The History of Windfury Weapon (Vanilla WoW to Legion) - Shaman

[@HUHhuh85]

*salute to beavis, unbreakabe, and all other 2hand shamans*

[@Nawn44]

I downloaded "Unbreakable" back then and watched it probably more then 100+ times or listened to its music, one of my top10 alltime wow Videos. I really like that you mentioned it

[@QPoily]

It's really sad how since Cataclysm Windfury went from a proc you'd look forward to seeing to a proc you couldn't give less of a shit about. They watered that shit down SOO much throughout the expansions it's actually ridiculous. They could remove windfury next expansion and you wouldn't even notice.

[@BaltisLV]

Ahh.. Unbreakable! I remember that guy, had nice taste of music, Soil!

[@B4554D]

Next ability: Innervate - That thing did change more than I can count. Or, you could do combustion. Pretty much the same as Innervate, its also one of the most changed abilities. Btw. F's for Windfury Totem, damn I loved that small little fella in TBC (and so did my other 3 melee group mates :D)

[@alexanderpetkov355]

Bassad ha has a video on combustion

[@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsDrBees]

Bassad nowadays innervate is a disappointing piece of shit that gives you like 200,000 mana

[@B4554D]

Well, tech. it doesnt give you mana :P It only makes your casts free. But I know what you mean.

[@cashnelson2306]

well that was unnecessary

[@Heironeous77]

2 handed windfury didn't die till Wrath. In BC using it on the right 2 handers (usually pvp weapons with the right STR bonuses) reached almost Vanilla levels of broken. In moderate pvp gear in BC I could kill clothies with a Stormstrike WF proc, and blow most rogues to cheat death. Interestingly it was a perfect counter to warlocks at the time. Thanks for the memories with this, though

[@HalikBun]

No mentions of the largest nerf it ever had: The removal of its cool triple attack animation when they gave it it's first animation overhaul in TBC. :( Was the day I stopped playing my shaman... ... Nah, I actually kept playing, but I was super salty about dropping Windfury Totem for the rest of the melee because Windfury Totem kept the old animation through TBC. Usually dropped the agility totem. ^^ I was kind of an asshole.

[@DriftNick]

If you were a good shaman you would have been totem twisting agi and windfury.

[@charlesc4511]

the old windfury was SOOOOOOOO satisfying!

[@hocke68]

There was a point (BC or WotLK) when Enhance Shamans would equip a fast offhand and use Flametongue while leaving Windfury on their main hand weapon.

[@rusfeedernoob5441]

I miss the dark grey hurrican animation so much! Good times...

[@runesolberg9097]

Made a shaman twink in TBC at lvl 49- 2x crusader enchants+ 2x flurry axe(epic 1 hander axe that could proc an extra attack) and different rank of windfury on each axe- this caused windufurry to also proc of the other rank of windfurry. This caused my tauren shaman to just jump up and down with no other animation then the windycloud. killing elites in hinterlands it could do 6-700dps at lvl 49 overtime. The nerfed it in the end, but was fun while it lasted =D

[@patrick1keller]

Are we not going to talk about how strong two-handed windfury was back in Wrath. I clearly remember playing it, due to it being so strong in PvP

[@WarsunGames]

The original windfury totem did give an additional 2 hits. I am only 1:30 seconds in. No. They did not remove the additional attack until WoTLK. He didn't 1-Shot multiple players. He did it to two of them. An one was sitting down. 2:49 No they didn't they quit the game. They didn't get Dual wield until Patch 1.12 Patch 1.11 was beta.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Thx. I thought my memory was worse than it is lol.

[@nab-rk4ob]

So glad I found this channel.

[@devinschwarz]

I would love to see a video on the changes to starting abilities for all classes throughout the years. Maybe split it up to Melee starting abilities and range starting abilities to keep it from being too long.

[@Maskeddrake]

I love those "history of" videos, I'd like to know more about Lay On Hands, would you consider doing it one day?

[@XavierSol]

was waiting on this one :)

[@Dawn_Dan]

Great video as always :)

[@xenoblad]

a general video on the removed druid ability Symbiosis. I stopped playing before it came out, so I never got to know how it was like.

