@@skalmaa the Hillsbrad flightpath, yeah. You should have that by the time you're ready for SM anyways. Regardless of whether you ever did SFK. Still a decent run from SS
Just run thrue STV , and take the boat. That would be much faster than running from darkshore, The path you will be running on barely has much mobs around them anyway, so even a level 5 would be able to get there.
as a Horde player: "Wow the Alliance has to do all these runs, glad I don't have to do that. Thank you Goblins for inventing Zeppelins! What's this, my class trainer has a quest? Call of Water? Should be easy enough!"
Oh god. Getting vietnam flashbacks. The Horde run was simple, when you learned it. But, no matter what. I still hated the amount of running you had to do, from the top of Kalimdor, all the way until the bottom.
I think this is what makes a game a good RPG, the fact that WoW: Classic was much more slow paste, gave you the feel that you were actually a part of a living and breathing environment. If you had a quest that sent you to the scarlet monastary to take down the bosses it meant that you had to prepare for a long and dangerous journey and this is what made classic great I guess. You had to travel to different continents, you had to prepare yourself for epic dungeons and even raids, you had to socialize and interact with players in order to clear a certain areas. I don't say that current WoW is bad or anything it just lacks a few of those points which classic had and made it a great game.
@@yoman8027 for me personally the feel of an "adventure" truely develops as you progress slowly but surely. Frodo and the fellowship could've flown on eaglebacks end ended sauron quick (I know weird comparison) but the fact that it took the fellowship such a long time to finally "defeat sauron and destroy the ring" makes the journey and especially the lord of the rings such an adventure. Dunno I like comparing wow classic to any RPG typeish movie/tv show eg. Just my highly subjective opinion
Comparing the plot of LOTR to Classic WoW is fair, and you missed a couple of things. They couldn't fly on eagles in LOTR because the eagles were fighting some enemy of their own, so that prevented it as an option. The real reason though was that the journey prepared each individual as well as the group as a whole for what was to come. If they had just instantly gone to Sauron then they would have failed. It is the same in classic WoW. The exploration and the time you had to spend not just with your character but with others was to prepare you for the end game content and the mechanic knowledge and social interactions you needed to succeed.
Honestly i never thought of WoW like that back then. I was too young to understand anything. now that really made me think. I might like to play Classic wow for that reason. the large ass fucking journey with friends sounds fun. and also you can find others cross path as they are on an adventure aswell. a nice hello, maybe trade few items, or join them instead to a better adventure.
You forgot the real run... THE RAGEFIRE CHASM RUN! *DUNDUDUNNNNNNN*! From Elwynn Forrest are two routs :D Through Stranglethorn or through the wetlands
SinForTheSaint no one did that dungeon, there wasn’t any quests, like wise there wasn’t any quests for alliance in ragefire. Frankly the only alliance that really went to SFK was paladin for their sweet maul.
Eh, I still think the Zul'Farak and Maraudon were harder runs for the first time, and then you had Dire Maul, damn the alliance had it harder for levelling dungeons, the horde only had the Blackrock Mountain and uldaman problems
For Horde there was the Badlands run. Who remembers that? Running through skull level guards in those tunnels between loch modan and wetlands. Normally you had to run from Arathi Highlands, but you technically could run from Gnomer after unlocking the teleporter through Dun Moroph (this was all at level ~36). Or if you were clinically insane you could run up from STV, through Duskwood, Elwynn, Redridge, Burning Stepps, Searing Gorge, then into Badlands. Again, at level 36. Yeah, one guy I knew didn't know that there was a bridge connecting the upper and lower halves of eastern kingdoms. Heard Badlands was a horde leveling zone, and off he went. Like a psychopath. Brings a tear to my eye.
And you needed that flight point in Kargath to connect the flight zone of north and south - So it was all of that, just for easier commute in the future!
This was the most memorable run for me too. Especially as Undead, you could do Arathi Highlands until the mid 30s, then you either go to Kalimdor, which you were completely unfamiliar with, or you make the long run to Badlands with nothing but hostile territory in between. No mount, no heirlooms, just you and the guard/mob infested roads and tunnels. lol
@@MCshadr217 Thousand Needles wasn't even comparable. That was all Horde or Neutral territory and not even that long. The Badlands run had you running through extremely hostile zones (especially on PvP servers) and was at least twice as long.
