I beat WoW's Free to Play mode

[@TheWideMurloc]

I've decided to keep a pinned comment on things that I'm aware have been changed for the free to play experience since this video was made, and edit it as new things come to my attention. I may eventually do a seperate video on all these if enough changes occur, but until then, I'll compile them here: -Rules determining which enchants can be applied to low level gear have been completely reworked, and many more enchants may be available for you to experiment with -Players starting at level 10 are now able to use Skyriding, and players at level 20 can also swap to static flight, allowing flight for free to play characters -The Warband bank was accessible to free trial characters when it came out, but this has since been nerfed and you can no longer use it to move items across characters on a free account. I’m leaving this here for posterity and the vague hope that they might backpedal this change -Zones, Dungeons, Transmogs from Dragonflight are now available for free to play characters -Evoker is now an available class for free to play -Item levels for gear, in general, has been moved around in many different areas, such as blue gear rising from ilvl 61 to ilvl 84, and the ilvl 87 warforged pieces up to ilvl 89. This could potentially have changed the balance between socketed TBC gear, and warforged WoD gear -Timewalking events are now playable by level 20 characters, and the gear rewards for them are ilvl 96 (or at least they were for classic timewalking), likely making them the new BiS for trial characters

[@uneasyexpressionsplace]

They made the Warbank 1000 gold and reduced the free trial gold amount to 999, the bastards!

[@TheWideMurloc]

@@uneasyexpressionsplace the cap is actually unchanged, but for some reason, there's a cap of 999g, 99s, 99c on warbank withdrawals. You can withdraw that from the bank and kill a humanoid npc to get a copper drop to cap it up to 1k

[@uneasyexpressionsplace]

@@TheWideMurloc It worked, but it's really weird you can't take out a single gold piece once your at 999.

[@isabellaliev2810]

They changed the warband bank, now it's unusable for trial accounts

[@TheWideMurloc]

@ yeah I noticed that recently but forgot to update the pinned thread. Thanks for the reminder

[@Pandan3D]

You make the level 20 game look more fun than end game, bravo really fun video

[@TheWideMurloc]

thats the thing, right? the whole f2p environment is untouched by the meta gaming that's ruining the full game so much. Doing something like this gives you a chance to actually explore and figure things out again

[@moku1648]

I'm thinking the same thing, but I'll probably give it a go on an RP server.

[@TheWideMurloc]

@@moku1648 if im doin the youtubes right, there should be a pinned comment now with some advice regarding RP servers for this

[@Bad_Moon_Rising]

The game SHOULD be just as fun all the way through.

[@BattousaiHBr]

idk what you're smoking but this looks like torture.

[@mohammedsokrab1110]

as someone who keeps playing to lvl 20 and never sub cause i cant u really made me feel good about playing the game like this

[@38dedo]

watched this on one monitor while gaming on the other and every so often when i glanced at the video this bro had a different shirt and longer beard

[@side-eye-chef-bandit]

🤣🤣🤣

[@dantrethekid1539]

Right now there is a developer crying to themselves because someone has finally realized their vision of ftp wow.

[@dalama1161]

I mean.. Level 20 twinking has been a thing for years until recently. This is definitely nothing new..

[@Hable_3]

Well all the being able to play tbc dungeons and every other expansion at 20 is definitely a game changer especially mixed with gear scaling lol. Used to be very limited to what you could get for gear now it’s crazy how many options there is

[@SpkillerGaming]

@@dalama1161sure it is. Last I checked most people don’t do it as free to play with all the restrictions. Go be a negative Nancy in mums basement

[@dalama1161]

@SpkillerGaming Your comment doesn't even make sense? How am I being negative about level 20 twinks? Blizzard does everything they can to break them, I'd know I spent over 1m gold on my 20 monk. I'm active on XPOff as well, so unless you are too I don't think you know more about the 20 community than I do. 20 doesn't have a separate bracket anymore, which is exactly why nobody does 20 free to play anymore you goofball.