[@helio2k]

Man those old early internet days playing wow. I played wind fury shaman, pretty fun

[@delsin1126]

Maybe do a video on all the enhancements spells and how Enhance shamans changed over time

[@Seabersify]

i always tried to imagine what the dps of a rogue would be while under the effects of slice and dice, tw/lust, winderfury totem, stormlash totem (from Mop) and shadowblades, so over 130% attack speed, addition auto attack damage with additional ability damage (with extra cp) as well as a chance to get 2 additional attacks with increase AP on top of addition damage from stormlash, god forbid if blizzard put weapons or talents with chance to grant an extra swing or 2 back in, which could proc windfury.....Jesus, can you imagine like, 10 attacks going off at once when windfury and extra swing chance procs each other at once and if you were outlaw, to have the mastery proc as well...They'd hit like a truck during burn phases

[@MrGrimfacade]

From 3:00 to 4:00 you talk about being able to dual wield wf In patch 1.11. Well shams couldn't duel wield till tbc. Sooooooooo your wrong on that whole point.

[@rorysmistakes]

It was a 2.0-2.1 BC thing

[@hirumaredx]

Yah, that was a little mistake. I should have said that "starting in TBC when shamans could dual wield" and then continued like normal. The dual wielding thing was only a thing for a short time in TBC

[@SloppySlopes]

*You're

[@WarsunGames]

He's wrong from the beginning. Shaman where never overpowered.

[@bvsandman]

BRING BACK 2H SHAMANS.

[@GamersBar]

You should do a video on which classes were the most op for the longest period of time since vanilla came out , im guessing warrior has to be up there somewhere but dk has had it pretty good too.

[@atyllia9730]

great video, would you consider making one about the most redesigned/reworked class since vanilla-legion?

[@Limrasson]

I think you forgot to mention Stormherald. I remember my shaman guildmates talking about it / using it. So basically they used the craftable macesmith hammer Stormherald with windfury, since the 2 handed hammer gave a chance for a 4 second stun. So they used the extra hits to increase the stun procs and that made it quite viable in PvP I think.

[@Lystrous]

Storm Herald with windfury procks was indeed a quite terrifying thing, however only really from windfury totem procs on a warrior, as Enh Shamans lacked any really kind of defensive ability of crowd control resistance. But yeah Arms warrior+ Resto shaman was in the top 5 pairings in 2v2 for most of TBC.

[@DriftNick]

2h shaman was just a gimmick in BG's, it was never really a good PvP spec and was horrible in arena in TBC. As for arms warrior and resto shaman being a top 5 2's team, they were countered hard by the top comps so you saw a lot of them around 2k then almost none above that, you had to que dodge like a god to get really high.

[@wilprut]

i remember when i was lvl 40-45 and had the axe from herod in sm armory which on chance on hit it procs a bladestorm-ish type of attack.. and this attacks proc windfury so it was like a windfury aoe... good ol days

[@MJHazel]

Do one on the history of Exorcism, I don't really play much Ret but I seem to recall that was changed a number of times (including in the beta being able to be used on Undead players as they were classed as Undead rather than Humanoid).

[@Tynorex]

Do polymorph next as it has many viarities of it and an artifact skin based on it

[@thehorsetermite886]

Paladins had a similar effect, Reckoning, which also granted hits but only after getting taking critical damage the stack (after a big change) was 4-5. This ment that a paldins had the potential to 1 shot clot or leather players.

[@tekkaoz]

"Saw use in PvE"... err... You weren't horde were you? Because WIndfury was *fought* over in every raid I was ever in back then. It was insanely powerful and demanded.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Indeed.

[@thanos3784]

did someone say Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?

[@sepfirem]

too Bad shamans cant use sword as far as i know in vanilla

[@StonedMonkeyProductions]

You sir I like alot. Great content and good presentation. Keep it up brother

[@naterbertue9273]

History of Rogue Poisons please HIRU!!

[@WarsunGames]

Yes Windfury where infamous in Vanilla Wow. But not for being an Over powered class. That was Rogues. No one feared Shaman as much as they feared Rogues. 0:32 This point is FALSE NO! It did not proc off itself. Everyone said that. But it was not true. Windfury would grant 2 additional attacks an those two attacks where Nature Damage. The one thing EVERYONE forgets. Your regular melee damage was added too it. Windfury would proc that's 2 hits then your regular melee damage resetting Windfury The faster your weapon the more procs. An it was not ever 5 minutes it was ever 10 second Not 3 seconds.Unless the target was resistant to Nature Damage. Windfury would not proc. So from 0:32 to 1:00 None of that is true. Because NO ONE HAS PROOF! 1:20 This is referring to how Shaman had problems dealing damage at this point an had to find a new way to playing the class since this was unbalanced after the patch. 1:36 Incorrect information here. The problem was this would deal minor damage. An was Extremely rare. This was not common place an no. Did not proc off itself. No evidence of this. 2:15 This part is incorrect. No Shaman where one shotting them. they where hit with Windfury then Melee then an EarthShock. Some times It was StormStrike. That's 1 hit Windfury would proc,2 Hits Then an EarthShock for good measure that's 1 hit. That's 4 hits. That's 2 buttons an a lucky Windfury. An that killed a player. But you had to be wearing the best gear in the game. Its called Twinks. They are extremely hard to kill but are rare happenings.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Good memory. Full rank 14 gear and weaponry in Vanilla for me, and no way in fuck was I one shotting anyone lol.

