I know these videos don't perform as well, but I appreciate them so much. Some of my favourite wow content.
@mykulpierce
3 жыл бұрын
To be honest I think the popularity of wow was built on the back of an imperfect execution of Blizzard's original version of theme park design. Because so few people were actually raiding it was not seen as the game loop. People were just living in the world instead. MMOs as a social media platform is the reality of WOW's popularity that was unintended.
@mykulpierce
3 жыл бұрын
To think about it, they probably introduce LFR in order to artificially increase the number of raid participations because they believed in their game design that "the rides" of the theme park would be the main draw the game. But if the numbers show anything by increasing the level of participation in raids the overall popularity of the game has decreased.
@Kazya1988
3 жыл бұрын
@@mykulpierce popularity was decreasing becouse there was dead servers where it was imposible to raid, becouse the world pvp and besic trolling around and People was too undergeared to enter the raid
@mykulpierce
3 жыл бұрын
@@Kazya1988 nah. If anything that world trolling was more popular than raiding
@immasurvivor
3 жыл бұрын
HOLY FKN SHIT! how have I missed that until now?? I was blind, and you have granted me sight. World Of Warcraft isnt just a game, it is (was) an almost perfect Social Media.....Mr Pierce, i dont know if this was your own insight or not, but if it was, bravo....(or buu me for not seeing the forest for all the trees) There have been other MMO-social medias, atleast one fairly large one (cant remember the name right now) but they are doomed to fail, because when you promote it as what it is, a social media in a scifi-setting were you can be who-ever you want to be, you are going to attract some propely disturbed people, But WoW never did that, they called it a video game, because they thought they were making a video game, but they accidentally made a home for people that needed it, without even knowing they needed it.
@tyleradams9845
3 жыл бұрын
I know these vids don’t get the same views as the more “click baity” stuff but they’re obviously great quality. I wish there was like a 1 time donation button on stuff like this. I know there’s Patreon for recurring, but if anyone knows how we can just do a 1 time thing, let me know.
@DJ_Treu
3 жыл бұрын
You can always donate via patreon, watch your payment go through, then cancel sub as a version of 1 time donation; just wait for the payment to go through if you want to verify that you donated, but its a sub model so it should just cancel on the next months bill date.
@tinixtr
3 жыл бұрын
Send a superchat when they are live streaming here.
@gordo6908
3 жыл бұрын
maybe they have a paypal?
@doctormackwiss949
3 жыл бұрын
I'll never forget at level 67 healing my guildies killing the Sons of Gruul. I didn't even had a flying mount so they had to portal me around. Fun times! I quit the game for 6 months for reasons not connected to the game, intention not to come back, sold all the gear offered the gold to my guild bank character (there was no guild bank then) completely naked logged out... only to return 6 months later. Not even a copper I had so thankfully a random player gave me some gold to buy white gear. There I was all with white gear questing in Nagrand trying to get some greens, a former guildie sees me and invites me into the guild. Everyone welcomes me and insta invite to a Kharazhan run to be a healer. We're all there, ready to start and then someone says "but... his gear is all white..." Didn't make that run but in WOTLK ended up doing many raids with them in Naxx, Ulduar and so on... :)
@matthewcurtis9907
3 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember saying “ding” in chat and everyone congratulated you on it and now you blink and you’re up 10 lvls
@TheOriginalDuckley
3 жыл бұрын
LOL yup
@TheOriginalDuckley
3 жыл бұрын
Good times
@cyberpunkfalangist2899
3 жыл бұрын
I miss that
@mrgreenisthestuff
3 жыл бұрын
“Ding” Whole party: “woot! Cg!”
@Treklosopher
3 жыл бұрын
Play EverQuest
@tsnap6446
3 жыл бұрын
BC was, by far, my favorite expansion and time in WoW. A lot of memories. Farming gear, keying events like Black Morass, difficult dungeons and raids where resists and cc was necessary. One of the aspects that made this expansion so great was the ability to break out of the status quo and utilize your class unlike what was accepted in classic; like tanking paladins and high damage moonkins. To many this was a huge point of conflict and there was a lot of trying to prove yourself... and the fact that new specs were actually useful. This provided an entirely different layer of enjoyment to this expansion back in the day. I haven't played wow in 3 years now but I am debating about going back to play BC.
