Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian - Wow Items Lost to History

[@Thex552]

I always loved listening to your voice before bed RIP friend

[@jonathan6578]

hayven would have loved the classic servers. rest in peace my friend

[@aymengabsi3873]

I cried...because such a great story teller such a great and fantastic voice such a great pal...RIP Hayven... you're among the stars ! 😭😭 ❤️

[@matt6990]

Rest in peace my man :(

[@RedRam_Menhtrol]

R.I.P you amazing man you were one of the rare few people that was truly great to follow eternal love from Denmark

[@Jaya365]

Great videos by Hayven, I'm sad I didn't get to see these sooner, I was an original vanilla player. It cannot be underestimated how hard this questline was Naxx at the time was a 40 man raid so even to get the splinters was a huge job. 40 man raids were notoriously difficult to organise, there were server crashes poor internet connections, you had to be really well geared and buffed. Everything was grindy as hell. I never saw anyone on our server have it.

[@ubergramcracker9232]

Thank you for making these videos. I am glad that you did something you were doing something you seemed passionate about as you left us. These videos are so well done that I can not give you a big enough high-five. I am working through every single one of your videos, which is an easy task considering how interesting and well crafted they are. Thanks for leaving something great for us all!

[@etherraichu]

I love vanilla wow. "You need to find someone, somewhere. Better start looking."

[@Bran732]

Rest in peace friend ;-; My heart is heavy, and sadden by your passing :'(

[@hamskillet421]

Great Video. Rest easy brother. F.

[@alixstar11]

I can't believe he's gone...

[@skwootch578]

This is the first video I have ever seen by this guy. As I was being emotionally moved I scrolled down to give the story teller props only to hear he has passed on. RIP man.

[@yvesgovaerts3384]

RIP Hayven, a true lord in WoW

[@BarakGage]

Man you're good at this.... I got chills man keep it up

[@archvaldor]

Best wow youtuber out there atm.

[@bakester86]

Yeah man, I can't wait for his new vids, such quality!

[@dx_warrior2309]

Bakester unfortunately he died 5 months ago.........

[@thatfishdude789]

Bakester Look at his other videos...you will understand...RIP

[@TheSaltPrincess]

I did too. I literally up like a Christmas tree man. These things were so cool and so marvelous to me as a kid. One of the things that make you go "wow"!

[@Acedia2369]

Rip Hayven.. still watching your videos friend

[@arthurwiebusch9292]

thanks for everything hayven, I love your videos, always watch them when I'm on my coffee break! :) RIP!

[@shivrrrr]

I LOVE these lost to time videos. Rhok'delar and Lok'delar up next?

[@Spontainousteve]

No hiss same here. They are some of my favorite WoW themed videos ever. More more more

[@HayvenGames]

They are among the planned videos to be made soon!

[@ML-cr7ds]

BRD planned? huge dungeon :)

[@OhemgeeKainz]

KZbin recommends this to make me cry. thanks

[@Mood8Poisoning]

Thank you man even this information is impossible to find anymore..

[@roblewisfitnesscoach]

Amazing channel and video, I was totally gripped.

[@jeeshhseej9347]

Had to come pay respects after getting mine hope you are doing good Hayven my man RiP

[@HunterNexos]

Awsome video man, comment just to support :)

[@StonedMonkeyProductions]

You are missed my friend. Been watching your videos again to relive the fun again

[@oasisll95]

Thanks for your videos. RIP, mate. Still watch it ocasionally.

[@sparks2749]

Easily one of the best WOW videos! I was pulled into the story and since I played a Rogue and a Warrior in Vanilla I never even knew about the great staff.... I'm glad you have taken the time to remind us all just how great WOW has been!

[@zyzzbrah7022]

One of your best videos yet, which is hard to say since all of your videos are great. 9 and a half minutes just flew by. Very interesting! Thank you!!

[@Ragnar0321]

never knew this channel only found it after i saw a youtuber talking about his death and ever since i been looking at old videos of his really good content creator R.I.P man. may the light be with you and all your love ones.

[@Vermithrax76]

Thanks for making these lore based videos. You put a lot of work into them and they are greatly appreciated!

[@Chronochrome]

Wow, I had no idea it was so difficult to obtain. Barely anyone even killed Kel'thuzad so I would imagine only a couple dozen people at most even have it.

