Hardcore WoW Player Makes the Worst Choice Imaginable

[@Csbwhen]

Xar, it's official 5 years sober and started streaming + wow channel because of DO YOUR DAILIES back around nzoth time. I was always worried at 1 2 or 4 years id falter but now I'm 5 years clean, down 100 pounds and 1 rank 1 title in wow. I will be making a quick video thanking you and hopefully inspiring others based on that one quote. Do your dailies. On my vault video I started my pull-up challenge for myself as well. I'm building a gym next to my computer so I can always workout. Trust I will buy rings as well 😀

[@mcfarvo]

Nice, bro! God bless 🙌

[@Csbwhen]

@mcfarvo thanks dude! I'm telling you Xaryu is the fucking man. Watching someone succeed while following their own teachings is invaluable

[@channelfour6098]

Wishing you much more success!!

[@user-fg3fv9hl3b]

Mastering The Core Teachings of the Buddha.

[@jeskaaable]

Petri Alt F4 is a cheat code to avoid the whole point of hardcore. You either triumph fairly or perish.

[@CharterForGaming]

do some people see WoW and go "I have never played this game, let me go hardcore mode"? You'd think everyone that plays hardcore knows the way into deadmines

[@idiom555]

Lol i learned PoE playing hardcore and I regret it deeply.

[@KingJerbear]

I had zero interest in playing WoW for my entire life until I came across a video by a guy named Xaryu about Hardcore. So yeah, that's exactly what I said to myself. I play HC mode on like every game I can and I have ever since Diablo 2 way back in the early 2000s. Brings a level of intensity and excitement that you can't really find playing normally. So to answer your question, yes that's what we think to ourselves. Had a brilliant experience exploring Azeroth for the first time with the risk of permadeath, and although I haven't hit 60, I still have an unofficial HC lvl 44 and an official level 30 that are both alive. But I will be starting fresh again tomorrow and hopefully I can put more time in

[@drath16]

@@KingJerbearcheers! A very exciting way to experience the game indeed. Hope you can hit 60 on fresh!

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

Or to never run from mobs with your backs towards them lol

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

@@KingJerbear gief. I wish I could explore Azeroth and leveling to 60 for the first time. Though you can do that on normal as well.

[@newera478]

12:10 That orange healing pot is acquired from Silverpine quest. It has same effect as lesser healing potion so it was a correct potion to use. Just too many mobs and she got slept when they pulled. Edit: Oh wait. She doesn't have UD racial on her action bars to remove sleep...

[@helion4187]

she also didnt evasion

[@bormz7191]

While overuse of petri can feel frustrating...hardcore raiding would not exist in any real numbers without it.

[@championlotus]

Exactly, theyre a part of the game for a reason. Its almost like Xar and his chat would rather people just die and lose it all

[@kaicrodrigues2578]

@@championlotus yea they would, part of the HC community wants to get 60 and raid kill KT and all that shit while the other half ( like xar ) belives that hardcore is the adventure to 60 and dont care for raids

[@championlotus]

@@kaicrodrigues2578 see im one of those who would like to raid, but i dont need to. I def enjoy the leveling and thats the main game for me. But my best friend raids and from watching him as well as others do raids, they seem like a very vital piece of gettibg thru those. And even leveling its nice to have those “oh shit” buttons to get out of stuff

[@Foretelling]

Yep

[@buckbardyt]

The Banjokazooie music is hilarious for these deaths

[@Lolspeak_brez]

I went HC during the first Rag kill (made it to 60, had fun, died being stoopid with some friends in BRD) and petri is dumb as hell. Grats to the first dude who figured out it works - but nothing works if nothing matters. Ugh, sorry. Had to get that off my chest.

[@mishelleyamata5984]

As much as I hate petris ... They're 1000% needed for Classic WoW's buggy gameplay. >.< There's waaaay too many times when you will be raiding normally, and encounter a raid wiping bug that is outside of your control. Petris are needed for hardcore raiding to even be remotely possible sadly.

