Cyr's transformation into a classic wow connoisseur is crazy

Will and Cyr are just the song The Boys are Back in Town personified

Esfand sweating bullets thinking about Will healing him in a dungeon 😂

This is freaking Gold. Will trying to intellectualize key bindings is the hardest I've laughed at KZfaq in a while.

I absolutely love seeing new players experience WoW xD

I think Will having a stroke over your keybinds was some of the best classic wow content I've seen in quite some time and it really does show the wow experience, I did a similar thing with a friend 8 months ago and they looked at me like i had two heads.

Esfand helping Will was actually pretty wholesome

Will Neff and CYR are totally gonna be learning at the Esfand Dojo. Paladin Police Squad is gonna be the new hotness

Showing all perspectives really stood out and made this video better

Truly we gloriously witness a Master Paladin teaches his faithful squires to become true Champions of the light! Do Squire Will and Squire Cyr prevail and archive greatness or fall down to a dark path? Time will tell! We may know in the next episode of Crusade Ball Z.

Man i love this content its so god damn good, i started playing wow classic myself for the first time, joined a guild with a bunch of fantastic people and they have been just teaching me stuff about the game its so awesome!

I'd do anything to be able to experience WoW for the first time again. I'm glad a bunch of new people are enjoying classic for the first time.

This trio is an absolute joy to listen to, these keybinds are killing me lmfao

"I just flew from there" ha ha omg the memories God I love WoW so good to see you guys getting back into this good luck in Hardcore!

26:59 will live in my head for years to come, bless you Esfand. Bless you.

The editing makes it so good

Everyone laughed at CUNGUS, Everyone had no faith, but now everyone will bow before CUNGUS

my favorite keybind is ctrl+scroll up/down. Had major healing pot on scroll up and superior healing pot on down for pvp. Saved me many times

this is the content we needed

Hey Esfand, I think your takes for Classic WoW have been pretty spot on. I do have a thing, regarding dual specialization though. Why not simply require that you be in a rested area in order to swap specs? That alleviates all of arbitrage that comes along with it while providing the exact same degree of socialization (going to cities, using summons, etc). I think in that case it IS indeed possible to get the best of both worlds.

F, G, R and ~ some of my favorite keybinds, u also modify these to shift-F, shift-G, ect. to get really comfortable hitting those keys specifically and only modifying the same keybind over and over rather than trying to remember 20 brand new binds; you can essentially dumb them down to 10 or less if you use shift/ctrl modifyers. hope this helps good vid👌🏼

This takes me back to highschool I'm so happy this content is in

The thing is if you've played you get the logic for allot of Esfand's keybinds, even if you do it differently. Like ctrl+c is good for summoning mount because you can hit it quickly without much chance of mis clicking or hitting it by accident.

i want esfand to turn will into an amazing paladin this duo is goated

I do press up to 5 but you need to keep 1-4 and shift 1-4 As the skills you use most often with lowest cooldown so you dont hurt your hands as much. E being a very easy to hit button

when he did 150dps on his thunderfury I lost it. That was some crazy dam right there

3:59 Dude, I feel that soo much!😂 During Classic in 2019 I completetly suboptimally levelled from 1 to 60 as a Hunter. So I made extra sure that I do not waste my time at the flight master. Needless to say it happened a lot.😂

Sickkk I was hoping for a new WoW video to watch from the day before yesterday! One 5 hours ago and one now?!?! Lets goooo

@27:00 🤦‍♂️🤣 I had this same conversation learning so long ago...

Good stuff here I love seeing new players. I have a friend who’s gonna okay SoD with me he’s only ever played dragonflight.

sucks that i miss that stream live the 40mins was amazing .

I watched this live and it was just genius content.

Played a lot of WoW up through AQ40 in vanilla but haven't played since.. just got into HC wow and it's honestly the most fun i've had playing an MMO since probably EQ, FFXI, and WoW came out. It's so refreshing, hard, unforgiving and I LOVE IT. Playing a Druid and just really enjoying myself.. Died first try at Lv10. Lets make it this time.

Wow it all makes sense now. Keyboard turner and classic ret paladin. Goes hand in hand 😂

for me my keybinds have a certain category to it. control e is my pvp trinket. F is for kicks. g and control g are some type of defensive. control c is either blade flurry or some type of instant cast natures swiftness or a damage buff. y is for movement, control y is cheetah form often. r is an easy to hit button, thats a stun, e is an easy to hit button, thats gogue control 1 is stealth

I just recently started watching Esfand so I'm not sure what the lore is, but he talks about DAoC so much I have to assume he played it back in the day. Has he ever talked about playing on one of the DAoC community servers? EdenDAoC is incredible, and they have a huge PvP update coming soon that is going to allow RvR in the entire open world. There's new capital city sieges and all kinds of crazy stuff.

Esfand is like the Neil deGrasse Tyson of classic pally.