[@KitKatNisa]

Yeah, but back when 'twinking' was a huge thing, WoW wasn't free to 20. Maybe don't go out of your way to invalidate someone's comment to seem smart.@@dalama1161

[@SalopianYoutube]

Been a while since a 40 min vid had me thinking it was only 5 minutes long. Amazing video my guy

[@AhmedEnalMohamedKamalKhalaf]

It might be easier for you on RP servers, if you're seeking help from players with subscription. TRP lets you put a note on your character, where people will whisper trial accounts if they jump in front of them.

[@yuemilia2387]

That's not for helping people, that's for erping with people

[@StripedCreations]

​@@yuemilia2387The rule of equivalent exchange

[@r4microds]

Its a good idea, lots of bored people on the realm, so at least it allows you to communicate on a platform that's active, thus bypassing blizzards restriction and allowing you to seek assistance from other players. Esp to run content you can't solo for year like strat

[@cassidyreid5059]

Don't put us all into that category thanks, lmao. Majority of us don't participate in ERP, everyone is just blinded by Goldshire rumours.@@yuemilia2387

[@cassidyreid5059]

Unlike those who think us Rper's are just sex-crazed freaks, this person is 110% right. My server is one of the most active, and one of the friendliest in my opinion. TRP makes it easier to get an idea of people and what they're doing. I make profiles for my alts that don't I RP on.

[@WoW20]

I'm glad to see your interest in level 20! For as long as twink 20 has existed, this form of play has always been fun. It's a real game within a game, another world within a main world There's something for everyone to enjoy, and it's free! Your video shows that, and proves that the level 20 community still has a bright future ahead of it 🔥

[@jonadar1753]

Free to play twinking has been big for a long time. Recently however its less popular since they removed the level 20 bracket in pvp.

[@TheValinov]

lol, blzzard realy hates f2p players! x)

[@kowikowi8718]

The Level 19rogue twinking with the Double dagger enchanment onhit 100healing was so op.

[@knavenformed9436]

​@@TheValinov Yeah twinking is ass in any game, and a f2p twink cuts into profit from a paid player trying PvP when leveling up

[@toemasmeems]

It's crazy to think that Hardcore WoW started as someone just like this who wanted to play the game differently and I can honestly see you stumbling upon something EVEN better than hardcore but for the retail community. THIS is truly an awesome video and idea my friend, pulled me away from my transmog runs to watch the whole thing

[@SimplyEpicAA]

This is like bringing Runescape Ironman mode to WoW. I could only imagine the possibilities with level increase.

[@MrJonnyPasta]

i laughed so hard at the grind bar that popped up when you were on the rail on your mount. My favorite video to watch in a long time!

[@Yobaski]

This is the best wow video I've seen in a long time and I mean it. You made level 20 capped character look really fun to play. Good stuff brother!

[@joshhartop9600]

Normally dont comment, please do more videos in this format it was insanely awesome

[@TheWideMurloc]

I’m aiming to try being more active on KZbin but this video In particular was a colossal effort, I’ll definitely be doing more videos of this style, but how often I can do them depends on what kind of project it’s about. I have another idea in the chamber for a wow video but life’s been busy this month so I haven’t started yet

[@SpirriX]

@@TheWideMurloc Would be cool to see some different classes at lvl 20 bracket, but not as in depth. Just level to 20, and compare how they are at the start of 20 vs when they get some alright gear. Pros and cons of the classes, who it's easiest to solo stuff with, etc. I would love some info like that to help guide my class choice when I try f2p wow again. I also realize this is selfish, but just throwing an idea out there.

[@micahblejski]

Agreed

[@micahblejski]

@@TheWideMurlocI can’t imagine how much effort and coordination goes into making a video like this, but it definitely shows! Good stuff!

[@dvaltvault5816]

wtf dawg this is a sick ass video DAMN i enjoyed every moment of it this genuinely deserves more views

[@JayceWasHereMC]

This was an idea I had for awhile. Never had the patience to actually make it. REALLY Well made video

[@Yorikha]

I haven’t played in almost 4 years. I really liked this video man! I thought it was interesting.

[@isaiahclaeys]

what an amazing video man, so much time and effort! and very entertaining to watch!!

