Asmongold Reacts To The Top 10 Most Powerful Abilities in Classic WoW - Hirumaredx 

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Gets angry at the rogue for the blind/sap combo stopping someone playing... Admitted earlier that he played an affliction lock with the whole fear thing.

Also; Pyro wasnt the longest - it shared "Longest" cast with Soul Fire. Power Infusion + Soulfire = Oneshot anyone. So playing together with a priest as a lock was amazing.

Now I can not unsee the koolaid man on the 4 horseman.

He missed the old druid bear shape shift that would heal you when changing forms by granting you 35% of lost hp back.

Asmongold doesn't remember something in vanilla WoW? What a filthy casual.

One of my most memorable pvp moments from Vanilla was when I was leveling my rogue. I started playing around probably late ‘05 or early ‘06 and originally started as a priest, got to around level 40 and was incredibly bored with the class so I rolled a rogue. I was around level 38 or so and questing in STV when I got ganked a couple times by a feral druid that had skull level, but I think he was just barely high enough level to have that display because of what happened next. So after getting ganked twice I rezzed and healed up and went into stealth. I walked around for probably 20 minutes trying to find this druid and was about to give up and say fuck it and go back to questing when I finally found him. He was killing a pally that was level 35 so I waited for him to finish him off and just as he came out of cat form to top off his health I attacked. He was still at about 90% health when I attacked but I gave him everything I had and I managed to scrap it out and kill him, while I was left at about 15-20% health. My server population was heavily horde favored and they would bring in extra people almost any time pvp broke out and a horde got killed, which would then lead to us on alliance trying to bring in anyone we could, which eventually would end up as these massive battles where the alliance would just get outnumbered and crushed. I wasn’t going to give him that satisfaction. I tried to camp his corpse but he managed to give me the slip so I got out of there before he had another chance to kill me. So, a couple days later and I’m back questing in STV and guess who I see? That same druid, camping alliance people trying to quest. I had gained a few levels and now he was no longer showing as a skull to me. I knew I couldn’t take him in a fair fight so I avoided him, but I still will never forget the time I killed a feral druid in STV that was 12 levels higher than me even though I was a total noob. I had a screenshot of me standing on his corpse laughing before he released but it has since been lost. It could still be on one of my old hard drives, but I doubt it. Maybe some day if I have the time I’ll go through them and see if I can pull any old screenshots so that I can get them all in one place and preserve them. Those were good times though.

Fire Mage: Activate 2 X Zandalarian Hero Charm -> Presence of Mind -> Pyroblast = The most OP spell & item combo I remember in Vanilla. Mages would one-shot tanks.

A paladin buddy of mine would bubble hearth every time he hearthed for the memes. One day he bubble hearthed to Ironforge and a Horde raid was there. What a twist, and with his bubble down! It was even funnier when two weeks later it happened again. He stopped meme hearthing after that.

For Pyroblast. in vanilla we had a full Netherwind Regalia set mage in our premade pvp team. Netherwind Regalia has a 10% chance of making your next cast instant after casting frost/fire bolts. this mage was able to cast 3 pyros in row. first pyro was a full cast which triggers the 10% Netherwind Regalia proc instant pyroblast followed by pom+pyro. nobody survived that. We used him to stop flag carriers in wsg.

0:46, when mom calls on her way home and asks if u want nuggets

10:30 WTF I ran so many AV's with a guy named Thibalex on Northdale.

I was the first person on my server to get a zin rohk destroyer of worlds from ZG back in vanilla when having an epic weapon actually put you in the top 10% of the server. I still remember what happened when I first used SS+cleave/whirlwind combo in arathi basin with some guildies healing me. Ahh the glory days...

Waiting for that day to pop my flame reflector trinket against a 3 minute mage.

Warrior: can insta-kill a clothie every time they use mortal strike, which has a cooldown of a few seconds. - "Oh yeah that's a little strong sometimes maybe" Mage: can insta-kill a player but only once every 3 minutes - "THAT'S THE MOST OP THING I'VE EVER SEEN!"

