WHY I LOVE CLASSIC WORLD OF WARCRAFT - Part 1: The World Itself

[@DerpingtonTM87]

My first character I made, the one I play to this day, was a Dwarf hunter made just after the release of patch 3.3. I hadn't played any RPG or open world game yet so everything was crazy amazing to me. I remember thinking the world was huge when I was just in the secluded starting town in Dun Morogh. Eventually, I got lost trying to find the Ice Trolls that were on top of one of the mountains, and ended up on a peak that gave me a full view of the zone. The biggest "World" I had played in at that point were the worlds in Banjo, DK 4, and Mario 64. To see the near entirety of Dun Morogh blew my 13rd old mind. I then saw the button on the map to zoom out, seeing not just the small area I discovered, but the whole zone's size, then the whole continent, then Kalimdor and Northrend, and then a WHOLE OTHER PLANET. When I saw that and looked back out at the beautiful snowy landscape, I went to my parents and told them I wanted a full subscription, just 4hrs after my trial began. I cherish that memory dearly. And should WoW ever go under, I will have my character sit there, on that peak, one last time...

[@Nerobyrne]

I have similar memories of Teldrassil with my Nightelf druid

[@bertalanbordas8864]

My first character too was a dwarf hunter. I created him in 2005.... and I still play the same char. Though I changed his hair to gray in the third xpac and white in the last one. In some philosophical plane I sort of believe that dwarf exists.

[@Zolkte]

WoW already went under, you might as well place your character there, because the World of Warcraft is dead.

[@Nerobyrne]

@@Zolkte yes it's dead. I mean it's only one of the biggest MMOs in terms of subscribers, but it's totally dead. It's only in the top 15 games being streamed in Twitch right now with almost 17k people. It's totally dead guys!

[@Zolkte]

@@Nerobyrne what you're currently playing is not World of Warcraft, just an abomination, what you're playing is an instanced single player RNG based dress up game with multiplayer features.

[@GermanBoy00]

In Warcraft 3 I always loved the nightelf race and that's why my first character was a nelf warrior. I remember exactly the intro and how my warrior stood there and I had no clue what to do. I was completely amazed by the peaceful music, the atmosphere and the wonderful landscape. I started to mimic other people and kill mobs and do quests. Already in the starter zone I made a friend, which remained to be my best WoW friend until the end of TBC. I will never forget his name and how he teached me the game. I met him while continiously dying at that cave quest, where a lot of gremlins were and at it's end you were supposed to kill a dude for his head. He was also playing a warrior and it was already his 2nd char. At that time I was 18 and he 46, but we used to be like the best buddies. That's one of the best things I loved the most in WoW: ingame everyone was equal. I played with soldiers, family guys, assrich managers of big concerns, simple workers, students, teachers, unemployed... I learned so many facets of different people and heard so many life time stories, that it might be the reason, why I studied psychology later. WoW also helped me to overcome my then depression (my best rl friend and uncle died in the same year) and I learned to come out of my introvert character. But back to the topic: I will never forget the first time when I entered Astranaar, which was like a huge city to easily get lost for me and when I accidently ran into that red thing, which turned out to be a teleporter to the docs, I pressed "m" and realized how gigantic the world was.... I've spent like 5 days in the starting zone to hit lvl 10 and had so much fun but on the map it was only a pin on a huge world map. I was so hyped and curious to explore all that, that I could barely sleep, because I couldn't await the next day. My second "WOW-reaction" I had by exploring Stormwind for the first time: I was leveling in Wetlands, when a random dude asked me to come with him to Ironforge (which also ended up in a long friendship). By the way the journey to Ironforge was also one of the most memorable experiences for me... We died uncountable times to crocs, gnolls, orcs, enemy action skull-lvl-players, passed beautiful zones and asked people multiple times for the way... But we made it. I didn't even realize that Ironforge was a city, I thought it was a tunnel system, like the mines of Moria in Lord of the Rings. We took the tram to SW and when I first entered the city I was completely blown away by that music, districts that all looked different, houses and castles to enter and all that people everywhere. It was simply incredible. The same impact had Orgrimmar at me by the way too. That big gates, the drums, when you walk trough the gates, the enormous amount of people... WOW. I could wallow in the past forever, there were so many other exciting and awesome experiences... First time deadmines where I ended up in being a complete noob at tanking and got kicked after needing on the 4th pants in a row, my first 40 ppl raid on my druid (I abandoned the warrior after that horrible deadmines experience), which was Molten Core, my first epic mount, etc. etc. Man, so proud I was there at those times :))

[@griffinh7162]

Nixxiom: “No two storylines were repeated” BFA: *starts sweating*

[@j4kfr05t5]

It's because there were no storylines to begin with.

[@zsoltsiro1310]

@@j4kfr05t5 hmm? Reginald? Onyxia? All the main bosses? Basically ALL the attunement quests were storylines

[@j4kfr05t5]

@@zsoltsiro1310 No, they were not. They were a bunch of menial tasks thrown together to make getting into a raid a grind. Onyxia was the only atunement that had any resemblance to a story.

[@42Nightsyesterday]

@@j4kfr05t5 looks like someone didn't read the quest text

[@melvingunnarsson7024]

:DD

[@Chronicsonic23]

One of my best memories was when my gf and I were questing on Low level toons, me a prot warrior and her a resto shaman. We wandered into blasted lands and ran into a rare spawn dragon that was skull level to us. We spent THREE HOURS trying to kill that thing in a single fight! She didn't run out of mana because she had a good amount of mana-per-5 stats on her gear (wonder if anyone remembers that stat) and made good use of her water shield purposely getting hit occasionally to proc it for even more mana. It may not have dropped anything useful but the level of accomplishment we felt after finally killing the thing was tremendous.

