The Worst of Classic WoW | Asmongold Reacts
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- čas přidán 1. 01. 2023
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He forgot the Player buff limit, which meant that Players would remove Hots or helpful buffs due to buffcap. Or the griefing it enabled of throwing off world buff due to useless buffs.
omg, this was a big one. good call out.
Lets go CAMPFIRE!
@@thedungeon1578 Well I had to negoatiate between Healers and Warriors for this way too often to forget.
I did this in Lineage 2. Those world boss tanking swordsmen orcs ABSOLUTELY loved the underwater breathing buff, increased weight limit and increases to magic attack.
As much as it sucked taking our guild 50ish weeks to get me my Thunderfury, it kind of made it that much more special. It actually felt legendary, and you could absolutely feel the difference the item made. In fact, some non legendary items should have a very noticeable impact on your character as well. Itemization is more fun when it's not just the next level of the same item over and over again. This should also apply to the leveling experience as well. Whirlwind Axe for example was a huge jump in power for a lvl 30-40 warrior.
ok and now classic vanilla is dead no one really cares about it and u got 4 upvotes was it worht it?
@@labrat-mv2xiseems pretty much the opposite of dead right now, lol
The comment about the drop rate is very accurate. I remember playing classic and questing in the Barrens. The quest required me to obtain 14 boar hearts. So I'm like this will be easy. All I need to do is kill 14 of them. Well, I was wrong. Not every boar dropped a heart. As a matter of fact, only about one third of them dropped a heart, and I'm thinking, how are these things alive without a heart? 🙃
I think the strangest thing about the whole vanilla wow, was that blizzard released a big mmo with many zones where there were no quests? Hinterlands and Searing gore examples! It was much later before they released quests there? And some of the rare/epic items so horrible wrong!! like - Skullforge Reaver ? or Lion Horn of stormwind LOL
@@noname-gp6hk ok :=)
A perfect game is a boring game, 2023 gamers to obsessed with having everything work correctly then when they get everything ever wanted they log off never to return. The magic of games is often the imperfections and working around them.
I'm still mad I never got the Edge of Chaos from Nefarian back in vanilla, and the only time Askhandi dropped someone else got it and quit the guild a day later.
enchanting trainer outside must be an alliance thing because i remember having to actually do the damn dungeon to skill up.
as a healer I still have nightmares about spell batching
Bopping the dead party member is my favorite!
Yea diremaul ogres giving you a potion instead of buffin you would have been cool, also just pickin the songflower and consuming it in raid, it would be pretty easy to makw the raid buffs consumables
spell batching was good but not how blizzard redid it. it created lots of cool unique interactions in pvp people still remember til this day. such as a lot of clips in like reckful 3 were all possible because of spell batching like reckful gouging blink because he knew a mage was going to blink etc
Yeah, whoever didn't like the spellbatching probably just didn't play ele shammy or never oneshotted a paladin that is trying to hs+bubble inside that 0.4sec timeframe when bubble is over but paladin didn't port yet.
@@pavlocherkas3689 huh?? bubble is 12 secs hearth is 10 unless the pally was bad and clicked the shit aint no way lil bro
@@pavlocherkas3689 bro come on it wasn't 400 ms during the time of reckful 3....
@@pavlocherkas3689 or they played a healer....
400ms made the most jankiest stuff ever, also how the 400ms was applied to literally everything (even interactions with NPCs)
If it was atleast 150ms, it wouldve made insane PvP mechanics
I really dont get spell batching. There were so many private servers where it ran just fine without it and nobody wanted batching ever. Sadly i quit because of it in the first classic servers. The second ones were way too dead to try again :/
because most if not all private servers run classic from a WOTLK version, not the actual classic files. And spell batching was removed by WOTLK.
Phase 1. Un goro crater. my level 58 rogue stealing all the leathers, the chaos, the pvp, the mafia, logging on at odd hours just to getall the devilsaur spawns for a while. It was beautiful, glorious, a time and fun never to be seen again. I am satisfied.
World buffs and huge PVP raids fighting to not lose them in BRM was some of my best moments of Classic. WB really became a toxic chore with dire maul/ZG/Moon. When it was just Ony/flower, it was great.
The way Zack’s eyebrow starts twitching when he says “loot” 😂
Zack•
Man, I was stuck at level 42 seemed like forever in vanilla. Was so tired of stv
I hit level 60 and started just botting cause I was bored of farming gold lol, so got banned later came back in tbc and currently playing
I did some raiding in vanilla. Guild basically starting falling apart after wotlk, along with me. No time
@@JoeRogannShorts cringe botter
Some quests were so annoying and time consuming that i couldn't be bothered. Definitely agree with a lot of these but all in all classic was a good ride.
