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!
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.
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.
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..
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
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!
*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*.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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!!
Actually really good video on wrath. Candid, no warcraft III fanboy gushing and actually giving things their due(good or bad). I must admit that I did quit early on in wrath. Burnout from clearing Sunwell and also trying out all the new MMOs that were coming out as a ton of companies had finally got their wow clones ready to go at that point(specifically warhammer and aion) and then my guild full clearing all raid content week one on launch was the final blow. No way I could handle farming cleared content with no progression for six goddamn months. We weren't even a hardcore guild! I think you are the first "content creator" I've seen actually call that out. Most of them seem to be in the crowd of either new players in wrath or never did much progression raiding and they loved that they were handed, I mean, earned the best gear alongside the 'hardcore' and that made them feel really good. I am looking forward to classic wrath especially with the recent announcement with classic TBC that they want to tweek content so it's more of a challenge. We'll see how that plays out in TBC but could mean first wrath tier won't be a total joke. I suppose regardless of whether they do or not most of us are farming vanilla naxx right now so it's gonna suck to do it again. Hopefully they just make it a short phase.
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.
"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.
This video was so well made and put together it ended up bringing a tear to my eye. You guys worked so hard on projects similar to this that it boggles my mind. Please keep doing these, many people including myself extremely enjoy them. It's something great to grab some food and sit down to watch. Even though i was a wrath baby, it was the greatest expansion to me & everyone similar to me at that time. Thank you, - Dive
+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.
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.
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.
Totally agree. I remember TBC was coming out and I felt cheated that I hadn't enough time to finish vanilla content before all my hardwork was erased with the new X-pac. TBC was SO exciting, walking through the portal and seeing the start zone. It was like the game got better with flying added and arena, PLUS the raiding storyline made sense and was FUN!! Then Wrath came and suddenly the newness was OVER. Things weren't fun anymore, instead of adding to the greatness of WoW, suddenly it felt like things changed for the worse. Ppl missed TBC and absolutely hated the new LFD system, same with all the cross server changes. I quit in wrath, came back in MoP, WoD, and now legion. Haven't lasted longer than 2 weeks. The beauty of WoW was the newness it once had because Warcraft 3 was SO POPULAR and then to be in the actual world of the warcraft universe, it felt AMAZING during Vanilla and TBC. RIP WOW!
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
Man did this video take me on a feels trip. I started out in vanilla,but casually. Wotlk was the first time i actually joined a pve guild and experienced progress raiding. The music in the video tho,great work guys
I love these legacy videos Preach. I have played WoW since vanilla, though it's hard to believe for me because I was originally only able to play for maybe one time every couple of months. So though the expansions rolled out, i never really got to experience a full one till WoD. Lots of stuff that's cool to know existed even though i wasn't really there for them.
Preach you need to adjust your volume levels when you're on camera. Like the intros of every video are significantly quieter than your in game voice overs. Other than that, great video.
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
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.
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.
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"
This video was amazing. I feel like I'm almost cheating you by getting this content for free. Obviously so much work went into it, you're my favorite youtuber!
I think Preach didn't fully explain what a wrath baby is. This is directly from WoWWiki and a thread in mmo-champion: "A Wrath Baby is someone who was spoiled by Wrath and learned a slew of terrible habits that they now expect to work for Cataclysm. They most likely feel entitled to epics and expect to be able to walk right into heroics after hitting 85. They will panic when they see that they will probably still be in blues when they first start raiding, and the concepts of crowd control and focus firing are beyond their ability - both to understand, and to do. They want to be able to faceroll through all the content laid out before them and will whine about wiping on trash in heroics."
I mean, he essentially did explain that. People in wrath never experienced how the game was originally designed (harder, more involved content) and only knew a more streamlined way to play the game.
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...in the mountains
I remember you...
Wait.... 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
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.
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?
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
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 got so scared at the start :O
Glorious video Preach and Ghost :D
My most fond memory of WOTLK? MR T!! NIGHTELF MOHAWK
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..
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
Wrath had problems... but Ulduar did make it my favorite expansion. Literally the greatest raid of all time for me.
Agreed
Ulduar sucks
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.
Legacy videos are some of your best ones imo, pumped to watch this one.
Also, Legacy of Shaman pls!
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.
Legacy of: Preach's house, with new previously unseen rooms.
Gotta buy the DLC
Aboslutely loved this video. You guys are hysterical! Adding Ghosty to the team was a fantastic idea.
This video hits different in 2021
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
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
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!
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
*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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
really good video, 44 minutes flashed by, you are a great story teller preach, more like this please.
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.
Godamn Preach your videos are so entertaining. The Barber shop and transmog exchange between you and Ghosty made me literally LOL.
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
5:17 Preach on the WotLKs Scourge pre-patch event: if it happened today...
2020: Well hello there
Great legacy as always! Loved the music video. Keep up the good work!
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
Do a legacy of Preach's hairline Rip
Lol
Im right there with him
*Against all odds, this comment did not aged well*
The music compilation at the end is absolutely amazing. Top notch, Ghost.
2:14 keeps his children in a cage during raids - confirmed :>
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!!
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?
Actually really good video on wrath. Candid, no warcraft III fanboy gushing and actually giving things their due(good or bad). I must admit that I did quit early on in wrath. Burnout from clearing Sunwell and also trying out all the new MMOs that were coming out as a ton of companies had finally got their wow clones ready to go at that point(specifically warhammer and aion) and then my guild full clearing all raid content week one on launch was the final blow. No way I could handle farming cleared content with no progression for six goddamn months. We weren't even a hardcore guild! I think you are the first "content creator" I've seen actually call that out. Most of them seem to be in the crowd of either new players in wrath or never did much progression raiding and they loved that they were handed, I mean, earned the best gear alongside the 'hardcore' and that made them feel really good.
