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The video documents the creator's experience entering the beta for World of Warcraft: Classic Plus, specifically focusing on his decision to play an Undead Paladin instead of his usual Human Retribution character. He explains that while he is known as a "human retribution" player, he wanted to try something new and test the viability of an undead paladin during this specific beta period. The gameplay involves completing a series of unique quests designed to reintroduce the character to the Light, acknowledging the pain and struggle associated with being a Forsaken who serves the Light. These quests emphasize themes of redemption and overcoming internal conflict, requiring the player to heal injured guards and rescue frightened allies, effectively role-playing the difficult journey of an undead paladin finding their place in the Alliance. As the character levels up, the creator provides detailed feedback on the game's mechanics, graphics, and quality-of-life changes introduced in this new version. He praises the updated textures and water rendering for successfully capturing the nostalgic feel of the original 2004 game while utilizing modern technology, noting that it evokes the authentic emotional experience rather than just a pixel-perfect replica. However, he also points out several areas needing improvement, such as the automatic granting of profession skills which he feels should be earned by visiting trainers, and the potential for leveling to become too fast due to numerous XP buffs and new quests. He suggests that mob health values might need scaling adjustments around level six to maintain a proper challenge, as the current damage output from abilities like Holy Strike seems disproportionately high against unadjusted enemy health pools. Beyond the technical analysis, the video highlights significant behind-the-scenes developments regarding the game's infrastructure and development history. The creator shares an exciting story about meeting Blizzard founders Mike Morhaime and Amy Morhaime in person at an event, as well as interacting with Omar Lovingood, the legendary developer who solved the critical server loading issues that previously prevented Vanilla WoW from running on modern architecture. He also mentions encountering Shane Decker, the original creator of Warcraft, though he was unable to speak with him directly. These interactions underscore the monumental effort required to bring the classic game back online and the deep involvement of its original creators in ensuring its success. Ultimately, the creator concludes that despite minor bugs and balance tweaks needed, Classic Plus represents the absolute best time for new players to join World of Warcraft. He argues that the current state of the game offers a perfect blend of nostalgia and accessibility, removing the barriers that once discouraged newcomers while preserving the core essence of the original experience. The video ends with the creator fully immersed in his undead paladin role, joking about adopting the decrepit mannerisms of an undead character to maintain total immersion, and expressing enthusiasm for the future of the game as it continues to evolve through this new beta phase.
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Oh, okay. Here we go. Classic. Is it finally time for me to get in? All right. They need to change these frame. They need to change these the male and the female icons. Both all ugly. Change them to the vanilla ones. Undead Paladin. Here we are. Sand Jackson. Sand Jackson goes hard. Sand Jackson. All right. Here we go. Okay, chat. We're finally getting in. Oh my gosh, there's a lot of them. Okay, here we go, chat. Quick little UI run. We're finally here. We're finally in WoW Forever. We're finally in classic plus. So, here's the thing. I know everybody's like, "San, you're the human retribution." I know. But for the beta, I think a lot of people want to see the Paladin guy play Undead Paladin and try something new. That's going to be the strat. That's going to be the game plan. We're going to go do some Undead Paladin beta. I have two accounts for the beta. I'm going to play some alliance characters and stuff, too. Play on the PvP server because that's what we do. We always play PvP. We uh lead our guild. That's what we do. We just we do our thing, right? Whenever it launches, like 99% chance I'm going Alliance. So, he's going to love it too much. Guys, I've done enough hoarde with the blood elves in Burning Crusade. Okay, I had to do that for the arena, but now it's game time. I'm not going to betray the alliance. Okay, shadow priest harvest. So, this is all pretty similar to the uh >> our time will come >> to the original launch, but then they added some stuff, right? Like you have a paladin trainer here. >> It gives you everything up to seal the crusader on the first paladin trainer. >> Okay, we're level two. We're level two quickly. >> Paladin trainer rediscovering the light. Oh. Oh, look at this. Look at this. Look at this new paladin quest right here. Look at this. Look at this. I'm proud to welcome another newly risen paladin to our ranks. As you begin to reconnect with the light, you may notice the certain abilities that were once second nature to you may cause you considerable pain to use now, particularly those involving channeling the light to heal yourself or others. The only way around this problem is unfortunately to go through it. Like any other muscle that is atrophied, you must push through exercise the flesh for it to return to full function. Heal five injured death guard with your holy light ability. >> Beware. >> Okay. Through pain comes