Madseason is a heart of gold, genius, scholarly legend of a gentleman and he must be protected.

Hobbs showing up in MadSeason's TBC video is like when Luke Skywalker turned up in The Mandalorian. The nostalgia hit hard.

Madseason sounds like If a Xanax smoked a joint

I started WoW 2 weeks after BC launched. My brother was just going through the portal whilst I was in thousand needles. Every so often he would come to me to show off his awesome looking items and regale me of floating island in a beautiful meadow or spiky mountains with dragons impaled on them , giant mushrooms in a swamp or a massive robot that walked around stomping on people. I was so fucking jealous it fueled me to catch up . Felt like months later I was in a 10 man split raid in Kara racing to win and learning Gruul council positioning, swimming down a long tunnel for my first SSC run , being a rogue in MH and fucking hating all those with AOE... just a great fun time with nothing handed to you .

The problem with Boosting and GDKP runs is that there's RAMPANT, UNPUNISHED Botting + Gold Buying & Selling... If everyone was playing legitimately, it would be Emergent Gameplay. But as it stands it's just a "Who can swipe their credit card the fastest.

Oh man, that nostalgia at the end. It's not often I smile enough to make my face hurt. I am so happy TBC Classic is coming out.

If he's going onto a PvP Server and streaming it, I can 100% say that his experience is going to be like it was in Vanilla, except its far worse because people will be able to fly and just pin down anywhere you'd be flying to. Him doing netherwing rep grind on stream would be a living nightmare.

selling tanking services as prot pally is the best and most fun way to make gold in tbc

That guy's voice is just soo relaxing It can even help u sleep

selling runs kills leveling zones thats the only thing wrong with it

The argument Asmon used for selling runs can literally be applied to world buffs so we should keep them as is. It's an emergent gameplay that wasn't designed by the devs and the players created and chose to take part in. That doesn't make it good or healthy to the game.

Selling runs may have the possibility of creating a player group of people who appear to be capable of completing content they're geared for but aren't. Cause they bought the runs. You spend time making groups some people might not like finding half their group boosted and losing time to wipe or whatever happens idk maybe there is at least one negative affect.

I disagree with asmon about run selling. I wanted to do the thrash blade quest which means I'd have to kill princess in maradon. No matter how hard I tried, nobody wanted to run the dungeon normally because the level 60 mage aoe farm kite runs were all anyone cared about. It got so bad that I offered 100 gold to anyone who would be in the group to help finish the dungeon, but nobody took the offer. I've been babyraging at boosters ever since. Edit: the aoe farms kill mobs only. No bosses.

Its weird but it made me happy to see his reaction on Hobbs. It was exactly my reaction

I hate "Run sells" because it reduce the amount of people who want to do dungeons the old way.

Selling runs encourages people to never learn their class. I could always tell in BC when somebody got boosted or bought their account, because they sucked ass at the game. One even bought an account with a full-T5 warrior, and couldn’t even tank Karazhan.

Paying game currency to a wizard to kill things for you is something you could probably even do in Dungeons and Dragons. Paying for in game gold is like bribing the Dungeon Master off with cash. Not the same.

31:25 is so epic and legendary.

Of course selling runs has impact on others, as normal player you dont find as easy people for elite quests and normal dungeon runs. And imagine you are new to the game, this could maybe be a point where some quit because they have a hard time finding groups.

15:40 No no no. The buyer gives you the reagents and you trade the Primal Might right away. Have a Primal Might in your inventory already. You can say something like: "I still have 1 hour of CD, but you can have this one already without waiting for it." And you can transmute outside of the group in peace.

I dunno, I would say runs do affect players that don't participate in them to some extent, since it's less players they can make an actual party with if they want to experience the dungeon at a proper level.

Asmon tends to disregard certain problems in order to justify his behaviour. Selling runs is bad for some players, namely the ones trying to find a group for a dungeon while leveling. The people that are looking for boosts won't look for a proper group to do the dungeon. It's obviously harmful, doesn't matter if it's emergent player behaviour or not.