There is also the "Blackfathom Deeps" run especially for (alliance) paladins for paladin class quest at level ~20's starting from either Stormwind or Ironforge. Stormwind -> Ironforge -> Wetlands -> (Take boat to Rutheran Village from Menethil Harbor) -> Auberdin (Darkshore) -> Zoram Strand (Ashenvale) -> Blackfathom Deeps finally, which is in my opinion also another excellent dungeon in Vanilla WoW... Another long unforgettable epic journey. Ah you also need to take the quest from Auberdine for the diamond quest for paladin weapon quest. But nothing, NOTHING beats 5 dedicated adventurers determined to do all of "Blackrock Depths" in one sitting. If you can find 4 of these adventurers in your life then you can accomplish almost anything with that small core of 5 people. Ah there is also the 45 min Baron Run epicness but that's another story... besides I digress.. excuse me.
And what about the first time Dire Maul run? Or attempting to complete all of the Maraudon quests? Hah or maybe attempting the Scholomance quest chain in one siting?
That was easy! Work smarter not harder. Have the group group up at WPL base. Run through avoiding bears and spiders, slowing the ones that aggroed. Then bam, already near there and dont even need to go near undercity.
Scarlet Monastery on alliance side is my N°1 , even with Southshore Fly pass , Alterac Mountains , Dalaran Bubble , that friking Lake.... and then passing threw the Zeplins Tower and the entrence of UC. When you finnaly arrive , you are rewarded with , not 1 , Not 2 but 4 dungeons . Oh and the dungeons are a blast .
I remember going to SFK for the very first time for my paladin weapon quest. That fucking 2-hands hammer lasted me for so long, I didn't replace it until level 45. Can't wait to do it again.
For us lifelong Horde players one of the more memorable runs was the DM run. Making your way to Grom'gol via zeppelin at level 15 and then having to go through level 30-35 mobs only to go into Duskwood and get mauled by Alliance (as well as everyone's favourite abomination) only to finally get ganked by Alliance patrols and Defias on the way to Moonbrook.
As a Horde, we had the Badlands run, which was just about the same run, but in the other direction. To be honest, I'm not sure if it was for a quest or just exploration out of curiosity, but I did it at level 24. On foot. And it was epic. Leaving Hillsbrad Foothills behind, entering the danger of Arathi and then that Dwarven bridge... you knew this was enemy territory and you're pretty much canon fodder from now on. Climbing the dwarf-invested road to reach the top of the impressive dam was probably the most epic. At level 24. Making it alive along the border of Loch Modan until you saw the orange earth of the Badlands.
Uldaman is easy too, fly to Kargath and ride up to Uld. Think you're talking about the Badlands Run in general, which should get covered here eventually anyways :)
Silverpine questing was so good I transfered from trial to full there and then. I remember my first SFK run. Guildless, my first dungeon and was also lvl20 so got carried a bit but people were so friendly and helped a lot. Silverpine + SFK + community = hook, line and sinker for me :) Will never forget that run and cant wait to see it all again.
I think that first run to Gadgetzan for alliance is pretty epic too. Its basically the wetlands run + Dustwallow Marsh, Barrens, thousand needles, those salt flats... and finally you make it to Gadget!!! 3 zones with no flightpaths.. its a one way ticket till you get there.
Now do the alliance Wailing Caverns run. When the greed affects you so much that you run through STV under leveled and outgunned. Take the boat to Ratchet and as soon as you get out of town, your town has a target on its back. Racing to get to the entrance as horde get ready to sink their axes in your skull.
Whoaw Nixxiom, this is my 1st video you and you really touched om my nostalgia and captured the essence of vanilla, you got me so hyped for WoW Classic, earned yourself a sub :)
It was an awesome time when the game's werent afraid to let you go through high level zones to reach lower level quests. It made the world feel real and alive, it gave you even objectives like 'I want to beat this someday'.
Started out as alliance and finally came to my senses, but no matter what faction, this dungeon is key as a caster. He just drops so many good items for lvl range, and if your smart you'll bring along a rogue friend with the prospect of Meteor Shard Dagger dropping. I later used it to help power lvl guild mates and friends because it's Goldilocks. Not to long, not short, just right. God I loved SFK
@@albertgeorgy6827 this guy is cool, funny, plays music, sings, like adventure and is a successfull youtuber. he has no problem finding girls believe me
One of my top 5 favorite Vanilla memories was the run to Razorfen Kraul in my mid 20s. Only one person had been there before, and we left from Stormwind. He could barely remember how to get there...it took us literally hours to get there and it was truly an epic adventure.
Your videos are well composed. The storytelling, the content, I even love the sound of your voice. I keep watching your videos despite quitting wow a while ago, they're just a joy to watch!
