WoW Vanilla Patch 1.1 - What Was It Like? 

Having to figure out every quest yourself is precisely the thing I missed the most. It was a ton of fun to explore without following quest markers, and to share your discoveries with other people. Created community.

Another thing about hunters Feign Death, if you stayed feigned for the full duration of the timer, you would actually die when it ran out. Learnt that the hard way lol

I miss vanilla wow. I remember how awestruck I was over how vast the environment was. Wish I could play it for the first time all over again.

yes, but where is mankrik's wife?

As a vanilla hunter, I remember you could go tame rare beast and they would be stronger and retain stronger skills than your average joe beast.

"Yea, thats right" "Oh yea" "I know, its really hard to grasp" "Let that sink in for a moment" "Yea, you guessed it"

Rules to playing Vanilla WoW: 1. Roll a warrior, rogue, or mage 2. Play Disturbed in the background and make sure your fellow raiders can hear it over your headset. 3. Call everyone else a noob even though everyone, including yourself, was a noob 4. You run from elite mobs in the open world. 5. Make sure you have food with you, you're gonna need it

That +21 intellect gave a reason for every druid in the game to say "shadow craft is also meant for druids"

Whaat 5 second cast for holy fire? lol

Brings back some memories for me, cool vid man.

Hamsterwheel: stacks up to 5 times. Game: *15001 times*

Not sure if anyone else mentioned this but when I played an alliance priest back in vanilla, I liked helping out the horde as mc helped buff and heal players that needed helping was a nice little trick back in the day.

at 1:30 - nope you are wrong. There were no AHs in all the cities, only Ironforge and Orgrimmar had them

Nice video! Seems liked you've upped your production quality ! Keep it up ! love your content ^_^

My memory tells me that while you could take 10 people into scholo and strat, the quests for those dungeons were 5 man quests, so they couldn't be completed if you went in there with a 10 man raid.

I remember having one Pally spec'd Ret in those early day raid. His only job during the entire raid was to buff people with Kings over, and over again. Great video. Brings back good memories of how daunting early WoW was. I haven't played in years but I'm curious to see what happens with this new Classic WoW.

Amazing video I couldn't imagine how long this took and how tedious this was, the editing was kept up throughout the whole video in such a seamless fashion. So much props hopes this vid gets 1m+ views you deserve it.

An Important one you forgot for warlocks. Dots did not disappear on caster death, and fear did not break on damage. Also, fear was so wonky, sometimes you'd fear people so far, you lost them over terrain

This version would have been hilarious for classic 😂

This all sounds awesome as hell! Thanks for summarizing, can't wait :)

You talked about unstoppable forces knock back but it wasnt even in thr game at 1.1

Whenever you see real weird items like the rogue set with int on it, this might not just be because of feral druids. Back in alpha warlocks were supposed to be a melee type caster that could wear leather. A lot of items were simply left over from that period. Look at the old firestone for example. A summoned spellstone that not only increased fire damage but it procced fire damage on melee. That one was in vanilla for a long time.

This is my all time favorite video of yours hamster! & I've watched them all! lol This one is really well done, I love coming back and re-watching it every month or so. patch 1.1 was a mess ahahahaha what a time to play the game

