wow world. I would have played WoW earlier but I was like 12 years old and I had no chance nor money (lol) to get a sub. So for me, TBC and WLK were the only xpacs which I've played 100%. Starting this journey when I was 10 years old with Warcraft 2 and finishing it with WoW WLK was the best thing ever. I felt like the cycle/journey was complete. I think that is the reason for which I have also quit wow back then and never played it hardcore again. My favorite all time characters were Arthas and Illidan and I got to fight them both. What came after WLK had no more meaning to me. I don't think I will play the classic wlk. WLK and that old wow in general was for the late 2004-2010 period. The world has changed and the people are no the same anymore. No bad feelings or anything, I do hope that the re-release will be a hit, but it just won't be for me. As I've said above, my cycle was complete back in 2009 :)
Played back in the day. Waiting for P5 to be over to go back.
I have interest but only if it has a big population I'm not interested if no one's playing
Started playing in BC, but Wrath was the first time I was ever actually motivated to reach max level. I loved the Arthas lore. Having a fully leveled paladin exploring Northrend trailing Arthas' movements and being able to play a death knight was the coolest f***ing thing in my life at the time.
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Defeating Arthas with my raid group has to be one of the most cathartic experiences in my gaming life. It really was a special moment. I'll always look back on Wrath the fondest
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The only raid where you basicly get "Wiped" because he is just to powerful. And get barely safed by the light and Ashbringer that shatter legendary Frostmourne wich allows you to win with the help of all those souls.
Truly a masterpiece. No other Boss felt like such a crazy threat then The Lich King in icc.
"I never understood why they called it invincible- I can see it" 🤣🤣
Abit of a fail for him haha. It's invincible not invisible. Two different words
@@TGLapin thats the joke
I was only around 10-11 years old when WotLK came out, but I still remember it fondly since it was the first expansion I was actually allowed to play. I remember my dad made me and my siblings do his mining route while he was at work a lot, lol. It was so nice to be able to fly around the zones and experience the world like that.
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Peak Dad move lol
Thought id say thanks for taking the time Nixxiom to tell us all about your experience ^_^ I started wow when i was like 10 back in burning crusade and then when wrath released to me it was the holy grail. I remember tons of awesome things about wrath, I even remember watching you since you started on youtube. Keep being you and making us all proud Nixxiom ^-^ and thanks for not giving up
Wrath is still hands down my favorite expansion.
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Same
Blizzard should canonically kill off the players every 3 or 4 expansions. That way they could avoid all the power creep in the lore where we keep on fighting against bigger and bigger threats. Like in Wrath when the Lich King killed everyone on top of Icecrown, that should have been the 1st canonical player death.
You'd still keep the character, but you'd go back to being a random adventurer instead of the Champion of Azeroth.
Plus maybe they could put memorials in the capitol cities that play a synopsis of the last few expansions to help keep the story in perspective for newer players.
I'm into it
Grizzly Hills ambience is, even to this day, my go to music when I'm feeling down or just want to chill out with a book or meditate.
Loved Wotlk, accidentally failed my 1st year of college because I spent all my spare time playing instead of studying. I had a similar experience to you nixxiom, joined my friends raiding guild and played all the way thru the expansion but never got a kill on Arthas as the guild collapsed due to drama :(
Can't wait to finally get it done in classic with the new friends I made
I would definitely Trade A year of college for the amazing times I had in wotlk I miss those days deeply
Yup, same boat, had to drop out for one year… I turned out alright lol. If I could go back in time, I’d drop out again to play WOTLK.
Because Arthus “saw only darkness” I was pretty sure they were gonna bring him back at some point, because his death did not fit normal or Warcraft lore. I even bet my son that they weren’t done with him yet. I I was really excited when it was hinted that he would come back in shadow lands. I bought the expansion just so that I can see him again, hopefully. When they completely marginalized him and turned him into just a little wisp, telling him to just fade away and be forgotten, I was so angry that I swore I would never touch another blizzard product. I haven’t.