This was great. I had many “fun” times in SFK. You created your own narrative in a series of meaningful quests. It was about the journey-not a bum rush single player cinematic fueled rush to max level. It took months for my first 60 and I will never forget my first 60 horde, then 60 alliance characters.
Raiding Ironforge was a Nightmare if you died there was only 1 resurrection spot and it was basically a 20 min run So if anyone died it took them 20 mins to get back to the raid Wiping at Ironforge was pretty common
A lot of Horde players way back were Shamans, who had a class quest called call of water. The quest was essentially running back and forth from Barrens to Silverpine/Hillsbrad two times while also going for a pit stop in Ashenvale, which was a high level zone when you got the quest.
iirc horde never went to deadmines. there were no quests, and it just wasn't worth the effort. it was pretty much a faction exclusive like stockades and ragefire chasm.
I've done this run a lot having played vanilla retail and about 10+ different private servers but three years ago I did this run with Vanilla new players and it was really awesome. We all grouped in world chat then gathered at menethril harbor. We traveled a full 5 person group in order to protect from any mobs. Along the way we took screenshots at the bridge and ended up ganking someone in Arathi who was 10 levels higher then us ( we took another screenshot on their corpse ). I don't remember how the dungeon went, I just remember all the screenshots and banter. By the end of it we were all on each others friends list and I did some max level raiding with one of the group members, later on down the road. One of my favorite WoW experiences in the past 5 years. I'm really excited for all the new Vanilla players for the luck that maybe I get to participate in this experience with them.
I started in PvP realms back when you actually had a fighting chance. You didn't have level 100-120 escorts everywhere. You had people in your bracket that you could actually fight. Enough 40-50s around could take down a 60. PvP was way more fun back then. Now it's all garbage people with their level 100+ buddy one-shotting things and people for them. PvP realms got boring.
As i player who played Vanilla private servers and leveled few characters to max level passing this zones multiple times , I still got goosebumps watching this video. Great job!
That was a vanilla WoW players first taste of ganking and pvp primarily at the hunters camp. I also remember the infuriating ganking in Booty Bay. Players running and chasing in and out of doors like something from scooby doo. Polymorph was deminishing returns because mages would chain cast it on players underwater til they drowned. As a priest I'd mindcontrol players and let the guards beat them to the graveyard.
Jesus what an epic video ! Always fun to hear someone talking about something he is passionate about. I never did the sfk run. I kinda more relate to this long long run just to get from the Exodar to the other island of the Draeneis.. the quest where you get an Elekk to quickly go and warn the people about an incoming attack. That's when I felt there was something about the game that would make me enjoy it.
The first time I did the wetlands run I had no idea what I was in for. My first toon, a nelf, and I wanted to see this auction house thing I kept hearing about, but it was in IF. So, lvl 10 Darnassus to IF as a noob. Omg, who knew that would be an adventure I'd remember well almost 14 years later lol. My husband had to do the exact same run and we learned to just strip all the armor and basically corpse hop a little closer each time. I still love WoW and love playing, but you can't have the same kind of crazy adventures we could back then. And of course I did the SFK and SM runs (I think I hated the SM the most) but wetlands was my first and really sticks out. Great video
Not true in the PVP battlefields though pretty much all PVP area's leaned heavily in favor for Alliance also stockades is pretty much impossible to run for Horde and going to Ironforge well better not die as Horde because there is only 1 Ressurection spot and its 20 mins walking So if 1 horde player dies well you have to wait 20 minutes to see him again
Horde Ony Attune was far worse then the Alliance, and the scepter quest for AQ had way more alliance cities that you needed to visit then horde, Thinking it was 3 ally to 1 Horde. So I think it balanced out there to blizz hating both.
Well alliance have to run through scary mobs slightly more, but at least they get endgame meta defining racials, zones blizzard actually spent five minutes making, and easier AV runs
As a Horde player from day 1 I never partook in the alliance journeys, but I had my fare share of Horde treks that I look back on fondly. These are awesome to watch, can't wait for Classic.
Brings back so many memories its on par with running to scarlet monastery running past under city and getting killed by that lone Brie Guard that walks randomly up and down the paths and trying to dodge horde players.
You do realize it takes a lot of time to make 1 right? All the voice acting and editing that is required. And help from other players when needed. It isn't as easy to slap something together. All he is doing right now is doing small things while he works on them so we aren't left without anything.
iceman3317 I expected comments like these. But it has been months without one. I probably worded that badly, or at least I chose the wrong description. I did initially subscribe for the awesome machinimas back at the start of WoD and it's not like I'm not enjoying this type of video, I just miss the days with more consistent machinima uploads. This isn't criticism or a hate comment and I do believe I worded that nicely enough as to not give that impression.