Some corrections/notes/other stuff: At launch, only Orgrimmar and Ironforge had auction houses. This is a big reason why these cities became the central hub for the faction. Gadgetzan had the neutral auction house. When the auction house NPCs were added to other cities, they fed into the existing 3. There were never parallel auction houses in the same faction. At launch, all instances were "40 man raids". You could roll into Strath with 40 people if you wanted to, although you couldn't complete any quests unless they were flagged as "raid". This was really helpful with Blood of the Black Dragon Champion because it dropped for only one person per raid and guilds could 40 man faceroll UBRS multiple times in a row to finish Onyxia attunements. To raid Molten Core, the entire raid had to march through BRD together to the raid portal. There are similar raid-with-a-dungeon portals for UBRS/BWL and Strat/Naxx, but they were never used as this whole dungeon/raid group design changed before those raids came out. In addition to being able to freely swap your armor in combat, swapping your weapon did not force a universal cooldown. This was added at the same time as a fundamental combat mechanic change for instant attacks (such as Mortal Strike and Backstab) to prevent using a simple macro to take advantage of a weapon speed exploit. With this change, the Barman's Shanker dagger went from a popular pre-raid BiS weapon to useless. Black Lotus originally bind on pickup. Flasks were largely ignored until this change. The high rank rewards were weaker when the honor system was first introduced. Fortunately, all of these items were buffed to the final versions before anyone could grind to rank 14. All tier 1 and 2 armor sets were different (usually worse) than the final versions. The warrior tier 1 set had DPS stats, for example. Various tier 2 items dropped in Molten Core. None of the sets had unique graphics. All classes had a patch where their talents/skills received a major update. The "weakest" classes were changed first. Warlocks did not have a useful demonology tree and Death Coil was not in the game before the class update. Druids were given multiple new skills (Barkskin and Frenzied Regeneration) that did not require talents with the class update. Protection warriors and beast hunters were not useful at all until the class updates. I believe rogues were changed last, coming fairly close to the Burning Crusade launch.

the auction houses weren't linked, because there was only one auction house per faction, from what i've heard. horde only had org and alliance only had ironforge. so it's not that they weren't linked, it's just that the other cities didn't have auction houses at all

Incredible vid quality and content...LIKE

Some corrections about the Warrior (I played a Warrior at release): -Deathwish could prevent fear if Deathwish was already up, it was also usable while feared but it didn't remove fear due to a bug, not design. -Shield Bash was available in zerk stance because Pummel wasn't yet implemented. The next 2 aren't correction but honorable mentions: -40% enrage with unlimited hits for the duration (very op) -Mortal Strike was 200% weapon damage (very op). -Fury was a 2h spec like Arms, there was no Dual Wield talents.

10:19 : Although there was no buyback TAB, you COULD buy back the last one (1) item you sold to the vendor -- that's what the little item window in the lower-right of the vendor dialog box was for.

Man life was so good back when I played this game and every class couldn't also do everything.

There is so much more worth mentioning for the Warrior class. 1. Fury was not a viable DPS spec as Bloodthirst was a passive that activated after killing a mob, increasing the damage of your next attack by 100% (not next ability, so white damage could consume it too) 2. Protection was not useful for tanking. All good tanks instead went Fury (with some points in Protection for Last Stand) to increase that important Threat while spamming Sunder Armor. Shield Slam was not the 31p talent.

I didn't have to imagine. I was the only pally on a MC run. Literally half my time was spent casting blessings. The other half was cleansing and rezzing. That was the extent of pally's use in raids.

I started playing around 1.11, but man it must have been such an experience to play right at the beginning. No one knew anything, everything was new, and the world probably held so much wonderment and things to be discovered for the first time

Nice, really good video.

Give me swirly ball as a rogue or give me death. Also I have a vague memory of res sickness being a disease so shamans could just dispel it when they ankhed. Makes it sound a little less horrible to ankh then waiting 10 minutes. Still I get your point and the video as a whole was a good one, some things even I didn’t know. Also how long did hunters defend their pets chasing after you in stealth as their pet sniffing you out?

OMFG. I have been trying to find pictures of the old tier 1 set graphics forever. Does anyone have a higher res version of the picture?

Thank you for that nostalgic and wonderful video :)

Wait, if Battlegrounds didn't exist, how could pets not be revived in battlegrounds?

Who else remembers South shore PVP? Lol where you lagged coming in on the flight path 👍😂😂😂

I leveled many characters at patch 1.1. I always had this goal for myself that I needed to get level 6 within the first hour and level 10 within 2.5 hours. It was always quite the challange.

Paladins also didn't have forbearance from Divine Shield, so you could chain together Blessing of Protection and Divine Shield back to back, or multiple paladins could keep a single person covered with BoP multiple times. Also, in general, a lot of classes had major talent tree changes during the first year or so.

If you're going to mention that arcane explosion needed to be spec'd into so that it would be instant cast, you need to also include the fact that evocation used to be the 11 pt "gold talent" for arcane and it was not baseline until a later patch. This is a big part of the reason for why mages almost always went 11 points deep into arcane early on.

