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As someone who always picked night elves in Warcrat III, I fell in love with this zone right away back in 2006 because it kind of encapsulates the magic I felt when playing that particular race. It also gave me my first taste of world PVP and that fostered a love that hasn't dwindled.

please continue this kind of videos. it's cozy and perfect after a long day of playing WoW

Winterspring is very chill. Unless you're on a crowded pvp server, then it's pure stress.

I loved STV as a Horde player on a PvP server. It was fun being able to combat the other faction when you were on par with them. It's only when they got all butt hurt and signed into their level 60 mains that they took the fun out of it.

Stranglethorn on PvE-Server : I’m going in an adventure Stranglethorn on PvP-Server : We got in as children, we came out as… i-i don’t know what we are anymore…

I love the way that you go about these retrospectives - very nice blend of lore, player perspective, and game design. please keep making more!

My favourite zone was Azshara. Such a shame they placed that goblin stuff in cata or mop. Completely ruined it.

Can you do Darkshore?

Gather round children, because if you thought Stranglethorn was a bloodbath. Let me tell ya a story or two of the great Tarren Mill vs Southshore wars.

Winterspring is like the only zone in the game where i don't mind flying around to farm ore. it's so nostalgic and cozy.

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Just wanted to say, your zone retrospective videos are all excellent. I love just chilling and leveling new toons with your vids on in the background. Can't wait to see which zone you do next!

As a 420 enjoyer, really loved the vid. WoW and weed in combination is the most relaxing thing, I can imagine. The Tauren are top smokers, take a look at their huge pipes, which can take pounds of weed at once. Also all those mushroom areas also can be trippy AF. Zangarmarsh ( I know, its not classic) is one of the spots I would consume heavily.

My favorite zone

That first ten seconds of music will be burned into my brain until the absolute end of time.

Lot of cool things about vanilla but my favorite is that 20 years later, theres sooooo much lore. I love that. Go anywhere in the game, find something interesting, and theres probably pages and pages of lore about it to nerd out with.

It was a real treat seeing a notification pop up from my favorite WoW KZbinr! A great time of year for a Winterspring deep dive! Looking forward to the next one, take care!

There is a path in the Stonetalon Mountians that leads to Malaka'jin. On that path there is a really nice spot to...take a break.

Winterspring is my favourite zone <3 Thank you for making this video

I've never understood why all of you keep treating classic WoW like it's somehow new, but then it dawned on me - it kinda is, even if you played it back then. Looking at this game through adult eyes is dramatically different than looking at it through our eyes as a kid. We didn't appreciate all the things about the game then because (honestly) we didn't know what the hell was going on.

Yeah, there was always a lot to do. Great farming for herbalists too. Even if it was way outa the way

My father enjoys the company of men.

Bruh Hale literally takes a snoozer in the hot springs as part of the blue dragon reunification questline in dragonflight, you telling me sindragoss and my character had her bathe in fel irradiated waters? 😅

I wish i could like this video more.

I still remember when during 05-06 when I was leveling a druid I got the moonglade teleport and my curiosity got better of me and I started traveling through the furbolg mines and oh boy i had to walk a lot..

Modern wow could never capture this again.

Amazing video ! Thank you so much!

I still go there in retail to level alts. Its one of my favorite zones, shame there wasnt more to it

I started playing wow only in 2021. F2P, because still poor. I tried every class and every race, tracked a rather ungodly amount of information of what I did and did not see in the old world. The first time I entered Winterspring, I felt like I was actually entering the Warcraft 3 world. It truly was a unique experience that I've not repeated since. That feeling skyrocketed Winterspring to my favorite zone in the entire game, and hasn't been peaked since. I gave it about 1k hours before I started playing Wrath on a private server, and put another 1k hours in that, just to do all the quests I missed in F2P Retail. This taught me that the old world was truly special. Even TBC was missing something. And Cata fucked it all up by "streamlining" it all (though that trend started pre-Cata).

I really like Arathi Highlands, Hinterlands, Azshara. But my favorites ALWAYS been Winterspring. The main two colors in the zone are white and blue, which is just calming. And plus the excellent music, and pretty much every single mob in the zone drops something useful so you can easily find yourself just farming and relaxing.

Top tier zone forever

I fucking hated these nothing burger quests and how long those the last few levels took. The exact reasons you're praising the zone for are what made it dogshit back in the day. God I dread the thought that one day it'll have been long enough for people to look back at the maw "fondly" and spin it's design as some kind of pinnacle of atmosphere and breath of fresh air

Genuinely my favorite zone. World of Warcraft released in late November. It's always had this Winter identity that felt off to play during the Summer. They do Christmas in a way that is still my favorite MMO holiday. They land the "Big world, go see it" mentality with this zone - nothing beats it. The only zone I have that even comes close is Grizzly Hills after Wrath, but that zone felt far more focused in its implementation. It isn't this Nordic romp through a boreal forest like we dreamed of. Granted, Winterspring isn't either, but the peace and solace afforded here is by far the best feeling in all of WoW. This was peak MMO design to me - that everything felt just far enough apart to make travel feel rewarding, but just close enough together to not feel threatened by a huge drop in player productivity. I can get on my mount, enjoy the music or turn it off and just listen to the ambiance. Muffled drifts of snow shifting. A chill breeze blowing through. The only backdrop is my mount's footfall on a icy cobble road. Bliss.

Been my favourite zone for years

Correction: Malygos *DID NOT* bless Nordrassil

The combination of your voice and winterspring visuals made this an extra soothing watch! Looking forward to more!

My favorite zone!

OMG yes, as a gnome I fell in love with Dun Morogh, a long journey after I got to Winterspring and it was a vibe

Ah yes, the crystal of Zyn. Put it in your lip (trinket slot) and slowly damage your body 😂

Winterspring and nagrand are chill af

I think a lot of it has to do with the secondary color they use to shade Winterspring. Dun Morogh is shaded blue, Alterac is shaded a greyish yellow, AV is a bit different as its a BG, but its shaded bluish grey. Winterspring is shaded purple however which makes it feel more soothing overall.

20 minute video of Winterspring and not one mention of the E'ko. SMH. Typical Alliance player.

Great vid, but the creepiest zone in WoW classic is strangletorn, dude, i had nightmare with rogues the first time i played and know nothing from the game

Nice!

I remember playing a Warrior and struggling leveling in Winterspring shortly after my grandpa died in December of 2013 on a Vanilla WoW Private Server. I sat there killing ghosts by the lake and I got an Axe of the Deep Woods level 52 Epic Axe. I knew things were gonna get better for my life after that, it was a good sign in a dark time that things were gonna get better.

This is cozy! I liked ancient warcrafat lore reference. It's easy to forget this game was once cool!

How did all the folks get to everlook? Did they go through timbermaw hold?

This is the deep dive I’ve been waiting for

The thumbnail looks bad