And after balancing Will of the forsaken, some years after, Blizzard came with the ultra balanced racial *Every man for himself" .

I love how he tells the naxxramas anecdote when he never raided naxx back in vanilla. And also "not remembering" the dr to slows, when it literally happened before he started playing.

15:25 shamans weren't able to dual wield in vanilla.

One trick was when I used invisibility on mage, I also was able to see other players, hide myself and teleport if I want .

0:27 finger sniff, possibly pink sparkles (?)

i remember when the full damage of execute would transfer to full health targets with the aoe ability, i forgot the name. warriors were so badass, then just weren't.

reckoning bomb wasn't there just for "a day or 2" it was in the game since BGs had been introduced, the guy that killed kazzak just brought the attention to it and blizzard acted right after like they were on fire

8:51... There was one reason you wanted fast weapons on a rogue, faster attack meant you could get more stacks of poison on enemies, If I remember right a good rogue combo was a slow main hand weapon with either wound or crippling poison for PVP or Instant poison for PVE with a fast off hand weapon with Deadly poison for both PvE and PvP, fast stacks of Deadly poison + Envemon a skill that would consume 1 stack of deadly poison for every combo point dealing additional damage per point, similar to Eviscerate but ignores armor and deals Nature damage. Was pretty strong with a fast offhand weapon with deadly poison, if you didn't stack up 5 stacks quick enough you could always shiv to get the last stacks up before doing massive damage that ignored armor. Any other class, yeah the slower the better, but for rogues you wanted one slow weapon and one fast.

The beauty of classic was every class had one broken thing to them

19:24 Ayyyy Escanor!

Unpopular opinion : Mist of Pandaria was one of the best expansions for pvp

"I never played rogue back then" Other videos... Tells stories about him on his rogue doing _crazy_ things

Wands were pretty op in Vanilla , especially for levelling/grinding because the damage wasnt influenced by armor and they got a 10% attack speed buff from the quiver.

0:44 scooby doo headass

Ahh the old shadow mastery combined with curse of shadows or elements. That was the golden classic warlock wombo combo.

Iplayed Spriests, my best friend and near constant companion Warlock... We were Gods :D

People forgetting the Pre-TBC Talents being added to the game, Shamans knew about the Windfury Glitch from the time before TBC started and then legitimately used a Rank 5 and 4 Windfury combo in Karazhan. That was also when we thought there might be hope for Ret, since Ret got Crusader Strike and was PERFORMING in Naxx instead of being a butt monkey.

"Dirty ginger nerd complains" should be the title of all of these videos.

So basically all classes have something overpowered about them.

The original "living bomb" only had the normal CD of most DOT spells so it was spammable, in BG's macroed tab target an living bomb keep applying the dot an run being it exploded an applied burning effect to near by players damage was off the chart .very lil damage on single target but in group bg the bigger the groups the more the spread . Huge overall damage numbers

the best way to 3min Mage was to pop AP+trinkets, cast fireball, and as the fireball lands, cast Pom+pyro, then your instant fire spell

I love that the naked dagger guy got his own South Park episode

I'd argue that the Warlock issues were also their only defense. Every other class had ways of braking CC and could get trinkets and other things to help there. Warlock had no way of breaking CC beyond Engineering and a PVP trinket (That everyone had), and with the added diminishing returns to Fear after those three casts that they broke out of they were just immune. I want to try Classic, see how it measures up, but at the same I'm I think it would be the version of the game that caused me to leave, which was where we got hit with about fifteen nerfs, because they couldn't be bothered to fix a re-spawn bug, and destroyed the ability of the Lock to soul link, which was my build (Demonology melee warlock)

actually the naked rogue thingy was easily countered by using a aoe. but the people where so used to follow wowhead instuctions or whatever that they didn't realised you could counter it and rogues would look for an other 'victim' as soon you popped it and 'showed' you were a veteran 'insert class' player

Yeah affliction warlocks are so much fun. One of the only classes easily able to dispatch rogues. Howl of terror is a rogue’s nightmare and I loved it.

