Season of Discovery Phase 2 is AMAZING so Far! (The Day 1 Experience)

yesterday was the release of season of Discovery Phase 2 and I got to say it's been great so far I hope you guys have been having a great time questing leveling up preparing for nron finding the new runes the new discoveries I would just like to share with you guys my day one experience in sod Phase 2 and uh maybe you guys can share yours so let's begin by establishing some goals so I talked about in a previous video how in the month of January I took the month off just to sort of focus on more just real life stuff go out camping move offices I was using the time to work on my book which I'll make a video all about that in the future if you guys are interested in learning more about that and I spent the entire month just away from World of Warcraft I spent the entire month away from every video game to be honest I mean the only game that I really played in January when I was playing a game was Oblivion Oblivion is fantastic by the way just a small side note so admittingly I did come back to phase 2 a little bit behind probably most of you guys I didn't have a ton of gold I didn't have a ton of alts leveled up I had a few though to be fair so jumping back into classic wow I wanted to establish a few goals for day one the first one was just simply have fun don't have a frustrating time I knew that some of the zones like DUS squid and whatnot we're going to be completely overwhelmed with players so level up in some lower population zones early on like Stone Talon Mountains for example and then just move on to those zones later on I wanted to of course reconnect with my guildmates i' had been gone for a month after all so I just kind of wanted to you know talk to people catch up you know just be like hey how's it been going so on and so forth the the one thing that I was most excited for was to of course go to duskwood I love duskwood as a own me and kenor recently talked about that in the two nerds podcast I knew that everybody was going to be in duskwood early on which at least on my server I was 100% correct so I'm glad I didn't go there immediately but I was so excited to touch duskwood finally with alinat my Paladin I was also looking to hit Level 27 in the first day I'm not going to do like dungeon spamming and stuff I mean like I'm fine with doing it a little bit like you know going to SM a couple of times and whatever but I can't do like an entire day of just spamming dungeons like for me uh getting to level 40 is not the primary intention of me playing Phase 2 for me it's to have fun and so dungeon spamming to me is not fun that just sounds like kind of you know like a like a minmaxer kind of mindset or just a uh you know focusing on The Meta you know the best way to level up as fast as possible and that's not that's that's not who I am I just wanted to hit 27 and just explore the world and catch up with people and so those were my goals you know I would do dungeons later at like 28 plus that's when you can go into Scarlet Monastery graveyard so I just wanted to hit 27 so jumping into the story of what happened it actually all began with a call with mlu I hopped into a call with him if you guys remember that character and we discussed a lot of things for the future of nixi like video ideas and just content we even talked about some Machinima stuff which was uh surprising that that topic came up because me and muku don't really make Machinima so much anymore but we were season of Discovery was kind of bringing out that energy a little bit and I think both of us but anyway we were in a call we were geeking out in Discord and I was just kind of running around the world at the time not really doing anything but when Phase 2 finally dropped I made my way over to ashenvale and it was absolutely 100% completely empty the entire Zone was just dead everybody had run to stranglethorn Veil to participate in the PVP event you know whatever I made my way through aun Vil I headed south through the stone Talon pass into stone Talon mountains and thankfully as I had hoped Stone Talon mountains was very much empty now to be fair I was level 25 obviously so this was a little bit of like lower level content but it still was fun and it was very relaxing and easy gameplay and it allowed me to talk to Muk luuck and geek out about ideas for a while and that was fun I did get killed by a hunter at one point while I was in stone Talon mountains I didn't get any footage of it but this bastard just came up in like three shot me and I remember I was dying and I was like man I'm not even going to waste my time bubbling against this like you know just it's a hunter man you're just going to die like who cares but Stone Talon was great it was very much empty it was my time to talk to my guild mates to reconnect with people which was again one of my goals and it was cool seeing all the people you know discussing like oh you know hey uh like where might blizzard hide a new Rune or where why we find this you do you think that blizzard updated some stuff in like the older one to 25 content like maybe added some new sprinkles there you know somewhere you know for people leveling alts like it was all just speculation like we didn't know and and I love that I don't know how to describe it but like it's one of the great pleasures of playing an MMO is stepping into the world and just not knowing what to expect and where to find things and I absolutely love the fact that blizzard has learned this lesson from season Discovery and they're even bringing this mindset into retail World of Warcraft if you don't know patch 10.2.3 is actually not going to be tested on the PTR blizzard just wants to make it a mystery they want to just you know add some new content into the game and you know let people just enjoy it like