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30 Day Trial: World of Warcraft - Part 02

Just as Dan is getting a handle on things, we throw him headlong into his first dungeon. Good luck!

Aug. 4 2014

Cast: Brad, Dan

Posted by: Jason

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shift right click, SHIFT RIGHT CLICK LOOT.

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It shows how even though Blizzard have taken steps to mitigate all the required knowledge for this game, you still basically need someone to tell you wtf is going on with all the terminology and concepts.

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Glad Brad was here this time. He seems to know a little more about this than Jeff.

He really doesn't.

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Oh god. I really feel like playing WoW again after watching these. I've finished pretty much all the Cataclysm content and would like to check out some of the Pandaria stuff before Warlords comes out.

Really looking forward to the next episode of the adventures of Cerebralass. Keep it up Dan. You'll be hooked in no time!

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@einherjan said:

Glad Brad was here this time. He seems to know a little more about this than Jeff.

He really doesn't.

He actually knows more, but his knowledge about WoW is extremely outdated.

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From the start of this video, I was thinking that Dan's character was a rogue. But then the words "Victory Rush" popped up. Hehe, Warriors played like rogues - I like :)

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You guys should have probably gotten rory to help considering brad hasnt played wow for a good 6 years.

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Oh man, watching this makes me want to play again. I am not sure I want to delve into it again though.

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GRRR DAN YOURE NOT PLAYING IT RIGHT *writes wall of text*

Seriously. Relax people.

It was the same doing the Souls stuff. You can't just enjoy the content?

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@mefipulate said:

GRRR DAN YOURE NOT PLAYING IT RIGHT *writes wall of text*

Seriously. Relax people.

It was the same doing the Souls stuff. You can't just enjoy the content?

to me a lot of these people are genuinely concerned that Dan is going to get fucking flamed the shit out of because he doesn't know how to play in a game that most people have several max toons already. I hope he doesn't do any more dungeons until rorie helps him because I dont want him getting kicked just for being a novice. Hell I've got one max and several other close to max and I still get flamed for 'playing my class wrong'

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I don't know if this is a coincidence, but the Alliance starting zones on Aerie Peak are surprisingly lively right now.

Aeire Peak is a "new Players' realm where new accounts are directed. And with the implementation of cross-realm zones, all the old zones are packed with people.

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Everything about this video and the comments are amazing. Here's hoping for many more to come :)

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So all the "skulls" you saw were probably other players, Horde players to be specific. And when a npc or enemy faction player is 10 or more lvls higher you see a skull :)

Love this series btw. Bringing back memories after my 8 years with the game :)

PS: Brad make a great co-host on these shows. Cheers/new subscriber :)

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Dan's inability to recognize where the CerebralButt character came from is an amazing example of the oblivious joy and wonder he brings to the site. Simply amazing.

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lol he completely missed out on the boss fight. The best part of the raid is the epic boss fight.

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Being an avid FFXIV player man, the art style of this game just...is entirely unappealing to me. And good lord who thought that font choice was a good idea?

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The only thing more boring than playing wow...

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@osiris said:

@rorie, please join this guy in his next episode and help out. No offense to Brand and Jeff, but they are stuck in vanilla/tbc, this game has changed so much since then!! :)

My favorite part of this feature is all of the out of date misinformation Brad and Jeff are spewing at Dan. Rorie should be saved until the last episode where he can tell Dan everything he's done wrong up until now.

I agree. Dan did say that he wanted to go in with little information. Taking Jeff and Brad makes him effectively blind. They should hold off on Rorie's involvement until the last episode.

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I've never played WOW and this hurts to watch

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This makes me never want to try WoW.

...and also makes me want to watch Dan play WoW forever and ever :)

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Tiny thumbnail for the upcoming part!

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@demoskinos said:

Being an avid FFXIV player man, the art style of this game just...is entirely unappealing to me. And good lord who thought that font choice was a good idea?

FFXIV being the last MMO I really seriously played, I look at WoW at this point (and having not played it in about seven years, like Brad) it amazes me just how old this game looks. Not just old, but ugly, and cluttered. The environments and animations just look so aged. The sound design is just so nothing.