14:50 wanna say.. warriors deserve to be max level monsters. Leveled one in vanilla. Months of hating life.

i would be fine with forsaken being immune to fear if i get to put them down with my exorcism.

The single most op ability in WoW was when beastmaster hunters had the scorpion pet and pet spells benefited from attack power... pop all cool downs, have scorpion apply sting DOT and refreshing it the whole fight kept the AP bonus... my pet would always be number one damage meter during serpentshrine cavern raids, leading to many jokes at other 'DPS' classes. This was during the same patch that pets were made pretty much invulnerable during boss fights.

I never played retail classic wow, but no lifed on Pservers for years, I always thought blind/cold blood shouldn't be reset on preparation, crippling poison should be the same amount of slow or even slightly lower than warriors hamstring, and that one passive ability you get later on that regains energy (I forgot name) on openers should be tweaked so energy management mattered more.

There was a bug once in Vanilla that could occur to mages. It bugged POM in a way that the POM buff didn't wear off after casting. This made *every* cast instant until you logged out or died.

Heroic strike and maybe cleave were the only instances where one could argue a fast weapon was good on a warrior. Fast weapons were also nice in the offhand of rogues for poison purposes. Heroic strike was just a more damage replacement for your auto attack. And it tended to have really good threat. So if you had a warrior with dagger for example, and excess amounts of rage, you could spam heroic strike with it really fast to pile on threat.

I guess, i remember a rogue tanking a raid boss because of insane dodge, After that they nerfed dodge to have a diminishing return.

Why do I want to see an animated version of his Four Horsemen story?

Vanilla had HARD class counters. Hunter raped rogues. Locks raped hunters. Etc. Thats why vanilla was better than anything after. They tried to even things out TOO much

Cold blood, Ambush backstab combo was gold vs most. 35 second stunlocks without Blind or Sap were fun as a rogue too. I remember dueling with a wedding dress and ripping people to shreds. Before I got AQ40 Ripper as my main hand. I remember when Honor went from Rank to Currency and all the low geared players entered battle grounds. How much fun I had killing them.

15:14 In patch 1.11 shamans could not dual wield. Shaman - Dual Wield. Patch 2.0.1 (05-Dec-2006): Added.

Affliction lock, cc rogue, pom pyro Hit my big 3 I am satisfied

In vanilla they valued instant dmg, when static -->white damage, was uncrontrollable. But highly sought for. Fast weps for gain I.E RAGE, while slow is better for smash.

Soo will these abilities be as powerfull in Classic as they where in patch 1.12 vanilla?

Overlooked OP deets: The 3m mage could 1st begin channeling their hearthstone, and while it cast, be spamming their 1 shot macro combo, WHICH WOULD CAST *AS* THE HEARTHSTONE TOOK EFFECT... As a mage main, I personally did this countless times to world kill players INSIDE OF contested cities, where ordinarily attacking enemy players simply wasn’t done because it resulted in the NPC guards swarming and killing trouble makers. The heath enabled mages to immediately evade each city guard agro, as well as any enemy players beyond the mage’s one shot victim. MORE MAGE OP: The spellbook used to contain “different ranks” of spells. Most players completely ignored lesser level instances of spells in their book, seeing no point in casting anything but “the strongest version” of any spell (i.e. the highest rank), BUT, THE NON DAMAGING EFFECTS OF SPELLS (each direct effects and indirect effects) IGNORED SPELL RANK... this meant that a mage in AV for example, could spam rank 1 blizzards, frost bolts, etc for like NO MANA and freeze/slow enemy players endlessly, then taking advantage of things such as MASSIVELY improved critical strike chances on frozen targets via blinking into a swarm of the frozen enemy faction and AoE-ing them into oblivion. I personally doubled, tripled, quadrupled the damage and kill scores of any other player in the BG and abusing the absolute heck out of rank 1 spells enabled me to many, many many times *single handedly* win AV BGs and *win* 1v2/3/4/more enemy players in BGs as well as world PvP scenarios.

