Hi Ghosty. Can I just say how impactful that ending music video was? Really took me back to the expansion that introduced to this world that I love. Thank you so much!
So many other classes he forgot, plus he can add on to the already existing classes he's done a legacy. Expansions too, especially Legion, which was imo the last good WoW expac.
In most cases the /script soundfiles can be found online, might be useful if you do anything else like this. Edit: Disregard. I thought the cutscene dialogues were separate as well.
i remembered gearscore now alright i'm capped and ready to raid go get gear in dungeons noob alright i'm geared lets raid you need raid level gear to raid noob
And it's reasonable, as people don't want to slog through dungeons and wipe with people who may have never done them before, but just want to get the gear/AP as quickly as possible. You are free to make your own group and even invite low ilvl people, no one's stopping you.
no its not reasonable you dont need 840+ and i never understand why people do this. i dont think "going faster" is the reason. people think high lvl mean YOU ARE BETTER. which WoW has proven that sometimes that isent true.
***** Well with higher ilvl you ARE better, atleast stat-wise and thus often survivability and damage-wise aswell, which means it's going to be easier and faster clearing the whole dungeon. Because as bad as the people with high ilvl can be, someone bad with good ilvl is still more useful than someone who's bad AND has low ilvl.
ahhh Wrath.. the first time since starting playing the game in late late vanilla i actually attempted end game raiding.. the beautiful memories of raiding alongside IRL friends as we all grew into fully fledged raiders led by our guild leader and the best of the bunch by far who has gone on to achieve rank 1s in current content some of us have not played since, some of us dabbled and toe dipped into other expansions and some still play hardcore til this very day but i think we all agreed wrath was the golden age. the ultimate balance between the hardcore and the casuals
Brilliant work on the music video, Ghosty. I dig your sense of placement and editing. I think it a great resting place for a lot of memories from when I first came back to WoW after a break due to life. This whole video had more nostalgia than I expected, with Wrath being the first time I ever truly raided. I thank you, Preach, for your honest opinions, and facts, as always. Keep up the great work, boys.
Love returning to your nostalgia videos years later. Because it’s just a reminder of the great little things I forgot about, only remembering the negative or monotony sometimes
Hope Emma is doing okay now. Forever team Emma. Btw no title? Ghosty slacking on those title screens? Preach mate, you need to crack that bossman whip.
Watching this is like seeing your first girlfriend for the first time in a long time. You clearly remember all the fun you had like if it was yesterday, but at the same time is remined about something that isn't anymore. Damn I miss the feeling of loving the game so much as i did back then..
God, I wish I could be 10 million people so I could upvote this the amount it deserves. This was the apogee of WoW, when the curators of the game had passion for the content they were creating, before 'ease of maintenance' and 'accessibility' was the guiding principles of the WoW development team. Flying was GREAT, and smart designers knew how to make it feel great, instead of just relegating the players to being pedestrians until the expansion is fundamentally over.
The pre-wotlk zombie event was amazing. I remember the first day when you just couldn't resist poking the infected grain, traveling by foot because you knew the flight master would infect you as soon as you landed, doing your best to turn in quests without getting infected, failing, and going 'fuck it' and joining the rampage instead.
Preach! Thank you for helping to jog my memory on how wonderful Wrath was. It was a great time in my life with a ton of my friends. Legion is thankfully a pretty great expansion and is helping to bring back a lot of those same awesome feelings WoW has given me in the past. Sometimes though, there's just no beating actually being there in 2008 and playing on Live. Thanks again and keep up the great content, man!
Watching that made me feel quite emotional, my fondest memories of WoW come from Wrath even though i played from vanilla. Forwarding this on to my friend who i introduced to the game during Wrath. I'll let you know if he cries like i nearly did.
Not gonna lie when I saw a guild that never cleared TK, have the Undying achievement and our guild cleared SW with NO warglaives sitting at the same tier. Was really painful, see people i knew that damn near went out their way to play terrible, clearing Naxx25 was scary.
Preach, Thanks for taking the time to do the legacy videos. I will watch them on occasion and man on man... the feels. Your video evokes so many emotions and memories of some of the best times I have ever had in game, with some of the best friends I have in game and in RL. You are best bro! Terratis NightElf Druid, Lightbringer
i liked wrath because it's what convinced me to play wow for the first time. seeing my older brother playing it on a shaman he got to 70 right before wrath hit is one of my favorite memories. i never really got into endgame, probably because i was stupid little preteen who wanted to be a death knight, but couldn't at launch. after leveling a warlock up high enough to make the death knight, i found that i liked the whole leveling thing far more than actual dungeons. so to this day i still have that warlock and death knight, but every other class also up to 100. i didn't love wrath because it was more accessible, but that it was where i started, fond memories of watching my brother playing then getting on my scrubby little lock will stick with me for a long time.