I feel like, for all the talk about how this game has supposedly evolved with the times so well to out-maneuver their competition, so much of the things they've complained about, or wished would be made more clear and concise, games like FFXIV actually do much slicker. I get why Dan would obviously be introduced to WoW if he's never played an MMO before, but I feel like this game gets a bit of undue reverence in the year 2014.

It has been, regardless, very entertaining.

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@marokai said:

@demoskinos said:

Being an avid FFXIV player man, the art style of this game just...is entirely unappealing to me. And good lord who thought that font choice was a good idea?

FFXIV being the last MMO I really seriously played, I look at WoW at this point (and having not played it in about seven years, like Brad) it amazes me just how old this game looks. Not just old, but ugly, and cluttered. The environments and animations just look so aged. The sound design is just so nothing.

I feel like, for all the talk about how this game has supposedly evolved with the times so well to out-maneuver their competition, so much of the things they've complained about, or wished would be made more clear and concise, games like FFXIV actually do much slicker. I get why Dan would obviously be introduced to WoW if he's never played an MMO before, but I feel like this game gets a bit of undue reverence in the year 2014.

It has been, regardless, very entertaining.

Agreed, and while XIV might not ever be at 6 million members as long as they take care of the 2 million or so that they have and keep them happy and coming back the game will have an extremely long life and be profitable for them. Hell, XIV was one of the large reasons they dug themselves out of a financial hole and actually posted profit for the first quarter.

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@brad is absolutely right, there is no going back, there is no recapturing the magic of your first MMORPG. The Beta days and Vanilla are gone, which is probably a good thing.

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This makes me want to play an MMO, but not WOW because I want to experience a semblance of newness.

What I'm saying is, why is ESO apparently a bad game because goddamn I wanna play the hell out of it and be amazed like I was when I played WOW for the first time.

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This was so painful to watch. Hopefully Rorie is on the next episode and will fill him with information that isn't 8+ years outdated.

It was painful, but it was absolutely entertaining to watch him completely stumble through Deadmines and yet still succeed.

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@rabbithearted: ESO isn't bad. Just unbalanced at the moment. If you pick the wrong class/race you're screwed. Currently the meme with the crowd playing is Elder Staves Online, if you like magic builds it's a solid experience. If you like the assassin/thief wait until thieves guild/Dark brotherhood comes out. IMO, wait for the justice system, Theivery, and NPC murder to come out in a month or two.

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@overdeezpecans: Okay, that makes sense. I've watched a few people stream it and it seemed enjoyable enough to me, but when I actually discussed it with my friends who played it I was warned against it.

You explained it better than anyone else I've talked to thus far, though. Thanks!

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Good ol' Brad, he had Dan going through menus more than playing the game and helping out his party...

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Super conflicted about watching these. It can be painful because of the poor execution at times but more importantly I nostalgia pretty damn hard. I played vanilla through arena S3 hard and loved it. Now an adult with a house, family and executive position seeing this old stuff years later makes me miss it a lot. I wouldn't trade my life now but still miss it. None the less my friends were what probably made this game so great anyways and we've all moved on. Just a distant memory that will likely never be recaptured.

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It hurts to watch!

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When I get to my home computer at some point, I have a picture of myself licking the game box on the day WoW came out.

Man, that was years ago...

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Why doesn't someone explain the basic concepts of aggro and dps? That Deadmines run fucking kills me, and I haven't played wow in 7 years.

It's not because he's bad. It's because he's gonna have a bad time later on if he sticks with it.

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I can hear the facepalm from every WoW player who watches this video when the deadmines run begins.

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I have totally just reinstalled wow again. I totally going to try for level 90. thanks dan!!!!

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Does it make me a nerd if I am facepalming through half of this video?

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Nothing stays in bags when you unequip them! As long as there is enough slots to cover the items inside it, it will let you swap it.

So hard to watch, yet I can't stop.

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Such a horrible noob.

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I am watching this just to laugh at Dan. I am not going to reinstall WoW.

REALLY tempted to go back but I think I did the best thing I could to my characters when I left last time. I made all my guys naked, and gave/sold everything away. Now even if I wanted to go back, the idea of having to get all my gear/gold back is not something I want to do.

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God brad is always the worst when it comes to games. He talks so matter of factly and is always so wrong lmao