Man, raiding as warlock in Vanilla sure was fun. I got to cast shadow bolts and basically nothing else.
remember going to my first molten core and getting told I could only cast shadow bolt, boy was I excited when we got to Garr and I was told I could only cast banish.
Even in ZG, I was told "Cast Curse of Elements and you can just afk if you want" because I was the only warlock and we had 8 mages.
And bottom dps lol
Yeah, my shadowbolt spam wasn't great, but I also didn't respec from Demonology.
Pretty sure the enchanting trainer was inside the dungeon instance itself
scam ^
World buffs made classic unique. It gave a reason to go out in the open world. Imagine if we didn’t have world buffs… there’s no reason to leave SW/Org. World pvp was fucking nuts! I loved the drama on discord! The only thing I would change is allowing chronoboom be available on launch and removing warchief blessing or making it available for alliance as well
Yeah instead people get thier buffs then log out for the week
World buffs still suck imo, the raids are ez enough to do without them and yet a guild could force you to get them because tryhards
ya man they really went out in the world all the time when they get the buff on a wednesday and they dont log in till next tuesday so fun poggers
@@labrat-mv2xi you obviously didn’t read my comment
@@jasonnuno132 go tell reddit
Is there a reason for the long pauses (i.e. Asmon not washing his hands) to be in the youtube videos?
the worst part of any version of classic wow is the 'meta' mind set
people really think you need the 'best meta spec' to clear CLASSIC content "oh you're going to deal slightly less dps with 'x' spec? guess you're not getting an invite"
the community has truly ruined classic.
second worst part of classic is the fact that they released ZERO new content. Absolutely no gear tweaking, spec balancing, quest revamps, PVP changes, etc. They really did absolutely NOTHING to the game.
if only they had buffed the hybrid classes dmg and had Tier set that wasnt focuse on only healing for them,
Note that people duplicate log more often in classic, so it is not AT ALL a reliable metric. 29 million DPS parses to 27k guilds in classic = 1074 DPS parses per guild that has cleared naxxramas. I doubt that there are this many unique characters raiding in WoW. In comparison, retail has 3.7 million DPS parses to 12k guilds in normal difficulty, or a ratio of 308 dps parses per guild.
Ultimately, number of guilds killing bosses in the raid and logging tend to be a much, much more reliable metric, where you'd get 27k for classic and 12k for retail.
Also those parses are comparing a finished tier to a tier thats only been out a few months.
The editors of this channel seriously aren't even trying anymore lmfao...
The 8 debuff limit does dramatically change play styles in the raid. I know cause I raided on nostarius back in the day and they had an 8 debuff limit. Tbh I think its a good thing for the beginning of the game. It buffs content in a way that is Authentic to the vanilla experience. It makes fights like Ragnaros much harder than you would expect. In a way its kinda like how modern raids work where they are made very hard at the start and are systematically nerfed as time goes on. Doing bwl with an 8 debuff limit will make that raid significantly harder. at the start and when ZG is released they can up the 16 debuff limit as a nerf to the previous content.
Ah Yes, balancing…
I remember mocking the DKs in my Guild because i played Retri Pala (you’ll find it way down in the chart in the "go fuckin respec to heal or tank" section) and i regularly beat them hard on the damage meters 😂 And we knew back then it was bad!
A lot of us WARNED the "No Changes" types that they were wrong and that the gameplay needed SOME changes.
My favorite example of Emergent Player Behavior was The Great Zul'Gurub Plague. :D
I played Hunter on a vanilla Private Server.. Apparently Ranged Weapons are only for Warrior. I won the Roll on Starstriker, didnt get the Weapon. On The Gun in MC? Didnt get the Weapon. I reserved the Gun in AQ40 and it dropped... didnt get the Weapon. My Bow was still blue! But apparently one Warrior needed 2 more Attack-Power. The ONLY ranged Weapon they say im allowed to get, (aside from the very Buggy impossible Hunter Quest, because Buggy) was the Crossbow from Blackwing Lair. And of course thats why we had like 9 Hunters in the raid On a 5% drop chance by the way. Fu.. this. Hunters doesnt get shit. Thank god the raid had one good Thing, I spotted My old Character in the Group, which meant i sold him, and that allowed me to buy the very best Ranged Naxx Weapon in the Game.
ok u get the better weapon and then what ur still playing a clown game that came out 40 years ago wake up
Did someone say Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?
