Fall of the Lich King

[@charlesc4511]

I'm amazed by Asmon's ability to recognize any piece of gear and tell us where it drops.

[@huntermartin]

Really is incredibly impressive lol

[@rannnoch]

true fashionista, despite wearing only white shirts and not walking on the weak part of his floor that would collapse if he did

[@Krulfar]

he is the transmog and mounts nerd

[@TraeBaldwin]

It’s uncanny

[@tangofett4065]

Lol “those boots are from MOP!” 🚨 Nerd Alert! 🚨

[@casko9626]

5:18 "nothing wrong here" literal panda in background

[@DefaultDanielS]

Very cool cinematic, Hurricane is always delivering and Asmon always reacting

[@AnotherMetalGuy]

The reactor ☢️

[@armed_but_blind2768]

I want asmon to react to my life

[@rafael780]

who is hurricane, what an incredible cinmatic

[@Mythication]

@@rafael780Hurricane is the guy who makes these cinematics…. Keep up lad

[@rafael780]

@@Mythication i was expecting a link for his youtube or somthing , thanks captain obvious

[@grennbalze]

Even though it keeps the games graphics, it feels kind of real. Like youre in the middle of it. He’s able to make you feel the excitement, horror, chaos, and tell a reasonable story within such a short time

[@kricorvo]

This! This comment perfectly encapsulates the exact feeling of this video.

[@alexbrown2529]

It definitely is enhanced. Feels like the perfect balance between the CG cinematic trailers they do and gameplay graphics. Hurricane is fricken talented.

[@TheStarSquid]

The lighting makes all the difference, its crazy. Wish WoW had an option for Raytracing like that

[@Vampireinarm1]

its the grounded camera, youre seeing everything from the point of view of the player characters, its a great technique that dosent get used much anymore in modern cinema, everything is big panning shots that take you away from the action so they can flex their big CGI budgets

[@AndarilhoMarco]

Because it's not really about the graphics, it's about cinematography and art direction.

[@dragonzord6615]

Only asmon can look at a random dudes armour and recognise exactly where and when its from. Man is insane.

[@Mylilloki]

My partner is the same way, my adhd brain does not understand 😂

[@Boneheaded0]

When you spend 14 hours trying to get 1 piece on your bis list it gets ingrained in your brain 😂

[@Andromedes]

And then overlooks very obvious pirate hat in the same picture.

[@Nojasification]

​@@Boneheaded0 surely it gotta be some rainman shit with asmon. He knows everything

[@Jon_the_Wizard]

Here’s an inconsistency: the large number of male Draenei. Seriously, the women outnumber them like 95-5 or something.

[@BringDHouseDown]

Why does this music get me teary eyed....Arthas deserved redemption and revenge, he was used, he was controlled, his soul watched helplessly as his body was used to kill the people he loved.This is too tragic and too sad.

[@SouthernGuy5423]

Arthas is a tragic figure, for certain, but it was his OWN pride that put him in that place. Everything he did that led to him picking up Frostmourne and donning the Crown of Domination he was warned about ahead of time. He still did them ALL. Pride and a desire for vengeance have been the downfall of many people. He certainly deserved vengeance. Redemption, though? Nah. He was a proud, murderous man-child who spent too mcuh time sniffing his own self-righteousness. He got what he deserved.

[@shadowsagen723]

Chris Metzen had said before, Arthas was the Darth Vader of the Warcraft Universe.

[@veyghard3217]

same here... everytime i hear Invincible, i get goosebumps and teary eyes.

[@Renovatio2142]

He was controlled from the point where he took the sword and put a helmet on his head. Before then, just his ambitious and uncontrolled hunger for redemption...That's why it's called redemption paladin and not a reasonable paladin.

[@patrickcapistrano]

Not close to how tragic they wrote the Lich King’s origin story as. And we all know who to blame.

[@walleater92]

As a gamer I feel sad for WoW players, their dedication to the game is top notch and still Lizzard is stabbing them in the back. We live in sad sad times

[@BloodHarzard]

Lizzard is the best name I've seen for them that aptly reflect what they are doing.