Hi, The only reason for WotF, in opposite to be "undead", was that in vanilla beta paladins and priests chain ganked UDs and permanetly "raided" UC and UD-players complained a lot about it. with kind regards Alef

The Top 10 soon to be nerfed abilities in Classic WoW (fixed*)

crazy that selfless healer wasnt on this list....even though its pretty much broke any 1v1 combat.

0:48 now I want to make a Pally just to fuck with people

one time in order and chaos a group looted a lava tearing shield from GSL dungeon, but they did not need it because the tank already had it. So they told world chat they would sell it for 5k. Which is insane. I messaged them and told them id buy it and they invited me to group. And for some reason they did not question my motives when i entered the dungeon and began running toward the chest. When i got to the chest the guy was already bent over opening it so nobody else could open it. I did not know how to get him to leave the chest so i aggroed a bunch of enemies and pulled them toward the chest. they killed him and i ran up to the chest but i got kicked. It would have been the best ninja in history but i failed

I beat a marshal naked with my paladin in classic and he deleted his character because of it on arathorn.. at least until he regretted it and restored it 24-48 later through support. Rogue had many skills in insane cooldown timers, it was the only class that needed to wait 5 mins before it could pvp so it had all its main cds ready... Pyroblast didnt have a cooldown, was spammable and had a 3or 4 cast time... this guy doesnt know his stuff, also frost mages were more dangerous with same combo because pf frost crit dmg synergy with frostbite.

for you guys that dont know the pom pyro combo started of with sheep then you cast pyro followerd by pom pyro it didn't have a 6min cd ffs

I played a fire mage back in Vanilla WoW, and the three minute mage combo was indeed the best time of my life in Warsong BG. Paired with a priest and their talent "Power Infusion", I was fully geared to the teeth and I had use every possible DMG buff increased along with my priest friends and the the bloodlust dmg buff from the hut and I shit you not, I got a 25k Pyroblast (which was rare back in those days) Everyone flipped their shit.... like you deleted the flag carrier!

Dude my guild is one of the top guilds on my server in vanilla while and I was one of the top geared druids on the server and one of my buddies in my guild had hand of Ragnarok and I was just pocket heal him and we wouldn't even play objective but we'd be like top honor kills every game even if we lost

Shaman dual wielding wasnt added till bc. It wasnt in classic.

Back in high-school I dueled a friend and he kept fear up for 5min straight i walked half a mile to his house walked in and he was at his comp face red eyes watering laughing his ass off looking me straight in the eye and he recasted fear.

How did he not include night elf shadowmeld aimed shot. Only race/class that could do it. Didn't break SM will the aimed shot landed.

Dug the best Ret Pally in the history of WOW was immune to rogue perma stun. The legendary paladin made short work of the best rogues.

*Any one youtuber makes a video about WoW* - Oh, look! Asmongold has made a new reaction vid!

My friends and I rolled 6 undead rogues with very similar names and we would try to get the same gear to look identical. We had 3 run ambush builds and 3 run kidney shot. At first we would systematically KS, dps, evis, and vanish, then the next person in line would repeat. If they survived the first 3 rogue combos we would triple ambush and delete them. Soon we got bored and would just have one KS and then tear them apart with 5 rogues. With Will of The Forsaken there was NOTHING they could do. Priest mind control + 1k Needles should have been an honorable mention. Just MC and then have them jump off a cliff.

I don't think people know that the pvp trinkets of classic are way different than our trinkets of today. Nothing could get out of blind.

Weapon speed normalization only affected the bonus dmg from attack power, which was calculated based on fixed weapon type specific factor for instant attacks after the normalization. Slow weapons were still better after the change but not quite as much

I never looked at guides or anything but I can tell you whenever I used fireblast in pvp I would wreck people.