Loot was pretty bad in classic, it took me 3 months to gear my mage in bwl gear, but with my hunter i got full Bis in 2 weeks! BwL always dropped hunter gear
took me like a year to get my crossbow from bwl lol
that xbow never drops. took a while to get it. I got slavemaker a week after. lmao
It took me more time to get Rhok'delar than the cross bow in BWL, i guess i was lucky to get it in the first run, but all the time i did BWL Dragonstalker set always dropped.
I got SIX, 1,2,3,4,5,6 PIECES in ONE RAID DAY on my warrior from TOC and ZA combo raid night.
SIX pieces, it was like a 500 gearscore jump in one single raid night.
Now I'm bored as hell.
(I play private wraith server)
@@Krelian89 I think I only saw 2 Ashjrethul drops. 1 when I was not on my hunter and the other one was when I got it. I have seen so many DFTs tho. I got one on my rogue.
Seeing world buffs for the first time is so badass, like seeing everyone in stormwind was super epic especially like half a year into classic.
But like yeah I could see it sucking to get xD
I think people generally have rose coloured glasses when it comes to WoW Classic. Yes it had some amazing points, but the MMO genre as moved on for a reason.
Our guild saw x1 staff of shadow flame in about 16 runs
Our first crul'shorukh has dropped also like 3+ months into BWL and we've seen like total of two of them. Poor orc warriors in our guild. Only one gigachad UD 2h war with the Bonereaver's edge couldn't care less.
Classic wow was the most fun iteration of wow I played. Even tho I played it back in 2004 I never did the raids and sucked ass at it but going into classic I had no idea what I was expecting but it was a special time for me that's for sure. Found an amazing guild that cleared all the raids together did world pvp with a bunch of guilds on the servers ran a bunch of GDKPs towards the end of classic and made tons of gold. Got Field Marshall which was definitely not worth it do not recommend but It was an experience that's for sure. Basically all around good time in classic wow for me. Would I do it again? No, I don't think so. And that's all i gotta say.
Same, except I was horde. But literally the same experience. Did a lot of playing with friends in 2004, but nothing past a bit of MC and 1 or 2 BWL raids where I didn't know what I was doing. Then in classic I did every raid, had full gear from each phase by the time the next one came out, and still managed to do a ton of pvp and had nearly 300k honorable kills on my way to rank 13 (never made 14). Tons of work and basically became a full time job, but had a great guild and a ton of fun.
@@noname-gp6hk We'd all do it again within a few years lol.
the level 1-60 vanilla experience with pvp and everything is the BEST mmo leveling experience ever made imo. TBC? hot ass wrath? giga ass 1-60 feels so special
Warlocks being told to up your DPS in raid was infuriating... I can't fking up my dps as I can't use half my spells >.
half? more like "I'm pressing shadow bolt as fast as I can!!"
My warlock was always top 5 dps...
Leveling was a test of patience to try not to hang myself. I guess you can say it was a "journey"?
@@daroaminggnome leveling literally had quests of collecting 10 murloc heads, you spend 40 to an hour on that quest alone, and you’ve only got like 4 of them, and you’d see that type of quest again and again, what’s the difference between endgame farming and that?
I think spell batching was good and ok not bad at all for me. I like it.
I played up till nax, world buffs were the most toxic sht ive ever seen in gaming
I got super lucky and got the mind quickening gem on the very first BWL run on my mage 😂 I was so happy cuz that trinket was extremely Strong. I used it in TBC as well for trash packs (in Hyjal I did over 10K DPS on trash packs with MQG). I believe we had like 5 mages in classic and all 5 got the MQG eventually
Neltharians tear took a Long time because it was forged from my own personal tears
Spell batching was something every talking head on CZcams wanted, so of course they were going to listen when Classic launched! bUt YoU cAn PoLy EaCh OtHeR
ranking system is ok when the ranking system is personal so you need 500k for bracket 1 everyone who reach 500k honor is in bracket 1 and everyone has fun
I find it hillarious how 99% of the good stuff in classic wow was ripped from other MMOs back in the day, while the few bad systems it had were the original ones blizzard came up with
@@daroaminggnome based and real
idk i think they did pretty good and even then ur giving ur opinion after like 40 years of playtesting ofc there gonna be issues move on
tbh think the world buff meta made it better. Imagine raiding through classic with 0 world buffs, wouldve felt so bad. Current classes in wotlk feel like classes were with world buffs in classic imo. For warrior anyway.
