My Most EPIC Raiding Experience in World of Warcraft...

[@Awestorm]

Icecream Citadel?

[@NixxiomOnYouTube]

Yes.

[@huuminbloodborn7570]

is it vanilla?

[@jaredmills6393]

i Scream Citadel

[@guymiles1892]

no, this is wrath of the lich king

[@huuminbloodborn7570]

the joke.Your head

[@IamNemoN01]

My most memorable experience was . . . on some boss in Siege of Ogrimmar. I can't remember which boss it was, but I remember the experience. . . Like many guilds, our raid leader called out when to wipe on a boss. It's faster to just let yourself die when you KNOW you can't win - and that way everyone can get back and try again. . . On this particular boss, everyone was dying, and only a few people were left. The raid leader called out "Just wipe." The boss still had a good amount of health left though, yet it was low enough that everyone kept fighting anyway. But one by one, the team members fell in death. Finally, all that was left standing was me and my healer. I was on my Protection Paladin, and the healer was one of the guild leaders. The team leader was still calling out for us to wipe it. But I called out to my healer "All my cooldowns are just about to reset! Just keep me alive for a couple minutes!" As you can imagine, that few minutes seemed to take forever. And my healer was exhausting her mana to keep me alive. I kept calling out the time on my coldowns as I whittled away at the boss's health. Finally, as soon as my cooldowns were up, I popped ALL my damage cooldowns! Back then protection pallies had several damage boosters that all stacked together to give massive damage - and a lot of people didn't know that they stacked - each giving a percentage boost to the other abilities, and to each other-I had tested them and figured out that all the percentage boosters stacked on each other. I popped all my damage cool downs, and I did MASSIVE amounts of damage - I was doing enough damage that you could SEE the Boss's health bar going down. At this point the group leader had stopped telling us to wipe, and he was totally silent, because it was so close that he wasn't sure if I still had a chance or not. I did the best damage rotation ever! And then my damage output fell back to normal. However, I still hadn't popped ANY of my defensive cooldowns. I kept fighting as I let my health go down to close to nothing. Knowing my healer's mana was about to run out I told her to stop healing me for a little while, and just before I was about to die I popped my LAY ON HANDS and brought my health back up to 100%. My healer and I continued to fight, as I popped more of my own defensive cooldowns. . . And then, with health to spare, the boss dropped before his rage timer. There was a silence in the Ventrilo channel. And then everyone started cheering. Everyone wanted to know HOW I got such a massive burst of damage. And I explained the method of my rotations. I had been raiding with that group for a few years at this point. I started out as a Retribution Paladin. And the guild leader asked me a year before this to switch to Protection, telling me that she thinks I would do really good at it. And I was almost always the last man standing. But after that day people spoke about me as if I was the best Protection Paladin they had ever met. And of course this made me feel good. . . . There is another raiding story though that no one ever let me live down. . . That was the time I accidentally switched action bars in the middle of a boss fight and hearthstoned back to my Garrison. :p

[@owenbisal8007]

that's was actually a pretty good story

[@rumplstiltztinkerstein]

sweet!

[@InsomniacMom]

I'm not going to lie, that story was furking epic, lol.

[@IamNemoN01]

Adûnâi Our 2nd raid leader was also the healer. :) Best guild I was ever in too. Paying it Forward, Hyjal US Server. Several other guilds have merged with ours over the years, so there are two main raid leaders (our primary raid leader is a man though), and several raid groups catering to all levels of raiding (ultra casual to hard core).

[@Infernal_Elf]

This story is Amazing. i Get impressed by people pretty much soloing in Dungeon but in a raid thats just Mindblowing.

[@Yesterday2233]

-First MC Raid Ever -Called sick into Work, super siked to raid. -Raid Started at 6PM -First pull was at 9:30PM (had to fill slots) and wiped to first giants two giants -People leave -10PM GM calls it.

[@NixxiomOnYouTube]

I have a lot of exciting things on the way... Two new machinima videos for starters. Coming soon! Until then, enjoy my story. :)

[@dennishagen1679]

Love you Nixxiom!! 😀 (no homo)

[@mishasuxitashvili1076]

DO WELCOME TO ORGRIMMAR!

[@epicdude2377]

Nixxiom thicc

[@alexluzanov654]

Nixxiom working late, eh? 2 am

[@NixxiomOnYouTube]

I work throughout the evenings, yeah. I usually work from 10pm to 6am. I'm a big night owl.

[@charleighkimber4611]

I can't remember which (original) Karazhan boss... I went in as a Boomkin on a 10-man raid. The tank made an error halfway through the fight and got crushed, immediately followed by a DPS and a healer. I shifted to bear form and took over tanking, managed to fit a Rebirth in on the tank between boss swings, then switched to heals and got her up and took pressure off the suffering remaining healer. Filled every function in one boss fight, and we won. Annnnd the next week the guild had no idea who I was. O.o

[@tytinahoutepen5012]

I miss those nerd screams after a night of wiping on a boss. xD

[@thirteenpixelz7365]

REEEEEEEEEEEE

[@vanjamaric5255]

Me too

[@KinachiVR]

my guild had that with finishing antorus on heroic

[@ericsilaghi1759]

My best experience was when i killed LFR Gul'Dan

[@NixxiomOnYouTube]

Holy shit.

[@ericsilaghi1759]

Just so u know,my comment is ironic

[@Wtfboomdps]

Damn. I'm still progressing through LFR. So far I have cleared 4/10 LFR. I thought I was making good progress but people have already killed Gul'Dan? ...Damn.

[@summoningdragonillustrated]

After 2 hours of wipes on that I praised the Gods of Blizzard that my set piece dropped and I never had to come back to that...