It's amazing that blizz managed to tell us to forget about arthas and then try to sell us an arthas classic expansion in the same semester.
Same for me dude...you're Great 😘
@@bernardomansoldo2978 because Blizzard or the current writing staff wants you to forget the metzen-era of the game and only care about their own half baked fanfiction but they are not above memberberry jebaits to try and get more money. its like the Star Wars sequel trilogy, they spent two movies telling you to forget the past even if you have to kill it and suddenly the third movie was covered in memberberry soup.
Did you forget about Muradin? Or Stratholme? How was Arthas in any way redeemable?
He *chose* that path.
Muradin wasnt by choice. When he picked up the blade it demanded "a" soul. Not specifically Muradin. In fsct it claimed Arthas soul instead and just knocked Muradin out.
Arthas thought him dead and ventured to kill that being that threatened him and his people.
Stratholme too was an act of desperation as there was literarry no other way at that time.
They didnt have time to get reinforcements nor block the city. Or in time convince the townsfolk that they will turn into grotesque monsters that will eat each other. As very shortly after he does his purge you already get overun by undead.
Its dark and violent but thats the point of Arthas. He does love his people and tries to do what was right by all means nessesary hence pre Frostmourme he was more of a hot headed Anti-hero that by losing his soul and falling for his hatred for Mal'ganis lost his soul and became extremely cold, grey skinned and a pseudo Death Knight.
When merging with Ner'zhul this dark Arthas then dominated his wanna be puppet master and went on as Lich King.
After the sword breaks and the blue hue is lifted he suddenly gestures and speaks very emotionally with his father.
Asking "If its over" indicating he was also getting his soul back as the Sword shattered and thus like Sylvanas later became his old self in his last breath.
What made Arthas so loved is that he wasnt your typical power hungry haha world domination/destruction villan. But a fallen prince thst was played by mastermind demons. That like satan in the Religious texts used his own ambitions and feelings to get him right where they wanted him.
So its possible that like Garrosh the fact he did bad things with good intentions means he too would end in Revendreth.
Zul'jin is there too for some reason thou, and all he did was fight for his peoples lands against cruel conquerors who build their city ontop of their holy temples.
Just the soundtrack of WOTLK was enough for me, i loved all the zones music
It really was the best expansion, it had the most players, the peak of 12 million right before Cataclysm ruined it. It had the most patches, the most dungeons, battlegrounds, raids, the best talent system, the most spells, I never felt bored with it, I stayed subbed through the entire 3 years. When I wasn't in Halls of Reflection the hardest dungeon at the time, I was jousting at the Argent Tournament and there was some pretty good rewards there, epic level weapons and mounts. That was the most satisfied I've ever felt playing WoW, no other expansion comes close.
TBC had 8 raids, WotLK had 6... and WotLK did not last 3 years! It didn't even last a whole 2 years XD TBC was exactly 3 months shorter than Wrath and at the same time managed to have more content! :D I'm not saying WotLK is a bad expansion, but you are taking this a little too far with lying :p
@@hennibsdp9528 Ulduar alone is worth 4 raids so...
Lich king expansion was 3 years?
@@Crowsredeye that's the best you have? 😂
@@markroy9042 it did not xD it lasted 25 months to be exact. So not even 2years bruh
Can't wait... I grew up with this game, young teeneger playing until 5-6 am in the morning on the weekend!!!
This is got to be one of the most relatable WoW clip ever.
Good to see you posting regularly Nixxiom, thanks & good luck.
Algyr.
Yep I totally agree with you there. I am also really into the classic Fantasy, especially dark fantasy, so Wotlk was absolute perfection for me!
Funnily enough Wotlk is also - same as you - the expansion where I really got into the lore.
My friend and I went to the midnight release at GameStop. Chatted with a bunch of fellow gamers about their faction, race, and class. Went to my friend's house that night, took the next 3 days off school. We stayed up ALL night and into the next day. We only took small naps. Our starting zone was the Howling Fjord. I am so stoked to relive these moments.
