I played an ILLEGAL WoW server for 30 days

[@lfpurpose]

Just finished watching this video. I don't play WoW and I had no clue what was happening the entire video. I don't even know why I watched it. I'm so fucking high help

[@MistahTeeLecksAhFly]

lmfao

[@syclipseyt]

LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@Lcsisgod]

Lol that be them dab pens my guy

[@Audacik]

LOL

[@yungliquidfire8605]

LMAO

[@pytho8]

I quit Ascension a few years ago because I used so much time making a great build, worked on items, worked on learning all spells and ids so that I knew the interactions. I told the devs about what I did, what worked and explained how this role (who did not damage) was a full support build in raids and how it helped raids zoom through bosses. The reaction? They "fixed issues" and made the build totally useless.

[@kiefguru]

rookie mistake, dont speak with devs man

[@logomarkz]

Nothing better than getting nerfed when you beat a certain dev in the 1v1.

[@garrettsmith6549]

@@kiefguru this. As a gamer for over 20 years. Can never show shit to the devs that you enjoy. This goes for majority of games and majority of devs. Better to not speak wit hthem at all about anything cause they simply dont care until they can find a way to fuck you over

[@nmbuggin]

lmao why would you talk to devs about anything, rookie mistake

[@Omnivoid22]

Next time keep your mouth shut

[@bobbyrtghrh4142]

Bro legit gone for months and now he dropping hour long masterpieces. I love you Mr Rain Man

[@Reyon88]

'masterpiece' lol you must be so easy to entertain, you love watching paint dry

[@fudgefudge8913]

@@Reyon88 and you love eating dry paint. We all have quirks.

[@RobinBatesJr]

this is recycled content from other clips :D

[@Reyon88]

@@fudgefudge8913 gaymo

[@FlockofSmeagles]

You know its ai right?

[@Mahawskar]

I can't believe it... a 5 hour BANGER

[@JATGPisGOD]

That was possibly the funniest segway i've ever seen into your mega-compilation, well done

[@debatinghealer]

Man I still remember

[@Shimakaze69]

Glad your back for good bro! Can't wait for more Kenshi,rimworld/mount n blade!

[@aeosyne5963]

I was wondering why your ascension vids disappeared, good to see this series come back

[@amirali4428]

I have net lagg issues with ascension classless but watching videoes like yours makes me want to find a way to fix the problem to try out this game. Wish me luck

[@trmplays]

The server is in Europe somewhere I think

[@amirali4428]

@@trmplays thnx i'll try some eu vpns. Maybe it'll get better

[@kristianbarrenechea]

WOW, this is a huge video. gonna watch it right now. Love u Chris

[@SolomonsProxy]

Nice to see you are still passionate about these long videos.

[@optic_faze_gaming6063]

Just wanted to say you're my top content creator, i love your variety and always appreciate you man.

[@JPLX99]

thank you and love you mr rain man now i have a banger piece of content to watch on my free time!

[@zwingler]

Immense banger, this will be my go-to video to rewatch for the next few days.

[@duven3040]

Great content TRM! You're one of the only content creators I watch

[@weedvszombies4015]

TRM its been a few years since I watched you, since the League days. Happy to have a drop in my recommended

[@al470ex12]

Man this video dropped at the perfect time, I was sick as fuck and was looking for something to watch. Thanks for the awesome long video!

[@trmplays]

Glad I could be of help 😄

[@benrodir2]

crazy, I am sick af right now due to blood loss, randomly found this video. Time to binge!

[@trmplays]

Enjoy 😄

[@clm89]

Weird timing, I was just scrolling through your channel looking for these videos a couple days ago, was sad when I noticed you removed them... and then BAM long form of them all together today xD

[@JDGabe33]

I'm excited to bench watch this, glad you're back !!

[@thatpigeondude]

binge

[@fluoridegood4you622]

Neat, cheers for the deep dive into weird and wonderful aspects of online gaming.