@lilesmw
3 жыл бұрын
Did you?
@0xzi
3 жыл бұрын
The quality of these videos are so good, and a documentation of something that even blizzard should be proud of the way it's presented. We need more of this kind of content when it comes to wow and viewers need to start actually watching them! Let's goooo
@chrisfritzke7822
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for doing this TBC episodes. Brought back great memories to when I started playing. All the fun and all the headaches. The ninjas, the crappy loot systems. The fun of pvp.
@dwarvesta1132
3 жыл бұрын
It was a beautiful time. Nyhm, Leeroy Jenkins, and so much more.
@Le7emeChat
3 жыл бұрын
Another wonderful video. Please, I know it's a time burner and it don't bring the big box, but please keep at it if you can, those are realy good.
@nielsvandersteen4619
3 жыл бұрын
Isnt one of the most important changes in early tbc the notion of potting your eyes out getting capped to one flask or two elixers and content being tuned accordingly? That was a breath of air compared to vanilla Naxx prepartion
@Troopertroll
3 жыл бұрын
Never forget, *Budd is still possessed by the spirit of Zul'jin to this day.*
@jaeusa160
3 жыл бұрын
He can lead us to our long overdue troll raid: Zul'again.
@dandan_carlos2782
3 жыл бұрын
Damn, the nostalgia... These videos are really making me feel like resubing to play classic
@lilesmw
3 жыл бұрын
Did you do it?
@dandan_carlos2782
3 жыл бұрын
@@lilesmw No, not yet. The only thing holding me back is the fact that retail is so unappealing. It doesn't even feel like an RPG, and I don't want to pay a subscription to fund the development of a game I don't like so I can play a different game that is receiving no new content.
@lilesmw
3 жыл бұрын
@@dandan_carlos2782 if you do come back, atiesh - server. See you there
@yoslo6832
3 жыл бұрын
@@lilesmw why is everyone on atiesh? I see so many on there
@lilesmw
3 жыл бұрын
@@yoslo6832 raiding server and high population
@Trixstor1
3 жыл бұрын
isle of QD was one of the best patch i ever seen in wow, the dailies were fun, grinding for the weapons from that quartermaster, grinding for the trinkets etc from the 5man dungeon. It was so addictive.
@lilesmw
3 жыл бұрын
I loved it
@SwiTch97
3 жыл бұрын
Jimmy the World of Warcraft story must have been one of the biggest thing to come out of the TBC era. Love the video Bellular!
@carlosnavarrete1094
3 жыл бұрын
i'm going to be a little controversial here, but I miss attunements. I miss resist gear. I miss hard non-rushy dungeons. I miss that pace of WoW. But I do think today's combat is so much better fleshed out and along with the improved graphics, I'm trapped in between being nostalgic for things I want back but not wanting to go back to spamming shadow bolt on a model with 10 polygons :(
@carlosnavarrete1094
3 жыл бұрын
@Me Th That's fair. I don't PvP at all so I wouldn't know. PvE-wise though, the improvement over Steady-shot macro, shadow-bolt spam, scorch x times then firebolt, etc is vast
@gordo6908
3 жыл бұрын
intradesting, i miss the n64 graphics and slower combat with fewer visual effects
@garydose129
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome job on this. I had no idea they tried in game voice chat. I would love to see them take another stab at voice comms. Discord does a good job, but that would makes it a bit easier when you just form random groups with people for quests or doing PUG dungeons while leveling.
@Bepples
3 жыл бұрын
They did try it again. BFA revamped and updated the voice chat system. It's actually pretty good now but still very few people use it.
@kawaniGaming
3 жыл бұрын
KaEl'tHaS's PhOeNiX. It was Anveena Teague and you know it!
@MrRustywood
3 жыл бұрын
Love this kind of content, keep up the great work
@wenck4686
3 жыл бұрын
Thoroughly enjoyed this presentation - also love your lore sessions as well.
@ddpwe5269
3 жыл бұрын
I'll definitely will be following the lore, as it's very interesting and quite expansive. Even if I end up quitting.
