Aw, you're ahead of me! (Just getting into exploring the first Nayos Map to 100%). What I never heard mentioned is all the callbacks to everything our Commander has been through. The floating islands filled with "what ifs?" And the return of my second favourite character from PoF: Awakened Merchant! "You... buy!" He's so nice, even saying, "You... bye!" His reports on us are a brilliant read. And JW is continuing the story so I want a PROPER convo with a Floaty Armour Dude instead of "Here he is, he dead now."

Two things there, man: Nice to hear the jazz band from Club Canach at the end! And did you/have you tried "Looking Back"? You, too, can become an *Honorary Delaqua*! It means nothing unless you played through LWS2 but there was some great character development, acting etc. And Canthan zip lines never get old!

1:35 fun fact. Everything Ron Burgundy says in that scene is a title in GW1 for maxing out other titles.

5:15 look for skills labeled stun breaks. They will break you out of stuns and knockdowns.

Aww you cut the moment Crecia tells Ryland he was a spoiled little bitch she should have aborted. Seriously the Icebrood Saga had some nice ideas like how the Charr - a standard klingon warrior race - were slowly realising war isnt really a lot of fun when its your own side getting wrecked.

The Balthazar boss fight had me screaming with joy and rage, this expansion made me feel a lot of emotions, like when Aurene was captured. I was seeing red for a lot of it.

I stopped somewhere in the middle of the story. I enjoyed the Nayos meta and really wanted the demon armor for my sylvari necromancer. However, I realized, that I don’t care how this story ends. I don’t care what happens to this Eparc guy. I predicted Peytha will usurp him and that’s what happened. Mabon was a character I really wanted around more, but his death was so sudden and out of nowhere. There is another. There was a part, where you lead this small demon to safety and they join the camp. They are cute and shy and I was ready to watch smiling as they grow. But like 5 minutes later, they die tragicly. I… I was suppose to feel something here. But I can’t, since it happened so fast. Overall… SoTO is mixed for me. I tried to enjoy it with an open mind. But they just don’t let you be with these character to know them. They introduce them to be interesting, then you barely do anything together.

It's funny how they "release" an expansion that takes a year to get all the content promised at purchase and when you get the final bit the "new expansion" is out... lol

Awesome and informative vid! Loving the puns! And yes, R'tchikk is adorable and must be protected at all costs! Tip for you going forward: make sure you poke around everywhere through the side achievements but also any interactables you come across in the maps and story. Anet have absolutely littered SotO with hints of story lore leading into Janthir Wilds (Case in point, pause at 14:42 in your video and look just above the General to the far back corner of the room. A certain shiny crystal thing is discretely watching unnoticed by your character and everyone else there. A thing which will look rather familiar if you think back to Episode 6 of Living Story Season 3). As for Zojja. To learn more ingame about Zojja, Logan, Eir, Rytlock, and Caithe you need to play the storymode paths of the core game's dungeons. Those paths piece together their group, their personalities, and some of their history with each other. If you like reading actual books, check out the book "Edge of Destiny" (it's available cheap in ebook format) to have even more backstory on the five of them and how their guild was formed. (and honestly if you've read the book, Zojja's reaction is even more heart-wrenching for you when Mabon goes down). Anet definitely tried to go bigger with the story in SotO than resources would allow, they had too many characters and character threads to cover them all properly (something they acknowledged in their "looking back" block post). It already looks like we've got a nicely refined number of core cast members for the next one, and Anet have stated the story will be rooted in the region we're going to and not anywhere else... With a side-serving of looking at the moral abiguity of the Astral Ward/how they handle things. And now we're getting a new group/culture of Kodan... Hmmmm... Hmmmmm... And we have a certain Kodan Wizard we've never met, who left the Astral Ward/Wizard's Court because their way of handling things no longer sat well with her, and who until now would have been presumed to be one of the Polar Bear type Kodan.... Hmmmm, I wonder :D But yeah, seriously. Go poke around!

I’m going back through the Icebrood Saga now to complete the “Return to” achievements, which reward you with a Legendary amulet. I remember playing it the first time and liking the beginning chapters, but after the announcement of the End of Dragons expansion, it quickly became obvious that the developers were cutting corners on the second half of the Icebrood Saga story and the final fight between Primordus and Jormag was a huge disappointment. Killing off two Elder Dragons in such a rushed manner after 15 years of build up was almost criminal for the fans. It could have been handled so many different ways that would have been more acceptable to the community.