19:40 gold for runs is literally paying gold to skip content, its fundementally different from buying boe's etc. not to mention once an economy runs amok like it has on classic, getting the amount of gold it takes, almost completely incentivize rmt. Buying a run for an alt for quests etc. - completely okay and normal. Buying complete runs to max lvl - insane gold cost, incentivizes rmt. recognizing the fact that the economy, botting etc. is a huge problem on classic. And then disregarding the fact that a lot of gold paying services in game are being used, but has no correlation, makes zero sense.

Asmon, my guy. You're willfully blind if you dont think BoE's and selling runs doesnt encourage buying gold. Cmon bruh

I know on low pop servers buying runs is a bigger issue because all the people your level are buying runs and there is no on to quest with

my issues with selling runs dont actually have to do with goldselling. zones and dungeons became barren. you could barely play the game unless you bought a run, and even then thats paying someone to play the game for you while you don't play.

How buying carrys is't bad but buying insta 58s is?

I’ll be making gold selling dragon hawks just like I did back in the day

Asmon following the true woyer path and switching to hunter in tbc, this man is dedicated.

Me: Downloads registered HyperCam with Kazaa premium which I downloaded through Kazaa free.

I’ve gotten runs from Hobbs in Stocks, DM and SM in BC. Dude is a legend and what asmon said about Hobbs making him want to play a pally was true.

so i am the type to boost my character thru carries but i do agree with the fact that it encourages gold buying. personal experience: on my server (bigglesworth) 9/10 carries i get are also gold sellers. they barely speak english and sell the gold they make on the internet. they all know eachother no matter how much times its been in the expansion or what alt im on its the same people doing the carries with no end in sight because they admit they arent spending it on in game things they are simply making real money through a job.

MadSeason is such an artist.

Ofcause selling runs have a negative impact!! it makes it much harder to find a normal group to run dungeons with

I find that when people just buy runs it’s harder for people who don’t buy runs to find groups. I can’t tell you how many times Iv Posted in the LFG channel on my server only to get told to farm told and buy one you casual. Of course this only causes me to fall behind.

6:15 wtf that's the song from Deadly Premonition, one of my fave games

"10,000 should be the amount of gold you're looking at to go into tbc" I don't really play classic but I have like 200 max. I didn't get 10k+ gold until like legion probably

Man, stranglehorn, right now is so busy, i feel like we're back at classic release

When all your new expansions bomb one after another so bad that you just have to release the old expansions a 2nd time until we're up to date with 2nd retail WoW lmfao.

Selling runs does have a negative impact on both other players and the game itself. It literally, in practice, actively reduces the amount of players trying to form groups on their own or even going out in the world to quest, because why do that if you can just wait in a capital city for someone you can pay for a boost? So it kills the joy and interesting dynamics of forming groups and finishing dungeons by your own efforts. The trade-off is not worth it. Yes it's efficient but it kills the heart of the game which is leveling, interacting with other players and going out to an adventure in the world. I have never once gone out of a paid boosting session and felt "wow that was fun" or a feeling of accomplishment and reward. It always sucks, and it will always suck the joy out of the leveling experience. (It also creates unnecessary class imbalance as it gives too much power to mages, but I digress.) I think it should be banned or at least be properly restricted, for example have it so that you can only be paying for a boost once a week(I haven't given too much thought about a perfect solution, but it's absolutely not a hard problem to solve). It's fine to be boosted or to boost someone every once in a while. But the whole playerbase should not be able to abuse it as much as it has been in classic, since the whole experience is designed to be more than just the end game - that's one of the main reasons we want to play classic expansions. Also ban botting obviously.

19:40 sorry Asmon, but selling runs does encourage gold buying. It is just like a drug addict looking for ways to get cash quick, so they can get their fix. The addict steals from their parent's bank account, rather than take the time to work an honest job.

actually one thing i don't like asmon says is that selling runs is good for the game. If there weren't bots ruinning the economy of the game in the first place not a lot of players would sell runs... like for real atm selling runs is the only way to make gold and i really don't like it.

Idk man. I started during BC and it was the most fun I had in WoW, but there is just no way it's gonna feel the same.