[@ahmadsoliman9919]

Maybe warrior charges charge intervene and the berserker stance one I forgot what that one was called

[@SteaksOnSpear]

After the TBC windfury nerf. They basically made a spell casting windfury effect in wotlk. Making Elemental Shaman by far the highest dps caster class of the expansion.

[@PleasestopcallingmeDoctorImath]

I loved the world of wow in the mid 2000s

[@WoWpreformer]

Do a video on flavor abilities, such as farsight, mind vision, eyes of the beast, bind elementals and mind soothe etc.

[@aphamox]

Unbreakable !

[@hvdiv17]

2hd windfury died in patch 1.11??????...nope ever herd of beavis all the way to lvl 80 2hd wind fury still one shotted people. mop really is what killed 2hd wind fury when you couldnt storm strike with a 2hd weapon thats what did it.

[@WarsunGames]

4:00 That wasn't all they did. They also increased fall damage for shaman an did not change it until MOD. So if someone used a knock back spell. Shaman would take 100X damage from fall damage an die. Making the class impossible to do anything. 4:13 By this point. No one was playing Shaman. They all quit. Because of Squishy.

[@mithrylmoonlight]

Would love to hear the history of Thunderfury TBH

[@WarsunGames]

3:45 An what you failed to explain was. The damage of Dual wield was crap! Dual wield weapons where the only weapons Shaman could use at patch 1.12. They nerfed all weapon damage. An dropped class damage. Instead of 1Str= 4 Attack power. It was changed to 1Str=2 Attack power. Making Shaman less powerful with dual wield.

[@sinklar7946]

Forgot to mention how Doomhammer's artifact ability also grants you 100% windfury effects ^.^, but otherwise great video.

[@jesiemartin6511]

Did some one say [thunderfury, blessed blade of the windseeker] ?

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Oh shit! Lol! 😂

[@grumpyoldwizard]

I remember waiting for that slow weapon to hit...it seemed like forever sometimes.

[@restisant]

Can you do history of warrior shouts. Idk if they have much to cover but i know they changed them 3 times since MoP.

[@RainbowSplatFTW]

Make top 10 unique tabards video, obtainable through quest and achievments (like Blood elf paladin's unique one or whatever).

[@ashtonmayfield9217]

Nice video but there’s a flaw, dual wield didn’t release until TBC not patch 1.11, we had to suck it up and keep fishing for shittier procs until tbc

[@lewted6617]

2:41 “vadilla” 😂😂

[@libertyprime9891]

¿isn't there also a level 30 talent called windfury which is an attack speed buff?

[@kiko3080]

was there some change to windfurys dmg type? cuz im playing tbc server right now and my windfury proc is yellow? instead of white ? so it counts as magic dmg instead of physical ? thats a nerf right ? from vanilla>tbc

[@HaSuOrbs]

Maybe a vid about the mage/warlock armor buffs they had.

[@karelleszczynski4183]

You should have mentioned doomhammer's artifact ability, since it's all about windfury

[@baneleaf7025]

What about a history of non-traditional tanks like mage tanks and lock tanks?

[@TheGamingReaper]

History of Polymorph and it's variants?

[@MadDunhill]

hiru, what's the name of that soundtrack?

[@pedrobaaijens4132]

did someone say Thunderfury: Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?

[@Xrosstalk]

Shamans in Vanilla to Wrath couldn't use swords, I quit after Wrath so I don't know about that. This guy is wrong as well the 2-4 hit proc was only in beta, in live it was a flat chance to proc 3 attacks at like 150% attack power each. And the totem was 2 attack proc, I don't think this guy played in vanilla or at least didn't play a shaman. Also shamans couldn't dual wield until TBC at 2.0. The rest he is pretty close on about the internal cooldowns etc...

[@scottworden4835]

you should cover all weapon enchants with procs

[@maelstrom1247]

The history of paladin blessings, hands, and seals

[@WarsunGames]

3:11 This is actually not true. Shaman needed all the damage they could get due to the poor damage out put. An no You could not put a lower Rank on the off hand. It never worked.

