I remember the first time I rode the gryphon from IF to SW . I don't think I'll ever be able to replicate that in a game ever again, looking down at the other zones, seeing a few skull enemies ..wondering if I'll ever make it to that zone ...good times

It's a good day when madseason uploads

FIRST! YES!! My life is now complete.

"Troll shamans would have basically been raid bosses" But all that time.... there he was. Just standing there. Regenerating f̶i̶v̶e̶ TEN, health, per second. I glared at the Troll. The Troll glared back at me. Silence flooded the world. "And there's nothing you can do about it," the Troll whispered.

Love this channel, I can’t imagine how long these videos take to edit. Keep doing WoW videos please. Thanks.

Darnassus - Silithus. You could take a shower and make dinner before landing.

Nothing like 20 minutes of MadSeason to end the week

You see, back in vanilla the "endgame" wasn't the most important thing. The grind to reach level 60 was a great experience by itself. It was a legitimate part of the game, just as important as the endgame.

Dude, I get serious nostalgia feels watching your WoW history vids! Thanks man!

I watched over a minute of a greasy dude playing the pan flute for a Doritos commercial before this video. You are welcome Mad.

MadSeason your vidoes are so good. You have the perfect voice of telling stories and this episode is giving me extra nostalgic feeling! Cant wait for classic and hope that I will run into you one day.

OMG the music at the end of your video bring back amazing memories of Zelda =)

Please make a guild in Classic so we can all listen to you while you lead us through raids to glory!

Just a question; could you try to make a playlist for the episodes that are in a series? Makes it easier to rewatch everything for us fans!

You always have such great old school game music in your video backgrounds

I'd put MadSeason up there with Morgan Freeman for people that need to narrate my life.

On my server getting rid of 10 man raids for all the 5 man dungeons was actually a huge deal. It wasn't uncommon for people to still have all their quests when the change happened. Paladins had huge issues trying to get their epic mount because nobody wanted to do those runs 5 man.

Dear MadSeasonShow, Please make more content because I am dying of boredom. Your content is amazing. I spend a lot of time now dreaming of the classic release and these videos just make that wait a little more bearable. I can't wait to jump back into the World of Warcraft and set off on an epic journey, making friends, and enemies. Whether Alliance or Horde, we all share the World of Warcraft together. The day classic comes, is the day we unite as players. P.S FOR THE HORDE!

When you said "Thats when your restock on beer", nostalgia hit me hard. So true during those long flights

You were right verbally. The purge of Stratholme was in WC3.

I miss Beta/Vanilla leveling so much, was so awesome playing all day and like at best you gained 2 levels. Every level was a big deal, every new piece of gear was wicked cool!

MadseasonShow, thank you so much for all these excellent videos. You are doing the community a great service by continuing to make these awesome vids. Keep the content coming because we all need more things to watch and keep occupied until classic launch! 100% sir!

Jesus it's sad to think about how the current content is paced compared to this. Thanks for the awesome video Madseason!

Awesome video Mad! Love to fall asleep listening to your relaxing videos :) Keep it up m8.

Mad season, I’ve seen and love all your videos, they’re just incredible. Very informative, relaxing, and you truly know how to both inform those who are new and interested, and play on us old gamers nostalgia. One of my favorite things is that, as if the wow nostalgia isn’t enough, you throw the Zelda music in there and it really just brings me back to a really positive, enjoyable time hehe. Don’t ever stop making videos. I don’t even care if they’re not about wow anymore even though vanilla was and is my favorite game ever made. Literally any game you become knowledgeable about will be worth watching videos created by you on.

Never played wow and yet I recently started watching a lot of your videos. Your voice is amazing and the structure of the videos keep my interest. Thanks!

MadSeason thank you for your videos man. I’ve played WoW for 10 years now and it’s really great to listen and know that there’s people out there that still appreciate the old game as much as i do. I hope you truly enjoy Classic when it comes out and maybe I’ll see you out in the world! Have a good one brother

I didn't like it, I loved it. Bit curious how you're making the footage of these old patches. Do you somehow run a server & client locally or how's it done? :)

MadSeason's videos are always so high quality. Only KZfaqr I put notifications on because every upload is super enjoyable!

Dude i couldlisten to you for hours and never would get enough. Thank you so much for being alive in a time i am.

MadSeasonShow , regarding the WOW lore , have you played Warcraft III campains? can you make a episode about that? Cheers , i really like your content!

Great video as always! I do want to point out that for a long time flight paths weren't connected. To go from one end of the continent to the other, you had to take a flight to the next flightmaster, then look at their map and buy the next leg of the journey. This was exacerbated by some flight points near each other not actually connected, so upon landing you'd see you can't get to where you wanted to end up, you had to fly somewhere else first and then there.

