I had no idea that you could lock your levels in WoW and I have played since Vanilla. I was wanting to do a challenge similar to this one, but I didn't know how to do about overleveling. I subbed and I am looking forward to more vods!
This is so good! Saw the video the day after release. Sins than i don’t stop checking your channel for more of this series! Gonna do this challenge for myself
Before they introduced world scaling, I used to enjoy soloing dungeons with heirlooms, heirlooms were so overpowered back then that you could just barely kill the mobs in the first dungeon, and you leveled quickly enough that if you just reset a couple times killing the mobs, you could eventually kill the bosses and move on to the next dungeon~ I remember getting stuck at Hoggar in Stormwind Stockade because he's so much stronger than all the previous bosses, and even after I thought I was strong enough, he goes berserk mode and I still lose. xD Nowadays I've found the sweet spot tends to be level 34 for level 30 content, 39 for 35 content, etc, as every fifth level like level 35 is way too strong for the previous content... it's kinda cool to see you soloing all this content *at level 30* despite the world scaling though~ :o
Please please please continue this series!! Wow doesn’t have enough good content creators that make really interesting and unique challenge series so please continue this!! ❤
I play the game like a single player RPG and with the inclusion of A.I. teammates for Delves and Instances and even letting us do some Raid Bosses... it's been even better. I do let others join in when I'm fighting a World Boss so they don't feel left out though. 😜
I just came back to WoW after not playing for years. I left off playing with my garrison, so WoD I guess. How do you get AI teammates? I'm currently playing through Legion because I'm playing a druid, but I have no interest in the hall thing because it sounds like garrisons. Please tell me I don't need to do that for AI teammates. 🙏🏻
That Verdan bug is really interesting me. I can only imagine it being some very old interaction to make the boss not actually hit that hard by healing you back up by a percentage or a flat amount but not showing it in the log. He was the first tank buster you'd encounter back in classic afterall.
That could be! My theory is that it's a hidden mechanic to help new players out when tanking for the first time :) Or something to do with lag between actual damage registering, and the damage reduction calculations with armor.
@@dangrilgaming When looking at the crit you pointed out that oneshot you, when looking at the damage number, it is (within 10 hp) accurate to what the damage is AFTER the jojo healing. So either the face-value of the damage taken takes into account the jojo healing or it is some damage reduction calc bs for this boss in particular. Maybe armor counts twice for him?
the one thing that annoys me about retail is how leveling is, vanilla/tbc/wotlk/cata up to well wod, aren't designed to just be hopped into, they lead on from previous expansion. so the leveling path in retail is just odd for new players
yeaah i agree with you low level scaling being questionable. i am f2p of wow. which means my characters never go past the lvl up blizzard decided (unless some bug happens which gives for some reason free game time) which currently sits at lvl 20 currently. and during remix, most of the time whenever i queued into dungeons i was like 90% of the time at main remix account on top of the dps. even when i queued as a healer... and i am 100% glad about warbank update. i just hope that someday, whenever we use money, we would have option to use gold in warbank instead. because unlike our characte purses as f2p having cap of 1k gold, warbank doesn't seem to have any cap at all. and while normal mains probably use it to have presock bags and stuffs for alts, f2p can finally benefit from having alts. also fun when some random thing seems beatable, you start to fight, it hardly deals damage and then it spawns lvl ??? add which one hits you by 10x than you have hp. honestly. this is one of my texts in one such rare: Adding this to low leveled people/f2p: This boss isn't properly scaled. The boss is lvl 22 which is fine due i am lvl 20. it has 49k which is fine i am druid so self heals for the win. but the adds that thing spawns are not scaled at all currently. the adds has 110k health, are lvl ? and overkilled my 1758 hp character by: Blazing Flamewing Melee hit you 850 Physical. (Crushing) (10,886 Overkill), meanwhile rare itself hits 200-300 damage to me.
back when i still played retail, which was Warlords of Dreanor era, it was possible to solo MOST things if you had the right class/spec.... raids, at least back then you still had to have group with someone even if they don't enter the raid.. though i'm sure for the raids you would also have to have been over leveled..... but like i said, this was ALL pre Legion, so things likely have changed....
