The Hardest Grinds in World of Warcraft - Episode 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ต.ค. 2017
- Some of the grinds in this game are insane!
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Prob the best wow related channel on youtube, love your work
Absolutely!
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@@ThatWildcard haven't seen nobble but I'ma look into him now lol. Love mad and hirmu
Can confirm, I come back and watch his vids just for the sake of it
We acting like platinum wow doesn't exist
The nostalgia, I remember my mom grinding for months to get the title back in Wotlk on her mage, I had to help her because when she was killing in Booty Bay people kept attacking her and I came along to PvP
Good times
Your mom got a good son
We had a rainy summer back during Wrath, so I figured, that was the time for "Insane". I spent 5 weeks in Dire Maul doing the Shen'dralar and Steamwheedle reps for 8-12 hours per day, until I was doing it in my dreams too. I leveled a rogue just to do the pickpocketing for Ravenholdt. The most timeconsuming was Darkmoon, which is soooo easy now. I completely lost count of all the hours/days/weeks, I spent picking herbs, grinding herbs and making cards, hoping to get complete decks to hand in. Even tho ppl cant tell, that I got the title pre-nerf, Im still very proud of it, coz I know.
And after that, all other grinds dont really seem that bad.
Damn you actually went insane while doing it. Also the feat of strength probably has the date written next to it, so you can use that as proof of you completing it pre-nerf.
Just here for the intro. Remembering watching these videos in "preparation" for wow classic. As I hadn't played that much wow, but enough, classic was an amazing combination of nostalgia and new content for me. What a blessing that was.
I was thinking of knocking out this grind out soon. I'll probably record & make an updated guide if you guys would find that handy
hell ya that would be great
MadSeasonShow I remember grinding for all the Rep in Pandaria, I have up on the Shadow pan assault and emperor rep cause I was burnt out from the game
hey mad, love your content and hope you continue to make vids for a long while. do you plan on continuing your evolution of WoW series?
I'd like to see a top 10 or 15 favorite raid bosses or mounts and why video if it would be something you would make love the videos man
@ilubCHRISTsomach Yep I'm editing it right now actually - it looks like it'll be at least 40 mins though so no ETA yet
I can‘t really explain how much I appreciate your videos. Im usually just lurking in your streams and listening to these videos over and over again, because they help me fall asleep. It just gives me a comfy vibe, since I know all of them so well. Much love!
- from a usually quiet watcher
I’ve spent the past two weeks of my life watching Mad Season videos. I haven’t binged this hard since they put South Park on HBO Max nor have I been as happy. Good stuff
>Episode 1
HYPE!
Ive never played this game but the sound track always touches my heart. I can imagine 30 years from now kids listening to that song and just feel an overwhelming since of nostalgia from the past.
“They spend their time getting anime haircuts” hahaha
I remember farming timbermaw rep for weeks just so I could get the agility enchant lol
I loved it when my Blood Elf Pally got the trinket and Thrall announced to all in a Yell that I was a representative to the Timbermaw. :)
really well put together! I can tell this took tons of effort, it looks great!
It's been years since I did this (shendralar included) and I always forget about ravenhold, only the vaguest of memories of running lbrs on my rogue alt. I maintained honored with bloodsail by grinding enemies close to ratchet and on the ships in Grizzly hills. Went through a lot of audiobooks back then, James Bond, wheel of time and the like. Wouldnt do it again but I wear the title proudly still, my personal badge of stupidity.
Lol, going through the Wheel of Time while grinding, I think this is the best description the title grind can get.
How did I not think of listening to audiobooks while playing before?
And here I am spending an hour trying to find a podcast to listen to every damn time I want to play.
I am not a smart man.
Im knee deep in the dark depths of finals right now.... Im extremely grateful that I have the excitement of WoW Classic and the sound of your soothing voice to keep me going. Love and appreciate your videos, they just make me happy!
I love your videos man! Its great to see some of the old content related to the new. Its gives me a ton of nostalgia. Thats for bringing back fond memeories!
I’ve never played WoW in my life but for some reason I can’t stop watching your videos
I've been reduced to watching videos about wow grinding to cope with wow classic anticipation. I'm in big trouble.
For anyone wondering, killing the goblin for 1 rep each with a 7 minute respawn, assuming any downtime, such as combat time killing him, taking a second to notice he spawns etc. We'll say 7 minutes and 15 seconds each cycle, or otherwords 435 seconds.
