Wakfu - Should you play?

[@VagrantVideos]

Do you play Wakfu?

[@xXDoomWolfeXx]

ive seen the show but never actually played the games LOL, thanks for making a great video on it!!

[@susantuna3434]

I do since beta first beta I been playing from time to time

[@susantuna3434]

Fun fact the clases names are all jokes but on English translation they lost some of the jokes on Spanish tho is fun as fuck sadida shoe class ... Adidas spell backward xelor. Time mage ... Rolex backward

[@VagrantVideos]

@@susantuna3434 BROOOO you just blew my freaking mind. I NEVER knew that!!

[@Icecalller]

@@VagrantVideos I didn’t even know it was game

[@Apollo_BugBard]

As a new player I picked eliotrope and I realized I needed to use my brain so I cried but then I realized I loved the class

[@VagrantVideos]

😂😂 me with rogue

[@savio-6193]

That was actually my experience with the class too! I just don't seem to have with any of the other classes really

[@Mecawallace]

Wakfu always hit different just for having such a wildly different combat system to every other MMO. It's also weird to see the anime art style with an obviously original-French dialog text

[@blueizumi]

Europe got really big into using anime art styles and anime inspired themes in fantasy during the 2000s. Totally Spies's another anime art-style French fiction, and Winx Club, W.I.T.C.H., and Angel's Friends from Italy were inspired by a lot of 90s and early 00s magical girl series.

[@yaltrenzialisferell6339]

I have loved Wakfu since I first played it. I was always an introvert, so being able to play this without the high anxiety of asking around about guilds or teams was pretty nice for me. Before they changed the landscape, I'd often just roam the server to see all of the beautiful scenery and detail that made up the world. My favorite map was Sufokia back then. There was a harbor infested with all kinds of aquatic monsters, and if you were travelling there on foot, you'd first have to go throught this canyon that hosted tofu and the palm tree mobs! Another beautiful place was the forest in which the miss ugly castle was. There was a waterfall, multiple bridges over little rivers, and the frog mobs were still a thing. Unfortunately, they're now just an event mob.

[@VagrantVideos]

MMORPGs in general helped me learn how to make friends so I feel the anxiety.

[@user-hb5ly5qy2o]

I saw a show of this i didn’t realise it was based on a game

[@Jbip]

the opposite, actually! the game was made after the show

[@user-hb5ly5qy2o]

@@Jbip interesting

[@jaredh923]

@@Jbip As a french-language-alpha-tester of Dofus, i can say with absolute confidence that the game came first. Lmao.

[@GURTX]

For the way the animation is it was pretty obvious

[@RodrigoRodrigues-vw9ii]

​@@Jbiplet's complicate😂 In 2008 the show was based in the continuation of the game dofus of 2004. Then in 2012 the game was based in the series. Then in 2023 they finally released the continuation of the game and series in a game called waven. Then they will start a show of waven. 😂😂😂 The multiple games and series are based on each other.

[@hendrixcruz7675]

Ankama games are very underrated. I want to work in their marketing to bring their games to SEA. :)

[@unibu1534]

They aren't underrated at all, they simply do not give a shit about their non-french playerbase.

[@evynjojo8928]

Yes, French developers don't care about players from other countries. We have tried to bring the game to China

[@HaramosYT]

I'm a super long time dofus player, and I was never really able to get into Wakfu. Most likely this was because I play the perma death servers of Dofus exclusively. And anything else just doesn't feel as good. Great video though :) i love your style and edits.

[@VagrantVideos]

Appreciate the comment man. Dofus definitely feels like a more polished game in terms of options with all the severs.

[@HaramosYT]

@tsbol2201 i agree. Nothing felt like it meant anything without the high stakes.

[@Nekololizu]

The next update 1,81 is going to revamp the into/tutorial stuffs for a better new player experience, And a new mono/single account server without sidekicks is coming out hopefully later this year, right now its the norm for people to multibox / use several accounts for more drops and not having to wait for other people to learn dungeon/boss mechanics etc so hopefully this server can force people to socialize and team up more like you usually do in other mmo's instead of playing everything solo.