Since I stopped WoW at end of vanilla, I never realized just how much the game regressed after that

19:39 rare footage of bajheera using his own pyroblast

I'm with you on weapon speed being a thing. 2h fury with OEB (fast 2h sword and basically requires Windfury in your group) was awesome.

dude i remember back in the day playing warsong gulch and whenever i encountered a warlock i wanted to kill myself because of how stupid "Fear" was. You entered the enemybase > warlock blocks the path > warlock fears you > you get feared back to your graveyard > it doesnt matter if you died or just got feared since you are at the graveyard again.

Has some good mentions, but this list lacked a crucial one, which, imo, was way worse than most; Polymorph rank 4 (obtained at lvl 60) *50s duration* (in pvp as well) You can polymorph a dude, grab a wsg flag, and cap it by the time he's out, if you can grab those speed boots on your way. Now add to that dimishing returns, and you'll get 50s (1st poly), 25s (2nd poly) and 12.5s (3rd poly), for a total of 87.5 seconds (!) Another strong (yet missing) contender is druid shape shifting in pvp. Being straight up permanently immune to poly/hex, being able to shift out of snare/root as often as you want (and mana permits) and having speed increase in cat/travel form + bear form and hots...druids as carriers were broken, nuff said.

@7:00 Yup and with sacrifice Subbubus 15% extra shadow damage Nightfall 4% chance to fire instant shadow bolts and Improved shadow bolt you could do another 20% shadow damage combine that with curse of Element (10%) and you can trow instant Kamayameha type Shadow bolts that would hit like a Truck basically dealing 15% + 20% + 10% extra shadow damage

Notice how Priest wasn't on that list once, FeelsBadMan.

Whoever made a paladin in real life got bullied because of the Diving Hearthing, just like hunters for being cowards.

You have to admit It was magical using spell reflect for the first time on pom mages lol. Just, magical.

Soul fire 1 shot

I was a naked Rogue with Last Year's Mutton duel-wield, and destroyed everyone.

Asmongold legitimately doesnt understand how fucking OP windfury was. If it was just as strong as any run of the mill Mortal Strike, it wouldn't be talked about to the degree it was. I'm convinced he didnt actually play vanilla at all, and just cant break it to his subs. Windfury was absolutely fucking insane.

In tbc I had a crit build Pom pyro mage. I had 50% crit rate and would spam scorch until I had a crit which would give me a free pom pyro.

I remember beating high warriors as a shadow priest all day lol. They were stro g af for pvp. Had to wait until ZG gear to be any good for damage in pve if I remember correctly

He forgot the most powerful ability. Hunters ability to summon pets and cause a server wide pandemic that killed almost every player.

Faster weapons were better for rogue off-hands because they could proc poisons more often

No mention of the warrior sword spec fix. Early on it was a warrior version of windfury. I remember getting 5 procs off 1 hit playing my warrior in pvp...was fucking nuts haha

No case where faster weapons have an advantage? With hunter pets you want the fastest attack speed to interrupt spellcasters

is amazing to see someone that has played this game for so long still find himself amazed by skills or combos that he did not knew

trinket couldnt break blind in vanilla, and it only dispelled specific things depending on your class.

15:32 wtf, as far as I remember shamans did not dual wield in vanilla... even the 2h weapon skill was the last enhancement tallent...

9:56 you could see from the look on his face he had really bad flashbacks and got super triggered hearing those 2 abilities.

They should have left the forsaken as actual undead units and let them keep their cc immunity but, in exchange for that, healers should have been able hurt them by casting heals on them offensively like they could in Warcraft 3. That would have been lit.

Faster weapons would have a benefit over slower weapons if procs were % per hit instead of PPM

Surprised Priest mind control didnt get a mention.

His videos should be called *Asmond repeats whatever the voice over says in the videos"

The most powerful ability in Classic WoW is [Squelch]. You can literally silence your opponent for 24 hours with it.