Very interesting to see someone doing it all at once. I did it patch by patch. One thing I found is some achievements had voiceacting behind them, telling more about Waiting Sorrow and her leaving. Was a nice unexpected and fun to grab up those achievements.

That was the expansion that made me quit the game. Completely terrible.

Interesting take on Trahearne as pact leader. I've always considered him to be the obvious choice. But I did my first playthrough on a sylvari and got to see him dealing with the risen way before the pact was even a thought.

i had to laugh, taco bell toliet sounds bad enugh if it looks like that

SOTO is uniquely shit yes.

Nice you're all caught up now!!

I'm glad you had a far better time with SotO than I did. I came to this from a very different angle. I played it as an Asura, so Zojja getting mindwiped off camera and us only finding out later when she can't really remember the Asura commander felt really off. "Go do rifts" got old very quickly when you did the story as it came out and doing rifts felt like half the content. It was also painful seeing yet another big thing (the Wizard's Tower) have its potential wasted with poor planning (like Jormag/Primordus). It's too bad the fight with Ignaxious wasn't on a platform so he could have yeeted himself off of it in full Dragoon glory!

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Finally! First off I wanna say I think your videos are always hilarious, both script and editing wise, especially how you catch little funny moments while playing, like Cerus plonking down on you. I don't play the other games you cover so I can't say much, but the GW videos are always a treat and I revisit them every couple of months. Now specifically for this: Zoijja's ascension: Nope, you didn't miss anything! She just did it off screen and then it wasn't mentionend and we were all confused and emotionally underwhelmed. Story: Yeah, I think the majority of the players that enjoy story felt the same way, general consesus I've seen was: It was too much story for too little time. This could've been first a wizards court and then a second kryptis civil war expansion. Doing both in one left us with a lot of underdeveloped NPC's you didn't feel much for when they died immediately and it felt rushed in a lot of parts. This is the first time I ever felt like I wasn't paying enough attention and I was missing stuff, but when I replayed... Nope, there's just a lot of gaps where stuff had to get dropped. Anet even adressed this and admitted that they bit off too much and have a better understanding now after doing it once of the scope they can pull off in a year. Questbar: This was a big critique this time and while it usually doesn't bother me, the constant bars you needed to fill felt a bit dull. I think it would be way less noticeable if they did it just a bit more elegantly and you just got a list of tasks/events and you have to to x amount of y, kind of like the dailies/weeklies in the wizards vault. "Help here" " Escort this" "Capture the fortress (i.e. do the meta)" just is immediately more engaging than " do events until the bar is satisfied" Overall I think it was fine. I like the expansion for the aesthetic and also the QoL Updates it brought, and I'm excited for Janthir Wilds!

Now the only thing you are missing is the Raid storyline aka the story of the raids. Like there is only ... (starts counting on his fingers) 3 ish stories.

I just finished the other parts yesterday! what perfect timing!

Janthir Wilds. You're next! ;P

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You can get the other aspects of Caladbolg by using Unbound Magic to buy them from a Vendor in the Grove home instance.

note if you're a a Norn who is a follower of raven there are a couple of different voice lines

bro you should have gone from the direction undercity to the badlands through wetlands and stuff longer but also safer and easier way

walking to badlands from arathi down is a 10 minutes walk. why would you do that to yourself thru blackrock lol

The modern classic wow 1-60 is Era. The players left in era are nice and helpful. Should have tried that for the real vanilla experience... or at least closer to it.

Classic WoW is great but I wish it was still closer to vanilla/tbc days when people were genuinely clueless and even going through dungeons was a challenge. Cataclysm in particular neutered the "journey" aspect of the game because not only can you take on multiple mobs without worry and solo every single elite because you're already a beast even by level 10 in pre-patch but also despite the questing experience still being relatively great and fun to see the revamped zones and questlines the dungeons are so hilariously nerfed that something like RFC that would take up to half an hour with a random group in vanilla I genuinely blazed through in five minutes by using RDF for the first time ever two weeks ago, it's BIZARRE. Ever since I was a teen back in 2008-2010 I fucking adored the slow and weighty adventure-like levelling experience of Azeroth just as you mentioned, nowadays it's very tunnelvisioned and streamlined to the point where you can do everything solo and never interact until you hit 85 and have to join a guild for raids, but even that is not needed anymore with how well organized most realm discord PUGs are these days lmao.

