The Legacy of The Burning Crusade

loser times cushion while walking come on give it up not making a TBC video people get pissed besides I'm busy one why why why do you have so many of these fine fine you in it I'll make a TVC video I'll make a TBC video the best expansion of a made in certain people's eyes I'll talk about the bad size I'll talk about harsh things you [ __ ] better help me oh you better help me you asked for this so where do we even start the game was in a turmoil a hwhile expansion it had to be expected but so much change taking my comfy vanilla chair and blowing it all to hell the precursor to the Burning Crusade was an all-out a war Blizzard had just given every newb who could queue for a battleground high wall odd weapons you couldn't step out of a city without one of these noobs charging you like some rabid chipmunk and they were terrible but they believed they were amazing because they had high wall again allowing me to recreate exactly what this was like right Oh well at least Blizzard would never do something like that again oh come on four years old we had norm was that our characters and our gear was growing and becoming more powerful and now that we'll all be thrown away by leveling gear I've got to be honest I wasn't looking forward to me what would it be like to lose all this purple stuff our epic 40 man raids were being reduced to 25 we were going to have to say a tearful bye-bye to our friends like Billy Gavin barman sure gonna miss that guy the Horde again paladins the Alliance again Charmin and white God's name is an arena and so a thunderous server crashes the evening came across the world queued up late at night with the Nerds waiting for that clock to strike and that copy of the games being hand the place I went to actually had a crowd of people gathered listening to tales of one man as he regaled them with and I [ __ ] you not the details of how he attained full night Slayer hmm the pizza must flow leveling at TBC he was a total [ __ ] [ __ ] the wise decision was made to allow both factions to run rampant in the same zones we were going to take all the people from here and put them here we got ourselves a gang best people you ever wonder why the expansions after TBC had a choice of where you wanted to start leveling it was because of this can you imagine nearly everyone in your realm who had managed to get level 60 fighting over the same quest mobs and items at once people complained in cata and wrath but to be honest you're a [ __ ] TBC just clobbered everyone together in a giant pot and just left them there to be ganked not that I know because TBC meant I could start from level 1 again instead of checking out all these brand new amazing content you've been hearing about the last six months you've got to go to a couple of brand new zones and straight back to the Barrens the [ __ ] you had been doing for the last three goddamn years while all your Gil DS were raving non-stop about the new stuff the big gear they were getting from doing five man dungeons this was your life for the next foreseeable future again Blizz learnt from this though in the future decays and monks got speed leveling booty BC it was the old school classic grind no buffs no speed ops for 58 levels before you could try out anything new at least by that point the tidal wave of ganking had actually settled down you know for the wino TBC introduced the most fantastic zones the game has ever seen in my opinion they are still superior to anything that has come since i darg you the only ice crown and a couple of castles could compete with what was to be our new home for the next 20 months you would have to be a bit of a dick to hate on Alcon down Shadowmoon the grand netherstorm and well blades are just to be fair [ __ ] sucks but onwards let's not get it wrong perhaps the biggest quality of life changed TBC was to bring for now and forevermore was quest hubs now quests you get here are to be done here quests you get there had to be done there great what a simple idea if vanilla it was like hi I'm random we stood in the middle of [ __ ] nowhere with a quest why don't you go six zones over come back and then find me in a bush over here and now I'm a different guy entirely not only that but now each zone had more than enough XP to actually gain the level to move to the next zone it sounds stupid if you play now but in CBC this was the first time it was actually true in vain' you could easily finish all the content and not be able to travel onwards mindless grinding was no longer a thing CBC didn't even skimp on the friggin five months every level came with at least one new piece of five-man content sometimes three mists of pandaria they spread them out into a multitude of environments one level your skull [ __ ] orcs in Hellfire the next year in the steamy underwater hot tubs and then over to the creepy Luigi's Mansion of Alkin down and then to the futuristic powers and science of nether storm it was physically impossible to get bored leveling up in TBC everyone assumed you would rage and be email about losing all your hard fought perps but honestly once you were in it nobody gave a [ __ ] Blizzard also made their first attempt a dungeon finder the lfg system a major feature of the Burning Crusade hilariously it was universally hated and was nothing like what you know of today it was more similar to the pre-made groups of Walid's of Draenor but while P DEA's article at the time described the lfg system like this real people do not like being matched with strangers they want to see who is joining or who they are joining and all right so a cat we braved this new world and it's time to raid our arena honestly the arena was an incredible addition to the game all we have been used to is either long drawn-out random BG's are totally unfair premades PB peers have been crying out for solid organized rated competition and the arena would quench that thirst in the arena it will be gladiator vs gladiator mano-a-mano the only deciding factor in this true test of who is the best would be skill skill and gear skill gear and your team and skill and gear and your ability to get around pillars it wasn't exactly balanced well it still isn't true but that was even before Blizzard accepted that it was never going to be balanced at the arena launch there was a clear vision in mind our utopic pea pcommunity where players were going to be able to show off their skills it just wasn't going to happen what it actually was was a perfect symphony a harmony of endless games hoping and praying someone would make a mistake - Caesar win TBC contains some of the most amazing comes to ever grace the game it had wonderful things like druid warrior druid rogue druid hunter you see the theme it wasn't until the end of the expansion that comp cheesing really kicked in up until that point we were still in fairytale land where it could possibly work out but eventually by the end the glimmer and the glitz wore off and what it was finally came to be but what it was was far better than what we had before let's talk about TBC PvE a lot of people like to think they know what they were talking about maybe they say it was easy or it was too hard well the truth Andy you okay the kids all right Andy that's fine that's fine oh I'm glad to go out you're