I will never forget these times. I was around 15-18. Leaving school to go to the internet cafe to play wow with my friends or after school. First we would shit outside of the cafe with food to strategize our plan for icc and then we would go to melt for 12 hours lmao. those were the years
I started playing WoW the Summer before BC, and remember being around level 54 when the Scourge invasion began. I entered Outland as a Hunter among an army of Death Knights, and enjoyed some of the hilarious group compositions. I didn’t raid in the beginning, nor did I do Heroics for the same reason you avoided them in BC, but I eventually downed The Lich King with a guild I joined, and enjoyed the journey I had throughout the expansion!
I was in the first group of people to play WotLK at Blizzcon (I skipped opening ceremony when I saw the flyers lol). Was about 16, my Dad brought me. It was such an awesome experience, and really was a core father son memory (my Dad met Mark here, and had no idea who he was long story). Giant murlocs on the ship, seeing the achievement system, and being allowed to play for over an hour made me so happy. This expansion was the sweet spot of modern improvements on the game, while keeping the oldstyle feeling of WoW. I cant wait to be diving into it again when it re-releases.
WotLK was the best expansion in my opinion, too. It just felt epic and meaningful in ways other expansions haven't. Like you, I started WoW not having played WCIII, but I picked it up soon before TBC launched because I wanted to know more about Illidan and Kael'thas. When WotLK was announced, I was super hyped to explore the other half of WCIII's plot. And I wasn't disappointed. The scale of the story, the player's direct involvement with progressing across the zone toward Icecrown Citadel, the music, the flashback quests to play AS Arthas, the new lore with the vrykul and tuskarr, the dragon stuff, the Titan stuff...it was just a smorgasbord of everything I love about the Warcraft universe. WotLK was also a crossroads for me, as the guild I had raided with since the launch of the original ZG in vanilla fell apart, and the guild I ended up in after the dust settled was the guild I stayed with until late BFA. So many good memories of that era.
I'm really excited for this because I never had a chance to play WoW until BfA came out. And I absolutely love Warcraft 3 so this to me is huge to try out
It's crazy how much of the first part of this experience was like my own. I had been playing WoW since its launch, but I had struggled to find a guild and get into much raiding aside from Karazhan and ZA. I was determined to go all the way in WotLK, because I loved Arthas and I wanted to see how his arch that begain in Warcraft III would end. I stuck with it and learned to really play the game--not just my class, but also how to play well with others, which is something I struggled with. By the beginning of Cataclysm I had finished farming my shadowfrost shards and obtained Shadowmourne, my ultimate goal.
I never reached those heights again, and I know it won't be the same in WotLK Classic, but I think just being back in some version of that expansion will bring my memories to life again in a big way and I can't wait for it. There will always be one true king of WoW, and for me that is Wrath of the Lich King.
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During lockdown I learned about your channel from my wife who is a longtime WoW player. She tried countless times to get me interested in the game, even helped me make a character. I tried but only had patience for about one evening. (I think it became clear during the quest thingy where you had to collect fucking pig noses...) I have never been a MMO guy. I prefer a more standard JRPG or horror/sci-fi single player type of game. Also, I'm one of those rare nerds that really dislikes LOTR and similar, Western style magical fantasy "Elves and Wizards and Orcs, Oh my!" type stories. She did manage to turn me onto the comedy side of the WoW fandom though. Your videos especially and others like Pint and Asmongold (I mostly enjoyed all the inside jokes and events he did with his chat) inadvertently led to me knowing way more WoW lore than I ever intended. Now, with Wrath classic coming out, I see that you feel as excited about it as my wife. Oddly enough, I'm kind of stoked for you guys, mainly to see all the content you creators put out once it releases. Anyway, sorry for the length of this, Adderall is a hell of a drug. Thanks for all the great laughs and content. I'll be here cheering you on from the sidelines as you guys get all the DPS points(?), do all the, "tank and spank raids," and ninja everyone's loot! Arthas may have done nothing wrong, but what he did right, was touch all our hearts. 😂 Peace!