There is a reason Wrath was the peak of subscriber numbers. It actually made the content of the game accessible while still retaining PLENTY of challenge for those that craved it. There was a world of difference between being able to pug most of Naxx or the first two wings of ICC and stuff like Alone in the Darkness or Heroic Lich King. The hardest content of Wrath stands proudly among anything that came before or after it. Just because a large amount of players also got to actually set foot in some raids doesn't diminish that.
omg that intro though your quality lvl of everyone of your videos and the tireless amount of effort clearly put into them is so refreshing man you one of the best video creators on youtube pls keep up the good work your awesome!!
i can admit I am a bit of a wrath baby... to be fair, i was there for vanilla and tbc, but i was honestly so young that i just was a pretty bad player. i was even a bad player at the beginning of wotlk, but i fell in with a raiding guild (somehow) and their expectations of me made me a better player. it was what allowed me to go from being a player that was not even good enough to be raiding naxx in the beginning of wotlk to being in one of the better 10 man raiding guilds on my server by the time ulduar and icc came out. wotlk came out at the perfect time for me as i was finishing up high school and was an all around more talented gamer and i remember it fondly. sadly, i stopped playing in cata because it came out my freshman year of college and i was playing football and going to parties.... but i always remember wotlk as my favorite expansion and its not even close... with that said, now that i am an adult with a job and a house, i find time to play legion casually and i am enjoying it. i'll never forget the times i had with my old guild in wotlk and what it felt like to finally kill arthas
The intro gave me serious chills. And I really loved the outro music video. As a Wrath baby it nearly brought a tear to my eye. Fucking amazing video, well done Preach (and Ghosty) xx
The music video made me very emotional. Wrath took place at a time in my life when I was very happy. I was young, in love, had many friends. Everything back then was so simple compared to today. Wrath will always remind me of some of the best times in my life and I will always have a soft spot for it, and it was such a reminder I really needed today. Thank you.
The music video at the end makes me feel some type of way and is the only thing that ever makes me want to go back in time and experience something as it was and how I remembered it... thanks Ghosty
Still great content. The reason why I started making videos was due to your early WoW legacy videos. Your enthusiasm, energy and knowledge makes for incredible content. Been watching you for years and I'm glad you're still going strong. Keep it up Mike!
WotLK's easy mode was welcome for me. Work no longer allowed me to farm the 40 buffs and 60 shards needed for vanilla raids. I also didn't have the time to dress 4 alts for class stacking like in sunwell. But oh my god have I missed warlock tanking, I haven't used enslave demon since High King Maulgar... and lower gear not being such a handicap.
WotLK difficulty was a welcome change for me as well, as it allowed my guild (who mostly consisted of people who had jobs and needed to manage families) to catch up and actually get to see endgame content (we never managed to see BC endgame content because it required time that most of us didn't have and was too taxing for a lot of us, the best we got were a couple of heroics) and progress through raids. For the first time in our time playing WoW we got to complete the final raid tier of an expansion and from there we became a relatively successful raiding guild all the way up until our guild disbanded in WoD (some were bored, some got burnt out and some simply wanted to move on). WotLK is and always will be my favorite expansion for that very reason.
That's more of a "meta" difficulty, all of the stuff that you have to do before the raid. The problem with Wrath, that Preach didn't quite point out, is that it nerfed BOTH boss mechanics, and meta difficulty. Bosses didn't really need to be easier, as Ulduar quite clearly showed.
Toa Onua They didn't nerf boss mechanics. If anything the mechanics were harder, the fact that you could ignore them was what made the bosses easy. F.ex. Onyxia's deep breath globaled people, reworked Onyxia's breath did 10-20% of my HP, almost like I life tapped.
SHADOWMOURNE?! NONE OF THAT?! WTF? ONE OF THE MOST EPIC QUESTS TO GET A REAL LEGENDARY! I still remember seeing my first person with Shadowmourne it was insane and I was like. I want that. That made me want to become a hard core raider.
To be fair, Warriors only use it as half their main weapon set, and Ret doesn't use the ArP either. The only ones who really use it to its full potential would be a Blood DK DPS or Arms Warrior, and the downside of that is, they kind of suck at PvE in the first place. Everyone else wastes it a bit in some way or another. But it's still BIS. And I suppose BIS is BIS.
I started playing WoW early wotlk, and ever since I have missed it so badly. The whole theme, and all of lore, even the music, all so beautifully done. It will always remain as my favorite time playing any game I've ever played in my life. Wotlk forever.
And there is Warmane best private server with 3 wotlk realms. Lordaeron with average population with blizz like exp. Icecrown with 12k players online, but full of donors. Blackrock pvp realm with low population.
*My son, the day you were born, the very forests of Lordaeron whispered the name Arthas. My child, I watched with pride as you grew into a weapon of righteousness. Remember, our line has always ruled with wisdom and strength. And I know you will show restraint when exercising your great power. But the truest victory, my son, is stirring the hearts of your people. I tell you this, for when my days have come to an end, you shall be King*.
"A lot of us were salty because Wrath of the Lich King was just a different game from what we were used to." OMG this. I remember struggling in TBC Heroics, the crazy tactics every boss required, the amount of times crowd control was required. It was juicy and fulfilling but also scary and off putting for many. I actually recall being in the Wrath baby hate camp. When I took my mage into Wrath, I was really bored most of the time in PvE content because I no longer had "jobs" to perform. No one needed me to sheep, no one needed mage food as badly as before, mages no longer filled an AoE niche as everyone now had competitive AoE. I was bummerinoed. I think the thing that really put the nail in the coffin for me about Wrath was how trivial Heroic dungeon trash packs were. Tank AoEs the entire pack with unpeelable threat while everyone just spammed whatever AoE DPS abilities they had. There was no more strategy involved with every pull, no more need for marking targets and setting up kill orders. I still enjoyed other aspects of WoD like the landscape of Northrend itself, the questing, the music, the slightly more functional armor designs. But from someone who raided a fair amount of TBC, Wrath felt like it was always missing something.
Also great video. Loved it. I'm a "Wrath Baby" I never heard really heard much about wow until WotLK and had fond memories of play warcraft 3 frozen throne. I was 13-14 at the time I started. Never got that LK kill :/ but that's why I started caring about being good at WoW and games in general.
Great vid man, i only started playing in MoP but to see parts of the game from the perspective of someone who was there to do it at the time is great. I love your contect, especially now where the quality gets better and better. Keep going, love ya.