I remember back in the day with I first started playing. My family had just got a computer and internet for the first time ever and WoW became the first game on PC i had ever played. I was such a noob that I used the actual arrow keys on the keyboard to move, no use of mouse what so ever lmao.

you can turn with your mouse if you click RMB and LMB at the same time

I never really used a lot of custom key binds other than a couple mouse click buttons. Only one i thought was handy for raising was binding the raid targets to the num key pad 1-9, made for quick and easy assigning and easy to switch the skull.

"I don't even use my mouse when I'm fighting" left me dead

When I learned that using anything past like 5-6 on my keyboard for binds was useless and started using my mouse and shift/control binds, WoW opened up in an entirely new way for me. Definitely one of the most important early things to learn to master this game. Will is about to achieve his ultimate form. Good job with the rookies, Esfand!

it's true that bar configuration it's personal, usually you start adding the skills as you learn them and how you use them. at some point you see how more advance people use theirs and you can addapt or copy but doing that from the scratch is confusing xD

Yaaaaaaa, I only use 1-6 and the rest I use like c, f, r, t, g, v, x, z, tilde, and then shift and alt versions of all of those. Also I use tab to jump and I use space bar for an ability.

when it comes to gaming people don't understand that it's all in the micro. i am an fps player orginally but the reason i got good was because i spent time configuring my keybindings finding a good keyboard and mouse that i felt comfortable with, down to measuring your desk and chair so your arms rest naturally and don't put strain on your shoulders/neck. in a game like wow keybinds are very important but it's not cookie cutter, you have to put time into theorizing what feels good for you for what cooldowns. if you simply do this you enter a higher tier of gamers.

This season of wow is pretty good. Really refreshing.

Esfand and I are on same page, as Paladin my holy light was always G and flash of light F, and shift+G etc for down ranked

I really enjoy this content

Lmaoooo I love how you’re quiet freak out but tryna be as friendly as possible to just completely change loll

I have zero interest in wow, but this kind of content is always fun. Seasoned vet teaching new players in any game, especially complex ones, scratches my brain in a good way

i haev no idea who these guys are, but im pressed at how quickly he identified a solid keybind setup after seeing how esfand does his. What a gamer. Also Im so glad esfand believes in keeping all 6 default movement keys. people have been calling me bad at wow for years and years because I always kept them.

Ok anyone here able to answer WHAT WEAPON SWING TIMER actually works with wow classic hardcore? cant get it to work

what is the weakaura youre using for seal twisting?

I've played WoW on and off since Vanilla and never knew paladins used "seal twisting" and the reason this really caught my attention is that this clearly seems to flow directly in from EverQuest and i wonder how many people who use "seal twisting" even think about why it's called that. In EQ the Bard class had 3 second cast time spells that they called songs but each spell lasted 9 seconds. Basically the tactic was to sing 1 stop sing 2 stop sing 3 repeat, and that was called twisting. You were allowed to have 8 spells on your bar at a time so a bard could create really diverse buff arrangements. The thing Esfand brought up about the 400ms also reminded me of a very similar thing with bards which was that you could actually pump 4 songs at once if you timed it just right. I think that was actually a weird consequence of latency + in game ticks. Basically the game only checked for buffs to wear off at certain intervals so you would see the buff timer hit 0 seconds and blink but the player would retain the buff until the server did a tick and checked for the buffs to wipe off the bar. The funny part is that back then most people heavily complained about twisting because it was "too much button spam" but those were 3 second cast time songs. It's a bit funny to think about now in WoW with a 1.5s GCD and any DPS class is basically expected to be precasting every single GCD on top of slipping in non GCD spells. I was playing a fire mage and you had to be able to pop your crit spell between all your other actions and then if your crits trigger you are changing up your rotation on the fly. Back in EQ days, a wizard was standing there casting 6 second ice comets & Clerics were lining up 10 second heals.

1-5(shift and ctrl versions as well), QE,R,F(with shift versions as well), shift-spacebar, ctrl-spacebar, num1-7 yeah a bar setup is very personal xD

its so interesting seeing other peoples keybindings (personlly id say will shouldve just made his own keybindings bc esfands are kinda different). i use 1-9 q,e,r,f,v and shitf/ctrl/alt modifed version of those.

Iv been wanting to learn these controls but i wud always missclick, this is a great traning method that ill have to try

as a left handed player without a gaming mouse, i'm always jealous of the normal people keybinds. I have to do hardcore keyboard gymnastics to play the game properly on a good level 😅

Watching this made me think how cool itd be to have a classic pvp tournament where you have complete classic/pvp noobs get a gladiator coach and set them up for a tournament. I think that would be a lot of fun. Kinda like pogchamps but for wow classic pvp

Did somebody say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?