@mattyD92992
3 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I haven’t thought about WarcraftMovies in years. The Tales of the Past series was top tier entertainment to me back in those days. I started in ‘05 at the age of 13, but BC was where I finally got max on my Belf Paladin that I still play today. Raiding in BC & Wrath was my favorite time playing the game until Legion. Great memories. You’re right about the community too. Going back to Classic is fun, but it was the people that made it worthwhile. Having friends online all the time, talking about the lastest Nyhm music video, having guild meetings on one of the floating rocks on Nagrand. Great video, man. It may not get as much play as the current news or doom & gloom, but these history vids are fun, nostalgic trips to take.
@thehardcorecasual9444
3 жыл бұрын
I still can not belive that tomorrow I will play TBC once again! Thanks for the great videos! A lot of heart and sould put into these two TBC vids!
@ourlasthope8668
3 жыл бұрын
I wish these videos got more views, you put so much effort into these and i look forward to your lore/expansion videos.
@pwnjitsu
3 жыл бұрын
forgot to mention the other reason the the arena mount was the pinnacle of mounting... it was 10% faster than max flying.
@Rospopcha
3 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie halaa pvp was some of the best times in wow I have had
@megyskermike
3 жыл бұрын
These videos are really making me long for the old days in a bad way. Love more than anything to boot up nilla-->wotlk wow and play with my old friends who have all long since moved on.
@rdawg802
3 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, thank you for reminding me that Azerothian Super Villains existed. Have fond memories of being in middle school and watching those on an old tube monitor in my friend's basement.
@losophy4588
3 жыл бұрын
Dont know if u guys noticed - there is Reliquary of Souls machine in the Maw ;)
@Babaganoosh69
3 жыл бұрын
Love these 'history of WoW' style videos. Haven't watched yet, commenting for the algorithm.
@LukeStrife
3 жыл бұрын
Azerothian Supervillains was a fantastic series back in the day. Loved that you covered the machinima media from back then too. TBC was when I started playing, and I still look back on it with many fond memories.
@nathans1787
3 жыл бұрын
I was in the military back during TBC, and I remember one of my coworkers constantly coming to work looking hungover. When I finally asked him what was going on, he told me he'd been staying up late with his guild raiding Sunwell. Not long afterwards he misplaced some classified documents, lost his security clearance, and eventually got forced out. Guess he had more time for raiding after that?
@MP-vg7ug
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this bellular. Love this format, really well done
@holliwouldifshecould
3 жыл бұрын
I made my main, Felmist, early in vanilla and was surprised to run into Felmyst in Sunwell. I wasn't sure whether to be bothered or flattered lol.
@cyberwaste
3 жыл бұрын
I was the raid leader of my guild at the time we downed Illidan. In the life of the expansion we moved up the guild ranks on our realm from 11th to 2nd. I was the right flame tank for the fight. I still remember the night we got him. We'd come so close the previous attempt, but he'd turned around and leeched our entire raid's hp in the last five seconds. It was midnight, and we all had work or school in the morning, but no one wanted to leave. We tried one... last... time and got him. Later one of the glaives dropped, and it went to one of the rogues. From that point on our GM, who was a rogue, wanted to be put into every kill in case one of them dropped again and would become an issue every week. The cracks started to show in the leadership of the guild after that. Although I was the tank/warrior lead and raid leader I was not an officer. By wotlk, I was burned out and asked to go inactive and was kicked from the guild and banned from the guild's forums too. Good times.
@JayCottz
3 жыл бұрын
Great vid series - nostalgia almost makes me want to re-play
@liamwilson7549
3 жыл бұрын
The story of the blood elves, Anveena, and Kalecgos is told in the Sunwell Trilogy / Dragons of Outland Comic which is the entire basis for the Sunwell Raid. Dragons of Outland is also why Netherwing Drakes Exist in WoW.
@Christian_Bagger
3 жыл бұрын
Bellular: I wanted to be that guy Blizz today: Now you are all that guy!
@piffyplays
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for these videos. So many memories.
@j.t8352
3 жыл бұрын
love this series!
@bomouth142
2 жыл бұрын
You never mentioned Thottbot, which merged with Wowhead in 2010. Thottbot was a data collection site that told you how to find any mob, where to find any item, and item information, all collected by an addon of the same name. When they merged during Wrath, Wowhead became the massive and invaluable resource it is today, but in BC, if you wanted to find anything or anyone, you went to Thottbot.