[@VagrantVideos]

Dofus single account server is what I play and it’s definitely a lot more social in terms of doing group content.

[@notstylekatarn]

Have always been interested in these, but never got the chance to dig into them. I'm excited to finally get that chance with Waven.

[@VagrantVideos]

Waves looks pretty good, different than Wakfu and Dofus in good ways.

[@Korosenaiii]

French here, for the names of the classes their names have a meaning this is an object but put upside down Example: Xelor = Rolex (because he controls time) Enutrof = Fortune (he loves money) etc...

[@Korosenaiii]

PS : Only working for their french name

[@ChristopherPugliese-y6o]

They actually mostly work in english too lol, Rolex, Fortune is also an english word, Sram = Mars ... Ecaflip doesn't work, Feca = cafe it works, Osa I think it works too but yeah they loose that funny part of the game

[@Korosenaiii]

@@ChristopherPugliese-y6o They work with some classes in english but work for every classes in French haha Ecaflip = Pile Face (mean in French flipping a coin) I can do for all of them with the translation if interested

[@beeplayin]

Ah yes feca is definitely cafe

[@kaso236]

Osamodas = Sadomaso = BDSM​@@ChristopherPugliese-y6o

[@mephisto347]

2:18 Cra = Arc 2:32 Eniripsa = Aspirine 2:37 Sadida = Adidas 2:38 Enutrof = Fortune 2:46 Xelor = Rolex 2:47 Osamodas = Sadomaso(chist) lol

[@jedwell9531]

I used to regularly play this game with a friend of mine, running six man dungeons together with three characters each, via the hero slots you get from subscriptions. I always loved just how involved, difficult and varied the dungeons were, and how many options you had for viable party compositions. We stopped playing due to the recent design shift in class revamps, though. A lot of the classes we used to main were adjusted into directions we didn't enjoy nearly as much, and our main squad of characters wasn't fun to play anymore. Something about the new concept of passives just being net 0 benefit and shifting power around just feels a lot worse than how you could previously empower a certain playstyle, and have these power milestones to look forward to as passives evolve at higher levels. In regards to the pvp complaint though, I don't know if it's just never explained ingame, but a while ago they did add a system called demonic pacts, which basically make it so you get extra loot from any pve content, but cannot use teleporters and can be attacked by anyone in the open world. If you are killed, you lose the extra loot to the killer, but keep anything you would have normally gotten anyway. I never tried it myself though, so I don't know if they are enough people around for it to really work.

[@VagrantVideos]

Ya the pact thing I don’t even remember reading. There is such little information on Ankama games it’s criminal.

[@kyremz]

Did played the game back in 2012's gold version till 2016, where some changes started to mess with my game experience. Back in the days you had a great rivalry between nations to the point where finding a group of players from an enemy nation in your grinding spot was considered insta PK. It was an amazing game and one of the MMO'S that I enjoyed the most together with Archeage. 😄

[@VagrantVideos]

I loved archeage during the launch of unchained.

[@Rickydiculus]

I played on Nox server (N.A.) as cra named Zūlander from Bontà. Loved the nation pvp back then (2009-2014) and was gov of Bontà through some wars. Fun times.

[@jasonluoker1391]

I'm Russian and i'm still feel comfortable to play Wakfu , thats already meaning some. This game really friendly for everyone

[@WutherWave-qc3ud]

I’m just sad the USA servers don’t have much players ;-; then again this game looks awesome

[@Armitox]

Just saw this game got updates. I’m in the United States like you said not to many know of this. Glad it’s still going.

[@Rhises]

Ankama is underrated.

[@HolyRain89]

Reason why faction PvP is gone due to 24/7 griefing. Especially high lvl players invade low level area on the enemy nation just to harras them, destroying the ecosystem or downright 'claim' the land so the low level players aren't even able to level up their levels or progress their progression. This made alot of low level players stopped playing, and made the losing nations became a ghost town eventually.

[@VagrantVideos]

Makes a lot of sense.