[@Dxwill10]

"One CoC would take care of all of them. One big... Cone of Cold." -Xaryu 2024

[@hlim.]

let's goo top 1% xar watchers

[@progamer444]

🎉🎉🎉

[@Thrall966]

Pog

[@BeardRubEnjoyer]

Nobody seems to know that classic pets can't taunt. They cannot.

[@mcfarvo]

Yeah, Growl + dmg is all they have for Threat, right?

[@MrMcSnuffyFluffy]

That's probably what they mean when they say taunt, just turn growl on. It's normally off in dungeons.

[@brandonethridge6318]

@@MrMcSnuffyFluffy ya but it wouldn't of helped.. the pet would need like 30 growls to catch up on threat... the warrior at this point has tons for threat from his own abilities

[@Sotanath86q]

@@MrMcSnuffyFluffy no they don't mean that, cos it wouldn't actually help. They literally just don't know how it works. You're not overtaking a warrior's threat in a fight that long with growl, especially if turned on when Sardaco was yelling like an idiot

[@Lolspeak_brez]

I thought the same thing. A pet's Growl is just a Threat generator, it's not like a Warriors Taunt or a Druid's sculpted abs.

[@prodPavka]

Sardaco is so bad I feel bad for every teammate he has in his party 😭

[@tengeoff]

Does anyone know what xp bar addon / weak aura Sardaco is using at 6:40 ?? Ty!!!

[@KontrolStyle]

00:35 I hope blizzard fixes it so, if you alt+f4 with peti it 100% drops peti, so you can't do that.

[@Sotanath86q]

yeah agreed, if you drop group and get a game port it's not as bad as abusing alt-f4

[@mcfarvo]

13:40 it looks like that gnome has escape artist available, so wouldn't that get him out of the net? Target dummy, health potion, escape artist, run away

[@nickindamix8980]

yo whats that shield addon @ 3:49

[@microburn]

@19:00 (backseat warning: I’m lvling HC Hunter at that level and wondering how to avoid these issues) Hunter definitely was unlucky with 3 mob aggro + resist. Is specced marksman but wasn’t prioritizing auto shot, so it was a slow spiral.

[@microburn]

Defense under-leveled Moving instead of auto shot/auto attack weaving. If this guy had BM talents his pet would’ve eaten everything and he lives! MM is the hardest Hunter spec to play correctly in classic imo.

[@microburn]

He used a mana potion mostly because he was OOM from using tons of arcane shot etc, which is why he had no mana at the end

[@balitopic711]

non hardcore raiders crying about petri is insane

[@wattmild7669]

If it's in the game, use it, I guess. Petri is is such a goofy mechanic for hc, though

[@theJevin]

That hunters not even BM pet taunt would have gotten less agro than the healer

[@samwu6333]

I just installed wow classic and can’t find the hardcore servers tab when I change realm. Anyone know how to how to fix this? 😢

[@titomcmillan]

They moved it to the launcher. You select Hardcore from launcher at the bottom left corner.

[@lemontmcfly8835]

I have only ever played wow to level... idk 5ish? what is petri and why do you do it and alt f4 as "protocol"

[@PCOrb24]

Sardaco is the kiss of death. Again. If Sardaco took the time he spent whining about them jumping in ahead of him and just jumped in and added his dps to the fight, right away, the warrior would have lived. No question about it. Also, Sardaco was not "at half mana" - his mage had about 80% mana, plenty for that fight, even with the add.

[@askekrause3909]

Hello, personal accountability? The warrior made two severe misplays. As the tank he sets the pacing, and one of his group members was clearly not ready. His second misplay was jumping directly into combat with a hydra AND the boss at the same time. I've been to Mara plenty of times, you can easily jump down in a spot where you get no aggro from anything so you have time to gather the group and get ready for the boss. I agree, Sardaco could've saved the warrior but it wasn't "easy". It was an extremely sketchy pull and the healer almost got oneshot. Losing your own hardcore character because of someone else doing stupid sh*t is not on anyone's wish list.