[@Mg95a]

First character: Night Elf Priest and I remember skipping the quest for the Satyr, where he gets you to kill sabers, spiders and owls because the reason why I loved night elves was their love of nature and protecting it and how attached they were to it and the whole quest felt...wrong. It felt wrong to play a night elf and kill those creatures. I also remember jumping off Teldrassil and I also remember being level 13 and refusing to leave Darnassus through the purple portal because I was scared it might take me to a level 50+ zone.

[@hwbierce6548]

Nice job putting a fresh spin on an all-too-often repeated theme. All-too-often, but somehow I never getting tired of watching "Why I Love Classic WoW" videos.

[@Genalaus]

Blizzard's world building was leagues ahead of its time. Not only the did they create a large world but they created a detailed and lived in world. Size by itself will never trump immersive detail. I'm glad this was your first video as this is the number one thing that truly grabs players attention.

[@Evilpricetag]

It's both great and to bad they hadn't went the full scale the originally intended, Goldshire was once 10x bigger, several Alliance cities were massive, but they realize the scale they were making it was not time friendly, and they also needed to be sure to have capital cities fairly balanced. And they intended to add a survival skills, needing torches for light in special places for instance.. Imagine 10x Azeroth with Red Dead 2 survival requirements. You'd probably never leave a town without a group.

[@Genalaus]

@@Evilpricetag I do remember that now that you mention it and that definitely would've made the game feel extremely different. Though I do think that the exclusion of the survival portion allowed for the better story experience that players got from the game. Though I would've like a more fleshed out city. Now, something I wish they'd have kept was the actual night time they used to have instead of the semi day time in night time hours.

[@Hydronix006]

@@Genalaus I don't understand, why they don't add night hours. No real ones. Some odd number, such that everyone will have night and day times.

[@Genalaus]

@@Hydronix006 Sorry for the confusing way I put that. Essentially night time in wow used to actually be dramatically dark compared to the day time. But they brightened up the night time bcuz some players didn't like it.

[@Genalaus]

@@Hydronix006 I also understand what you are saying to in that players see night time at different times from one another. Am I right?

[@niklas4627]

June 2005. I made my night elf warrior and i to this day can visualise myself entering Darnassus for the first time. The epicness the music! Everything was just perfect and remember thinking. This is only a tiny piece of the world? My god what a game and what an adventure it was. Not at all like today!

[@kabronzdx]

Vanilla had more people around and you needed help for almost everything and if you quested with someone more than once, that person would become your mate

[@floridaboz1]

I really agree with this, most my world of warcraft friends came from classic to wrath, after that, nothing. I can't wait for classic wow to come back.

[@TipsOutBaby]

Cant wait to play classic with this SHREDDED, DOMINANT ALPHA MALE

[@GemayelDaniel]

I wish you guys were on EU and not NA

[@meredithswanson6873]

@@GemayelDaniel Nixxiom is on EU servers...

[@NeinnLive]

can’t stand it... this f***ing feeling that I have to wait till summer... but let’s first take a look @ tomorrow

[@jethrodark2372]

U think u want it but u dont.

[@meredithswanson6873]

@@jethrodark2372 oof

[@Sarkkoth]

Back when the game felt like you were actually entering another world rather than logging into a game.

[@rayheller9747]

get a life and some pussy, holy shit.

[@SensationalBanana]

Man you nostalgia addicts are delusional.

[@Silenced_by_Utoob]

Those who don't understand, never played vanilla lol.

[@FreakyGremlinDK]

My brother just started playing WoW and everything Nixxiom describes is what my brother experiences right now. It's all nostalgia. You just played the game for so long that you just see it for what it is. A game.

[@Silenced_by_Utoob]

Theres nostalgia for a reason. I didnt have nostalgia playing counterstrike, wc3, starrcraft, or any games before vanilla WoW. Vanilla was just that good.

[@jacobirving8999]

Dam it Nixx... you got me in my feels. I remember walking into Stormwind my first time and seeing lvl 60’s in their epic gear just chilling outside the gates. My first thought? I need my sword to glow.

[@roflTiMeX]

I started playing WoW as a human warrior (I know, I'm not very creative) shortly after BC came out. And the moment that made me fall in love with the game was when I first entered Stormwind. You walk along the road and see a glimpse of the gate between the trees from time to time. And when you finally reach it and step through it, that majestic music hits and I felt really awestruck at that moment. Still one of the best moments I experienced in WoW to this day.

[@TatsuyaWow]

i was teleported there by doing warsong gluch for the first time it was a glitch. it was at night all the light was on it i was unforgettable

[@Roamingfirebat]

It was lovely going there for the first time. I still enjoy spending time in stormwind. My time zone actually helps me because the trade chat is not filled with people selling dungeons/raid runs. No 14 year old idiots say wow is dead. Instead it’s actually filled with people asking for help it is nice. That’s the only good thing about my time zone lol

[@tauffee00]

i remember first time i logged in, made a dwarf warrior was like 9 years old in the beginning of wrath. didnt know how to log out so i had to hard shut off my computer lmao

[@lacedunlaced2319]

Cant wait to watch this on Asmongolds stream

[@speckusgoldzahn9254]

He streams right now Pog

[@mman760]

Beat me to it

[@cylainius713]

Please unban me Asmongold ( Cylainius )

[@shackunn]

bald :(

[@Snagprophet]

Asmonbaldy

[@Attillee]

My friends dad allowed him to play WoW as much as he wanted on his account. We were all warcraft 3 fans, and I had no idea that World of Warcraft were going to be a thing. One day I go by his house and he lets me play WoW on his dads account. I made a Tauren Shaman as my first character, and eagerly wanted to make a night elf after, as Night elf was my favorite race in warcraft 3. After that day it took me some time to get my parents to buy the game, but when I finally had it... oh boi I was excited to jump right into it, but I was only met with a full week of installing and patching afterwards, but dam it felt good to make my Druid Night elf and explore the world. Ahh good ol 2005

[@marcusvillarreal2652]

I never played Classic but Im looking forward to trying it. The sense of exploration and a big world sounds fun. My concern is because now the game is so well explored and infromation is so accessible now vs 15 years ago if it'll be the same. Hopefully the lack of Fast Travel itself will compensate for this. Can't wait to try it. Unpopular opinion though, Im gonna miss blood elves.

