Used to play with Zal loads on Al'Akir - PVP, PVE, grinding furbolgs in Felwood to get a ridiculously low drop rate item for a mutual friend. Good times and great to hear his voice after all these years. What a blast from the past. Hope you're well Zal, Rick (Falithon)
This guy zalgradis is the reason my friends and I all play alliance today, I saw his video and immediatley stopped playing my druid and rolled a pally and did everything he did in the videos was such a great time !
I would love to suggest '' Luptis ''. I know he made me re-roll from a mage to a NE hunter called '' Laptos '' (I know, I was young) the moment I saw his first video. And I am sure that he made PLENTY of other people reroll hunter. He was amazing, yet so simple and his video were just great and well edited. I believe he is a Vanilla hunter legend.
man these videos are soo good.. I love how even preach is simping for this guy because i totally understand where that is coming from.. I started playing wow at 13 years of age in TBC and my childhood Hero and the reason i started raiding as early as Karazhan back then was a guy called Zkygge from SK gaming and i remembering making a character on his server and whispering him that one day i would be as good as him. and i remember getting an answer like "Good luck :)" and now as i am playing TBC classic with a far more mature mindset i am actually having a blast and it makes me remember all the dumb things i did back then and that i can actually experience the game that i didnt quite understand back then because my english was always trash.
Absolutely pleasure to hear this interview with Zalgradis. He was the very first wow content maker i watched, and I am so glad that he might start streaming. Thank you Preach for this interview.
i remember when we were outside aq40 waiting for summons etc. and zalgradis was just chilling with us (horde) all the time:D damn those vanilla raiding days...
Hello, from Windy the shaman if you still remember me. Zalgradis i had no idea you keept playing after our shinanigans in vanilla and tbc. Would be nice to catchup and see how life has been for you and see if you still are playing the game. I also remember the Darkstom boys and hope they aswell have it well nowadays!
Im kinda sad that this video has so few comments. This video is amazing and i hope you never stop making these. Oh and i really appreciate that you just let the discussion go wherever it was headed. You had some really amazing topics here. Loved it :3.
What a throwback, miss those days! I also played a pally named Scorpion, me and Monkeybeer are still in touch these days but he didnt have time to play classic. Btw Preach, we also played together in Darkstorm and met in Manchester :)!
Ok, here we go, this is a true legend, for me anyway. (Not that the others in this series where not maybe, but I didn't really know much about them except their names)
Al'Akir EU Ally gang! I was part of Pandion Knights for T1, did T2 with The Wyvern Kratos and after AQ joined Midnight Reveries for T3. Good times! I remember being in some of the bg premades and AV with Zal, great to hear he's still around. One of the best moments from Al'Akir: Crashing the server on AQ launch while we were all on mouted in a massive line (Ally left, Horde right) waiting for the gong to be hit and then relogging in to see the massive elites swatting everyone that was still in their loading screen unable to act.
TWK hunter here, night elf by the name Oxygenre and played with the guild during T2 as well. I remember the AQ event well and I have so many screenshots from that day, as well as raid screenshots with all the TWK people. I still go through them from time to time. One of my earliest screenshot is of Zalgradis in his full T1 walking around SW:
I think weapon names faded after Cata for me. After picking up Gurthalak Voice of the Deep, nothing else even came close to sticking in my memory. That was probably the most broken weapon but so fun that Blizzard ever released.
I was AlAkir - Tauren Druid - Amonchakai - Guild Leader of No Danger I remember an epic 1hour 20minute WSG game vs SotG where we won 3 flags to 2. My favorite and most memorable game. Zal was part of that game. Fond memories
Zal you sound just like back in the day. Hope you are doing great. Cheers from Triplex - Midnight Reveries / Immersion . BTW it was Exit that did the DI on Razorgore just to be clear. :-D
Triplex!!! I bumped into you in a BG a while back if you remember. Loved raiding with you in TBC, I remember specifically in SSC I was always trying to outheal you but you were a beast! Haha are you going to play TBC classic?