Bro I’ve been watching your videos since the beginning. I’m so excited for all the great nostalgia to come! Catch you in in the frosty depths to the north soon @Nixxiom
Yes, i agree with all of that. I even started to level a paladin in tbc classic. My first main was a bloodelf paladin in wotlk. So im really looking forward to it.
Played during vanilla and bc then when LK dropped I practically lived on my pc, such a great expansion full of all sorts of stuff to do as well as lore, when something happened to Arthas in a later expansion it was really sad, keep up the good work and I look forward to watching more of your videos
My story is very similar. I started pretty late BC, took a break right after Wrath released and came back to RP a Paladin after watching Tales of the Past. And fell in love with Wrath and the lore.
And I too, hope to be able to get through Wrath Classic, and get into the LK fight. And get Light of Dawn at current content. I can only hope.
WoW was my first ever MMORPG back in 2005, and I was completely immersed in it. Wrath increased my interest 1000%. I could not get enough of every zone, and every thing that the game had to offer. I look forward to doing it all again with out the god like power that retail gives to characters from level one to rush them to end game yawning.
I enjoyed the early expansions but I do agree that Lich king was the pinnacle wow. Arthus is and will always be the very best big bad guy, basically due to Warcraft three building him up so much. He seemed real to me.
Some of my greatest memories of WOW is from this legendary expansion.
I was a guy who loved doing dungeons. In this expansion it got me to like dungeons so much that I would wake myself up early in the morning just for a run through Utgarde Keep before i had to go to school :D
Joined at the start of BC, leveled up some toons and did BGs at max level. Since I spent a lot of time trying every class to see what I liked, I was woefully behind for BC raids... and when I found out and just how much I had to do to be able to raid, I decided to stick to PvP. So it was with the launch of Wrath that I decided I wanted to push for raiding... I could get in on the ground floor this time. And man, was it sooo much easier to get into. This made a huge difference on my server and raiding guilds started popping up everywhere. It was nice to have less of a barrier to entry and a nice starting point to dip your toes in.
Man I was in HS when wotlk came out my buddy would bring his laptop over and on weekends we would stay up all night playing wow from everyday. We werent very good and didnt really raid at all i remember always wanting to raid more, but it was still a lot of fun. Cant wait to go back and actually experience it fully now.
The first RTS I played on LAN was Warcraft 1. The first game that got me into Warcraft lore was Warcraft 2. The first videogame story that changed my life was Warcraft 3. And much like you, I fondly remember the first time I ran up the road through Brill and stood before the gates of Lordaeron.
I RP-walked through that bi*h, retracing Arthas' steps and feeling it all come alive around me. The drawbridge, the belltower, the courtyard with the rosepetals, doors to the throneroom, and then... I had chills everywhere as young me took the last steps toward the first throne. Cathing the splatter of blood on the flagstones in the corner of my eye, my heart raced. This was it, HE had been here!
That epic ended when I stood before the last throne, the Frozen Throne, having slogged my way up Icecrown Citadel, and faced the ONE King. Years had passed, and I had come to live through it all, no longer a raging noob overwhelmed by the world, but a grizzled veteran of many campaigns. It was a bitter sweet moment when he fell.
An Karanir Thanador, Arthas. No king rules forever. But man, you will never be forgotten.
One thing I love about Northrend is its size. (Largest landmass in the game) by actual size of zones. Plus Dragonflights 4 zones are said to be the same size if not a little bigger than Northrend. That has me excited.
Awesome video nixxiom, i am also hyped for wrath ! Hope it'll be alot of fun and you'll post alot of youtube videos about it, not just streaming it. Sadly i cannot watch your streams because of the lack of time, but i always watch all your youtube videos when i'm free. Keep up the good work my dude !