[@jeffprice4376]

Best damage by a long shot at low levels is probably Resto Shaman. They're so broken. You don't even have to heal because you chain lightning everything to death before your tank can take damage.

[@Zurax00]

I remember leveling a blood DK and i was wondering how the healer had more dmg than me, it was close but it just said “28000 chain lightning” and i was just shocked literally

[@Ryan-xs9px]

@@Zurax00 healers do nutty damage at low levels. holy priests can clean sweep dungeons at lvl 10-15 or so by just clicking holy nova over and over again

[@Zurax00]

@@Ryan-xs9px I remember seeing a holy nova priest, they were doing good but i ended up dying as i overpulled and got slapped

[@Iowsbub]

This is also true when you want to do the herald of the titans av. I always was first in dmg and healing. 😁

[@kowikowi8718]

​@@Ryan-xs9px Tank Warrior. Just get atacked by 20mobs. Spamming your countersteike ability. Do Most DMG. Gg

[@Zan0ra]

I love things like this! As someone who's currently levelling their own 'challenge character' but in a slightly different spirit, I found this video really informative. My character is locked at 59 and completing all quests/collecting all transmog & achievements from each expansion before moving on. Thank you for the video.

[@RonGrethel]

For a while there it was possible to have a level 55 death night free to play. Obviously this is before the level squish, so I'm not sure if it's possible anymore.

[@TheWideMurloc]

nah they scaled the dk starting zone to low levels, they start at level 10 now

[@knavenformed9436]

​@@TheWideMurloc Wait so after the level squish f2p trials got more content to access as well? I tried to "main" the trial many years ago, but the game was just very limited in base game content

[@TheWideMurloc]

@@knavenformed9436 yeah you get all expansions prior to the current one to play in open world or dungeons, you just don’t get raid or most endgame zones, like the cata high level zones. There’s a few that do leak through though, like mechagon

[@knavenformed9436]

@@TheWideMurloc Honestly that sounds a way more enjoyable way to experience the game than subscribing, have tried didn't flow. Definitely will make a blind f2p twink playthrough. Thanks man

[@Timebringer]

Loved the video. Especially the mining "take control" part

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

I'm broke because I have a mortgage to pay off for the next 30 years. At least my car's paid off. But playing WoW without a subscription is a lot less stressful as well. I can just chill instead of stressing out about getting 370 item level gear for the new Kobold Khaos dungeon in Titanfarts or whatever to help Elune find the Cheeseburger of Domination so she/her can defeat Ghur'xurg'alax the Evil

[@Heehawheehawheehaw]

I’m fucking crying that’s so real

[@mojolito]

Dude this was an amazing video. You have a great sense of dramaturgy. Great editing (syncing the mining with the rock song lmao!), great narration.

[@thendar823]

Wow, what a jounrey! Hats off for the video, its rly fun to watch!!

[@TheWideMurloc]

i'd like to keep my hat on on account of the baldness

[@TheLukeSchnabel]

solid editing man. even towards the end of this horrendously long video you're still throwing in tony hawk pro skater references. great stuff!

[@novabird8323]

Great video, this definitely brought back memories for me. Your video reminded me of all the weird shit and painful grinds f2p had to do for +2 dps! When I was 11 or so I had no way to pay for a subscription, but was determined to play WoW anyway so I racked up a disgusting amount of time on the free to play mode. I remember stealthing all the way to Stranglethorn and camping Gurubashi Arena for the heirloom, among various other insane tasks. I ended up eventually buying a subscription and playing for many more years, but free to play will always be nostalgic.

[@IlyesBender]

That is such a sick work bro, enjoyed this vid soooooo much !!! Keep it up !!!

[@NotBryan64]

This is one of the best non classic/hardcore WoW videos I’ve seen.

[@SYWOODZ]

i honestly wasnt sure where this was going at first and then i found out your patience is insane and enjoyed every second of it

[@Soullscape]

god you made wow look incredible, infact you make it look how amazing it would be if there was a WoW 2 like... all the elements of leveling in classic but in retail. no more immedite shortcuts to max level skipping through every story and expansion to get you into the endgame. like a CLEAN slate style of retail... I wish they would make fresh private realms on retail

[@onione9138]

Already have come back to this many times. This vid is a real gem.

