Nothing will ever beat random players opening trade on accident because they meant to inspect your gear.

I was a highschool kid just rocking T1/2 on my dwarf hunter when Naxx was this almost mythological raid that I had no hope of reaching before TBC dropped for us all to roll into Outlands, but that mystique was kinda cool and made the world feel more real, adding to the immersion as in the real world most of us don't do everything, we enjoy rooting for others to compete in sports or combat or success in some field/area of life that we will probably never touch ourselves...

I still go back and watch the old Death & Taxes first look videos of Sapp and KT almost 20 years later now.

My buddy in 10th grade was server first guild tank. He looked like cartman by the end of it lol

I agree with xar. I don’t mind if there is content beyond my abilities. I think that’s what made wow feel epic. It was an achievement and for most players they always room to grow. I like the idea of very few people having full best in slot.

Bro... seeing those first pieces of dreadnaught as a warrior was so freaking cool. They were idols!

Xaryu nailed it. The mystique around these elite raids was so cool, even as a non-raider. The fact that there's multiple levels of difficulty is not the same at all. You can basically do the exact same thing now, just with less mechanics and numbers.

xaryu eating the hell out of that banana

The thing is, WoW back then was aiming at a model like EQ, where the next expansion wouldnt make the prior expansion 100% useless because of how gear scaling works in the game, somewhere 1-2 patches before going into TBC that whole way of thinkign changed because they wanted to force people to buy the new expansion asap.

He didn't even touch on the lag Curse had to put up with. It was completely unplayable on Stormscale EU at that time. It even forced them to migrate servers when that became available

Death and Taxes really did get screwed in all of this. It's inexcusable what happened to those guys.

Played Horde side on Mug’Thol with death and taxes. We were their little brother for sure. Shadow Syndicate. Amazing competition, those were the days

I played on an EU-server where we had to queue up to do Heigan and Thaddius as once they were pylled the entirely instance server froze for everyone on the server, any instance. We had to server migrate twice during Naxx... If you were unlucky with which server you was on, you were fucked. EU also opened after as NAs maintance was earlier, every raid. AQ was fun though, as if you died you could just run back to the fight so no guild had trouble with first bosses. In MC you had ressers standing out of combat just dressing dead ppl etc etc. It really was a wild west back then. And again, there wasnt a public ptr for most raids, some big guilds got invited to closed ptr though so they had an advantage.

I was surprised at how exclusive naxx still was in classic, felt great working from MC all the way to naxx but required dedication more than skill. Was still cool to see that MoM, ashbringer and atiesh was kinda rare.

Where is the link to the original video?

Id also like to add when Xar is like Bitch please, part of an Officer's job in EQ in 1999-2000 was to call people ON THEIR HOME PHONE to show up cause X or Y boss had just spawned, the Bat-Calls were real back then... No instances on bosses made for a whole different beast of a game.

While I hate watching ads I really appreciate that you don’t skip the ads in other creator videos you watch. It’s honorable.

What is really cool is that it makes it so that you are not special. Heros are special. People who do more than the normal. Retail is full of "heros" but as a result it changed everyone into a common person.

12:33 thats what happening in retail for years. its called mythic raids. when vanilla naxx was released half of the playerbase was between lvl 1-30. half of the wow copies sold before tbc were sold between aq and naxx.

Put this man on a ted talk or how i built this podcast he can explain success better than any ceo ive listened to

Started playing the ending of classic best game ever played

Ion was the GM of the Elietist Jerks guild and involved in their media presence at that time.

2:02 Wow pulled me from Runescape as well except i was one of the ones who had to be dragged over by my migrating friends 🤣 crazy to find out just now that we played that damn game at pretty much the same time period!

It actually sucked to have to recruit during Naxx. You had to recruit people from other raiding guilds, because they were the only people who had geared toons - it just wasn't practical to take someone with no gear, no experience and try to gear them up. The time investment to go do MC, BWL, ZG, AQ20, AQ40, and Naxx... most T3 raiding guilds did not do the earlier raids anymore. They were doing 4-5 nights of Naxx.

My dad always told me "son always eat a banana sideways in public" ...