Don't underestimate Racial on Blood Elf that has AOE Silence, for arenas

3:36 that guy knows how to play Hearthstone

26:06 Dont bother with hellfire on launch day? I'd say do the opposite. Look its gonna be a BC game forever. Enjoy the rush and insanity of the begininng months as much as you can. It will only go down from there. Forget all the guides relating to levelling. You literally have FOREVER to level.

there was always a shaman trainer in stormwind on tbc launch

I have no problem with people selling runs. I remember when I was new to classic I was in the middle of running RFC and all of my friends were busy. A nice hunter came to the entrance of the instance and offered to run me through it for 2 gold. He let me keep all the loot too and it got me caught up with my friends. Worth it!

Am I missing something here? Arent't Warriors and Rogues busted in BC because of Warglaives of Azinoth?

I think wowhobbs was one of the first players to sell runs back in the day, he changed the game in a lot of ways either directly or indirectly.

The problem with selling runs is when the Xpac is halfway through, and I want to do dungeons etc. on an alt, but there's only 2 other people willing to run because everyone is getting boosted. Not only this, but the player base hits cap level, and gets geared way faster, resulting in not only more time gaps where there's low player population, but bots getting to cap faster, and building alt accounts faster (for when their main account gets banned). If boosting should be allowed, buying gold should be allowed.

All the boosting and gdkp killed classic for me. You talk about how paying a service real money is different then you paying in game gold is different. It's the same thing

That old video with MGMT hit me in the feels. Bout to go down a musical rabbit hole while I level tonight.

As someone who mained a spacecow shaman for all of tbc.. the trainer in SW down by the water was absolutely a thing in tbc. If someone thinks I went to exodar EVERY SINGLE TIME I wanted to respec for an entire 2 years, your just wrong. xD

Shows his lack of warrior knowledge again badge of the swarmguard lasts a warrior later into tbc than any other trinket, its so so good in some situations

13:35 in saving this one.... we know hes not gonna make it

Wowhobbs is why I've played a prot pally since middle of BC

Asmongold in 2020: Get out of the way palys, make place to the real dps classes Asmongold 2021: 7:46

I really want to watch Asmon stream TBC leveling but I have to wonder if he's setting himself up for failure considering the constraints Outland provides. Unless he immediately starts to dungeon grind (which is pretty boring content after a while) I have to wonder what kind of nightmare Hellfire and even Zangarmarsh will be for him when streaming. I can already imagine how impossible things such as the Ring of Blood will be unless he has half the server backing him up.

The only time I paid 1g for carrying was for one woyer quest. I could not find anybody who wanted to go through RFK. Most people will drop you like a bad habit when hearing someone else is running a carry.

Damn for a warrior he's got sense about mage boosting, it's a large aspect of the game people enjoy it and it doesn't crazily impact the economy for any one as its players passing gold among each other Then you have swarms of bots farming essences and brd pickpocketing, DMT tribute running and flood the markets with particular items and raw gold

Im a horde player, but i can agree. The best leveling zone is definetly redridge

Blizz should just make it so. ALL players have to create a class (lev 59 or 60) and you cant transfer Gold or items from Classic to TBC Classic. Then people will be forced to play TBC Classic, levling- dungeons ect. All this “ehhhh you need atleast 20.000 k gold when it starts”, just ruins the experience of TBC. TBC was also for casuel player NOT only for low life players with No life outside the game. Its just too bad that TBC Classic will die as fast as Classic did because of theise people with 50.000 k Gold and the best gear in the game and then they cry about “ ehhhh there is nothing to do in this game”.

He knows selling runs is bad for the game, of course it is. he just wants to do it so he can level up alts quickly. The real truth, is any idiot would know it's bad for the game. It's irrelevant weather it's a player choice or not within the game, or out of it. If someone can get 100 gold instead of 1 silver for a kill they will. But since the game wasn't designed around that % things go by too quickly, suddenly every vendor you used to buy things from now is worthless. Power leveling enables the Chinese farmers to bot it up even quicker. you're going to see allot, and I mean allot of them more than in vanilla. power leveling through a dungeon has become random dungeon finder for classic. It's abbused in this way and worse. The degredation of the questing aspect of the game is potent. "Those who choose to quest will do so still" No, no they won't. because they don't want to be left behind. So Most people who wanted to level slow, who wanted to level through the game will now take the fast route so they aren't left behind. I think asmongold is cool, but on this he is very VERY wrong. he's also happy with the boost to 58 as well, pleased about it . Also says there is nothing wrong with it. It's clear he just wants to be able to get quick levels for the sake of content, and getting it done quiclkly. It is not good for the game in any way, and therefor it can and WILL only do harm.

