How The Final Boss of Classic WoW Hardcore Was Defeated 

Ahmpy leading his guild from the start of MC all the way to KT, and then to die on the final hurdle is kinda poetic ngl.

Ahmpy died, remained calm, and continued to raid lead his team. A true chad. It was a pleasure to watch their journey

There is an awesome RP factor added doing raids in hardcore, like these guys died saving the world.

That lay on hands to finish it. That death would have probably 100%wiped the raid. Insanely clutch

Ahmpy's a fucking legend. The composure to pull that through, just goated raid leader things.

Some dude commented, "They sound like their on a NASA mission." that encapsulates that situation perfectly.

At this point, asmon is like the old man on town who knows everything about everyone's family and history and everything about the town. Just for WoW

There is some extra epicness added when you know not everyone made it through

Ahmpy's death could not have been more dramatic and therefore epic, a perfect plot of a literary masterpiece, the end of the hero's journey, of the leader with the calm voice and iron resolve who did not hesitate for a second even after his death. It's incredible how a game mode, hardcore, can amplify the emotions felt during the gaming experience... And the emotions felt while watching it. Blizzard should give him a place next to Uther's tomb.

many amphy took it like a champ. That's the way it goes. He may have died in the process, but he still lead his guild to a world first kill. Sometimes you get em, and sometimes you get got. Big respect to him and the team. He will be back re-gearing his next character in a few days anyway.

Tukey a legend. Saved the raid, saved Windforce, was the only one healing Ahmpy when he went down. But the FB kick half the melee were frozen, and the MT lost aggro, it was a moment of chaos

To take a permadeath on the last fight of the whole damn game and just let that wash over you and continue to lead your team... Ahmpy if you see this, you're a legend dude.

How epic is this that the leader of the raid dies to the last boss of vanilla wow in the last fight of the journey, sacrificing his life.

Dying to KT on a world first is the Ultimate RP move.

so glad they were able to get this done with absolutely nothing wrong happening at any point of the raid at all!

Man, its so damn satisfying to see raids so efficient and organised; it does something nice to my brain :)

I was always asked "Can you beat the game?" growing up. And now, 19 years later, I can actually say - Yes, you can. Mad respect to these people.

Sapphiron to this day is still the coolest boss spawn animation.

I love it when amply died you can hear he pulls back in his chair raging for half a sec then realizing it doesn't matter, they have to get the kill awesome raidleader

idk, it´s probably always been like that, but asmon is really good at commentating and explaining wow stuff, no? Came for the laughs, stayed for the analyses

BTW, turkey saved the whole raid with that LOH, sickest split second decisionb. You should reach out to ahmpy and talk... see if you really knew that dude and just interview him. Dudes been a monster on my RU-vid feed lately.

I love videos like these. Not like a sponsored pro team going for WF. Just passionate players, with all their little fuck ups still pulling through and laughing and cheering as friends at the end.

This is like an RP Death. Sacrificing himself by taking the frostbolt for his boys. o7

Amhpy such an insane leader... it is really a hard work to make a raid/guild of trust

43:53 a true guild leader. Even in death still trying to give the best chance to the survivors

Ahmpy the absolute LEGEND!!!

Watching this live was a true nail-biter from start to finish. A journey that transcended the game itself. Ahmpy had felt so invincible in all the raids up until that point like out of all of the people in the groupit you never got the feeling that Ahmpy would ever hit the deck; it was just inconceivable. The moment he fell you knew it was all or nothing; It was like a movie. Maybe it wasn't the ending that Ahmpy wanted, but all things considered, it was the perfect conclusion to encapsulate the HC experience.

Im actually did not expect that from myself, but by watching this video i ended up with tears, and its kinda mixed feeling between being happy for the fact that they did it, and the fact that few of them actually just ended their way (which is like 700+ hours) literrally laying on the main classic villian corpse.

When we expect a raid leader, Ahmpy shows us how its done.

I really like the way you talk us through every bossfight. I've become very invested into WoW Classic just over a year ago so I've never been in any of these fights. The insight on the different mechanics is amazing!