Samx is now known for more than two things; we are farmers, saying, "getting a re" after everyone open, and now getting Xar glad!

Banana Xaryu brought me here 🥵

They killed Mr. Bigglesworth. Now you know the meme.

Luck is just when preparation meets opportunity. So your hard work actually led to being able to capitalize on that opportunity.

damn preach is looking mad healthy lately

ya boi transfered with avant garde and spent my glory days hoppin between these classic guilds. ended leaving what we were in and forming TFO. for sure the best and more hxc of my wow life haha. Elementality was our hero /flex.

4:42 yeah may be bc wow launched 6 months after in eu don t you think

wasnt nihilim the guild who deleted the foor to cthun

Why do you think they added another updated bug mount to retail for only scarab lords 😏

Amazing story so sad for DT😢

THE EMPEROR OF MAN LOL LLF

I DONT FEEL AS BAD BEING SAME AGE AS XARYU LOL

It's the mfkn xaryu with the fresh upload 🎉

My man really said blizzard should pay me when he made a career out of their game , based

Dial up phone. Recordplayer. Walkman. Ping pong game. Letters. Fax Morse. Pigeons. Rødgrød med fløde. 🇩🇰

Whats the green juices called? or the website / link for it, thank you

I played on Medivh when the gates of AQ first opened and I totally agree about the need for content that is only for the best of the best is something the game is missing. I remember being in Org and inspecting members of Ascent before they left the server and thinking that's what I want to be and for the next couple of Xpacs I was one of those players people were inspecting in capitol cities because my gear was so sick. But with min/max culture and transmog I don't know how much it would really matter today though, so many more people would be able to reach that content and put out tutorials for others to follow and people would transmog away their item design so people wouldn't even know what they were rocking half of the time.

I remember I use play Runescape but switch to World of Warcraft after I got my account hacked. Now, I am a 19 year old veteran of this game and I became a master of this game because I watch facts and video about all the secrets facts of this game. You got to play WoW everyday :)

12:52 - a very bad take. Yes, you can push yourself to the utmost (and spend a considerable time of your life for that) and *still* not get "in there", simply because you have to find another 39 people within the same caliber as you *and* have them take you in *and* match schedules and whatnot *and* hope all goes well *and* get lucky *and perhaps then and only then* you may get to see Naxx or whatever raid. This is incredibly hard to achieve, even Blizzard acknowledged this by saying "take all things in moderation, even WoW". I understand the "unachievable" status is something to push you forwards, but god damnit, at least the story parts, everyone should be allowed to experience them. Everyone should be allowed to see Arthas die or Illidan get captured or Deathwing bite it.

I agree with you about the raid. It should be hard so only small amount of players make it. Just like sports irl not all gonna be a football player so on. They can dream and practice and keep trying! Get better and maby one day make it (Not get a diploma for participating) "how it feels now when all can complete the raids" its just not the same feeling.

11:55 "I loved having something to push for" Seems a lot like double talk considering that classic players hate the existence of mythic difficulty for retail raids.

Death and taxes wouldve got it if they didnt lose 4 days of practice with phase 2 to the glitch no doubt

Telling our grandkids about stuff like this?.....Ok I am a geek, but never will be that geeky.....I play with my kids (5 boys) now, and would hope that at the end of the day, they wouldn't put my highly skilled gaming (or lack of, if being honest)as a high priority as what they remember about me. Guess I am not the nerd I thought I was....🤣....We all have our legacy we want to leave. Gaming isn't part of mine. For others, to each his own. Just not a priority to me.

Chat is way off

Honestly... Fyrakk Mythic kills is way less then 1% of wow players if im not wrong lol

To be fair US has had their releases before EU, so US always have a headstart. Thats why EU guilds cant really compare due to the time difference..

good old day's preach ;))

Man wants money from bringing his 3 friends from runescape. Love it!!!!😂

they got world cthun first off that bit of luck.. they got the reset nerfed version of cthun before US.. an then was behind US on every bit of naxx behind multiple guilds up until KT, in which case 4 days that DNT couldnt touch KT to prog or attempt gave EU guild 60-80 hours more of prog/uptime against KT lol. What a crazy turn of events. Grats on EUs world luck. I mean first.

hes trying to do a bbc panorama piss take if noone realised

Samuelx and jahmillis RMP were the most hated team ever. absolutely nobody wanted to give those dudes credit but at the end of the day they owned a lot of noobs

Lmao, the garbonzo EU players needed to be handed a headstart to get on the board at all.