[@Ra2z1]

Last boss of return to karazhan and normal guldan would be my top

[@yaboimaniak2416]

mine was when I killed illidan alone

[@lorenzokrumm7611]

At level 110

[@pro2gamer]

The most epic raiding story I have? Well, sit tight, young ones, and be ready to listen to the most stupid, brainless carry you'll ever hear. Setting: Private Server (sorry blizz, I bought all the expac tho D=), Argent Tournament had just opened, my mate and his guild were attempting it when they were missing a few people for the 25. So they pugged a few DPSs, and my mate decided to bring me and try this new thing called raiding that I've done like... once before. The poor fellas let me try, saying that if I died too much or early or did very little DPS they'd pug me out. Standard procedure happens, not much goes wrong. *_Until Icehowl_* Oh boy. So the leader asks if everyone had the Medallion of the Horde, to cleanse the stun and safely stun him... Well, I surely didn't have it. The leader grumbles but hey, 25-men.. So we start, things get pulled, DPS DPS DPS, and the moment comes. *_Uh-oh_* He's comin' for me. Oh well, I'm a mage, no biggie. *_(panic Ice blocks)_* _Safe, resume DPS!_ The fight continues. Another crash comes. *_Oh sweet lord. 25 people in the arena. 25.. Why me._* Welp, ice block is down. He's coming. What do?... I'm my young, stupid and n00bish panic stupor I have just one idea. I start running _towards_ Icehowl. Yep. I click my /y Leeroy macro I used to meme around and I just *_blink through Icehowl!_* Not to the left, not to the right------*_through him!_* _Safe!_ My mate told me that the voice chat was just melting with laughter that moment and I get a wisp from the leader saying good job. Well, I didn't screw it for a change! Another crash. *_WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU, DO I HAVE A TARGET ON MY HEAD?_* Another casual blink through him, no biggie, resume DPS. Another Crash, last one by his HP. *_Not me woooo!_* *_Someone dies_* ....Ah. We killed him. We survived him. And afterwards. Jaraxxus. Boy we got REKT. So this try we were down some people, fire lol, and we are getting low on people with a brain interrupting the fire balls and stuff. So, the situation is critical. Incoming fire ball, damage buff is up, my mate and another dude are dual healing like mad men, my counterspell is on CD, _we gunn wipe!!_ _Well... I noticed at the last second that for some freaking reason I could spellsteal the damage buff....._ _And now I'm top DPS. And boss has no buff._ _And the raid leader just /rw WTF IS GOING ON_ _And we kill him._ ....And that, my friends, is how Papa Fulken got into his first Raiding Guild, without meeting any gearscore requirements, DPS minimums or even needing to apply.

[@gleenfales]

Holy shit dude

[@stonechad_squirtle]

Amazing

[@deamonsong7068]

I used to get pelled into that raid by big guilds on our server just to interrupt juraxxis. Dk mind freeze was perfect for it. Good times.

[@juliane.mfarias9285]

Hahahaha! Ah, your story killed me

[@jazzybrain1940]

I first played in wotlk, but i didnt hit level cap until Catclysm came out. I got to 85 on my rogue, and my father who played with me invited me to do firelands for the first time. my item level was really bad, but I kept it to myself so I wouldnt embarrass myself with my guildies. I didn't win any gear drops in that raid since rogues were so limited on gear back then, and I was getting kind of frustrated. the moment we tried the final boss (i forget his name) we wiped pretty fast, but we didn't give up. the moment we downed that boss holds a special place in my heart because it was my first raid with my guildies, and I was craving that feeling of getting involved with the raid groups, after all they had known me since I was a tiny 8 year old learning to play a weird RPG my dad was playing. Guild members become family after some time, you know? its a great feeling.

[@CosmicAlliance03]

My dad took me with his guild on raid night to do Icecrown Citadel when I was like. 8 or 9. Coolest experience of my WoW history, playing my Unholy DK and taking down the Lich King with my dad? Nothing beats that feeling.

[@markrichardson3687]

Hey man i was healsforless in choas theory

[@markrichardson3687]

I think i remember you coming in

[@draven4897]

Reported for promoting terrorism

[@ivaniliev3554]

This guild still exist, but on a private server. I only know that there is guild called Chaos Theory on Warmane, Lordaeron realm.

[@sarthari0n49]

Yeah, there is a guild called chaos theory on lordaeron but i doubt its the same people

[@7e8dn3id]

Iwan Iliew Theres a Chaos Theory on Elysium (vanilla wow) as well

[@Saint_Ajax]

Too bad Molten (warmane) sucks in terms of appealing to non WotLk players tbh.

[@IamNemoN01]

There are currently 52 guilds named Chaos Theory on live. Apparently it's not a very unique name. The one Nixxium was in could be either of them, or none of them. However, my guilds Pluribus Unum and Avant-Garde seem to be rather unique. Avant-Garde was intended to be my PVP guild, but I ended up turning it into a second bank guild when we formed a Rated PVP group with my raiding guild.

[@novocaine4630]

Iwan Iliew you play there? Crap, remember Warsong and how good that was? I was one of the best healers there, Druidakai

[@НиколайСыч-м1г]

I was tanking lich king without keyboard, that suddenly broke just after Arthas's speech, but I nailed it

[@angrychicken2874]

My best raiding experience happened in... Damn, I don't even have one

[@Blazieth]

My epic raiding moment actually came in Siege of Orgrimmar, finally beating Garrosh on Flex difficulty. The reason this became my most epic moment, was because this happened on our last attempt of the night. This happened on a Monday. This happened very late in the evening. This happened on the Monday before the Tuesday Patch that removed Siege of Orgrimmar's Ahead of the Curve achievement. That was the day I got my Kor'kron War Wolf, and we pulled it off at quite literally the last possible moment.

[@gotchakid2248]

Im in tears i got alot of these "finally we beat this" moments with my guild and i miss that haha

[@CronostheStray]

Oh i experienced the same Vent-freakouts during BC, we were low hear, but somehow managed the bosses and it was soooo much fun! I really loved it. My best experience was during that time too. Don't remember which boss it was, but it was really hard for us and he was low and we were about to all wipe. Then suddenly while i was tanking with my Druid, one of the guys in Vent yells out, "i'll taunt, you combatress the healer druid." It started a chain reaction! The healer combatressed the other tank, Our Priest used the Soulstone we had on him incase of a wipe, the Shaman just got back his reincarnation, the Paladin who taunted bubbled, healed himself and started again on his dps rotation and we somehow managed a boss we were really struggling with with just 6 people. It wasan incredible "what is hapening!" moment that i and some of the others remember to this day.

