Cant wait for Legacy of Paragon.

These need to be longer I love hearing raid history like this

Hearing the name Buzzkill brings back memories. He helped me be a better warlock back then. His tips in Wrath about playing Demo for the SP buff and how to max it out got my guild through a lot of raids...at a time when most warlocks were still running the sacrifice specs for personal dps. The fact that he would take the time to answer my stupid questions on the forums or reach out to chat to me is something I appreciate now more than I did back then. So hey, if Buzzkill comes by here...Here's another thank you from Dunwich.

The Blood Legion video will be........Bloody Good.

This format is so good and I cannot fathom how much work this had to be. This should be way more popular! Thank you, Preach and team.

I love these videos so much, they feel like the natural evolution of the old legacy videos. Always a good day seeing them in the sub box!

A legacy video, already hyped c:

This is awesome, Preach and Co! I never got in to raiding when I played, but love hearing all the stories, can't wait for more!

I will always wish I had been old enough to really raid in Vanilla and TBC. The game was so alive back then. I was playing at the time..but like the child I was..I liked to run around role playing and exploring.

Love this style of content and the story telling. Top notch and as someone who played the game and followed the MMO Boss HP threads refreshing every few minutes. It was nice to relive it as well as get a peak behind the curtains of the drama and the players. Things you didnt really know unless you were connected or it was mass community news. keep up the great work

Great video mate. Thoroughly enjoyed!!

Keep up the work. I genuinely get excited when you release these types of videos

Preach, been watching you for years and love the Legacy vids and everything else. Please do one on Paragon. I've always wanted to know more about them !!

Omg i want to thank you so much! These videos are absolutely fantastic! Subbed and notifications on! PLEASE keep em coming

I just love these videos a lot. Not only for the mystery itself, but because it is part of history. Of yours and of mine, since we're all part of this community. Some of us may even had direct connection to these events and others just heard from friends about it. Thank you Preach. Thanks to the PG team. Love you all

Love these keep em coming

loved it . Thanks Preach!

Your "Legacy" videos - or documentaries if you will - are something else. Quality content delivered in a very interesting way. Already hyped for the next one, whichever topic that may be about.

It was a glitch, but, one does have to admit the platform itself was made of Saronite, so, the fact that shrapnel from a saronite bomb could create a replacement platform in this magical world isn't totally far-fetched. Honestly, it would be cool as hell if such mechanics for seemingly trivial crafting items did exist. Then again, it is well-known Saronite bombs were a part of high-end rotations at this time. This ban always seemed a bit iffy to me.

Amazing series! I can imagine it is also quite fun to make, digging through archives and old forums, like digital archeology

You made my night with this video! love this content!

You forgot to ask if it was 10 or 25 man OS 3 Drakes. Only the real raiders got invited to the 10 man kill.

I love these videos! I will keep watching for as long as you make them, they are great!

More of this, love it!

Great video! Please do more of these preach!

Preach these are amazing. I love learning the history you unearth and I hope there is one for paragon or Blood Legion

The Saronite bomb glitch was on normal mode, which most guilds killed within a couple of raid progress nights. Heroic and the actual race unlocked the following week. Not sure why Preach didn't discuss Heroic ICC at all, and just ended it on Paragon winning Normal mode wing 4 week 1 ICC, as if that really meant anything. For LK Hc it was a more interesting race, as the concept of split raiding was created around this time by Paragon (due to limited attempts on end-wing bosses), and Ensidia moved to their server (Lightning's Blade) to try have equal chances in terms of server lag. Felt like this video ended very very abruptly after such a comprehensive build. T11 was also very notable because Paragon vs Method vs Ensidia was a very long and brutal race, taking about 1.5 months to clear; Ensidia did end up the lowest of the 3, but it was a relatively good showing against guilds that were becoming behemoths. ---- Edit for clarity: MMO announcement of Ensidia suspension for 72 hours - 4th Feb 2010 Blizzard reported date of [exploit occurrence] - 3rd Feb 2010 Lord Marrowgar heroic world first - 9th Feb 2010 (this is the date of ICC hc opening)

NGL. I haven't been this hyped for a Preach video since the old Legacy videos.

Never clicked a notification so fast. Love these Legacy vids!

The actual last world first of Ensidia was "A tribute to immortality" (clean Togc 25 HM without any player dying), which was the "Yogg zero keeper" of Togc.