14:25 What amuses me around this part is that alot of the chat seems to think farming up 10k gold before TBC release is ridiculous and/or too hard. We already know with high certainty that TBC will launch sometime in summer, with datamining hinting at prepatch coming in mid-late May. That realistically gives us around 2 months before TBC launch, probably even longer. That's minimum 2 months of farming enough gold to buy both base flying and epic flying - which together cost around 6k gold - before the expansion even comes out. So frankly: Those people that are OmegaLuling and raging at Asmon's comment - they probably don't realize how much gold they could earn in 2 months if they were determined to earn it.

I hate that I've been losing all good arguments against dungeon boosting. It's player interaction, circulates gold in the economy, it's technically accurate to vanilla, and it's basically impossible to do on your first character.

TBC looks so good, such a simple yet interasting

Say what you want I owned dps meters on my warrior in a tbc. From ssc to bt and sunwell

[Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]

I am scared that if I keep watching you I will to become asmonbold

People are going to crash so hard in TBC and burn out even before Phase 3

It’s not that warrior is going to suck, it’s just that it’s going to be more inline with the other classes instead of being op.

I know this was in context of Vanilla mostly but it goes for retail do. I spam report all those morons posting sales in the Groupfinder. It's a group finder to find groups not find a buyer. That's what Trade chat is for. To sell a trade

What the aoe camp will really hurt tbh is the cath aoe farm, cause it will be WAAAY harder to do armory

There is at least 200 new people in my guild that are there for tbc, mara brd and zf groups even on weekdays

If we're going back to the days of TBC, we gotta bring Nymh back and watch his music vids.

Ive played wow since vanilla, and still gavent got any keybindings 🤣🤣🤣

Selling runs has always been a thing in many games. in GW1 I made millions selling runs.

Combat log can show all actions, so that primal proc scam will only affect people who don’t know that

Asmon says "Oh yeah just have 10k gold for TBC" when he only has over 10k gold because he begged his fans for nearly all of it.

People have been selling their services in game since EQ and UO, and even before that im sure..........

I love how he geta angry and goes into denial over ret pallys. May the light be with you.

Always group with the alcheimest doing the transmute.

Yes, selling dungeon runs to power-boost is emergent behavior. But it's behavior that many games intentionally prevent because it trivializes the content of the game. And that matters. I'm not blaming the players for playing the game the way it's given to them. But Blizzard should prevent power-boosting for the same reasons many games prevent power-boosting. This is not a novel concept.

paladin trainer in UC. i tried it yesterday on my beta account

Instead of wotlk classic in the future, I'd love to see them release the game engine for us to do whatever with, exactly like what they did with the WC3 engine. How fking cool wouldn't it be to create battlegrounds or dungeons that you could release to a community site and host on blizz servers to play with people. Or do your own class balancing or mix up class abilities and shit.

I'm on Pagle and SW is packed.

Just made a classic toon 3 weeks ago and barely got 80 gold saved and this man talking bout goimg into TBC with 10k gold 😭😭😭

jesus when hobbs spoke my heart sank . good times man

I like Madseason, he always has good & informative videos.

I have started playing again after not playing since about half way through wrath's life

My boy sounding more dead inside than ever. Love you Madseason❤️

You can get to honnard with dungeons i believe.

I teared up towards the end. This game is life.

I cant freaking wait for TBC Classic! Nostalgia overload!

Asmon ruined his classic level experience big time and regreted it afterwards...and now he's planning to do the exact same thing again in BC 🤣 Rushing to 70 with dungeons...when most dungeon and raid attunements require several quests beforehand...sounds like a stupid plan and huge waste of time when you could do both hand in hand to be more efficient in the long run.

@15:20 its not a scam to keep the procs when you transmute rofl. . .

pretty sure when you procced bonus's there was an emote or a noise that happened outside of group, so they would know... or was that added in WotLK

I almost teared up too. Such a great moment.

10,000 gold going into tbc? I’ve got like 100 👍👌