[@easy9835]

Same Nixxiom, I never did icecream citadel too

[@owenbisal8007]

icecream citadel

[@nino8256]

Big Head Gaming I did Icecream Citadel, it’s pretty.... *TASTY*

[@VsevolodKhusid]

I started WoW in Legion, so I don't have much to tell. First epic moment was when I went to Mythic Court of stars. Dungeon leader had key for extra mobs cleaning, extra health for them and 30 minutes for the battle. So, we went through first two bosses, dying now and then, I found the spy when we had like 5 minutes and while Elisande had her dialogue with last boss, and I /flirted with her, when I suddenly got an achievement "watch your words" or whatever for hearing dialogue. Just fun coincidence. Anyway, we started the fight at 1.5 minutes. Healer lost connection for a moment, so only one DD (or tank, I don't remember) managed not to wipe. And the countdown was ending, while the last of us was fighting. We already new, that we've lost, boss had 10000 health and in no way that person could kill the boss in time. But he still fought, managing to stay alive. And the time was like 15 seconds, when boss was down to 2000. And suddenly hope appeared, that all of our sacrifices, all of our deeds were not in vain. And just at the moment, when the time has ended - literally at 1 second left - the boss was down.

[@aaronprice4626]

The feeling of downing a raid boss, that you and you're guildies have worked on for weeks, for the first time is magical. The FEELS man. I have not raided in years (Kara / ZA) but I will never forget the excitement. Ears being blown out thru the headphones when everyone cheers. Wouldn't trade some of those moments for anything. I wish WoW gave out that kind of joy these days.

[@Roflmao1k]

Killig Lady Vashj for the first time was so special, we had a hunter that just could not kite and kill the elementals and shit that comes from the water below the stairs. After like 8 times of him fucking up and our GM getting more and more pissed. The hunter eventually cracked and started crying in vent, but it wasn't over. They saw that I managed my adds with no problem, so I (14 years old)(lying about age to join the big boy guild, standard;)) had to explain exactly how I did it, I felt the preassure so I told him in my broken english how i did it. So we tried again and he did what i told him so we got Vashj to 2% it was looking bad. But guess who was there to save the day? Me and the hunter finished that bitch like pros. The legendary nerd roar was unforgetable, they gave me the bow free, no -dkp. Damn I miss that time in WoW.

[@smarttroll6065]

Lol

[@roguedruid9950]

haha nice :D

[@manaeth]

PRETTYBOY A.R.K. :O

[@somebody9112]

I joined a guild and Vashj was my test raid, hadn't even cleared t4 content before. Aaand we got the server 3rd kill. Aaaand I got belt of the hhundred deaths or whatever it was called cause rogues were saving for tier pieces. Belt was best in expansion. Most epic raid was Tempest Keep endboss first kill. Solid yelling for 10 minutes.

[@AndrejTelisman]

That is point of every group challenge, when is heart and soul invested, not just ambition and "one more boss done fast". Ty on remanding us on true values.

[@liamharkin6134]

my most epic moment was finding other players to play with in this single player game.

[@blastazoidgaming9144]

Liam Harkin there are other players in this game? wtf

[@MsCleverable]

What an awesome story. I remember our vent freakout back in Rag days, screaming, crying and it was awesome. We were a small guild not hardcore and we musta been doing it for six months. Great feeling, many happy memories.

[@3HeartLimit]

I had just joined this raiding guild and they were doing a icc10 man run. I was a resto shaman and they really wanted me to go so I did. My computer at the time wasn't so great but I could do 10 man's just fine. I knew all the fights pretty well and apparently a lot of people that came didn't because they were new members (there was two guilds basically this one was the gearing and learning guild) we get in don't have trouble until professor putris. We wiped the first time and we came back in and went again. We got him down to 5% and he enrages. Kills the tanks, starts killing the DPS. I quickly lay down a searing totem and started running to the other side of the room hitting flameshock and lavaburst I then proceeded to use my nature's swiftness to instant cast lightning bolt landing the kill. I wouldn't think this was as impressive if not the fact of me being a restoration shaman who managed to survive and kill the boss.

[@blabberhoof]

I had several gooseflesh-moments in my raiding time in WoW... first time was back in Vanilla on my rogue when we raided the core and suddenly Executus and Ragnaros started to talk. Second time I was all goosebumpy and "omygodomygodomygod" was when FINALLY the second binding of the windseeker dropped - just a couple of weeks before BC launched and I just wanted to do "for old times sake" a quick random MC-run. And the third really emotional raid experience was when my raidgroup cleared Naxxramas and got the "dedicated few" and "undying" achievement in one run (and keep in mind - my raidgroup was about as professional as yours, Nixxiom. Really nice people, but nothing I'd describe as dedicated raider, they played - and some still do - just for fun, not for epics, not for achievements, just something to keep them entertained - even if it's wiping all evening). The best WoW moments I had with people who just enjoyed the group experience and not that last percent on the dps-meters for an encounter. It's the people who make the game great, not some exchangeable pixels that become obsolete after the next patch.

[@allylilith5605]

Soloing a Boss in lfr for 20 minutes as blood dk while all the others died because they stood in shit and complain that you won't die xD

[@mikecoble2001]

I do that on my warrior tank. I've kept him at 100 for wod stuff but I did all the legion quests that yield ilvl 800 gear (4 items) and ilvl 715 PvP gear...a bit over geared but still fun to basically solo bosses in WoD heroics

[@DeathskinJr]

I had a very similar experience in vanilla. We had been stuck on Ragnaros in MC for months on end and every time we went in with a ton of dedication and enthousiasm but we never managed to bring him down.. until we did. Ventrilo/TS chat literally exploded, everyone was screaming and celebrating, taking screenshots of our raid group infront of Rag and dancing with his corpse. It was amazing. I’ll never forget that, and that was over 10 years ago now..