filming right yeah I'm filming I could die I could be aliens no I'm family don't worry about it I'll be Jumanji fair enough after you oh dude the Gavin oh I don't know you see anything like that uh I ball up big bald spot in the middle of some foliage no no think so I bet something's buried in you know on the spot mm-hmm I'll be dig it go yeah how it's wrong gets paid this has been somebody goes this is the TV see achievement chart you remember this thing no not one bit you did all these things man Reiko come on dude normal mode quest lines get into throttle bar go to the shot balls orbital akka trois get flying move up surface ride oh no no you really might killed in the middle you said you did all these things right okay you joking right huh no absolutely not Kara's on you remember Kara's oh hey yeah I mother door needed a key quest to get key did not do quest how yeah Kara's our friend open door anytime you went through the whole Burning Crusade without doing a single quest god film when you me and you not by the way people open doors for you yeah open my own door chill holy crap balls look at all this stuff not even Indiana Jones had to do this much in all the movies combined i gotto go here until i do this but i can't do that till i do that this is not i'm not going to do all this crap maybe if i open it in paint and oh ha ha ha ha that feels good this is great I have stuff to do for months this one circle low will take a week and it's going to be months before I get there but every time I log in I have something productive to do I should make one for every expansion I'm gonna do off of what okay so requirements to enter hellfire citadel well we have to a level 100 then maybe I'm being unfair let's have the other rates not that you need to do them all but well huh Hellfire Citadel's there I'm still a little shot okay leged request well okay well we don't really need to do that but we probably will and what else should I do to be a raider [ __ ] it [ __ ] it [ __ ] it let's just do this hahaha perfects amazing $39.99 baby cash up Karaca possibly the greatest raid in history in reading we have this thing called the stars aligning we know the boss we've practiced and now we just need everything to line up and then sweet sweet kills will happen it's absolute perfection this is how Kara went for Blizzard they had made tons of raiding content they know how to make mechanics but every raid had that broken leg the weak link holding it back from excellence then the stars aligned and it happened ladies and gentlemen is my absolute pleasure to bring you Kara's on according to my map here before we can raid we've got to do us some five months I don't mean just for fun we actually have to go do them for the key which is fine because TBC five months were the shits Oh like today you couldn't go straight to my row X not just because you didn't have the key but in fact because heroics were designed to take your character and mince it into guano balls TBC gave a nice selection of level 70 normal modes to gear up for heroics and get an idea of what the bosses were about oh those level 90 normal modes may be a tough one 'they let me make this clear heroics were a new feature they were foreshadowed with warnings of great difficulty and that they were not designed for pucks this was 5 man content that was for Raiders it offered rewards for Raiders such as the Kara's Anki such as the tempest key this wasn't a lie how hard was hard when one of your dungeon quests is a speedrun that takes 50 minutes when the felguard trash needs to be enslaved instead of tanks because it will one-shot anything it touches when even the most basic of mid dungeon bosses feels like you're fighting in the depths of hell then you can get a grasp of how hard these work 15 of these torturous skull claw portals are waging every rep completed every heroic key gained was the start of yet another adventure and believe me it was an adventure it's sad to see people claim that they were easy I'll think that time [ __ ] dungeons are even close to what they were like as with any large content as gear from other sources becomes more accessible the experience of doing these dungeons Midway are towards the end of the Burning Crusade is very different to those who did them at the relevant time they were tough brutal and incredibly rewarding too rewarding in fact once you've got your key and had enough to Kara's on for the first time you were of course blown away by the ridiculously creative bosses the incredible voice acting but but there was one minor issue originally a lot of the items in Kara's on were worse than the dungeon blues not every am but items like quagmire and I were best in slot and so later tier 5 look who the loop was buffed in August and Carol would be raided every single week until the end of the expansion Prince Marcus as infernals would troll millions and millions of what the [ __ ] is that how many potions does he have despite the legacy the initial rating in the Burning Crusade was disgusting it was awful not only could you use elixirs and flus at the same time meaning each White would cost a raid thousands of gold or endless hours of herb farming but most of the bosses and trash were completely broken or obscenely overpowered very few guilds in the world experienced it but for those that did oh boy gruel required invincibility parts for shatter magtheridon strache needed more coordination than most bosses it could also respawn while you were fighting the big Smurf serpent shrine cabin trash was so difficult that by the time you actually got to hydras it actually started to respawn Morgan sidewalker was completely broken Silurian was impossible and that brings us onto lady bash famously being killed by bugging out allowing a Shadow Priests a soul stone and kill her well after the wipe had occurred even after method legitimately killed her the fight was so bugged out they couldn't reach the boss for loot due to never ending bats pawns she'd also call here that the GM asked how many times has this happened on the world first kill it was pretty clear none of the raids were tested properly but the fixes came those books were eliminated and what the majority got to experience was not only five super drapes but also two of the best bosses I've ever faced I still consider Kel'Thuzad strider to be the number one all-time award-winning encounter ever devised after phase 1 was fixed se5 though isn't why we bought this game Kael'thas and bash can all suck a dick there's someone else whose head shall roll you are not tripping the black temple had been in the game since patch 2.1 but we just couldn't get in remember our map this was it before us we had killed so many we had fought battles endless battles against the minions of the nether the Legion was on its ass the entire expansion had built to the Black Temple and here it was Kael tha's the best fight I can remember dead lady bash my number two dead keys gone and in we stat so what was the feeling of walking into the black temple and Mount Hyjal crushing disappointment I'm not joking if anybody remembers doing this legitimately is in pre attunement where you'd fought through everything you completed that human road you've done it for months and finally you were there you were met with magentas to Paul's