God I miss Vendors. Nothing felt better than saving up for a piece and getting no loot in the mean time, then getting a good loot drop that gives you god gear and enough tokens to get another item. That felt like RNG fun times on top of grinding for a goal. Plus, if you need ONE SLOT you can just buy it.

Every time I hear the crash of his footstep, with the crunch of the snow followed by "An Karanir Thanagor" I still get chills down my spine.

I say it then and I say it now. "TELL THEM ONLY THAT THE LICH KING IS DEAD. AND THAT WORLD OF WARCRAFT, DIED WITH HIM"

The expansion where I started raiding with my friends... How I miss those days where your only worry is to make it to the raid on time.

Oh my .. that arthas + music at the start almost brought tears to my eyes... Because its so sad. That was the best time i had in wow, no doubt. Now wow is but a shadow from that era

Listing to the Wotlk soundtrack makes you wanna cry cause wow isn’t the same game anymore

The DK starter zone to this day is still my favourite quest chain in wow. It was just so great especially the end with the dragon ride and the battle for lights hope.

Wrath of the Lich King was definitely the high point of WoW. It's been over a decade and I still sometimes hop on the latest private servers. Imagine how great WoW could've been today if only they had stuck to the same story and design philosophies.

DID YOU REUPLOAD TO FIX AUDIO?! MY MAN I WISH BLIZZARD WOULD REUPLOAD BFA TO FIX EVERYTHINGGGGG

Good times. When people used to just complain about DKs

Man was lich king my favorite, I started in bc as a kid and once we reached max my brother's guild member bought us the lich king expansion. I have so many memories playing that expansion with my terrible computer at the time.

I've been playing wrath on warmane. Oh the nostalgia! I miss the scourge plague event that was the besttt

Fantastic video! I really enjoy these in-depth look back videos discussing previous expansions. Look forward to the next in the series!

You can't talk about phasing in a solely positive light. That feature alone was the beginning of the end of the MMO part of WoW and brought it closer to the theme park that it is today. It started breaking the playerbase into... shards of players at a different point in time. It started making the quest content more necessary and unnecessarily streamlined the entire experience. When you could once stop with a quest chain at any point in time, you were now essentially closing yourself off from other players if you decided to not finish and on the other hand, you were closing yourself off from players who haven't completed the quest if you finished it. It broke the community and because of phasing and some other "quality of life" changes like dungeon finder, etc. the MMO aspect of wow became so trivial they later went ahead and introduced sharding. Which, as we're well aware, fully turned wow into a theme park where the multiplayer experience more resembles that of a modern lobby-based shooter than an MMO. It killed the community aspect of the server and the game. A side of the game that was a lot more prevalent in the older versions and for a lot of people one of the main reasons they played the game. People like to remember Wrath as an amazing expansion because of Arthas and some great zones and raids but really, it was the beginning of the end.

"The accomplishment of specific goals was really paramount." Glad you're emphasizing that. It's one of wow's biggest problems now lol. I think Asmongold says the same thing. I miss my cross referenced spreadsheets of all the available gear in the Wrath beta era. Going after and achieving those goals in that xpac was second to none in my long and varied Wow time. Then getting some of the only-dreamed-of lucky drops from Naxx that were also on the sheets soon after brought out a true state of MMO Nirvana lol. Gear really has to have personality and be specific to matter. Right now they've gotten lazy and completely forgotten that. In an RPG we're meant to know, seek, and treasure our gear, not require supercomputer cycles to sort the nameless stat rows. I'll always remember the turning tide, betrayer of humanity, the red sword of courage, and countless others with their own special uses, stories, and personalities. There's some of that in following xpacs, but it gets less and less over time with 3 or 4 different versions of each, and more recently warforged and titanforged versions... it's like taking an important character in a game with one name, and making 20 different versions of that character with the same quests and slightly different rewards, with the same story, but you can do all their quests. It's just lazy and boring and really kinda RPG sacrilege. I miss the hand-crafted feel vs the procedural feel for gear. Idk about procedural, but I hate that there's a drop for every slot in every dungeon for every class virtually lol. Too many bits of nameless gear, not enough meaningful gear.

I left the Shyvanas mission of the siege on undercity intentionally to leave my Undercity under attack for almost 6 months. It was awesome that my undercity was different from everyone elses.