Preach did a good job on this, though Preach omitted a small detail from the last part. Ensidia ended up server transferring to "Paragon's server" (Lightning's Blade) as a last ditch effort to gain level playing field and ended up ruining the server for 2 years to follow during and after ICC progression. Also the saronite bomb debacle was bit bigger than that. There was allegedly proof that some of Ensidia knew that they were exploiting (with the platform clearly building back up and they knew it was not normal, this was shown in their kill screenshot even). That caused a lot of inner turmoil within Ensidia and ultimately ended up bringing up the "odd ventrilo rules" for Heroic prog that destroyed morale to the ground. I remember talking about it with Ensidia members that were super fed up to the whole thing. I still to this day remember how Ensidia finally conceded that Paragon was a real thing after they lost LK HC kill to them fair and square. Before that they called Paragon a fluke guild and blamed most of it to server stability and better "tribalism?" because they were only Finnish guild. I remember it form the World chat, raid chats from farm alt raids and it was additionally fueled by tons of fans. If you are still interested about the whole picture, I'm fairly sure you can still google "The Ensidia Journey" and read up on it. I remember there being fairly big write up on the whole thing that goes a lot more in detail, even though Preach did a banging job on this one ^^ (This is how i remember it, i played in Lightning's Blade prior to Paragon coming there, Ensidia following during ICC prog and after that. I knew few players from Paragon personally IRL so take this whole story with a grain of salt because it might be colored with time and propaganda :D)

I love this series these are the best by far.

Loved the video! Great story telling skills!

OMG i love these series, started playing in wrath but didn't really get into raiding that much so love hearing about the history of these guilds from back then

I've been a casual player since Vanilla, playing off and on through the years. I was on Area-52 Horde Consortium rep grinding when the top guild of that server at the time finally downed KJ...and the legendary bow dropped. Despite having two? hunters I think in the raid comp, it went to their rogue Analogkid (or some Rush song reference named character). I've never seen a General chat so enraged haha. Wild times. I only played rogue at the time so secretly I was like 'heck yea!, big W to the rogue', but the frustration was pulsing everywhere that night, sympathizing with the hunters that got shafted on an opportunity they most likely wouldn't ever see again when Sunwell was the endgame raid.

Great stuff, and can't wait for the next one😊

Great video, I was a Last Resort fan myself, not world first but Kerp’s raid videos were phenomenal, well edited and great soundtracks.

LOVE this series. I know you have been mostly focused on 1-2 guilds. Maybe explore others during this time?

Great coverage

Love this series Preach! Keep them coming!

oh this is gonna be good

Amazing series. Please keep em coming.

Great video this took me back to my old guilds and friends!

absolutely love these videos

Love this content and the style too! I miss old legacy of wow stuff so much!!!

I remember the drama surrounding Alone in the Darkness. I recall Kungen saying that Yogg without keepers was "mathematically impossible" without nerfs, and then STARS killed it that same week.

Great video as always preach, always loved your wow content

Love this type of content. Wish something like this about Paragon but I'm afraid it will be difficult to get someone to tell all the stories.

I really love these videos Preach, keep them coming!

This is an awesome vid! Thank you! Made me giggle and also remember those days in WoW raiding.

This was amazing, please do more

I got my mousepad in the mail a week ago, the quality is great!

i had a blast playing classic for 4 years straight with my guild, all real gamers, cool people and lovely community. the game died after LK right before ruby sanctum. We quit cuz of ppl stopped caring and new ppl not staying for long wich is tiresome for the guild leaders. so nice to see this nostalgia in this vid. even tho i played classic. actually first time i joined an actual guild that went for goals to get raid clears the first night/day it came out. good times to be remembered forever. alot of issues that are very real in guilds were explained here. thanks for this one preach really touching in alot of ways.

How the heck did I get here so fast?! Also I am so excited for this video.

Great vid. Was so hype back then when Death & Taxes dropped their Naxx videos.

With the release of the MoP event I wouldn't mind a video on Blood Legion vs Method. That rivalry always stood in my mind as some of the best. The underdog who could(pretty much) never get over that final hurdle. The underdog who could only ever make it 95% of the way there

Preach I've been watching your vids for years but I've never seen a vid by u like this. I just wanna say I really enjoyed this. Would love to see more. Maybe I just haven't seen any other vids u made like this but in case this is a first of a kind and I'm not a total blonde, keep it up! The docu-wow histories are incredibly creative. Good job! 👍

Thanks for the story preach great to see you doing well you deserve it man ❤

This was so solid ty ty

Love the whole vibe of the video more of these ❤

OK, I have to say I love the intro done in the style of unsolved mysteries. I still watch that show because it’s like time traveling. A lot of the mysteries are still being solved and updated.

Great documentary! Thanks Preach ❤

It's annoying to me, as someone who slowly progressed WotLK, that the game by many was viewed a success or failure based on world first kills. I didn't even know who the "top guilds" were, all I knew was how much fun I was having progressing through northrend and killing bosses with friends.

