How I lost my best friend in WoW.

for as long as i've played world of warcraft i wanted to be a gladiator the highest pvp rating you can get the top one percent achieving that will get you the sinful gladiator's soul leader a unique mount unlike any other in the game yeah classic players you grind like four months for a bug i get a [ __ ] dragon dude perhaps it's an optimistic dream especially since i haven't like really pvp much before but i have my reasons more than just a mount i had myself a tragic backstory full of sorrow and loss and no matter how many hours lives or potential girlfriends had cost i set out to be a gladiator three months ago knowing that nothing would stop me from achieving my goal it all started nine years ago i was fishing on the darkwing isle exploring oh i just caught something and that's when i met him my companion my rival my best friend hey is that green smoke oh my god what the [ __ ] from that day forward we set out to uncover the mysteries of world of warcraft we spent our days glitching out of bounds and exploring every inch of the world together and it turns out necrotis was a pretty good death knight he showed me the ropes to the game we raided together we pvp together one time we even one day in a battleground necrotic starts telling me about another guild that he was in before i even started playing a guild full of elite gamers legends of their time and absolute virgins and one to rule them all the single death knight and i mean single extremely literally in this case who taught nicaragus everything he knew that death knight's name was tommy tommy completed every raid on the maximum difficulty he had achieved rank one titles on his alts and he had more gold than most players ever had in a lifetime tommy had it all except for a friend i only met tommy a single time and his wise words still echo in my head oh mal you're so [ __ ] dumb bleep sound effect was so cool from that moment onwards me and nicotis did everything we could to hopefully be just like him one day and our journey to become some of the greatest whale players ever had begun we started taking ratings seriously by the end of the expansion we had some pretty good achievements under our belts i set out to get gold challenge modes in a challenge mode your gear is scaled down until this dog [ __ ] and then you must complete the dungeon within a certain amount of time it's quite a challenging mode if you left at that please unsubscribe and most people didn't do these they were pretty hard so they paid to get carried through them yeah nothing changes does it but i set out to get them literally the [ __ ] day before they were going to be removed so in a painful 12-hour grind i got each dungeon completed with various members until the last dungeon and make no mistake this was a painful journey many close calls and broken groups which saying it now really doesn't give it justice on how [ __ ] batshit insane i was to do this with random people all in one day seriously dude like no one did this this was so dumb of me to do i don't know now the only reason i'm doing this is because if you get gold times in every single dungeon you get a title a special mount and most importantly drip a special set of gear made just for your class that after tomorrow i won't ever be able to get again and it just so happens that my final dungeon was the worst one that no one wanted to do luckily for me i had my friend nicolas by my side and despite the fact that he definitely didn't want to do that dungeon he tagged along anyway in this dungeon there's a specific part where you must kill waves of enemies because there's no cheese or skip to this it's actually one of the longest challenge modes to do which didn't bode well for us because we only had enough time for one run before the servers went down with a heavy heart and a near wiper necrotis tanked the second to last boss and minutes before the servers went down your boy got the achievement i wish i could make this video more about just mop but farming your legendary cave and getting garrosh heirlooms that's a story for another day when it comes to these challenge modes i gotta say the bottom line is it's one of my greatest memories in wow and with the new expansion looking absolutely pogba's there's nothing that could stop us i'm looking forward to warlord's adrenal i only hope that you have as much fun in drama as i think i'm going to have [Music] against us now i have some hot takes dark souls is actually better with a keyboard i unironically sleep with the body pillow because it helps with sleeping posture and the crippling loneliness and wow should add a cat ears transmog but i think perhaps my hottest take of all is that i actually enjoyed warlords of draenor more than most other expansions now i won't dispute that it's between warden bfa for the worst expansion but wod was where i raided to the absolute peak wod was where i explored the game in ways i hadn't in mopp the problem with wod is that it didn't have much content but the content that it did have bellissimo and here's the reddest pill of all if you start playing wow no matter how bad current expansion is you're probably gonna have a great time cause there's like 15 years of [ __ ] to explore and what was that for me me and the crotch wanted to push hard but a raid leader wouldn't let us right on the main team for some reason probably because 14 year olds are more toxic and unpleasant than radioactive waste man i'm really cutting down my target audience with that one but that wasn't gonna stop us we had a plan to get into team one so we left the guild and transferred servers i had fun in this guild but it was far from great this is the oldest piece of wow footage i have on my pc the thing that literally got me into recording my gameplay was so that i could record this guy dying and get him kicked from the guild i was a good kid my new chad only guild was clearing heroic pretty easily as the guild started to clear mythic content i got incredibly burnt out and decided to quit you know during the entire several month long course of blackrock foundry the guild had not killed a single mythic boss a hundred and fifty wipes on beast lord darmac for those of you that don't play wow or didn't