[@samuelwood2063]

In the same boat here. Have only known post cataclysm azeroth. My goal however is to avoid using external sources and guides for the first few weeks. Rely on quest, other players, and myself.

[@lilbeartv9039]

I played back then got to lvl 60 right as TBC came out so I didnt get to raid. After TBC I played on a few private servers leveling multiple characters to lvl 60 and doing end game raiding. Each time I played I always felt like I was out on an adventure, yeah from time to time you'll notice things you've done before but it's more of the feet on the ground scenario that makes it feel immersive and like an exploration even if you've done it before. One hint I would give to anyone looking to get the most out of this, dont download any addons and dont use any internet guides. Get in there and enjoy the game

[@MrLex86]

Yeah I'm gonna miss Blood Elves too, it's wild to think that initially they didn't have the Warrior class available to them. I actually kinda liked the class restrictions, gave each race it's own flavor. I came into Vanilla during the AQ raid, right towards the end. Although I was a really low level Undead Warlock, there was something about all the criers in the capital cities asking for resources for the war effort, that really made it feel like there was something big going on. That maybe, just maybe, I might be strong enough to help out with one day. That's the kind of thing I liked about Vanilla WoW.

[@lilbeartv9039]

@UgandaKnuckles obviously if you have done it before it wont be the exact same as the very first time, but I can honestly say I still enjoy it on such a grander scale than any expansion after TBC.

[@Hydronix006]

Back then, getting informations from the web has been harder. Websites don't were so fast with providing guides and surfing the web was slow. Asking people ingame or trying it yourself often was the best way.

[@N3mdraz]

The first time i saw an ogre in loch modan it literally frightened me to see such a giant. Also the community was really friendly back in those days because you were highly dependant on eachother, like no other game ever before. There was no quest helper, so people were literally walking with you for half an hour, so you could complete your quest if you didn't knew where to find an certain NPC. World pvp and world events also made the game, the whole server would gather as world bosses were spawning and both factions first would fight eachother before being able to take down for example Azuregos and all levels from lvl 1's till lvl 60's were in one raid trying to help eachother. Imo, Blizzard made 3 mistakes: - Blizzard prioritized pve over world pvp and flying mounts destroyed world pvp massively. - Blizzard made the game to casaual. - They should have never destroyed old content with cataclysm, because the nostalgia is gone.

[@VegetoStevieD]

There's nothing like how small you feel, the first time you step into The Barrens from Mulgore.. Despite being a giant cow.

[@Tigermoonn]

The way you described the vastness of the world, it's so perfect and I couldn't relate more! I love your videos so much and have notifications on. 😊 One of the many reasons how I got back into WoW. I've been playing it since I was 11 and I'm 18 about to turn 19. It's shaped my life in a good way with imagination and creativity. It's unlocked a imaginative side and has done nothing but benefit me in so many ways. Keep up the amazing videos, I adore all your skits, stories and opinion videos and so does my boyfriend!!

[@Icosiol]

Really enjoy your content, Nixxiom. You inspire me to continue to make more Classic content than just my dungeon guides.

[@rayheller9747]

Imagine having a channel dedicated to an overrated game thats going to be dead in 1 month OMEGALUL. gtfo

[@zeelectron3022]

@@rayheller9747 omegalul

[@jlovedown]

The best experience I had when playing WoW for the first time was when I first walked through the gates of Stormwind and Orgrimmar and was just blasted by the theme songs. The music had so much presence and it immediately told me what kind of city I walked into and what kind of people lived there. It really helped immerse me into the World and I love it.

[@TheOldestSoul]

I'll never forget the first time I saw Thunder Bluff in the distance as a young Tauren and simply walked there, rode the elevators up and walked around for hours in total awe and wonder in those waning days of Wrath when I first started playing. It's memories like that which keep me playing the game today.

[@IAmHermaeusMora]

I've probably said this a million times on your videos and into the farthest reaches of the deep web by now, but what I really enjoyed (and look forward to) about classic WoW was how it was about the journey of exploring the World of Warcraft and not simply the end-game content destination like it is today. I remember wandering through Ashenvale and seeing the old Highborne ruins and thinking to myself that I really wanted to know more about the history and culture of the Ancients. Also, mismatched level 40 gear is just really appealing to wear.

[@RustyTheTroll]

I remember when I was so new to the game, making my human paladin and getting a quest to head off to stormwind, and here I was thinking, "where is stormwind?" And how do I get there, is it really far? So being a newblette I start yelling in goldshire to form a group to travel to stormwind. I was quickly informed that it was just up the road. Back in the day, draw distance was a lot shorter than it is now, but I travelled north up the road, killed a mangey wolf and a bandit and finally reached the tall white gates of stormwind and the sight and the music blew my tiny mind. 10/10 never can happen again.

[@badwolfxd3593]

Love your channel man! I started a DK for bfa because of you and I absolutely enjoy the shit out of it, thank you! This video touched my heart because that’s the exact same way I started play classic wow! Best friend at the time let me play on his account here and there because my computer couldn’t run it, and I too started as a undead warlock haha. But when I finally got my own account and computer to play on I made a undead mage just to help him out with CC on enemy players, conjuring food and good old portals! Keep up the great work and I hope I get to do a some dungeons/raids with you when classic returns!

