Season of Discovery: Phase 2 in a Nutshell (The Good and Bad) | World of Warcraft

I spent the month of January away from the computer I was playing music I was woodworking I was spending a lot of time outside and I'm back fellas January is one of my favorite months to go out camping and sort of just prepare for the year so for the month I admit I was away from the computer I was not playing wow I wasn't doing really anything but you better believe that I came back and uh the stuff that I saw has got me hyped today I want to talk about season of Discovery Phase 2 which is coming out in just a couple of days all the stuff that is coming in Phase 2 and even some of the things that we have seen that uh neither me nor probably you guys are too excited about let's just talk about the future of classic World of Warcraft shall we but of course we're going to start this year off by thanking the channel sponsor zygor Phase 2 is about to come out the war within is about to come out zygor is world of warcraft's ultimate add-on and it is linked Down Below in the description if you are looking for help with leveling getting gold leveling up your professions getting pets mounts it doesn't matter guys link down Below in the description check out zygor today you might have noticed that I'm in a brand new space you know I got this like fancy ass background and stuff's nice let me tell you something that last place where I was doing all the nixim content it had no Heating in the dead of winter the landlord never responded to any text messages the internet was constantly going out it sucked so I officially moved into a brand new office space and I got to say I feel like this space is a lot more comfy in my opinion I mean what do you think left or right which one looks better I think the new one does but cool new spaces to record stupid YouTube videos in you know that's great but let's talk about classic wow okay and first and foremost let's talk about nron so in Phase 2 we are going to be getting a new nron raid I got to look over this last night first of all yes we are going to be getting updated versions of all the classic bosses from neron but even more than that we are getting a new boss added into noon a boss that we've never seen before with the addition of this new raid we are of course going to get new item sets I love item sets in MMO RPGs it's one of the things I love about Elder Scrolls Online for example and I love that they're bringing this more and more to season of Discovery there are more item sets to be found in neron just like in Black fathom deeps with some really cool rewards that hopefully are not going to make you feel too stupid overpowered before level 60 but I guess we're going to have to play around with it to find out but even more than that we're also going to see tokens added to neron yes gear tokens so for those of you that you've been running black fathom deeps over and over and over and you just can't get that like chest piece or those shoes or whatever the set pieces thing whatever point is you're going to get these power depleted boots and what you can then do is if you win the role for it you can then take these boots to a vendor and you can redeem it for your class specific pair of shoes dude black fathom deeps blizzard went all out I I was not expecting blizzard to put as much effort into BFD that they did and people you know they they did BFD and they were blown away by it they were like wow this is is a really fun raid this is a Great Raid for like an introduction it's season of Discovery and if if the success of BFD is any indicator neron is probably going to be even better and you know this is a very small thing that is personal unique to me I don't know if anybody else has this opinion but I'm going to say something kind of controversial right now I don't like neron as a dungeon I've never liked neron I think it's huge I think it takes forever I never thought it was that interesting and every time I did you know normal dungeon gomon you know I would think why is this not a raid it's huge it's the Reclamation of the Gnomes you know home City why is this not a raid it just makes no sense and you know what we're finally getting it now this is not some big wish that I've always had since I first started playing World of Warcraft but it's been you know it's been there in the back of my mind so this experience being able to do nron as a raid is kind of Quasi a wish come true for me it's like wow I finally get to experience neron in the way that I've wanted to experience noon over all these years so just my opinion though now are you ready cuz I'm about to geek the hell out dude we are getting even more profession content in Phase 2 of season of Discovery specifically we are going to get 20 new recipes being added into the world across all non- Gathering professions I'm talking new epic helmets to craft mhm I'm talking new enchants I'm talking new Alchemy recipes and apparently there is a secret profession quest line in Phase 2 of sod that we know nothing about blizzard has said nothing it's just we got to find it over all the years that I've been doing this damn YouTube channel I have said 10 trillion times in 10 trillion different videos that profession content is incredibly important for the longevity and the enjoyment of an MMO it gives you an entirely New Path of progression to enjoy on your character you know hey you're bored of leveling up you want to go do something different go mine go level up your blacksmithing have some fun crafting for yourself that copper battle axe and being like wow this is like an upgrade and I made it myself it's such a good feeling and it's something