1.1 lasted about a month

Nice video man :D you beat me to it when it comes to vanilla patch videos!

Man vanilla was so much fun. You forgot to mention the EPIC city raids, Tauren Mills and Crossroads battles that would organically happen before Blizzard make designated pvp areas. This was also a time when most WoW players were former EQ players, so it didn't seem at all "terrible" to us. That was just MMO gaming.

Us who played in 2004 remember the world PVP as some of the most fun in WoW. We might not have gotten rank or gear but we had something far better. We had HOURS of so fun PVP.with 100-200 players on each side going at each other. I know many newer players say they wanna play vanilla. 90% of them will give up before lvl 60.

How the might have fallen ... The game was amazing back then. Actual relations, you had to explore the world, you cared about dungeons and its drops (which was limited), you became friends with a lot of people, World PvP (excitement, always had to look over your shoulder in contested areas), actual elites around the map and group quests you couldn't solo and one shot, and so on. The game was actually hard back then, in another way. You felt alive, you could actually die, as opposed to one shotting everything with Heirlooms today. Fucking amazing attunement quests. You felt so good completing them, and you had to travel the world. It meant something ... Not a hassle at all. How long did it really take? Exactly.

Fun fact that you may not know: sheeped targets will SINK DOWN to the very bottom ground under the water. Yeah I drowned quite a lot in Tarnaris in this way after lured them to the sea shore. Take a lot longer on the forsakens (3 times longer breath under water) and don't work on droods (of course).

Nostalgia!! Incredible video.

still i think the 1 shot pvp in Vanilla is still more exiting then that dmg spungy pillow fight pvp in Legion boring AF

I think nobody ever asked for patch 1.1, people asked for vanilla, which means, before burning crusade. Not before all patches to fix vanilla....

patch 1.1, Darkshores, East of Ruins of Mathystra, there was an entrance to Fort Timbermaw, a nightmare for some low level explorer. There was also a cavern inside of Thorn Hills, with entrance north west of Ratchet.

The same way as Shaman was designed for horde and Paladin for alliance, Reincarnation was the horde version of the paladin Divine Intervention, the ressurection sickness was expected because it was meant to be a disengage ability, right after a wipe, a paladin with DI or a shaman using ank could start a chain ressurection instead of whole raid having to release afaik

Yes but back in patch 1.1 most people were still leveling and learning about the game. Reaching lvl 60 for first time took most people many months and some didn't start playing WoW until patch 1.2-1.3.

i think you can clearly tell that the game was unfinished on release

i love these stories about back in the day. please keep it up.

I dont't get the problem with the 5 minute blessings. Just write a macro that creates a index variable set and every time you click the macro the counter gets incremented by 1 and then target the raidmemberX and cast the spell. Considering the 1.5 sec GCD it would take you (40 * 1.5sec) = 60sec to buff them all through by just spamming the macro. Or was ther no macro at this time in patch 1.1?

Regarding Warlock death coil. I don't believe Warlocks even had Death Coil in 1.1. And i'm pretty sure it didn't cause the enemy to flee for 2.5 / 3 seconds or however long it is.

Wow. I dont Comment often, but this video is too good. Thanks

First off lovely video, you covered a lot of what was wrong with 1.1. A couple things I think you missed and haven't seen people post. - There weren't enough quests to hit 60. - You had to complete Attunment quests to enter raids. - Druids were only viable as Resto because that is the only set in the game and Boomkins were called Oomkins as in Out of Mana because their skills cost so much that they would run out of mana in about 5 seconds and be useless for the duration of the fight. - If you were determined to be a bear tank in a raid there was a hodgepodge of gear mostly from Dire Maul North that would allow you to do so with a must being the Staff of Wardens that had armor on it, even with all the gear you would have to sacrifice stats for fire resist. At last convincing your guild bear tank was a good way to go because of their health pool, armor, and evasion 9 times out of 10 block was the reason you were turned down. - On top of all of this duel spec wasn't a thing till WotLK and swapping specs cost 100g so as a priest or druid farming gold for potions, food, and repairs was abysmal. - Priests at least had a quest for Benediction a must have staff that drastically increased their power ultimately making Resto druids into innervate bots. - Class quests; Warlocks for pets and 40 mount, Paladin for both mounts, Druids for forms, and others I cannot think of right now.