[@Gunplabro]

My first ever character was a Night Elf Warrior and I spent at least two days struggling to kill monsters with that weak sword and board night elf warriorswere forced to start with, and I had no idea there was a "map button". Imagine my shock when I jumped on that hypogryph and took off only to realize I was in a TREE SO MASSIVE IT CONTAINED A WHOLE ECOSYSTEM, AND THERE WERE AREAS AND ZONES MANY MANY TIMES ITS SIZE JUST WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED. I was frustrated, my weapons sucked, I didn't know where the weapon trainer was, but the allure of the world alone made me stick it out. I didn't know that Warriors we're the most difficult class to level in the entire game. I didn't know what food was, and until about level 13, I thought the /sleep and /sit emotes gave you passive health regen, but I did know I desperately, wanted to see what was out there, and I wasn't going to let stupid things like game knowledge and "learning how to play" stand in my way. I bull headedly leveled that night elf all the way to 25 in Darkshore using any upgrade I could scavenge off the corpses of my enemies in those woods of Darkshore, almost entirely solo, because I didn't know how to use General Chat and I wasn't about to learn today. Those moments in Teldrassil and Darkshore, man. Before I saw a level {1X} Night Elf Warrior pass me with a two handed something or other and asked him "HOW YOU GOT THAT?" in /shout as I desperately chased him all the way into ashenvale for answers. He invited me to his guild, we did the Wetlands marathon together, and Ziot the Riot would go on to raid as Tank for and later Making it to Naxx, but never finishing, but having a lot of laughs, as our guild leader said the most ridiculous shit I have ever heard when we would wipe over and over hours into content we had on farm. Such gems as ",I would rather stick my dick in a cheese grater than raid with you fucking imbeciles." and "If you can't stay out if the fire, how the fuck do you manage to wipe your own ass? Do you walk around with shit butt all day you walking post fetal abortions?" Best days of my life. There is actually a soundboard of that guy. He was Lakiria. Paladin on the Magtheridon server. Cheers if you knew me.

[@ottovonbismarck5067]

One thing that also massively helped the immersion was the great weather effects. Running through a snow storm in Dun Morogh made me feel a bit cold and then I got this amazing cozy feeling when I entered an inn, which is why I always logged out in an inn back then. Didn't want my dwarf to be cold, right? Even today, totally not having played on a Wrath private server, seeing the old rainstorms of Elwynn forest adds 10x more immersion to the world. I miss them, I hope that one day they reintroduce them, upgraded for the new textures (that's the reason the removed them in the first place during Cata, didn't work out with the textures at all; the new lighting caused them to ramp out ambient lighting, making nights not as dark anymore; hoping they fix all this one day).

[@kaylaposey7616]

The thing that I miss most about classic is the way hunter pets worked. 😭 unique talents, needing to tame new creatures to rank up abilities, having to level your pet yourself, the happiness meter...

[@Dielind]

Your positivity is sorely needed in the wow community. Never stop making videos.

[@42Nightsyesterday]

another great thing about classic is the different situations it presents you with, making the world truly feel alive. Today, we have standard quests where you hack through mobs en masse or beat down a "rare" monster. What really makes a game engaging is when it forces you to think, when you have to be creative to overcome a problem. While this is still present in retail, its save only for high tier raiding, and even then there are guides that spell everything out for you. Its more a matter of not fucking up over problem-solving. In classic, quests felt a lot more unique because the situations were more unique. For example, if there were three mobs standing close together you needed a plan to pick them off. If there were two mobs but one was a spell caster, you'd need a new plan to deal with it. Even if its one mob, but he has some badass ability that fucks you up you need a plan to deal with that. All of these varied with each zone, sub-zone and dungeon. It also made group dynamics so fun. I remember questing around on a dwarf warrior with my friend who was a draenei shaman (BC I know, but we lived that classic grind to 60 experience). Our two skill sets complimented each other well, but didn't feel like the typical tank/healer team. No two zones felt the same, and each zone had their own memories from each, close calls, defeats and epic victories. Random NPC's some who don't even have names stuck with you, like the defias pillager (for me I'll always remember these trogg seers in loch modan, they had a lightning bolt that hit like a truck). All this contributed to the immersion of the world. Can't wait for classic to come out again.

[@Ryan-yk6ki]

I love how the zones are made so you feel the sense of danger in them, like most of the contested zones are leveling zones for both factions.

[@Leiwynn]

The only thing that it seems a lot fo KZbinrs seem to forget (some people have left it in comments) is how the community was. It was a brand new game and to some extent we all had to bond together to make it through everything from a low level dungeon to raiding MC. Only a very few mods existed and none where like having DBM, You actually had to read quests to figure out what to do. SO much more i could go on about! The game was epic like Nixxiom was talking about but being able to do everything together and actually working together made it all so much more unforgettable.

[@Anne231154]

My first character was a night elf priest. I didn't even know I was on a tree until I reached the coast. Memories of running from one end of Darkshore to the other, seemed like it went on for ever. I used to like fishing in Auberdine or the Zoram strand (I even made a poem about it). Waiting for people to turn up to do the escort quest at Maestra's Post I met another elf who I ended up chatting to as we made our way to Astranaar. Those were the good days, a long time even before I asked my guild "what is this big portal in Blasted Lands?", a long time before The Gates of AQ, when we kept getting booted off the ship at Menethil harbour and having to corpse swim back, then trekking all to way to Silithus and the servers breaking. It was the most epic thing I remember.