[@rb-uu7du]

luckily private servers are getting better at offering unique experiences for those that don't want to give money to blizzard

[@lukeskywalker1574]

Sounds like the players are mugs

[@danielschultz96]

as a person i feel sad for you, dedicating yourself to shitting on a game you dont play, quite sad

[@immatoll4375]

Because people just try to complain about anything that is absolutely irrelevant nowadays? I'm really sad for these people having nothing better to do. Actually: Just because stuff was not lootable by players, who says that NPCs could not optain stuff in "their story". There are even enemies wearing stuff that players do not wear... so they actually "exist" in the world... people that complain about shit like this really should get a life for sure...

[@ghostplanetstudios]

Back when WoW was one of the coolest games on the planet

[@rundown132]

Still is

[@Ben_diez]

@@rundown132 lmao

[@KenndyOfficial]

@@rundown132lmao

[@zsoltsiro1310]

@@rundown132 lmao

[@Ry_315]

@@rundown132 lmao

[@patrickcapistrano]

All those years farming Invincible, how could you miss a single detail from this cinematic? The creator’s attention to detail and every choice of every little thing to show… forget all the mistakes, this cinematic is a total banger! They should have gotten him to do the final Arthas vs Illidan in Reforged.

[@guardian0740]

The way Asmongold's eyes lit up even just 10 seconds into the cutscene really makes you understand his love for the game, and how the game USED to be.

[@scemz]

100

[@strtfghtr88]

Nailed it

[@razorsazon2164]

I feel like that was everyone. I smiled ear to ear watching this trailer. I miss this

[@zugy.]

Are you sure you miss the how the game used to be, or do you miss being a kid and miss how your life used to be.

[@razorsazon2164]

@@zugy. both to be honest

[@cwsawyer6534]

Hurricane makes the best wow trailers💯

[@SimonRobeyns]

The naxxramas one is arguably the best wow trailer I've ever seen

[@ogremair803]

Whose Hurricane?

[@Joedirt32]

@@ogremair803 I think you can figure it out...

[@Joromonni]

@ogremair803 the person who made the trailer

[@ogremair803]

@@Joromonni Is he an Independent? or someone affiliated with Blizzard?

[@dirkmandark]

Why can't they just give us a show or series of movies that look like this?! Screw live action... this would be awesome to watch!!

[@Ashbrash1998]

I will never understand why be keep pushing live action when animation can give tou so much freedom especially in fantasy or mmo adaptions

[@Cruvijonad]

its cheaper to produce live action movies

[@noone6896]

@@Ashbrash1998 Bcauz live action sets real boundaries and makes it real and organized. In animation/comics u can mkae 30 40 new characters each time and everyone can beat everyone at certain point...

[@noone6896]

@@Cruvijonad U really wrote that producing real action movies is cheaper than animation?!)

[@Warboss_Thrakka_Snazzfingas]

Fans sometimes know better

[@itsbno3597]

Beating the king back when the expansion first dropped was a massive moment in many peoples lives. When the king died, so did wow. That was the end

[@Gambleraddict79]

hell nah, im 28 and and gunna beat him again since i actually have free time since im not dumb enough to have a kid in this economy let alone a wife. Lots of money and free time GG

[@inertiaforce7846]

Blizzard's biggest mistake was letting the Lich King fall. The Lich King should always have been the dark lord of wow.

[@GlakeGG]

Amen brotha. lmao@@Gambleraddict79

[@jacobpoulsen929]

Your username fits

[@robertAnthonyColon]

@@inertiaforce7846that’s sargeras now arthas lol

[@wallywest2360]

That was a fantastic cinematic. So much nostalgia. Wrath was when I started playing, I hit max level around the time Ulduar came out. I wasn't geared enough for raiding until ICC. My guild downed normal ICC a few weeks before Cata launched. Yeah, we sucked, be we had fun. And that entire experience, from level 1 to downing the Lich King has a very special place in my memories. Still play semi-casually. My main is a frost mage, which was the first character I made, and the one I downed the Lich King with. His total played time is, embarrassing.

[@SirCowdog]

When Arthas boots that guy in the chest and sends him flying! So good!

[@rahn45]

One day maybe we'll get a full length animated Blizzard movie... Course the writing that goes with it will probably be terrible, but really they should put together an epic story about Arthas like I dunno, the Lord of the Rings movies.

[@giuseppe9653]

I absolutely adore what this trailer does with Arthas

[@Kamosow]

THERES A PANDA AT 5:18 HOW DID HE MISS IT DUUUUDE

[@robertAnthonyColon]

People forgetting these are warriors and adventurers from all over AZEROTH.