[@BMHansen18]

Glad you're back and posting again

[@magiclong]

Holy shit what an insane banger of a video, thank you for the sick content bro 🔥

[@gaugea]

love seeing u pop up in my feed brotha

[@trickyleblanc]

I've been playing for years it's so addicting! Season 9 is so good with the addition of rolling for talents as well.

[@Yarsito]

Oh my god my man is out here blessing us, banger video after banger video

[@dowz0r]

love this long format bro, but then again I'm addicted to the OSRS crack atm, so videos like these are great lol. Had a lot of fun playing this server back in march. leveling in PVP was always the way to go. Awesome server though, would be scared that blizzard targets it one day. The thing that put me off back then though was the neccessity to play some meta, cookie cutter build. Like theres so many cool synergies and builds you could experiment with, but you can't.

[@tsutomumiyazaki7062]

Glad League content is kinda dying I always thought your non-league videos were great this just takes the cake you've been on fire lately man keep pushing.

[@Stillfastasf]

3:44:30 It's mostly just because they're trying to get the playerbase to all play together. The more things they do that split players apart, such as multiple difficulties of raids, multiple difficulties of dungeons, 10 different tiers of call-board quests that make it so higher ilvl gets better rewards BUT ALSO have them do harder/different quests, all while a lot of the game being pvp focused just splits players up too much. While it isn't the greatest solution, the ilvl affecting the chest loots kinda makes sense in that context, but I do think that it should be based off of OWNED ilvl and not equipped. Hell, they could even just have a gear set saver that lets you save your highest ilvl stuff as a set specifically for it at an npc or something, but not require you to equip it? But, yeah, I think it's mostly to try to get all players to generally be able to interact and play together since it's a private server with quite a few different things to do as it is. And, yes, I'm aware this is a while ago, but maybe you still want some answers lol

[@Madjack58270]

Glad to hear my guy McDoubles is getting the credit he deserves!!!!

[@TheSwedishTomato]

Good stuff as always, keep it up!

[@thebouse26]

this video is probably the best guide to playing ascension out there. obviously it's very long but this is the only video i've found that comprehensively explains all parts of ascension wow even if you've never played wow or ascension. if you want to give ascension an honest try definitely watch the first hour or two and feel free to then skip around to parts that interest you (timestamps in comments). you won't find a more comprehensive guide on youtube i guarantee you the 10-30 mins ascension youtube guides will not give you enough info beyond leveling 1-60. also your editing skills are incredible and it makes it very easy to understand the tons of loot drops, gold, AH, skill cards, talent cards, and when to just vendor items which is incredibly overwhelming on ascension. 10/10 edit: good to see a mcdoubles shoutout also ascension needs more content creators like you guys.

[@boyinpyjamas]

wow look at that illegal gaming xD there goes my 5 hours well done man.

[@horkie]

After 6 months of automated replies, countless attempts on various socials they have and yet I still don't have my account back. Blizzard have to be the WORST fkin compnay right now for anything. playing project ascension will always be a 10000x better experience than any current blizzard wow content.

[@BloodyN1nja]

Outside of season 9, Project Ascension is one of my favorite MMOs, full stop. My only issue with Season 9 is the wildcard talents. Love the merging of the big REs into normal ability and talent lists tho. Also enjoyed normal wildcard

[@VesonoYT]

5 hours?! duuude hell yes. love your videos man been watching for years. already watched basically all of these episodes seperately but this will be great background noise

[@Gormezzz]

The world is background noise when I pay Raymonds videos

[@jimmyjanson8898]

I like the longer format videos

[@thepicvsso8523]

Hey, I don't know whether somebody has already asked that, but could you please list addons you used through out the vid?

[@cactuscantshoot]

I don't know which add-ons he used but ascension's launcher has an one click install feature for quite a few nice add ons.

[@trmplays]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJinYZZ9qrCVeZosi=8h8GUSoAD8c9hvOF

[@loser1233]

Just finished binging all 5 hours, and I don't regret it at all.