Classic just keeps on delivering. This is more than nostalgia boys.

Ahmpy is a HC OG and a total chad. Good on him for staying calm even though he died because of someone else's fault. Mad respect.

Windforce was at 25% just before getting hit down to like 4%, then after LoH he dips back down to 20% very quickly again. If that LoH had been any sooner, ie at 25%, theres a good chance he would have died, as he was just about to take another 20% hit. couple of hundreds of a second after that. Not only did the LoH save the raid, but the timing of LoH was also important.. albeit that was probably luck, but still.

After the ice block before Amphy died the melee had 'free movement' because KT can't iceblock twice that fast, so KT could've gotten kicked by amphy's original group

That might have been one of the best LOHs in wow history.

A good raid leader remains calm throughout the chaos and Ahmpy absolutely did that, even though he died, he kept things going and they emerged victorious. o7 Ahmpy

I Think this is by far the nearest satisfying moment in WoW Boss fights , even got severel Casualties i still respect them o7

Wish I had a guild leader like Ahmpy back in my day….what a great guild leader.

As a non WOW player. This is quite intense to watch. I can understand now the WOW classic appeal.

people think the prep is too much but you gotta remember in hardcore its all or nothing

Healers must have been sweating so hard

Good to see Mitch pulling through with that hardcore energy 1:27

Honestly it's poetic that there were at least a few deaths and the GM dying during this fight. It was a hard fight and it wasn't won without some true sacrifices.

this was great, the asmond knowledge with the Bosses is a great video

Asmon has become the person who gives us all the deets in classic hardcore

The hardcore aspect is completly nuts. You can never fail. Awsome achievment!

Your RU-vid channel got me back into wow. Recoveres my account from wrath of the lich king and I’m excited.

Mad respect to Asmon and all the players who performed at such a high level. Having gone thru Naxx so long ago, this epic raid brought me right back to a time when WoW was so much more than just a game. The time and dedication it takes to achieve something like this is more than most gamers will ever know. Having mained a pally I can tell you that landing such a clutch Loh probably saved the raid. Best feeling ever. Congrats

Ahmpy is the Manager everyone deserves on any real world job. Remaining fucking calm under a stressful situation like that, and leading the party to the victory even after losing a lvl60 char full of epic gear. Not blaming anyone on the spot right after dying, just remaining chill and leading the way to victory and dealing with the loss after the "project" ended. A true legend.

Man this made me emotional, what an achievement

Really glad to see some of the OGs here with Ahmpy - shoutout to Hicks, Grimmel, Itspeter, Surii, Bobka, and I'm sure many others who have different names, congrats!

NGL I loved the Sapphiron fight. My BC guild didn't get that far in classic raids before WotLK went live and no one cared anymore. But my pet tanked one of the horsemen a couple of times and I was also a damage soaker on Patchwerk. T4 is still my favorite hunter tier set appearance wise and I never completed it. My void vault is full of tier loot and trinkets that are no longer necessary in retail that i worked so hard to get.

Bag of marbles was originally BOE until they found people leveling alts to lvl 6 to do that quest and mail the marbles to their main then deleting the character and doing it over and over. I think every starting zone had a different debuff item.

Every war has its casualties. A hard-fought victory that came at a cost. The permanent death aspect makes it feel like this is how it might have played out in the lore, which I love.

I was using those same addons back then. I believe that black line that is running in the middle is server ticks. The melee auto attacks were monitored so you could step into range at the end of the tick and land a hit while staying out of range in-between swings. Fun times.

These clips only improve, keep up the editing dude the music is a great touch

I went there once . It was an absolute nightmare wipefest I've ever experienced in 30 years of gaming

only classic wow can bring this emotion, no other game can do it

loving the content recently! honestly so entertaining xD

Man this makes me really miss classic :(

I remember the horseman being so hard. Nax holds my best memories from back then

They should add grave stones with the dead legends at the entrance to KT's Room! Managed to Kill the Final Boss in HC.