[@glorii001]

I like how the beginning of all Nixxioms stories starts with a guy told me in trade chat...

[@Flassius]

Awesome story. My best moments were also in wrath. I have quit the game a long time ago (in cata), but I still remember these fondly. Unfortunately I don't remember the guild name, but like you said, we were experiencing the raids for the first time together. 1. Ignis the Furnace Master in Ulduar (10 man I think) - people were dying in the last part of the fight, the tank died and I was one of the last remaining dps. The raid leader kept yelling my name (Datar, Datar) - I used Mirror Image and dropped aggro, and then got to kill the boss. I was one of the last people alive, if not the last one. There was a video on youtube, I will try to find it for the nostalgia. 2. Anub'arak in TOC (10 Heroic) - we wiped a lot on this boss because in the last phase he was draining life and the dps needed to burn him down faster than he could heal, it was a hard fight for the healers because they didn't need to heal us too much and also not let us die. We finally killed him after many, many wipes, it was very late, I think we agreed that that would be our last try. We were ecstatic screaming and jumping around. He drops the Swift Horde Wolf (I think it was 100% drop rate then, now I'm not sure). We roll for the mount, somebody rolls 96 and I roll a perfect 100. So I got the mount - I was shaking for excitement. That was my most epic raiding moment.

[@MilosAndric123]

that is the point of the game and guilds in general. Glad u had this experience. 🙂

[@zoltansaged]

I joined a new guild in BC, started raiding for the first time, and over the coarse of BC and through wrath I worked my way up to being a healing officer, it became my job to insure all of my healers were prepared with what they needed and to have knowledge of each healing spec at the time. During ulduar it came to a point to reward a healer with the val aynir mace fragments. with a vote of 11-1 between our officers and healers (could not vote for yourself) I was awarded the mace shards. its a good feeling to be liked so well that the other healers wanted me to have it before anyone else.

[@Memzcano12]

Hey nixxiom. What software do you use for your video editings and such as adding text etc to your videos?

[@UNDERDOGOD]

For me too, my best raiding experience was in Naxx during Wrath, not because of the content, but because the guild I ran it with was a hub of some of the coolest and funnest people I had ever met. We were a casual bunch always looking to have a good time. I remember a few of them had a lot of trouble getting past the slimes after killing the abomination boss due to lag, and I used to teabag them whenever they died. The cries of laughter on vent and the fear of getting teabagged each raid became a staple of the experience for us. I remember I did die once in the process of getting a good teabagging in, and the whole raid proceeded to enact their vengeance on my corpse. Real Men Wear Pink on Scarshield Legion will always hold a place in my heart :) Valgabraath remembers!

[@Stephensouraski]

Great times, kinda makes me sad knowing I will never experience something like that again.

[@zoltansaged]

I have so many memories from raid nights since I started back in BC, but there was one point I can never forget. Back in wrath when Ulduar came out my guild that I had been in for years at that point had a vote on which healer would receive Val' anyr the healing legendary, and when the first piece dropped it was given to me with our guild leader posting the results, the only other healer that got voted was the person I voted for since they didn't want us voting on ourselves. To be well liked enough for 35+ raiders to all vote for me above anyone else, to be the one to receive a item that took the whole guild to complete, filled me with so much emotion. I can never forget that feeling even if the guild has been gone for so many years now.

[@SacredBlazeXxX]

That akward moment when you belong to a guild called Chaos Theory on the EU realms

[@MrJohnnyg72]

I also started in BC, but Naxx was the first raid I completed as a group in which nobody had ever done it. Nothing more satisfying than beating a raid for the first time with a group of good friends.

[@bangroji]

We dont need being a pro to enjoy the game. WoW always gives you the impression like this. Even in Legion, whatever noob dificulty they made it.....the feeling still the same. I had left WoW from long time ago, but seeing my friend killing Kil'jaeden 2 days ago in raid finder or whatever he call for first time, is just awesome. Even i dont play it anymore, just light my cigar and drawn to the game by just watching it, is still awesome.

[@ryanharris7891]

That was Bants in my guild, the tanks loved to test people's reaction time with tail swipe

[@Brother-Caliber]

"Everything was too easy!" "The PvP was inbalanced!" isn't this a huge chunk of modern WoW? lmao

[@Maddinhpws]

Nahh modern WoW is way better in that regard. Like PvP was so much shit in Wotlk at the beginning. The Paladin became a living meme. "For years I did no damage, now it is time for RETRIBUTION!". Like they pretty much oneshotted everyone in PvP. For example when playing as a caster. A Paladin could instant CC you from 30 meters away for 30 seconds. In that time they strolled towards you and hit you like a truck. Then they used their stun that lasted for 6 seconds (no joke, they had a 6 second stun on a 1 minute cooldown) and just bursted you down in the first 3 of it. And the raiding experience was in that form different, that you had nothing like a heroic or mythic mode. Like it was pretty much on the level of todays heroic mode, maybe a bit easier stat wise. But you had no harder difficulty. Nowadays you could at least have the actual hard raids aka. the mythic raids going. Also the only real raid at that time was Naxxramas and everyone and their mother knew how Naxxramas worked because every raid leader played classic.