[@Gormezzz]

Currently Van life-ing inbetween jobs, grateful to have this downloaded to rewatch, thanks Raymond

[@bronchiel]

So he has been infected? Good, let Ascension flow through you, this drug is unlike any other. Also to anyone that plays, just so you know, you can select your skill and talent cards at any point in the game now, so the meta is rolling first to see what you get with only your starter abilities and only reroll what’s necessary as you add and change your cards at max level. You cannot change the cards once you lock them in though.

[@trmplays]

So the longer you wait to pick your cards the better?

[@bronchiel]

@@trmplays It essentially comes down to it, yes. You can get the skills and talents you want through rolls and you won’t have to use up the card slots you’re given.

[@trmplays]

Very interesting thanks for the info 👍

[@uncutdank]

​@@bronchielcan I get a link to these facts please.

[@Shujee.]

Warband got a new driver called WSE2 and makes literally every mod so enhanced and better looking, you should do a hardcore playthrough or something. Miss you man😭😭😭

[@NoctisAtra]

I go back to Ascension every few months, it's fun. I do play it to kinda experience wow without paying for retail sub, but also because their classless random ability rolling is cool and their custom classes they have in the ptr server are pretty cool

[@uroslepojevic3116]

Trm do you have a discord or somewhere where your active i cant catch your streams because of time zones

[@trmplays]

I haven't streamed in awhile

[@Rack_Lee]

i watched this vid all the way through now and i am even more interested in ascension but i got a question. Is raiding not a thing there ? And wasn't it BC usually not vanilla based ?

[@trmplays]

There is raiding as far as I know. I didn't do any this season though

[@jinn_val]

There is raiding, most encounters have been reworked and there's 4 baseline difficulties available with different lockouts and gear quality that drops from them. Seasonal (Shown in the video) goes from vanilla to TBC (Currently in vanilla)

[@uvisblumbergs8911]

most people prefer raiding because pvp can be unbalanced af

[@sworldmaster]

Basically just a destiny style Item-Level Scaling, Equip higher level higher, Drop higher level items, Equip those new items, drop even better items, to incentivize you to use the new items you're getting even if they are not as good initially because of a higher item level. period.

[@Flyingracoon69]

Still watching it since 2 Hours now. Holy Moly i like it so much!

[@Fluffytehcat]

Oh dude when you pulled out the "epic weave" it hurt my soul, never do that to me again XD

[@xinlou6707]

Ascension is when the devs are passionate, engage in conversations with players on world chat on daily basis, INSTA ban botters and gold sellers and with Conquest of Azeroth which is progressive vanilla but with 21 custom classes in alpha right now, i'm sorry but fuck blizzard and their retail and classic anyone who spends a few hours on Ascension will instantly never go back to retail

[@Flegado]

Conquest is amazing

[@Syfmuna]

my dude is back with the best content on youtube

[@danielhanson1434]

is this still popular or is it better to wait for next season? any idea when the next season starts?

[@venarioo]

Its very popular. Also they now have new server with 21 brand new classess avaliable. Its behind a paywall though. There are still ways to get it for free, like giveaways or in game gold from AH.

[@MarlowSmith-x1u]

ascension wow was fun at first.. and then i hit max level and found out you can donate money to get rerolls for gear..which just makes it p2w and it isnt random at all

[@deadromon6991]

yoo, I was wondering why I was not getting any notifications from your channel, good shit, watching it now!

[@DarthSidian]

A whole WoW server movie? Damn.

[@wulfrus8459]

Nice video! Love the way you explain your theory crafting!

[@jonxalle5264]

FYI, D2 resurrected has been adding new content, they've added new runewords, items, charms, etc. They've added random "hot zones" where the mobs are your level +2 and the areas are rotated every hour (available in single player too).. so if you're 90 then the mobs are 92. The charms reduce enemy resistances to break enemy immunities making a lot more builds viable.. and the entire reskin was extremely well done..

[@paimon9072]

what mods do you use in the video?

[@trmplays]

I have a video going over them in the description

[@sp5rk]

perfect timing about to do archaeology all day ahahaha

[@scubandym1941]

Sweet mother of mercy a five hour video! Cool

[@RetirededKat]

I love that the most popular suffix is a custom one with a typo.