The blacksmith in Pyrewood Village is a repair vendor allied to Stormwind (but only by day, at night he is a Worgen), there is a vendor in Ambermill village as well.
The one i remember the most is Black Rock Depth, because it was so massive you could get lost in it at first, also when you first go there going through the ash volcanic lands and entering that impressive volcano inner room where the instances and raids are.
Shadowfang Keep reminds me a bit of Karazhan because they both have an archetypal "mysterious castle/tower, overrun with spooky creatures" theme. To me they're both iconic instances.
You haven't mentioned how cool it was to find out that Pyrewood Village just south of SFK seems to be a normal village during the day, but at night they all turn into werewolves. I remember finding it out through chance when I got there past midnight I think it was as a horde player.
I spent weeks just running around, the adventures I had will never compare to today. I got wow right before bc was released , this gave me so much nostalgia.
I love the hoodie Nixxiom. Your voice also captured the mood perfectly in this video. It reminded me a lot of the epic intros for the human campaigns in Warcraft Orcs and Humans. Bravo!
I remember the longgg SM run as an alliance player and trying not to get ganked waiting for full party. Then running through all the elites to the instances. I loved the lore from SM and I look forward to playing all 4 instances again.
Hey Nixxiom! I wanted to thank you for inspiring me to make machinima - I just made my first actual machinima, for a school project ofc. And when I listened to your guide I was like “pshh it can’t possibly take that long” but holy shit was I wrong - that shit took like 10 years. I don’t know how you do it consistently, I have a newfound respect for machinima makers :P
I used to run from Khaz Modan to Teldrassil (and vice versa) for the sake of the adventure back in my begging days (the Wetlands run). I once tried to cheese the run by getting myself killed and making the trek as a ghost. When I revived at the spirit healer in Teldrassil I spawned at the graveyard closest to my dead body in Khaz Modan, good times!! :)
Just got you a subscribe, Shadowfang is my favorite instance in the whole game. At 60 I used to farm it over and over just to be in it. Grabbed the dagger and made serious money on it.
It’s things like this that make me want to get back into World of Warcraft. God it’s been so long since I’ve played, and I wanna get back in, but... what I wanna try is Classic. I never really got far in classic when Nostalrius was around, but I want to again. I wanna feel the experience of Classic that I never got to truly see. The old dungeons and raids always seemed so cool... I love the nostalgia I felt going through them even though I was never there in Classic in the first place because I was too young. I know the first thing I’m playing when I hop in is gonna be an Undead Rogue, it’s always been one of my favorite class fantasies to play. Stereotypically Edgy, I know, but I always loved the idea. Speaking of, does anyone know which spec of Rogue was the most viable during Classic? I wanna know what to focus on.
I did the SFK run. During mists though. I was very new to the game, the Queen of the Noobs and I didn't know that the quest I just received was a dungeon one, so I didn't use LFG. I traveled to Ironforge via the deep rail tram - having discovered it recently, after I died 700 times trying to enter the Burning Steppes in order to get to Loch Modan to deliver some package from a dwarf - crossed the wetlands with no major issues and entered the Arathi Highlands. I stayed on the road and encountered no major problems until I reached the gate of Thoradin's wall and died another 700 times trying to get past the Forsaken camp at Galen's fall and the one across Durhole keep. and the deaths continued all the way to Silverpine forest and by the time I got to SFK I was all red. And of course, I discovered that it was a dungeon and therefore I could not get the materials for my weapon. But it was all worth it because I traveled so much and discovered so many new wonderful places and I became more familiar with all the new zones. And since I was on a started account for many months, it became a hobby of mine to see how far I could venture into a higher level zone before I start dying horribly. And I discovered new ways to get into Silverpine Forrest. There is also another run you could also mention, Nixxiom. The Eastern and Western Plaguelands crossing into Sillverpine Forest with a level 20 Belf. On a mount and stopping at every flight path on your way there without getting killed. Or vice versa on your lvl 20 Forsaken character xD.