[@AhranMaoDante]

There was a bit more to it than that. For starters, at least on Nox, he who shall not be name didn't harass low level players, nor did any of his guilds top players or closer friends; however, he presented his guild as being the villain organization of the server, so other people who joined did PK new/low level players, and he didn't condemn them for it. A mistake on his part. Then other guilds banned together to KOS everyone from his guild whether they took part in harassing new/low level players or not, this included spawn camping that not even the worst people in his guild did. All while these other guilds acted as if they were justified and different from his guild. There was also a coup in that guild at some point, where the vice guild leader took over while the guild leader was temporarily suspended by SE, for exploiting game mechanics that others were also doing with 0 punishment. Aside from that, the total ecosystem destruction was shut down early, with governor's of the 4 nations able to list resources or species as protected; unfortunately, this backfired and lead to mad kings/queens who spent kama's protecting every species/resource so nobody could do anything without becoming a criminal. And since people were groomed into attacking and PK'ing anyone who was a criminal regardless of reason for why they were such, this lead to more harassment of new/low level players than even the previously referenced guild. What's worse is these made king/queens would also go to war with rest of the nations, so if you tried to level in them, you'd be KOS'd as an enemy of those nations. Personally, I stopped a few months after the Riktus update and didn't keep up from there. So anything on Nox that happened after that I'm unsure of. But I wouldn't put it past the veteran players finding yet another way to drive away new players. Even though the early years of the game were a mess, they made for an amazing social experience, and I don't regret being adjacent to that mess. But I do miss my 10 day, in game jail time, needed to clear my criminal status, and thankfully my nations prison cell wasn't bugged. XD For clarification, I mostly took part in light eco-terrorism, or grinded -cp via action canceling against protected resources. I also sold the resources and seeds cheap to new players leveling crafting profs or who wanted to farm positive cp via planting crops that were in low supply.

[@EricN73158]

So I played the NA beta, when the game came out it was really different from what I can recall. I liked it during the beta but did not really stick around after launch. Maybe I will give it a go again because after it came out it was pay to play iirc

[@Rickydiculus]

I played as a cra named Zūlander from beta 2009 I had leveled to like 75 then release and reset exp to zero and was really into this game from 2009 until 2014 when, ironically enough, I moved to Italy and didn't find time to play as much until 2016 and haven't touched it since 2017 but I miss this game and the friends i made. Any other guidies from Red Inc, Black Crows, or Kamaradery drop a hi with your Wakfu main

[@AhranMaoDante]

How about a "sup" from a little known Epitaph member instead? Sora Misaki: Sram.

[@Rickydiculus]

@@AhranMaoDante sup indeed! Enjoyed the stroll down memory lane reading your posts here. Should all of us "Old timers" make this game a thing again? I truly do miss the crap out of Wakfu or should I say Drama, the MMO!!

[@AhranMaoDante]

@@Rickydiculus I'm personally pretty burned out of MMO's altogether. But I do miss the drama.

[@wolfiegode7975]

i use to play it but now im on ps5 and wish it would come to concle and i love to get back into it again.

[@Synsane]