[@OG_Leoner]

Amazing video, definitely deserves more views!

[@Kadgord]

Man your video is soo good that made me play wow like this again. after 50 or more run i finally got Sul'thraze. pro tip: if you are a warrior, you NEED to use arms, Ignore pain and Consumables if you want to solo Dungeos

[@TheWideMurloc]

yeah warriors have always had the roughest time with soloing. They just fundamentally have very little in the way of panic utility or self healing

[@anwaralexander3035]

I played level 20s for 2 years or so and prior to Dragonflight, it was a thriving community of Twinks, RPers and generally lovely people. Needless to say, it's missed.

[@Sarlyx]

wtf is wrong with u

[@kowikowi8718]

The 2.area for tauren, Trolls and orcs Brackland? Idc im German. Dude the Chat was insane. You leveled. While sitting down Leggings you Just Talk To everyone in the Chat. This was the time wow was a mmo.

[@autumnson]

The dedication is surreal! Great video! (I wouldn't have minded a PvP at the end to show off the character!

[@Royalflux]

Really good content, loved watching this, keep making these!

[@puppetscorner5148]

I love that you show your descent into madness. After a rough day my beard looks like Robin Williams from jumanji.

[@AnneEliseMorrigan]

Wow! This is a really well written and informative video!!!

[@krabix1855]

Nice video! My favourite time to twink was late legion doing speed sets, you could run insanely fast permanently, it always threw people if you hopped into any content running at that speed

[@mickcraftgaming]

This is quite extensive and impressive - bravo! 👏🏻 I haven't played retail since Wrath of the Lich King (currently playing Season of Discovery) and it's quite interesting how the game looks now and what you can do on free to play mode. Thanks for sharing.

[@fosterbennington6405]

The amount of stuff you can do in it almost makes me want to do it

[@hnbeasto]

Dude i did this back in 2008 when my account got bugged rolling from the tbc > wotlk upgrade, it became a wotlk account but couldnt download the wotlk files for whatever reason at the time. Left my in a 3 month limbo of trial account spamming.. Back when they were 10 days each haha, 10 hotmail accounts later I finally got my main account back working haha. This just gave me the ultimate nostalgia trip, love the vid man! The things I used to do just to play with my friends ay, WoW was social media before social media lol

[@LiveToRidee]

this was a great video and really captured some important wow nuances you really should do more WoW videos like this one

[@khildrak]

The Mining montage..... so good!

[@inkognitopracholochos]

This video boosted your channel a lot. from 500-1000views you now have video with 123k views. Amazing.

[@marineentertainment6118]

For VH, you can chose the exact boss sequence by clicking the torch things that are located in various locations in that dungeon, the order you click them in dictates the boss line up, I didn’t see anything about this on the internet at all, either I was lucky 4 times in a row after clicking them in a certain order, or its a overlooked part of the dungeon, and to reach that TBC dungeon, get the anti gravity toy to boost you in the air and goblin glider to it, or there’s also a trinket from MOP, it drops from a rare elite in the vale that also boosts you in the air

[@TheWideMurloc]

You might’ve gotten lucky. iirc all those little switches do is clear all the trash that are currently up in the room

[@kearbyrichter3903]

This was an awesome video man, you had my attention for the entire video

[@jasonstaubach6846]

One of the best wow vids I’ve watched in years

[@ethsailliamswa]

Awesome vid homie!

[@axey7476]

This was awesome man and put together very well

[@Gamebit450]

Entertaining as hell good sir! Kinda fun looking but as well I do not think I could have that much patients!

[@nmagrig]

This was totally enjoyable to watch! Great work!

[@NRGs0urc3]

very nice, i love it! it looks very fun. now i just have to wait for my sub to end to get on this journey myself

[@tim-w]

I mean I'll be honest I did this years ago when the free to play model was first introduced, but it's wonderful seeing other players take part in the same fun. I used a hunter for my experience and it was pretty good.