[@Justinbranch-z4u]

Make esf your movement and make d mount Bind q>t. Shiftq> shiftt Bind caps>g shifta>shiftg Bind z>b. Shiftz>shiftb

[@tchamikos]

Ascension was amazing dude, played with a buddy when it was kinda new, we just sat and re-rolled for hours to get the 4 perfect starting abilities (you couldn't lock abilites back then). When you finally got what you wanted it was imba, just for you to get shit abilites later on and redo the character again 💀

[@RetMagnetik]

Mcdoubles mentioned, he deserves mentions, man is hard and honest working :)

[@daveraddy3119]

dude i remember you from YEARS ago when you played mount and blade: Warband modded!

[@bigbigx2250]

Buying an xp potion on ascension is like buying a level boost on retail but somehow less worth it

[@FecalMatador]

Except he just showed you how he could get 50 xp potions, for free? And the xp aura can be bought with gold

[@Bromu_]

@@FecalMatador Do you have the timestamp please ?

[@FecalMatador]

@@Bromu_ don’t remember xD. But if you go to ascension website, you can go to account overview, and do the security questions for free store points, that can be used to by xp pots/aura pots

[@trmplays]

​@@Bromu_ it's pretty early on in the video, like almost immediately after the intro

[@lawlmatty712]

@@Bromu_ 6:34 is when he starts talking about it. The silver coins are "Loyalty Points" or LP, you can earn 50 LP by doing the account set up, henceforth getting you a free 50 xp potions. Been playing ascension for about a year now and ive been absolutely loving it and recommend it to anyone that doesnt like retail, for whatever reason, but does love WoW

[@PeaceTea]

i quit paying for wow membership when i found out about this server years ago, why waste my money when I could play a better version for free..

[@DomhnallOConnmhaigh]

Was starting to get worried about you, missed your content my guy

[@krisztiannkiss]

Wth I had actual withdrawal symptoms, thought he went on a well deserved holiday. My man was just cooking

[@deadlyskorpion7276]

i would love to try it but it looks way too crowded with so many ui things, is there a thing for make it at least 50% less shiny and in your face?

[@venarioo]

It's really straightforward once You try it. Then if You get lost look for guidance. Unless You havent played wow before, then it can get overwhelming.

[@rellicproduction]

im trying to figure out if this is the old series made into one video, or one long new video

[@CobiChallenge]

Same

[@trmplays]

Watch it to find out 😉

[@tonyravioli1982]

Man I am kicking myself because I can't find where you show the frickin macro 😂 Glory to the comments i found it. Love you man

[@MrBlackstaz]

I always love you videos, i'm happy to see that you rage less on the server and just play for what it is (nothing serious)

[@nikolayordanov3115]

The last time ascension wow was fun was 2019. Nowadays talents and spells have gone through many crazy changes and also they've added new talents and spells, some old being kicked away.

[@Kronosxviii1]

O.o private servers aren't illegal though, blizzard has a legal section that allows people to run them as long as they follow a set of 6 or so rules from what I lost saw. Now streaming a private server on the twitch on the other hand, is iffy as twitches rules are old and slow to update as usual.

[@ManneV]

can you play manastorm as a duo. was just wondering

[@trmplays]

Ya but I think it gets harder the more players are in it

[@ManneV]

@@trmplays yeah. was thinking about playing it with my friend and duoing like that seems like it would be kinda chill

[@Suited_]

Yo trm, idk if you know or not, but theres a streamer guild for the classic hardcore fresh servers coming up, run by sodapoppin!! Could be a really cool challenge for a video leveling to 60 and raiding with no deaths, and making content too, maybe try and hop in. They even developed a proximity voice chat addon for classic!

[@rinner2801]

This looks pretty fun but I think I'd be overwhelmed.

[@markymark4668]

Nah it's not so bad. Get to level 60 without worrying about making the best build, it'll take you a few hours. Once you hit 60, you'll know how most of this works. I've started playing a few days ago when I was sick off work and I made a mistake because I played for 12 hours per day every single day. It's so fun. Also if you don't know what talents to roll for etc. you'll be able to find some builds online. Not a lot of info is out there and I've noticed people keep builds private which makes the server even better and gets you to explore like the good days.

