I miss my lvl 27 night elf hunter who’s still somewhere near menethil harbor

Finally returning to this series after 7 months! No reason for the absence - just lots of other stuff I've wanted to make I guess. I thought this was appropriate though since the re-release is now out. Will try to cover 1.1-1.12 fully before phase 6/naxxramas releases. If you'd like to see the previous episodes, I have a playlist in the description.

Always great to come home to one of these vids

I saw this on my recommended and smiled with glee.

Much better than other clickbait creator "busted" "insane" videos talking about crap we already know, keep up good work Show

Lmao, the druid at 11:11 :'-D

That ending was Mastercard Tier. Priceless.

This is a good time to watch as the patch is being installed.

This channel is the absolute best, I can't believe I only just found it. Now I will be up all night watching all your videos

MadSeason talking and Outset Island music playing. Perhaps the most relaxing combination of all time.

That ending was brilliant

Minor detail but the Runescape screenshot at 1:27 is from the re-release of OldSchool Runscape, which is essentially Runescape's route which would be similar to Classic+ if that ever happens. Items in the screenshot such as tentacle whip, infernal cape, and torture amulet didnt exist in the original release of Runescape.

WOW! I catch one MadSeasonShow video fresh out of the oven :D Something to welcome me home after a long shift. NICE!

Never disappoint dude , i love watching these videos during my morning poop. :) cant wait for the next one

I just recently started binging this channel, including the patch history series. I figured this being recommended just meant it was another old video KZfaq was giving me to watch. Guess I started the series at a good time considering this one is actually new!

I loved the Dwarven ability to find treasure. At the beginning of WoW, there were hidden treasure chests all throughout the world and Dwarves could detect the treasures. Then people complained that it was unfair that Dwarves got the free loot and Blizzard removed both.

To summon somebody without their consent? If that was still around, it's all i'd ever do.

Thanks for the look back. Great stuff as always 👍

On the note about paladin seals, KJ mentioned in future interviews/streams a few core ideas that they wanted the paladin to follow. 1) they were supposed to be tactical and think about their next moves. Can' have distinct choices between healing/casting/melee if your main DPS abiltiy is a short CD instant attack. 2) he wanted their seal and judge system to carry the class. He admitted it was shipped half cooked. No expansion after vanilla would relook at the system since they would add CS back to the kit instead of adding more interactions to cause dmg through seals/judges. 3) hpal's invites to raids was a major reason the class as a whole didnt get the class fantasy updates it needed. KJ mentioned that Hpal sitting inthe back casting fol was very far from the idea of what they saw a paladin doing. But because it was being invited to raids, and people more flexible who they brought to dungeons, he was forced to look at other specs/classes that werent being invited to stuff. But he wanted hpal to be a melee healer that swings their hammer.

I was playing Lineage 2 back then on a private server where the GM was corrupt as hell and was stealing money from people donating outside of the server rules. I didn't have money to play WOW but I was watching it progress through videos on youtube. Only years later, at the end of Cata, was I finally able to afford WOW and I am playing (and loving) it since.

Cant believe I caught a fresh release :D Love the videos Mad!

Ohh baby another patch history!

Just sitting down to eat lunch, perfect timing to watch a MadSeason vid 👌

Nothing better to get you through a sick day than a madseason vid and his voice.

Love it, wondered if you were gonna keep making this series. Glad you are. Thank you

LMAO I was looking at the pre-1.4 ogre models when you released this video. The timing!

I like how you tackle the changes/advancement in fundamental MMO play that make the early release different from the classic release, in a nostalgic but nonjudgmental manner. This is a solid analysis of how the experience is fundamentally different, even when playing the same early version of a game.

that old lioneye's watch theme. i love it :)

I was playing City of Heroes when WoW came out. I jumped the ship with CoH, seduced away by WoW. I cant believe how fast time has passed. It seems like it was just the other day.

Man your videos are such unique experience . Hope you a good time

You know whats the worst about your videos? They are so well made, i cant listen to them while playing WoW Classic as i always want to switch back to looking what u pulled together and what scenes/moments u used this time :0 I also used to think your name is MadSeasonCow until a few hours ago. Now imagine me playing WoW with that attention span and what chaos resulted in that :-x

I’m glad you are back, Madseasons! I enjoy your video’s very much. Nostalgic, and they help me fall asleep, sometimes!