[@DrNiradino]

"Help, help! I've fallen and can't get back up!" Lich King, probably.

[@HUSK3RGAM3R]

If only Blizzard's other trailers were as consistently hype as this

[@Warboss_Thrakka_Snazzfingas]

if only they hired super fans like hurricane

[@cfuentesinostroza]

There's another mistake: In sec 0:30 there's a Tauren Fury Warrior weilding 2 Edge of Agony swords. Those droppen from Trial of the Crusader but those were Agility weapons, meant for Hunters.

[@buffdroptus2796]

1:24 Human wearing a Frostwolf Tabard

[@mike4088]

What a badass trailer. Still not playing. Already did that years ago.

[@Gearshifta]

I was 21 and had all the time in the world back then. Now I'm just old and busy 😢. Still my favourite expansion and game of all time.

[@Koodles33]

Only WoTLK stuff can give me chills like this with wow. So good… the nostalgia is unreal

[@michaelsotomayor5001]

I’ve always said wotlk was the best expansion and everyone always had something to say about that. But here we always are just drooling at the eye candy and how awesome this game felt back then. Wotlk, best expansion ever.

[@johnlappa5447]

I don't disagree that Wotlk was the best expansion overall. I'm sure the people that believe it wasn't that good were people that have particular biases against it or just havent played it much. I personally loved Wrath, Cata, and MoP. After MoP, I strongly think the game just wasn't too appealing for many.

[@jackalope_hunter]

@@johnlappa5447 this is just the wrong opinion, objectively speaking.

[@johnlappa5447]

@@jackalope_hunter What is your opinion? Im curious to hear what you disagree on...

[@MrDaCoD]

@@johnlappa5447 Legion was great too

[@johnlappa5447]

@@MrDaCoD Yep I liked Legion as an overall expansion. Didnt see anything wrong with it besides the class pruning they did coming into the expansion.

[@suncake_xd]

There also was a pandaren inside icc in this cinematic

[@emiliouchila]

Amazing cinematic but what is more impressive is how nostalgia is keeping this game alive.

[@CMeads91]

Those boots look a lot like the primordial saronite crafted plate, maybe just lighting

[@obsidianbeau4087]

This is my most favorite raid back in the day, only because my guild got Realm's first from it.❤❤❤

[@ardvarkboy]

This is great video. It makes you feel like going through the raid all over again.. all the good moments hit.

[@TonysTechAndCars]

Yes there were boots and the belt in the game for that set back then. I was using them! Was either a BOE drop and I think you could make it with a Blacksmith.

[@Lunethzero]

I would have liked to see a shadowmourne wielder at the end or them crafting it

[@loxibelle1529]

I love how Asmon's eyes light up when we're discussing the glory days of WOTLK. 😊❄️💙🖤💀🧟⚔️

[@kaikash]

The editors always kill it. The asmon yelling wrath was lit caught me off gaurd i was crying from laughing.

[@Alex-ye8qp]

It was mcconell but yeah

[@hardwired6248]

God, I was in tears... Keep up the good work Hurricane!

[@apacalypsagon3758]

Dang I love this feeling of constantly throwing bodies at a problem instead just simply rezzing ourselves. That's what wow should feel like.

[@OneMeanDragon]

3:30 the other varients of the boots existed iirc, the red ones and the red belt were added later.

[@StriKe_jk]

Whatever they pay Hurricane its well worth it. I'm sure every game would love to get videos like that.

[@Lyko5]

Im glad they hired the guy to make their cinematics, I remember being hooked on Nax and Black Temple cinematics

[@BloodElfofDarkness]

They need to let Hurricane make some awesome wow movies like these.

[@MurakamiTenshi]

This brings back so many memories. I was the guild Rsham healer for both our IC10 heroic and IC25 heroic. Verithria and Arthas 10 man heroic were hell to heal!

[@jerlstif]

That was a bad ass trailer. I’m not gonna lie.

[@kevinchavarria6792]

I would play it just to remember the good times when protret>ret in pvp.

[@Amateracu1991DFFOO]

Take me back to 2008...no pandemics, no tiktok, no fuckin pronouns, no bowls of fruit. Just good old neckbeard gaming as it should be

[@nuclearpugg]

Unfortunately the West and gaming has fallen

[@loganshate]

First one I saw was right at the end the orc is wearing a Dragonmaw Clan tabard from cata.