I am looking forward to classic wrath especially with the recent announcement with classic TBC that they want to tweek content so it's more of a challenge. We'll see how that plays out in TBC but could mean first wrath tier won't be a total joke. I suppose regardless of whether they do or not most of us are farming vanilla naxx right now so it's gonna suck to do it again. Hopefully they just make it a short phase.
YES THE HAPPY MUSIC IS BACK!
glad this is so nice to watch while playing classic wotlk again
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
"The DK legacy video is coming..." Preach
Will Rye coming soon....tm
Never.
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.
"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.
4 Years later and legacy of the DK is still coming...
Oh man the feels at the end, I love these Legacy videos. Goosebumbs all the way through. Keep it up boys!
Miss Wrath
Miss Ghosty
Miss my warlock not being reliant on a 3min CD
love all the old footage you guys put in these vids, such nostalgia
Perfect Dark on N64! 1:50
This video was so well made and put together it ended up bringing a tear to my eye. You guys worked so hard on projects similar to this that it boggles my mind. Please keep doing these, many people including myself extremely enjoy them. It's something great to grab some food and sit down to watch.
Even though i was a wrath baby, it was the greatest expansion to me & everyone similar to me at that time.
Thank you,
- Dive
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
Watching this as I level in Howling Fjord on the first day of Wrath Classic
I miss ghost
Dat Ghost anger-slap over Barber Shop and Transmog, tho. XD
Awesome video as always, Preach & Ghost. Keep up the awesome work.
The intro 10/10
That ending video hit right in the feels. Awesome as always from you guys =) Thank you!
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
That outro vid though. Good job.
Im not even that nostalgic for wotlk but that gave me chills
I fucking loved Grizzly Hills.
Awesome job Preach and Ghostie-- Nostalgia abounds!
I remember WOTLK like it was yesterday.
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.
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.
1:38 Yay, old music is back!
Would anybody mind telling me what music that is?
I want to know, too!
I remember Preach saying a while back that he found the sound file on an old computer and doesn't know where it came from
Isn't it something from Banjo Kazooie?
Amen, love the runescape-esque tune haha
+greenereye +Esinar Argh, I so dearly want to know!
excellent video and that music video at the end is amazing. well done you guys, as always
Never forget...”In the mountains..”
Totally agree. I remember TBC was coming out and I felt cheated that I hadn't enough time to finish vanilla content before all my hardwork was erased with the new X-pac.
TBC was SO exciting, walking through the portal and seeing the start zone. It was like the game got better with flying added and arena, PLUS the raiding storyline made sense and was FUN!!
Then Wrath came and suddenly the newness was OVER. Things weren't fun anymore, instead of adding to the greatness of WoW, suddenly it felt like things changed for the worse. Ppl missed TBC and absolutely hated the new LFD system, same with all the cross server changes.
I quit in wrath, came back in MoP, WoD, and now legion. Haven't lasted longer than 2 weeks.
The beauty of WoW was the newness it once had because Warcraft 3 was SO POPULAR and then to be in the actual world of the warcraft universe, it felt AMAZING during Vanilla and TBC. RIP WOW!
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
Man did this video take me on a feels trip. I started out in vanilla,but casually. Wotlk was the first time i actually joined a pve guild and experienced progress raiding. The music in the video tho,great work guys
That title thingy with "Legacy of: *blank*" was pure genius!
I love these legacy videos Preach. I have played WoW since vanilla, though it's hard to believe for me because I was originally only able to play for maybe one time every couple of months. So though the expansions rolled out, i never really got to experience a full one till WoD. Lots of stuff that's cool to know existed even though i wasn't really there for them.
Preach you need to adjust your volume levels when you're on camera. Like the intros of every video are significantly quieter than your in game voice overs. Other than that, great video.
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
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.
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.
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.
Awesome Video. I really loved WotlK and coincidently started a new Walkthrough of it recently^^
Keep up the good work :)
I really love your Legacy videos, is the other history of the game (not lore) that I don't know.
You know preach is a fucking baller when his PO box is 420
Hey!! I was a Wrath-Baby^^
Well i started in BC but didn´t raid until Ulduar!
All the legacy videos are very, very good. This is your strength, Preach. Thanks
31:05 Goooood Neeeeeeeeews Everyone!
This video was amazing. I feel like I'm almost cheating you by getting this content for free. Obviously so much work went into it, you're my favorite youtuber!
I think Preach didn't fully explain what a wrath baby is.
This is directly from WoWWiki and a thread in mmo-champion:
"A Wrath Baby is someone who was spoiled by Wrath and learned a slew of terrible habits that they now expect to work for Cataclysm. They most likely feel entitled to epics and expect to be able to walk right into heroics after hitting 85. They will panic when they see that they will probably still be in blues when they first start raiding, and the concepts of crowd control and focus firing are beyond their ability - both to understand, and to do. They want to be able to faceroll through all the content laid out before them and will whine about wiping on trash in heroics."
I mean, he essentially did explain that. People in wrath never experienced how the game was originally designed (harder, more involved content) and only knew a more streamlined way to play the game.
1:35 damn that intro took me out the feels zone. I liked where it was heading too.
YEEEEEEEEEEAH WOTLK FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watching this again with classic WOTLK pre patch about to drop.
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.
WoTLK was my favorite expansion!
Story, music, quests, Arthas - fantastic!
Legacy of the Druid, plz:))!
The song at the start always bring back the chill in my spine no matter how many times I watch this, what a beautiful game wotlk was