It’s a cozy game. I also made so many characters until I finally fell in love with the mage class. I just portal between places to avoid the travel time. Nice vid.

It's hard to appreciate Blackrock Depths with random groups and the instant teleport to dungeons. If you have a group that isn't full of 110km/h speds, it's by far the best dungeon experience in game.

Classic WoW is a time

GW2 vanilla gameplay did not feel that good at release but in its current state it is very laid back mmo with some very strong pve(some fights in gw2 are superior to wow like sunsqua CM which is a masterpiece of a fight). Not sure if you are sponsored but one of the core issue of the game is its cash shop. For B2P game it goes pretty hard on the fomo cashshop and lack of natural QOL. The story is ok, story content is a bit lengthy for what is is but the universe is rich and coherent and they did a good job of intertwining story content and mastery unlocks in expansions. About pvp, GW2 has by very far the best ranked pvp ever, RvR kind of suck it is a decent playground for top players or social players who like zerging for account value.

Dragon's end meta is the most beatiful part of the game experience.

IMO the game is ok but sandwiched between two much better games. I feel the same way about Mass Effect 2 in that I consider Mass Effect 2 and Dragon Age II to be the worst games in their franchises so far. But in Mass Effect 2 I cared about the characters a lot more and the setting was more interesting to me.

"YEAH! First try ;P"

Unpopular opinion-Dragon Stand meta was intended to be done with gliders. It would make it much more challenging. I wish they would have blocked mounts at the get-go. You could never remove them now.

Expansion zones open world difficulty and art, blow core Tyria out of the water.

For people who want to be charr but don't like being the "big races" If you choose shortest height and smallest body frame, as well as shortes horns/ears/ and smallest head size. you are slender. And you are as tall as a krytan human. If you actually chose the largest options for any race Male Norn are actually the largest race.

Playing both, only thing FF14 does better is 1.)Battle music 2.)One character is all classes. 3.)emotes 4.)crafting 5.)Zone weather and ambience( nothing beats the light coming through trees in Shroud, feels like a summer morning as a kid.) Gw2 does these better 1.) Open world 2.) PvP (World and Instanced) 3.)combat 4.)races 5.)dye system I would say I see both equally in terms of PvE high end content. GW2 is more free and do as you please. FF14 is do as you please, but also you gotta follow this long seemingly endless path(MSQ as many things are locked behind them.) Hearts are GW2 quests. You don't even need to talk to them to start or complete a heart. You get rewarded XP, map completion, and Karama points. Each one of these Heart NPCs are actually a vendor and sell items for karma. If you don't do this you will take awhile before finding necklace earring/ring replacements as you level from 1-80

So as a peice of way I hope is constructive criticism, as a wow player I clicked on this video because I was interested to see the thought and opinions of a player from another game on classic wow, I think quite a few people watching this would be similar. But the video is a play by play of what you did. Not terribly interesting to people who have done these exact things countless times. In the future, I l'd recommend adding in more of your thoughts and opinions rather than just a running commentary.

I think starting with SoD would have been the best experience :D

hello im a wow vet, that switched to FF14, then back to wow for SoD, and the best experience is horde lava lash rp-pvp server, its chill af, and has the TRUE wow classic feel

What realm are you playing on? I want to see if we can ever meet each other in group finder xd 4:06 also dark souls 3. hello vordt’s theme

Nice video bro! Waiting for part 2. :)

This amazing! I am so glad you started this playthrough now because I am looking to do the same. Please continue to explain and document your journey. I'm especially interested in how you play all the expansions content in order because I am pretty confused about how the content and zones work 👌🏼

Hope you try sod out, the world is a lot more alive than wrath servers atm

My first time doing Champions made me feel genuinely pissed off about the later-half of IBS, I basically went to Aurene, got interrupted by a member of the pact, go to a DRM, back to Aurene, rinse and repeat until fuckin Dragonstorm I wanted actual story, not being forced into content I don't want to do, DEAD CONTENT I don't want to do, I've already had to deal with Warframe's bullshit, so why did I HAVE to do Dragon Response Missions?

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Hi, Vlad. This is the first of your videos I have the please of watching. Phenomenal job on the story and editing! :)