[@sebastianbraun8527]

Yep, that is more like a personality issue than a gaming mistake. Instead of just going with a suboptimal play and doing the best to play as a team and help the group, he just hesitates, whines and becomes one of the reasons why they didn't suceed.

[@axellarsson3461]

"strafe out and make sure not to get hit from the back" - Sage advice for almost any woman in WoW.

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

12:13 wtf is that pot?

[@bennyandersson7770]

Staff of Jordan is a huge upgrade from Whirlwind Axe

[@TishkinTishkin]

Why hunters never use Freezing Trap?

[@ogstock3r]

I petried on that first clip and still died. You do what you can to survive on hardcore, but it isn't the end all be all. Maexxna's web spray kills through Petri, as my Orc 'Blademaster' learned the hard way!

[@alexmarchant8513]

Played Poe and d2 exclusively hc for years, only found out wow had a hc mode so for the first time in my 39 years of life I was drawn to this game and I’m loving it. If it’s not HC … it all seems meaningless…

[@mcsquizzy440]

So for the hunter quest mobs, the hunter has to actually solo them, otherwise the hunter and everyone else inside like 40 yards gets instagibbed

[@Faude18]

That wasn't the problem here tho. When you help the hunter it spawns a special enemy that kills everyone.

[@joshuaellis8068]

that hunter at the end was hard to watch

[@Kukumanagement]

Ziqo from the mak gora tournament last year?

[@mcfarvo]

Ziqo, the TDS Leftoid nutjob?

[@orsikbattlefate3976]

@xaryu 7:37 pets dont have tuant in classic

[@Perpetualwinter86]

How Is Mingle going today ?

[@christophersadri6464]

Petri means you lost. It wasn't made for this game type. If they can remove bubble hearth and other things for Hardcore, Petri should be removed as well.

[@BabyTossinBandit]

Complaining about petri in raids is like complaining about someone unbooning or using light of elune in a makgora - you do everything you can.

[@xjimcarryx]

Petri alt f4 is not intended. Allow Petri but u shouldnt ve able to Petri leave Instance or Petri alt f4 . Petri = non hc loser

[@championlotus]

@@xjimcarryxas the guy said, you do everything to survive. Sorry people wouldnt rather die and lose it all when they could do something to get out of it.

[@thegreattaiyou]

​@@xjimcarryxthis. Bubble hearth is banned. The community and blizzard have both agreed that you should not be able to teleport to safety while under the effect of an invulnerability or immunity spell. Allow Petri and anything else. But the moment you are immune or Invulnerable, the countdown timer to kick you from the instance pauses. Also, if you disconnect (alt+f4) while under the effect of an invulnerability or immunity, your character will not leave the world while it is active. The countdown to your character logging out on the server side should not start until the invulnerability has ended. Literally all it would mean is that mages put up ports to major cities at each pull, and keep them active if they fade. Someone would have a weak aura ready in minutes after the announcement to ensure 100% portal uptime. Strats would change to ensure the entire raid is positioned as close to a portal as possible. But it's way better than just pushing a button and closing the game.

[@zachbinx5230]

@xaryu maybe at 14:07 he was telling himself to focus 😆

[@anthonyg6083]

BRO I JUST ROLLED A 6BO CTA!! LETS GO

[@budimorealni486]

Hunter probably sumed that mob just to grief ppl

[@tehjamerz]

True, based

[@Gratitude100]

i fucks with the forehead cam

[@jocelyneragan2791]

7:27 He shouldn't have even ran over there to jump with them. He should have jumped immediately, he's a fkn mage; slow fall your way and you will be exactly with them. 😐

[@darcraven2496]

Not gonna bad mouth decisions made, but don't just put it down to the War, Sard could have jumped in a bit before, he can teleport befor running to the spot they jumped from, and then took 20 secs to think about it, He is a good player and has like others been F by others, so its gets tough to enter a bad situation sometimes, even if you want to be nobel about it.