[@tabor98]

Holy shit the GOAT cooked!

[@beattheovenludwigvan]

Does the demon only spawn at lvl 60?

[@seleckt6600]

I've been on and off with ascension since it's inception when it was named Awakened close to 10 years ago. In the last year or two, they've taken a really bad downward turn. They're really actively playing by the numbers now. Balancing and designing based on spreadsheets rather than by fun. Which defeats the point of a private server in the first place. The developers are now treating the server as Blizzard would. Which kills the enjoyment of it. Which is ironic, because Blizzard aped a lot of the ideas from Ascension and stuck them into Season of Discovery. The entire healing mage chronomancer that is currently in SoD was created in Ascension years ago. Same with Tank lock, and tank shaman. It's just really not fun anymore. They are trying really hard to inflate playtime and push microtransactions by injecting RNG into it to an unhealthy degree. It's a very corporate approach to what's meant to be a step away from a corporate run game. It used to be extremely fun.

[@EntitySteel]

*Buys extra exp%* Yeah guys this quest orb is pretty pay to win, this is surprising for this server.

[@georgeDeming]

cant you buy them in the auction house?

[@EntitySteel]

@@georgeDeming The only way the item exists is through paying the server real life money, so it doesn't matter if you can or not.

[@uncutdank]

​@@EntitySteelwhich is what keeps this private server online entirely. Without the store, there is no server

[@Spac3Pho3nix]

Quite literally is streamable, i have messages from twitch saying it is avaible to stream. Ascension is so different that it was qualified for a seperate version of wow. Plus it has its own category on twitch. You can also stream it on youtube. And to those who want to message back, no I didnt watch the full video nor do i care. I dont have 5 hours to just sit here and watch this full thing.

[@trmplays]

If u get a lot of viewers they may strike its been done in the past with private servers

[@zirene5237]

Looking at the insane amount of customization they've been able to do to a game they don't even own compared to SoD should be embarrassing for Blizzard.

[@jtaylor3609]

I miss your mount and blade play throughs.

[@shroomer3867]

I used to play on Ascension not because I couldn't afford the subscription to classic, but because I grew so uncomfortable with blizz after: - Blitzchung censorship - Sexual harrassment - Warlords of Draenor and Battle for Azeroth expansions having been greenlit - Absolutely no support for newer players (didn't affect me as much, but it meant that I couldn't introduce anyone from my friends to the game) - Overwatch being in the ruins at that time and then them doing "Overwatch 2" And more, in the end I stopped playing WoW altogether as I weaved myself off of MMOs by trying different ones like Oldschool Runescape and FFXIV Online. Then just quit altogether. The only MMO I come back to occasionally for 1 month of play time is OSRS because you can just leave the character and there's not going to be some new level 120 to grind, the character is where you mostly left it at with maybe a few more quests to complete. Also there's no incentive to level up "alts" other than for Ironman sake or some PvP build, which is a bonus for me because I saw alt leveling as an additional waste of time created by Blizzard so players don't go insane while waiting for new content or at least it felt like that when they started to introduce race after race so people have a reason to level new alts even though it offers no real advantage other than money making but you only need 3-4 alts with different professions for that.

[@trmplays]

Good points!

[@Aurn1]

wait so is this all of the old vids? or a new video?