Finished my first two solo dungeons today, blackfathom deeps and wailing caverns as an arms warrior. Very interesting gameplay wise since there's a lot of elites within the dungeon and some mob groups can be quite tough, especially with casters that deal a lot of damage. The Druids of the claw deal more damage with their lightning bolts than the bosses which is really weid 😅. Going at it with level 59 as part of my "completing all quests" journey. (Level 60 scales down all pre-dragonflight content to 30 so you one shot everything.)
I've never had a quest item be better than an equivalent level dungeon item, even if epic upgraded. The fact that the quest items (almost always) don't have secondary stats really hurt them. I ain't giving up 20 haste and crit for 2 stamina and intelligence.
Will be interesting to see how you juggle professions to make the very most out of buffs, enchants, potions etc.. You'll surely need every edge you can as content gets more difficult solo.
Admittedly, I am somehow surprised people took to the solo challenge for WoW. In hindsight I should've figured that Rath's exploits would be considered far and wide across MMOs
Yeah Rath starting this will carry over to other games for sure! But it does highlight a different way of re-enjoying the games we all have loved for so long!
This reminds me of lvl 20 twinks that solo content while unsubbed to wow. Using loot with sockets (which I bet would be good for your challenge) as well as some funky enchants from different expansions.
@@dangrilgaming well, I'm stuck in my mission...basically I can no longer enter a dungeon portal, nothing happens, even if yesterday it worked, I made a ticket...with other characters I can enter but not the one I made for this...
Hi Julius, try swapping in and out of chromie time. There have been some issues on my side as well when I was in certain chromie timelines :) Hope this helps!
It really depends, some fights are a lot harder as a tank due to the low damage output, but for most tank would be easier than caster for sure and I use guardian spec in the future. Unfortunately Guardian is not as challenging on most bosses and it got quite stale :) I do use guardian in later episodes though!
exept no they cant,this little project of his is doomed to fail,wile you can solo some dungeons in the early expansions,others he wont be able to,and raids zero chances lol
lmao i saw this video and immediately went "uh, yeah?" cause i play blood dk lmfao. you can solo pretty much anything, including all dungeons. interesting that you didn't pick tank classes, though. however, if you dont want to "cheat" and get the level boost... yeah, druid. bear tank is OP, and you get all three specs in one.
@dangrilgaming lmao fair! I WILL say that the downside of blood dk is qhile you can solo pretty much anything (ive soloed current content heroic dungeons for example and 10%-20% bosses om normal) it takes a while without taking very specific single target talents, which i find reduce how much of a punching bag you are. My favorite boss to go full blown captain america "i can do this all day" is neltharion for that reason lmao
Honestly, this idea stemmed from me soloing a m+ dungeon, but I wanted to start from the roots with classic content :) I'm hoping there are some busted lines of code left in the game that could allow me to solo some old stuff ( e.g. there is a 1 hour 750 vers buff in Voldun which gives 70% vers at lvl 30) Some of the consumables are busted, but I will get into that later :)
@@dangrilgaming yes of course tell me your battle tag so as soon as I log in I'll add you and we'll talk calmly. you have to organize the thing well, even with important rewards
As I said, I have no intention of doing it now, but once the war within has settled down, I may make a guild to do this, will probably use a discord or something :)
@@dangrilgaming yes I also agree I currently want to play the war within. I wanted the battle tag just to stay in touch and once the expansion was underway, to be able to properly organize the guild and the way to play.
"You can thank me later when Mythic Plus Ragefire Chasm will be available" Well. This aged well
I saw the timewalking anouncement and thought the same lol!
I'm a Soloplayer for years - so yes, you can. :D
I was gonna say I’ve been doing this shit since 2012, god help me XD
I had no idea that you could lock your levels in WoW and I have played since Vanilla. I was wanting to do a challenge similar to this one, but I didn't know how to do about overleveling. I subbed and I am looking forward to more vods!
This seems really interesting and chill challenge. Im thinking doing the same now!
11:00 don't know why but the spinning starfall on that 1 night elf made me giggle
I really enjoyed your MOP Remix solo and this is going to be so much fun to watch!