435 x 20,999 = 9134565 seconds
9134565 / 60 = 152242.75 minutes
152242.75 / 60 = 2537.3791667 hours
2537.3791667 / 24 = 105.724139445 days
now 105.7 days doesnt sound too "insane" but you have to remember thats 105.7 days straight all wow through out. So lets say this man spends his day in 3s, 8 hours work, 8 hours grind, 8 hours sleep.
thats 317.1723958334 days. Accounting for little things in life that can distract someone for a "day". You might as well say this man spent 1 year, one entire year killing the same green skin scrublord. There should be a honor held in his name.
There was very little combat time to kill the mob, it was pretty much 1 shottable by any 70-80 so hitting a /tar /cast macro was enough to kill it. They also increased the rep to 5 per kill sometime after the first 2 people did it (I believe it was a patch to no longer give reduced rep for being too high level difference.)
The Lunacy trinket + "the Insane" title = "This is MADNESS!"
'The Insane' title back in Wrath took months. I remember spending days of game time in Dire Maul farming that quest and Thousand Needles farming herbs for Darkmoon cards. People that did it after Cata - and especially after the Darkmoon Island rolled around - really have no idea how 'insane' it actually was back then. These days it's more like 'The Mildly Mental' :P
I personally haven't done it yet, but luckily I had a buddy who knocked it out who supplied me with most of this info. I also had another friend who did shen'dralar in Vanilla(at least I think it was vanilla)....crazy!
Damn, Shen'Dralar back in Vanilla is definitely insane. One thing I never understood is why the Vanilla rep 'Thorium Brotherhood' was never added to the Insane title. It's another one of those Vanilla reps that's super grindy to get and yet has no cool achievement reward. It was just later kinda mixed in with a dungeon rep meta achievement from Cataclysm.
Thorium Brotherhood exalted rewards are the patterns for FR gear/ Weapons to be used in MC.... have to remember when these reps were put into game. I had exalted TB in vanilla.
yeah, i did this pre nerf at level 70. best times hahaha
I saved Shen'dralar for the last one, and luckily they took it out. (It's the only rep that I didn't do.) You're right, Esinar, that you did it when it was much harder to do. You should be The Very Insane and I should be The Less Insane. lol
Sceptre of the Shifting Sands. Hell of a grind during Vanilla
i'm up for any wow series you put out. you do a pretty amazing job with the channel in general. keep on doing stuff, always love to see a madseason video in the sub box!
The first one was just crazy...I never knew that you could turn these Librams to someone.I always learn new things on your channel.Simple great!
I love watching your vids before bed because you never get that annoying spike in volume. Plus quality content.
I did the original Insane grind (completed it in 09). I have over 70+ exalted reps. It was a brutal grind (along with a few others). You were spot on describing all the things that had to be done. I spent a lot of gold buying cards and decks - I lived in the auction house and trade chat buying up diamonds (months)! The librams were a PITA because of them being unique and all the individual mats required to turn one in. It truly made me angry when Blizz nerfed it and just gave us a legacy achieve for Shen'dralar. I haven't worn the title in years because of that. Thankfully, I still have my original PvP titles!
Also I love your videos so much! They're clear, concise and well researched. Keep it up!
Awesome Vid! Can't wait for part 2! Grinded exalted with the Timbermaw and at that time I was only the 3rd to achieve the feat. Felt so good with that trinket that summons the ancestor to fight at your side LOL (although for a super limited quick time) , and of course the old school Frostsaber rep to get the awesomely white kitty From winter spring! Happy days!!!!
Man i love these videos.. I love to listen to ur stuff while exploration vanilla world of warcraft.. Thanks for acknowledging our world mate :) We all just want to play our favourite video game guys!
Even though I haven't been playing wow your recent videos have really interested me, keep up the good work!
I appreciate that...thanks, Xombie!
Memories. Love rewatching these videos.
Great video! I look forward to the next one. Oh and I love it when the D3 music comes on.
I don't typically comment except to make memey jokes on TH-cam videos, but I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos, Mad - they're all very well edited and you do your research and you aren't some overhyping jackass like some others I could think of. So, thanks. Great videos.
I didn't really make a comment to start a discussion, I just wanted him to know he should keep it up because I (and others) enjoy it. If you don't think he's doing well, tell him what he's doing wrong, but maybe less angrily.
Definitely an interesting topic.. I look forward to seeing it unfold.
Soo glad you mentioned Jazzrik, my favorite "easter egg" in the old game. Killed him about ~300 times before I came to my senses XD
Forgot the absolute hardest grind in the history of WoW. This grind made getting the insane title look like a walk in the park. I'm of course talking about the High Warlord/Grand Marshall grind.