that so many MMOs like don't tap into you know it's like they think oh you know the player just wants to level they just want to level that's it they just want that one path of progression no we want to level up we want to gain new powers we want to create new powers potentially I don't know we want to get professions we want to we we really want to craft our character and make them the way that you know we play them the way we want to play them give us the means to really make us feel like a badass dwarf warrior in a like in a fantasy world crafting armor for ourselves delving into dungeons fighting dragons and stuff that's what that's what makes fantasy so awesome and we're getting more of that in phase two of season of Discovery dude I love profession content like I I absolutely love it I find it so enjoyable so fun and I absolutely hate it when MMO companies don't tap into how rich they could make you know the profession you know experience in their MMO I hate when they don't tap into that so I'm glad that blizzard is doing that even with secret quest lines and stuff that's cool I'm going to be honest the best part of phase one of season of Discovery for me was leveling up my blacksmithing doing that Epic Quest chain going into black fathom deeps and finally crafting for myself that epic dude I felt like a freaking Titan among men with this thing on my character it was incredible so blizzard more profession stuff it is so welcome at least from me I don't know about you guys I mean maybe you guys aren't as geeky about that sort of stuff as I am but I don't know there's something special about crafting you know your own sword crafting your own pair of pants I don't know let's talk about PVP there are some huge updates coming to PVP in Phase 2 of season of Discovery blizzard has learned a lot from the aen Vil experience aen Vil was a bit of of a mess to say the least there's a lot of people that really liked it I mean I enjoyed it to be fair I mean I thought it was a lot of fun but I recognize the cons okay I I'm not blind to it so in phase two of sod we are going to be getting a new PVP Zone and it is of course stranglethorn Veil and in stranglethorn Veil there is going to be an optional blood moon event mhm optional what pretty much happens is every 3 hours the skies are going to darken red above stranglethorn Veil players will fight each other they'll get this currency for killing one another and stuff and you can redeem this stuff for PVP rewards at a vendor outside of Guru Bashi Arena but there's a few cool catches in regards to the PVP system that personally I'm uh geeking out over when it comes to strangle Thorn Veil first of all apparently in STV whenever this blood moon event happens there is going to be this big giant chosen of Lowa blood boss thing that's going to wander around the world and just absolutely Massacre players blizzard kind of teased it as if it's like a fell Reaver that's that's going to be walking through the Zone what happens if you kill it I have no idea can you kill it I have no idea but I guess we're going to have to find out the second thing I mentioned it earlier this is all optional if you're someone sitting there and you're like I just want to level in stranglethorn Vil in peace I just want to be one of those freaks that actually goes out and takes the time to gather all the pages of the Green Hills of stranglethorn if that's you man that's freaking awesome because what you can do is talk to a zandalari Emissary and you can just be completely opted out of the blood moon event this means you never have to experience it now if you are in a PVP realm normal PVP rules do apply in stranglethorn Veil so there's no blood moon event but you still can get ganked by that annoying Rogue all right and you know the third thing the third thing that really stands out and we don't really again know what blizzard means by this but apparently if you think that what you're going to do is get together with your friends and form some big group and run around and just Massacre players by the dozens and just laugh at their misery apparently the blood moon is not kind to players that PVP in groups I'm pretty sure they said both raid groups and normal groups so this is meant to be a free-for-all PVP event this is not meant to be a get together with your guildies and go out and Massacre sort of thing so I'm very curious what they mean by that like what does that mean like if you get in a raid group in this event like you know are you like cursed like you get like res sickness or something I don't know but we're going to find out and in regards to Ashen Vil it too is going to be on a timer and I think that's kind of cool I especially like this new approach to the PVP Zone because it's not the same thing as azen Vil it would have been very easy for them just to put a bunch of bosses in the zone that we had to go and kill you know enemy faction leaders and stuff I don't know whatever they could have just done azen Vil again but just with it kind of spiced up and kind of you know the the creases ironed out but they didn't do that instead they gave us an entirely new system guys we are of course going to be getting new runes for all the classes added in with Phase 2 and you know that's to be expected blizzard showed a few of the runes that we could get like two each for each class but how many are actually available to be found we don't know I guess we're going to have to find out but the one thing that is interesting is we are going to be getting something called dungeon skill books so apparently as you're doing dungeons in this new phase these little books can drop and they teach your