With the release of classic, I've wanted to start knocking out a bunch of guides to help you on your journey. Keying/attuning is a huge thing in the game, so I thought it would be handy to throw together a comprehensive guide for you. I hope it helps! If you would like to catch me live, I'll be at www.twitch.tv/madseasonshow if you have any questions or would just like to say hi. Also, a correction with the Grim Guzzler key. I said you could pickpocket it "without incident" - this is untrue. The whole bar will turn aggro when you pickpocket it, so be careful! Sorry about that.
I would add 2 more keys in Dire maul, specifically Dire maul north. But I think Dire maul is quite interesting instance that could use its own dedicated video anyways :)
One of the worst video's that attempt to give the most basic underlying understanding of keys. We understand you played Nost and lights hope and just hit 60 before the servers went down, but you somehow still fail to explain the most basic starts of the key chains. Cool. Some of us have been vanilla for 10 + years. Move along pleb.
Michael steffens hey do you know that not all us even knew the game existed back then or simply were just too young this gatekeeping elitism altitude is the reason why people don’t like being around you So move along toxic piece of garbage of human waste And also thank you MadSeason for the guide
An important note when getting the Maraudon key. If you intend to get both pieces in the same run, start orange side and kill Noxxion, then go to Vyletongue, and then to Cerebras. If you kill Cerebras before Vyletongue, his ghost will despawn by the time you make it back to him. You'll have to run the dungeon again to get the key.
I remember making the shadowforged key. Such a cool idea - a quest giver that you can only even see when you're dead! Personally, I loved instance attunements. Many had the best lore quests, and some were quite difficult at the time!
Mad, recently I heard your voice on Asmond's stream and jumped with joy cause you have the best voice ever when it comes to WoW and I also found the Podcast from The Countdown To Classic series on spotify and have been listening to your episode during car rides and you have such a friendly and lovable quality to yourself. I then found your twitch stream and everything just feels so relaxed and focused and fun. Thanks for all the wonderful content you give us, it is all very entertaining and soothing.
So, I was sitting here watching the vid, when I got distracted. Started talking with a buddy, and suddenly found myself rocking back and fourth, feeling kinda happy. That's when I noticed you had the Final Fantasy 7 song in the video :D Awesome :D
This channel is turning from a WoW Historical Channel into a WoW Guide ... and may I say one of the best in both cases ... Fair well for now MadSeasonShow, I enjoyed the video and will come back for more, soon :-)
It was a pain in the ass, but it made the game more interesting I thought ( and made it more satisfying when you finally got to the end )...gonna sound like an old man, but seems like the game has shifted towards instant gratification faster and faster with each release the last several years.
It creates a challenge, a reason to do more and feels more like a place you are exploring rather than a world that has been put there for you to do everything and get every reward. Even the basic 'harshness' of the leveling presents this. Same with no mount till 40 and most of classics systems, even basic stuff like resistance on npcs etc etc. It all works together to make even small things rewarding making the game alot slower but a really enjoyable.
For someone who has never played vanilla wow back in the day this game has so much stuff to do. No wonder so many people are playing classic over retail right now. Classic is on fire and I’m loving it like crazy.
Ah yes, my favorite WoW-Guy is here. I hope you're on the Bloodsail Buccaneers man! You look like you'd be a fun guy to Roleplay with. I can just imagine that lovely monotone voice caressing an Elf Woman and serenading her with your facts and Paladin magic.