I always get shit on for saying this but I would never play classic. The quests were boring, the loot is bad, the classes are clunky and bad. No fluidity. I actually was extremely bored when leveling in classic. There are so many QoL changes in retail and I don't want to relieve bad/old systems just because some people have nostalgia.
Retail>Classic for me.
They also should have increased loot by minimum double in raids. It got so repetitiv.
Probably could have cut out the part where he went AFK for a few mins, lol
loot is probably the worst indeed.
How tf do an enemy doesn't loot his head, or his tail. Or even A FUCKING SCALE ON A DRAGON WITH THOUSANDS OF SCALES.
It just doesn't make any sense. And also, why. Just why do you collect all of thoses.
I know it's for the game, but it doesn't make any sense anyway.
If it's for a proof, you don't need a proof actually, when a camp lose 15 people, it shows. No need for the heads of every random mobs.
Same for items. Excuse me sir, why isn't the full plate enemy dropping an armor, or weapon.
It could just loot a Grey crappy item, like scraps of broken armor for the logic part. Why are we leaving their armor and weapons, when we obviously need money.
When it comes to end game armor/weapon, I think the way it was done is normal, you need to farm thoses armors, or else it's useless, but I would see it another way, with items you farm and exchange to a legendary hidden Smith. It doesn't make any sense to have an elemental that just came on azeroth, loot human size armors and weapons, and it isn't interesting at all to keep looting useless other class items.
Imagine parsing in a 13 year old normal difficulty raid and NOT constantly hit 99. Truly cringe
Spell batching was the reason I stopped playing classic
Damn, dude, pay your editors
They had CIA ex? employees working for them. I swear they were just using this as a social experiment sandbox. OK, let's see how far we can abuse them before they break. Fast forward achievements, only dropping one glaive, Rng wrapped in Rng wrapped in RNG. Let that sink in... Remember when gear had to drop for you off a boss, you had to be able to wear it, then it needed to be socketed, and then it needed to be empowered. Now reproduce that 16 times for the other slots and you have video game heroin. Might be a law suit for Blizzard one day lol.
Wish it would make me addicted like heroin again. Back in the day when I was wow addicted was the best time
hey asmonson - i love classic wow - warrior needs everything ;D - i got alot leather gear and resistance stuff aswell - but i never use it ;) - edited: i wont care if there where no worldbuffs at all ;D - i also yoloed BGs with em i never cared that much ^^ - i was top dps anyways - BECAUSE I AM A WARRIOR ;D
Classic wow is complete anarchy, which is most enjoyable from a distance. Be that from a pure spectating perspective or looking back at it and remembering it, but being in the middle of it sucked.
All this being said, I think “no changes” had to be done in order to prove that “some changes” is better.
Ah, legendary Headless Murlocs Quest.
classic vanilla was fun but anyone still playing classic is just a lost and confused soul :(
just make world buffs useless in raids.
Everyone is laughing because Asmongold always needed on everything for his Warrior back in classic. However, what's ironic, is that he has always been that way. 😀🙃
Contingency guild on the forgotten coast
i know you won't read or respond to this, but if so, did you ever play Ultima Online back in the day? if so, would be fun to hear about one day...
there should be an NPC representing chromie that offers all the powers of the old world at the start of every raid, giving everyone the option of taking world buffs and if they refuse they should get given extra loot for their efforts. Makes it fun for everyone.
Spellbatching sounds great if you want the classic experience you should suffer same as in the past. But now you know that the game wasn't as good as you think
In Vanilla a 2 handed enhancement shaman would wreak shit.... it was very much like a Feral Druid, Arms Warrior, or Holy Pally in full tier 2.... Tell me you didnt play Vanilla without telling me you didnt play Vanilla.... Asmon I was there. Ok Bruh.
As a prot warrior (and bad ret pally) in og vanilla, I can attest to being a loot hussie.
For prot, I QM'd so much NR gear to myself when I ran Green Dragon raids until I had it all, for easier subsequent dragon raids and AQ40 ofc. And I pissed off many a hunter by taking an actual hunter item on my ret pally, Typhoon.
I was a greasy teen and I was bad at the game but nostalgia. Farthest I got was NAXX40 w/ only Razuvius killed and AQ40 up to Huhuran but didn't get her down.
Side note: I am still bad, just slightly less so than back then.