@janheinrich4869
3 жыл бұрын
Wow. Love this type of content!
@theleprechaun2123
3 жыл бұрын
I don't think there's ever been a better instance of the UK's pronunciation of Z throwing me off than Bellular saying ZA and making me think there was an instance I'd never heard of
@eccentrikhat3863
3 жыл бұрын
Once you notice how often BellularGaming says “of course” you can never unnoticed it.
@lukasgaming82
3 жыл бұрын
Great video, as usual. Thank you Bell.
@Shinsay
3 жыл бұрын
Loved these videos. The community chapter at the end especially captured what it meant to be there at the time--it's why I couldn't bring myself to be excited for Classic or even TBC Classic. You can keep bringing back the old world, the classic raids....but you can't bring back the community of the era. Honestly though? That's okay--it was fantastic while it lasted and while I'm always sad to see that it's long gone I'll always be happy that I got to be there and to be a small part of it.
@alexanderpulido3666
3 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic stuff, great job putting this video together
@MrVala77
10 ай бұрын
Great stuff recapping all the history. I was a baby horde paladin back then.
@blub232324
3 жыл бұрын
In all those 16 Years I have played WoW, the gearing in BC was the best for me. Actually the gearing process is more fun than the actual challenge of the encounters - modern wow offers very little in this regard.
@nweasels
3 жыл бұрын
Thankyou for pointing out patch 2.2 and 2.3, no one in my current guild believes me when I told them that blizzard tried to do in built voice coms back in BC.
@Bepples
3 жыл бұрын
Just link the wowpedia page for it or something lmao
@glebmpakopuc9885
3 жыл бұрын
2 episodes that gave me so much good memories of those times. Thanks guys for this flashback!
@DaDunge
3 жыл бұрын
5:00 Lore nuts should have known Illidian being alive was a ret con. He was slain by Arthas at the end of TFT. Him dying in the black temple was just retuning thing to they way they were. I hated that they brought illidan back once more.
@edwardphippen8102
3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed the video. I honestly cannot remember when I started playing Warcraft. I had been playing EQ / EQ2 but made the switch either during late BC or early-ish in WotLK. But… as I am an (insane) alcoholic, my experience was broad vs deep so I never got to play much (if any) end game content. D Side note / rant: I always roll my eyes when people sing the praises of Wowhead. I agree it can be a valuable resource… but it’s cookie / tracking policy and implementation is atrocious and that just makes the site not worth using to my opinion. They have made opting out of cookies as convoluted as possible including by claiming “legitimate interest” on things you have specifically opted out of. And, while your basic cookie choices are remembered between site visits, objecting to so-called legitimate interest is not… meaning you have to re-select these every time. Sometimes multiple times on the same visit. I just don’t think this paints them as a trustworthy company. (End rant)
@Christian_Bagger
3 жыл бұрын
There were always something to do, back then... you didn’t have to raid and there were still content to keep you busy. Still though, every information is out there. It was fun to see the mechanics of a boss through trial and error. Then communicating with other guilds to see how they did it, sometimes you had 3 different strategies on a boss where non of them were optimal but it worked.
@ayshnel7809
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a journey!! thank so much for this video, super nice done!!!
@RoxLOL
3 жыл бұрын
34:18 A bit of a mistake, it wasnt Kael'thas phoenix (remember the Eye lol) it was Anveena
@badgerknight5263
3 жыл бұрын
absolutely adore these vids, i hope you keep doing them even though they arent the big algorithm-drivers
@jnnyhomicide
3 жыл бұрын
Snacky's Journal! "Are you feeling the burn!?!"
@carismo9502
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, what a beautiful ending to this episode
@brandonlewis5157
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mike and team, you guys are awesome with these lore (simplified) vids and putting out the updated "wow retail" content. Honestly you and all the ppl behind you and what you guys do is amazing for the casual player base. I'm a Wrath baby haha, but got into raiding/end game content in late cata, so missed out on end game ulduar (which, (shit, long shhhhhhittttttt, im sooooooooo sad I missed)), ICC and Firelands. Really wish the current game, even knowing their restrictions, could be better. The drought is real, in an obviously negative way, they really need to come out with some actual content that is WORTH our play time unfortunatly. I've been a 6 month subscription based player for years for the hopes that the game will become better but as most players of wow "retail" have felt, I don't know. We'll see how 9.1 pans out but jesus, so far they really have put their shit in a bag and let it sit until they want to smell it.