play warlords of draenor let me put it into perspective our last guild you know the one that was too slow and unworthy and cringe they ended up clearing the whole raid and they still play together to this day so i quit now if you'll excuse me i want money add time oh elaine take me back hi i'm pint i'm here to tell you about rage shadow legends the free game where you can fight demon lords take on epic dungeons and replace your need for real love by collecting video game characters you can find all that with the link in the description below but i know why you're really here it's the ladies ladies nuts on your chin this is why i left you you shut your mouth which is why i made a top five list of all my favorite characters in raid number five my damn saris now draw her telling me everything's going to be okay number four jingle hunter fellas hide your jingle bells because this man works more than one day a year number three eviscerator she sounds nice number two goku just kidding goku's not in red shadow legends number two goes to the number one character in the entire game jordan poured in these nuts in your mouth number one elaine my ex-wife actually she's all five spots i miss her what i like about the game is building an epic team of anime waifus then i watch them respectfully as they dispose their enemies which is delightful with raid's amazing graphics and with over 500 unique characters you'll have a joy collecting them just like the joy elaine feels as she collects her alimony payments and this month raid has a new summer update that rewards a new legendary character epic pvp tournaments and five new amazing champions to collect and replace elaine with and raid summer updates are just getting started so give it a try man there's big things to come hit the link below or scan my qr code and you'll get a free epic hero chenoru 200k silver one xp boost one energy refill and one ancient shard and this is only for the next 30 days so hurry up you'll find your rewards here thanks bye i love money and over but despite me quitting necrotis stayed focused he persevered through thick and thin and i and as the guild culled its ranks they eventually killed manoroth on the highest difficulty necrotis he he did it he achieved tommy levels of skill and prowess and dare i say he surpassed him so then i came back to the game hi remember me here so towards the end of the expansion most people in our guild quit you know cause yeah so our guild kind of just stopped raiding but for us there was still a lot left to do ganking people roleplay achievement runs arena gold farms exploration convincing a 14 year old to delete their hearthstone before flying them what could be better than this [Music] warlords of draenor made you rich as [ __ ] in the last expansion blizzard took inspiration from chinese culture fantastic architecture beautiful landscapes and multitudes of characters and storylines that were respectful to the source material and original so in warlords of draenor they knew they had to step it up a notch so they did what any industry monopolizing company would do that's right communism they just started giving people money for free what could go wrong the economy has still never recovered even with that and of course what better way is there to spend your money than drip there are certain items in world of warcraft which are no longer obtainable the most notable of all being tier three which was hard to get and was made unobtainable in 2008. the most coveted piece of tier three is the dreadnought spoilers because while most tier three looks like a five-year-old's attempt to get hired at the local circus dreadnought looks like the lich king armor and while players love this guy so much that mentioning his name will make them jeez on command watch this my son the day you were born the very forests of lordaeron whispered the name arthas oh [ __ ] god jesus what the [ __ ] not in front of the [ __ ] kids however there exists a special auction house where randomly items like these will be listed problem is dreadnought kinda goes for millions of gold but in what it was a different story so one day when i was checking the black market for private reasons i noticed the shoulders were available so i called the crotis now my friend was poor and i'd often abuse that by paying him to help me with tasks for way under the amount of gold you'd usually pay someone just because he was desperate but dreadnought is no small feat so i decided i'd be a great friend because if he's looking this drippy then i'm cool by association i skipped school and offered to pay any amount of gold that he'd need to win the shoulders and now he waited all day until he finally won the shoulders and how much did one of the rarest items in the entire game go for 10 000 gold yeah the minimum [ __ ] price let me take you back to the exact moment where he won it [Music] almost almost yagya gekko yoshi i'm so stinky at the moment with sweat i'm actually sweating and breathing heavy right now my heart keeps skipping beats less than 10 minutes yes yes yes yes even though it wasn't my item this was one of the best days i've ever had in wow not because of the item itself but because of the day i spent with my boy you know eventually me and the curtis bowles got matching feldrakes we attempted challenge modes and i got a spectral tiger ladies and so we took a break we played a lot of dark souls together at least until legion came out but that's when everything started to [Music] change you see wow is great for teaching you life lessons such as how to manipulate the economy and how to talk to other human beings in theory but the biggest life lesson that wow teaches you is that fleeting sense of youth as your social circle crumbles people get older and move on and you're left desperate for the times you had all while knowing nothing can truly take you back to the good old days so our guild died but we joined another one at the start of legion we cleared heroic and and then that one died too so me and the crotis just opted to make our own pugs and not join any guilds it was fun and it was casual but we felt like quitters since we weren't pushing mythics anymore we were playing solo but we didn't feel cool we were girl bossing