[@Dracorientalis]

The boots where in Wrath you could get them from the old pvp venders... my death knight them, then was a version that had skulls on the knees that were more expensive

[@Gilthus]

I like how Asmon solves which pieces of clothing are from another expansion, but he doesn't notice that at 0:30 he has PANDA directly :D

[@forx28]

“Please stay for cata”

[@Geassguy360]

I love how this basically says, canon-wise, every ICC raid was canon and happening simultaneously including the wipes.

[@davidtrentham2623]

Never played this expansion but watching Asmon nerd out on it makes my eyes water. so cute

[@shadowsagen723]

The thing I like about these cinematic like this is where the Horde and Alliance comes together against a common foe. Kinda makes you wonder if you removed the faction mechanic from the game and just merged the Horde and Alliance as just one overall faction where the players, Us could play together regardless of faction, like a raid group of 10, 20, 40 man of Orcs, Tauren, Trolls, Human, Elves, Dwarves, Draenei, etc all in one group. Kinda the way the game should have been years ago. I know people are gonna defend the whole separate faction thing but it makes no sense when there's moments when both factions works together against a common foe just to go back to fighting afterwards then unite again. Arthas, Deathwing, Illidan, Sargaras/ Burning Legion, soon the Void Lords/ Old Gods, etc. The only reason for defending the separate faction is for PVP and that's it. Other MMOs have ditched the separate faction mechanic when the players pointed out that the constant fighting makes no sense, when the factions band together every time against a common foe.

[@tyrilliamoon5237]

of course asmon was able to spot armor not yet created during WOTLK time but he did miss one thing in this trailer, the panda at the gate :)

[@SapoQLxd]

Cataclysm tabard guy died but the Panda lived? They gonna skip cata to do pandaria????

[@tyrilliamoon5237]

yes pls. pandaland was so much fun@@SapoQLxd

[@Aggrofool]

Quite funny that they use Modern Retail models for a Classic game

[@TesterChat]

lol how he mowes down that gnome on pull 1:56

[@IceMarsoc77]

they should update the detail on some of the class tier armor pieces like they did for Tirion Fordring in that little trailer.

[@Orrissan]

Well because Asmon went about armor there where two others aside form he ones he caught that I saw. The Ret Paladin fighting Sindy has Bloody Bandana pretty sure, that wasn't a thing till WoD. Additionally there is one Tauren in the hall scene just as the break through the door (he is in the absolute front and is off frame very quickly) that has Ruthless Gladiator's Gavel (glowing mace) a Cata PvP item.

[@lordrevan571]

I love how no one, not a fucking soul, has pointed out the Pandaren hunter aiming his bow at 0:30

[@Sonstbenannt]

I love how everybody misses that the cinematic teaches you how to do the bosses.

[@FinnGarreth]

"Father is it over?" "No, my son. Raid resets next week."

[@ThatOneOldBoy]

Fond memories here. The guild I was in at the time got so close to full clear of icc 10 man just before cata launched. Tragic we couldn't get it done... small guild casual raiders.

[@CofekDaGod]

very nice. Blizzard almost never dissapoints with cinematics/animations

[@guardian0740]

This was done by Hurricane.

[@ivanmayorov5252]

​@@guardian0740while being hired by Blizzard, they posted it as official trailer on their channel.

[@Tight_Conduct]

They thought for one second they could get away with having 2 wrong pieces of gear

[@Odinoian]

DAAAAAAMN! If I was into WoW this would have won me back over. Seeing bosses fighting hoards of players organically, and players falling to their death and shit. Hard vibe

[@gingerbread_GB]

WotLK was when I raided hardcore. 300 attempts on Heroic Arthas was traumatizing. Went casual for Pandaria and quit shortly after.

[@reiko3783]

min 00:30 and 05:18 a panda in the raid on the citadel? jajaja crazy

[@Horijzon]

1:55 gnome got sent 😭

[@laserloui2008]

Flying mounts, LFR and LFG as well as all the crossrealm / phasing shit was the start of the end.

[@andrewler13theundeadwarrio51]

Wil this still make asmon return on day? The iconic: " Alas I have Returned, As First Ever Lord of Frenzied Flame. " Maybe he may return..