I'm late but I started mid TBC when I was 10 and when I saw that WOTLK cinematic I was absolutely floored. The release was crazy and I remember vividly SW being a death zone for the first couple days because of the scourge event. I was a noob and a kid but holy crap do I remember those days playing very fondly.
DO IT! Remaster it! But in all seriousness I can't wait to jump back into Wotlk. I was like you in TBC but I joined towards the end of it, Wrath was my first expansion and was the best. Still is!
I remember leveling my main across my first entire year in WoW and hitting 70... hours before WotLK released. I was so motivated by my taste of max level that I smashed through Northrend by New Years. BC was my origins... but Wrath is where WoW came to full life. I evolved from just some leveling, exploring noob to a kid in a guild running actual raids like "the adults." lol. I also met some friends in this era that I ended up meeting irl down the line and these days they are some of my closest buddies. Idk if this Classic phase will hit me at all similarly, but I do feel like this is the one I really have to play.
I have never played WotLK (I wasn’t even born yet when it launched 🤪) but my dad played it a lot and every time he talks about he says it was probably one of the best expansions. ☺️❤️
I'm just happy to finally have found a content creator that is as happy as I am about the fact that Dungeon Finder is not gonna be in Wrath. ^.^ Honestly, it feels like the Classic community has lost their marbles on that issue...
I keep my absolute best memories from WoW in this expansion.
I share alot of these sentiments. Never properly raided in wrath since I was like 9 years old and just ran around questing lol. I'm so ready to actually raid hardcore in wotlk
Was in the same boat as you. Started in BC, had no idea what I was doing for most of it. Then Wrath came out and I fell in love with it.
I started playing during WotLK as a kid because of my dad and I still remember seeing him finally kill the lich king with his guildmates, I can't wait to play this again with him when I can actually fully enjoy it.
I started in BC, and was so noob, that i was trying to fill all tree talent rows, and was a mage throwing fireballs frostbolts and all as combos, frostbolt to slow, then a fireball for damage and dots, while searching for capes with the most armor in them, man, no wonder i was getting destroyed in most pvp encounters i had, so after some time, knowing an expansion was coming was completely new for me, and it was so impressive to me seeing all the new zones, i had stopped playing the game for some time so i didn't see the pre launch events, but jumped in after some months and i loved it, seeing all the new skills, the new mounts, and specially Northrend, man this game is big, and it did take a gigantic time of my life :), and i love it.
Started the Classic experience a couple of Days ago and I love the Roleplay feel of it wish I could've experienced it back in the day
That Invincible meme is gonna be so painful when Classic launches =o=
Its nice to see a video thats just someone reminiscing about wrath and not bitching about changes. I like how you mentioned talking about the lore with people in game and in person, and even socializing in general. I also started playing in BC and no lifed Wrath. I was 18 and a noob, and to be honest I used the game as a glorified internet chatroom in addition to battlegrounds and world pvp. Wrath and WoW in general was a vital part of the golden age of the internet, when people actually talked and discussed things in forums, early social media, vent and in games. Wrath was in many ways the end of an era, since it was current around when the golden age of the internet ended in 2009. I'm looking forward to the re-rlease since wrath is my second favourite game of all time, but with the changes to the internet and especially social media since then, I'm not expecting the players to be the same as they were in 2008-2010.
I adore this expansion with all my heart, I’ve been playing warmane since 2018 and it’s just made me love it even more, may need to return again after all these years
I started in wrath. WoW was my first MMO and just the total sense of wonder. I remember a time when the 3 guys i met while leveling on Teldrassil. We went to Auberdine and saw local defense chat blowing up that we were under attack. My 3 new friends and i decided we needed to defend it! There we stood. 4 level 14 night elfs.
Still makes wonder, where is our Tuskarr Deathknights?
*Grins like a Nordic Beardy boi*
I have followed your chanel since wrath, and I really enjoyed your machinima, sometimes I open up your and Oxhorn's old videos just for nostalgia sake, thanks for all the memories and dedication to your chanel and love towards your fanbase.