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

"Hardcore" "Petri up" - Whole raid survives. Well except for the 7 that didn't I guess. :P

[@malvanra99]

4:22 - typical retail player. If you arent staring at your feet 100% of the time and cant see everything else going on, dont play hardcore.

[@spatrk6634]

sardaco second guessing should he jump killed the tank

[@swerve3031]

The anti-petri angle is almost more cringe than using it.

[@I_Crit_My_Pants]

Ppl need to stop blaming Sardaco, how is it his mistake that no one did a pet taunt and WHERE WERE THE HEALS!? Sorry, not Mage's job to do these things. And Sardaco is right, tank jumped without the entire group, without letting people drink first AND pulled a boss + mob, it's 100% on the tank, the lack of pet taunts and the lack of heals, Sardaco did nothing wrong other than look out for himself WHICH IS WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IN HC! ALWAYS WATCH YOUR OWN BACK FIRST IN HC! Ppl need to stop blaming others for their mistakes and just PLAY BETTER, Ozy does the same crap.

[@djolemacola]

7:30 There are hundreds of rap songs dedicated to rats who dont jump when the rest of the crew jumps. 😂

[@vampiresquid]

Definitely when you’re playing hardcore the first thing you should do is install an addon that makes it hard to identify elites.😂

[@JamesGreen-lr6go]

the first bad choice is to play HC in the first place lawl

[@Tzhz]

13:41 he died because he's a noob, had escape artist on CD, only reason to pick gnome 😂

[@rafaelmuller4610]

Petri and leavers = Resident sleep

[@Ghandii]

petri isnt cringe at all lmao especially when you spend literal weeks leveling your characters

[@BobbyFlay14]

Would love to see Petris get removed from the game

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

Petri in raids... Petri ANYWHERE..... It really ruins the whole thing tbh. How Blizzard have not removed it and haven't announced anything about it not being in fresh is fukn mind boggling. How the fuk can they leave that thing in. Why not let Paladins Hearth Bubble, Shamans Ankh etc... fkn ridiculous.

[@snookion]

It's so ridiculous people still die with it being an option, right?

[@bassisku]

You probably haven't even got to lvl 60 or raided in HC. Petri is expensive and only usable 50+. You can be griefed hundreds of ways and it can never be your fault. Not being able to petri would make griefing way more common when you can wipe 40 people and they can't escape AND you can just feign death or vanish to get away yourself. People still die plenty with petri and there are tons of oneshots in raids. It's better than people not doing any dmg and instantly HSing without even trying. People complaining have never raided in HC or done dungeons with randoms. Without petri you can be screwed and griefed so easily. People complain about things and they never even raided in HC. Xaryu should lead a raid at lvl 60 with pugs and see how quickly he would get griefed with 0 petris. Not using petris is fine when you trust everyone around you, but that means you cannot do dungeons with randoms and you cannot trust anyone. Especially 50+, without petri it takes 1 person griefing and vanishing/feign deathing to kill you 100%.

[@championlotus]

Its been a part of classic since the beginning. Do you want no changes or do you want the game to not be classic?

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

1:50 hahahah uses a GCD to fade when he's solo xD

[@ingainloggningsnamn]

A mage can easily do 3400 dmg in like almost a minute lol

[@dylanh70]

Petris should not exist it defeats the whole purpose of hardcore

[@johnnyknight6534]

How the fk do people get high level in hc wow and still click half there buttons...

[@bennyandersson7770]

Lol, every single person who don't wants petri is either a rogue/hunter or have never raided.