character new abilities entirely now make no mistake these are not runes so like when you get one of these dungeon things you don't learn the power and then you you know chant your shoe or something and you know you get a new ability it's not like that it's just a permanent new ability to your character that you can throw on to your action bar or maybe there's some passives in there not entirely sure but it has nothing to do with enchanting your boots your chest piece or none of that personally I think this is a great idea just because of the fact that it gives new players the incentive to just go and do some dungeons you know never forget this and I've met plenty of them maybe you guys have too there's a lot of people out there that are really intimidated and don't want to do dungeon content in World of Warcraft because they think it's a little too scary it's a little too whatever it's intimidating you know they're they're introverts you know they're not like you know comfortable with the group setting but this kind of gives them more of an incentive you know it's not like a super big one but it's more of an incentive to go out and to really flesh out your character by finding these skill books while doing deadmines while doing gomon or you know rage fire Chasm sh Shadow Fang keep you know whatever and I think that's awesome I I love it when bliz gives more incentive and more genuine character building rewards for going out and participating in the community and in the world's social content and in regards to new runes again we only saw two teased for each class hopefully we get maybe like a dozen or something but we will see so now we arrived to the part of the video which I think a lot of people have been waiting to maybe hear my thoughts on and I know I'm about to disappoint some people here but the gdkp drama that happening in the community so blizzard is Banning gdkp runs in Phase 2 of season of Discovery and a lot of people aren't happy about that a lot of people are happy about it and this is where I'm kind of going to disappoint everybody because I have never done a gdkp run before in World of Warcraft like I've never I've never touched the subject I mean I'm familiar with it I mean I know what it is I know the the concept you know everybody goes in and gambles like some gold for a piece of GE year and then blah the gold is distributed whatever like I understand what a GDP the gdkp is but I've never done it and I don't really fully understand like the drama or the situation around it enough to really form an opinion I see the people that say Hey this is a really good thing it promotes like it it promotes the social element of the game players getting together doing the raid gambling some gold everybody makes some money so I see that I also see the counterarguments that blizzard is making where they're saying hey you know the the gold farmers and whatnot are abusing this system and stuff to make money and then sell it for real cash but honestly I can't really give an opinion on this maybe you guys that are more familiar with this subject can talk more about it in the comment section and you know maybe I can form an opinion more over time so uh I'm going to have to kind of you know step back from that debate that discussion and just uh just say that I I have nothing to say on it right now now anyway but the but there is one thing that I will say and I want to make an entire video dedicated to this subject um some of my ideas surrounding it but one thing that I really hope that blizzard continues to attack in phase two of season of Discovery is the bot problem the bot problem in classic World of Warcraft is insane the real money gold trading in classic wow it is an insanely huge problem that the community is facing blizzard you know they're banning accounts left and right allegedly but it is it's it's sort of shocking that this multi-billion dollar company cannot solve this issue cannot create some sort of program within like their you know their game that detects this sort of stuff going on but I'm going to save that topic for another time the only thing that I'll say right now is just I hope that in Phase 2 and with like new patches that blizzard Contin to roll out more systems more updates more whatever that intentionally will fight the bot problem in season of Discovery not just in season of Discovery but also in Wrath of the Lich King Classic as well Bots are a huge problem and blizzard needs to be directing a lot of resources to fixing it because it's I'm not going to say it's killing the community but damn it is frustrating it so my conclusion for phase two of season of Discovery is dude I am very hyped you you can probably tell like yeah there were some like little negatives there at the the end sort of but dude I I'm I'm hyped season of Discovery is such a breath of fresh air it has been so much fun I've loved the guild that I'm a part of I have loved the people that I have met I have loved the gameplay that I've been treated to and the best part is season of Discovery truly has become Classic Plus in a way it is classic wow with more content being added in and I hope that we see more and more stuff added in the future I'm Still Holding Out hopes that blizzard even goes crazy and maybe adds like a new Zone in like phase three or something of season of Discovery but we will see guys my name is Nick Sam it's really good to be back I hope you guys had an awesome new year and uh stay tuned for more videos because I'm checking out the new dragonflight patch next later tonight and uh I have heard that it is uh

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Published: Mon Feb 05 2024