The tour through Strat with the vanilla music going behind it just put me in such a good mood. Loved this game and can't wait for Classic

6:14 - while that entrance to Naxxramas never was used, it WAS possible to get to in the live game eventually. During MoP, I found ways of glitching under/behind Stratholme (so, uninstanced version), and you could indeed go through that tunnel where what you're showing in the video is in fact there in the open world.

Finishing the video with the Kakariko Village theme whilst vanilla WoW memories play in my head...too much childhood nostalgia, why am I crying ;_;

Always enjoy your videos man awesome job.

This video made me remenber a great player that also made content about wow, Hayven.

Please don't use that amazing WoW music. That Ashenvale/Moonglade soundtrack made me rewind a lot, because it's so mesmerizing and couldn't focus on you talking :) Great content as usual! Keep it up!

Rip street fighting skill.

Believe it or not patch 0.12 (3988) came after 1.0.0 (3980).

Your videos are so elegant and beautiful. I wish you all the happiness in the world

Beautiful video! Also such underground footage, i love it

HI I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. THANK YOU

I played on Windrunner for all of classic. On my server it was standard to run all the level 50+ dungeons as 10 mans in PuGs. It wasn't until patch 1.10 that I ran any of them as 5 mans. Good memories lol

"How quickly can you down a pie" Bish lemme show ya

@6:16 the second i heard that piano tune i knew it was chrono trigger...god you know its a fav video game when you can tell the music at the drop of the beat lol i love your song choices though.

Me: (Reaches level 60) Doctor Strange: "were in the endgame now"

Around 11:25, you say that the IF-SW tram was a godsend due to the cost savings on travel it enabled. While that may have been true for the most penny-pinching of adventurers, the main advantage of the tram was the MUCH faster speed compared to the slow griffins at the time, a point you mention later in the video. Besides, this particular flight path was quite cheap. The griffin was good for the view, and/or if it was time to make some dinner anyway.

So happy that i saw this on my feed. Thanks madseason

I love your videos... especially the nostalgic vanilla videos... you somehow capture the magic of vanilla and express it perfectly; to the extent that I literally recall and see myself playing 15 years ago as you go on (I'm sure your syory telling voice has something to do with it). 😆😆 Thanks

Amazing video as usual! What tool do you use to get a freeroaming camera in a vanilla build? Can't seem to find older versions of WMT and Free Far Sight didn't exist for older builds. Thanks!

Madseason is the calm voice that soothes the pain of youtube!

