My secret strategy to beat Snutz in the OTK Mak'Gora Tournament 

Man this makes me so sad. Imagine the timeline in which ziqo pulls out the win as a raid boss mage meleeing a demon to death. Oh, what could have been.

Laughing so hard at the deleting frost res gear😂😂 ziqo you are a beast love sweat and hope theres more tourneys for yall in the future!

You may not have won the tournament, but you secured my prime sub for the rest of history

Bro, this LEGEND put more thought and effort into a WoW duel than I have ever put into anything in my life. Had he pulled it off, it would have been the greatest story in classic. Shame resistances don't work the way he believed they would. As a long time mage-only player, I /salute THE BEST.

I think what I loved mostly about the mak'gora tournament was that it had that early vanilla vibe. Back in the days no-one really knew what was truly the best (that's how I felt at least). You would meet people with the most random items and spec; hunters with int/sp gear and what not. There was so much in the game to explore! And in many PvP matches you would go "wow!!!? wtf was that!?" after someone used an item you never knew existed. These days min/max'ing is the standard and everyone knows what's BiS. Ziqo with all his "hidden tech" showed up with so much random stuff that would surprise everyone like back in the days. I really loved that. Respect for the time and effort put into the preparations. I saw the tournament for 6 hours straight and was rooting for Ziqo all the way. I never thought I would experience that early vanilla vibe again! Ty. I had a blast that evening

Its not the destination, its the journey! Honestly, these background videos are awesome, and I am so happy that this tournament gave us such amazing content to watch! Great video as always!

Dude if the strat actually worked and you raidbossed snutz down, that would've been one of the most legendary wow videos ever. Such and unfortunate turn of events. What an absolute chad.

amazing video, thank god someone finally attempted to do such a strategy since classic era started in 2019, i was convinced its a bug aswell but noone ever cared for this issue in any way. thank you for shining light on this bug, i hope blizz notices it and fixes it. im 100% convinced it is a bug since i watched videos from original vanilla where people had way less resistance and got way higher partial resists on dot ticks. thank you for making this video and thank you for all the effort you put into gearing up and making this video

You’re an inspiration to me Ziqo! Been glued to your content. I’m truly impressed with the amount of thought and preparation you put into the tourney!

Your strat should have worked, would have been beyond epic to see it in action. If this is a bug its a massive shame.

man respect to be that patient, crazy work you put in there, appreciate it

Outstanding video dude. Great info for the developers to improve the next iteration of classic!!

I agree your resistance gear should have been way more effective with vanilla rules. Something was definitely bugged

I played warlock for thousands of hours in PVP in vanilla. Once a DOT was applied it did full damage every tick. I remember this because I tested putting on demon armour vs SPs and locks but found it didn’t work the way I wanted. I was also perpetually frustrated that MOTW didn’t seem to do anything when I was on my druid. I do however have a vague memory of the initial application of DOTs getting resisted. It’s possible that was changed in TBC

I didnt know you b4 that tournament preparation started, that was so fun to watch, the journey. I like your takes on the game, keep having fun my dude!

This video was so inspiring tbh lol. You’re a monster bro! Great plan and tenacity. Sucks it didn’t work

Nah this amount of work is insane. Major props to you.

Omg, the level of knowledge, persistence and PURE LUCK involved in this video is way beyond my imagination, and I consider myself knowledgeable of vanilla wow. This deserves its own award in this tournament. Keep up the good work Ziqo🎉 Edit: And on top of this, Ziqo has all the skills 😊

learned so much about this game watching you during this tournament bro its been a blast liked and sub

Very interesting video! thanks for making it Ziqo

You’re the GOAT. Insane efforts for the tournament, tip of the cap to you and all the other constituents that helped you grind.

I'm really impressed with all the side hustles you did to get your char ready for the tourney.

Mad props!! Love all the homework and how you went into the think tank! You've gained yourself a sub! #EUBOYS

idk out of everyone in that tournament, you were the best to watch. I never heard about you until 2 weeks into the OTK tourney and now i watch you everyday lol

I don't even play this game or have the slightest interest in its auxiliaries, but you make me watch a whole video of something I don't even know anything about. Subscribed, liked and commented!

Absolutely deserved to win it but it is rock paper scissors to an extent and warlock is so hard for mage. You’re a legend regardless and loved watching everything leading up to this!

Amazing how deep your strategy went. Big respect.

Dude I'm retired from WoW but watched the tournament, this is amazing 🤣 you deserve an in game character or something just for this effort. Gonna go sub on twitch now. Big love from the UK 🇬🇧

Ziqo me and my friends have been fans and following you since you pumped mistst of pandaria arenas back in the day. It's really great to see you getting more recognition lately. Well deserved my man Z, feeling very proud of you! You deserve it all and you are our true king of the tourney

I dont know how you actively can be addicted to this game and go this hard for a old game, but i love you for it, ziqo you are a legend sir.

your youtube uploads are killer brother, easiest sub of my life

gotta respect the hustle, well done Ziqo

Man...the sweatiness on top of the skill is why youre one of the GOATs

This was such a great strat and you're amazing. Then you said you bought all the cold resist rings and sold them... It was at that point I subbed. Legend.

