Fellas, I apologize for that gap in the uploads, but this past Saturday I was busy getting married. Been a hectic past few months, but at last things can return to normal! Thank you all for being patient with me and the content. Also, I should remind the viewers that this is a First Impressions video - not a final review. That's all!

My favorite part of the war within beta is when Thrall says "we gotta fight... this war within" and then Anduin and Jaina high five and all 3 of them start waring within together

5:54 "Blizzard is at their best when they're stealing" And then the very next clip is dragon riding, a feature ripped from Guild Wars 2. Perfect.

Can't believe my man was presented with Deathbringer and Rider of the Apocalypse and went Deathbringer...your credibility as a death knight has been called into question.

Beta voices can be a bit wonky sometimes. Back in the beta of TBC I was testing out the Draenei starting area. All the NPCs were polite and said stuff like "Light bless you" and "Peace be with you." But then one suddenly screamed "DEATH TO ALL WHO OPPOSE THE CAUSE" and I was shocked for a moment until I realized the poor sod had most likely gotten a blood elf voice emote by accident. O.O

The best part was knowing you can die if you stand under the anvil. 😂

First it was Teldrassil, then the Undercity, Stratholme has been burning for the past couple of decades, Gilneas City is kinda restored but still totally useles and now Dalaran falls from the sky. I have the sneaky suspicion someone at Blizzard developed an Oppenheimer complex and earned the achievement: "Now I am become Blizzard, the destroyer of cities"

hmm I dunno, we just did a whole expansion Dragonflight where most of the big lore characters were absent (except the dragon aspects obviously), I think it makes sense to get those characters involved in things again at this point

12:24 - Imagine this: You were *THE* adventurer from the very start that went through a hell of an adventure across the world in Vanilla, took out the threats since then (Ragnaros, Onyxia, C'Thun, Hakkar, Kel'Thuzad), you went and explored Outland and stopped both Illidan, Vashj, Kael'thas, Kil'Jaden, went to Northrend to stop the Scourge and defeat Kel'Thuzad (again), Anub'arak, Athas - The Lich King, had to endure the Cataclysm and put an end to the big bads along with Deathwing, arrive to Pandaria as invasive colonizers to remove the Sha, Lei'Shen and then having to discipline Garrosh Hellscream - except getting away from his timeout, thus, go into the past to f##kn' scar up the Orcs' dreams of conquerors to only find out Thrall killed Garrosh, realize there's a giant, demonic space-goat that had Gul'dan escape, both sides losing their chad leadership to stop Gul'dan ruining everything, hurt Kil'Jaden's (in person this time) feelings to then stop this Argus Unmaker guy for Sargeras to have a hissy fit and stab the world, to suddenly be involved in a war between the Alliance and Horde (pretty sure none of them wanted to pay for repair costs on the settlement to the Cenarion Circle that escalated since then) to only cease hostilities to stop this snake woman Queen Azshara, with Wrathion to drag the adventurer by the ear to face yet another old god named N'Zoth (which ended up as an embarrassment), with the adventurer groaning in torment to hear Sylvanas decided to become a big bad now and open the Shadowlands, then seethe in frustration that she's now a good guy after humiliatingly beating her and stopping The Jailer named Zorvool or Zavvel - whatever this dude is - he wasn't cool, and thinking that they're done, the adventurer decided on wanting to go to vacation until being yanked by the ear once more by some scaly man-dragon and head to the Dragon Isles, stop all the threats and beat this badder scaly to a literal pulp for now hating to see anything dragon now to finally stop this glowing torch dragon- Nope, just immediately decimates him while saving a huge tree, until now you are here, with Dalaran destroyed and just hearing about the new next bad you'll have to once again crush with injust prejudice dating back since BFA - all of your accomplishments, the foes you've went against and slaughtered, all the creatures and resources consumed to feed your growth of power, the supposed friendship (the main characters) you made along the way since the start... ...To all end abruptly by getting crushed by some mechanical hammer while also traumatizing the witness seeing it happen because he/she wanted to see what would happen. XD

in 20 years time the quest are still roughly the same...

Playing other 40k games, the mechanicus can absolutely inflect plenty of emotion into their voice. Usually disdain.

its just more of the same dragonflight 2.0 with hero talents.

Being the 'saviour of Azeroth' for the last 10 years running while simultaneously being asked to pick up/destroy rubble will forever irritate the shit out of me. Why am I doing menial tasks that could be carried out by a peon if I've literally saved the world multiple times? I firmly believe that one of the reasons vanilla is so popular, is because nobody wants to be the savior of the world... we all just want to be adventurers in a big scary world.