The reason the keyring is not going to be available at launch is likely the fact that code has been heavily modified between vanilla and the live version of the game and it's some work to reimplement the old behaviour. My understanding was that the keyring was transformed into void storage, a lot of the traits associated with void storage (like removing enchants/gems, only being able to store soulbound items) are a consequence of taking the space available for the keyring and removing all meta information to stretch it from 32 to 80 slots Source blue post: us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/3657605755?page=9#post-179 Edited for precision and source
Watching this just reminds me of how old WoW was closer to an open continuous game of DnD and you characters had to work for stuff...good times. Oh well, always Classic and Neverwinter if I want that feeling I suppose
Getting keys is something that is sorely missing from the modern iteration of the game. I was SO DISAPPOINTED when I logged into the game one day and noticed that my key ring was gone! Sometimes I would just open my key slot and look at them, remembering what I had done to get each key or attunement. It made you feel special when you would get to a locked door, and you were the only one who could open it. Everyone else knew how serious and hard core you are, and it generated respect. Collecting keys was more satisfying than half of the “achievements” in the achievement system. Especially stupid-ass achievements like taking falling damage without dying, an achievement half of us got by accident and without any actual effort. The adventures that accompanied the acquisition of a key was its own achievement. Blizzard didn’t need to remove attunements from the game. They only needed to make some of them slightly easier for more casual players to acquire. But even that I say with reservations. The big and powerful rewards should come with effort; they should not be handed out to lazy people at the expense of dumbing it down for others.
Sadly I suspect the AQ gate event will get completed in about a day. People are already making plans to stock up so they can complete the war effort right away. Not gonna be as epic as last time :/
@@torparkungen Hahaha that would be such a nice fuck you to all of those who have gathered all the knowledge and worked hard for the mats just to cut corners, and would make the game equally fair for everyone once again.
Awesome work my friend! Always a pleasure when I see a new vid pop up in the feed by the best RU-vidr when it comes to classic content! We need you to sneak in a bit of Arnold in there like you used to :)
Not even a mention of how in Uldaman the staff of Tsol and the amulet of Gni'Kiv put together spell "Lost Viking" backwards, which is the old Blizzard game where the three dwarves that guard the amulet come from?
I logged on to Classic. I looked at my character and remembered how long I played it and just how much I needed to do and turned it off. I played from the start so I did this for real. I hope its a fun novelty for others.
Well that's the thing, if you're only playing for a payoff at level 60, downing some final boss, then I agree it's not worth it. But for some, the journey and the different challenges that you encounter might be the real joy in WoW classic.
It's worth noting that when pickpocketing the Grim Guzzler Key from Plugg Spazzring, you have to take it and run quickly and unlock the door with your whole group and run out of the bar area. After a few seconds, he notices the key is missing and all the bar patrons become aggressive. Wiped my group on the live classic Fairbanks server today doing this on my lvl 53 rogue. F's in chat boys.
There is too much information here that I needed to take a break half in the video. I love you Madseason but when you have a video like this, please take some breaks, hold your breath, make the "short" stories more exciting. because JEEZ we all know how dry Wow Classic can be with the attunements. Am no expert or trying to lecture you or anything but daamn, the only thing i heard in the end was "blah blah blah, then you get the key" "blah blu blah fhsdfgvu, as a reward, you get the key" Love your man!
As always that Final Fantasy (X?) OST in the background is gut punching me right in the feels. And even the prerecorded MadLad vids are top shelf. Thanks m8. 👍
I remember when I tried to kill Lord Valthalak back in the day, never managed to beat him but the whole quest chain that led to him was pretty damn enjoyable!
I did 99% of these in early TBC, I can't imagine wanting to do it all over again... I thought about coming back for classic, but I don't think I wanna do all those quests again 😂
I find doing the sucubus quest in the grim guzzler to be much better then the rogue pickpocket. For one it doesn't make any mobs mad in any way. for two it keeps the owner a shop to buy stuff from after/during the dungeon. And the quest is permanent and for any class. It server has a "stealth" key or attunement, just talk to her when you reach the bar and you're already out. Oh also, you showed the long way to MC entrance XD easiest/fastest way is going through the lava from the dark iron anvil. Just need some heals to it from what I remember.
I think you missed the summonable boss is the Sunken Temple: the Avatar of Hakkar. You can summon him with a special scroll after you finished the quest. And Atal'Alarion is also kind of summonable, by solving a puzzle.
Hey I love your videos I’m looking for your stream on twitch but it seems your probably playing the game and enjoying it a lot. Can’t wait for the next steam or video!
There's also an alternative to the Grim Guzzler key, help the Succubus make a love potion to use on some poor Dark Iron guy and she'll let you through whenever, You need I think Truesilver, some other reagent, and a quest item from giants in Azshara.