Xaryu has now also become a react andy... wonderful

Lineage 2 gang!

I love your take on luck

The luck thing is so true. I’m retired at 34 pretty much because I got lucky and 3 others got unlucky/were stupid. Worked at a store, eventually become assistant manager, manager gets cancer and quits As store manager, 3 years in my District Manager decides to try and steal a month of deposits from 15 stores and run to Europe, gets caught. 2 years into being District manager my Regional Manager cheats on his wife and she kills him 4 years into being regional manager r/wall street eta is getting goofy with GameStop and I capitalize with about 85% of my savings. Retire at 34. 0 hard work, almost all luck.

EU still cleared KT before D&T got to the gate, no debate who won

imagine in the modern times where jelliously and pride is rampart in society to have such social structures in game. for me to this day its nuts to think that playernumbrs exploded in a game where under 2 percent of playerbase even entered the last phase content and under 1 percent even killed ONE BOSS xD. and we where ALL HYPED about naxx and chearing up the heroes that actually did it, watching theyre pvp and pve videos. IMAGINE this today. playing a game u cant clear everything? lol? giving some peps probs?lol ? xD the most anoying thing about back in the days is that in every pug you ever join in wrath 4-10 people where rank 14 back in the days and had naxxtramas classic clear and playing in wotlk world first guilds TOO. the lying in this game IS REAL.

I used to raid with mr beans cousin, the actor, not the bean

Is this what you’ve become xaryu

SF is amazing.! Stitches eu alliance for most pop.! (Flies away)

So you cheesed your Gladiator title makes sense

not for being that guy but EU prob had better things to do than beat a boss in a video game

Let’s be real. The only reason Naxx was hard is people weren’t as good. They had really shitty pcs and internet. There are people in classic clearing it. Without world buffs even.

Im so sick of ADDS on KZfaq... They are out of control... I had 3 in 9 minutes...

Ah yes back when World First was pretty cool. Now there's so much PTR / DATA mining and pre testing and videos its not cool at all anymore

preach, worst guy to have an oppinion about wow. period. (talk about biting the hand that feeds you) xar, don't stain your channel with that guy! the best news when blizz drama went down and he joined the "i quit wow and anything related to it train" was the best news ever...now he's back for more attention?...yukk

im just hearing excuses from dat really

Yeah GG

I mean.😂 Talking about propaganda and taking away all the effort and achievments of Nihilum is petty. While it was certainly 100% unfair and aweful, atleast give Nihilum the honesty they deserve.

Bro was a 6th grade WoW pusher lol. Cmon guys just try it. You’re wasting your money on RuneScape , WoW is the best you can get

4:35 NA had a 3½ month head start and still got overtaken by EU by the end of vanilla lmao

I was in death N taxes when this happened and we completely got fucked by blizzards incompetent devs.

eyooo

imagine your granddad telling you about the wars, but you are the one telling your kids about a video game.... such a disgusting time we live in.

Is this a joke?

EU > US hahahahah

RTWF has always been a joke since local time releases aren't the same. Fun fact, the "grampa talking kids about videogames" already exists, there is a french youtuber called "papy grenier" (the attic's grampa) who's doing exactly this type of content.

Didn't tis guy claim to have eaten upside down pasta that queen elizabeth made when she was pregnant with her lizards left foot?

Preach really thought he looked badass is that outfit lmfao

What on Earth is this video?? A random guy reuploading someone else's content without consent and overlaying it with a video of himself eating a banana?? It's not fair use if it's not a transformative use and you add significantly to the original work!

You can't have raids for only 2% of the game anymore because the game is 20 years old and we have a whole new generation playing. Nepo babies GenZ, who were raised on iPads, can't possibly fathom working hard for something.

point made at 9:00 is literally cutting edge raiding nowadays.