The title says it all lol

Keybinds are personal...I know....I use esdf for movement, qaw first skills, rgt second set, 234 third set, 0 is panic (it's the first button on the hungarian keyboard🤷‍♂️)16 is empty, 789 are buffs zxc and ö are again a different set🤣

ngl i did feel like a hackerman when I 1st changed keybindings for games

my friend thaught me his keybind and over time i modified it to my own

cyr sounds like a gnoll at 18:32

what addon shows the tics for casting

14:35 it kind of isn't. There needs to be logic behind it. All classes/specs abilities can function pretty much in a same way. So the setup that works for any class/spec is best. I use Q, R, 3, E keys for the abilities that are used most frequently. E for a filler if there is one for your spec.These correspond to left, right, up, down respectively. Then have TMW or WA icons in the middle of screen, around your character. Ability bound to 3 - just above your character, bound to Q - to the left of character, R - right of your character, E - middle and a bit below the, Q and R icons. Make icons large enough to be visible with peripheral vision and set conditions for icons not to be visible if not usable. Using visual queues is more efficient. Can also make conditions for priorities/resource where the icons are not visible unless all conditions required/optimal for the ability to be used. This way you're just playing wack-a-mole and this does not require you to actively monitor abilities. When icons appear you get used to knowing which one is ready while looking at something else on your screen. Can add one more keybound ability with a longer cooldown as X and place an icon way below your character. Then add smaller icons for abilities with longer cooldowns (under 1 min) keybind as 4/shift+4, F,/shift+F C/shift+C, G and place small icons around the character in such a way that it would correspond to the direction your hand is moving . I usually do F for interrupt and G for speed boost/movement. T for taunt or something like disengage/vanish. 1, 2, shift+1, shift+2 keybinds for long cooldowns like defensive and offensive buffs, and icons placed to your taste but where you could check the timer easily on demand somewhere on the left. When you keep keybind/icon on screen logic consistent across all your characters, it quickly becomes automatic.

I swap AD with QE so strafe is always AD but you can still QE to keyboard turn, waaay better surprised Esfand doesn't

I don't use any special mice, bind anything to control or shift and I click, but I still kick mad ass. You just gotta get really good at clicking and the function keys (F1-F4 for your party members). It works, believe me. Is it as efficient? No, but it's what I learned to do over decades, so it's hard coded into my brain. Changing now would not improve anything.

what in the non efficient keybinds is this?

please do like drills or something, make them duel each other for fun and give a prize, do something fun while leveling to force them to learn the game

25:20 First time ever hearing Esfand call people p***ies. Ret pally chalk talk brings it out? 😂

I use mouse button side 1 and 2, as so called shift 1 2 3 4 it makes it sooo much easier 😁

never heard of tilday i always called it grove

I think I am the only one who uses SZXC to controll my character, so I can use from A-G, Q-T, 1-6 + all of them with shift, alt, ctrl for binds XD

Amen to to strafe keys staying as they are

Will’s Sensei arc

I sympathize with Will. I too am a next next next guy

"No no Esfand I can't do that, that's insane. I simply can't do that" Lmfao 💀

He has naga (or something akin to that) why would you tell him to unbind everything above 6? D:

I'm surprised you use Q and E for strafe AND use A and D plus right mouse button for strafing. I think Q and E are the most comfortable and therefore valuable keybinds and you don't really need them when turning with mouse click. I have cons on Q and judgement on E.

I think that seal twisting was over explained cause I didn't understand shit.

Getting people hooked on a almost 20 year old game thats like the drug cocaine 😂😂😂

A and D should be strafe

Just use a naga then you can use 1-12, shift 1-12, alt 1-12, F, T, Y, C ,Scroll up, Scroll down, and mouse wheel click. That’s 43 keybinds mainly just with your thumb, and if you use a Logitech g600 you can bind shift to the 3rd click. And I just keep wasd+qe the same and I have plenty of keybinds even with retails bloat.

Just picked up playing classic and wanted to follow in the footsteps of our lord and savior Esfandiar so I rolled Ret Paladin. This video is exactly what I needed/wanted from him. Thank you sir!

Hi esfand if Emiru needs help being a better player in wow classic or hardcore I’m willing to help since I have played wow for 8 years now and I haven’t died at all and I know how to play wow.

Why does Esfand auto attack with "1"? You just right click 😂

Using other peoples keybinds is how clickers are born 😲☝️

Esfand lying to him about feeling like a badass dpsing as Ret.

i have a 3.5 still to fast

he shouldve just let him use Q E R T F G V and use shift with them for the 2nd action bar

anyone using CTRL binds are in deep deep trouble haha

i didnt know i liked cyr this much

I still don't understand how people use Ctrl keybinds it just feels so uncomfortable.

Esfand couldnt take it being a Will Druid. Sadge

can you imagine playing wow for the first time and trying to hit ctrl + C for something important lol

All of this to play a swing timer simulator = P

this is absolutely interesting. whoever told will to do it off stream is wrong.

Wait will was pressing all the way to 9 that’s ridiculous I also don’t press past 5 it’s uncomfortable