[@TheDrasgon]

So, here's my / our Story, since yours was kinda touching :3 Back in WoD, me and 2 Reallife friends of mine created a guild and started to build it up. We found an insane amount of members. Everyone was happy. As Legion was released, we ran to maxlevel in a comfortable group and began farming gear in the end. Then, Emerald Nightmare were opened. We had a hard time to get into things, because it was a fresh group and no one really has seen any mechanics. Also, me as a guild and raid leader had to learn a lot from this point. About 3 weeks later, Xavius NH was down and we freaked out like you did :D Another 2 weeks later, we cleared Heroic. This was the best feeling i've ever had, since some people left the guild before. They "wanted to make progression in mythic raiding". But they didn't. Not even to this day. We had a hard time with ToV, as some members had to quit the game for some time. As we rebuilt, Helya was killed in the 3rd try. Everyone was going like crazy, since every random said "Helya is fucking hard". The atmosphere is insanely comfortable today. We went through Nighthold in our own speed and just enjoyed the game. Also some hilarious things happened, that made our bond even stronger. Today, randoms say "I've never experienced such an amazing guild raid". We all have come a really long way. Especially, that we continued to try. That's what counts - instead of some "Sick mythic progression"

[@JamesLee-ry9dr]

For real a few years ago in wrath. I started in on a shared account with my family. I thought my dad was like the best player and could carry the raid with his characters cause at the time his gear was actually very good. Until much later, I realized that my dad was actually a pretty big noob for clicking, back stepping, not using buffs, and playing a hunter.

[@Zebtal]

James Lee oh hell yea.. all my friends in rl are backpaddler and mainly clickers ... :D It gives me cancer when i watch them playing hahah

[@MegaSantaclaude]

The environment in a casual raiding guild is the best you can find. Ive been a part of a few over the years and that feeling and atmosphere there were on vent where people screamed in excitement into their mic after finally beating a boss is beyond legendary. I would take a casual raiding guild with members who might not kill so many bosses, but who become close to family over a hardcore guild any day. We had a guy called Sportacus in a guild I was in during wotlk, and we always joked around with his name because of a Lazy Town reference. It didnt even matter if we didnt get far into a raid, because we always had fun taking the piss of eachother.

[@sandroguzelj1234]

the day i fucking got invincible. ever since then its the only mount my dk uses

[@possiblygayradish8199]

its truly amazing how long ive been subbed to Nixx ive watched every vid and never got tired of him

[@Fakecake34]

you know its funny, Nixxiom sorta looks like Skallargim.

[@NixxiomOnYouTube]

That man has an epic beard, especially when he braids and beads it. Be still my beating heart...

[@loopylad4722]

One of my favourite memories was back in Wrath. The RP wipe on the Lich King, our healer on vent went mental, he thought it was a genuine wipe, while he was kicking off all you heard was guild screaming at him not to release.

[@bradmaxwell7354]

DID YOU JUST CALL A FROST WYRM A DRAGON

[@ryancatt5077]

Brad Maxwell they are dragons, just dead blue ones

[@bradmaxwell7354]

no he needs to delete the video and start over. or I'm literally reporting this video for misleading content

[@ryancatt5077]

Why?

[@ryancatt5077]

Dude come on it's his channel he can post why ever the fuck he wants 😂

[@greenchilistudioz4537]

it used to be male blue dragon but now frost wyrm, technically nixxiom is correct to call him dragon

[@Fishbeaverduck]

My best raiding memory was back in vanilla, in my very first raiding guild. I was a noob when I joined and the guild had just started progressing in Molten Core, and when we took down Ragnaros a few weeks after that... Man, the intensity and the sheer joy was unparraleled.

[@ZalaFM]

People were doing backflips, hahahahah

[@MbBadd]

The voice celebration after a boss drop is magical. My favorite moment was ahead of the curve achieve in Highmaul with my group.

[@OrcBit]

I member! Some of my most epic experiences were first C'Thun Kill, first 4HM, frist Sapp and First lady vashj oh the member berries! :D

[@DJ_Treu]

My favorite was realizing we had a GM in our guild because he was venting about work on vent (Lol) and mentioned needing to fill a quota or he wouldnt get his bonus and our Raid leaders bugged to help him and he told us he was a bug tester GM and was drawing a blank but the game obviously wasnt without bugs or exploits. We set up an event where we filled a guild bank with Leather balls, And one day; We went into Stormwind...And we filled peoples bags while they were at the mailbox, the auction house, etc. Needless to say Leather balls got changed to unique to avoid griefing people while theyre looting and stopping them from herbing and such (Before we had individualized mats) was funny af. Anetheron Dauntless (realm/Guild)

[@nerulon089]

I wish I could start over wow and have that feeling when I created my first character :( Now I'm just jumping and running around in dalaran.. :S

[@grimyceilingtile]

My very first run through Ulduar, I finished off Yogg Saron solo. I was a wee little DK then and I remember everyone in our voice comms rooting me on and yelling and screaming that I could do it. I finished him off and everyone just burst into cheers and I just felt like a hero. Honestly, it made me tear up a bit. One of my fondest memories of raiding. Never will forget that moment.

[@matsen1153]

"Never stop going big dick" -Asmongold

[@Olkard]

I like these kinds of videos where people tell their favorite experiences. Makes me a little disappointed I didn't join a guild and have these kind of moments. I was such a pussee back then. My first raiding experience was the Eye of Eternity during Cataclysm (I know). I was a fresh level 80 and couldn't level any higher since I didn't have Cataclysm yet, and saw a group advertising an Eye of Eternity run. I asked for an invite and, surprisingly, they said yes. Needless to say, under geared and completely clueless, I was killed almost immediately, but just being part of that raid and watching them take down the boss is something that I'll never forget. It really introduced me to raiding. Shortly after, I purchased Catalcysm and have played it ever since. I tried my best-ish to get into raiding, but once I got to max level, I just found myself either doing PvP or leveling alts. >.