@@JimosEU I do remember Jimos, we had so much fun in TBC and I still have your videos from back then. Hope you are doing great. I played classic for abit, but I do not have time for classic BC. Are you gonna play classic BC?
@@buchenheimer ah that's a shame, well it's very time consuming for sure and life moves on! I will be playing it yea. Oh I think I lost all my old vids, was searching all over for old vids and screenshots but a lot seem to be missing. Any way you can send me those?
Ahh good old days of seeing SOTG peeps afking in ironforge, Thinking "Damn, that guy is cool". Was nice to have some Alliance destroying the horde on my server, As every PvP I would play was always won by Horde majority of the time, except AV.
It kind of blows my mind that Preach has never heard of Tales From the Past. When the third movie was released it was all my server was talking about. It was huge.
I might have some screenshots of you, the name rings a bell. I was Oxygenre - Night Elf Male Hunter. Raided with TWK from mid-BWL progression to Twin Emps.
Ive always had my way with loot as my healer pala here in classic wow. First hand of rag in my guild. Burrower shell and the recent first might of menethil. With lootcouncil its all possible for everyone get cool loot if you can earn it and prove it! Raid loot and pvp loot is differentiated. Larah from aftermath here. We played on the same server in bloodfang. Now playing on gehennas with order of bacchus.
I think at least 2 of my vanilla guildmates died prematurely. I think they both played mage, one of them did at least. sad times, they were very good people.
Zal seems like such a standup guy. Such as legend for us WoW nerds. As for the people who are online 23 hours out of the day -- cocaine/methamphetamine addiction is real. Thankfully I'm in recovery, but I've been there.
I remember that person trying to pretend to be Zalgradis. (I'm one of the original Immersion players, got recruited when MR and SotG merged. I'm Incarnia). I did have some interaction with that person, but, yeah, instantly noticed it was someone else. Quite unnerving though. Someone doing that. Especially since he wasn't even trying to excuse it either, when pointing out to him that I can tell he isn't Zal. Got slapped with an Ignore.
This dude and his videos are the reason we lost the Original pally talents back in the infamous talent rework. Made Kevin Jordan think that maybe pally shouldn't have access to reckoning, divine favor, illumination, vengence, redoubt, Spiritual guidelines and seal of command at the same time lol.
Jamaz Paladin Xantim Shadow priest Vurtne Mage Maydie Warrior Unbreakable shaman Drakedog Warlock Grim Rogue Edit: Wait I got something he never got?? YES I got HoR 6 months before BC dropped Still have it in my bank with the original crusader enchant.
I wonder how many vanilla heroes of the past like Zal or Maydie now are like "World of Warcraft? Is that that dorky game from 15 years ago I used to play?" xD
Classic wow is definitely not vanilla wow. There was absolutely no cross server business. You had to have a server community to do anything raid wise. The cool part was you got to learn the opposing factions best pvp players and recognized names constantly
I'm a vanilla player my self, but I never heard of this guy... for me the legends of content creation are the guy who made blue dress, and nhym and reckful :/
@@JDmix123 it really doesn't. It is highly damaging to both your body and brain to be sleep deprived, especially if it goes on for long periods of times. You can't avoid that effect on your wellbeing and health by getting your body "used to it". It doesn't work like that biologically. However, there are a genetic mutation, in some humans, which reduce the amount of sleep their body and brain needs to about 4-5h's a day. A regular adult need at least 7-8hours of quality sleep a day to function as intended, but those people only need about half of that for the same result.
@TheDanish Preach might be a person with the genetic mutation which enables him to function well on just 4hours of sleep. Where his brain manages to complete the cleaning and regenerative process in 4-5h's that otherwise takes 7-8h's for the majority of the human population.
@@Telindra I don’t think it’s that bad I’m pretty sure for thousands of years we adapted and survived not getting 8 hours of sleep a night. Now it may be better and recommended but I don’t think only getting 4- 5 hours of sleep a night is going to be super detrimental once your body has adapted
ahh man i hate to be so negative but these have been a huge dissapointment to me. i initially thought this series would be a documentary type like your "Legacy of" Videos. love your videos so this comes from a place of love only. would really like to see some more of the documentary/presentation type videos imo they are some of your best content and have watched almost all of them more than id care to admit.