[@Outwardpd]

Not true, it was definitely extraordinarily rare in vanilla and even today it is, but it was not THAT rare, people take too seriously the stat on how many people saw Naxx. But aside from that you could also assemble it in TBC which is where the majority of Atiesh you'll see were made, which is far higher than a couple dozen even in Vanilla there were almost certainly more than that.

[@StorageYT]

eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/tarren-mill/Oldschool/advanced

[@TheLostBear78]

Fucking hell. 100% best-in-slot Warlock, has not been played in 10 years? Sounds like someone got into a car accident and didn't make it...

[@StorageYT]

Kevin J You can see his recent activity at the bottom, he's still playing retail but just on another toon, keeping his main character. :P

[@Fyrlink]

Nihilum too. damn.

[@MihaiKrieger]

This video is a jewel. Thank you for creating it.

[@OMartinez91]

I've come to pay my respects again. Resp in Peace, and may you be in the Big Raid in the Sky

[@42Dumma]

Thanks again Hayven for this beautiful video and story.

[@HayvenGames]

You are welcome! :)

[@DragonwolfXIX]

With WOW classic coming out I'm going to need you one more time friend. Thank you for the info. And my you still RIP

[@KnuxSD]

r.i.p. Still watching your great videos man.

[@TaldrenMGMoonGuard]

I LOVE your videos, especially ones like these about items lost to time. You're an amazing voice actor. I look forward to seeing more

[@Kavou]

I've been playing Warcraft for so many years,and I felt like I literally know everything from the game.I mean backon alpha I even had a friend who was trying,so I really know everything about it.Only in your videos,I find myself wrong :).Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for the awesome vid!

[@AbendixVideos]

I have been waiting for this since your Benediction and Anathema video! Liked it ofc! Keep up the good work m8 ^^

[@Xerocoo]

I've watched majority of your videos, decided to sub after this one. Great job, you did awesome quality with your videos, enjoyed them

[@WTFtackz]

I've been playing this game since the early days of TBC never have i EVER seen this weapon ingame. Nice video man, gj!

[@kou7191]

I'm surprised Atiesh didn't become the artifact for mages. I mean, we already got iconic weapons like Doomhammer and the Ashbringer.

[@pablosityplays6259]

yeah would make more sense for arcane than cancer aluneth

[@MightyGachiman]

Matt mercer does anice job with the voice acting of aluneth tough. And it has tons of interactions like xal'atath as well. I like it.

[@ksherman51]

because khadgar clearly has it.

[@kou7191]

Ken Sherman Thrall also clearly had Doomhammer before he went emo and ditch it, and Tirion clearly had Ashbringer before his arrogance let himself get killed. It's all about story writing.

[@ksherman51]

Kouya Williams your right...but khadgar didnt ditch it nor has he died a random death , therefore we didnt get it.

[@AkValdar]

Damn, now Hayven is lost to time :( I'll never be able to get a response from him again.

[@pedrogoicouria4635]

This was awesome. I eat this stuff up. Well done video with excellent explanations and detail. LOVED it

[@Bloodrisesx]

Watched Hayven many years ago. Have not watched one of his videos in about 4 to 5 years and this one pops up in 2024. Rest well my friend.

[@ZombieFlameGaming]

you always make me comeback to wow and love to play it like when ever im extremely tierd of the game i watch a few of your videos and BAM im dying to play it xD

[@YvetteUgalde]

I absolutely LOVE your voice - and you definitely have a gift for telling tales and make them amazing!

[@swiv2227]

he is dead,

[@folglaive6458]

This is incredibly well made, subbed !

[@gaara01sabaku]

absolutely fantastic!Congrats,mate!

[@TheRockeur98]

I'm completely amazed by the quality of your video, your explanations are very clear et always captivating ! +1 subscribe

[@ithila6712]

Superb vid......brought back lots of memories. Thank you.

[@cosm.i.n]

Really good video! Thank you for being such an amazing content creator. Keep up the quality work!

[@BaDMrFr0zty]

rip hayven i still watch your video's from time to time.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Hey Hayven! I wanna share with you a little story from vanilla, hope you enjoy it. Back then i was a harcore pvper. I got Marshal tittle on my warlock. I was doing bgs as usual... and one day, i found myself in Arathi Basin, along my hunter friend. We used to play togheter all the time and he achieve Marshal rank same time i did. So there was i, defending the Blacksmith... We had totaly dominated that bg... We had all but the farm... the only one flag the horde had managed to cap... Everything was fine and dandy... until... My friend turned to me (we were playing in the same room)... He was defending Lumber Mill along this gnome warlock... who happened to have full tier 3... and Atiesh... I had seen him when we started the bg... and i knew what Atiesh was... But my friend did not... So he was all confused about WHY this gnome warlock could open portals... and not just that... a portal he did not recognize... My friend had never been outside kharazan in desolace... I tried to warn him... but i was not quick enough... He click the portal... and got ported to Karazhan... leaving the bg... (but hey! he discovered Karazhan!) The gnome was runing around the bg... opening portals to karazhan... and one by one... the people in the group started to leave the bg... because everybody was clicking that misterious new portal... At some point we had only 6 or 7 people in the Ally team... needless to say... we lost... I hate gnomes ever since! Stupid gnome and his shinny Atiesh! :P