the greatest journey I ever went on was during TBC (I first played in vanilla but got my account in tbc), was the epic saga that is the trek to the Hyjal Barrier. it didn't matter where you started because no matter what, as a low level explorer who played war3, you wanted to get as close to hyjal as possible... for faction equality, lets say you start in Ratchet... easily passing through the barrens into the stark contrast of Ashenvale. Avoiding every mob in sight as you made your way through the Kal'Dorei forest... But then came the challenge... Felwood, Warcraft 3 burning into your mind that this place was not safe... and yet you try and try and try to make it north. Dying a good 10 times til your gear is all damaged. And you thought, oh, I made it. I just have to go through this... tunnel. And then the horror of death after death after death left your gear all in the red and useless. Corpse running again and again until finally after a great deal of time... you make it out. On the wrong damn side cuz now your in moonglade and its 3am. but you press on anyway, back through the tunnel... and after more sadomasochism you are released into Winterspring. The quiet serenity of the snow that's fallen in the chilly shadow of Hyjal distracting from the fact that though not as populated with as many enemies... these are the strongest enemies you've seen in game yet and you aggro them from a mile... so you make your way carefully around as many as you can, planning out with strategy and cunning your path to Everlook the one safe haven you were told existed in the zone... Dodging patrols and dying to countless enemies you could not even see the level of... You realize its now 7am and the sun is coming up so you hunker down for a power nap with alarmclock.net for 20 minutes before it blasts you awake and you go right back at it... You repair your gear foolishly... finally you see it, a giant wall of ice and rock blocking your way forward and before it a deep crevice of which a fall would mean an unsavory corpse run back... but after Timbermaw Hold and Felwood you are now professional at traversing around these ruthless killer npc's… and you make it to the very end of the zone and.... and something is wrong... darkwhisper gorge... demons patrol the area... and now...you realize ahead is your goal... and the servers go down.
The biggest achievement for horde was the run to Stockade and for Allies it was Ragefire Chasm. Because both these instances are in main cities. It was always hard to go there and do those Instances.
Classic Vanilla Wow was full of these great runs, everything seemed so huge and vast, and you'd have to beat this challenge...just to get started on where you were going! So many questhub towns (also served as safezones from gankers), dungeon and raid entrances all involved great journeys, sometimes vast, dangerous and entering enemy territory. All you had was the ingame map and a direction, you never knew who or what you'd end up bumping into and running for your life from alone the way! Danger and mystery at every turn, that was the Vanilla WoW way.
I like these videos of the infamous runs you had to take. I was thinking about how the game used to be and it really did hit me of how important travel was back then. Traveling through the world was so immersive and that adventure was so important for the atmosphere of the game.
I've protected so many Players on there way from Auberdine to Ironforge, since i start playing vanilla wow. But this way from Ironforge to Shadowfang i will Never forget...
i did that run in mist of pandaria... because I didn't know you could just press a button in your menu to do the dungeon, so I walked there with my draenei paladin. Was awesome!
Just gotta say, my favorite run came when I took inspiration from the WoW comic "Flintlocke vs. The Horde". I took my lv10 Troll hunter who just learned how to tame pets, all the way from Durotar, through the Barrens, Ashenvale and Darkshore, snuck onto the night elf boat and went to Darnassus. Once there, I had to corpse run through the city and out into the wilds of the world tree! There, I tamed my white owl pet and hearthed back home! That took me the better part of an evening, if I recall. :P
So, so excited for classic. Hit 60 on my warrior back when, if you wanted to run UBRS as a warrior, you had to put a pug raid together. My biggest achievement in vanilla was getting my "Breastplate Of The Chromatic Flight". Thank you for the classic videos, I had forgotten all the big and little reasons I fell in love with the game to begin with. Seems like all of my favorite parts of classic have been removed in the name of "quality of life" improvements lol.
Not sure what was best, the video or the storytelling from you Nixx. Also fits with Halloween coming up soon =) Too bad I will have to make new friends as all of my current ones thinks WoW is too old to play and "why should I play something old that I have seen and done already insted of playing something new and fresh that I have not done" and so on. Will be playing on the EU server. But I remain hopeful to get into a good/decent guild and make some new (ingame) friends which I feel confident I will.
Wailing Caverns was a tough one for a lot of people, I remember getting groups together back in the day and at least 2-3 people in the group didn't know how to get to the instance entrance lol
In TBC, i did the "Plaguelands run" as a blood elf, because i didn't know that there was a teleporter in Silvermoon. In vanilla I remember traveling to ironforge and stormwind as a lvl 20 tauren warrior, because I wanted to reach the legendary lands of the mysterious Alliance...
I had a similar journey. Shortly after I started the game, right around when BC launched, a friend escorted lowbie me all the way from Darkshore to Menethil Harbor, then to Ironforge, then to Stormwind. Not quite as long of a trek time wise but memorable nonetheless. Those were the days..
Oh God. The sfk run. No vanilla wow player will ever forget it. I remember being camped outside by horde players because I couldn't find the entrance lol ended up wandering into the town outside of it.