Thanks Nixxiom. I really wish Blizzard would allow us to take our alt toons as "followers" and level them up along with whatever main we are playing. The followers could level up slower too. I would love to play with my Shadow Priest, but take my Light Forged Ret Pally along as a follower!! OMG!! That would be awesome!

After becoming the hero of the alliance an honorable commander and saving the world multiple times - we are finally back picking up dirt again 5:05

Looks like more of the same, and by that I mean pretty underwhelming. Every expansion has felt exactly the same since legion.

4:10 literally WHY? Has anyone thought that it's fun to carpet bomb from an on rails flying mount since what? F'ing Wrath or something? Why do they keep doing this?

New lore characters would require somebody at Blizzard to actually have an original thought.

The thing about delves is that T3 and below usually have almost the same experience with some minor changes to items and rares inside, and when the seasons starts, they will have the bigger changes. Also the deathbringer tree is pretty lame in the beginning but when you get the last point and start filling up the tree, it will have new effects and visuals and the stacks will build up faster

So we're getting another reskin of the dwarves as a playable race?

I am super excited for War Within, that being it is the next evolution for Wow. That being said, I grew up playing Classic, the Skyriding and overall 'speedy' element of these newer Expacs are getting exhausting to deal with. Endgame is amazing and will continue to be in Retail, but I want leveling to be a core part of Wow again and not be part of a conveyer belt style of speeding you and always feeling like you are rushing through the zones. I am not saying Classic is perfect, but it is far more immersive than the larger and more mundane aspects of Retail. I think I can speak for many when I say I like to feel immersed in Wow, I don't want to feel like I am on a treadmill with content being shoved down my throat. In conclusion, I am excited for this next chapter of Wow as I do believe they will continue to improve - but they need to keep player's feedback as the cornerstone of their developments.

Please, what is the music track playing around 15:20 Sounds like hearthstone but there's so many I can't pin it down🙏

I came for the bugged flash scare jokes

my favorite ability in the game is alt F4

I stopped playing in Shadowlands and this is the first time I've really watched footage since then. Tbh the gameplay looks mostly identical to what I remember other than the new dragon flying. The delves also seem like scenarios with a new coat of paint. Maybe that's what people want, the formula seems to work, but there's nothing here that excites me or makes me want to check it out.

The art team does a great job with the world, but it also seems very hollow and boring. I just don't feel anything special towards any of the new things. It looks great, but it's just missing something.

Regarding "Thrall, Jaina & Anduin": If you don't pick familiar characters there is also criticism against that. Now is this a split decision, idk. But you kinda have to stick to some familiar faces while introducing new ones, which will also happen during the leveling campaign.

Mages are cool but the Emperor of Mankind would appreciate the fervor and Ardent Faith of the Paladin.

I haven’t played retail since the beginning of Shadowlands. Somewhere between legion and bfa the game turned into a second job if you wanted to experience everything an expansion had to offer. Then later on, when you would log in, everywhere you look you’re staring at reminders of things you missed. It’s just not the same anymore. This game should have been sequel’d a long time ago.

I can't say much about gameplay/endgame content, but the zones look gorgeous, especially Hallowfall.

i think it could be a decent-awsome ish expansion if blizzard just doesn't stop improving the game and these features throughout the expansion, like probably adding some different scenarios to each delve to make it more replayable would be nice and just making the hero talents game breakingly strong and awsome

I’ll play it and try to do every quest. I love questing.

okay but WHY ANOTHER dwarf race??? like why? we already have a dwarf & iron dwarf!

achievement acquired: be squashed like a pancake

Nixxiom, as a Warhammer fan did you get that Dornogal is a play on the name Rogal Dorn, the Primarch of the Imperial Fists.

I think we need decent sidequest with actual story, not just grow turnips cus why not. What about a side quest like Legend of Stalvan?

MEH What bothers me about this expansion is that the colors remind me of Oribos, and I definitely feel like it doesn't offer me anything exciting

Am i the only one who feels like this is all the same, this city and the bfa city look the same, same colors and everything 6:02 looks exactly like the first raid area in dragonflight..... it all just blends together....

Contrary to you, I look forward to the return of Anduin and old favourite characters, see what happens to our friends. 2 hrs of beta isn't imho representative of what the total final product is. Crafting has some interesting developments too. A slow start (your meh) isn't a problem when more is coming over the next 3 expansions. A solid gorgeous new hub city sounds like a good foundation. Maybe the world feels empty because 1. Beta and 2. Weekly activities might be added as we reach 80 and the expansion progresses that will fill it in just as dreamsurges, wq, hunts, feasts, Fyrack, rares and what not filled DF over time.