Unchainedboar Not saying you are the only one, but most people decide that the best expansion is one of "their" time, or how most people say "Nostalgia"
Great legacy vid Preach, as always,the quality is on point. Also mad props to Ghosty for the ending Music Video, really looking forward to see more of these in the next Legacy videos
For those of us who didn't have the time or inclination to grind 8 hours a day just to do end game content, Wrath was a godsend. Still my favourite expansion to this day.
I was a Wrath baby, so I speak from a position of bias. I remember first playing through the game and buying each expac individually. Getting to Northrend was a really huge OH MY GOD moment for me since that is where all the cool peeps were (it was also around the time ICC came out). I absolutely fell in love with Howling Fjord and Grizzly Hills. Storm Peaks was awe inspiring. I remember my first level capped character, a mage. I remember farming heroics for heirlooms. I used to get up early and play before school and played all night. I was never able to set foot in ICC due to my inexperience in gearing and gearscore, unfortunately. I absolutely adored Wrath and the only expac to create that sort of feeling for me was Mists. Now I'm almost in my mid twenties and I can't play a video game for more than an hour without having to set it down. Ah, the nostalgia.
This video brings forth so many emotional memories, what a fucking incredible video this is. One of, if not my favourite video you both have ever compiled. Thank you so much boys.
I never had the fortune of playing in WotLK as I was a poor student. Watching Ghosty's music video at the end gave me feels as though I had experienced it for myself. Thank you both for this amazing video.
its almost 2024 and im still waiting for the legacy of the death knight video!! hahaha. between these and drama time, im sent back to a better time. thanks for all you've done over the years bro! been around since Legion launched
+Ryan W it's still important to the history of WoW raiding / progression. It was a huge fucking scandal so stop trying to act like you're the decider on what matters lmao because 10 Fuxking years from now they will STILL be talking about it and STILL arguing over wether it was just or not. Quit it. You're not some fucking elite, you're just another baddie like the rest of us.
The plague thing was the best thing ever in a pre-expansion patch for me. I had no idea it was happening. I was still just leveling my first character at the time and was heading to the a town to see it full with zombies who start charging me the second i get near. It was amazing. Every other pre-expansion has felt weak in comparison since imo, at least until legion. Becoming a dreadlord was amazing. Recaptured the magic of that moment for me.
By the end of the day raiding is the only thing left every single expansion anyway.From TBC to Wod the content was always new patch - have some daylies go back to raid resets.
Preach i fucking love you! Followed you since 10k subs and will always folow your channel no matter what game you focus on! This video really gave me goose bumps because WotLK was the first time i got max lvl and started raiding.... keep up the good work hope you and your family are well. Peace Jealius from denmark :)
I quit wow in wrath and just started playing again in legion - it was really sort of heart breaking to see tirion die on the coast since he was so instrumental and cool in wrath. I guess i never really though about inclusion in raiding and parties but you're 100% right i never really felt like a raider until ulduar and even when we were struggling through it to learn the "hardmodes" gave more stuff and the challenge that a group faced with the extra mechanics it really made the game very interesting :) great video as always - it's fun to look back and get taken back to those long nights!
Preach, I think you didn't put that much effort into this one compared to The Burning Crusade legacy. You completely skipped Double specialization, which was a major change that made gameplay way more flexible, along with BG finders and other things. You didn't talk about how Blizzard gave most classes some fantastic talent three spells that made everyone happy ( "OH F*CK I CAN TAKE TWO 2 HANDED WEAPONS AND REFLECT ATTACKS WITH MY SHIELD AS A WARRIOR !!!! " "Yes ! I can take an elite monster as a pet now as a hunter !" "I can change myself into a daemon as a warlock !" "I can use stealth abilities without being stealthed for a few seconds as a rogue !" "I have some cool arcane spells as a mage ! "etc). Generally, they added some very cool spells and abilities for all classes. An other point that you didn't mention is that litterally all specializations were playable on a good level at a point or another during WotLK, which wasn't necessarily the case during the previous (and next !) expansions. I know you're more of a raider, but you also didn't say much about PvP. About how Isle of Conquest, during the first months, was played like Alterac Valley, with 1+ hour games. About how WotLK opened a new era in PvP videos, specially ARENA PvP, that was the first time on such a good level. I think a lot of people loved Wrath PvP gameplay because though it had its problems, it was probably the most balanced WoW had, and was still rewarding without being unaccessible for average players. Overall, WotlK wasn't necessarily the best expansion, but it left many reasons in the players minds to think so. I liked it personnally, specially for PvPing. Love your videos though.
Are you sure you watch the whole thing because he said he didn't go over everything because there was a lot to go over and he didn't want the video to go on for too long?He put a lot of work into this video do you know how long it would take to edit a video like this if you look closely he put in a lot of effort into the cuts the audio and smoothed everything out, you can tell he put love into this video like he does with all. About him not making it as good as the TBC video is out right ridiculousnot all video has to be as good as the rest but to be honest this is as good as the TBC video and better in some aspects. In the TBC video, he went on some points for a bit too long but with this he was short and sweet with most of the points but I do agree he did skip a lot of things but as I said before he didn't want it to go on for too long and nothing is wrong with that because if it went on for lets say an hour and a half talking about the points he missed people would lose interest half way in, sure a lot of people would watch until the end but Preach has a passion for making videos and didn't want any of it to go to waste. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
at a certain point it becomes too overflowing with segments. E.g. the original script for this one would have produced a 50 minute video. Our analytics show that barely anyone makes it to the end of a 30 minute video so some stuff has to just be mentioned and move on
Hey, salty warrior here, it's painfully obvious to me that because wrath did not overwhelmingly favor casters he doesn't want to talk at length about it. In 7 or 8 years when he's doing legacy of legion i have a feeling it'll only be a 5 minute pvp montage of casters getting their insides turned into outsides by melee while preach flips us off. YES I"M ANGRY ABOUT THE LEGACY OF THE WARRIOR AFTER YOUR AMAZING LOVE LETTERS TO WARLOCKS AND MAGES. Anyway on a side actually related to the video you can make it as long as you want preach this isn't TV its youtube. So you don't have to lie to us. You can tell us the truth (that i suspect is that you didn't want to keep working on it especially as research on wrath is getting harder as cataclysm swept away EVERYTHING on the fansite side due to mechanics changes and mop swept away what was left.) Don't feed us this 'it was getting too long' line we aren't buying it.