I really enjoy your content. I played back around release and most if not all of my nostalgia is reawakened by your Classic content. Keep up the great work and congrats on Rank 14. Shit's nuts.

Man, this is so awesome that i stop on 8.3 just to watch this video. Nice work Mad, nice work indeed!

man its been 7 months already? time flies.

I remember this day omg!!! So good times !!!!!!!! I remember to when I was able to play wow beta. PS. For me Star Wars Galaxies continue the best mmo ever.

I remember playing with/against lots of paladins in vanilla beta, and I think I liked the holy strike/crusader strike build better than the big overhaul with seals and judgement. Crusader strike was like sunder armor but it boosted holy damage, holy strike was like heroic strike but it did extra holy damage. It's pretty much just holy warrior, but that at least makes them do more than auto attack and wait for seal procs. Plus I think it would've made paladins better tanks in 5 mans at least.

I love watching your videos. I didnt start playing until my friend bought me the game as a birthday gift around the start of legion so its interesting hearing about what i missed.

RIP X-Play. Thanks for another great video.

Love it. Keep it up! My nostalgia meter is now MAXXED OUT!

Thank you! Smile every time you roll a new video!! Getting back into Classic. Started at BC. If you have ever said what realm you are in and it’s ok... let me know... again thanks!

I am lucky to have a dual monitor set up, there's nothing better than WoW on one screen, and madseasonshow on the other. Love your videos mate!

I had 512k broadband in 2004 so disconnections weren't a problem. What a time to be alive it was!

Healthy appreciation for the windwaker music

Thanks from the UK MadSeasonShow!

The first character that I leveled to 60 was a Paladin. My biggest WoW regret of all time...

Listening while leveling in classic 👌🏽

Loved that outro music, keep up the good stuff Mad

This is the big one. Great video. I hope you're having a great new year so far!

although i no longer have time to play i love this channel.

I'd love to see more small patches that aren't always huge content drops.

I was excited to see this pop up. Best WoW KZfaqr.

What's funny is that the out-of-combat rez bug still exists in Classic; my party mostly wiped in that dwarf area in Hillsbrad, but because I hadn't interacted with anything yet, I was still able to rez the Warrior while the Shaman was fighting everything. It's a fun feeling when that happens.

i dont understand, where do the vulpera death knights fit into this?

I came from SWG, was on Naritus server. We jumped ship after SOE jacked it up and went to Lightninghoof in WoW.

Seriously! Who down votes this? They’re like...”Hey man, you keep your history and nostalgia to yourself!” The amount of work you put in to these videos (all your videos) is stunning. Never stop never stopping dude!

time for bed... ah shit here we go again..

that tim and eric clip was AWESOME HAHAHQAH

Madseasonshow always getting you with that maximum nostalgia

Great video my man!! Never change that theme song

I am glad I experienced vanilla wow in 2006. Min maxing wasn't super popular like it is with classic wow now. People just want to rush rush rush now a days and that saddens me. Back in 2006 when I played my orc shaman, I had a guide I found online that told me where to go 1-60 every quest and location and recommended levels to go to next area, etc. I printed it from this website and it was almost an inch thick lol. I have been enjoying content that I didn't do back then though. In classic and I am doing it all!

I was playing Warcraft 3 then all of a sudden dad buys World of Warcraft for me Arathi Basin was my first new patch about a week or two after I started. And there went the next like 4 years of my life. Quit mid wrath because my guild for some reason replaced a purple deathknight with a green shaman for Ulduar. Snagged the Time-Lost Protodrake then logged off until my account somehow got hijacked in the grand tournament patches(during inactive so they had to pay $15 to steal my stuff) and a bunch of my stuff went missing. Restored it with a GM ticket which included a large sum of gold in the mail which tripped the buying gold autobanner. I left my account banned all the way up until WoW Classic released, because hackers can't hijack a banned account. All I had to do to appeal it was remind them that a gm-restore triggered a goldbuyer protocol from the mailbox. Took me about 9 days and 11 hours of ingame time to get to 60. My molten core run in classic was quite something. We had tabs on one or two other raids that were wiping to bosses, while our raid was blazing through it no problem. We had a discord raid channel for communication and DBM and all that. Positioning and proper boss strats. Garr gave us the most trouble until we decided all warlock are on 100% banish duty and nothing else, then we beat him. The kicker was by time we defeated Executor, which gave us the 2nd most trouble after Garr, we wanted to douse all the runes to summon Ragnaros. The issue was, only one person unlocked the water, so they had to make a run all the way to eastern Azshara to buy more water, one at a time. So since we had enough warlocks (i was one of them) we decided to have a group with one warlock run with them to Azshara. One group standing outside the raid to summon waterguy back to Molten Core, and a defense squad to protect me from PvP Server shenanigans (also soul drain some more shards since I wasn't using a soul bag). And a third warlock inside the raid instance to quick-summon to each rune. Surprisingly, everyone in the raid stuck around for the like 30-60 minutes that took. Sadly we didn't beat Rag, we got close, healer mana could keep up and we didn't have enough DPS to 1-phase it. They got it the next day, however.