I've been playing Beta. I was playing remix, but I figured if I was playing something that didn't matter might as well play beta. Just watch a lvl 71 RUN and I mean run through a Dungeon pulling everything between bosses and lived. You have no idea how fun it is as a Mage to just run behind a tank for 10 minutes. Doing nothing until the boss. That shit's not fun

I gotta be honest… looks boring af

Broll, Veleera come to mind for a couple good characters we could use for story for once. Haven't really seen them for years. I blew through the story as I also didn't want spoiled. I focused on mechanics and making sure things worked. I'll enjoy the story when it's all done and released.

All I did in beta was create an earthen to see what I can make one look like and left it at that back in the day I beta tested the original vanilla game and the first three expansions in both alpha and beta, but that to me always ruin the experience so I quit doing that

Riders is the better talent tree for dks for fun I think

Ill be honest, i wish blizzard would stop giving us new zones everytime we get a new expansion. I would much prefer if they added new content to existing zones. You telling me we've never run into anyone of these new races during our 15+ years on Azeroth?

TWW will be the first expansion since TBC I won't play, same old stuffs. I only played DF 1 season and never looked back. My wow time is over, there is tons of other good games out there. . But hey to those who play, GL.

6:55 Tell me you didn't progress past the isle of dorn without telling me Nixxiom xD

"And they say Blizzard games don't have bugs." - Anub'arak WC3

I have been saying MAGni and here you are with Mogni. Have I been saying it wrong all this time?

The best thing in this expansion is that blacksmith hammer😂😂😂

I think if you'd done the next couple of zones your opinion might change a little bit... yeah the Isle of Dorn is a bit empty but I have a feeling it's not always going to be empty

I can definitely see Earthen being akin to Mechancius faction. But we already have another key influence with the Lightborn Draenei, one of their features is literally "They shall know no fear" which is akin to Space Marines motif. That and obviously they come out of drop pods, use ancient veteran warriors spirits to run their ardent large robotic's and utilize warframes akin to dreadnaughts.

13:57 Pint predicted the blink potion!

I've played through 3 different delves (the ones in the first area) so far and yes they are fun. However I don't see them being fun as repeated content in the endgame. To me it appears as it's something you'll do a couple of times to get what you want and push the level to the maximum and then do the bare minimum for weekly quests. It's just to basic and repetitive to be really enjoyable for longer periods of time.

Shoulda went with Rider of the Apocalypse for your DK. You get to remain mounted up in combat with it when outside in the open world. Which I'll note I'm not trying to say that it's necessarily better, just more that it's absolutely a change in flavor that's more massive than a dot.

Reno's Magic Nutsack. That was hilarious! :)

TWW Feels like something we have seen 1000 times already. Need something new and crazy.

I used to get really excited for wow expansions. However... I am watching this .. and for the love of god i just dont feel anything anymore for this game.

Zoinks senpai hope they can turn this ship aroundo

wow i remember using zygor in wrath back in 2010. amazing it's still around.

"Only this time, when I rounded the corner, Reno Jackson wasn't there. It was a giant robot, fought him, got a different power, it was cool"... "Everything was completely the same, nothing changed" 🤔 Seems like they're going for a wider variety of total delves we can do, rather than shifting things up a ton within each individual delve. But I'm glad there is that variety in powerups and enemy spawns!

Did they just drop the huge profession overhaul from drag flight??

I'm hoping for the best and I don't think that it could be as bad as BFA or Shadowlands but also hoping that it isn't as forgettable as Dragonflight was for me. I feel like we have moved pretty far into a new ear of WoW if your not already with it, that probably isn't going to change. Maybe its time to find a new series to get invested into.

looks like they are missing the power fantasy we crave. love your vid mate

i hate how when i hit max level or finish the campaign, my road to gear progression has so much friction with m+ and raids and not having some guild i've been doing stuff with and can just go. i like the design of the m+ and raid fights tho. so i'm hoping delves will be that viable alternative i can just do right away without friction.

There is a "delve". Only one tought comes to mind: D4 bad

Looks neat!

Is this from level 1?

Its not really accurate to say Xal'atath being the mastermind behind the attack on the earthen capital is like the Jailer in shadowlands. Its not connected to past lore or retconning, its the boss of this expansion effecting this expansion which is entirely normal.

Defs wanna jam this 🤙🏻

Im so excited to start my second job! So much weekly crap to look forward too!