Yep, cause it was a competitive grind. There were people who played their asses off an entire week, but never got HW title cause some other guy was grinding slightly harder. And then you had to redo it all over again.
Farming Skyshards in Vale for the mount when you played that short clip at the end was so nostalgic for me
The hardest grind in WoW history, and almost in MMO history, was the vanilla PvP honor system grind to rank 14. In order to make progress from rank 12-14, you needed to be in the top ~10-15 spots for your entire server in pvp honor points earned (by killing players or winning battlegrounds). For most heavily populated servers, this meant you needed 1,000,000-2,000,000 pts in a week. In order to not LOSE progress in rank 13, you needed to be in the top 1-4 positions for your entire server for honor points earned at the end of the week. Considering during vanilla that most servers had upwards of 3,000+ players, and many of those players were cheating by playing in shifts (or paying asian farmers to grind pvp points for them), you basically had to be pvp'ing for about 12-16 hours a day, every day, to have any chance. If you were #1 in honor points for your server each week, you could get through rank 13-14 in about 3 weeks. But most people couldn't maintain #1, and they'd fall to #2-10 in honor points, and then it would be much longer to get through rank 13. Most people that got rank 14 were so burned out on the game they quit and/or sold their account. I've heard there are some worse grinds in Lineage, but very few MMO's had grinds that required someone play an average of 15 hours a day to not lose progress in said grind
I never played vanilla but Jesus Christ that’s some serious dedication right there.
@@cornflakeshumunculus8373 I did it, and it got me really good at pvp. Went on to get rank 1 in 5v5 and rank 1 in 3v3 for arenas during TBC. You would think that anyone pvp'ing that much every day would "git gud" but there was a stigma against r14 players, that they just had lots of free time but weren't good at pvp. I think that because a lot of people who got rank 14 paid asian farmers to grind for them, or had guildmates share their account in shifts secretly, a lot of them didn't improve much at pvp
I got to rank 13, did not reach the glorious rank 14.
Keep these series coming! Great video as always :D
This is exactly the series I've been wanting to watch! You should do the tol'vir archaeology grind or tusks of mannoroth.
Great idea for a series. This video was a great start.
Hey MadSeason I have to say i realy like your stuff. Quitted WoW 4 Years ago but still your videos are realy entertaining. Dunno why but your voice is also realy relaxing :D. keep going !
You've probably already thought about it (and you might of already talked about it a bit I'm not sure) but you could talk about the grind for Medivh's weapon, Atiesh from way-back when, you could also talk about the BG grinding for HWL/GM and maybe even the original Lionheart Executioner grind from BC, sorry if this whole comment makes no sense I don't usually give advice and stuff but yeah, really grateful for you videos, they seem really genuine and it's nice to see!
Tbh, I'm not really sure, which one was worst for me - Insane in the membrane or Hero of Shattrath. (Goddamn basilisk eyes... )With all the grind, at some point you just zone out and don't really pay attention. BUT, the achievements that nearly drove me insane were:
1. Draenor curator - 1289 total solves. RNG stacked up on RNG, then more RNG on top. And with no flying at the start, this felt like the most mind-numbingly tedious achievement I've done. Oh yeah, and no reward for that either, except for you get to throw your junk in the pantry of the Horde garrison.
2. Going to need a bigger bag - Sometimes I still have nightmares about farming crabs. Sadly I missed the time when the pets were tradable and counter towards the achiev. As of now, I am still missing 3-4 items, but I gave it up. It's just not worth it. Killing crabs for a full hour, just so it spawns on the other side of the island, where some trigger-happy dude blows all his cds on it, as if he just saw Sargeras himself. For a measly 10ap? Good riddance.
Everytime i see a video from you on my feed i get so happy . Thank you!
Glad to hear you enjoy them...thanks for watching!
casually shows off his exalted reps :D
I did the old school Winterspring Frostsaber mount grind. Was super cool being one of the only people on my server to have one....then Blizzard made it piss easy :(
ZybakTV yeah took like 3 months. Now its nerfed to a 20 day wonder that any fumble fingered idiot could aquire.
Then that mount isn't for those players. People like you are what have caused this game to go downhill.
Same here, did the same with the raptor mount in ungoro on horde....
Yep, making this easy devalues having the thing in the first place. This is why making things easy is always bad idea.
nope, the raptor was not = to frostsaber in terms of difficulty to obtain, not even close. You couldn't even get that in vanilla....