You know it's good when Mike starts simpin
His bit where he ganks people in orgrimmar, with the 2H from Zul'Gurub, in full shadowcraft, is my favorite WoW video of all time.
Used to play with Zal loads on Al'Akir - PVP, PVE, grinding furbolgs in Felwood to get a ridiculously low drop rate item for a mutual friend. Good times and great to hear his voice after all these years. What a blast from the past. Hope you're well Zal, Rick (Falithon)
I also played on al akir
This guy zalgradis is the reason my friends and I all play alliance today, I saw his video and immediatley stopped playing my druid and rolled a pally and did everything he did in the videos was such a great time !
I would love to suggest '' Luptis ''. I know he made me re-roll from a mage to a NE hunter called '' Laptos '' (I know, I was young) the moment I saw his first video. And I am sure that he made PLENTY of other people reroll hunter. He was amazing, yet so simple and his video were just great and well edited.
I believe he is a Vanilla hunter legend.
Zalgradis, Grim, Azgaz all legends of Al Akir and the Warcraftmovies era.
Nerf druidsssss!
Just looked up Zalgradis 3 for nostalgia and got recommended this video, listened to the whole thing. Love the guy.
Never seen youtube put a video in my feed stating uploaded 2 seconds ago.
Man I've seen zalgradis 3 just about 20+ times I think! Absolute legend and inspiration. Was also on Al'Akir in vanilla, but on horde.
This is the guy who brought me and my irl buddy to wow back in the day, true legend.
man these videos are soo good.. I love how even preach is simping for this guy because i totally understand where that is coming from.. I started playing wow at 13 years of age in TBC and my childhood Hero and the reason i started raiding as early as Karazhan back then was a guy called Zkygge from SK gaming and i remembering making a character on his server and whispering him that one day i would be as good as him. and i remember getting an answer like "Good luck :)" and now as i am playing TBC classic with a far more mature mindset i am actually having a blast and it makes me remember all the dumb things i did back then and that i can actually experience the game that i didnt quite understand back then because my english was always trash.
mental health is so important
Dude, first this guy was SUCH A GOOD person to interview, and second WATCH TALES OF THE PAST!
What a blast from the past. Holy moly..
With TBC coming out it would be great to speak with Wowhobbs
Would watch this in a HEARTBEART. Loved Wowhobbs back in the day.
@@DivineWind95 He was the reason I made a pally back then. Absolute legend to me.
@@magedowntv5932 Same here, brother. Still play Paladin as my main to this day :)
Absolutely pleasure to hear this interview with Zalgradis. He was the very first wow content maker i watched, and I am so glad that he might start streaming. Thank you Preach for this interview.
i remember when we were outside aq40 waiting for summons etc. and zalgradis was just chilling with us (horde) all the time:D damn those vanilla raiding days...
The absolute GOAT. The legend speaks, a genuine pleasure, thank you Zal ❤️
Would love to see one of these with Fragnance
T R U E
Who dat
The 🐐
would be fun to hear vurtne xD
and Grim.
Hello, from Windy the shaman if you still remember me. Zalgradis i had no idea you keept playing after our shinanigans in vanilla and tbc. Would be nice to catchup and see how life has been for you and see if you still are playing the game. I also remember the Darkstom boys and hope they aswell have it well nowadays!
Im kinda sad that this video has so few comments. This video is amazing and i hope you never stop making these.
Oh and i really appreciate that you just let the discussion go wherever it was headed. You had some really amazing topics here. Loved it :3.
What a throwback, miss those days! I also played a pally named Scorpion, me and Monkeybeer are still in touch these days but he didnt have time to play classic. Btw Preach, we also played together in Darkstorm and met in Manchester :)!
I was your biggest fan boy when you were outside IF smashing people with sulfuras and I had just started playing haha was great times!