39:12 gut damn thats clean stacked raid. Just look at their positions, healers etc.

GGs all around to those guys. They all earned it.

Ahmpy truly is MVP raid leader.

Its great to see OG HC WoW players getting the recognition they deserve after all of these years of believing in HC WoW.

It’s insane the amount of numbers, abilities, items, stats, and TIMING all these players need to have in order to be successful. Doing a high level raid in WoW It’s like as calculated as NASA at this point.

Decursive is a simple addon that makes clearing debuffs so easy. Ive been using it as a healer for years.

Congratulations to Frontier what an amazingly impressive run! RIP to everyone who died. GG

That paladin LAY ON HANDS 100% saved the raid sheeesh

The leader diying, some of your best players going down aswell, but, in the end, you make it. You spent days, weeks, playing with some of these characters, overcoming difficulties, making progress and achieving goals, and now some of them are gone forever minutes before the final destination. Its interesting how classic HC delivers this bittersweet feeling

Seeing all those warriors with wbuffs makes me so nostalgic Those days were so fun but i don’t play anymore

The face Asmon made when he heard Ztriplex name is the prime example of "You look like you saw a ghost".

Okay well done! Classic plus please!

great run, great run amphy.. your a badass and your brother is also a chad, sir .. cheers

3:20 20s pull timer is reasonable for prepotting. 5:00 also look at mana management from the healers, although in those first seconds only the tank needs much heal. 5:45 well in that fight decurse actually is a thing, otherwise another mage gets the spot.

Ahmpy pulling through and keep leading the raid after dead... Absolute legend!

Blizzard should give them a permanent buff that says world first hardcore nax clear or something, I’m currently doing nax on era and it’s crazy the amount of wipes on 4hm and saph

The coordination is awesome

I'd watch a whole series of Asmon explaining raid mechanics.

Man said hypotenuse.

Actually, if you check it, there was no interrupt, cuz every single rogue was either iced or MC'd and they were on the interrupt job there in rotation.

seeing a raid full of people that know what there doing brings back memories

i grew up in wotlk... was my first wow game and 2nd mmorpg. aside from the bits of 07scape i played, but this is just satisfying watching this.

Hardcore classic is pretty damn special.

Stacked is an understatement.....10 distilled wisdoms from the priest on Sapphron?

It is not death to him.. It's redemption

I'm still glad they brought back classic. I got to remake my NE rogue and get it full BiS (swords). It is now just sitting there doing nothing. But I'm glad I got to do it again.

This might be a coincidence but I went to boot camp a little over 10 years ago with a dude named Tripetta. We didn’t get to talk much but when we did he always talked about WoW. He actually convinced me to try the game out again. Probably unlikely but it could have been zTriplex. I’ll have to look him up later.

This is why i strongly believe that a stable endgame is not an attainable dream for hardcore. If this crazy group with everything in the game at their disposal is ripping people including their MT you better believe your ass will eventually get blown up in MC or UBRS. Don't get me wrong as someone who has a lvl 31 its very fun, but i think people have unrealistic expectations of hardcore. The game was not made with it in mind.

This was so hard and epic! Thanks for this

turkey really did save windforce in less than a second with the lay on hands 45:05 - 45:06 plenty time to react though as he was originally hit at 44:49 the timing itself is insane

Bro 1 druid in the entire raid. Classic experience.

kinda wild to see this happen after so long, on hardcore. Congrats. Most people wont understand the sacrifices made to get there, quite impressive.

This is by far the cleanest raid I’ve seen. Holy sht this is so badaas and epic 🔥

No M/Effing heals man, that was his rage, that's all he said and he still guided the team, just sick, mad respect.

WTF I watched this never played wow but finished the whole 53:22 duration of this content. In the end I somewhat understand this is hard, what a god raid. WOW Hardcore.

If @blizzard somehow honored Ahmpy and Frontier for this world first... they would be taking a step in the right direction

Mitch, at the end 😂

Tight! Best two months of entertainment in a while. Congrats Frontier!!!