[@naejimba]

The map comment hit me in the feels. When I first started playing the game, I was aware of the map, but not that it could zoom out. As soon as I finished the first zone, and walked into another, I was confused that the map had changed. I ended up pressing right click by accident... so I clicked it again. ... and I cried a little. I'm not ashamed to admit it.

[@teddybear1757]

I started playing with my young son in classic. We RP together, while I taught him how to spell out his words in the chat line. We lived in Goldshire for months there, before he grew up and found his own guild. He remained an honorable rogue, while I became a death knight. I'm tearing up just remembering those times together....

[@VanityyR]

I joined a little late, around BC launch - and I was introduced to the game by both seeing the classic cinematic, and a family friend mentioning the game. Man... The moment I saw this mystical night elf traverse through the forest and shapeshift into this huge black cat / panther little me was awestruck. I remember playing the free trial and spawning in teldrassil in awe of the giant tree and other people around me.. To look around and think "Oh wow.. This is huge".. To then only realise that Teldrassil was but a fraction of Azeroth. I remember heading down the path(s) and seeing a high level player on his epic looking nightsaber and just wanted to be in that position myself. It felt like I was beginning an epic journey alongside many other adventurers, and well it was awesome. While I never managed to commit myself to reach cap and was always behind patch-to-patch.. Some of those initial memories will never leave me. I hope that the classic we get is the classic we all deserve.

[@SubwayKurt]

I have one memory of vanilla since I was around 9-10y old back then. I remember walking into the entrance of Ironforge on my Dwarf Hunter and instantly leveled up, and thought to myself oh sweet! I guess you level up every time you discover a capital city.. Man, how time's have changed. Managed to get to around lvl 24-25. Im so exited to get back to those days! Also, great vid as always!

[@wtfking7soap8]

You know why I love these videos? Because you somehow manage to find the exact words to describe those amazing nostalgic moments from back in the day that I would never be able to tell someone why this game was so fucking good. They will never know and experience the real classic wow :(

[@cazabrow1967]

My character/zone during my beginning moments was as a tauren druid in Mulgore. I was just blown away by the diversity of the classes and the coolest one I could think to go with was shapeshifting druids. Getting the bear form was just incredible, you could literally just turn into an animal and fuck creatures with buffed out health and then got cat form and boom, can literally stealth around like a rogue. It was magical stuff at the time man.

[@ainzbaggagecarrier1449]

Imagine starting with wod and someone asks your memories about it

[@helenn7738]

lmao

[@jacksondowling6355]

Sadly that’s me. I started in wod as a worgen warlock, and it was really fun for me. Until I hit level cap. And wanted to die.

[@SSJavenger]

WoD had amazing leveling and zones. It's the end game that sucked balls.

[@nabilandre]

Ysarc absolutely

[@Almiradorre]

ThePartyScout so do you plan on playing classic to see whats it all about?

[@TheHorreK2]

Havin no load screens and the low amount of travel options just made the world so much more special, only to think about all the people i met while traveling in this game brings back so much fond memories etc.

[@sergio_r64]

Ill never forget being 11-12 years old and logging into my Tauren Warrior “Bloodwolf” for the first time and being blown away by the sheer size and beauty of Mulgore. To this day i always go back and level all my alts there! #TaurenMasterRace

[@VegetoStevieD]

Mulgore is the best starting zone for sure. Crossing from Mulgore into The Barrens is probably the greatest experience of all.

[@floridaboz1]

I think that is what first got me hooked on the scale, and the world just feeling so huge at first. I used to get completely into the story line. Years later, it was just do the quest and half the time not even read the quest log.

[@lilbeartv9039]

Lmao, I still remember my first experience playing Classic WoW. I went over to my friends house to hangout. He asked if I wanted to see this new game, so we hopped on his computer and I watched him play WoW for like 2-3 hours. I was so fascinated that when my friend went to bed I snuck downstairs into the PC room and played from like 1am to 6am. I made my own character and began exploring and that was the day I fell in love with Classic WoW.

[@akasha5904]

I miss that feeling so much Nixxiom described, being able to play in a whole different world to explore, I don't know why that's gone when I play WoW nowadays

[@ashe274]

First character was a dwarf Paladin, exploring those snowy hills in Dun Morogh and then later traversing the tunnels into Loch Modan...the time I spent learning the game was magical.

[@FreakyGremlinDK]

This is the nostalgic feeling. It has nothing to do with specifically being Vanilla. What you describe is what i felt when starting in Wrath, and it is what my brother experiences right now, having started but a month ago in BFA, the expansion which most people seem to hate. People just end up playing it for so long that they forget to love it for the world it is, and instead playing it for the game it is.

[@ThePreparedNorseman]

Classic wow box art had me hooked! Miss my good old dwarf hunter, "Norskhunter" on Burning Blade that reached his thirties before he passed away. After that the tauren druid "Teppe" took over, and eventually became a seasoned raider in the guild "Nocturnals" on Frostwhisper. Good times.

[@maxg6040]

I've been watching every Classic WoW video for almost 2 years now... I think I'm ready to play. x)

[@petergerlich7912]

Can’t wait for The Warlock to continue

[@icestrolo]

That WoW Menu Theme, i can listen to it for 24/7 man, never gets old

[@vicariousvindicator7545]

I remember my first time reaching Ironforge after doing the walk from Menethil Harbor. The first thing I noticed was a dead Tauren sprawled across the entrance steps named "Welcome." I knew then I was gonna have a great time.

[@PewPewUSmash]

Lovely and passionately spoken. Can't wait for more :)

[@talekon8954]

First character I made was a Tauren at my friend's house. I've noticed a lot of people feel attached to whatever zone they stepped into first (I still think Mulgore is one of the best zones in the game) and distinctly remember those feelings the world gave you.