I only played wow on private WOTLK servers, maybe this time I will give it a try on the public server. Nostalgia hit me hard.
Reason I like "LFD" Me: Hi guys can I join the dungeon group? Leader: Do you have blues ? Me: No where do they come from? Leader: The dungeon. Long story short no blue or purples no group. Can't get blues with out going into said dungeons. The vicious cycle of Early TBC. Yes I was in several guilds.. and sooner or later they disband sadly leaving the Wife and I to become duo solo players. Nice video Nixx. Good to see back.
I really loved WOTLK! Even though I was only 12 years old and not as fluent in English at the time. I really did not understand what the hell I was doing back then so I never raided in WOTLK unfortuneately, but I hope I will be able to do that this year. If only I still had so much time to play a game as I did back then.... :(
7:40 sounds like what made it such a fantastic time for WoW was largely due to your life situation. You were in school, playing with your friends and seeing wow for the first time. That, mingled with nostalgia leads to the newer expansions not being able to compete with the "glory years".
This is the game/expansion that made me learn english in order to understand the lore, I was amazed at what I saw. at the time I was like 12/13 years old. I've met a guy in game that took the time to teach and explain to me what the quest givers were saying through skype. The guy was in his late 30s, after a while he went offline and was offline for like 11 years, last time I checked. Really amazing what a game can do for a person.
I have fondest memories of wrath as while I did originally start only in classic, at that time I was sharing both my PC and the game account with two brothers. Adding to that mom shouting at us to go to sleep at 8pm, it was hard to play a lot.
It was only in Wotlk where I finally got to play a lot and join the guild and attend every raid. It was a mid-rank guild that did 25 man raids, but we had a special elite squad doing all the achievements for 10-man. And those 10-man raids in wotlk are what made my fondest memories of WoW in general.
Adding to this the fact that I loved the lore surrounding wotlk, it was truly the best time for WoW for me. But with Arthas dying a lot of my lore for wow died as well... or rather, it was truly a proper ending for the storyline I originally fell in love with. (W3 being my first entry into warcraft universe)
Past Wotlk I could never seriously get into Wow lore again and that alone made the following expansions bleak in comparison.
"And I watched as Arthus ascended to the top of Ice Cream Citadel" I died lol
"Icecream Citadel" made me fucking choke 😂😂😂😂
I started playing during wotlk, i freaking loved it!!!
Wrath was when Survival Hunter became its coolest iteration, black arrow dot, explosive shot, tnt procs. :D
I started in early TBC. Raided a lot with my hunter. Later I started leveling a Paladin.
He was my main during wotlk and I loved to heal with him. I will never forget our first kill on arthas. After wiping so many times it felt so good lol.
I miss my raid group. I'm still in touch with some of them. But I know wotlk classic will not bring them back.
I never got to do Ice cream Citadel and I am so excited to jump back into this. Jumped into WOW in BC great times
I began playing just about 2 months shy of Cata dropping. So *technically* I played Wrath.
In fact I was so busy with exploring the world and trying out the various options that I didn't even get a chr to max level until WoD. Legion was the first expac I played actual endgame content. I made and played my first DK during Pandaria. (finally had a chr at 55)
Now I have 8 alts at max level, 15 more in the 50-55 range, and my main is a Blood DK.
it was 2008. I, along with many others who were grown ups then, had just lost their jobs, and were looking for meaning while on unemployment. Most people don't connect WotLK with the massive depression of 2008, but those who weren't teenagers and played did.
Did you just say ice cream citadel at 3:24 🍧😂
Very similar experience as you! Was level 58 when TBC launched and didn't do much other than pvp. Then, in WotLK I really started raiding, and having a blast at it! I didn't get to play it start to finish back then because I started college in the middle of it, so I'm pumped to get back into it!
The Tuskar shall return... finally...