The Wintersaber was insane for non-druids too. You have to grind rep in Felwood Timbermaw to get access to Winterspring, THEN you can start grinding for Wintersaber.
Loved this video, keep up the series man!
You are such and underrated WOW youtuber, great video as always!
Whoa! I did a bit of research - I've been relying on the achievement tracker and fearing that I needed to redo my Bloodsail grind. Apparently they have fixed that (I hope?) and now I only need to do the Ravenholdt farm. Awesome video! :D
I swear it's like watching a discovery channel! Keep it up!
Arathi Basin - for the epic ring, and Alterac Valley for the Unstoppable force - I stayed up nights for that.
Bro, i don't even have a quarter of the Exalted rep that you do lol. That's dedication sir.
I always enjoy your vids man! Keep them coming!
Seriously love your channel, man.
I love your content and i also love the fact that you use the diablo 3 soundtrack keep up the work :))
I actually have the title "Bloodsail Admiral" on my main. Great vid as usual.
The extra trade materials for the Librams made me roll my eyes hard
Cool series, your insane for grinding reps that didnt need all that work! I did what was necessary for raiding
Awesome video again I love your content. Keep it awesome!
Awesome and entertaining video as always:)
your welcome for the support man keep up the good work
Nice upload, this was a great video idea.
oh the nostalgia, back when DMF card trinkets were highly sought after.
If you didn't want to lose rep with the Buccaneers, you could also do quests for this goblin located in western Feralas on the shore, just outside of the dock for the ship that takes you to Feathermoon stronghold. He had 2 repeatable quests that required you to circle the area around him and kill giants and water elementals. Simple stuff. I remember the rep increase wouldn't be displayed though. If you wanted to check your progress, you had to log out and back in.
You also get a sweet title from getting honored (or revered) with Bloodsail. The Bloodsail Admiral! I got it on my dk in mop :)
Hardest grind I ever made was getting the world boss mounts, only missing Rukhmar mount. [Solar Spirehawk]: 0/2139 attempts so far (65.69% - unlucky)
That's a good point. All of those pandaria mounts have a .1% drop, only killable once a week. Pretty grindy! Easier with alt spam though
I got Solar on 172 try, but I still miss Sha and Oondasta- both are over 3000 tries atm...I feel your pain...
Having Exalted bloodsail and cartel reps at the same time is one of the coolest things I can think of in WoW. Hardcore grind.
Justicar / Conqueror in its hardest iteration was really brutal also. Dunno when it was hardest. Post mark rep turning removal and pre rep increases for winning etc. So i guess during WOTLK!
Also at a point during the game the goblin factions & Bloodsail had to be in the required reputaton state at the same time. Again i dunno when this was but i remember grinding a mob in Arathi Highlands for it since he gave rep for Bloodsail without lowering rep with goblin factions. (kinda like the repeatable dire maul quest)
vanilla/bc/wotlk rep grinds were actually grinds... i bet the game is dumbed down so hard with next iterations.. i played 2 months in cata.. and was suprised how dumbed down/ casual the game had become... 2weeks, epics.. i think in pretty much 3-4weeks i was done with entire content and nothing to do...
if id me cosmetics / pet collector.. would be fun in wow probably.. otherwise it seems that this game has become nothing more than that... might be mistaken...
This title is mostly a given on the road to r14, only had to farm some AB afterwards for the Tabard. Achievements weren't even a thing back then.
If I recall correctly they removed some requirements for it in wotlk and made it much easier. You know, years after some of us did the grind.
nice addition with the diablo tristram music
Just found this vid. Great channel. I started with Shendralar and was part way through when they removed it. I use "the Insane" on every character, no other. If you want the title, be prepared to do nothing else in the game or it will take forever. You have to commit. The only thing that I can say about the vid is to get your goblin reps up to exalted first, then work on Bloodsail. Rather than Booty Bay kills, I went to the pirate ship SE of Stromgarde in Faldir's Cove and repeatedly killed the NPC's. You can get your Goblin rep back so you can again enter the cities with cloth turn-ins to a Goblin outside of Booty Bay. I haven't gotten around to it. Darkmoon rep was costly. Inscription didn't exist so all cards were obtained from drops or buying on AH.
Amazing informative video even if its a little dated. Keep up the great work cant wait to see more
Love these types keep them going!!
Great video and review.
The guy killing Jazzrik must spent around 140 days doing that. 140 days of full gameplay time. Amazing.