dead soup Remus a guilt that killed Kael tha's couldn't die to soup Remus if they [ __ ] tried shade of a karma it wasn't up until tehran golfing that a challenge came up and that was because we have this three-button [ __ ] clicking minigame that for some reason some people can't [ __ ] do you know who you are you can't handle three buttons which are anova and [ __ ] iceland's i don't know why but you couldn't do it and then we got into the meat of it and yes the rest of black temple was pretty good until you realize that you needed shadow resistance and then what happened is Oh amazing farm raids are the [ __ ] weekend to kill trash to get shitty [ __ ] reagents in order to start crafting shadow resist armor so bad Illidan was an epic fight one of the best memories I have it was great but even before that we have another place to go I'm sure most of you have visited it just know that when it was a weekly requirement that you couldn't blaze through well yeah at least give properly something to brag about it boggles the mind how this could have gone so wrong how y'all was so hype this is childhood memories were talking about one of the most law heavy moments in was history fighting alongside the greatest names we know and this is what we got you might think I'm being over the top but remember so well wasn't even a sperm in blizzards nuts yet it was going to be an age before there was anything else to do and Hyjal had tear sets an important weapons to gain so he couldn't be skipped so every week the guild had to set aside a few hours to literally kill trash over and over again and heaven forbid that someone caused a wipe meaning you could savor the whole process again but eventually the Sunwell did come and with it a whole host of changes that would alter the course of while forever the sunwell Isle had so many ideas thrown in it that it's only having experienced it you could truly appreciate how diabolically lazy turn animal likes actually are a brand new zone fitted with new five-man a wealth of dailies good rewards PvP and new raid zone epic gems titles new consumables it might sound standard for today but this was literally years ago the gated progression of the Isle via server wide effort was used again on the Thunder aisle recently new five man's with a raid words become the standard until wallets of Draenor epic gems have become a staple still and it truly was the beginning of giving fast catch up gear awards to non raid players or welfare epics have you come to know them it's white so strange that this premise hasn't really been developed since then considering all these features were just one patch in the Burning Crusade so it's in to the Sun well we eventually stats the Sun well is remembered as some sort of pinnacle of raiding not for me I done some well and if I'm being completely honest only callek fell missed and killed Jaden himself for what I would call decent bosses don't get me wrong though they were incredibly difficult but mechanically brutalus the anodized miroux they were a little more on average you can see a more detailed thoughts on muru here I was bored learning these bosses and farming them was worse in comparison to the black temple Sun shade of a karma and even the actual bosses of hao Joe I just never could gang sign about them I'd say on average some well was very hard and very average this was also the first time gating was introduced he seems Blizz had some problem with people reading hardcore so decided to prevent that by simply locking off bosses after a couple of kills but really it was one of those things that people get mad about although it really had no effect in them at all because most of them couldn't kill brutalus it did make the world first race less interesting but that was about it as this video comes to a close I want to mention a few things in my final phone conclusions about what is the legacy of the Burning Crusade there are a few things you might think I skipped over namely flying however flying was simply a solution to the bad way points in vanilla we had a new profession in jewelcrafting and dailies were introduced for the first time but it also makes me kind of sad if you look at a girl sketches and the nether wing you'll see that those sub mini zones had far more concept in and then tanaan jungle has on its own which is why many of us are angry and sad that if you experience those things you know how much better things can be PvP I skimmed over PvP because generally he was still learning our feet arena was so new we just didn't know what to do with it and then by the end we kind of started to figure it out but big TBC was also the beginnings of PvP outdoor areas they had them over in various areas like Hellfire and into the swamp zone as well and those would eventually be the core the foundation that delivered us wintergrasp and tol barad and ash ran all those things began in TBC the real legacy of TBC's Blizzard was unafraid vanilla was limited and it gave them so many ideas about where they could take the game and CBC just threw everything everything at the game to see what would stick lots of things they got wrong did I enjoy farming endlessly for potions just so somebody could ninja pull and cause them all to disappear and reapply them no not all I'm forcing people as a raid leader and as a guild master to get people to attune who would never do it all that kind of stuff was a huge headache and eventually got changed altered and improved the TBC was my favorite ever expansion it was amazing I've listed some of the faults in this video but overall what an experience it was every step of the way you have so much to do the rolling alts wasn't really a thing sure you could cap them and maybe do some Kara's on runs but every single time you were back on your main with so much extra things to get on with and that's what we love about world of warcraft that's what we hate is disappearing from the game is that there's so much focus on fast ways of gearing up other characters instead of being allowed to love our mains and have all these optional extra things to do how we even add optional reputations all over the map that simply serve little extra than something to do let alone reputations and Squires and alders once you complete that ridiculously long wacky shot wrath none of these things individually require an entire section of the video to themselves but they're not things that I've missed are skips over thank you for watching before we go please like and share the video it really just spreads it around it helps me make more money it helps me make more videos and hopefully we can keep the ball rolling also I've made some couple of other of the videos similar to this during the playlist so you can click a link behind me other than that I want to leave you this music video created by one of my editors who just White's put together something special they reminded him of the Burning Crusade and joy thank you we've come to end your reign didn't my people and all Outland shall be free you are not prepared our cars of me from your phone this does time for fun Oh you we'll meet again now where was I right away the girl the menagerie is for guests only oh yes misery depravity confusion hatred mistrust chaos these are the hallmarks these are the pillars you