Thank you! I hope you do enjoy it :)
This is so good! Saw the video the day after release. Sins than i don’t stop checking your channel for more of this series! Gonna do this challenge for myself
Glad you enjoyed it! The next video is in the works, but the war within release is delaying it a bit ;)
Loved the vid! Hope you'll continue this series, I'm excited!
I will for sure! Glad you enjoyed it :)
good for swimming despite no arms..
fish : "hold my beer"
what are fins but tiny arms
Before they introduced world scaling, I used to enjoy soloing dungeons with heirlooms, heirlooms were so overpowered back then that you could just barely kill the mobs in the first dungeon, and you leveled quickly enough that if you just reset a couple times killing the mobs, you could eventually kill the bosses and move on to the next dungeon~ I remember getting stuck at Hoggar in Stormwind Stockade because he's so much stronger than all the previous bosses, and even after I thought I was strong enough, he goes berserk mode and I still lose. xD
Nowadays I've found the sweet spot tends to be level 34 for level 30 content, 39 for 35 content, etc, as every fifth level like level 35 is way too strong for the previous content... it's kinda cool to see you soloing all this content *at level 30* despite the world scaling though~ :o
I've been solo leveling for more than 10 years. Yes you can.
Justice for Tom!
Great vid, cannot wait to see the whole story :) !
Thank you!!!
I quite like this challenge! Looking forward to more videos on it
Love this - super chill
thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
Please please please continue this series!! Wow doesn’t have enough good content creators that make really interesting and unique challenge series so please continue this!! ❤
I will! The next episode is in the works :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is really entertaining keep going dude :)
Thank you so much for the kind words!!
Can't wait for next episode!!
reminds me of Rath's FF14 solo challenge :D i love these type of content
I have some ideas about leveling challenges! i will add it to the list :)
I play the game like a single player RPG and with the inclusion of A.I. teammates for Delves and Instances and even letting us do some Raid Bosses... it's been even better.
I do let others join in when I'm fighting a World Boss so they don't feel left out though. 😜
I just came back to WoW after not playing for years. I left off playing with my garrison, so WoD I guess. How do you get AI teammates? I'm currently playing through Legion because I'm playing a druid, but I have no interest in the hall thing because it sounds like garrisons. Please tell me I don't need to do that for AI teammates. 🙏🏻
That Verdan bug is really interesting me. I can only imagine it being some very old interaction to make the boss not actually hit that hard by healing you back up by a percentage or a flat amount but not showing it in the log. He was the first tank buster you'd encounter back in classic afterall.
That could be! My theory is that it's a hidden mechanic to help new players out when tanking for the first time :)
Or something to do with lag between actual damage registering, and the damage reduction calculations with armor.
@@dangrilgaming When looking at the crit you pointed out that oneshot you, when looking at the damage number, it is (within 10 hp) accurate to what the damage is AFTER the jojo healing. So either the face-value of the damage taken takes into account the jojo healing or it is some damage reduction calc bs for this boss in particular. Maybe armor counts twice for him?
Could be :o
It is not just him though, also other bosses and mobs. It is just the most obvious with Verdan :)
@@dangrilgaming sounds like Retroxy could figure this out :D
I very much want to see molten core, cant wait for more episodes
the one thing that annoys me about retail is how leveling is, vanilla/tbc/wotlk/cata up to well wod, aren't designed to just be hopped into, they lead on from previous expansion.
so the leveling path in retail is just odd for new players
yeaah i agree with you low level scaling being questionable. i am f2p of wow. which means my characters never go past the lvl up blizzard decided (unless some bug happens which gives for some reason free game time) which currently sits at lvl 20 currently. and during remix, most of the time whenever i queued into dungeons i was like 90% of the time at main remix account on top of the dps. even when i queued as a healer... and i am 100% glad about warbank update. i just hope that someday, whenever we use money, we would have option to use gold in warbank instead. because unlike our characte purses as f2p having cap of 1k gold, warbank doesn't seem to have any cap at all. and while normal mains probably use it to have presock bags and stuffs for alts, f2p can finally benefit from having alts. also fun when some random thing seems beatable, you start to fight, it hardly deals damage and then it spawns lvl ??? add which one hits you by 10x than you have hp. honestly. this is one of my texts in one such rare: Adding this to low leveled people/f2p: This boss isn't properly scaled. The boss is lvl 22 which is fine due i am lvl 20. it has 49k which is fine i am druid so self heals for the win. but the adds that thing spawns are not scaled at all currently. the adds has 110k health, are lvl ? and overkilled my 1758 hp character by: Blazing Flamewing Melee hit you 850 Physical. (Crushing) (10,886 Overkill), meanwhile rare itself hits 200-300 damage to me.