I remember too that when earning reputation with the Gnomes, there wasn't enough quests. I can't remember how you had to overcome that. I think you had to do dungeons & raids or things that gave reputation to all factions. For Gnomes, it didn't even come close. It was enough to be Honorable before you ran out of quests. And to get your rep up with the Furbolgs in Felwood... very time consuming, for you had to in order to get to Winterspring. Largest bags were what... 12 slots I think?

I know I shouldn't... but I want it

I'd love to play the launch version of WoW. I want to explore it thoroughly and discover for myself how different everything was in the begining. It would be quite refreshing compared to what private servers have had to offer, which is a permanent 1.12 client with a database downgraded from 3.3.5 since nobody bothered to sniff stuff and preserve wdb data back in vanilla. And also it would be really fun to go through all the talent and spell changes.

All the buffs needed reagents! :) I remember my priest carrying around one full bag of candles! and i kind of miss that! and Hunter ammo lol

11:39 I'm keeping my eye on you, Mana Spring Totem IV!

f a n t a s t i c video my man!

Well for me its a kinda tough one because after all a lot of players really want to relive the initial state of the game and while I do think that patch 1.12.1 is a ton better than the previous patches, not going the progressive route would mean that you wouldn't really play classic as it was, just the latest patch of it. Just as an example, the debuff from ZG that killed cities for days won't exist or you will never really have any kind of tarren mill vs southshore in a big scale because there are battlegrounds from the get go. Just a lot of things people were told were crazy good or bad will never be experienced again like this and while I do understand why people chose the 1.12.1 patch, it just isn't classic and a lot of things that people either remember or were told will never be actually in the classic game.

... that was funny watching you try to show the casting animation for vanilla arcane explosion. :)

a fun listen, thanks!

if classic launches at 1.1 there will be addons, people will make them

I want patch progression, starting with 1.1 Would be awesome.

I remember taming a Giraffe in the Barrens on my Hunter when i started playing WoW in 2005. Priests could also talk to the opposite faction by mindcontroling a person then use /me and then what they wanted to say.

What UI Addon are you using for all the black windows and what not?

>There were no BGs >Pets didn't rezzed in BGs >what

i remember when arcane explosion had a 1.5 cast time good times xD

About those intellect boots for rouges: I am not completely sure about 1.1, but somewhere between 1.5 and 1.12 I am relatively sure, if my memory serves me well, that intellect and willpower actually had an effect on melee classes awell: Willpower increasing the regeneration rate of your health and intellect increasing the chance of getting a +1 on your weapon skills. (Or something like that). So in that case it wouldn't be completely useless, if you had to reroll for another weapon. (I could be wrong here though, but I am pretty sure that they had some effect)

How can hunter pets not revive in battlegrounds if there are no battlegrounds?

I imagine Blizzard is going to implement the highest patch they can, patch 1.12.2, on their classic servers in order to provide the most content and best quality of life they can for the players playing on those servers. It is also possible that they will make a new patch, like a vanilla patch 1.13, in order to fix some of the bugs from vanilla.

Yea I want 1.1 No I'm not a rogue...

Was it in 1.1 where you had to purchase ammo (including throwing weapons) and you had to level weapon skills before they did any real damage? Or were those things implemented in later patches?

I enjoyed this video. Good job!

They kept shaping that diamond untill TBC where it became perfect, but then they didn't stop working on it and it became less good with every patch, untill they broke it completely with the release of Cataclysm.

19:12 LoL stacks sup to 15001 Times xD

Dude, that jingle at the end!

I remember the first day of battlegrounds... I'm so old. I used to gank in silverpine before then

fuck this patch hahahaha, 1.12 please

No quest Addons. OH Whoa is me... I have to actually read and play the game and not stare an arrow or circle on the map.