For me I would say WotLK was my first real crack at WoW. Course I played vanilla and TBC, but that was on mommys and daddy's credit card. WotLK was the first expansion that I was in full control of my account and could play it as much as I wanted. And it was glorious. I remember buying an account that had a level 70 undead warrior on it, because my original account had gotten hacked and all my shite got yoinked. So there I was, leveling an undead warrior across the frozen wastes of Northrend. It was awesome, not only was leveling such genuine fun (much different than my time in vanilla and TBC) but the lore. Holy shit. Cant wait to play this game again
Best kind of Nixxiom video! You telling a story. So immersive!
This is the video i wanted to see. I cant wait. Just like you i started in BC, did not do crap, and then got involved in wotlk. The difference was i was never really into PVP, but i loved the PVE, zones, Lynch King, friends i got from there. Some of those friends i got from WOLTK i still talk to, to this day, and some i have even met IRL. I have always jumped on the game in hopes of getting the same feel i did when i was in Wrath, but sadly, i never got that feel ago, so i hope Classic WOTLK gives me that feel again.
I started wow in 2007, WotLK was wow maxed. The zones were awesome, the quests were fun and the lore was on point. It probably helped that I was in high school and had the time to play, but still. It was the conclusion to the story I loved, filled with all my friends. The characters had emotional weight to them. Blizzard needs to figure what made their team so great at that time and redo it.
Was my first time raiding too. As an undead mage.
I was 8 in wrath. My wrath memories consist of watching my dad play and playing chars at like lvl 20 when he wasn't on his computer. He did let me make a char on his realm partway through and sent me a bunch of heirlooms. I only got to lvl 37 before he let his sub expire (and I obviously had no income to buy it myself) but that character is my main to this day
As nostalgic as my Memories about WotLK are, that terrible old Invincible Joke still made me smile as much
Wrath was my first experience with wow but I never committed to it. I finally have a chance to commit to it and I am very excited to have adventures in Northrend and experience it with my Gnome Mage
I will still never get over the fact that we didn't get to stay with the scourge as a DK. If no one does the raid..does Arthas win this time? Can we go the AU route with Wrath? Find out next time on Nixxiom Z.
I just play on a WoTLK private server that adjusts down raids and dungeons for solo content. Never been more happy.
My wife and I had so much fun with this expansion, she rolled boomkin, I went else shaman, it was a pvp nuke fest lol
I was exactly the same, the noobiest of them all in BC. Only did world PvP and battlegrounds, not even that many dungeons and didn’t do any raids. That changed in WOTLK though, so it was a great time for me. Getting a Netherwing was my fondest memory - i even remember the night Michael Jackson died because it was while I was grinding for the reputation points, finding those eggs. So I blasted out some MJ tunes while grinding
I had just graduated high school and got to play WoW every day. And I did.
My character at the time was my original paladin and by the Light were we overpowered. I remember exploring the zones, running the whole Wrathgate storyline, I actually felt like a hero.
It was when Ulduar and Val’anyr was announced so I decided to make my druid. I never went resto but I found something special as feral. She turned into my main until mid-late Pandaria and she’s still one of my main three characters.
I can’t wait to play Wrath again and make my paladin and druid again. Maybe I’ll make a human version of my Worgen rogue.
Finally, I can truly know how it feels to be a level 58 Death Knight!
Nice video my man. Keep up the content. We will restore this channel to its previous glory.
Omg I find myself in every vision of this video 😇 except I never left WOTLK I played on private servers for the last 10 years lol .
I've played on and off throughout the entire history of the game since December 2004. Today, I skimmed my achievements on a whim. Note that I've never played intentionally to complete achievement except for getting flying in those expansions that required it. (I never completed it in WoD)
For what it's worth, my Vanilla achievements are full, and I have majorities of the TBC and Wrath ones but my achievement completion drops off significantly after that with a slight resurgence in Legion.
This is the first xpac i started playing WoW. loved it.
6:25 if WOTLK Classic comes in 3.3.5 balance we dont need nerfs for middle of the pack classes DK´s and Ret are already in very nerfed state
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You know everytime WoW players reminisce something, I kinda wish that if only I experienced it as well too, but WC3 was my only experience, I was lucky that I was previlaged enough to play it to begin with so yeah...