FYI I made the full Stygian set on Skull Rock alliance. There were 3 Alliance tailors who made it. Took less than 20 minutes and under 10g, but we scrapped it pretty early for the same reasons. We had exactly the same strat as rogue into snutz with double demonslaying + elixer. We also had a frost res set verse mage that took me a week to collect. This is part of the reason why perp could have taken the whole tourney had he not got a bad bracket and terrible RNG verse Sonii. But that's the nature of Wow classic.

This one's a juicer 😂 where your head went for the warlock dominance was insane. I wish it wasnt bugged and you pulled it off

this was a fun video, GG ziqo

Came here from the asmon clip! BIG Props to this vid dude ! really nice to see how you did the set up! keep it on ! you are definitely one of he coolest nicest wow streamers out there! Greetings from Switzerland!

I love to see how sweaty you approached the tournament :p I know of another bug back when WoD came out (I think), they had to downscale health and with it came some bad coding where I as a level 19 twink frost mage could literally kill a max level bis geared player with 4 to 5 frostbolts. Also, Any resistance against dotting was only for the application of a dot... 300 res would have meant 80% resist but once the dot was applied, it did 100% of it's dmg. At least that is what I remember from how it used to be

dood you the man really enjoy your channel.

@ziqo This isnt the way it was in 2019 classic Vanilla. I had a warlock with nearly 300 resist gear sets in nearly every element. I would never get affected by locks or shadowpriests when I wore mine. I found myself needing to use it while farming elemental water in azshara because of all the priests farming that area. Same with nature for druid/sham. That is totally not working as intended.

You are a true gamer. A legend ❤️

Nah, brother, you're different. You have my respect. Love learning from you. Keep going.

This is so awesome! ❤

Hi Ziqo. I had more partial resist in Vanilla with a + 60 aura, than you have in Classic WoW with + 300 resist. This is not a bug but something that the Classic devs didn't code properly. ( the Classic client is "Legion" ) This is how a dot works in Vanilla --> 1. Either hit or miss. 2. If hit ? then roll again to check vs. the resist minus your pen. 3. If the 2nd roll is a hit ? then check for a partial resist. A Zero - 25 % - 50% or 75 %. 4. A 100 % partial is not allowed vs. subsequent ticks. 5. On subsequent ticks, a hit roll is not checked but the partial resist is in play. ( this is point 4 in a clear wording ) *Important side note* Frostbolt is a binary spell because of the slow effect. ( hit or miss, no partials ) Firebolt is not a binary spell because the after effect is just damage. Dots are not binary spells in Vanilla because the after effect is just damage. The issue is = Dots are treated like binary spells in Classic WoW. This needs a fix. GG Ziqo. Oh well .. goodvibes

Lmao the sweat was unreal, such dedication, I love it.

Bro buying and deleting the frost rings made me crack up, that is some next lvl crazy hahaha I commend you for going that hard for this tournament what a absolute chad

impressive bro , great content

Aw would have loved to see that. Also wish I could see a melee mage DPS check with full coolies and consumes

Wow. Every PvP battle I've been in has always been a DPS race. This is NEXT level!

WOW !!!! i have no words! epic, it would be so cool to see working right

This is true dedication.

Shadow res def used to have partial resist on dot’s. I remember vividly fighting Shadow Priest, & SL/SL Warlocks comps in 2’s in season one in TBC and it was a 100% a counter & there was nothing they could do, early on when that comp was OP in season one before any of these changes.

Mak'gora MVP award right here for dedication and excellence in prep work. Including a (possible) 🐞 report contribution on a core aspect of the game. 👏

Mad respect

Ziqo: I spent 100s of hours preparing to fight snutz after spending thousands of gold Snutz: Maybe i should get an intellect elixir just incase.

My man was born a hustler! Mad respect

I'm like 90% sure there was partial DoT resist damage back in Vanilla. Thats brutal.

Holy shit, Ziqo living in a sauna sweating so much.

Thanks for share these nice job

That's actually insane!

Holy smokes....this tournament was definitely super hardcore and only for the best!

OMG I love this content so much. Things behind the screen is always attractive.

you killed it, homie

Getting partial resists based off the RNG of whether or not the first tick of the DoT resisted damage just doesn't sound right. That's like reaching into one of two buckets blindfolded -- 1 filled with gold and 1 filled with mustard, and after sticking your hand in the bucket filled with mustard (based off of RNG,) Blizzard just takes away the bucket filled with gold and you just gotta keep dipping your hand in mustard now. Lol. Great explanation vid and performance throughout the tourney tho Ziqo! New fan here!

So fun to see one of my favorite wow players since wrath still being so fkn good. Nice to see it working out great for you Ziqo 😁👍🏼

youre still the best, most exciting and positive player!