Excellent video that sure brought some memories of the real vanilla days and reminded me of things I had forgotten. But I wish to correct you on a few things. Paladins didn't get their class epic mount until patch 1.4.0, the same patch Warlocks got theirs. Seal of Command could kill people in duels. Reckoning had no stacking limit (this is how a Paladin could solo Doomlord Kazzak). Speaking of which, Reckoning gives you a extra attack everytime you are crited, in the early days Seal of Command could proc of off every extra swing, but in 1.12 it could only proc of your initial white swing. Also the only Auction Houses were in Orgrimmar for Horde and Ironforge for Alliance, and if my memory doesnt fail me completely, the only neutral Auction House were in Ratchet, but yes, when they did add Auction Houses to the other cities they where initially not linked.

What's the name of the video you quoted with the rogues? "As easy as pressing two buttons"

Battlegrounds killed world PvP. People use to group up and raid the capitals, travel to XR or even Darkshore just to cause a stir, no rewards given and none needed... reward was fun. The fact that these things where completely player driven also cast it in a different light, made it unique. Blizzard could've made a quest and added rewards, but that would've killed the magic. The second BGs where introduced it just became a gear grind. Having content is great, but sometimes the lack of can spark something much more interesting. These games are so bloated with content which you'll vaguely remember a day after. 14 years on, I still recall my level 3 gnome facing down the horde army as they brought the roof down in Ironforge.

If they bring back Classic-Servers, they have to start at 1.1 and progress slowly to 1.12. I'd like to see some of the kids today struggle the way we did. :D

weren't they a red dragon located in grim batol to kill for attunement quest to onyxia's lair? or do I mess it up with another quest?

Thottbot was around during beta, famous factoid was that Thottbot used a trojan to gather beta data unkown to the user and in 1.1 you could drink a heal potion and bandage while moving.

Paladins did not get their epic mount steed from the get go, you had to do quests for the lvl 40 one and even more harder/expensive quests for the lvl 60 mount. It took me 9 months to get the lvl 60 mount from farming 12 hours a day. And if you weren't a blacksmith the expense of the bars needed for that mount were through the roof expensive, my server costs it at a total of 2900g which was insane back then since, it took me all the way up to lvl 53 to get to 1 gold. While buying the ranks for spells.

So basically 1.1 was pretty damn awful.

I just thought it worth mentioning. In 1.1 I don't remember there being auction houses in all the major cities. I thought that came much later. I'm pretty sure it was just the goblin AH, the org AH, and the IF AH. I don't think we got more until BC or right before BC. It's been a long time though. The biggest thing to point out that most people miss. Is during that time. Voicechat was still in its infancy. You could have 6 people in vent without paying for premium vent which only held 12 people on a server. TeamSpeak came out, but wasn't cheap in comparison and still you could only have 20 people on the "premium" server. Doesn't seem like a big deal, but lots of the dungeons were 10+ in a 6 man vent! The raids were 40 man lol. So guilds were different then. We had class leaders. They had their own chat channels to speak to the members of their class during raids, as leader you had to have a series of macros for actions to direct your class to take during fights without stopping to type things out. There wasn't DBM Until molten core was on farm status pretty much. We got Omen just as we were all starting to get geared well in MC and get the fights down. There was no dps meter for quite a long time. Omen only measured threat for a while. Then like the creator said. There were no real resources. Most of the information on sites was almost epic worthy troll stuff lol. Good video, I enjoyed the flashback.

This must be part of that hardcore vanilla gameplay I hear so much about.

Ya, you wanna know why it didn't matter that there was no PvP for 7 months after 1.1, because people were busy leveling still because it took so long, that plus the fact it took forever to do raids, so it didn't really matter much that there was no PvP for 7 months.

i wish i played in patch 1.1 - looks super fun - 10man dungeons? hell yeah! I loved 10 man UBRS

Hamsterwheel where did you find that picture with the old tier 1 appearances? I'm looking all over he internet and I can't find it.

No Battlegrounds, so we went to Tarren Mill/Southshore and always complained the other faction had more players. Loved every second of those fights.