i recall darkshore to silithus taking 35 minutes until sillithus was connected to feralas. it would take 45 minutes just to get from ironforge to diremaul. and that was after flight path linking. to ferelas took around 25 minutes. the biggest problem the alliance had was teh lack of connection cross continent. people would hang around in iron forge, because it was central for the eastern kingdoms, but if you wanted to go to sillithus you had to fly to either bootybay or wetlands, and take a boat over. or take a portal from a mage. whether you went, ironforge-wetlands-abberdine, or to bootybay, you had to run across a zone to get onto the boat, and then personally disembark and run to the flight master. this was a pain because so much of the transit time required manual input. you couldn't just fly to the boat, nor was teh flight master on the docks. you could shave a few minutes by going to booty bay instead, but it was basicalyl horde controled and there was faction based glitchiness. sometimes someone could attack you and you would get flagged as hostile by the guards, and have to die 7 times to get on the boat. engineers had portals to the neutral cities, but weren't able to share them. it honestly was horde favortism. the blimps had much better coverage. and even when the seccond ship got added, it took players to theramore, not rutherran (eventually a 25 minute reduction) or gadgetzen (4 minute time reduction from theramore). the rest of this is worldbuilding because i care. not directly relevant to the video though. and the tram shouldn't have gone from ironforge to stormwind because there was no point to go to stormwind, and it was less than 1s cost. it should have connected to the bael modan (dwarf outposts in barrens), grimbatol (wetlands, and the location should be destroyed), and either thandor span or dun garok in hillsbrad foothills. bael modan might have been a better tram location if instead of being in the hills near theramore, it was flipped to be on the opposite side of the barrens, then it could penetrate into ferelas and thousand needles. that would ballance it to "you may have to use a boat/tram/blimp/ and one flight path" the blimps had two locations on one map, and a central location on the other, and you could jump off the blimp anywhere along the way; if you died you would only get a 5 minute penalty at the spirit healer. the ships had a top and central location on one, and a central on the other; and the tram was basically nothing. the ships couldn't really be jumped off to allow fast transit. you could shave time lost, but you couldn't avoid a run down darkshore; meanwhile a zeplin to TB would save a few minutes from a run down barrens, and once you could fly out of TB most of kalimdor opened up. undercity-ogrimar-thunderbluff--bootybay. undercity was a zepplin from ogrimmar, and close to half of the highlevel easter kingdoms stuff, "bootybay" (gromgol) was close to the other half. darnassus wasn't close to anything. stormwind was 10 secconds closer to BRM, and minutes farther from strat and scholo. thereamore was close to onyxia, but not of other value. ironforge was optimally placed for eastern kingdom's dungeoning, but was a flight and a boat and another always long flight from anything else. southshore was appropriate for a boat, but didn't have one. so was the troll fishing village in hinterlands. everlook was close to a place for consumables. it was sorta meh for both factions, but could have worked as a shared hub if the goblin cities had been networked via tram. shifting it to have a dock would have been awkward but okay. gadgetzen was sorta close to Anquiraj. it is like a 5 minute flight. bootybay was close to swamp of sorrows, blasted lands, and acceptably far from BRM. the last map problem i had was that sillithus was just not connected to anything. having a break in teh mountains with a beach would allow for a seccond boat from ferelas to get down to sillithus. put neutral cenarian hold or goblin npcs on board and it is good and fair for both factions hell put both and allow them to fight as you travel. alternatively, they could have had the sillithus bug caves connect to the ferelas ones, or an item and entity like BWL which would allow a port to the gong in sillithus from the ferelas festering hole. even connecting the ungorrow camp cave system to ferelas would have droped 10 minutes of alliance travel time. teh last option, which would have been teh best, would be to have the goblin cities connected somehow. instead of dwarves having the tram, the goblins could have it and the 'bank' locations could be tram openings. thus alliance get ships, horde get blimps, and both get tram access. sure the bootybay to rachet ship would have to replaced but that isn't bad or much, rachet still has a bank which looks like a subway terminal. swaping the two would be flavorful. that is just for ballancing and reducing play pain. flavor additions for horde would also have been nice. the blimp from orgrimar to thunder bluff is pretty bad, and similar to the tram. they should have added stops to thousand needles and ferelas. having a convienent one all the way to sillithus would proabably be bad for community, unless it had neutral guards. it would need neutral guards for both factions to pvp over access, just like for the ferelas boat option. but both ferelas and thousand needles would have character and charm for blimps to go through. thunderbluff to thousand needles would allow my height difference and verticality in thousand needles allowing the blimp to not have to go up and down. and a blimp floating down the main road to ferelas with a old style continuous elevator (paternoster) attached to one of the windmills, would be charming. a mass transit vehicle going from some contested zone, like moonglade down to sillithus, would have droped a huge amount of time for only a bit of complexity, and would have really shown the faction dissonance between the druids and sillithids. it also would have increased world pvp a ton. similarly opening up tangential zones to reduce flight time would have helped the world completeness. they sorta did it with dwarf door to the searing gorge, but it was rarely used by raids. even then, using attunement and world things to reduce time would have saved a ton of transit time and aggravation. the distance of the twin capital city blimp and tram isn't what matters, but the relevance of them. the travel time and complexity. the distance between silithus (on the map) and ferelas beign similar to mulgore and durotar has a different connotation because of the actual use and demand of the paths. if there is no good alternative to an option then it will always be picked, but if there is a better alternative, the bad redundant option will only be picked by roleplayers. either the use of mass transport should be from the utilitous purpose of getting strangers around the world together, focusing on tapping the low level zones, or it should be for expedition style grouping of premades. everything else is a waste.

It is so weird that you used Secret of the Forest from Chrono Trigger. Just finished re-playing it and I've been listening to that song on repeat this week, and this is the SECOND youtube video that I've heard it in since!! Eerie.

great vid. love the FF music in the background

This is a really interesting series, MadSeason.

Since I quit in Wrath, I never really noticed the speed increase of flight paths. They were often a good time to grab a snack or hit the restroom, aye.

Your music choice is fantastic

Next video will be titled "Wow before WOW was made"

I used to love quests for keys. I know it’s not vanilla, but Karazhan questline was one of my favorites, and like you I would let people in. What greater reward is there, than being able to discover a whole new area...

In early vanilla everything was done 10 man for 60 man dungeons, and around DM it changed to 5 man mostly. Scholo was especially bad with all the bugs like ghoul poison death damage having an extra zero in it that insta killed people. LBRS was also tuned for 5 people, the ring parts wouldn't drop if you were in a raid during live. So usually you'd 10 man it, and have to drop group to loot the body to check for ring gems.The ring also summoned Vael if you right clicked it during the Arena fight, he'd pop in and help you for a little while.