Yeah wrath wasnt hard at all, but the overall style of the expansion was amazing! I was a total lost cause in vanilla and TBC, wotlk really made me a proper mmo player. Love it so much and cant wait for it to come back in 2 years
One year later, still no legacy of the death knight. Not complaining, I know Preach is super busy with Legion but these legacy videos are by far my favourite.
My 2nd favourite expansion after TBC. What a time to be playing back then. BFA has killed it for me now. Thanks for the video, brings back good memories
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I remember you...
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Hi Ghosty. Can I just say how impactful that ending music video was? Really took me back to the expansion that introduced to this world that I love. Thank you so much!
did i say you could comment here m8?!
I would sincerely love to see the Legacy series resumed again - Please Preach, consider this again!
The Legacy of Shadowlands 🤣
@@claytonmurrayguitar shadowlands>bfa
So many other classes he forgot, plus he can add on to the already existing classes he's done a legacy. Expansions too, especially Legion, which was imo the last good WoW expac.
the legacy of: Chris Metzen
to soon :-(
Zeram you have mentioned me (chris metzen) too soon
Still hurts
You think you want it, but you don't.
*announces Classic the moment Metzen left*
Yeah and where is your achiev?
The very last moment needs : "No king rules forever, my son".
My favourite time in WoW:)
i really wanted to add that in dude but the dialogue is tied in to the loud music that is in the background when he says it so i couldn't get it in :(
In most cases the /script soundfiles can be found online, might be useful if you do anything else like this.
Edit: Disregard. I thought the cutscene dialogues were separate as well.
or "i see only.... darkness"
ive can access the in-game dialogues - this was implemented as a comp and not script/score on separate levels, so they couldn't be split unfortunately
i remembered gearscore now
alright i'm capped and ready to raid
go get gear in dungeons noob
alright i'm geared lets raid
you need raid level gear to raid noob
Thank god people moved beyond that. Just imagine if pugs demanded 840ilvl for mythic dungeons in Legion...
they are already doing that
And it's reasonable, as people don't want to slog through dungeons and wipe with people who may have never done them before, but just want to get the gear/AP as quickly as possible. You are free to make your own group and even invite low ilvl people, no one's stopping you.
no its not reasonable you dont need 840+ and i never understand why people do this. i dont think "going faster" is the reason. people think high lvl mean YOU ARE BETTER. which WoW has proven that sometimes that isent true.
***** Well with higher ilvl you ARE better, atleast stat-wise and thus often survivability and damage-wise aswell, which means it's going to be easier and faster clearing the whole dungeon.
Because as bad as the people with high ilvl can be, someone bad with good ilvl is still more useful than someone who's bad AND has low ilvl.
OMG YES THE MUSIC IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very Nostalgic... For a time
Can anyone tell me what music it is at 1:38?
Manan-fucking-dultra...
First chord hit and I thought it was Skylarking by BT
Leon Casey s-t-a-r-fucking-s
ahhh Wrath.. the first time since starting playing the game in late late vanilla i actually attempted end game raiding.. the beautiful memories of raiding alongside IRL friends as we all grew into fully fledged raiders led by our guild leader and the best of the bunch by far who has gone on to achieve rank 1s in current content
some of us have not played since, some of us dabbled and toe dipped into other expansions and some still play hardcore til this very day but i think we all agreed wrath was the golden age. the ultimate balance between the hardcore and the casuals
Brilliant work on the music video, Ghosty. I dig your sense of placement and editing. I think it a great resting place for a lot of memories from when I first came back to WoW after a break due to life. This whole video had more nostalgia than I expected, with Wrath being the first time I ever truly raided. I thank you, Preach, for your honest opinions, and facts, as always. Keep up the great work, boys.
nah, it's obvious how much care was put into this
Wrath had problems... but Ulduar did make it my favorite expansion. Literally the greatest raid of all time for me.
Agreed
Ulduar sucks
My most fond memory of WOTLK? MR T!! NIGHTELF MOHAWK
Love returning to your nostalgia videos years later. Because it’s just a reminder of the great little things I forgot about, only remembering the negative or monotony sometimes
Legacy of: Preach's house, with new previously unseen rooms.
Gotta buy the DLC
Hope Emma is doing okay now. Forever team Emma. Btw no title? Ghosty slacking on those title screens? Preach mate, you need to crack that bossman whip.
.... Please read the description.
i did read it. I attempted humour i... um never mind mate
Hmmm, well it would seem your humor flew straight over my head. I apologise for not understanding. Have a nice day. 😅
If this could happen more like, globally, that'd be great. +1
This was like.. the most civil disagreement I have ever witnessed on the internet.