I would have loved to see the melee mage pulverizing his opponents

As a Warlock main in Vanilla I'm sure this is how resists worked back then too. You could definitely build gear sets to counter casters using other damage types because non-DoT spells would frequently fully resist but DoTs would apply and tick just fine. It did make it generally pointless to cast shadow bolts but that is all.

The way people navigate this game is so fascinating. Love it

Omg that twilight scroll story is amazing

LOVE THIS CONTENT

Great vid brother, if you can i just wanna see you melee the pet down with that staff and the flask would be great :D

I had wondered why you didn't pull out a shadow resist set. Now you're showing us that you're way ahead of the rest of us mortals.

this prepwork breakdown was more interesting than the actual tournament

Sad that it didn't work out, but the dedication is impressive ☺️☺️

Sickening sweat. GG, Ziqo.

That 20 min vid was a blur. It was so interesting to watch. Thank you!

respect from brazil bro, u're the best

Was rooting for you, good job Ziqo

The mind blast partial resists always worked like that. The difference with frost bolts is that when a spell has a slow/cc even partly they don't partial resist but either miss or hit for full. Mana burn feels like an oversight and dots seem just bugged tho... I wonder why ppl weren't using frost resistance sets against mages tho since that should work fairly well but maybe they'd just lack damage and you don't rly need it on lock.

wow man. you won in my heart after seeing this

you are a legit legend.

best strat is to play as warlock or even ask that warlock friend and test prior strats. love everything you do ziqo well played!

Legend for life o7

You’re a mad genius my dude.

Wow man unlucky. Had no idea you went this deep. From sheer effort alone you deserved the $50K. Props to u Ziqo.

Dot is binary cast, it's either you resist it completely when being casted or you take the dot cast and take all the dot ticks. Unfortunately, that's how it works in era. Also, when you are res capped its still a chance of 75%, so you will 'probably' get 1 of 4 dot casts. So mathematically it's better to go around ~120 shadow res and stack pen, and spell power. So this seems like really somewhere in between era and tbc and has to be fixed.

Classic era just keeps on giving. The classic content has been awesome.

Weird it should have worked! Your strategy would have worked in the past very strange... The application of the dots should also be resisting more... however as far as I know the ticking of damage over time effects will always do full damage no matter your resistance. Partial resist is only for direct damage spells like shadow bolt. Well played on the tournament!

For what it's worth, you could resist an initial dot application in vanilla for sure. i was a sweaty shadow priest and warlocks annoyed me, so I'd have shadow reflector, shadow prot, some other stuff but nowhere near cap and still regularly resist. you could always partially resist dots, this was part of why sp's were so weak to locks specifically. 0 idea when it was changed

What a legend man

Damn that absolutely sucks! U definitely put in the work thats for sure, u deserved the win in my opinion

Damn! Impressive Ziqo. Blizzard should compensate you for all the gp you spend acquiring the shadow resist set. And compensate you or make an NPC of you in game if it is indeed a bug on their part. Blizzard probably did not anticipate somebody able to gather all the gear you farmed and equipped it all at once. Then after resist mechanics is fixed there should be a rematch with Blizzard putting up the purse prize for the contest.

Watching Ziqo come up with these strategies is so fun

What a great story and video

Hi all. I did these kind of things too, like all of what he is saying, except for other items, but i spent days, months, hours.....and hours in months to get stuff that has also like 0,2% chance. Though I must say I was a bit more lucky then this guy I think. Much respect though, but you are not the only one! I want to send this guy a personal message how much respect I have for him. omg

Really clever line of thinking, for sure. Yo, I was a r13 (1wk from 14, weapons weren't worth it remember? xd) mage, I remember getting fucked by warlocks, we had shadow res from aq40, that shit sucked... But despite my equivocation, you are the same animal but an unspeakable horror of a beast. A mage who has died and reborn a thousand times. Loved watching u play b4 u got assassinated by the CIA in gurubashi arena because I remember what it was like to have engi at just enough to get rocket helm and rocking the level 40 mount alllll the way to rank 11 bc I just wanted to pvp. I don't know if that freewheeling joy can come back (for myself, no. For you?) but u have that ambition and killer instinct that set Kobe (cheesy? fuck em. parmesan) apart. Maybe the tournament gave that to u, maybe u had it all along, maybe ur fried, maybe this is just the beginning... Same animal, similar beast, and then the duels?! Chef's. Fucking. Kiss. We'd fuck around with a dust or two to get an edge for fun and chucking grenades to kill nerds was both try hard and elite, but this scene... This mage... Nothing like this existed b4. I don't think Snutz redefined Warlock gaming, these other players were very fucking good, but to my eyes, there are Priests, Warlocks, Mages, Hunters, Rogues... And Ziqo. Give this man 13,000 bucks Can u come back? Or can u only move on? Idk bro but the last few months have been ur Mona Lisa 🫵💅👐

Well done man, you are a legend ! Sucks that shadow res is glitch in Classic.

This is the sweat that makes me love classic