When I heard of WoW at the time, I even thought it was still a RTS and a true sequel to WC3, it took me years to find out that it wasn't... 😅
This is the expansion that did see my worgen hunter come true. He became the marine he is today. He got in pvp and a ended to level 90 becoming the dreaded mob breaker in Battle grounds then I came back to shadolands and survival spec changed for the worst I thought. Now it's my best spec for downing many alone be it in PvP or PvE. I got to fight the good fight for Gilneas and Tilderssil. Sharpened my barbed scyth and used it to jump on the largest of levatating bosses to bury that blade hilt deep into their very core. I became a new brand of fighter actually moving in unexpected ways around harnessing speed ravaging a mob not just maximizing but actually creatively fighting and making the enemy go ballistic disoriented not due to cc but just cos it came unexpectedly out if no where. Real tough top notch players would lose focused and I could bring my team to turn things around. That was exilirating.
I remember waiting out in the cold at a gamestop from 6pm till midnight waiting for wotlk sells release. Just chatting with all the other nerds about deathnights.
I look forward to wrath classic because i was the TBC you in wrath. Mainly pvp'd missed out on ulduar because life / school ( super pissed ) only got into raiding for ICC and man oh man killing 25m H LK for Light of Dawn was UNREAL! I can't wait to do that again....tempted to roll Retadin as my 2IC to my dk main. ;)
I started playing right near the end of Burning Crusade, and so the first full expansion I took part in was Wrath. To this day it remains my favorite expansion; I love the continent of Northrend, I love the arctic aesthetic, the story, everything. I'm a bit of a casual player, to be honest, and so the lore and the grind have always been my big to-do, and Wrath allowed me a lot of fun with that. Since then, none of the expansions have really matched Wrath's nostalgia for me, but I do have to say that over the years, Cataclysm has grown on me quite a bit. I know that could be a statement of controversy with some people and it certainly took me a long time to swallow the changes that were made with it, but now if I had to choose an expansion with any kind of ability to compete with Wrath, it'd be Cataclysm. Messing around with my troll shaman, just goin' about doin' my business, seeing the new zones. I love it nowadays. Anywho...
I think it’s awesome you got into the lore and story the world is based on. That’s the whole reason these games exist, to live and experience a virtual world, to become immersed in another world. Which is exactly why (I think) the mmo genre has been declining, they aren’t as much a virtual world as they are an online game.
WotLK was cool but it was also the beginning of the end for WoW. The challenge was reduced, and the experience became less like existing in a virtual world and more about gear attainment. Tbf, WoW was never all that hard but WotLK took convenience and the trivialization to a new level.
All I remember is Gearscore and how it boiled down to every turbo nerd try hard wanna be used it to expunge the unworthy so they could assemble their own perfect A-team in order to eradicate any challenge that may be present to get raid clears with no fuss or muss. rather than play a game for fun.
I played Hunter and DK back in the day and I lived in Sholzar Basin, hunting for that elusive Loque'Nahak spirit beast, it took me months, but I got it. later on, I set out to catch all of the rare spirit beasts like some Pokemon freak, if you get that reference. This was back in MoP or something. Cata brought a few more. but to this day, my hunter still has it and it will continue to have it, forever until the servers shut down. DK was my first tank, I tanked Vault of something something often, the one in the PvP zone.
to this day, I think Wrath has 2 of the coolest cinematics in WoW, the Wrath gate and of course, the death of the Lich King scene.
it's called Invincible, not Invisible **facepalm** and it was Arthas's horse, he called it that.
Wow, some information here I didn't know about, sounds like it'll be the perfect version of wotlk because no lfg... AMAZING!
the memberberries are strong with this one :P In all seriousness though, WOTLK was my first raid expansion as well despite playing since vanilla. I may go back and play this too
I miss WoLK. First expansion I took raiding seriously.