just a lot of fun with old talents .they could do short visits in classic - really for fun on nostalgia weekends

Horde didn't outnumber Alliance at all on release. As a matter of fact, Alliance vastly outnumbered horde to the point that Blizzard added high level guards to horde zones. It still is in effect today. Tarren Mill guards are lvl 55, Southshore guards are 35.

Fun to see the difference between your presentation and Bellular's

Dayum thats battletoads at the end of vid! awsome

Also Wow was my second mmorpg since like 1 year before I started playing Ragnarok online, I'm amazed even a game from 2002 still people play it right now and has new content from time to time.

Cucumber and cheerio had me rolling

Mannnnn if only I wasn't in class when this was posted

Loving classic, finding your videos even more enjoyable that I'm experiencing what you're talking about

Brilliant outro!

The only reason i played ally was because of night elf mount its still one of the best looking mounts in game. But i always hated ally leveling zones horde had it better a lot less travel time and changing zones.

I LOVE THE BATTLETOADS MUSIC MAN

MS Sam is back!

What an awesome time it was!

you are underappreciated for these videos. I dunno how you get all the snippets of the things in the past but props for that. Wish i was a gnome :(

That ending 👌

POPPIN OFF WTF 8:30

my favorite monotone yt creator!

In The WoW Diary, the author talked about the reasons for the rest pally change in 1.1 being that Rey pallys we’re going oom so fast and they didn’t like it. *looks at moonkins* lol

You should do a video or two on older MMOs. It would be great to see you go back and play some emulated SWG or Everquest.

Yaaas a new video!! Thank you

always good to wake up to a notification of a new video from you

Anyone know where that voice line at the end of the video is from? The "Farewell for now mortals!" thing. Gets me every time and I am really curious as to where it's from.

Everyone always mentions everquest or Lineage etc as biggest mmo's of the time, but no one ever mentions Legend of Mir, which as far as i can tell had much bigger registered users/ subscription numbers than those games combined, and at its peak had 750k players online, which is much higher than 550k from Everquest. I spose Everquest was more popular in West which means, "bigger games" that wasnt so popular in west, get's pushed to side, or gets forgotten about. p.s. awsome vid pal. :)

Hey im not even a wow player, but i enjoy your videos. I think you got a very good style. Perhaps you are aware already, but i think you can reach pretty far making commentary videos on wow unrelated stuff as well!

Fearing people off boats that was very cool

Great video! Are you going to do another Evolution of World of Warcraft?

Your voice does wonders to me and awesome video as always

i used to play Ultima Online from 1999 till early 2005 when my friends finally convinced me to switch to WoW. Glad I did but I still miss Ultima sometimes.

Props for Battletoads.

I STILL agree that they should remove raid lockouts. Literally what is the purpose other than to extend subscription times? Main reason I stopped playing classic is I got sick of waiting a week for raid resets just for trash drops. Game would be a whole lot less toxic if people weren't so caught up over loot and the real world time spent on it. If we could just raid endlessly it would be such a smoother experience for everyone. Including full raiding guilds AND pugs.

yooooo 6:11 roffffllll haha love u mad

interesting that pally's prerelease rotation was similar to it today and then they made it worse on release

You should do a video based on what is considered a casual gamer over the years, I feel that's changed more then the games have.

I laughed hard at the cucumber and cheerio!

Enjoyed this video while grinding AV. Thanks MadSeasonShow 🤙

Great ending!

Legit first LIKE and then WATCH....Thats how much i trust you MadMan and i never regret !

Awesome video!