Watching this is like seeing your first girlfriend for the first time in a long time. You clearly remember all the fun you had like if it was yesterday, but at the same time is remined about something that isn't anymore. Damn I miss the feeling of loving the game so much as i did back then..
Ohh a legacy video without a title, I like the mystery of this, can't wait to watch it!
JUMPUUUUU!
The suspense is real, peon
PEON IS HERE! Preach who?
you are skinny in your profile much
God, I wish I could be 10 million people so I could upvote this the amount it deserves. This was the apogee of WoW, when the curators of the game had passion for the content they were creating, before 'ease of maintenance' and 'accessibility' was the guiding principles of the WoW development team. Flying was GREAT, and smart designers knew how to make it feel great, instead of just relegating the players to being pedestrians until the expansion is fundamentally over.
I got so scared at the start :O
Glorious video Preach and Ghost :D
The pre-wotlk zombie event was amazing. I remember the first day when you just couldn't resist poking the infected grain, traveling by foot because you knew the flight master would infect you as soon as you landed, doing your best to turn in quests without getting infected, failing, and going 'fuck it' and joining the rampage instead.
My guild used to all get infected and do "Zombie" raids of Shattrah.
This video hits different in 2021
Seriously Ghost, you add something great to Preaches vids. I'm glad you're there full time now.
@IHS yeah this comment didn't age well lol
@@PillowStuffin does anyone know what happened? I swear it feels like a disappearance with no notice or update
was poor my whole life and could only ever watch friends play wow, feel like i really missed out on something special.
I feel you m8.
I feel for you too mate.
You did.
Not that special.
then just play on a blizzlike private server?
Legacy videos are some of your best ones imo, pumped to watch this one.
Also, Legacy of Shaman pls!
Preach! Thank you for helping to jog my memory on how wonderful Wrath was. It was a great time in my life with a ton of my friends. Legion is thankfully a pretty great expansion and is helping to bring back a lot of those same awesome feelings WoW has given me in the past. Sometimes though, there's just no beating actually being there in 2008 and playing on Live. Thanks again and keep up the great content, man!
I miss ghost
Aboslutely loved this video. You guys are hysterical! Adding Ghosty to the team was a fantastic idea.
Stonebank - Who's Got Your Love , First song for those whos looking :) Insane nostalgia video awsome work Preach and Ghost :D Hope to see loads more
thanks bro
you're an unsong hero
4 Years later and legacy of the DK is still coming...
Watching that made me feel quite emotional, my fondest memories of WoW come from Wrath even though i played from vanilla. Forwarding this on to my friend who i introduced to the game during Wrath. I'll let you know if he cries like i nearly did.
CITIZENS OF DALARAN!
I could live the rest of my life and be Ok never hearing that again lmao
Awesome vid as usual preach, loved the end ghosty.
Not gonna lie when I saw a guild that never cleared TK, have the Undying achievement and our guild cleared SW with NO warglaives sitting at the same tier. Was really painful, see people i knew that damn near went out their way to play terrible, clearing Naxx25 was scary.
Preach,
Thanks for taking the time to do the legacy videos. I will watch them on occasion and man on man... the feels. Your video evokes so many emotions and memories of some of the best times I have ever had in game, with some of the best friends I have in game and in RL. You are best bro!
Terratis NightElf Druid, Lightbringer
really good video, 44 minutes flashed by, you are a great story teller preach, more like this please.
Miss Wrath
Miss Ghosty
Miss my warlock not being reliant on a 3min CD
Coil :D ?
Godamn Preach your videos are so entertaining. The Barber shop and transmog exchange between you and Ghosty made me literally LOL.
You know preach is a fucking baller when his PO box is 420
i liked wrath because it's what convinced me to play wow for the first time. seeing my older brother playing it on a shaman he got to 70 right before wrath hit is one of my favorite memories. i never really got into endgame, probably because i was stupid little preteen who wanted to be a death knight, but couldn't at launch. after leveling a warlock up high enough to make the death knight, i found that i liked the whole leveling thing far more than actual dungeons. so to this day i still have that warlock and death knight, but every other class also up to 100. i didn't love wrath because it was more accessible, but that it was where i started, fond memories of watching my brother playing then getting on my scrubby little lock will stick with me for a long time.
There is a reason Wrath was the peak of subscriber numbers. It actually made the content of the game accessible while still retaining PLENTY of challenge for those that craved it. There was a world of difference between being able to pug most of Naxx or the first two wings of ICC and stuff like Alone in the Darkness or Heroic Lich King. The hardest content of Wrath stands proudly among anything that came before or after it. Just because a large amount of players also got to actually set foot in some raids doesn't diminish that.
2:14 keeps his children in a cage during raids - confirmed :>
man that music video really made the feels come back. It may not have been the best raid content but lore wise wrath stuck with me and always will :D
omg that intro though your quality lvl of everyone of your videos and the tireless amount of effort clearly put into them is so refreshing man you one of the best video creators on youtube pls keep up the good work your awesome!!
Great legacy as always! Loved the music video. Keep up the good work!
i can admit I am a bit of a wrath baby... to be fair, i was there for vanilla and tbc, but i was honestly so young that i just was a pretty bad player. i was even a bad player at the beginning of wotlk, but i fell in with a raiding guild (somehow) and their expectations of me made me a better player. it was what allowed me to go from being a player that was not even good enough to be raiding naxx in the beginning of wotlk to being in one of the better 10 man raiding guilds on my server by the time ulduar and icc came out. wotlk came out at the perfect time for me as i was finishing up high school and was an all around more talented gamer and i remember it fondly. sadly, i stopped playing in cata because it came out my freshman year of college and i was playing football and going to parties.... but i always remember wotlk as my favorite expansion and its not even close... with that said, now that i am an adult with a job and a house, i find time to play legion casually and i am enjoying it. i'll never forget the times i had with my old guild in wotlk and what it felt like to finally kill arthas
The intro gave me serious chills. And I really loved the outro music video. As a Wrath baby it nearly brought a tear to my eye. Fucking amazing video, well done Preach (and Ghosty) xx
how to feel special as a casual in Wotlk. do hc culling of stratholme, reins of the bronze drake 100% drop chance, ?????, profit.