[@zilvis1140]

ice cream citadel xd :) laughted hard as fuck

[@vorios6731]

I thought i heard wrong lol

[@VeggehGaming]

Best raiding experience was actually the two weeks before patch 3.0 hit. I was a raid leader (a position I hated), in a guild still largely in Tier 4, progressing slowly because despite the guilds average size we had trouble getting enough people online for 25-man raids. Top guilds on the server were selling mount runs in Zul'Aman as you'd expect since they were removing the mount as a reward. Instead, I asked the servers top guild if they had any pointers so that I could try and squeeze out a mount with my own guild despite not really being the ideal gear level for it. They were actually kind enough to give my alt a free tour of a cleared instance lock and guide me through the entire strategy even though I DC'ed about 20 times during it. I took those notes and came up with a plan and a roster with backups and invited those members to be a part of the 3 lockouts in that final week. Putting that plan into action was incredible. We didn't get the mount due to some unfortunate wipes on the final run that we couldn't afford but went ahead with the instance as if we hadn't, taking into account the downtime from wipe recovery. Had we not wiped we were on track for that mount on that final run. It was a bittersweet yet wonderful moment of what could have been yet what we had achieved when so comparatively under-geared. I will never forget those two weeks. And I still have those notes somewhere, nearly 10 years later. I did actually get in contact with the guy from the top-end guild and informed him of the results and thanked him. I got an invite to that guild that day. And turned it down. But I'm still grateful to that guy for his patience with me during that tour. He gave me what I needed to have what is still one of my best gaming experiences in nearly 27 years.

[@MrLiveYourLife55]

Why he said "don't forget ret palas at start of wotlk" ?

[@ryancatt5077]

MrLiveYourLife55 they fucked all the shit up before they balanced out classes

[@afatpaws]

Ret Pallys were basically unkillable

[@Janlingchen]

Eddie 'JaggSauce' Gluskin yeah even as pala myself at that time I though that was ridiculous. Insane substain and dmg even with low gear. It blew my mind that that kind of dmg was possible for a pala. I laughed like a maniac at bg because no one could stop the palas.

[@mintyfish8652]

My best time in a raid was in a very old guild. We were big amateurs, tbh! We went through ICC and wiped SO MANY TIMES on the Lich King. But, no matter how many times we wiped, we had lots of fun goofing around. No one raged, everything was smooth, and everyone was very forgiving. That's what I call an epic raiding experience.

[@ruedestrae8199]

#NotToddsFault

[@BennyDYT1]

Love the story, cause it describes how LIFE itself goes... The reason you had so much fun and enjoyed that moment when you all got those bosses down was because of how much effort and how many tries you did to achieve that. You simply wanted it so much to be done that it was important enough to make it a proper big event and so it was! ^_^ Where as when you played previously with other guild that was used to this kind of stuff constantly - it lost its magic, they already expected to kill everything without a problem, no issues, no hard stuff and therefore no reason to celebrate in such a scale... THAT is a difference between - appreciation after a hard work and fun and moments that are simply just too easy or take no effort at all. It is basically like when someone is given like a car - Woo... cool i guess... MEANWHILE another person is saving up for years to buy a car and finally gets it " The emotions are absolutely out of the charts " compared to the other person that was being given that car. So it is really beautiful what such a difference can make in great scheme.

[@themanfromutopia4743]

Mouse cursor at 1:54. Nixxiom you're not even trying anymore, get out.

[@themanfromutopia4743]

Look in the upper edge

[@jensohlendorffbrnd7125]

A Very Cool Dude theres a much more obvious one at 5:29

[@themanfromutopia4743]

Nixxiom should just delete his channel right now

[@corygonzalez7688]

I know I'm late, but. It was heroic EN I think, and we were killing the Dragons of nightmare. I was a ret paladin, doin top 3 dps consistently. The tank swap comes up and one of the tank mistaunts, giving both the dragons to one. My mic goes hot "I've got taunt and bubble, get ready to get this thing off me, tank!" The divine steed whinnys... my character PyrisFactor roars with a taunt! Suddenly I'm being chased down by a dragon as a bear starts mauling the shit out of it to get it off of me. Didn't even need to bubble and we cleared it!

[@zackb544]

Wrath was easy? Seriously? I didn't think so. To be perfectly honest I started in Wrath and I have a lot of wonderful memories from that time. So that probably colors my opinion. For raid awesome moments I don't have many, more for dungeons. Such as when my Warlock solo'ed Hela in a heroic dungeon. I was admittedly over-geared for it, but still. Then you have all of the instances where my DK tank was just solo'ing stuff until everyone ran back or similar. I guess that's pretty badass, however it happens with such frequency and DK's have so many tools to enable that, that I don't think of it as anything special. For raid specific stuff, it'd be the DK tank kicking the shit out of various bosses from Cata and onward. More than a few times I had to use the insane health regen of DK's to stay alive.

[@yoda6379]

Zack B I think he meant compared to vanilla and burning crusade

[@NixxiomOnYouTube]

Compared the BC and Vanilla early Wrath was super simple, which is why many called it "Wrath of the Casual King" until Ulduar came out. You could pug Naxx no problem, Vault was a joke, Malygos was meh, and really the only hard mode you had at that time was Sarth 3 Drakes. Even a lot of machinima people back then began to tease Blizzard about it. Later on though, after Ulduar's release, the expansion really shined.

[@IsmaelMGRogueSubtlety]

Nixxiom Naxxramas WotLK world first in only 2 days

[@hennibsdp9528]

Zack B WotLK was easy.. WotLK was when the game got made for the casuals. WoW changed for good, and a lot of people believe it's because Blizzard signed a contract with Activision right before WotLK launched... the game felt like it tried to apeal to everyone, and not just the MMORPG players. They even added the WoWShop that expansion -_- The only thing I liked about that expansion, was the story, the cinematics and the PvP :) WotLK didn't just change WoW as game, but it changed the whole MMORPG genre as a whole... and you can see it. WoW: TBC was the last "good" MMORPG in my opinion... I did have fun in WoW: WotLK despies all the changes, and I still have! But sometimes I just really miss WoW: Vanilla/TBC

[@yusufboy13]

Wrath is easy, you didn't need anymore resistance gear, in Vanilla and TBC you needed CC in dungeons or your dead.

