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30 Day Trial: World of Warcraft - Part 03

Dan takes tanking literally, Brad gets awkward around Voidwalkers, and Rorie exhibits extreme patience.

Aug. 11 2014

Cast: Brad, Matt, Dan

Posted by: Jason

173 Comments

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More, please! Very enjoyable to watch as a veteran and seeing how the game appears to newer players.

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NOO! Stop letting him sell those mats! That wool!

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@nethlem said:

@dvdwalker8 said:

Used to love exploring Duskwood and Stranglethorn. I unfortunately played on a PvP server so I got killed by Horde players a lot in Stranglethorn.

That free Hearthstone mount seems pretty neat.

I may check this out some time next year. So much content to explore and I really like the variety of the zones. It was always cool to go from a farmer's field to Halloweentown to a jungle in a relatively short time.

I've heard from a friend that certain new players who play with friends get crazy XP bonuses that make leveling even quicker.

Duskwood and Stranglethorn had been the places to be during vanilla WoW on PvP servers, leveling trough these zones represented a really perverse challenge. Always had this scary dynamic that loved about PvP in MMO's, not every enemy player would attack, most would only be farming/questing just like oneself.

Sometimes somebody would just try start hunting people down, "gank" them when they are low from an PvE fight, usually resulting in parties forming to hunt him/them down, sometimes high level people from involved guilds joined the fight, turning a single gank into a full blown skirmish between dozens of players.

Those had been the moments i always loved about MMO's, sadly the seem to be entirely "designed away" by now :/

Aw man, so much this.

I friggin looooooved leveling up in Stranglethorn with all of my alts, best ganks, counter ganks, brining in the big boys, starting shit up at Nessy's or Booty bay, all out brawls, it was the rawest shit.

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@darro said:

Thanks to this feature, got back into WoW and played nothing but it last week. Currently a level 27 Draenai shaman. Man do you level up fast in the game. I never reached max level (furthest was level 37 I think with my night-elf warrior) but deleted that character since it put me in the middle of nowhere after the big pre-Cataclysn release patch and gave up. I just like playing it casually and not get super serious with the resource gathering, professions and the like but quest, do dungeons and get cool loot. Played FF XIV: ARR that way and had a blast.

Sounds like you play exactly the same way I do. My highest level character was a level 38 undead mage I think, but now I'm a level 44 troll hunter.

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GUYS - This is the new trio. The new LOLS.

Dan = Vinny (the guy playing who doesn't know where to go)

Brad = Rorie (the guy who knows a lot about the game, but not everything)

Rorie = Ian (the guy who does know everything)

Don't hate, I MISS LOLS

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Technically, what @brad said about the dire wolf is false. It is not an actual historical creature -- it's an actual pre-historic creature. So, there.

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I really want this series to continue past the 4th one. It's been so enjoyable.

It pains me to see all that cloth and wool vendored. Lol.

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Really enjoying this series a lot. Brad was really grating on me here though. Rorie knows what hes talking about generally, Brad acts like he knows but its all references to like 9 or 10 years ago, and half the time even for that time its still wrong information. Regardless, still enjoying the series even though I don't care for WoW anymore, keep it up Dan!

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Wow! Rorie dropping knowledge, son!!

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@vao said:

ok thank god, someone with some knowledge about wow,

The initial draw to this video feature was that Dan had Zero MMO knowledge, and it made the video feature fun and interesting.

Having a know it all MMO'r talk about everything WoW related is not a very fun video feature in my opinion. Personally, I think more people want to see someone play WoW that has no clue, then sit and listen to someone who knows everything about WoW

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Edited By rabbithearted

Seeing Dan get mauled by raptors was the perfect ending.

Still resisting the urge to resub, especially since I was talking to my old guild leader and apparently the guild is in the process of eating itself with drama and inter-guild hacking so...

What I'm saying is, is there a giantbomb guild that I won't regret joining if I start to play and reroll on a new server?

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Brad should make a character to level along side Dan, I think his perspective is really interesting since he only remembers vanilla WoW.

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I thought Rorie's advice would be helpful - instead he told him to heroic strike every chance he could get. Dan would never be dying, even in his gear, if he was using the right abilities.

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@vocel: Ya, telling Dan to spam the ability with no inherit cooldown and is meant to expend resources when it's too high.

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Brad got way hype for, "Enigma" ? What? Who?? lol

BLACK HOOOOOOOOLE

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Brad has some supressed voidwalker memories, I think.

@vocel Yep - I don't think either of them are Pandaria players, since they seem to be trying to teach Dan how to play Wrath style.

The trouble with getting a video about a new player, is that it's inaccurate on account of the fact that Dan just tries to push through without ever reading anything. Theres a decent hint system that explains all of this stuff as needed, but for the sake of the video not being boring, they disabled it.

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OH god i'll be playing again in 2 months gg

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24 bag slot is not the biggest Rorie...

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Ouh, massive Stormwind legacy quest fail by Rorie, looking for the wine lady at the inn :D

ETA: Also, massive fail not to remember the crazy cat lady vendor :D

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lol Brad. Missing Diplomat. :)

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Brad wants to show dan what the hearthstone does - doesnt show him how to bind to a new location -.-