Who taught you maths?
2:35 blood of heroes was also found in WPL
As for the cartel rep, you could farm other sorts of pirates, like the very low level ones in the barrens
MadSeason time to change the name in MadMan, you are maki g so much new and cool new series for your channel. Thank you for amazing content you make
I remember getting the insane title pre-cata. I made several alts for the sole purpose of getting it. (Rogue for lockboxes, scribe for darkmoon faire decks, enchanter for the shards, etc)
You are awesome. I dont even play anymore but love your content,
The hardest grind for me was Battlemaster title. It had tons of luck tied to it. You actually had to put forth tons of effort in BGs to cap, win games, get kills and do the objectives. It took me two years of almost straight PvP and I finally got it in 2010.
lol you played an alliance toon on a horde server didnt you ... did that grind when it first came out on my undead mage ... took 2 weeks .... did it on my human mage in 3 weeks just after too ... yeah different server alliance dominated .... seems people forget that min level toon can still run flags if the team is willing to cover their skinny butt while they haul hiney back across the map .... best toon to do it in is a gnome mage engineer ... in frost spec with arcane POM .... drop target dummies and any freeze spells you got when nearing enemies and blink away then add a pot of run speed and pom and blink and your across 90% of the field .... warsong was the best place to bg as a gnome pre riding as you were small enough to actually hide your name plate and toon in bushes and under carts ... no other toon could do that .... after the main rush past you snuck into their chamber and told your side get ready im grabbing the flag comming .... either tunnel ramp or gy .... the teamates would pull the mob to the opposite side and you did your thing ... the helaers would space out along the field and at your tunnel area to keep you alive and the rest would smack anything that came close ... while you froze it or delayed it anyway you could .... then of course the never fail have to clobber thier flag runner as he tries to leave with your flag while you are carrying his ... sooo many fights between flag carriers with 20 peeps in one room all trying to kill everything in sight lol
I got battlemaster fairly easily during WOTLK expansion because horde was dominating the battlegrounds, especially strand of the ancient where we had around 90% win rate, got 70 wins straight in 1day I remember
Uhhh do them all at low lv its way easier specially if u get a 5 man
I love that with certain reps, if you raised one then it would lower another, adds a layer of realism to the game, with they would do that more.
Bit of a difference in "oh, I'll put 100 hours of my time into this reward nobody else will have and that will make my gameplay that much better!" and "I'll put 400 hours of my time into this thing that will not matter in a week/that catch up mechanisms will make redundant"
YEEE BABY... THE INSANE TITLE...i remember dit it in Lich king time! :D whas need to lvl a roque to60 to pickpocket some mobs @ blackrock mountain.
Grinding out the tailoring sets during tbc was a pretty big pain. I did both the spell fire and frozen shadow weave on a mage and spriest along with the spell strike pants and hood on both. Also hitting exalted with all the dungeon reps although most of the rewards weren't that good for my toons and just did it because I liked the dungeons during tbc.
Yes tailoring grinds!! Took forever!!
Just buy someone CDs and you can get it in no time. And the dungeon reps was needed to do heroic which was required for raiding as you would need to do the 4 max level dungeons in each zone to be attuned. I still use my Champion of the Sha'Tar title sometimes
Haven't played wow in years, I play ESO these days, but I remember doing all of these :)
I love your videos, MadSeason.
Im really happy you threw some diablo 2 music in there.
Great video idea!
cool video! Im not playing wow since pandas but find this channel very interesting
keep up!
Behealial Klo Its been 5 years and barely anyone plays them.
when i saw this title all i could think of is the insane title and vanilla lvling
WOW doesn't deserve a blogger so good as you ❤
[Legendary Pet Brawler]
[Going To Need A Bigger Bag]
[10,000 World Quests Completed]
[The Seat of Knowledge]
[Warlord of Draenor]
I've done pretty much all grinds in the game and these are the ones that come to mind as being the most time consuming.
Holy shit. Only time I've ever heard Dentarg be mentioned on any video. GG wigwam
Nice one !
MADSEASONSHOW UPLOADED A NEW VIDEO YEEEEEEEAH HYPE HYPE HYPE
keep the great content coming baby!
Could you do an episode or a series of Twink Characters in world of warcraft? Over powered characters that stopped at certain levels to get the best gear for PvP
Everytime I hear that intro my anxiety lessens
Getting Cenarion Circle to exalted was absolutely brutal back in the day
The grind is part of what draws me to WoW.
Mad's intro is so Kreygasm