Gawd, I remember playing this game in beta and first release. It was fantastic. Such good memories. I remember how the political system had nations forming alliances and warring against each other. Especially how hectic it got when the islands opened up for conquest. There were so many great stories that had nothing to do with the actual lore. The people created even greater stories of love and betrayal than the writers of the game itself. I remember my legacy, because I was feared by my own government, and I built a loyal following out of my outlaw reputation in the beta, so people would spread folklore about me in the release, which I used to quickly build our power on live. Because we were such a threat pre-wipe, the government gave me a position of power in the gov as Head Guard to control us, and I used that to police Sufokia with the authority I was given, which gave us power over all the other outlaws in our Nation. lmfaooo, we'd force people to go into PK mode if they wanted to grind in our areas, or we'd KS all the mob spawns from them to drive them out. That way, if they didn't join our team to share exp or did something we didn't like, we could just kill them on sight. Lmfaooo, good goood times. I remember joining the strongest criminal outlaw guild as a spy for a guy called Hooks who dominated PVP; and we had massive influence on political decisions through backdoor deals, all secret until his master plan where he betrayed his faction by allying with another, then took over as Governor of Brakmar after gaining praise from a big war. Omg, the good old days. Bonta had the biggest levelling spot, and they wanted to change the laws to essentially claim the spot for themselves by forming an alliance with the strongest nation at the time, Amakna. Their governor was tainted by his dealings with Hooks, so he had dirt on him, which he used to convince the strongest guild in Amakna (and on the server) not to support their efforts, so when they lured the Bonta governor out to meet and make this deal with the dirty Amakna gov, a massive war broke out to take them out, which turned into a fkn double cross that got the Amakna and Bonta govs stripped of power. The leader of this treasure hunter guild (powerful ones) in Amakna took over (before they were too virtuous to join politics, but saw their nation needed them to lead in this "dire" time, they were by far the strongest guild anyway), and Hooks was no longer hated by his people, he was praised and loved for this massive move (Brakmarian people always hated Bontaians), and used this influence (and other forceful measures) to win his election as leader of Brakmar (side note: Governments and the general public were super against outlaws, crime and gov never mixed, thats why the Amakna gov lost all reputation when his secret deals with Hooks came out, but obv the Brakmar people were more lenient towards criminals). .. Holy crap, I just flew down memory lane there, sorry for the wall of text lmfaoo, I don't remember exactly how it all went down, but I have vivid memories of fighting in the middle of the capital city of Bonta and finally being exposed as a member of Hooks' crew. Everyone was deep in roleplay. The game would never be like this again. Also, starting the game was really cool because money didn't exist. You had to craft it or trade, that was really cool about Wakfu. You didn't have to PVP to punish other nations, you could destroy their wildlife and trees and such, it was really cool concept. The world molded around the people and politics and craftsmanship.

[@Rickydiculus]

I was there for that era.i remember and had a lot of dealings with Hooks Zülander. Gov of Bontà. The roleplaying dedication from every player then was top notch. Emefers were dedicated to making the history happen!

[@AhranMaoDante]

"The leader of this treasure hunter guild" Cassidy, leader of Rare Hunters, and notorious MMO hopper. Personally, I didn't join Epitaph until after the events you mentioned, and after Hooks moved to Brakmar. And even then I only joined because Hooks and I had a common interest outside the game, and Travesty invited me(she was chill). I might not have cared for the PvP aspect of the guild, but I did love me some eco-terrorism. XD

[@qiranight6347]

13:15 answer is~~~ you know what, I'm gonna be that guy! It because they're French!

[@lordgrim6732]

I like wakfu more than waven, love the complex crafting in wakfu. Now there are pacts, you go to a statue in every city and enable pact, you get more resources etc. and other players who enabled pact can attack you and steal items from you, to claim items from pact inventory you need to extract.

[@Pengooeine]

Can't wait for the Dofus vid

[@ethanbuttazzi2602]

8:50 because the majority of casual players dont like to be jumped when they are gathering and then promply one-shoted. :)

[@franciscom.bodinho2219]

Did you started with rogue? My man, that is the HARDDEST class of the game

[@VagrantVideos]

Hey man I loved the class. Currently playing OSA in Dofus.

[@KayderimGameplays]

@@VagrantVideos If you liked Osa in Dofus, you would love the one from wakfu, since this one can capture monsters from the world map, and there are some really busted ones there

[@VagrantVideos]

@@KayderimGameplays if I was a full time content creator I’d have the time to check it out haha

[@shutbox7136]

I hope there will be a mobile version of this. been wanting to play this in mobile since it came out

[@Franka.1966]

Yes there is: Ankama's "Waven".