together for the first time no stupid wow head guide to follow or whatever and I think that's awesome like that really is what makes the world feel alive like the community feel energized now before anybody gets on me about this topic real fast I'm not like against websites like Wowhead or MMO Champion or even add-ons like zygor who is the sponsor of this channel but I've always said since the very beginning and I'm going to keep saying it even today that if it's your first time stepping into an MMO regardless of the game don't look at any guides you know I did not have wow head open on the other monitor you know monitoring when the new runes are going to like pop up and like where are they so I can just rush over there as fast as possible no like really if you're going to find things find it by talking to people in game find it by you know interacting with the world exploring and so on like that's just such a a pleasure for me anyway I mean I don't know about you guys I mean maybe you guys don't really enjoy that so much you don't really like the mystery you kind of prefer the linear path but once you've done it before like once you know like where to find man Kirk's wife you know yeah look on Wowhead if you forgot you know yeah get a get a guide out- on like zygor by all means zygor is linked Down Below in the description by the way if you want to check them out they are world of warcraft's ultimate add-on they are the sponsor for Nick CM they're a fantastic group of guys that pleasure to work with and they're of course keeping the add-on updated for season of Discovery Phase 2 and of course dragonflight as well so it's a fantastic add-on eventually though my time in stone Talon mountains ended and I made my way back into aen Vil which again this was you know my plan to go from Stone Talon to go into azen Vil and once I got to azen Vil as predicted the The Zone was just completely freaking empty still nobody was interested in Ashen Vil nobody was interested in all the PVP crap which was perfect for Quest in now I did see some people while running around in ashenvale but definitely not many it was just like a couple after several quests in ashenvale I made my way towards the Eastern kingdoms and here I arrived finally in the wetlands the wetlands was one of those zones where I figured a lot of people would be there so I wanted to avoid it for a little bit beforehand that way you know people could kind of run through there and do their stuff and then I could come in behind the masses and do my quests undisturbed that was my plan and it worked with Wetlands sort of I will admit there were still quite a few few people in Wetlands but it wasn't so bad that anything was frustrating this actually was the time when I started having to group up with people in order to kill things like named NPCs but Wetlands was great I love Wetlands as his own and it was fun it was actually around this time as well that I noticed that in the Guild chat and in the general chats that people actually began to find things in you know Phase 2 this is the time when people started posting those um man I can't remember the name of them the uh the books that you can find like you know in the Dungeons and stuff uh the skill Mastery books I forget what they're called you can leave a comment down below but you know the books that you can find in the dungeons they were finding those they were posting them in the general chat people were posting these epic items that you can get from the stranglethorn PVP event even some people were saying oh dude I I found a new Rune like this is when like the discovery really started to happen this is when like you know it's kind of like the the information started to pass through the grape vine and that was really cool especially when I saw like the two-handed sword that you can get for a paladin in the stranglethorn PVP event and then I learned that like the little you know book of learning that you can get in Scarlet Monastery for paladins you know it it makes your Buffs even more powerful and last even longer I was like oh my goodness like this is so exciting like it it was such a like it just made you want to play even more I was like man maybe screw that 27 goal like let's go all the way to 30 tonight you know that's kind of how I felt there was also a lot of trolling at this time I admit you know a lot of people saying like dude like I found like this run that allows you to fly dude like just well that's an exaggeration but you know crap like that whatever it was just like a bunch of like crap trolling Discovery but it was funny like it was it was great for like watching people falling forward in the Guild chat and I loved it once the first discoveries started so much Theory crafting began you saw it not just in like the Guild chat but you saw it in the general chats people talking like man uh you know again like where did blizzard hide runes what's a likely Place what's a likely thing that blizzard might have done and uh the theory crafting was fun you know even me jumping in there being like hm you know kind of throwing some of my ideas into the mix like oh maybe there's something hidden in Black Rock Mountain or whatever I I don't know like I guess we're going to find out I I will admit that I was kind of jealous of some of my friends were very much prepared for day one of phase 2 uh with money and with a lot of quests to turn in and stuff so I mean in no time at all like you know I'm level 26 and these guys were like level 30 and stuff they were just like spamming Scarlet Monastery and getting all this cool gear I was a little bit jealous I admit but not so jealous that I'm like oh I'm going to sacrifice my world exploration adventure you know to just go spam graveyard like not that jealous but um I was a little jealous of the gear that they