I remember you! Falithon, priest in Pure. I used to jump in with SOTG on occasion which was always fun :) Good old days.
Too funny to see alot of old SotG/ Al'Akir members react to this video, i miss your shouting on ventrilo Scorpion :P Groeten van Deadlyhaze ^^
@@dimme8916 Deadlyhaze.... warlock right? I think I remember you!
Zalgradis still plays in TBC although I don't see him online very often. You can find him in bloodfang EU
Ok, here we go, this is a true legend, for me anyway. (Not that the others in this series where not maybe, but I didn't really know much about them except their names)
Yeah its not a maybe. Rogerbrown is a legend of this game, as are many others in this series
Al'Akir EU Ally gang! I was part of Pandion Knights for T1, did T2 with The Wyvern Kratos and after AQ joined Midnight Reveries for T3. Good times! I remember being in some of the bg premades and AV with Zal, great to hear he's still around. One of the best moments from Al'Akir: Crashing the server on AQ launch while we were all on mouted in a massive line (Ally left, Horde right) waiting for the gong to be hit and then relogging in to see the massive elites swatting everyone that was still in their loading screen unable to act.
TWK hunter here, night elf by the name Oxygenre and played with the guild during T2 as well. I remember the AQ event well and I have so many screenshots from that day, as well as raid screenshots with all the TWK people. I still go through them from time to time. One of my earliest screenshot is of Zalgradis in his full T1 walking around SW:
Feels like a few lives ago! Lara - NE warrior Al'Akir
oh hi there :')
I think weapon names faded after Cata for me. After picking up Gurthalak Voice of the Deep, nothing else even came close to sticking in my memory. That was probably the most broken weapon but so fun that Blizzard ever released.
Got to play with Grim and his brother (Dragoon) in BC. Ran into Lylz during the Dota 2 beta way back.
This series is great! Thank you for the interviews
thanks for uploading so much good content lately
Amazing video, hooked all they way through
heh so long ago, the memories. hope all are well. (Gaire / shagaire, DarkStorm)
Mike try get an interview with the legendary druid who is the counterpart of zal in the same server : AZGAZ THE DRUID
Lovely video Preach, :wave: Zal, we're happy to have you!
I was AlAkir - Tauren Druid - Amonchakai - Guild Leader of No Danger
I remember an epic 1hour 20minute WSG game vs SotG where we won 3 flags to 2. My favorite and most memorable game. Zal was part of that game. Fond memories
Zal you sound just like back in the day. Hope you are doing great. Cheers from Triplex - Midnight Reveries / Immersion . BTW it was Exit that did the DI on Razorgore just to be clear. :-D
Triplex!!! I bumped into you in a BG a while back if you remember. Loved raiding with you in TBC, I remember specifically in SSC I was always trying to outheal you but you were a beast! Haha are you going to play TBC classic?
@@JimosEU I do remember Jimos, we had so much fun in TBC and I still have your videos from back then. Hope you are doing great. I played classic for abit, but I do not have time for classic BC. Are you gonna play classic BC?
@@buchenheimer ah that's a shame, well it's very time consuming for sure and life moves on! I will be playing it yea. Oh I think I lost all my old vids, was searching all over for old vids and screenshots but a lot seem to be missing. Any way you can send me those?
@@JimosEU I got alot of stuff especially Al'akir related. So yeah send me your e-mail and i can WeTransfer or something np :-D
@@buchenheimer Message me on discord mate Jimos#8187 thanks!
Ahh good old days of seeing SOTG peeps afking in ironforge, Thinking "Damn, that guy is cool". Was nice to have some Alliance destroying the horde on my server, As every PvP I would play was always won by Horde majority of the time, except AV.
I was SOTG also,, hey Zal, great times tbh and the most fun i had on a PC game !!! - Dreanor
I sometimes talk with him in Classic WoW
Best wishes from Thalessa!
Al'Akir EU gang
Rep!
o/
Holy shit as soon as I heard the guild it clicked who it was. Wow, blast from my teenage years.