[@Snore5]

jose juan andrade Brilliant

[@terrodar19]

Anyone in vanilla with that staff was literally a god. Thats how hard it was to get it

[@_kurco_6190]

Amazing video Hayven! It's very interesting, thanks!

[@bjoern007]

Wow i had no idea it was from Vanilla, thought it was related to the Karazhan raid. Dammit, you always make me wanna go back and play wow again! :)

[@aliclarke9800]

Awesome video. Loved the history behind it thank you

[@EmanS117]

I watched all of these back when he was still with us, watched them leveling during 2019 Classic. And am watching them again during SOD, wish he was here to play with us. R.I.P buddy!

[@AHSeanR]

such a great weapon lost to time, I never looked into it until this video, such a cool questline I never knew existed

[@KeremOzanHan]

The only thing i want from wow

[@StorageYT]

7:12 - It was confirmed that Karazhan was supposed to be the final raid of Vanilla, that explains why. Now I can't give you any proof though, I think Mark Kern said it a while ago on Twitter but I don't have the tweet, and I'm not even 100% sure that this information comes from him. Sorry!

[@HayvenGames]

There has existed versions of the Karazhan raid all the way back since 0.5.3 pre-Vanilla even, but it is a bit strange to me they kept the on-use effect even after the raid was moved to Karazhan. Perhaps they figured Kara would technically follow Naxxramas anyway since Naxx was the last vanilla raid and Karazhan was the first TBC raid, who knows?

[@StorageYT]

Yes I forgot to mention that but that's true, Karazhan was supposed to be T4 after Naxx (Well still T4 in TBC lol but I mean T4 in Vanilla), so Naxx wasn't planned as the last raid, Kara was but got delayed! That should explain the portal perk I guess, to get an instant teleport if you get the staff! as a little bonus.

[@KevinArcade87]

Pink Dawg of Doom Pretty simple.. by the time you have Atiesh there is no content left to defeat since it required you to kill the last boss of Vanilla to obtain. So they added a few extra's as a little flavor. You have no idea how much time a portal to Karazhan has saved me! ;)

[@StorageYT]

Yes I know that lol, I just said there was supposed to be another raid after Naxx but turned out Blizzard decided to postpone Karazhan to TBC, so this staff to me is pretty much a "Gratz for completing the game, and as a reward here's a super broken af item so you can have fun with it" weapon. Kind of the same thing on Spyro the dragon 2 on PS1 when you complete the game to 100%, you get the infinite super fireball, it's technically useless because you don't have anything to do left but that's super fun to go back to the early level and wreck stuff with it. :P

[@tomeekun]

Interesting, I never knew this. I always thought Hellfire Citadel (or an early equivalent of it) would be the last raid, since there was an early version of Hellfiire peninsula in the game and it would've been epic to close Vanilla by actually going through the portal. But then Blizzard thought that going through the portal could be the cornerstone of a whole expansion and so we got TBC. These are obviously all just assumption on my part.

[@broski981]

Apparently only 23 guild cleared Naxx40 in vanilla, so maybe less then 10 atiesh's were obtained during vanilla. Pretty wild. I'm presuming most of the atiesh's obtained was during BC. Apparently, the instance still required a decent amount of people to clear in BC end-game gear, really goes to show how ridiculously tuned Naxx40 was.

[@stevumsirs]

Most guilds clearing naxx finished several by the time tbc came out. We were killing KT pretty early (top 10 world) and working on our 4th atiesh at the end of vanilla. I finished our 3rd and still rock it sometimes :D

[@mentosgott]

I love these lost to history videos, they are awesome. :)

[@brydon10]

That raven effect is amazing. Great video.

[@misaemusic9243]

I miss you Hayven...

[@bogi26x]

I always get this vanilla wow hype when I watch your vids. I cant wait for CF to release, promisngly the most detailed vanilla server there will ever be..