My eye sight is so bad now a days it's hard for me to raid even with glasses and graphics turned on ultra high. So I just pay guilds gold to carry me ^_^
Maybe it's time to visit the optician again 👍
@@joshqim3110 did that spent 3000 dollars on a pair of glasses and it helped for a while but he just told me it's a part of getting older lol
World buffs are irredeemable.
I remember pretty well asmongold fanboying the No ChANGeS!!!!111 along with cringe esfand
Spell batching was the only thing that made shaman viable in any pvp scenario. As much as it might suck in other circumstances i'd take spell batching in classic any day.
Would be nice of Asmon to do a podcast with Kevin Jordan :)
Classic Phase 2 was the worst experience ever as alliance.
400 ping is not the same thing
I Love Classic WoW - I think all the imbalances and limiting mechanics were awesome! Damn, I must be getting old :( Love your videos, Asmon!
I am just saying .... "pet heal equip"... ^^
(25:15) Say my name without saying my name.
zach is a casual vanilla wow player
true he realizes the game is dog shit and only fun in bursts like he should imagine sweating over a solved game that came out 40 years ago grow up
Eeeeeeeeeeeee Vanilla PvP and AQ40 nolife Scarab Lord was the good stuff ? I swear I'm growing to hate Willie.....
Fun fact: spell batching as shit as it was is what kept vanilla WOW stable
Retail WOW doesn't have it, when open world PVP happens on retail between more than 10 players, the server chokes and dies, and who ever started it will probably get banned for server disruption.
One thing I would add, because its personal. Attaining Atiesh.
It was BS compared to Thunderfury! I spent the better part of all of vanilla helping countless Warriors farm Thunderfury. (Zero benefit to myself. Om addition to countless other things I sacrificed or gave to my raid). Then when it comes MY turn with Atiesh? Na. At best your raid will get 2 before TBC came out. And its not just others of your class you have to compete with to be picked to get it, like Warriors. No. You are up against EVERY SINGLE OTHER CLOTHIE.
Getting Ateish was the ONLY reason I played classic (Im a casual, and I know the toll raiding takes on me). I busted my ass to do everything I possibly could to put myself at the top of the list for Atiesh. But get saddled with one greedy guild master/raid leader, and the wind blows the wrong way the day it comes to decide who those 1-2 Ateishes go to and... Some how you get told you are basically 12th on the list, behind guys who attend about 1 raid a week and thats it.
Dpnt get me wrong. The people at the very top of the list over me were fine choices. In the end, it will come down to comparing apples to oranges when trying to pick someone. But the REAL issue is that things were not changed in a way to help a more proportional amount of people get Ateish before TBC was out.
I am still very salty over my Classic experience with that. I will not return. So I just hope Blizz finds a way to bring the quest back from the trading post so I cam farm it on retail, and be done with it.
I just played WOW for the first time a few days ago, I'm loving it so far! I want to help people relive their noobs days through me haha, so I've been recording my experience if anyone wants to see :)
This aged well
If you don't like losing world buffs due to people trying to impede the other faction from progressing, then play on a pve server. Idk why you think blizzard needs to fix something that's been fixed since launch in 2004. Pve and pvp servers. Ez. Done.
If you lost raid healing to spell batching then you should never heal again. It's literally the only job where you have to predict the next 10-15mins.
Another video where the editors can't be botherd to do their only job and edit out asmons chair
Asmon never played FF11 and it shows
Wow classic vanilla is back, come play EU pve pyrewood village serv, we are tons
from asmonbald making a 15min video into a 4 part 3hour series to his editors adding another hour of epic chair saga
Never played it?!
15:25 - 16:31 best part
MOAR DOTS
Leveled a priest just to MC sweaty dps and dropping Ony heads
lul @ editors leaving in 2mins of dead air. bravo
Cat stand listening to asmon reminisce about his PvP greatness when you know he was never actually good at PvP. Ever. Not when he was young. Not now. Not ever. Making up stories is dumb.
This just in from 2004, hybrid classes sucked compared to pure classes by design, more at 11.
This video makes it sounds like it some great mystery why.
uh, no, Hybrid was pretty much the best spec for warlocks, either MD/Ruin or SM/Ruin
Well maybe u bashed their heads in and they aren't useful... same for the hooves.
Yes
Classic was good for its time in 2004 but playing in when they re released it , it was very clear the game had aged badly
evening lag for all players... nice. at 400 ping? hahahahahahahaha
Who else here doesn't play WOW but watches asmon?
Wow I am actually pretty early. Finally I can spend the next half an hour watching another reaction video instead of going to bed