His videos were great entertainment back in the day
I still to this day, watch Zalgradis 3.
It kind of blows my mind that Preach has never heard of Tales From the Past. When the third movie was released it was all my server was talking about. It was huge.
There are people who played WoW at the time and haven’t seen Tales Of The Past? Holy crap! :P
Hope you’re still gonna give it a watch Preach!
:O You were in Phased?! And on A'A?! Omg started there myself. Leveled with Sarah the rogue in Zal's guild for a bit on day one.
Oh hi fancy seeing you here ha 🤭😘😘😘
@@ChiaraU2BEE both of you :o
@@Saemidem 🤭 ciao caro 😘😘
Amazing!!! I hope we got one from Myndflame too!!
That would be awesome!
I used to have his horde alt on my friendslist, we chatted a few times. Nice guy.
@Frogbasher claim to fame? I'm just offering an anecdote (a shitty one) about the topic of the video. I don't want to be famous.
@@hansolowe19 you’re good man dudes just buggin
@@JDmix123 I know. Doesn't bother me 👍
What ? he doesn't know Tales of the Past ?!
He'll have to pleasure to watch it now, i remember back then it was one of my best WoW moments
I met Zalgradis in a WSG once in TBC
Hair's coming along nicely, boss!
Mohawk next.
what is it with eu/uk wow players meeting up in real life that is so foreign to me
Jesus, chills. Suddenly I'm 14 again, watching my dad raid. Smisk the priest on Al'akir if that name rings a bell for anyone (probably not).
Smisk rings a bell for me - what guild was he in?
@@falithon The Wyvern Kratos, Midnight Reveries and SotG from vanilla to TBC :) Wrath a lot of us moved to Auchindoun and he had to namechange.
@@jittersgc Was he a dwarf priest? :)
@@falithon Night elf female
I might have some screenshots of you, the name rings a bell. I was Oxygenre - Night Elf Male Hunter. Raided with TWK from mid-BWL progression to Twin Emps.
Ive always had my way with loot as my healer pala here in classic wow. First hand of rag in my guild. Burrower shell and the recent first might of menethil. With lootcouncil its all possible for everyone get cool loot if you can earn it and prove it! Raid loot and pvp loot is differentiated. Larah from aftermath here. We played on the same server in bloodfang. Now playing on gehennas with order of bacchus.
Zalgradis was the reason why I wanted to make a prot pala and fend off rogues
My character is resting on Ragnaros server, i named my paladin after him, such good ol days
I think at least 2 of my vanilla guildmates died prematurely. I think they both played mage, one of them did at least. sad times, they were very good people.
Due to playing the game too much?
I demand an episode on our lord and saviour Angwe
Faccccctts
Dockmaster Angwe
Captain grim awesome also great video really enjoyed it
Loving this series!
Zal seems like such a standup guy. Such as legend for us WoW nerds.
As for the people who are online 23 hours out of the day -- cocaine/methamphetamine addiction is real. Thankfully I'm in recovery, but I've been there.
Legend.
I remember watching Tales of the past 3 the same day as i got my first kill on highking Maulgar in Gruul's Lair :D
I was in phased with Bicceh and Ricceh, didn't know you started on Al'Akir!
You absolute legend. I Remember you!
@@MrBicceh long time brother!
Damn, I hope, one day, Zal will play wOw again! :D
Which realm did he transfer to?
Ultima online is a true mmo RPG your choices in skills were almost permanent and you essentially had to have alt characters maximizing crafting skills
“An inspiration for many content creators including…. Me” lol
I remember that person trying to pretend to be Zalgradis. (I'm one of the original Immersion players, got recruited when MR and SotG merged. I'm Incarnia). I did have some interaction with that person, but, yeah, instantly noticed it was someone else. Quite unnerving though. Someone doing that. Especially since he wasn't even trying to excuse it either, when pointing out to him that I can tell he isn't Zal. Got slapped with an Ignore.
preach I didn't know you played on al akir? I was on there around that time was in plonkas of war, but yeah Zal was the reason i rolled paladin
This dude and his videos are the reason we lost the Original pally talents back in the infamous talent rework. Made Kevin Jordan think that maybe pally shouldn't have access to reckoning, divine favor, illumination, vengence, redoubt, Spiritual guidelines and seal of command at the same time lol.