I really like this video, hope the next one will be soon
back when i still played retail, which was Warlords of Dreanor era, it was possible to solo MOST things if you had the right class/spec.... raids, at least back then you still had to have group with someone even if they don't enter the raid.. though i'm sure for the raids you would also have to have been over leveled..... but like i said, this was ALL pre Legion, so things likely have changed....
I liked this style of content. More please :D
Thank you so much! More will follow!
Finished my first two solo dungeons today, blackfathom deeps and wailing caverns as an arms warrior. Very interesting gameplay wise since there's a lot of elites within the dungeon and some mob groups can be quite tough, especially with casters that deal a lot of damage. The Druids of the claw deal more damage with their lightning bolts than the bosses which is really weid 😅. Going at it with level 59 as part of my "completing all quests" journey. (Level 60 scales down all pre-dragonflight content to 30 so you one shot everything.)
Spoiler: You can. Except some dungeons where boss or general encounter mechanics prevent you from. But it's a fun ride.
Nice video, keep up the good work! 👊
Thank you
I've never had a quest item be better than an equivalent level dungeon item, even if epic upgraded. The fact that the quest items (almost always) don't have secondary stats really hurt them. I ain't giving up 20 haste and crit for 2 stamina and intelligence.
Will be interesting to see how you juggle professions to make the very most out of buffs, enchants, potions etc..
You'll surely need every edge you can as content gets more difficult solo.
Sneak peak, it is not great to juggle professions lol ;)
I hope you keep this up! Loved it! It reminded me a lot of the solo FF14 series from @rathgames which is also awesome!
Glad you enjoy it! I did get my inspiration from Rath games for sure :) I love his videos!
0:02 well yeah i did it the whole time right now XD
Try solo vanilla (the first release of WoW). Good luck!
Wait until bro finds out about hardcore
please keep up this playlist
episode 2!!!!!!!!! i love this
You could solo darkmoon faire, maybe the rabbit will be impossible but moonfang would probably be possible maybe
I hadn't thought of that, but I can try and give them a shot for sure!
@@dangrilgaming 🔥
why not? if you want to raid, of course you can't. If just leveling it's no big deal to go solo
Instant sub, after getting hooked on to a similar series someone did for FF14 I've been wondering if someone would attempt it in WoW
Admittedly, I am somehow surprised people took to the solo challenge for WoW. In hindsight I should've figured that Rath's exploits would be considered far and wide across MMOs
Yeah Rath starting this will carry over to other games for sure! But it does highlight a different way of re-enjoying the games we all have loved for so long!
dude this is hype
yes its very easy, do Hardcore vanilla solo. That's what ive been trying for the better part of a year and my best is level 34
This reminds me of lvl 20 twinks that solo content while unsubbed to wow. Using loot with sockets (which I bet would be good for your challenge) as well as some funky enchants from different expansions.
Yes for sure! i had a speed twink back in the day and some of that theory has carried over for sure!
I have like 20 years wishing I could play wow 😂
Of course you can, and that's what killed wow somehow.
short answer: yes
laughs in highmountain tauren guardian druid yes
This looks interesting
Shouldn't they update the Troll starting zone?
Level locking is one of my favorite things in WoW. I'm excited to see what you can do with this!
really inspired to try out this too! I'm trying out with a Paladin, not sure if is a better, worse or the same idea as you with the druid?
Ive done paladin before off youtube and it definitely works for the dungeons, and bubble gives a very nice reset for any stacking debuffs :)
@@dangrilgaming what spec?
@@dangrilgaming well, I'm stuck in my mission...basically I can no longer enter a dungeon portal, nothing happens, even if yesterday it worked, I made a ticket...with other characters I can enter but not the one I made for this...