[@LordFanor]

That was really cool.I also quite liked the beard sub-plot.

[@MarinersLegacy]

Really well made video man I loved this!

[@AlexanderOGK613]

Great story bro , i really enjoyed it !

[@Soullscape]

loved this man, I Hope to see you on the battlefield if you ever do retail wow world pvp!

[@TrappedGT]

You're going places, keep up the good quality and entertaining videos!

[@kentablade]

I remember when I got "Universal Explorer" in Shadowlands solely as a level 20 free trialer. That was a cool adventure but your story sounds much more intriguing.

[@NeXoN369]

I love the amount of effort put into the editing.

[@dan2tw0]

Happened to stumble across this video during my playthrough as F2P as well, this was really well made. I would enjoy a series of this where you try to do more stuff as F2P!

[@PootisPenserPow]

I played a ton of starter back in mop, its wild how much more content you can do at 20 now. I was pretty much locked to WC

[@liamconley3637]

I know that I am a little late to the party but you absolutely can solo strathholm. It does take a long time but it is very possible because there are no insta-kill macanics. I ran the dugeon on a lvl20 to make sure and I could did it without dieing. Great video otherwise!

[@LimethiefSoftware]

Dude, you really are a madman. I got a lvl 19 PvP Twink some years ago and played like 30 hours (before heirloom times) to equipp him like i wanted, but this is madness! I like that!

[@aranxmalkeenian8647]

At the start of the video I wanted to leave a funny or sarcastic comment, but having watched it to the end, I am left in awe of your dedication to the project - well done!

[@twolegit]

I almost didnt give this video a shot. Well worth it !

[@Swiftrootsdadudu]

This deserves more views. Can't imagine the amount of time you put into this lol. Good job! xD

[@briangregory8223]

You earned my sub just over a minute in. I love this energy

[@loaveth8188]

I don't even play WoW anymore but this was too much fun watching. Keep up the good work sir I subbed I expect more amazing videos like this!

[@torbtheorb3429]

this was an absolutely beautiful journey. thank you for taking us along with you for the ride. when you were trying to get the enchanting mats, what ran through my mind was Tailoring. I main DH with enchanting as my main profession, and I have tailoring as my other one. It allows me to craft the gear to get the mats i need, and it doesn't require another profession to harvest the materials, since it's all dropped from humanoids (or in WoD, Beasts) I recognize that you probably didn't want to lose all the progress you made in Jewelcrafting, so thats why you went with that, but if you (for some reason) do this kind of thing again, you might want to look into tailoring! plus, bags are always nice

[@donshep2305]

This is both amazing and surprising. I'm glad that WoW still has such players who are doing something special

[@islandwalk.]

just a short comment on the quality of the editing. very refreshing to see these fun and unique edits compared to the regurgitated fart/explosion/bonk/etc sounds. i especially liked that tony hawk special edit, that shit was hilarious

[@Nris235]

You can reach TBC dungeons in the sky via darkmoon cannon toy. Done it on my hunter years ago while farming twink gear.

[@TheWideMurloc]

I actually have that on my main, but since it doesn't count as a toybox item (why blizz...) I couldn't use it on my trial and didn't wanna bother farming a limited time event item for the possibility of a trinket that might not even be any good. I mean, to show I'm not just tooting my own horn, I actually forgot about the cannon when I made the video, but there were other darkmoon faire items I willingly opted out of for that reason, so I'm not a TOTAL fraud!

[@Nris235]

No worries, I was just sharing a tip If anyone else wanted to farm those dungeons on their twinks. Cheers!@@TheWideMurloc

[@reduxsenpai9507]

It sounds like you've started losing your mind to get this to work and i'm all for watching it, hilarious and good video!

[@lestibournesw6673]

this was an awesome journey, grerat vid!

[@ShanaGartrex]

This reminds me of the levels of grinding that Solo FFXIV has to go to... And now I'm getting the itch to try this on my own wow account...