[@Raazerupus]

Nice work dude you even got into Nostalrius twitter with this one :)

[@Gromst3rr]

love your vids man! you create great content!

[@JWSoul]

Really good video mate. I was like just clicking to see and ended up watching.

[@twelvezeros]

Beautiful voice. Such commitment... Rest in peace

[@iceborn698]

This was news for me:) Great video! You take care too.

[@starcraftian5144]

Click Video, Pause. Make a cuppa tea, sit down, enjoy

[@rachelmiller7527]

Proud to say I got this the night before it became unavailable! Great friends helped me get the last piece :)

[@CHRSS111]

I absolutley LOVE the fact that Aran said that when you used the staff. Blizz knew ppl would use it cus of the buff. I want to see more of these details.

[@Min1egen]

One minor error. The auras were different depending on class. +Healing for priests, +Spelldmg for warlocks and mp5 for druids. Other than that nicely done. I've seen this staff a few times, but the most interesting one was a few months after the release of BC when I leveled my hunter. I was in a group to do Slave pens or Underbog, and the healer is wearing full (8/9) set of T3 (Faith) and the legendary staff. I was expecting this to be a real smooth ride but after a few wipes on trash we soon realized that the account had been sold and the new guy in control did not really understand how to heal.

[@adendowd2611]

Hayven made great videos may his soul Rest In Peace. I miss him every day. R.I.P Hayvengames.

[@JWSoul]

What has he passed away?

[@Takeralol]

Amazing video! I love Atiesh

[@mikael2004]

I've only seen this staff late Vanilla and early TBC. Often resto druids who had this on my Vanilla realm Skullcrusher EU. Haven't thought about that staff until I saw this video. Nostalgic, nice one :)

[@cyborg-mark-vi]

I liked the emotes you did with your character at the end^^

[@DavidPumpernickel]

woohooooo! these sorts of weapons are why i cannot wait for legacy servers in a couple weeks!

[@FatScotishguy]

I cant wait for the fresh start server!

[@silverspear21]

It will take you about a year to get this staff. Good luck if you do get it. If it takes you any less then these legacy servers are not really legacy.

[@DavidPumpernickel]

saw the notifications and was like "oh no I've started a shitstorm haven't I? Thank god lol.

[@dhaub7174]

Most vanilla servers don't even make it to Naxx

[@puka_tsv]

Thanks for your work

[@Anaomilfairbanks]

I like how you showed a mage when you said players would get a quest after making the frame big lol

[@blakecody8524]

i just found your channel and im really liking it so far

[@jereg]

Got it on my priest, too bad I can't transmog my staff into it but still always keep it in my bags.

[@FrmerK20]

Can you link ur armory and show me

[@KevinArcade87]

Jesper Danielsson Nirron Ravencrest(EU) has it

[@FrmerK20]

Kevin De Bondt cant find the armory

[@Kevumse]

eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/Ravencrest/Nirron/simple

[@KevinArcade87]

That's me :)

[@joshguenther]

Wonderful video as always.

[@PlayerSalt]

I miss you Hayven

[@Mantschgo]

classic wow had such nice lore

[@ghostwolf6666]

RIP Hayven

[@matthewgowenlock199]

This is amazing. Thanks man!!

[@BaDMrFr0zty]

my buddy mage has this and i didnt know how epic it really is he never braged or anything about it but used it to port to kara i was amazed

[@Zetunez]

Rest in peace, and thank you for the videos.

[@julianatanasov5601]

What happened?

[@Zetunez]

He passed away from cancer unfortunately.

[@julianatanasov5601]

Jeez. So sorry to hear that! :(

[@GetExcited]

love it dude, keep it up!

[@kawaniGaming]

"You will not be forgotten brother."

[@latui7350]

Such an interesting video! Thank you so much for the information.

[@julius_1200]

Amazing, as always !!

[@josephpettinato9968]

Great content as always.

[@Andreas-ig1pg]

Great video, can u do Corrupted Ashbringer next? the epic vanilla one.

[@HayvenGames]

Thank you! I do talk about the Corrupted Ashbringer in my Evolution of Ashbringer video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJbEaGSQnamtkJY

[@timmeh15]

Great vid! Subscribed.

[@jacklacotte4212]

Dope video, as always

[@omff6329]

Reins of the Astral Cloud Serpent dropped during this video, thanks.

[@TheMaxMD]

Still have it on my mage

[@Ginson17]

Very high quality video!