[@WarriorHorizon]

I don’t see this is the 1.11 patch notes for the reduced bonus damage.

[@shinsua_]

When's Moonfire

[@Zetheseus]

isn't windfury also thrall's E ability in HotS?

[@heruduskronos7103]

ARCANITE REAPER HOOOOOO!!!

[@ntabiblaze]

can you do a video on paladin reckoning bomb?

[@hacklbarry5365]

In vanilla you could not dual wild! You could only use 1H + shield. Wrong information

[@IpokehobozGaming]

Patch right before the tbc expansion they did give dual weilding. But it was only like couple weeks

[@someguy3987]

I love you Hiru

[@BruceWillis57]

I miss days of using fist weapon

[@ADML101]

History of atonement!

[@WarsunGames]

4:22 Which is proof how crap the game was at this point. Because 1Str during this time gave no attack power. It required 10Str to give 1 attack power. So people had to by or find gear that gave hundreds of attack power because none of it benefited damage. No matter what you where basically 20 levels under any class in the game.

[@zecto69]

the unbreakable the shaman its a good way to show up in vanilla how OP they were lol

[@WarsunGames]

Wow the second sentence alone is wrong. Windfury only gives 2 additional attacks. Not two to four additional attacks. It was never more than 2 an it was nerfed from all the complaining to 1 additional attack an they found it impossible to keep a shaman alive an it was returned to normal.Never buffed.

[@dont_care1591]

You need to work on your comprehension.

[@WarsunGames]

@@dont_care1591 No. We tested the theory. it was wrong. It never gave 4 attacks. it would be 2 Windfury attacks 2 Basic attacks. They lied. Sometimes damage meters would register additional attacks as windfury attacks. So again. They where wrong. it was an unnecessary nerf.

[@Paddzr]

Please cover paladin judgment spell!

[@kds6992]

already did that.

[@Paddzr]

you're right. Missed it, too bad it's 3 years old, maybe a small update on all the old spells?

[@Vjklv-ty7mn]

EXCAUSE ME,in WOTLK windfury can proc anything 3 times,and the 2handed axe BRNYTROLL THE BONE ARBITER has a 3% chance to do a lifesteal of 2500 shadow dmg and 2500 self healing,this is confirmed to have no icd,and can be proced 3 times on a windfury,it worked in orginal wrath,it works on private servers and it works on classic wotlk today,2handed enhance is not dead!

[@crusadersnake4159]

hmm what about history of the water elmentle pet for mages

[@GamerZoly]

Sadly this isnt the first video that says duavielding in 1.X.X patches.. people do you homework pls ! Dualvield came after 2.X.X patches

[@Antisceptic]

I don't like how the visual effect has changed. It doesn't look meaty anymore. It's more like a puff.

[@_Leouch]

ke? I remember geting 3 windfury attack from my dual wield in wotlk within 0.2sec killing pally instantly in pvp... and that 3sec internal cd is bullshit(in wotlk)

[@Onionring007]

Heroic Strike: for Warrios

[@RaphaSobral]

shamans, could dual wield in patch 1.11? we are in classic now and they cannot at all! and its patch 1.14why he skipped all, why he skipped all patches till TBC?

[@RAWatson1989]

Warlock demo spec evolution

[@MrJamedawg]

how about try getting gameplay from old windfury too instead of just random current windfury which has no bearing...

[@Vjklv-ty7mn]

I AM DOPASH the pvp enhancement shaman,i go to every private server and try to make 2h windfury work,it still works on classic,SoD,TBC,WOTLK,MoP, in CLASSIC u need a hunter/rogue off set from raids to get the BIS agi gear not enhance intelect gear,and still to oneshot anything with armor u need sulfuras to porc 3 fire hits(so not realistic,not even like u can see it once per BG,but its possible), in SoD its level 40 memeland,every class can make a oneshot setup pretty much,same for 2h shaman, in TBC u can get hunter/rogue offset + gems for ARMOR PENETRATION,and still oneshot people with simply a bis blackmithing 2hander(Stormherald,has a stun proc windfury can exploit and then use to hit people in the back ignoring parry),you can oneshot everything except platers(bcz u cant get 100% ARP in tbc and there is no endgame 2hader with spell dmg proc), in WOTLK you can get 100% ARP from hunter/rogue raid offsets+gems,and use Brnytroll axe for a shadow dmg/lifesteal proc to oneshot ANYONE if the stars align,but you have to be 0 resilience,so you also get oneshot by any spell of any class,while your oneshot is random...it still WORKS tho,and you have a pet stun to hit this in the back. in Cata there is no ARP nor spell proc wep so u cant do nothing, in MoP you get ascendance,and 380% dmg on stormstrike,transfered to pure nature dmg,so you can oneshot ppl with the endgame pvp 2hander,also the broken windsong enchant can proc 3 buffs at the same time,windfury can proc all 3 in a hit,but you need a glass canon setup with no haste,no crit,all agi+mastery,then you still only get to oneshot every 3min when u pop ascendance to ignore armor,and thats IF you Windfury AND CRIT and the enemy doesnt pop a defencive or stuns you as you pop the most visualy obvious dmg cooldown ever made,BUT ITS POSSIBLE!,and you at least have a stun totem to hit this in the back, and thats the end of 2h enhance shaman in modern times,if u realy want to play 2h enhance i suggest wotlk,as even tho u are a meme glass canon,you at least CAN oneshot all the classes and at random times so a defencive wont save them,and its not ever expected by the enemy.