[@Silenced_by_Utoob]

I agree...Mulgore was beautiful....i didnt realize just how big and immersive this game was until i got up to thunder bluff.

[@miorabbit2552]

I never played classic, I just started as a young boy with wotlk private servers, as soon as I a convinced my parents that spending 14€ a month for a video game isn't the end of the world my journey began and i finally played on liveservers. I loved wow from 2009-2018. i want the game to feel like the old wow so bad a again. I feel like a part of my past is being erased by the way the game and the upset of the community is right now. I will always love the game and hope for its best. Maybe the new classic will bring a change to live wow. Cheers Nixxiom, never stop dude ! Never leave the game and always keep nerding out about wow. Thanks dude, much love

[@tmf5364]

My Dad took me away on a battlefield tour and another kid told me about how he used his uncles computer and his account for a game called world of Warcraft. Whilst we were shooting b b s at chicken hutches in some old French courtyard whilst our parents hit the bar hed go into great detail about the races and the classes and stuff. Man I was hooked. I went home and spent my savings on a computer that could run it. I was so bad at the game in classic.

[@Oumegi]

Me and my friend spent few days just swimming, our goal being to swim around Kalimdor. Made around 60% of the trip, then we got stuck eventually, and had to be saved by a goodhearted GM, because either unstuck was not a thing yet, or we just did not know about it, I am not sure. Fun times.

[@gellertnagy2218]

One of the coolest thing was the time needed in a zone, and to level up a character. I spent weeks in barrens. And the oldschool fashion and graphics was just too good that I even played wow in my dreams

[@salmarwow]

Oh, I DO remember the moment I stepped into Ironforge with my dwarf warrior for a first time. One of the best moments I had in an entire game. After some time I got a guest and got to fly a flying mount from Ironforge to Loch Modan (or was it vice versa?). I was ready to shit my pants. The game had everything I needed and at that moment I had experienced only Dun Murogh.

[@TheRealAb216]

As horde the most memorable place for me is still cross roads and joining with 30 level 17-20s to try and take down the alliance players that came to kill us and being so happy when you finally got him down with the help of the guards.

[@Ganslool]

i love nixxiom´s passion for WoW, i´ll never have one like he has but i have my own.

[@XxIronBarxX]

I recall the first time I ever logged onto the World of Warcraft, I made a human warrior and had no idea how chat worked, the local defense channel was on fire and I tired chatting but was only speaking out load to those nearby. I remember seeing an orc warrior sitting on his white worg in the starting area and thinking "Oh wow, I didn't know the Alliance had orc allies!" Young me tried clicking and interacting with the orc player thinking he was an npc. He didn't do anything, he was just hanging out then left. I then proceeded to kill kobolds, ah good times.

[@paulstealcry]

Great vid as always, Nixx. I started in early Legion, but played Warcraft 3 since 2008 and enjoyed every bit of it. I'm so hyped for Classic on this summer, even if i have my finals on Uni next year. Keep it up! BTW, anyone knows where's the outro song from? thanks.

[@pupiktlusto7860]

What about the music in the world? I was SO amazed when I heard the Brill music for the first time, or the Great Forge soundtrack in Ironforge, Stormwind theme, Molten Core theme and MORE!

[@kadenlangley4884]

Man , your such a great speaker . Makes the video 10x better 👌

[@nameplease6092]

The trees of Ashenvale were the ones that made me fall in love with the game, i was instantly hooked..

[@jubbajubbajubba]

The world of classic feels bigger than retail.

[@СтефанДобрев-я4ф]

2:21

[@jubbajubbajubba]

@@СтефанДобрев-я4ф obviously but the speed of the characters/mounts has something to do with it. Your neighborhood feels bigger on foot/bicycle than in your car.

[@n0309]

Not true

[@jubbajubbajubba]

@@n0309 It's my opinion, blizzard fan boys are ridiculous.

[@jubbajubbajubba]

@@n0309 It's not as large as retail, I think classic wow is relative to 45 sq kilometers so the size of a large town perhaps. Of course retail is larger but it's paced faster.

[@Spartan69117]

I remember being a level 54 human warrior and traveling to southshore then getting ganked by level 60s. Then a 60 female Druid named Vesta showed up and helped me kill the gankers. We became friends in-game and that’s still one of my most memorable moments in Classic WoW. I wish could talk to that Druid again. I also met four of my closest friends in middle school and high school through our shared love for playing WoW during the end of Classic and the beginning of TBC.

[@LokiTheAnsuz]

I get the point about the World. But what makes you think you'll find that awe when Classic comes out? I think this specific point is a dead one... Looking forward to the next few reasons!!

[@lilbeartv9039]

Did you play classic and then play it again on a private server and then again on another private server? Each time getting to max lvl on at least 2 characters, then taking those characters through the raid content? While also enjoying the glory of sweaty world pvp or hilarity of trolling low lvl pvp zones just cause which then turned into an all out war once reinforcements got called in?

[@ChildFromGeorgia]

i will never forget the feeling when i found a way from unguro to sillitus, the first sunlight i saw from the speaks of unguro's mountains .... it was amazing.... i was 40 lvl warrior lvling in tanaris when i went to expolre hight lvling zone... i knew that sillitus was for 60 lvls but it took so much time to found a road from unguro to sillitus.... and i remember when i saw elite dinosaur in unguro, i thought that was a one of the world boss.. it was great time.... absolutely amazing .... i love classic

[@diddan5143]

I remember when i turned lvl 40 on my paladin. I was so proud, and i remember that i went back to humans starting place just to flex on people, yes people was amazed by me because i was lvl 40 and just got my first mount. Back then the starting places was just new players coming in to the game and it was amazing to flex on them and give them some gold just to hear them "I am gona be there"

[@baseballfan4877]

Leaving the starting area at level 1 before i knew what quests were and just exploring Durotar then barrens then ashenvale then the river between ashenvale and azshara. Running into skull monsters. Quickly learning that the game wasn't safe. I continued to explore as much as I could just so I could see the amazing zones and their creatures. Later down the road I finally learned the spell eagle eye and then continued exploring from a safe distance. I remember scaling the mountains between the barrens and ashenvale and eagle eyeing down to a bunch of Abyssal demons and feeling a sense of fear (they were still skulls to me when i saw them the first time). That place I know now is the resting place of Grom Hellscream/ Demonfall Canyon. So many more stories...