were getting and the stuff that they were linking in the Guild chat like that was that was cool I love the fact that blizzard took the time to update the loot tables in Scarlet Monastery dude like even like at one point they were doing SM and they got like this like broken sword and like if you give it to a blacksmith he can like reforge it and it makes like this brand new weapon like I thought that was so cool like like there's so much new profession stuff that blizzard has added in I was like oh my God like I was geeking out was just so cool so anyway back to the adventure I quested in Wetlands yes I was 26 at this point but it was finally time I was going to duskwood I spent a little bit of time in Stormwind but eventually I made my way south and I went to duskwood and thankfully I had missed the horde like dude in the Guild chat they were saying that like duskwood was like it was impossible to Quest there like especially once launch happened luckily I missed like the MCH rush I mean there was still a lot of people there but it wasn't that bad understand this duskwood like once you hit duskwood as a paladin player on the alliance in my opinion that's when like the Paladin class like really comes to life because you know it's like the first time you can use exorcism as an ability so you're just cleaving through Undead and it's awesome like yeah you get a little bit of that in Ashen Vil if you go to like the demon areas you can use exorcism on them but like duskwood is like where it's at man like all the undead and stuff and you feel like you know this righteous Paladin of Stormwind you know like purging like this cursed forest and it's so cool recently on the two nerds podcast with kenor we finished our giant walk where we walked from tasil all the way to the gates of ancorage as two night eles and in the last episode we talked about some of our favorite zones in World of Warcraft calor and the Eastern kingdoms and duskwood has always been one of my favorite zones in the game so it's always a pleasure to reach this Milestone with a character and it was in duskwood chatting with my guildies geeking out with all the people in the general chat running from Stitches that I finally hit Level 27 and I was like okay you know it's it's time to call it a night at that point yeah it was 3:00 a.m. you know I had enough footage I knew I had to edit this video in the morning which you I'm recording right now and then I got to you know edit this and then I'll you know hop back in and keep playing and stuff but uh it was great it was absolutely fantastic there was so much that I could say about season of Discovery like just so much praise that I could give it and and I could make a whole video just like listing every single small thing that I have enjoyed about s so and of course I can make a video talking about some of the things that I have not enjoyed about sod like the bot problem for example which I am so thankful for that blizzard apparently in this new phase has introduced new antibot technology which they have not revealed anything about you know to obviously to fight against the bot problem in classic wow I'm very thankful that blizzard is taking that seriously and they are fighting it that's really cool but there's just so much good to say about season of Discovery and maybe I'll make like a whole like you know one and a/ half hour long video about it at some point in the future but really the best way that I can describe it and maybe you guys will disagree with this maybe you guys will think this is a little corny but season of Discovery it feels like I'm playing World of Warcraft again and what I mean by that is not that like you know playing classic wow back in the day didn't feel like I was playing wow not that you know playing dragonflight doesn't necessarily feel like you're playing wow but like when you play season of Discovery it's like you're it's like they've sort of recaptured the magic of what made original you know 2004 World of Warcraft so freaking special my future goals like for today or you know whenever I finish editing this video I want to hit Level 30 perhaps and start doing Scarlet Monastery Maybe not today but maybe like tomorrow or something I'll start doing SM I really want to get that Paladin dungeon book that makes your Buffs really overpowered I do want to go to stranglethorn PVP I want to mess around I want to get that two-handed epic sword I have no idea how to get it but I want to get that for my Paladin that would be really cool and of course I want to find my very first run through exploration maybe I walked right past one and I didn't even realize like I mean I don't know I also really want to get that sleeping bag like I I I you know the sleeping bag people say like ah it's not worth it cuz it takes like an hour and a half to do it you know there's no real reason to do it but you know what I want that damn sleeping bag so that's probably something I'm going to focus on the next time I log in guys phase two is out I really hope you guys are having fun and if you want to watch another video after this one I recently checked out Dragon flight patch 10.2.4 and I shared my experiences playing that patch the good and the bad if you want like a quick little summary it's pretty good but there are some things that you know that can be criticized so uh which definitely you know pissed off some people in the comments section because uh you know heaven forbid you give blizzard criticism you know heaven forbid but that's okay guys thank you for watching and I'll see you soon

Channel: Nixxiom

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Keywords: world of warcraft, season of discovery

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Length: 14min 57sec (897 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 09 2024