[@tycusfindlay2274]

Here before 1k!

[@TheVStella97]

What are your sources? You got most, if not all of it wrong.

[@StrongKickMan]

Lol so now i started classic to level an enhancer, just to find out that the specc i planned to play is actually unplayable

[@MrJamedawg]

5 mins was a lifetime in vanllia standards considering pally seals were 30 seconds..

[@WarsunGames]

4:38 Note this. 2 attacks dealing 80% normal melee damage. Not 100% melee damage. So you do not deal full melee damage. Now subtract that from Armor ratings. You did no damage at all. Before it was Nature Attacks so it was a Spell. Now is just you attack two more times.For Base melee damage which is calculated by Strength.......You do not have Strength gear. Its all Attack Power gear. Note. For every 1 Strength. You get 0.25 Attack power. Where as from the beginning Shaman where designed 1 Strength was 4 attack power. That's Patch 1.0 To today it takes 4 Strength to get 1 point of Attack power. So tell me. How badly nerfed is your class?

[@traut8913]

Windfury got passive in WoD and not Legion! :D

[@ryanzblue]

Totem twisting? And 2.4 enhance shaman was super viable and wf wasn’t mediocre. This video doesn’t paint the entire picture.

[@nandornagyilles3290]

Shamans could not dual wield n vanilla. As for old WF totem being op if used on 2h dps, that is also wrong. This is because 2h dps specs such as arms warrior were so bad back then that the extra damage they gained from higher damage WF pros was overshadowed by their low Base damage, meaning it was better to give rogues the totem, as a rogue with WF is the second highest dps in the game right after a full best in slot fire mage who keeps the ignite up.

[@hirumaredx]

Yah that was a mistake on my part. I originally wrote the script thinking shamans could dual wield in Vanilla but found out they couldn't later on in my research and had to remove some stuff. But I forgot to re-write a few parts. The duel wielding thing was true but only for early TBC, not the end of Vanilla like the video might have you believe.

[@MyViolador]

overpower

[@WitherDJ]

Shamans couldn't duel wield in vanilla.. that was tbc.

[@WarsunGames]

Coming from a Shaman who played WoW Since 1.6 Patch. This video so far is full of bullshit. Shaman didn't get double windfury procs. They did not All play restoration. NO ONE Played restoration Because restoration was Broken! Without any gear you couldn't heal raids. So no one played them. They where all Enhancement.94% of them.

[@anti-ethniccleansing465]

Right? Resto was boring shit that shamans all hated but were all FORCED to play in raids if they wanted an invite, because that is was what helped the group most (since we were out dps’d by other classes). That’s why I’d never raided, and only did the pvp grind for my rank 14 gear/weaponry - cuz fuck being a healer when I could have fun with windfury!

[@WarsunGames]

@@anti-ethniccleansing465 No i disagree. What helps the group the most was Totems. Just totems. You can be Elemental an drop a totem to fit your group depending on what spec you where. I was Enhancement with a 2hander because dual wield was not available yet. I used Tremor totem and Windfury. An my group loved me. If you had to roll a restoration shaman. Then you might as well kill yourselves. because we already had priest. You can Rolls an Elemental an still use Mana tide. There was no reason to roll Restro. So i had to disagree with some of that.

[@papabeanguy]

druid symbiosis

[@WarsunGames]

No got damnit! Windfury never proced off itself.1 melee attack an 2 additional attacks thats 3 hits. if it proced off itself you would see 6 hits come from an attack. Do you ever see 6 hits in one swing? No? Then it never proced off itself!

[@pr0gressd]

windfury IS 5m in vanilla 1.12.1