TBC Classic

[unsunghero]

If I remember that pvp vid got like 250,000 downloads from warcraftmovies.com

[Botten]

I had so many fond memories of classic going into TBC and TBC.

I also got into Black Temple two bosses from Illidan.

Was in a small guild of 20 or so at first where I proved to the guild leader it was his priest that was the problem why they couldn't finish even getting a 1.5 gear speed run done. His heals gain aggro and often he couldn't take hits (this was with a Prot warrior protecting him), a ice mage CCing, Warlock and Feral Druid. He was terrible and often his fade meant nothing to help him. Had my rogue tank the run and a paladin heal me and then ran everyone else through it. Knew the priest in RL and never saw the wind bag cringe so badly then that day when talking about.

Later switched to horde had a blast on my prot pally as I even was dual speced healing and tanking heroics to get badges to eventually be accepted by a high end raiding guild. Gear really made the class. Once had a groupie go wait paladins can heal or tank heroics with out respecing?

Much later, God it felt great when our geared prot tauren warrior was rushing through Black temple saw him aggro a bunch of mobs (he had niche of life) and LOH him which crit for 25K (back in TBC).

My guild lead drop his prot warrior that day and started a prot pally. He could never believe that they could tank really well and had that kinda of get out jail card and much more.

Great times. But now with a family and more I don't have the time to do this. *sigh

[Shawk]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If I remember that pvp vid got like 250,000 downloads from warcraftmovies.com

Totally forgot that we use to have to download vids this way. I remember this series of videos oddly enough while it was popular to watch these and copy strats, builds etc. The music just transports me back, get the same thing with DAOC videos but damn it was actually hard to record videos back then.. Let alone upload them etc.

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Shawk [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Totally forgot that we use to have to download vids this way. I remember this series of videos oddly enough while it was popular to watch these and copy strats, builds etc. The music just transports me back, get the same thing with DAOC videos but damn it was actually hard to record videos back then.. Let alone upload them etc.

Ty

And oh yeah on the hard to make make part...for a number of reasons. People didn’t give a shit about watching you if you weren’t outnumbered. There were a few extremely skilled South Korean mages who were posting vids of them pulling off 1v4’s and killing all of them, and those were the vids you knew you were going to be side by side with. The problem was that when battlegrounds were released in WoW, world pvp pretty much completely dried up, except for some rare spats at blackrock mountain. So if you wanted footage of pvp it had to be in battlegrounds. And since all battlegrounds were team vs team, people were constantly running up and jumping in to help. I had to scrap so much footage where I was pulling off a great 1v3, but then all of a sudden 3 horde run up and kill everyone

Also, the uncompressed fraps footage was enormous in size, and my computer wasn’t great. I had some times during extended fights where my computer literally froze and gave me a message that my HD was full and there was not enough memory to continue operating windows lol

I pirated (not proud of it) a jailbreaked copy of Sony Vegas video, which was a professional and extremely not user friendly video editing software that normally ran for about $500. I had to spend a week just learning the basics of the damn thing, and I only scratched the surface of what it could do. Spent hundreds of hours editing, and you actually grow to hate your favorite songs that you selected because you hear them 100 times in a row trying to line them up with the action [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Toxigen]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ty

And oh yeah on the hard to make make part...for a number of reasons. People didn’t give a shit about watching you if you weren’t outnumbered. There were a few extremely skilled South Korean mages who were posting vids of them pulling off 1v4’s and killing all of them, and those were the vids you knew you were going to be side by side with. The problem was that when battlegrounds were released in WoW, world pvp pretty much completely dried up, except for some rare spats at blackrock mountain. So if you wanted footage of pvp it had to be in battlegrounds. And since all battlegrounds were team vs team, people were constantly running up and jumping in to help. I had to scrap so much footage where I was pulling off a great 1v3, but then all of a sudden 3 horde run up and kill everyone

Also, the uncompressed fraps footage was enormous in size, and my computer wasn’t great. I had some times during extended fights where my computer literally froze and gave me a message that my HD was full and there was not enough memory to continue operating windows lol

I pirated (not proud of it) a jailbreaked copy of Sony Vegas video, which was a professional and extremely not user friendly video editing software that normally ran for about $500. I had to spend a week just learning the basics of the damn thing, and I only scratched the surface of what it could do. Spent hundreds of hours editing, and you actually grow to hate your favorite songs that you selected because you hear them 100 times in a row trying to line them up with the action [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Toxigen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yeah saw that one when I was playing back in the day. There was a rogue named Neilyo who did professional-quality videos as well, I think he was one of the most well known vid maker back then

[Arteker]

Originally Posted by unsunghero [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ty

And oh yeah on the hard to make make part...for a number of reasons. People didn’t give a shit about watching you if you weren’t outnumbered. There were a few extremely skilled South Korean mages who were posting vids of them pulling off 1v4’s and killing all of them, and those were the vids you knew you were going to be side by side with. The problem was that when battlegrounds were released in WoW, world pvp pretty much completely dried up, except for some rare spats at blackrock mountain. So if you wanted footage of pvp it had to be in battlegrounds. And since all battlegrounds were team vs team, people were constantly running up and jumping in to help. I had to scrap so much footage where I was pulling off a great 1v3, but then all of a sudden 3 horde run up and kill everyone

Also, the uncompressed fraps footage was enormous in size, and my computer wasn’t great. I had some times during extended fights where my computer literally froze and gave me a message that my HD was full and there was not enough memory to continue operating windows lol

I pirated (not proud of it) a jailbreaked copy of Sony Vegas video, which was a professional and extremely not user friendly video editing software that normally ran for about $500. I had to spend a week just learning the basics of the damn thing, and I only scratched the surface of what it could do. Spent hundreds of hours editing, and you actually grow to hate your favorite songs that you selected because you hear them 100 times in a row trying to line them up with the action [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the most skilled pvp players outdoor where mostly Vurtnee a frost mage,Medianoche a ele shaman both pionered the use of engineer gadgets on pvp wich at start was not realy used despite massive pvp adventages .And the use of fap potions to hard counter the plague of wanna be rogues.
later did came the generation of bg cut and glue pvp videos of unbrekeable ,

[unsunghero]

Originally Posted by Arteker [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the most skilled pvp players outdoor where mostly Vurtnee a frost mage,Medianoche a ele shaman both pionered the use of engineer gadgets on pvp wich at start was not realy used despite massive pvp adventages .And the use of fap potions to hard counter the plague of wanna be rogues.
later did came the generation of bg cut and glue pvp videos of unbrekeable ,

I agree, unfortunately on my server, world pvp did completely literally dry up once BG's were in full swing except for one exception. If you inconvenienced a guild trying to get to BRM or MC enough, they would send a squad out after you. That's why I mentioned that aside from BG's, the only world pvp I could get was the occasional spats outside BRM

[Toxigen]

i killed m'uru pre-nerf

not v1.0 where negative energy had spell pushback (like 3 guilds did that)...but i slayed the guild slayer before blizz had to come in and nerf it

it was the most tightly tuned, beautifully crafted fights ever implemented at that point...i know bosses got mechanically much harder/complex in later expansions...but for TBC...your entire 25 man team had to play near perfectly for the entire fight and that was new for WoW

[Byue]

TBC arena in roughly one minute.

I thought it was funny good enough to share and it's one minute.
I'm more of a pve player, even though i manage the pvp.
sort of like a lover more than a fighter but also a fighter so don't get any ideas.