Hi Julius, try swapping in and out of chromie time. There have been some issues on my side as well when I was in certain chromie timelines :)
Hope this helps!
@@dangrilgaming I tried that, but only with Ragefire I have this problem
Out of curiosity, is a self-healing caster more optimal than a tank for this kind of thing?
It really depends, some fights are a lot harder as a tank due to the low damage output, but for most tank would be easier than caster for sure and I use guardian spec in the future.
Unfortunately Guardian is not as challenging on most bosses and it got quite stale :)
I do use guardian in later episodes though!
Great video...that's all!
Glad you enjoyed it!!
and thats a subscribe!
Wtf I've been doing that since the beginning. I'm a solo player.
Dude i have the attention span of a 2 year old GIRL and I watch your videos as soon they pop in my feed. Keep on this excellent content!
Thank you soo much for the kind words!!!
Wait, do girls have more or less of an attention span at 2 year old?
Better than boys @@Jojojjojojojo
Is WoW not meant to be played solo?
Yes. A fetus can solo retail.
exept no they cant,this little project of his is doomed to fail,wile you can solo some dungeons in the early expansions,others he wont be able to,and raids zero chances lol
@@deenman23i think alot of stuff is doable solo, i remember soloing herald of titans and icc 25 hc with my dk.
@@tupacshakur5868 at lvl 35?or whatever the cap is for wotlk
@@deenman23 that was before the lvl squish, i was 80, so yea
@@tupacshakur5868 no one ever soloed icc at 80 lol,a dk did it at 85 in cata
I'm mostly upset that one of your treants was not named Oak
Jon is personally offended by this comment :(
keep this game alive
Video really cool. I explain why HP spike when fighting vine guy: game sucks
Empty shirt slot >:(
I have some Tips for you: now u cant solo raids without overleveling and ofc Not current raids
A whole new way to play WoW!
That's for sure!
lmao i saw this video and immediately went "uh, yeah?" cause i play blood dk lmfao. you can solo pretty much anything, including all dungeons. interesting that you didn't pick tank classes, though. however, if you dont want to "cheat" and get the level boost... yeah, druid. bear tank is OP, and you get all three specs in one.
Yeah I went with druid to have access to all types of specs just in case ( looking at healer bosses for example :) )
@dangrilgaming lmao fair! I WILL say that the downside of blood dk is qhile you can solo pretty much anything (ive soloed current content heroic dungeons for example and 10%-20% bosses om normal) it takes a while without taking very specific single target talents, which i find reduce how much of a punching bag you are.
My favorite boss to go full blown captain america "i can do this all day" is neltharion for that reason lmao
Honestly, this idea stemmed from me soloing a m+ dungeon, but I wanted to start from the roots with classic content :)
I'm hoping there are some busted lines of code left in the game that could allow me to solo some old stuff ( e.g. there is a 1 hour 750 vers buff in Voldun which gives 70% vers at lvl 30)
Some of the consumables are busted, but I will get into that later :)
How often do you upload?
I try to upload every 2 weeks, but this new annoying wow expansion got in the way this weekend ;)
Is the classic hud an addon?
No, I do not believe it is :)
hey man why don't we create a guild and a new way of playing retail by doing all the expansions little by little?
That does sound like a great idea, although maybe something for after the war within release ;)?
@@dangrilgaming yes of course tell me your battle tag so as soon as I log in I'll add you and we'll talk calmly. you have to organize the thing well, even with important rewards
As I said, I have no intention of doing it now, but once the war within has settled down, I may make a guild to do this, will probably use a discord or something :)
@@dangrilgaming yes I also agree I currently want to play the war within. I wanted the battle tag just to stay in touch and once the expansion was underway, to be able to properly organize the guild and the way to play.
in new expansion will be 100% yes cuz of end content u will able get heroic raid gear from solo content :D
story mode
isn't retail made for "solo"?
Some things, yes, but not everything!
Isn't it solo?
You keep saying "we".
Answer: Yes. I just saved you 21 minutes and 30 seconds 😉
Was definitely a fun and informative watch. I'd say, as a new player, definitely worth 21 minutes or my time.
how you know your mmo is beyond cooked. people still play this shit?
I read this comment in a morgan freeman voice and it sounded like heaven!