***** true xD
Lmao so true dude. I cummed when I got that drake. Felt like a truly was part of the top even tho I was a dumb ass casual
I fucking loved Grizzly Hills.
Ok now I feel dumb because it took me over 6 minutes to figure out that this was legacy of wrath not legacy of the DK.
Don't feel bad man, when I first watched I really thought he was being serious about quitting wow
The music video made me very emotional. Wrath took place at a time in my life when I was very happy. I was young, in love, had many friends. Everything back then was so simple compared to today. Wrath will always remind me of some of the best times in my life and I will always have a soft spot for it, and it was such a reminder I really needed today. Thank you.
The music video at the end makes me feel some type of way and is the only thing that ever makes me want to go back in time and experience something as it was and how I remembered it... thanks Ghosty
Do a legacy of Preach's hairline Rip
Lol
Im right there with him
*Against all odds, this comment did not aged well*
"The DK legacy video is coming..." Preach
Will Rye coming soon....tm
Never.
love all the old footage you guys put in these vids, such nostalgia
Still great content. The reason why I started making videos was due to your early WoW legacy videos. Your enthusiasm, energy and knowledge makes for incredible content. Been watching you for years and I'm glad you're still going strong. Keep it up Mike!
WotLK's easy mode was welcome for me. Work no longer allowed me to farm the 40 buffs and 60 shards needed for vanilla raids. I also didn't have the time to dress 4 alts for class stacking like in sunwell. But oh my god have I missed warlock tanking, I haven't used enslave demon since High King Maulgar... and lower gear not being such a handicap.
WotLK difficulty was a welcome change for me as well, as it allowed my guild (who mostly consisted of people who had jobs and needed to manage families) to catch up and actually get to see endgame content (we never managed to see BC endgame content because it required time that most of us didn't have and was too taxing for a lot of us, the best we got were a couple of heroics) and progress through raids.
For the first time in our time playing WoW we got to complete the final raid tier of an expansion and from there we became a relatively successful raiding guild all the way up until our guild disbanded in WoD (some were bored, some got burnt out and some simply wanted to move on).
WotLK is and always will be my favorite expansion for that very reason.
That's more of a "meta" difficulty, all of the stuff that you have to do before the raid. The problem with Wrath, that Preach didn't quite point out, is that it nerfed BOTH boss mechanics, and meta difficulty. Bosses didn't really need to be easier, as Ulduar quite clearly showed.
Toa Onua They didn't nerf boss mechanics. If anything the mechanics were harder, the fact that you could ignore them was what made the bosses easy.
F.ex. Onyxia's deep breath globaled people, reworked Onyxia's breath did 10-20% of my HP, almost like I life tapped.
SHADOWMOURNE?! NONE OF THAT?! WTF? ONE OF THE MOST EPIC QUESTS TO GET A REAL LEGENDARY! I still remember seeing my first person with Shadowmourne it was insane and I was like. I want that. That made me want to become a hard core raider.
***** It's not DK exclusive. Any Paladin or Warrior or Death Knight can get it.
I believe Shadowmourne got it's mention in the Warrior and maybe the Paladin legacy videos.
With a god damn dk getting it over me, because reasons, I stood there all like .. "But he doesn't even use the ArP D:"
To be fair, Warriors only use it as half their main weapon set, and Ret doesn't use the ArP either. The only ones who really use it to its full potential would be a Blood DK DPS or Arms Warrior, and the downside of that is, they kind of suck at PvE in the first place. Everyone else wastes it a bit in some way or another. But it's still BIS. And I suppose BIS is BIS.
I started playing WoW early wotlk, and ever since I have missed it so badly. The whole theme, and all of lore, even the music, all so beautifully done.
It will always remain as my favorite time playing any game I've ever played in my life.
Wotlk forever.
And there is Warmane best private server with 3 wotlk realms. Lordaeron with average population with blizz like exp. Icecrown with 12k players online, but full of donors. Blackrock pvp realm with low population.
*My son, the day you were born, the very forests of Lordaeron whispered the name Arthas. My child, I watched with pride as you grew into a weapon of righteousness. Remember, our line has always ruled with wisdom and strength. And I know you will show restraint when exercising your great power. But the truest victory, my son, is stirring the hearts of your people. I tell you this, for when my days have come to an end, you shall be King*.
**shudders**
May the blood stained crown remain lost and forgotten ...now listen clsoer to the echoes of the silent tomb reffuseing t oforget when it was stained.
Everything that the light touches is our kingdom... oh wait. Wrong king.
Well he certainly stirred the hearts of his people, right before he shoved frostmourne through them.
shutup idiot.
YES THE HAPPY MUSIC IS BACK!
Awesome Video. I really loved WotlK and coincidently started a new Walkthrough of it recently^^
Keep up the good work :)
Oh man the feels at the end, I love these Legacy videos. Goosebumbs all the way through. Keep it up boys!
Perfect Dark on N64! 1:50
"A lot of us were salty because Wrath of the Lich King was just a different game from what we were used to."