I am beyond satisfied by your point of view and ability to cover the story from every aspect. Please continue doing so splendid work!

Wrath was the last expansion from the real Blizzard. We can't expect anything near that from activision blizzard. Ever again.

I liek how you said "we knew from Warcraft 3". Truth be told, most people got into World of Warcraft because the played Warcraft 3. Having a hero, choosing a class, having the races with their specific zones and capitals was a BLAST to explore after you had it all just hinted in a RTS. People who got into WoW after WotlK and/or without having played Warcraft 3 might have fun playing the game. But understanding the hype of the late 2000's is something completly different

This was brilliant. The memories you brought back to me! Great video!

Ah wrath when you could make friends, guilds were communities like a huge family and your server was like an extension of it.. I could of played all day and half way through the night and still wanted to play more if not for damn school. Such an addictive game back then such a huge contrast to the shit show of BFA. Literally makes me sad, wow has lost its spark and blizzard has been devoured by Activation.

Saying that iLVL wasn't as important in Wrath as it is today... uh... Wrath was the start of the gearscore nazis. ilvl = skill amirite?

I can't express the emotion i felt playing that expansion after finishing Warcraft III so many times. It was amazing to see the Ascension of The Lich King step by step. For me, one of the Greatest Villains Of All Time. The PvP was incredible too. The fear to face someone wielding a Shadowmourne was real xD!

Sound much better!!! There's the quality we have come to know and somewhat expect! Thank you.

Amazing video series. Thank you so much for your dedication! :)

This video really brought me back more than I expected it to. ty, Bellular.

You have earned a subscribe from me. This is one of the most well made/enjoyable videos to watch in a very long time. Very nicely done, and I will definitely be back next week. Thank you for this!

Must link achievement to like this video!

I just want to say I feel so privileged to of been about for tbc / wotlk. Arriving at howling fjord still gives me chills to this day. Especially as a big reign of chaos player. Great vid dude 👍🏻

I loved dual wielding frost tanking and trying to cap expertise so I didn't cause the boss to parry and insta kill me.

Very enjoyable video, I'm looking forward to next week!

The best and most engaging video I’ve ever seen in 10 years of wotlk....awesome pal!!

amazing video dude i love it, i really wish some things were learned from wraith and came over to bfa

Man the memories of Wrath, I remember farming a dungeon daily with my guild for the plate pants. Confirming ahead of time none of guild would need on the loot. Who was head of game design back then? Can they come back and fix this shit show.

You hit the nail on the head, teared up some to the way you described things. Played since the end of vanilla and wrath was one of the greatest times I ever had.

Loving this series mate. Thanks heaps 👍

This series if fucking amazing! You should really do these documentaries for the other expansions!

I havent done a daily heroic in BFA since Uldir came out. If there was a daily reward of something as little as 5 titan residuum i would be back in there. And if there was a constitutive reward of just 1 each after people would be spamming them. I did Wrath random heroics throughout the entire expansion.

My favorite expansion ever. The Scourge antagonist, Arthas, the mystery of the Old Gods and the Titans, all the Zones, Death Knights, quests, music, ambience... everything was just perfect.

Amazing!!!Can't wait next video :)

Called borean tundra "boring tundra" even back in the day

Blizzards mistake was letting Activision get the horrible game destroying hands anywhere near thing would Blizzard created

As soon as that music starts at the beginning....fucking goosebumps....

Awesome part2. Can't wait for part3 :)

WoW used to be “work” and players craved that whether they knew it or not. Only the hardest workers got the best stuff to be the most proud of. They have replaced “work” with “greed” and its going to be difficult to overcome that. Also I think during Wrath was the biggest push in advertising I’ve ever seen for any Blizz game. Who can forget Mr. T playing his character! But TV has changed, people aren’t watching cable anymore.

That music at the start gives me shivers, so nostalgic.

This was nice video, thanks!

I remember everything! The sounds in borean thundra omg :D 1-2 zoones took as long as a whole expansions lvling is today.