Lol @5:56 ❤❤❤

As someone who gave up on WoW during Shadowlands and hasn't been back since, the best I can say with this Beta commentary is that it, at least to me, seems like it could be a decent start to heading in the right direction. I guess we'll just have to wait and find out.

i feel like bronzebeard will only be good as a healer, and that healers would use him as tank or damage, but other than that maybe not that much use in playing around with it i think beta is a bit too fast paced with bouncing between locations rather than exploring them first and then moving on wonder how itll play with healvoker when i get to play it myself on launch

Awesome video!

"Blizzard needs to make new lore characters" I agree, but lately the characters they've made have been pretty lame, one dimensional, and poorly written. But hey, there's an orc with PTSD in dragonflight from his time in war, so there's that. And that depressed dragon you get to talk to on that ledge. Pretty much the only two storylines that seemed well written and memorable. The latter just literally being a 20 minute dialogue dump

A big thing is xalatath is going behind current things, not past things that are suddenly huge things all attributed to her. Also delves don't change every time you do them, it changes on a lockout basis. And yeah the hero talents don't become super good till you get all the talents, its small increments. Also imagine not picking the rider of the apocolypse. Also a fun fact, a LOT of the charecters you mention are showing up, gazlowe for example, we are also getting to know thralls son a lot more. Faerin, Xalatath.

You saying it is mid gives me 0 hope in this expansion. The last thing I want to see is "mid" at the start of an expansion because that means it's doomed from the start to only get worse. SL was the only expac I fully skipped but looks like this will be another skipped expac.

looks fun i like what htye are doing with pvp kinda deff gunna have to jump into some M+ in TTw

The difference between the jailers plan and xalataths plan is that we have seen xalatath for a long time but the jailer was just made for one expansion lol

As a hardcore dwarf fan I must say I really look forward to it because the zones look stunning, I get the most fantasy immersion when there is dwarven architecture and lore around and I am looking forward to the story, I am a bit skeptical about the delves as usually I dont like theese types of things, but maybe I will love them when they come out. But I still enjoy being around other player characters to playing solo.

1:03 *rolleyes* you already lost me with Blood Elves.

Wow is the new flight simulator hell yeah!

Damn azaroths for the streets. Starts ignoring her man but starts talking to everyone else. Magni deserves better.

5:30 I MEAN To be fear this is not the first time when Blizzard steal something Like look at the StarCraft This is literally Tyranyds / Space Marines and stuff And WoW got A LOT from D&D

I'm sure the graphics and gameplay are gonna be good like dragon flight but every expansion after bfa has really lacked the "essence" or grit of wow. Idk how to describe it but everything really feels soft

I agree on the bringing in more characters from past expansion. Flynn Fairwind for example.

I would try this, but cba getting all addons and shit installed just to be able to play the game sadly.

as someone who has leveld to 80 on beta i must say that i loved the leveling

Hey guys I try not to use Add Ons at all to get a truer experience, but I would like the pvp damage add-on, what is the best and safest? Thanks all. Great vid Nixx

I've not played TWW beta yet. From what I've seen the expansion looks fun though, and I am excited for the release. I don't think it's gonna be some amazing new best expansion ever, but expecting that would be setting ourselves up for failure imo. Overall, I like the direction WoW has been moving the last while, and I think TWW looks great so far

OMG, the Earthen city looks almost spot on like the Dwarf starter area in LOTRO.

But are actually leveling professions going to be as miserable and convoluted as they are in DF ?

Blizzard make more characters, back in "when we kill the deathwing, we all know about the son of the thrall" and we never see him.. GZ!

I have not played retail since shadowlands, got into SoD and then lost interest in that. I think my wow journey is finally done, probably for the best.

You hit the nail on the head with need new lore characters. They literally pulled thrall from retirement. I just feel like there isn’t a change from being in shadowlands. No one new and it’s the same hero’s. I’m also not saying to start killing ppl off, I just want more variety. The world has gotten so much bigger yet I feel like I’m stuck in a group with these toons and every new experience is reused. Thrall also did not need to come back last time so idk why he is even still here. Jaina should be working on other shit in KT. Anduin is rly the only one I don’t mind seeing cuz he is a constant for ally characters in the sense that we all kinda grew up together. Side note on battles moving forward. I would love battles to be more like the OG death knight starting zone where there is a progression to the battle and you have to actually put work into a battle not just kill a few guys and we are all good. It makes it feel like we are infantry being thrown against the bad guys and nothing more.

looks good but the need more right? wow lore is so rich and awesome we just need more of it

Grats on getting married Nix :D Love your videos.

I really enjoyed this video. P.S. How, being Crendor's best friend, did you not know about the anvil?

I'mma be real chief - the most hype thing about the "expansion" is literally overdue utility and quality of life changes...