[@elgvidnir8714]

I want to share a story that is similar to Nixxioms story! :) Naxxramas was easy at that time. I played WoW very casual thorugh Classic and BC (never raid before etc.) before Naxx opened its doors in WotLk. It was a relaxed weekend playing with a friend from school when suddenly a group searching for random members for a Naxx25 raid. I dared to ask and they said instantly "Yes!". It was my first raid experience and the leader of the guild who organized the whole thing asked my friend and me to stay in the guild. "Invulnerable" was the name of the guild and we have a female raid leader and guild chief from Switzerland. We played Ulduar, the whole Argent tournament thing and finally ICC and after that a few raids in Cata before the guild broke up. Our "guild mom" also broke up with the game but I still visit her once a year in Switzerland for one or two weeks. Our friendship persists until today (8 years after a weird raid-night). I think that WoW can connect different people from different countries in a very beatiful way! Loot is not important. WoW is what you make out of it!

[@Soggy-Poggy]

I think my most epic raiding experience was this expansion, in Legion, at the end of our mythic EN progression. When we finally killed Cenarius we knew that the Xavius kill was only around the corner. The next day we come in, we kill Xavius, and when that realm first guild achievement popped; that was definitely the most epic feeling. The raid's chat channel (/1 inside the raid) instantly erupted with the spam of Grats! and even my whisper window filled to the rafters with congratulations from people who I didn't even know! It was truly the most awesome feeling, to know that the hard work we spent on that progress had paid off, and the reward was 100% worth it.

[@Julmara]

throne of thunder iron quon did the last 3% on the boss was so damn awesome im never gonna forget that moment :D

[@rmadzharov]

The Secret World NY raid when the lurker casts the shadow out of time..' the atmosphere it creates..' amazing!!!

[@kodeekupcs]

I'm very new when it comes to world of warcraft but i really enjoy your machinima's and other playthroughs and you really inspired me to purchased and play the game myself. I've never raided in WOW but I have raided in other games like Destiny. My story is when I was doing the final boss of the Taken King and it's on hard mode where we can revive or respawn. We had to wipe over 15 times over the damn thing, because of the freaking long complicated and stupid mechanics, but when he drifted off into space as his heart explodes and his screams echo through the halls of the craft, my 6 man group fucking yelled to the top of their lungs in laughter and in such glory. we all really didn't care about the loot we got (btw If any destiny players wanna know, He dropped last word for me

[@finndavid5512]

Stories like this are what brings me back to WoW everytime Nixxium :)

[@dysenteryking9034]

that little scenario you made up at the end about the whole 1v1ing the boss with him at like 2% did actually happen to me back in Ulduar vs. Hodir. My guild told my little story to many noobies up until it disbanded.

[@ThePhoenixAffinity]

in MoP, i was on my 80 doing blood infusion for shadowmourne, i was an 80 dk. i had 10-15 level 90's with me. i completed the required quest and all i needed to do was kill the boss for it to complete. the other 14 or so people died when the boss was at 1%, and my 80 dealt the killing blow to an ICC boss and completed the quest. i had a "mom get the camera" moment lmao

[@SomeoneSneaky]

I started playing right before Wrath was released -- hit 70 during the Scourge invasion, in fact. It took me a while to get into running heroics and raids, but eventually my guild talked me into joining them in Naxx. I figured why not. And it's not a big story, not a 'save the day' or 'soloed the boss' thing but... It was awesome being the one trusted to solo the two Horsemen in the rear, me and my cat, while everyone else took on the front two. I'd have no idea what was happening up front, how things were going, beyond what I could hear on Vent or see in the health bars on the UI. I just had me and my pet switching off, keeping those two from going bonkers and wiping us, while I waited for the group to finish up and come help me. It took a lot of trust for everyone to let me do that the first time -- I thought I could do it, but they weren't sure, so I convinced them to let me try. It worked, so that's how we did it every run from then on.

[@ajaxo85]

For myself, ICC was my first (and last) true progression raiding experience. Started the grind with a low to mid tier guild and we worked our asses off, slowly progressing, gearing up and getting a bit better each week. It was great and I loved the feeling of joint accomplishment when we finally got another down. Sadly the raid team fell on hard times as we all had different times we could commit, so on average we had 1 solid night to go at it, then the rest of the week was near impossible to get everyone online together again. Eventually fell to pieces when the joint leaders out the blue realm and faction hopped and expected others to follow suit. I ended up applying to the top guild of our server (Azuremyst Champions) and the very first raid we roflstomped ICC top to bottom. But I felt like I had cheated myself out of a decent victory, these guys were top end players and had everything on farm mode for some time, so they basically carried me, so it was bittersweet. I wish I had got the kill with 'my guys' but thats just the way the dice lands!

[@petrkovacs3191]

I remember how in 2009 me (Holy Pala) and my two friends (Blood DK and Bala Druid) was running Naxx for the first times. It took us, and the people that were in our raid group (both 10man and 25man) almost a month to learn how to run and kill Heigen.. so many wipes, so many angry people, but when we kiled him we were celebrating like little kinds under a christmas tree. This is my favorite memories from back days when I started raiding. Great times, miss them.

[@TheUkiichris]

My most favourite memory was killing Deathwing on heroic for the first time, dragon soul was my first time raiding ever in any expansion and it felt so good to get the last boss down on the hardest difficulty

[@arcaneoddity]

This sounds a lot like my experiences with the guild I'm currently in. I started raiding only during Legion, never been much of an overachiever in this game tbh, so the fact that this guild consists mostly of casuals with a... sense of real life was just perfect. We attempted EN and we got stuck on Ilgynoth for... I don't even know how many weeks. We just couldn't do it, like you with Saphiron. Was a real relief when we finally made it. By now we're done with Nighthold and looking forward to 7.2 :D

[@kingpt1993]

i rly feel u man . this is what raiding is about

[@Maeata]

My best memory is back in cata. I had been the guild Reapers for awhile and wanted to raid so I became a backup raider. Well one week someone from the main group couldn’t make it so I got to go and raid, and it was amazing. Soon I became part of the main group and when the guild decided to start a second main group my step brother and I became the leaders of it and would run other guild members through raids so they could do the raids. Every once and awhile when we finished a raid we’d have that one player who this was his first raid and hearing scream in joy for completely a raid was an amazing feeling.