OMG this. I remember struggling in TBC Heroics, the crazy tactics every boss required, the amount of times crowd control was required. It was juicy and fulfilling but also scary and off putting for many. I actually recall being in the Wrath baby hate camp.
When I took my mage into Wrath, I was really bored most of the time in PvE content because I no longer had "jobs" to perform. No one needed me to sheep, no one needed mage food as badly as before, mages no longer filled an AoE niche as everyone now had competitive AoE. I was bummerinoed.
I think the thing that really put the nail in the coffin for me about Wrath was how trivial Heroic dungeon trash packs were. Tank AoEs the entire pack with unpeelable threat while everyone just spammed whatever AoE DPS abilities they had. There was no more strategy involved with every pull, no more need for marking targets and setting up kill orders.
I still enjoyed other aspects of WoD like the landscape of Northrend itself, the questing, the music, the slightly more functional armor designs. But from someone who raided a fair amount of TBC, Wrath felt like it was always missing something.
That nostalgia trip at the end was too much, like seeing an old friend long gone.
excellent video and that music video at the end is amazing. well done you guys, as always
I have to say tho...Legion is really fucking good so far!!
Really?
Seriously?
Legion best Addon
Don't worry, blizz will fuck it up.
so far im having as much fun as I did in WOTLK , after 3 expansions I seriously tought this one was going to be shit too but so far im loving it.
I'm having loads of fun farming herbs and ores. They sell for shitloads.
Never forget...”In the mountains..”
Also great video. Loved it. I'm a "Wrath Baby" I never heard really heard much about wow until WotLK and had fond memories of play warcraft 3 frozen throne. I was 13-14 at the time I started. Never got that LK kill :/ but that's why I started caring about being good at WoW and games in general.
Great vid man, i only started playing in MoP but to see parts of the game from the perspective of someone who was there to do it at the time is great. I love your contect, especially now where the quality gets better and better. Keep going, love ya.
TBC will always be my fav Xpac
let me guess, TBC was your first time playing?
fuck tbc
Vinzenz Stein Ferrari Freitas negative i started in Vanilla, i jsut liked the TBC raids the best
Unchainedboar Not saying you are the only one, but most people decide that the best expansion is one of "their" time, or how most people say "Nostalgia"
I like vanilla the best, and i started to play it on nostalrius 2015.
Ah, the expansion that slowly turned the game into a casual game.
5:17 Preach on the WotLKs Scourge pre-patch event: if it happened today...
2020: Well hello there
That ending video hit right in the feels. Awesome as always from you guys =) Thank you!
The intro 10/10
Hey!! I was a Wrath-Baby^^
Well i started in BC but didn´t raid until Ulduar!
The music compilation at the end is absolutely amazing. Top notch, Ghost.
Great legacy vid Preach, as always,the quality is on point.
Also mad props to Ghosty for the ending Music Video, really looking forward to see more of these in the next Legacy videos
For those of us who didn't have the time or inclination to grind 8 hours a day just to do end game content, Wrath was a godsend. Still my favourite expansion to this day.
I had no idea the battle for undercity quest was removed. I had forgot all about it.
How could you even forget about it???? :)
Because I did it only once and that was 7 years ago before a 6 year break from the game
James Goodrum I remember it clearly because it was the most epic quest I've played in my life.
I was a Wrath baby, so I speak from a position of bias. I remember first playing through the game and buying each expac individually. Getting to Northrend was a really huge OH MY GOD moment for me since that is where all the cool peeps were (it was also around the time ICC came out). I absolutely fell in love with Howling Fjord and Grizzly Hills. Storm Peaks was awe inspiring. I remember my first level capped character, a mage. I remember farming heroics for heirlooms. I used to get up early and play before school and played all night. I was never able to set foot in ICC due to my inexperience in gearing and gearscore, unfortunately. I absolutely adored Wrath and the only expac to create that sort of feeling for me was Mists.
Now I'm almost in my mid twenties and I can't play a video game for more than an hour without having to set it down. Ah, the nostalgia.
This video brings forth so many emotional memories, what a fucking incredible video this is. One of, if not my favourite video you both have ever compiled. Thank you so much boys.
31:05 Goooood Neeeeeeeeews Everyone!
That title thingy with "Legacy of: *blank*" was pure genius!
I never had the fortune of playing in WotLK as I was a poor student. Watching Ghosty's music video at the end gave me feels as though I had experienced it for myself. Thank you both for this amazing video.
its almost 2024 and im still waiting for the legacy of the death knight video!! hahaha. between these and drama time, im sent back to a better time. thanks for all you've done over the years bro! been around since Legion launched
Didn't mention the grenade thing on the lich king fight?
It was just a normal mode kill, from what I've heard not even Kungen thinks it mattered in the HC race
we covered it in the myths video
yeah considering the amount of poeple still arguing over if they knew it was an exploit or not suggest that people do care
+Ryan W it's still important to the history of WoW raiding / progression. It was a huge fucking scandal so stop trying to act like you're the decider on what matters lmao because 10 Fuxking years from now they will STILL be talking about it and STILL arguing over wether it was just or not. Quit it. You're not some fucking elite, you're just another baddie like the rest of us.
Ryan W but saying nobody gives a shit is a bit disingenuous
I really love your Legacy videos, is the other history of the game (not lore) that I don't know.
The plague thing was the best thing ever in a pre-expansion patch for me. I had no idea it was happening. I was still just leveling my first character at the time and was heading to the a town to see it full with zombies who start charging me the second i get near. It was amazing. Every other pre-expansion has felt weak in comparison since imo, at least until legion. Becoming a dreadlord was amazing. Recaptured the magic of that moment for me.