[@TheRealHumanCalculator]

@@dropkick45what? Playing with an item that is in game doesn’t make it hardcore? How about you get a grip

[@snookion]

While you can argue it's not hardcore.. people still die with it being an option. So I don't mind it lol

[@koezy3841]

bro petris are not bad, they save players potentially WEEKS of their lives and its not like they are inexpensive ive never been able to afford a petri on either hc 60 but man i wish.i fucking did

[@nickh4354]

They're cringe bro sorry

[@pilgrim666butters]

​@@nickh4354 to people who don't raid, there's going to be no WB w/o petri.

[@joshholmes1372]

Petri defeats purpose of HC. Cope

[@Gratitude100]

They really just want people to die cause its funny. "An item that saves lives? REMOVE IT. We want to see the entire raid go! Just the main tank and a few others dying isn't entertaining enough!"

[@PCOrb24]

I agree. Members of raids still die, even with petri's being in the mix. Even "just" a single Naxx raider lost means the loss of a hundred+ hours (easily, if not far more). Multiple such losses are crippling to a raid team. Not to mention petri's cost a lot (25g+ per) and there are many circumstances where they don't end up saving you (either you use the petri too soon or its a rare mechanic which hits through petri or sometimes the player just plain forgets to hit petri in time or at all during momentary panic). Without petri there would likely be no raiding scene in HC at all, or very little, and I don't see how that benefits HC. Even if most hc players are never going to raid, the idea that you might, someday, raid is a sort of distant possible goal for many players, somethign to strive towards. Without petri that distant goal really doesn't exist in hc at all. Also, you can't even use petri until you're 50, so it's a non factor through level 49. I dunno, I see why some, like Xar, don't like it, but it serves a role and it's a legit item in the game, so I have no beef with it (though, for the record, I have never used one in hc, icyc).

[@Mrp-f5v]

why are petri's not respected?

[@askekrause3909]

Hello, personal accountability? 7:36 one of the things saving the warrior would've been not jumping into a hydra and the boss at the same time??? Warrior went in with a literal death wish and the group could do X amount of things to save the warrior from himself.

[@peterjeffery1854]

yes most of the time its the ones that think they know better don't no nothing i am 64 in 2024 and i have 34 chars all over 76 with 13 level 80s

[@PatricRitzer]

Why does everybody WHO DOESNT RAID IN HC say no petris in raid? Cant you mind your own business?

[@PatricRitzer]

or atleast get to lvl 60

[@eivindhanssen2200]

HC Hype!

[@respectmygamer]

How can you call it “hardcore” when they add an item to make it not so hardcore? It literally makes no sense. This shows how blizzard never thinks things fully thru. LETS make the game HARDCORE but lets add a KARENisk item to the game that makes it NOT so hardcore. The Petri flask needs to be taken out of hardcore it 100% doesn’t belong. Sorry.

[@Vaampe]

petri needs to go

[@fancen]

choosing

[@johanlahti84]

It baffles me that the raidlead has to explain how to use petri and alt+f4 as it happens. They never thought about explaining that before?

[@davidrockefeller2007]

Bad tanks die because bad

[@Osv_TV]

The only thing that'd make me play HC fresh is if they removed petris.

[@alexipayne3237]

legit cant watch this content anymore, you stop for 30-40 seconds to talk about the most obscure sh*t that no one cares about "maybe i am the expert" ahhhhhh play the clip

[@TropeusCrestone]

This is why the Guild leader must Tank. The captain goes down with his ship!! 💪🫡

[@lailaqt9592]

Healpot on r omg delete acc

[@petrlosev6611]

To be honest I'm fed up with your bitching about petris. 1. game is full bugs (we got a bug when a guy after disconnect got teleported to C'Thun room and we had to petri out coz the bosses abilities will kill you otherwise 2. Griefers 3. problems with servers 4. problems with internet. So game is not perfect. Even with petri ppl still die and it's hard to get enough ppl for every raid.

[@snookion]

Ya it's a rediculous argument made my people who are not smart enough to think about it logically. Unfortunately