[@Gormezzz]

Yes

[@Stillfastasf]

lmfao, I love the repeated hate on Commander Springvale while you have 2 fears and a thunderstorm knock which, I'm pretty sure, both work on him lol. 2:20:00 in about, so let's see if he figures it out o.o

[@ahetzel9054]

There's an item you buy for like 50 silver that turns pve items into blood forged items. Called like a pot of blood or something near the call board. I think it's a troll NPC, don't really remember, been years since I've played

[@trmplays]

Yeah they changed it so it costs a lot of gold per item to bloodforge, at least it was that way while I was recording

[@beattheovenludwigvan]

They changed that. My enchant gold hack is fixed

[@Luckybonick]

Okay I'm only 3 minutes in, but people that played WC3 were INCREDIBLY excited for Reforged, my entire old clan got back together the second it got announced. It turning out to be complete garbage is seperate from it being ''just a reskin''

[@trmplays]

What were they excited about though? I played wc3 since release and I don't remember hearing a single thing teased about reforged that sounded interesting to me. But maybe I just didn't pay enough attention

[@Luckybonick]

@@trmplays The fact that WC3 was getting ANYTHING mostly, if it got a good remake, that was pretty much confirmation it'd get more support again, or maybe even WC4. Of course we all know how all of that ended....

[@trmplays]

Ehh I'd agree if it wasn't blizzard 🤣 we all saw what they did with wow and Diablo.

[@BunnyHoppin-]

As someone who never stopped playing customs, reforged was a downgrade in multiple ways(lots of broken custom maps, horrible desyncs). However, it did improve a few things(new player colors, 24 player maps, more powerful map editor). But the biggest issue was all the new players coming back with no maps downloaded after blizzard axed hosting bots. Those bots had massive catalogs of customs downloaded and were ready for the average player who dosnt know how to download them from online sources. This amounts to people playing the same 15-20 maps with no variety. Prior to reforged the remaining players were happy to try maps they had never played before.

[@Luckybonick]

@@BunnyHoppin- oh I fully agree with you, reformed ruined a lot of things.

[@BektanTG]

the ammount of effort that was put into this video... /clap

[@MethicalYT]

Interesting it took me 3 months to even notice this video as an Ascension main player / content creator

[@trmplays]

Better late than never

[@MethicalYT]

@@trmplays 🤝

[@DapiroStanislav]

No dk abilities, looks like they were not betrayed by lich king in this multiverse

[@dyderikm5819]

Waiting for their Bronzebeard server to launch, shit is gonna be dope.

[@tharyeoman9690]

There are mount and blade 2 mods out would love to see you play those.

[@ScreamVOXScream]

can watch this entire vid easily bro

[@JDoeX]

Dude, I have been playing wow on and off and being more bored than ever, I went all in on SoD, full nolife tryhard, hoping this is it, this is the future, this is best! Of course as always with Blizzard, I was disappointed af already at phase2. So then I discovered Ascension and holy cow, it makes SoD look like botched up amateur hour. Ascension Season9 is literally what SoD shoulda been. My absolute most favorite thing is that they implemented M+ keys like system to classic raids, so now you can literally do BWL +9 and sweat your ass off for cool cosmetics additional to usual BWL loot. Thanks to Ascension I was hyped about "wow" again after almost a decade of just thinking "why am i even playing this, oh well, nothing else to play anyway" to "holy sheet, i have a reason to get out of bed in the morning again!"

[@trmplays]

Amateur hour 🤣

[@iLikePizza829]

"people play private servers to avoid 15$ a month" was true like 15 years ago. Right now ? There is no reason at all to play any blizzard server. Private servers have real GM's to solve your issues, moderate their chats, take actions against RMT, ban bots on daily basis and (who would have thought) actually care about us having fun. Now compare it to blizzard ? On some servers literally 50% population are bots farming gold, your ticket responses are copy-pasta and nobody cares if they solved your issue, on top of that you have fkin glorified blizzard RMT in form of token. This company is pathetic excuse of what Blizzard used to be.

[@bloodymortifying]

The Rain Man strikes back!

[@nizze5461]

Sounds weird but i love watching these videos when going to bed helps me sleep faster

[@heyafehya]

the only reason i dont play ascension is because i already enjoy how paladin is designed, there's nothing about the whole skill randomizer gameplay that appeals to me. plus i'm not a big fan of seasonal realm stuff, feels too much like black desert (yes i know bliz has a seasonal server in classic, but i obviously don't play that either). I see the audience it has, but it just ain't my cup of tea. don't hate anything about it tho

[@cuneytunsal5422]

Felforged was so good, its a shame we cant play it anymore