Paige was great, you must have caught him on a bad day Preach!
This video brings me back....
Electric Six. Gay Bar.
Grats.
mike's hair looking good
Lag'Akir represent
deep talk with a vanilla legend
Please do a legends of wow with Erebus mike I know you would love to have him on for a chat
Retail is California: The MMO.
Jamaz Paladin
Xantim Shadow priest
Vurtne Mage
Maydie Warrior
Unbreakable shaman
Drakedog Warlock
Grim Rogue
Edit: Wait I got something he never got?? YES I got HoR 6 months before BC dropped Still have it in my bank with the original crusader enchant.
Shut up! Grim Rogue? 😲 l
Lara 😋
@@ChiaraU2BEE are you unhappy with my choice of vanilla rogues?
Hahha no I thought I used to hangout with you and Shrimp whilst on my NE! Must be my bad 😅
@@ChiaraU2BEE nah I been on deathwing US the whole time.
My bad then 🤭
I wonder how many vanilla heroes of the past like Zal or Maydie now are like "World of Warcraft? Is that that dorky game from 15 years ago I used to play?" xD
class act
Ive tried daoc recently, and I cant imagine going from there to wow...
Kinda wanna try ultima though, as it feels like the most influential mmo pre wow
@@Uri6060 it was Everquest. Everquest was the most influential, not Ultima.
@@mrivarv17 thats a good point, i should try that too. Probs some servers somewhere of them xD
I seem to have just soiled myself
Al’akir alli forever
Oh hi!
/moooo
Classic wow is definitely not vanilla wow. There was absolutely no cross server business. You had to have a server community to do anything raid wise. The cool part was you got to learn the opposing factions best pvp players and recognized names constantly
Holy crap I bought wow and lvl a paladin because of his videos lol
get vurtne
I'm a vanilla player my self, but I never heard of this guy... for me the legends of content creation are the guy who made blue dress, and nhym and reckful :/
UO was ace.
Sleeping 4 hours a night??? I'm nonfunctional if I sleep fewer than 7.
Military sleeps 4 - 6 (if you’re lucky ) a night your body gets used to it
@@JDmix123 it really doesn't. It is highly damaging to both your body and brain to be sleep deprived, especially if it goes on for long periods of times. You can't avoid that effect on your wellbeing and health by getting your body "used to it". It doesn't work like that biologically. However, there are a genetic mutation, in some humans, which reduce the amount of sleep their body and brain needs to about 4-5h's a day. A regular adult need at least 7-8hours of quality sleep a day to function as intended, but those people only need about half of that for the same result.
@TheDanish Preach might be a person with the genetic mutation which enables him to function well on just 4hours of sleep. Where his brain manages to complete the cleaning and regenerative process in 4-5h's that otherwise takes 7-8h's for the majority of the human population.
@@Telindra I don’t think it’s that bad I’m pretty sure for thousands of years we adapted and survived not getting 8 hours of sleep a night. Now it may be better and recommended but I don’t think only getting 4- 5 hours of sleep a night is going to be super detrimental once your body has adapted
@@Telindra but yes I try to get 6 - 8 I usually wake up naturally after 8
ZALPALAPVP!!
Shadowlands delayed boyz
Woop woop ^(o.o)^
I'm wondering, when "Legends of WoW - Asmongold" is going to happen :D
Probably the only one of these i would never watch ;)
Hopefully never
Fanboy Preach!!!
ahh man i hate to be so negative but these have been a huge dissapointment to me. i initially thought this series would be a documentary type like your "Legacy of" Videos. love your videos so this comes from a place of love only. would really like to see some more of the documentary/presentation type videos imo they are some of your best content and have watched almost all of them more than id care to admit.
early