There was no feeling like having all three gems socketed in your chest and pants. Picking what gems you wanted to stack was so much fun (like tanks stacking straight Stam gems). Wrath will always be the best expansion

This may be the best video I’ve ever watched on youtube

Expansions I've played in: Vanilla(to lvl 26-ish), WotLK, MoP, WoD, BFA. I think I was there for Cata's end, right before MoP. I've covered all the expansions to some extent. In my opinion, Litch King was the best expansion overall but I do think dungeon finder was the beginning of the end of loving the game for me. No longer could you get or receive help with your group, if you didn't know the dungeon, you were kicked, made a mistake? Kicked. Went afk? Kicked. It was all about the time it took and it better be short. It's possible to find a nice group still, but before Insta-dungeon, it was the rule, not the exception. It set the stage for liking the WoD garrison where I use it as a vehicle to avoid other players as much as possible to this day.

Going on the boat to Howling Fjord, approaching the coast, entering the narrow passage and seeing it open up, revealing Valgarde and Utgard Keep, with the fiddle music playing.. The coolest moment in my WoW life. I always pitied the poor suckers who chose to start in Borean Tundra.

Really liked what they did with Wintergrasp even as a primarily PVE player. I would do the battleground just to do the raid if your faction won everyone would be forming the groups for the 10 and 25 man and it was an easy shot at some raid gear every week. As far as zones, Icecrown was my favorite you really felt like you were on the Lich King's doorstep and shit was getting real. And I remember how OP DKs were doing 5 DK Hellfire Ramparts runs no healer needed lol.

Great job with this. Paying a true homage to the original dev teams and all of the immense effort and work they put into their culminating effort The Wrath of the Lich King (over 10 years in the making). It's too bad something has found it's way into the water over at Blizzard, and they have completely forgotten the roots from which their dream grew.

Great video Bellular. If only i could double vote the like button as this video deserves.

Love ya dude, Keep it coming!!!!

Excellent, thank you.

Oh man, this brings back all the nostalgias. For me, I started playing sometime a bit before 3.3. While the legacy of LFD was kind of questionable, I don't think I would have even ended up playing without it. I kept trying to level and got bored and would restart to try a new character over and over. At some point, around the same time I tried out paladin, LFD came out. I ended up using it to level almost entirely through dungeons up until Northrend. It was really fun and introduced me to what the game was really about long before I would have otherwise gotten bored. I don't remember why, but I'm glad I took the chance to go level in Northrend when I got to that level. I started in the Howling Fjord and just wow what a beautiful zone. The music and scenery really did work perfectly together.

Zul Drak really got me with that friggin giant walking up and down the path. Wish that Giant had a story line for himself.

Wrath launch day is by far my favorite day in wow and by far the best memory for me in the game time this day.. everyone waiting in SW for that boat. I wish I had those screenshots of that boat with everyone on it.

We went from fighting the Burning Legion over several expansions, Gul'dan, Archimond, kil'jaeden, Varimathras, Aggrammar ... Sargares!!! The return of Illidan ... there was a MAJOR build-up ... then ... Now we kill pirates....

Man this kicked right in the nostalgia

I havent played wow in... over 5 years now.. but damn you just brought back all the good memories of how completely AMAZING wrath was.. not talking in terms of endgame im a filthy casual.. but in terms of the atmosphere and just general fun of the world content.. thankyou. i loved it. EDIT: you forgot to mention dalaran.

"All Death Knight dungeon groups." Yep! Honestly, that was the most fun I ever had in dungeons. Right after Wrath launched, I made my dwarf DK, took him to Outland, got into a group, and ended up in Hellfire Ramparts with 4 other DK's. I'm pretty sure I was the only Unholy DK and the other 4 were Blood. We smashed our way through that dungeon without a hitch and kept going from dungeon to dungeon for HOURS. It was great.

I've always said stories all come down to the villain. Better the villain better the feel. Something DC movies need to learn.

Item levels.....nobody even talked about it during Wrath. It didn't even matter. What mattered to my guild when we evaluated applicants, was if they enchanted and gemmed all of their gear. If they were defense or hit capped. If a player put the effort into their character and it showed, they would get a raid spot.

Wotlk was the golden age of pugging. I could finish several raids on a good day.

oooooo i can't wait till next week! love this series.

didnt Heroic Dungeons drop all 200 but the last boss had the chance for an epic that generally had better stats? could be wrong I was 12 then xD

I literally started crying when i heard the theme song at the start... Feeling soo sad to miss those times...