That outro vid though. Good job.
Im not even that nostalgic for wotlk but that gave me chills
Legacy of the Druid, plz:))!
Wotlk was the shit. Biggest expansion in every possible sense till now.
biggest piece of shit?
+Haywire5714 That would be WoD m9
Wod was legit better than wotlk in terms of raiding.
How many neps can a Nep nep if a Nep nep Nep Raiding was good, but that was it, there was nothing else
By the end of the day raiding is the only thing left every single expansion anyway.From TBC to Wod the content was always new patch - have some daylies go back to raid resets.
Watching this as I level in Howling Fjord on the first day of Wrath Classic
Preach i fucking love you! Followed you since 10k subs and will always folow your channel no matter what game you focus on! This video really gave me goose bumps because WotLK was the first time i got max lvl and started raiding.... keep up the good work hope you and your family are well. Peace Jealius from denmark :)
good lord that UI at 11:20 is giving me a migraine
YEEEEEEEEEEAH WOTLK FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I quit wow in wrath and just started playing again in legion - it was really sort of heart breaking to see tirion die on the coast since he was so instrumental and cool in wrath. I guess i never really though about inclusion in raiding and parties but you're 100% right i never really felt like a raider until ulduar and even when we were struggling through it to learn the "hardmodes" gave more stuff and the challenge that a group faced with the extra mechanics it really made the game very interesting :) great video as always - it's fun to look back and get taken back to those long nights!
Please never delete these. I can't wait for my 80 year old self to see this.
Preach, I think you didn't put that much effort into this one compared to The Burning Crusade legacy. You completely skipped Double specialization, which was a major change that made gameplay way more flexible, along with BG finders and other things. You didn't talk about how Blizzard gave most classes some fantastic talent three spells that made everyone happy ( "OH F*CK I CAN TAKE TWO 2 HANDED WEAPONS AND REFLECT ATTACKS WITH MY SHIELD AS A WARRIOR !!!! " "Yes ! I can take an elite monster as a pet now as a hunter !" "I can change myself into a daemon as a warlock !" "I can use stealth abilities without being stealthed for a few seconds as a rogue !" "I have some cool arcane spells as a mage ! "etc).
Generally, they added some very cool spells and abilities for all classes. An other point that you didn't mention is that litterally all specializations were playable on a good level at a point or another during WotLK, which wasn't necessarily the case during the previous (and next !) expansions.
I know you're more of a raider, but you also didn't say much about PvP. About how Isle of Conquest, during the first months, was played like Alterac Valley, with 1+ hour games. About how WotLK opened a new era in PvP videos, specially ARENA PvP, that was the first time on such a good level. I think a lot of people loved Wrath PvP gameplay because though it had its problems, it was probably the most balanced WoW had, and was still rewarding without being unaccessible for average players.
Overall, WotlK wasn't necessarily the best expansion, but it left many reasons in the players minds to think so. I liked it personnally, specially for PvPing.
Love your videos though.
Are you sure you watch the whole thing because he said he didn't go over everything because there was a lot to go over and he didn't want the video to go on for too long?He put a lot of work into this video do you know how long it would take to edit a video like this if you look closely he put in a lot of effort into the cuts the audio and smoothed everything out, you can tell he put love into this video like he does with all.
About him not making it as good as the TBC video is out right ridiculousnot all video has to be as good as the rest but to be honest this is as good as the TBC video and better in some aspects.
In the TBC video, he went on some points for a bit too long but with this he was short and sweet with most of the points but I do agree he did skip a lot of things but as I said before he didn't want it to go on for too long and nothing is wrong with that because if it went on for lets say an hour and a half talking about the points he missed people would lose interest half way in, sure a lot of people would watch until the end but Preach has a passion for making videos and didn't want any of it to go to waste.
Thank you for taking the time to read this.
at a certain point it becomes too overflowing with segments. E.g. the original script for this one would have produced a 50 minute video. Our analytics show that barely anyone makes it to the end of a 30 minute video so some stuff has to just be mentioned and move on
Hey, salty warrior here, it's painfully obvious to me that because wrath did not overwhelmingly favor casters he doesn't want to talk at length about it. In 7 or 8 years when he's doing legacy of legion i have a feeling it'll only be a 5 minute pvp montage of casters getting their insides turned into outsides by melee while preach flips us off. YES I"M ANGRY ABOUT THE LEGACY OF THE WARRIOR AFTER YOUR AMAZING LOVE LETTERS TO WARLOCKS AND MAGES.
Anyway on a side actually related to the video you can make it as long as you want preach this isn't TV its youtube. So you don't have to lie to us. You can tell us the truth (that i suspect is that you didn't want to keep working on it especially as research on wrath is getting harder as cataclysm swept away EVERYTHING on the fansite side due to mechanics changes and mop swept away what was left.) Don't feed us this 'it was getting too long' line we aren't buying it.
I would argue dual-spec is pretty significant. It was the death of hybrid builds, after all, like Feral Druid and any Death Knight tree.
Preach Gaming
I would have watched a 50-minute video.
Yeah wrath wasnt hard at all, but the overall style of the expansion was amazing! I was a total lost cause in vanilla and TBC, wotlk really made me a proper mmo player. Love it so much and cant wait for it to come back in 2 years
One year later, still no legacy of the death knight. Not complaining, I know Preach is super busy with Legion but these legacy videos are by far my favourite.
My 2nd favourite expansion after TBC. What a time to be playing back then. BFA has killed it for me now. Thanks for the video, brings back good memories
Wrath was my favorite expansion, without a doubt.
Yes, I'm a terrible person.