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Length: 31min 56sec (1916 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 24 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/winterscapes]

The attunement chart to WoD comparison. Sad face :'(

[u/ahipotion]

No mention of Zul'Aman, which had an entire patch dedicated to it.

[u/hard2name]

FUCK YOU MALCHEZAAR. FUCK LOWER CITY. FUCK SHATTERED HALLS Shadow labs.

I needed a main hand weapon for my spriest. Malchezaar was the only person that dropped anything decent until the later teirs and every other damn caster would end up winning his spell blade instead of me. What did that mean? It meant I had to run shattered halls ...an extremely long & difficult dungeon (for those that didn't know it. Did i mention it required a key?) over and over and over until i was exalted with lower city cause they had a decent hammer.

I was just another bum in lower city it was DEGRADING GOD DAMN IT.

Oh also i thought the whole "couple days to craft" thing was kinda cool. I don't know if all professions had it. But as a tailor you could pick a specialization in a type of cloth you could craft. But the cooldown for making that cloth (fire powered, ice powered, shadow powered) were a couple days long and you had to go to a special area to make it. I made a good amount of gold from that and it made my professions feel a bit cool & pretty useful.

EDIT: Made a mistake..i said Shattered Halls. I meant to say Shadow Labs. Shattered Halls was the instance with Kargath bladefist..it was very difficult on heroic and very fun. Shadow Labs is the one i was referring too regarding the lower city rep.

[u/[deleted]]

I still miss TBC to this day.

[u/IceBear14]

Man, I've been around since BC, and this video reminded me of all the shit I STILL haven't gotten around to finishing from BC. That's how much content was there.

[u/lacker101]

A dungeon for EVERY level. Multiple tiers of progression based raiding with side raid bosses as well.(That had relevant loot past their tier mind you!)

Unique optional mount quests that would likely be store mounts today.

I was a tier5 baddie back then. Literally months behind serious business guilds..... and that was ok. There was so much to do it was silly.

[u/Crabaooke]

HNNGGG BC 5 MANS

[u/[deleted]]

He seems like forgot the bad times of being a t5 raiding guild. T6 raiding guild will steal members once you get them out and attune them. You either could steal t4 raider or do run in kz to gear them and attune them.

[u/Skellygg]

This video made me so sad, to see how such a great game with so much content went to such crap with nothing to do but sit in a city and open a tab and queue for stuff. :(