I really like this serie about history of WOW, since I didn't experienced it on retail, it's nice to see it summarized with all the details I might've missed :)

Amazing work, as always....C'mon another week for the next part.....!!!! :-D

@bellulargaming Sholazar Basin is by far my fave zone of all time! It's so relaxing with its soundtrack imo! Was always super happy to level through that zone! :D

Nice vid!

I remember lining up in Tesco for the midnight launch. We grabbed the copies jumped into the car drove to pats house and had a LAN party 🎉 awesome game.

This was great! Why do I have to wait a week? I have too sub now damnit

I always kind of thought that Sholazar Basin was a zone designed for farming crafting mats with some odd landscape quests thrown in. Lots of herbs and lore in there plus tons of animals that can be skinned

Man, watching these reminds me just how great Wrath was. They didn't try to change the playerbase and the characters to meet the world, they made the world based on what our characters were capable of.

Pretty much hit the nail on the head with everything. Wrath gave me my introduction to raiding after reaching cap in BC but not having experienced anything but getting carried in Kara. Naxx was a solid introduction, and by mid expansion I was onto hard modes in Ulduar and then Heroic ICC. Special place in my heart for WotLK!

Full body chills.

Can we all take a moment of silence for the last, truly great, World of Warcraft expansion?

I remember doing Sarth 3D when it was really hard and I won the roll on the mount, I had to link my epic flying to get it from the loot master and I was so excited and nervous that I could not find it. Eventually someone told me where to look for the achievement and I finally linked it and received the mount. My friend and guildies were so happy for me and jealous at the same time because I had one of the hardest mounts to get at that time.

Bro the green blinking light that blinks whenever you talk is driving me nuts (bottom left) XD

Do you feel that after this point in wow's lifespan blizzard started catering to what they felt was a certain audience. And as there systems went downtown the path of everyone should be able to experience everything no matter how much they play we wind up where we are today. How much does blizzard wish they could trade the current sub base for sub base from back then

These videos are stellar. Did you do a TBC look back? Guess I will check.

I started playing WoW at the launch of the Lich King. No other expansion never quite met the same awe.

"WE MUST ARTHAS THIS ARTHAS" 6:48

I came in when Wrath had just started. and it was the most glorious gameplay for me

The accomplishment of getting specific pieces of gear from specific bosses is something that was huge in wrath. I'll never forget getting the caster shield from Sindy on my holy pally after months of clearing ICC. Annoying at the time, but I remember loving the grind.

Bro, this is absolutely nostalgia feels man... Those days where my friends IRL and Meeting friends online and finally meeting up IRL after we downed The Lich King as a bet.... feelsgoodman

The outro always makes me cry

Jooki The Twilight Vanquisher... people would invitime by accident when what they wanted was inspect me, nowdays that title means nothing because Bluzzfart didn't remove it after ulduar went up.

i remember being a DW frost DK during wrath and having to use AGI weapons. was such a fun spec to play back then.

TBC really just took Vanilla hardcore players to a whole new level. Heroic Shattered Halls completely destroyed any competent group and it traumatized most of us and I still remember it to this day. WotLK took it down several notches to let casual players in on the fun and I think that's fair; there were times I'd rather jump around in Shattrath than to do a Heroic 5-man in TBC because it was such an ordeal and you just knew it was a waste of time without the right group composition. WotLK did have some points where I felt like that I didn't want to do anything though, more so because there were no rewards to be had for doing 5-mans and they ended up just being reserved for alts; it's not that that was particularly new for a no-lifer hardcore raider but I felt no incentive to do anything most times. All that being said, I felt like that WotLK had enough differences from TBC for it to be enjoyable yet still retained familiarities where I didn't feel like I was playing something completely different. Ever since Cataclysm though, the game just felt so flat and one-dimensional and you had to play the game they wanted you to play and I hate that; I guess it's one of the many reasons why I quit and never liked the game again since.

To this day when leveling an alt I go to Borean, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. Howling Fjord was great, but the different levels within the zone (height wise) made it a beast to quickly get through. Even with flying, it take me longer to level there.

For me Old Stratholm is memorable for young Arthas quote "What kind of magic is this?" Russian localization actor made it so slick.

Man I miss this.

As someone who never had much of a chance to get into raids in TBC but loved heroic dungeons early wrath was when I checked out

thing i miss the most from wrath as a arms warrior was arp :( having a high amount of it was pretty fun

I looked forward to the pvp at wintergrasp every day. Was always pretty fair on Perenold