[@FiabaVade]

Cant wait for classic. Still don't know what class to choose but Kaldorei of course. Will be so good to spent time reading the quests and enjoying the storyline. I'm just a bit afraid about making golds there xD

[@Primusaur]

great stories about classic it really reminds me of how I started on a family vacation my cousin was playing on his friends account.

[@MurakamiTenshi]

TB will always be my afk spot. Just so gorgeous.

[@mattoleogaming1948]

Sadly I started in modern WoW (BFA) I have been enjoying it, but after seeing videos, and more on how WoW used to be. I'm so glad they are releasing classic. Now I can experience the games roots.

[@Dalkian]

For auberdine! For me the raw love for the game could be seen. patches where actual patches, the devs on the team really was one with us. The way kaplan talked about raids and their content, the list goes on. The world felt alive with pvp and people questing & gathering. No plate served to me on a silverplatter, yeah i loved reading the quests. The fact that servers was a big deal, you had a ninja looter and he was known after it. Allthough classic won't recreate the community and how it was played, i do welcome it.

[@kooken58]

Even to this day, there are very few MMOs where you have an entire continent to explore without any loading screens. Many zones in MMOs are separated by loading screens, with only being able to enter them via a tiny portal.

[@Lumax96]

Lookin forward to it, too, since the first xpac I ever played was WotLK on a tiny private realm and MoP on the retail server. From what I hear thats pretty different to the classic experience.

[@aarontorres4840]

Getting close to that time. I can't wait to relive classic. Summer 2019!

[@Plyply99]

Indeed my brother! The no loading screens truly is epic! More so than most people can understand...

[@ilirea]

I love your videos. keep up the good work :) I first played WoW on my Mom's account in idk end of classic or the beginning of tbc and since then I was totally immersed into WoW. I've been playing more actively since the beginning of WotLK and I'm really excited to experience Classic :) I still remember the first time I played, tiny me created a Nightelf Druid and just ventured out of the starting zone like a total noob and of course got killed. Couldn't find my body for a long time and when I did.. I instantly died again. Asked Mom for help and she told me - of course - that I need to get back to where I started. And as I didn't know any better I just died my way back there leaving behind a trail of corpses So yeah that was my first experience with wow lol

[@Silenced_by_Utoob]

Wow your mom played? Thats pretty cool. Yea you havent fully experienced classic, youre a bit older now though so itll be hard to fully experience it because now you probably have a FT job, school, bfs and such.

[@silviumatei7403]

The moment that i will always remember is the time i got out of the canion from razor hill to orgrimmar and saw the gates i only saw them in the movie tales of the past 3 that even now is the best wow movie made and with the knowledge of warcraft in mind and the story that was the best and more memorable moment in the game.

[@The-Apothekari]

I miss when we didn't have portals everywhere, made city raids alot better, cause reinforments werent just a 2 second portal away. Those were the days, when world pvp was glorious~

[@Almiradorre]

I mean mage portals existed back in the day so reinforcement were easy to come by and that s why it was fun otherwise just storming the City isnt particularly rewarding.

[@krispykalamari2885]

never got to play classic cant wait till summer

[@martinivanov1319]

it wont be the same. it will be maybe 80% classic at best... better play a private server

[@krispykalamari2885]

@@martinivanov1319 k thanks for the info fam

[@Skitungen2]

@UgandaKnuckles Commas and periods are pretty useful

[@Roamingfirebat]

If you make hunter be ready for ammunition. If warlock be ready for farming soul shard for an hour or two for raids. Engineering made bombs to blow off locks as well. Oh and you had to run around city’s to find a healer and tank for raids and dungeons. There was no dungeon finder.

[@rayheller9747]

stick to BFA, classic is fucking shit and overrated.

[@Kage_1831]

When I first played world of warcraft (classic) I was coming from good old school runescape. Although I guess back then it was just called...runescape. The thing that brought me into runescape was because of it being an open world I can play with anyone online. It was new to me and excited me. So when a friend of mine told me about this amazing game called world of warcraft, I was immediately sold. The first thing I noticed was the graphics. Even though they were probably on low settings at the time it was still a-fucking-mazing to see an actual fleshed out, 3d, open world game that felt like it was about the same size as the real world (of course it's not even close but...ya know). The combat was also something amazing to me as well. ACTUAL ABILITIES! I played an orc Shamman. Just casting a simple lighting bolt was invigorating enough instead of clicking on what I want to kill and wait for it to die through auto attacks. That was sometime in mid 2005. I finally got my own copy in xmas 2005. But of course...had to share with my little bro. Bet a lot of people can relate.

[@wodzimierzabramow1544]

I haven't played WoW in the good old days, in fact i'm pretty much a newbie. But i have played on a private vanilla server , and even though it had x2 exp rates and a quest helper - it was still amazing ! Never in my wow playtime i felt like my character was actually MY. Every little pink strand of hair , every little badly textured surface felt to me like this troll was me in the game. Getting a blue axe from killing a mob in the open world felt like an ACHIEVMENT. It felt more epic that getting a brand new piece of 400 gear feels in Bfa. I had to talk to people , i had to travel distanses , to talk to npcs... The game felt more like an adventure and less like " okay i'll need to finish my world quests , and then the mythics , and then th warfront , and the island expeditions..." and rinse & repeat as if i was going to work every day. I like the modern wow , but it's losing its magic to me. I think classic will bring the sense of being lost in an amazing big world full of opportunities once again , at least at some extent. The only bad thing i can see - its now official wow , and in official blizzard's wow i'll have to play with my compatriots instead of being able to chat with people all over the globe , which was way more fun.