[@TheWideMurloc]

maybe its not as bad in heavensward, and my experience with ff14 is from the free trial that stops there...but I didn't really find it to be much of a grind soloing. This has it beat by a long shot, but idk if the grind got worse for solo players after HW

[@SquishyEggo]

Your tale inspires the human spirit!

[@GreenBean451]

Awesome video!!

[@yobachidu6452]

I tip my hat to you. You made wow look really fun to play again to me. Mostly because im into pushing things to its limits with restrictions. I might sacrifice my summer vacation to try this out. Cheers!

[@M4rcent]

Sir, this video was incredibly entertaining to watch. I'm usually not the type writing yt comments and stuff but you deserve so much more viewers and subscribers! I enjoyed every second of this video and your mining montage was just the perfect cherry on top. Especially loved that little Tony Hawks reference 😂😄 Keep on keeping on!

[@womedrah1415]

it's actually crazy watching your hair grow as the video goes on, you look like a mad man, good job

[@DVNNYXD]

Fantastic science video for the world of Warcraft series. Was cool to see so many old pieces of loot and the journey you went through to obtain them. Really enjoyed watching! Well done!

[@1un4cy]

Fun tip about the i50 restriction on some enchants. They still work if you use them on scaling gear such as heirlooms, if you enchant them before lv17 while they're still under i50.

[@wiballaonasiaa1]

One of the best wow videos ever made

[@V1510N_]

i love to see that you made every class on the roster in your selection screen and leveled them up in the trial version

[@TheWideMurloc]

Going through the enchants lately, It seems one of the patches between when this video was made and now changed the rules for item levels required to apply enchants to gear. So the section of this video talking about the best enchants MAY be out of date, and I'd encourage you to do your own experimentation if you're looking to do this yourself

[@IbrahimFlatEarth]

dude you made my day

[@IbrahimFlatEarth]

btw remix is killing it now or at least 10 days ago

[@Thoinks_]

Great video with a great story and great quality, however, I'm subbing because you have a crosshair in the middle of your screen like we boutta go to gravemind in Halo 2. Keep making vids bro, wow needs more chill content creators. Hope anyone reading this is doing swell out there and happy new years!

[@twocows360]

Awesome video, loved it!

[@haritheyez7054]

I wish I could like this video more than once. You inspired me to get back in to thinking!

[@SonySteals]

The dude min-maxed the amount of fun you can get from free to play xDDD Great video, I had a lot of fun listening to his journey.

[@cEighteen]

This video told a story, & that's why its such a great, high quality video.

[@Rodarch]

Hey ive played alot of wow, and watched alot of wow videos. This was truly, and utterly amazing.

[@Vladd0r]

Even though I'll never touch the game ever again, I still love videos like this one 👍😍.

[@Qckikogaming]

First vid I’ve seen of yours but that tony hawk grind just bought yourself a sub 🤣🤣

[@michaelbrink4474]

One of the best WOW vids I've ever seen.

[@jackcranmer4904]

You being capped at 20 and min maxing that makes me think I of how SOD is playing rn in phase 1 ahahaha this vid was awesome!

[@TheWideMurloc]

I actually started this idea before SoD was annnounced and one of my friends was asking me for tips to prep for it once it was announced 😂

[@virriusprincess]

Loved the video! Wow is such an expansive an open game that it saddens me how the majority of players only focus on the endgame, there's tons of contents and ways to play! Reminds me of when I got into the game and fell in love with Pandaria then proceeded to lock my XP to experience all of the region with the appropriate difficulty incluing all the rep grinds just bc I thought it'd be fun

[@TheWideMurloc]

WoW has suffered from this ever since tbc, and id love for them to take another page out of GW2's book and make more of the actual content evergreen rather than invalidating everything that came before the most recent patch

[@herpmcderp5707]

This is a great video and I would start playing WoW again but I also dont wanna feed Blizzard $15 a month. The THPS reference at 35:56 is just excellent, I have no other words.

[@rasmizielund4848]

Hello, I twink. With the gravity well toy and the goblin glider you can almost fly. I use it to get to certain dungeons for gear.

[@blainrosenberry142]

Great video man, KZbin Suggested a good one this time!