[@Spifyninja]

One of my most epic raiding experiences actually came this expansion, when my guild got our first H Odyn kill. This was back just after ToV had come out, the week before Heroic got nerfed. We'd spent a couple weeks wiping on it (we only raided 6 hours a week at the time, and we were still clearing H EN and N ToV at the time). Everyone was getting kind of discouraged cause it felt like a brick wall that we just couldn't get past. Then we had the one attempt, was going to be our last pull of the night, where we finally downed that lava bearded bastard. When it came down to the end, we only had 2 or 3 of our 15 or so people up, but they managed to bring him down to that 10% to finish the fight, and I experienced my first real voice chat freak out.

[@Destro-Sama]

My most epic raid experience is when I was level 110, and went back to a heroic 25 man level 85 raid, and just solo it for farm materials.

[@Hauntercry]

I could never choose a single greatest raiging experience. I have been raiding nonstop from Wrath to this day and it has all been great! Atm on mythic Krosus!

[@brandish8215]

My best raiding experience was at icc at Professor Putricide. I don't remember exactly the tactics but the important goes like this: a player transforms into an abomination at the start of the fight, the boss makes ooze pools (aoe zone) that keeps on growing, and the abomination guy has to eat it. So basically after some time fighting the effect of the abomination disappeared so there's no one to eat to ooze and the aoe just keep going bigger and bigger until most of the room is covered with ooze. At the end it was just the paladin tank, her name was Zorka (I remember because everyone were cheering) and the boss close to dead with all the dots. When the boss reached 80k health all the dots were over and it was just the tank vs the boss, and after an epic fight, the boss was dead.

[@DarcBloom]

I'd actually say my favorite raiding experience was Naxx as well. Prior to Wrath, I played the game pretty casually, never got a character to max level before that, never did end game content, etc. Wrath was too epic to resist though. I raced a warlock to just under 60, unlocked DK, and played that to 80. In a family of gamers, who'd been doing more content than I'd been doing previously, I was the first of us to make that cap. I was playing with someone at the time, and we managed to get in a guild, which was fairly small, seemed nice, and had connections with other raiding guilds. So when we tried Naxx, it was the people from my guild, filling in the vacancies for another. I don't think we ever finished the raid by the time I left that guild, due to some later drama, but at the time, that didn't actually matter to me. I was just happy to be there and trying, and somewhere between it being my first raid experience, my first maxed character, and just in general, a major turning point where I became a more serious gamer, and lore nerd, it was a very memorable time for me.

[@matt5842]

Man this was really nice to listen to, its so similar to my experience. I think we started raiding at the same time (late TBC) and i swapped a guild too.

[@Daisieheart]

8:24 that poor poor glass, every week it sat there giving water to the weary traveler and when he finally did the impossible he smashed it to pieces :*(

[@carmander9843]

"Never forget the ret paladins" I burst out laughing at this, my uncle mained a ret pally in Wrath and he just steamrolled through EVERYTHING

[@ForAeons12]

my most memorable experience was when EN first came out and we wiped about 14+ times on Il'gynoth in a pug group, but everyone was pretty optimistic about learning the mechanics first-hand, so it felt real good when we finally got him down

[@anthonybennett5723]

man i love your relatable content love the stories too dude especially back when shit was difficult eg BC :O and just such relatable moments and freak outs n all that jazz just good memories dude :P thanks for the reminders :)

[@ARoseUnheard]

I won't lie, I LOVE your story videos. But somethin' that I keep thinkin', even though I've been on your channels for a while, new people just coming to your channel might have some struggles getting into your content, because you talk to everyone through your videos as if they've seen all of your videos. So, just a quick little note from me. Keep doin' these story videos and machinimas and stuff. I love'em!

[@reinoldi1097]

That moments i Had in vanilla... ragnaros -> Nefarian ^^ The totaly freak out on Nefarian was amazing xD

[@amandahvizda5603]

I remember my best epic raiding experience well. Raiding in BC, finally getting to Illidan in the Black Temple...wiping over and over...for hours. Last attempt of the night...we finally kill him with 3 people left alive...only the parasite things didnt die with them. Tank drops over dead, guild leader dies...while I stand there frantically blizzarding on myself. Last one alive...still have the screen shot from that with Illidan and everyone else dead around me. For months after the joke was Lucy (my character's nickname) was prepared. :)

[@besmarr9506]

The rush of downing a boss with a guild for the first time after many many wipes is why I still play wow. Legion isnt perfect, but so far it has given me that rush many times.

[@avasam06]

For me it was in WoD, Heroic Mannoroth in HFC. Everyone was dead except for the two tanks: a Blood DK as solid as a brick wall and me, a protection paladin built for damage. We duo'd the boss down from 10%. I could feel the adrenaline and my heart pumping like crazy under the stress and encouragements comming from our guildies. When we dealt the final blow, we felt like gods, like true heroes. A Death Knight and a Paladin, the most lore-wise unprobable duo, taking down a mythical being as Mannoroth after he killed all of our friends.

[@AHSeanR]

Naxx was my first proper and best raiding experience, and my favourite raid in the game easily

[@kefkamadman]

My most epic raid moment in WotLK was the first time we got Maly 25 down. We always failed hard on the riding drakes phase. Week after week of constant wipes, vent breakdowns, people leaving guild to rejoin the next morning just to do it all again the next raid. Then one Saturday night, we had a ton of people online, and decided what the hell, let's get this rolling. Flawless first phase, 1 person down in the 2nd, 21 more down by the 10% life left point, and we got him. Big blue jackass finally died and vent erupted, with me having a ringing in my ears for 2 days after from the screaming.

[@georgesteampowered3910]

i understand you nixx wraath was the best thing ever for my to even tho i start play late like icc was came out i dont even kill the lich king but i have to admit wrath was the best thing ever and it have aspecial place in my heart