[@Archimo]

My first character were a forsaken warlock as well. My first class where I started to main it were a tauren druid tho. DK in WOTLK

[@elanthus478]

Honestly i think you should make a guild after we finally get Classic :).. People like you, who have the true love and passion for the game, will be needed and since there will be aloooot of haters we are gonna use some shiny, valiant knight who will defend this game:)

[@SuperSpin258]

nixxiom braves through the wilderness of ganklethorn vale

[@maytheforcebewithyou5923]

The memory that is carved in my mind is the day that my gnome back in the day got to rank 10 and i bought the lieutenant commander set with MC dagger

[@TheHilari0us]

Isnt this the 50th video you have made about why you love classic? Jokes aside, cant wait for classic!

[@Silverwing4137]

I made a human warlock , and played in northshire for days before some one should me , how to leave and go to goldshire. Also met my gf online in wow , wer together now for 10 years coming up for 11 years

[@gruuzol6280]

First character back in the day for me was a dwarf hunter. I made a dwarf hunter because of the cinematic. Seeing the bear by the dwarf's side really made me excited to be a hunter I still have the hunter today. ( Btw I remember me and my brother having a timer that rung when it hit 30 minutes and we took turns lol )

[@fugumeister7563]

My first time playing wow. It was in The Wrath of The Lich King as a worgen warrior. I was around 8 at the time and being Norwegian, it was very difficult to navigate through this English speaking game when all I knew was “yes” and “no”. All I had was common sense to guide my way, and not having played anything other than browser games like MovieStarPlanet and possibly minecraft soon after, an English MMORPG was quite the task. I remember clicking the guards again and again until something happened, and then this wall of text appeared. I understood the word “Accept” since it is a common word, and similar to the Norwegian version “Aksepter”, I clicked it and I had accepted a quest. I remember walking around this rainy and gloomy city called Gilneas and loving the atmosphere. I must have sat and played for an hour walking around and doing a quest or two by clicking “Accept” when I found it. Eventually, 8 year old me gave up and I didn’t return for a long while. Playing through Gilneas as a small child that didn’t speak English was incredibly difficult, but at the same time it was so fascinating and enjoyable. Being in this foreign land not knowing anything or how to learn anything was quite a rememberable experience. Years later when I was around 12 and had a much better grasp of the beautiful English language, I revisited this game I wanted to get into so many years ago, but couldn’t due to the language barrier. Legion was my first “real” experience with the game, leveling a worgen druid and a draenei paladin. Eventually I would raid a bit and truly experience the game as a glorious and oblivious keyboard-turning ret-paladin. These days however, wow hasn’t been the same. It has lost this magic even an illiterate child could love. I have put my patience with this game, but I think I am burnt out and the recent decisions by Blizzard are nothing short of idiotic. I have wanted to get back in, but I think a break is well due. I miss the comradeship and my guild-mates though, as well as making multiple alts, immersing myself in leveling and getting bored around level 70 and starting anew. But when Classic arrives, I think I will sink both my teeth and time back into this game. Thank you for reading.

[@aussie870]

Playing as a Worgen in WotLK, were you best buddies with Chris Metzen or something? Edit: After reading further, yeah pretty sure you started in Cataclysm my dude.

[@bmso1680]

First character was a Blood Elf mage. My friend got me into playing it. Back then the mages had a fire elemental and I used to always respawn that thing because it was better in battle than the water elemental. When I first got to summon the fire elemental I was in awe but pretty much now a days mages only get the water elemental with the frost spec.. Miss that fire elemental. lol

[@OfficerDva444]

Great vid I never played classic, I started playing last year during the end of legion.

[@Kylora2112]

Classic WoW storylines: "I can't believe how awesome this quest chain is going! I can't wait to see how it ends! Wait...that was the end?" (this is especially true of the otherwise AMAZING Worgen In The Woods questline in Duskwood...you find the Scythe of Elune and the chain just ends; no stopping the curse, no killing a major NPC, no redemption, just..."Oh sweet, I found an item and saw a ghost explain things that don't lead anywhere else). The world was great, and the good questlines were incredible (Alliance Onyxia chain in particular), but damn so many zones were dead (speaking as Alliance: Feralas, Silithus pre-AQ, and basically the gaping hole that was 45-50 content from finishing everything in Tanaris to when you could realistically start questing in Un'goro and WPL). Wrath was the first expansion where I felt like they truly succeeded in telling satisfying stories, and they really nailed the storytelling for WoD. I had nothing but fun in Classic, but to wax nostalgic about how it was compared to today just feels...off... The only thing I missed about Classic was needing a good guild and friends to do things, but I mean, I haven't had any problems with finding a great guild of people who have the same goals to get stuff done. It's just that the necessity of needing a tight-knit social circle to do anything beyond world questing and farming isn't there because now you can just queue up for dungeons to get those done. Group finder >>>>>>>>>>> spamming /trade to find a group to accomplish basic tasks.

[@vazzeee]

Can't fucking wait to play it again!! We did the same thing with an old friend, he played a human pala and I night elf druid, he let me play it on his computer, taking turns, because I didn't have a good enough PC nor could pay the monthly fee. But when I got my own copy of the game (in early TBC), boy oh boy, I played the crap out of it.