[@shutbox7136]

@@Franka.1966 nah waven is different gameplay than wakfu but yea ill give that a try

[@Zaxor09]

@@shutbox7136 it will not they've said it multiple time :'( sorry

[@shutbox7136]

@@Zaxor09 nah it already has the mobile version and i've started playing

[@Zaxor09]

@@shutbox7136 you mean dofus touch right ? cause Wakfu definitly don't have one

[@eeveegaming4798]

Love the game and am currently playing it. It’s not super lively but there are players there to support an economy and some guilds. It’s not too hard to find people to play with (I think, I’m not the type to play with others)

[@Omnicharlizard]

I would totally be into playing this game, loved the show My question is, are there guides on how to play tactical turn based games? I’ve never really played these styles of games so I would be lost 😅

[@VagrantVideos]

There is some out there just not much in English lol

[@Omnicharlizard]

Is there a setting to change the language to English in the game?

[@VagrantVideos]

@@Omnicharlizard yes Dofus is in English

[@mateoizaelandrada2059]

3:49 I KNEW HE WOULD SAY MARIO RABBIDS

[@sh0d1n]

100000000000% you should play wakfu ♥️✅

[@VagrantVideos]

Or Dofus

[@spamer5001]

There is world PVP you need to opt into it, it reards you with extra xp and loot from PvE content,strangely they don't tell you this exist

[@VagrantVideos]

Huh, every where I looked I couldn’t find this.

[@spamer5001]

@@VagrantVideos there are domon statues in every main nation city and astrub, astrub has it in the top left corner of the city

[@jaredh923]

If you have to opt into it, its not really open world

[@avalonleodegrance]

My problem with Wakfu is that there's too much constant reworks and changes. Felt like i have to relearn the entire game every time i go back to it.

[@haganame1240]

Basically main reason why I never came back after my guildies stopped playing. If I wouldn't be even more lost every time I reinstall I'd probably play it still.

[@hypemugen]

My crush on the thumbnail

[@AhranMaoDante]

A shame they changed the PvP so much. I personally quit before that, but right after they killed the criminal system.

[@TheMotherStory]

Great video showing Wakfu.

[@DarkXelNaga]

huh, I guess iv been saying Wack-Fu and Doh-fus wrong this whole time.

[@absolutesilva6010]

what i hate about this game is the fact that you cant play this game with a single character..you always need a team

[@Ruarudo]

Dude,is an mmo,what do u expect?

[@KayderimGameplays]

Well, if you really want, you can buy a hero booster, which lets you play with 3 characters from your account, so you can kinda build a team by yourself. You keep all the drops and kamas from these characters too, pretty handy

[@nikoSlo1]

i quit after i didn't play for 2 months on a school break back in the days, and somehow cheaters stole mine and clan member's pets and such.. the admins said they can't do anything even support so we quit lol... i hope things got better, only way i would return tto wakfu is if wakfu would have a legacy server where it starts from point 0

[@VagrantVideos]

Think they just released a server that is fresh start honestly.

[@Kovixx22]

Great video!!

[@VagrantVideos]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@saveenly4332]

Good vid!

[@WutherWave-qc3ud]

Should you play focus touch

[@VagrantVideos]

Made that video a few months ago lol

[@MrDudeBro]

I feel for rogue gameplay

[@SFSR6]

No *roll the credits*

[@Amity45]

I worry it will be too much grinding. Maybe it won't be worth my time compared to Tactics Ogre or other paid games.

[@VagrantVideos]

With Wakfu at least it’s multiplayer so you can play with friends but Tactics Ogre is indeed a great game. 😃

[@shazzbot3319]

you got about as many likes as people who play on steam.

[@VagrantVideos]

You legit ain’t wrong.

[@marangelowallace-d9e]

bro is saying walkfu not wak fu

[@fggamesoft4949]

Get serious about no playing, its too good and unhealthy to players. I mean with heart that you shouldnt.

[@HiAgainTheNameIsStillAyle]

Waven feels and plays like a direct downgrade from wakfu Literally no character costumization (LITERALLY NOT EVEN COLOR COSTUMIZATION, WHY) Worst combat Just boring overral Really a shame

[@VagrantVideos]

I think the combat is slightly better but will definitely agree on customizing the look of your character. It’s all behind the cash shop, my video on Waven should be coming out Monday.

[@Dckfz]

Holy shit, you’re mispronouncing. This is driving me fucking nuts😵‍💫