but we gatekeeped ourselves nail emoji which is why when one night an old friend invited us to do mythical dan how could we say no despite it being one of the hardest fights in the world we didn't cause a single wife and it did wonders for our egos knowing that even in the wow equivalent of our midlife crisis we still had it that was until we spoke to the right leader after raid and he said something along the lines of this great stuff tonight boys great stuff but uh just one thing oh no you played fine it's just your uh your artifact power it's a bit low you could just farm some mythic plus over the next week that'd be great all right boys you got some grinding in okay i'll see you see you next week and at that moment something deep and primordial in the very pits of my soul snapped that i had spent my youth waiting for other people to not [ __ ] up oh look it's not going to get soaked well everyone's dead see waiting night after night for nadia nadia the priest from dark smee darkspear yeah i [ __ ] remember you and even though it took me years to fully realize i think in that moment i finally knew or at least just [ __ ] mythic raiding it was fun sometimes but i just never felt like it was all that challenging outside of waiting for other people to not [ __ ] up or just menial grinds outside of raids to max out your character power but that's enough venting for now for now so as we did our pugs we did our mage towers and we did the occasional arena until the end of legion our drive to sweat was fading and our sense of wonder or motivation along with it and with the release of battle for azeroth we both quit as well as like everyone else ah maybe it was okay perhaps we achieved all we set out to do maybe we were like tommy now ignoring the fact that tommy got banned in ward for selling gold so was this it the end of our journey yes that was it for necrotism bite never to play together again oh my my god it's it's perfect and the crowd sits here we have to go come on what are you what are you waiting for come on you don't want to miss this right come on one last hurrah like the good old days fine [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh my new goal in wow was to tie up loose ends i collected mounts and transmogs that i'd wanted for years and with each accomplishment i obtained i felt the void of apathy growing until there was only one final thing left to pursue gladiator the final goal that myanmardis wanted to accomplish i would do for the both of us so i studied war days spent skirmishing and learning from the best as it turns out wow pvp is actually pretty easy and i got in contact with some of the best pvpers in the world and also this guy on occasion several of these rank one players referred to my skills as alright and it was my new friends to coach me i trained harder than ever before my rank was rising and it was time for our final push we were winning gladiator level games but right before i claimed victory i quit which seems to be a pretty common thing with me that was months ago and i still never went back to get a gladiator i could have gotten better i could have grinded it out but my best friend for the past eight years the one who made this dream with me as teenagers he wasn't there i had loved to say that soloq would fix everything or that i'm coming back to give it another shot in season two i'd love to say i've got hope that blizzard would fix it all and i'd love to be wrong about what i actually think i'd love to be one of those girls on twitter who have their character and a flower crown as their profile pictures they commission art of them and their friends i'd love to have that much fun and i'd love to know if it was my fault that i can't have that anymore or if it's the game i'm playing because the truth is the months i spent in shadowlands weren't out of passion they felt like a job that i was just doing it for content or for some weird pilgrimage and i've been missing a spark it took me forever to realize it's never about killing mythic bosses or the fastest times or the highest item levels and it damn well was never about optimizing systems it was always friendship camaraderie discovery the wonder the sense of not knowing what was around the next corner and suddenly all of my achievements and rare items i got over the years felt so unimportant i don't care about being good anymore my hubris is longer dead i don't feel invested in my tune or my journey or who my character is in retail it's just numbers so my story on retail feels over i had a blast but why ruin that by forcing it along on life support and yeah maybe i'll come back like wow players always do well maybe this is finally it maybe it's okay to let something i love end [Applause] [Music] yeah i'm gonna play final fantasy and i haven't like quit tbc but you don't thin ice blizzard follow my twitch if you'd like some pint content between you know the upload schedule i game but i also do like cooking streams and like challenges i'm pretty cool i also have a second channel which isn't much right now but hey it's there and follow my twitter because i feel good when people like my selfies and also subscribe so that i can take over cervix and then take over platinum wow and then take over asmr

Channel: Pint

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Id: S83RzH1dWwg

Length: 22min 14sec (1334 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 20 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Mega2chan]

Incoming Lalafell black mage for the next year’s video

[u/The_eyes_are_blind]

Damn, that ending, before the funny comments. That really stung. I know that feeling.

[u/enigmabox01]

Amazing edits

[u/Infinitelols]

Really good video. That title is also something that is smart (whether unintended or not). The story at the surface level is about how he lost his best friend in WoW, but when you watch till the end you realise that WoW stopped being a friend to all of us.

Before, you could play WoW as whatever you wanted it to be. Now it's just systems, doing what the devs want you to do (even if you have no intention of doing that aspect of the game).

[u/East-Struggle-4639]

Ending hits hard 😭

[u/DirtyJoshOdin]

Yo what that O12 theme doing in a Pint vid? 1:40