@lilesmw
3 жыл бұрын
Loved this bro. Sharing with anyone I know that has played tbc or will play tbc classic
@MrArbaras
3 жыл бұрын
Not being able to score my Amani Warbear before it's removal is my one regret in life and haunts me to this day.
@Guildelin
3 жыл бұрын
Love these episodes thanks for making them
@geoffok
8 ай бұрын
Gear feeling relevant longer was so much better. Needing to do all the dungeons and raids in order was also better.
@rukeyazu8669
3 жыл бұрын
These are easily my favorite videos you do.
@alargeshark
3 жыл бұрын
Incredible production on this series, i love it
@prime3482
3 жыл бұрын
Man what a great time it was.
@u3pyg
Жыл бұрын
I still get looks and questions when I mount the bear in dungeons.
@nyrilly3843
3 жыл бұрын
Neatherwing drakes are in the top of mounts and when ever i see some one on the pvp one i salute them and gratz them .
@alexchism5192
3 жыл бұрын
"Might not have been the best loud out, but as a warrior who didn't know what was going on, I wanted to be that guy." Can we just go back to that? Lol.
@34Vilend
3 жыл бұрын
The lore of TBC is pretty jank, but still was a great time to be around. Remember it fondly, which kind of makes me wary to jump into TBC Classic. Fantastic vid as always Bell.
@Leucienfireweaver
3 жыл бұрын
Wasn't it Anveena who sacrificed herself in Sunwell, not Kael'Thas' Phoenix?
@DataDietz
Жыл бұрын
Is there a Complete History for each expansion or are we currently only on BC @bellular? Asking as I'm binging all of these videos
@PiratariP
2 жыл бұрын
BC is the expansion i started playing. To this day its the best expansion with all its flaws
@grone1778
3 жыл бұрын
These videos are truly great.
@shaneball3493
3 жыл бұрын
Great content folks, thank you, a side note, a machine that played BFA at an average of 45fps gets 2 in WoW classic, go figure.
@Slowmotion1225
3 жыл бұрын
No mention of L70ETC?! I AM MURLOC!
@ValryshaClips
3 жыл бұрын
Wasnt the stuff at 16:20 just Fire Resist gear or something for Illidan?
@anthonyg6083
3 жыл бұрын
tyvm!
@CerebrusXV
3 жыл бұрын
need more videos like these
@LostChildOfTime
3 жыл бұрын
The Burning Crusade is peak modern WoW.
@ryandunn2806
3 жыл бұрын
Love this series
@AMVSD
3 жыл бұрын
Gets me mad when 2021 Shadowlands has only 1 raid and nothing else to strive for comparing to bc. Were starving on content more than half a year.
@Valvad0ss
3 жыл бұрын
@Me Th 🤡🤡🤡
@SilentSpringz
3 жыл бұрын
@Me Thgame is old and garbage in general. I like ish the lore. But dam its a dull easy game u only do chores in. Only youtubers, children and addicted stil play this garbage.
@thechartech
3 жыл бұрын
Hopefully I can help these types of videos with a comment....so here it is. Solid vid-end
@ilovetoo7009
3 жыл бұрын
This was so good.
@anwaralexander3035
3 жыл бұрын
How do you make a TBC video and not mention Illegal Danish.... how???
@robertbrown3054
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@reevarwow245
3 жыл бұрын
I loved wow insider, just found them again at blizzard watch.
@DaDunge
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I never raided after vanilla last thing I ever raided in wow was ahn quiraji 40.
@kichoamn
3 жыл бұрын
If i ever get back to wow to play TBC, droping everything else i've going for me rn im blaming you :C
@Graeme_Lewis
3 жыл бұрын
Love these videos!
@supersolenoid
3 жыл бұрын
Gotta check that Budd guy's history
@mrmantup69420
3 жыл бұрын
Great video brotha!
@Cryttanz
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome stuff
@MegaJugganot
3 жыл бұрын
And it's DPS was NOT increased enough to make up for not being able to use Timeless Arrows...
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