[@andrewler13theundeadwarrio51]

Will*

[@rypulliam]

Wrath was peak WoW IMO, Dalaran was my favorite hub city too

[@FatJesus123456789]

man just had childhood flashbacks lol I stopped wow in 2019 after probably 15y, I want to come back I think in a few months

[@laurenfazenbaker9777]

If only ICC was a full on assault like in this video, people locking down bosses while the rest run straight to Arthas. Of course that wouldn't work in the scheme of raids, but it would make for a cool cinematic like this. Wrath was my favorite expansion. I'm sure the maker threw in the after expansion gear as either foreshadowing to other expansions, or Easter eggs only those with keen eyes who knows the gear drops from every boss would spot. As someone who has done every raid from Vanilla to the end of Legion before my job made it impossible to play , i didn't notice the out of place gear. Good eye Asmon

[@elsdodo]

With the red ICC warrior armor isn't really a mess-up. The belt isn't even there, that's just how the set looks without belt. And it's not the violet hold boots either, it's just some grey-ass boots. He made it as accurate as he could.

[@lexakaehya2325]

every WoW video Asmon reacts to just sounds like someone reliving their high school glory days 'oh dood when this happened I was doing this and this and aww fuck yeah doods'

[@tomislavlukicloznica]

That fight at the end game me good memory jog, when we as guild used to wipe 13 years ago :D at 25 heroic man LK and unfortunately never did it :/

[@PalleNoehr]

I think the boots might have been "Ice Climbers" from Diablo (thematic)

[@MrCerealcowflakes]

Dragonmaw Tabard on the orc at the end of the cinematic

[@crinsowc9010]

can we accept a series of warcraft with this quality? I say yes

[@M1cha3l1]

Yes! Was waiting for Aston to react to this!

[@slavsthetics2447]

USSO TAUTA, USSO TAUNTA

[@kwerby3285]

3 minutes of reacting 5 minutes of verifying historical accuracy 😂

[@loko8907rs]

In the fight with the lich king there is a character with Might of Menethil - lvl 60 weapon......the best mace from Vanilla Naxx Kelthusad 40 man

[@Leon-pj8oc]

That also drops in nax 25

[@loko8907rs]

@@Leon-pj8oc no just checked to be sure there is no such item neither in 10 nor in 25 man, that even looks like Might of Menethil

[@demicus]

Asmond in his Every Frame A Pause arc for this video.

[@willokeefe2559]

Wrath of the Lich King was the pinnacle for me. I hated how warlocks kept getting drastic reworks after.

[@Shiirow]

if only the fights were _actually_ that cinematic.

[@dospasma]

This was the peak of wow. Even if the classic early journey was more enjoyable to some, this is the destination everyone wants to arrive at.

[@robertbicok5503]

5:20 there is a pandaren

[@crabmothflunderbum7770]

nostalgia waves hit me heavy with this one, FUCK i miss those days

[@djangofett4855]

It’s funny how he basically just instantly found the secret that reveals they plan to go to Mists with the classic expansions. The Warlock who stole the last ever Corrupted Ashbringer all those years ago saw this coming .

[@MinecraftersVL]

Let's forget about the MoP polearm as well

[@allarian8726]

I watched this on quest 2 with bigscreen vr in the cinema themed room. Coolest experience ever!

[@Creepy___]

funny how asmon realized the boots were different but didnt notice there was a literal panda in the cinematic

[@Mezukage27]

Blizzard, make sure you leave Hurricane alone to his artistic freedom. dont do him like you do with your other staff!

[@Kuijano]

Another thing to point out: Night Elf DK at the end is female when camera's in front, but is male when the camera's behind.

[@alicedota3154]

Best patch, still going ICC every reset. I like how Asmon is talking about 'how great that was, or remember this encounter blah'. For me, this is WoW, this is what I am playing since 2016.

[@GreatTA]

You will rewatch this. Many times

[@kreshar]

I wonder if there will be hardcore TBC/wrath progression eventually also.

[@DaxterminatorVF]

Asmon was so busy looking at the gear he completely missed the pandaren hunter in the video

[@azmoz]

Barny64 cameo at 2:36

[@sarahs.9292]

I was a Raid Leader back in Wrath. Best DAMN expansion!