4:00 - classic favorite Maraudon, final wing.

Im just watching all your videos, getting hyped for Classic.

I know we're talking about the beta, but I definitely remember being able to microwave and eat two burritos while flying from Orgrimmar down to Silithus.

I will be very interested to see how many people convert to Classic. You know, the type who dismiss vanilla as pure nostalgia and partisanship. Indeed, vanilla had a lot of problems and very underdeveloped classes-- but the fact that it knows what kind of game it is, an MMORPG, and embraces it, completely overshadows all of those issues and makes it a vastly superior example of its genre. Modern WoW is designed for people who don't like MMOs, and I strongly suspect the reason there's so much dissatisfaction these days is because people are unconsciously becoming aware of that fact and it being a bad thing. It's like like SWTOR and its recent content, an MMORPG trying to bastardise itself into a hybrid single player game-- with the result being a piss poor MMO and a piss poor single player experience.

Great content bro, brings back some good memories with old friends, thanks.

I don't remember any of this because I was 4 years old. So much nostalgia.

Ending it with soothing Kakariko Village music is damn relaxing.

When you're watching a nostalgic WoW video and the Hyrule Field theme hits you like a nostalgic nuclear bomb.

dude The Fisherman's Horizon theme made me fangirl more than it should have.

From a Hiru steam to a 20 minute MadSeason video. Today is a good day

The slow journey to leveling, getting gear, and no group/raid finder are what made old wow special for me. I felt more attached to my toons.. The social aspect was so much more engaging than it is now

Having a bad day, went to madseasons videos, I'm happy now lol

That remind me, it would be great to take a look at the warcraft 1 and 2 game manuals and lore with your narration

I remember when I played some random rpg's when I was 10 yrs old, and to see someone at max level, felt like an achievement. A thing that used to be a part of mmropgs is the fact that not everyone had a max level char, and when u saw a player that has max level you would ask him about his adventures and how to get that powerful. I miss those days, when level was a huge part of the game.

That description in the video took me off guard lol

Everytime a video gets uploaded i get a heart attack on hoping we get release date. This is a good start on the mad season thanks!!

Thanks for the video, this brings back old memories!

An extra note about flight paths, you could not fly from the top to the bottom like that. You had to fly to the nearest flight path, land, then fly the next leg, landing at each flight point, unlike today where it flies by them all until you get to the final destination. Oh, and your comment about eating food, I burst out laughing at that!!! LMAO... glad they didn't add in weight gain! XD

I remember static health regen being much better/faster in Vanilla and TBC. Think it was in WoD they slowed it down a lot along with adding that annoying overkill save on mobs which you blatantly knew the mob should've died from but instead stayed at 1% health until the next hit.

Mmm the legendary intro is back!

Super hyped for classics return

I spent a lot of time at Tyr's Hand... Had to get that gold somehow. The problem was that most of the server's gold farmers were their 24/7 in rotating shifts. As a mage I was constantly being chased around by people yelling "Mian bao!" (I found out it means bread).

JESUS christ 17:27 i had fallen a sleep and that sound scared the shit out me.

Memories 😭❤️

MSS! Did you play Deep Labyrinth for the DS? I love that you've been using music from the game lately in these vids

Always love when you put out a new video.

Surprised you didn't mention the cool secret of the Seal of Ascension, where if you wore it during the fight with Rend Blackhand, Vaelastrasz would come to aid in the fight.

Man what a huge patch

so this patch came out on my first birthday. What a great birthday gift

Dude... that feeling of nostalgia... priceless

I remember raiding Strat as a druid at level 58. My guild just needed that MoTW.

I love these uploads your videos are always very well done

Scholomance and Shadowfang keep were my favorite vanilla dungeons!!

Another awesome video! Thanks for sharing!

Never stop making videos! They're all golden :) Especially for someone who refused to play WoW at first, cause Diablo II was THE game! My girlfriend convinced me during the Throne of Thunder patch in MoP though, and here we are. Point is: Your nostalgia videos and whatnot is so well made (camera work, music, content and voice) that I experience nostalgia from experiences not experienced :D PS. Never stop including oldschool jRPG music! /Don Keso

taking 10 into strat and 15 into brs was common in my experience. Also dig eponas music at the end

i found really interesting you talking about the game, your experiences. mayb a little bit more of that?

Love your voice ... im rly happy for every vid you make :)

Strap in boys, the nostalgia train is about to depart!