Tbh, i've not followed your content for sometimes, yet the moment I saw this title, got hooked on. Maybe because I'm a sucker for Esports. But i'd like to see more of this like Blood Legion, Vodka, Premonition, the oldies, or even new ones like Method.

Man these Legacy of WoW videos have been great to watch for so many years now. Getting a new one is like MEGA christmas

Love these vids but who's the dashing young gentleman hosting the video? I came for bald fat and ugly and I get early-2000s David Beckham. Great to see you all back in action after all you've been through w the office!

love these videos, more pls!

more of this good man

This video made me relive my teenage years. I remember talking about all these things in school with friends. Good times.

A good guild is like any good company. You need a good environment, need to feel valued, need to have fun when its due, work when you need to work, and feel safe to grow and make contributions. And then be rewarded. Elitism and ego will only eventually kill anything.

Amazing video!

I still remember watching the SK Gaming Sunwell livestreams, in the days way before livestreaming on platforms like Twitch or KZfaq was a thing. It was hosted on a site called Joost which no longer exists (it already went down a few years after TBC) and sadly I was never been able to track down copies of those livestreams. I even tried to contact ex guildmembers of SK but never found anything. So if anyone happens to have those livestreams backed up somewhere or knows where they are viewable, let me know.

Long time fan of Preach and I can say that this series is by far one of my favorites. The legacy series is hard to top but this is getting closer and closer. Thank you for the excellent work as always to everyone on the Preach team.

Love the Unsolved Mysteries intro, my childhood thanks you good sir.

More content like this! Paragon is probably what I'd most want to see, but isn't it pretty cut and dry overall?

Shout out to the Old Dragonblight guilds like Legions Astartes, Chorlton & The Wheelies & Booty Bay Surf Club from the Trumpton Riot Squad :-)

I love this format, hope to see even more of it!

Havent seen preach for a long time... Got this random pop up snd was brilliant! Blast to the past! - as for paragon... I've been friends with one of them when i played wow and did the farm raids with them for gear. It's unbelievable how good those players were at min maxing the character and their sheer awareness.

I remember this drama live. Pretty epic.

I had a serious flashback of unsolved mysteries lmao my grandmother loved that show. I always watched it with her up until her passing in '98

Great story!

That clip of Kungen is exactly when i also got to meet him irl :O Nostalgia

Nice to see a return to some oldschool Preach format videos.

didnt expect the master of mankind to make an appearance ♥

amazing video about wows history really enjoyed it

I only played WoW for like 6 months during TBC but man was it an intense experience. Poured so many hours into the game and it's fun from time to time to look back. Was watching PoV of top guilds in preparation for raids back then. Sadly some of those videos are no longer on youtube.

I remember them from back in the day... Damn that was a long time ago... And the statement to as why they failed always hit me hard and gave a big moment of realization.... Everyone is replaceable... That doesn't mean anyone can replace them.

It was kind of nostalgic to watch this. Crazy thing my guild pseudonym on executus was getting players from paragon at the same time all this was going on, we even got H Lady Death whisper as a 10 man guild world first but fell behind a these top guilds because they had a lot more time to dedicate to playing and grinding.

The legacy of WoW is all of the guilds who worked hard to raid together, achieved together, who took care of each other for years, and who were lead by dedicated guild masters and raid leaders that sacrificed themselves for their guilds. Those are the people that made WoW what it is, not the "super guilds." The race to world first, sponsors, monetization, and other variables have always been toxic elements of WoW eroding at the community. I began playing WoW in March of 2005, began raiding in Molten Core, took over as guild master and raid leader in TBC, and finally had to stop running things at the end of Shadowlands in June of 2022. I watched the game slowly devolve over many years.

oh wow i remember this, i have a swedish gaming magazine that covers interveiws with the 2 merged guilds for 3pages, was quite the read

the intro to this shit is great haha whoever decided on doing an investigative series intro was bang on

i want to see more content like this

Oh what a time. From the first time I dialed into a BBS and played my first text based mmo in the early 80’s to the peak of the genre (mists of pandaria for me) I’m just glad I got to experience it all. RIP mmorpgs.

Haven't watched your videos in a while. Looking great Preach.

4:11 giving off them wowhobbs vibes lol, I remember how in some of his videos he'd just be sitting there talking flipping a pen around.

I love these legacy videos as someone who entered the mmo sphere after all the early stuff had happened

I remember this like it was yesterday. I used to feel so passionate about WoW. Good old times. All the best guys. Take care.

I'll never forget hearing paragon killed LK HC then watching the video, that was peak gaming for me. The nerdscreams echo till this day, OSSI TAUNTA OSSI TAUNTA!

preacher is getting FIT

Fantastic series.