resolve. It's another quest. a difficult path. All right, your training can now begin in earnest. Paladin, I see great promise in you. But take care not to turn away from the light, even for a moment. Embrace the pain it will cause you. The pain is a crucible, and you will emerge from it stronger than you ever were in your previous life. >> Okay, hit him with a heel. Big holy light. Holy light. It's so weird. Undid paladin is so weird. Level three, a light in the darkness. New paladin quest. New Paladin quest. Ready? Look at this other one. If you remember but one thing, know this. Not even death can stop the light. This we have in common with all foresaken. We have overcome with the living view is their end. However, some, even among our own, fear us. They suspect we will smite them as some monstrosity. In truth, our relationship with undeath is complex. But we are not here to hurt our own. Help me show the others this. Venture to Night's Web Hollow to the northwest and free the freshly raised fools trapped by the spiders there. Then they will see our nature. >> Trust no one. >> No, I actually think the visuals they did a good job. I I really do for the most part. Not across the board. Like I'm talking about like the new tech and stuff they used. Actually good job. The models are kind of It looks grainier and darker in a good way. It kind of does. Yeah. Okay. So, let's turn in rediscovering the light. Pain is nothing new to those who have endured death. And as such, the forsaken are particularly hearty to it. Pain has a purifying property as well that you should embrace as a badge of honor and evidence that you are in fact still a servant of the light despite your new circumstances. Be well and walk in the light once more, paladin. Okay, we're doing all the paladin quests and also we got some uh some judgment. Oh, big armor upgrade here. Okay, more paladin quests. Not all of our fellow paladins who rise again are quick to acclimate to our new reality. Some struggle to reconcile that they are now in a way the very thing they spent their lives fighting against. These individuals often simply need a kind gesture and a sympathetic ear. Unfortunately, many others are quick to turn violent. Find the frightened paladin who fled into the hills directly west of this chapel. Extend a hand in friendship and lead them back to the light if you can. Find the frightened paladin in deathnell. Continue your training. Lordon may not be what it used to be, but our home still needs protection from all manner of threats, and it's time for you to go out and face the world. Your next stop should be the town of Brill in central Tus Fall Glades. Go and meet with Sher Stillwell there. She can see to your continued training. One last bit of advice before you go. Take extra care as a paladin traveling through forsaken lands. There are many in the dark lady's service who distrust us and our proximity to the light. Follow the road east of Deathnell and to find the town of Bril. Report to Shie Stillwell to continue your training. Knights Web Hollow. What's Knights Web Hollow? Yeah, I've already gotten a few new quests. Oh, here it is. Espan Jackson. Yes, Espan Jackson. He's like Joe Jackson, but worse. >> What would you ask of death? >> I am yours. >> Scarlet Crusade Quest. Okay. A light in the darkness. May this help exeutor Arin and so many others see our true nature. Much like in our past lives, we live to serve our people, to protect them with the gifts the light provides us. They will see in time they are just as valuable to the dark leaves plans as any other. >> Mara's last wish. You've done a good deed. Although struggling against the scourge. Wait, this is new. What? This is new. Let us hope that Mara and Samuel will find peace together in their final resting place. As a token of my gratitude, please take one of these manuals I found. Why? What is these retail icons? The hail brother. Pelt collecting for beginners. Wild harvest for herbalism. Mining for increase your mining skill by two. Cannot raise mining skill over 15. You will learn mining if it's not already trained and you do not already know two other professions. I don't like this. Make me go to the mining trainer, man. Make me make me go learn it. Like it shouldn't teach it to you automatically. I think you should go to the mining trainer and then once you go to the mining trainer, it shouldn't teach it to you. It should teach like if you know the basics from the trainer, then you can learn like a it's like a you know what I mean? They're adding a lot of stuff that is like trying to keep people from going to town, I've noticed. And it's like, "Oh, you're low level. You're already in town." It's like, "Yes, I know." But it's it's the it's about like starting that that sort of behavior, you know? It's like it's about when you're starting that behavior pattern of like, "Oh, I'm supposed to go to town." I do think the uh the quest to give you two points in mining is cool, though. I just don't like that it gives you the training. You should have to earn the train. You should not earn. I mean, you just have to go go to the trainer to learn it. Oh. Thanks, dude. Mining pick is handed to me as I'm talking about getting getting handed the training. Okay, but you get my Unbelievable. Hear the Brill Tavern theme. Oh, here's Oh, frightened Paladin. Hello, frightened Paladin. Oh, what? Bro, Ragre, will you invite me back? Wait, there's instant layering. All the all the layering is instant. So, I leave party and then I instant get put on another layer. There's no there's no layer cool down. Maybe that's a temporary that's probably a temporary thing for server launch. Yeah, people been saying EU servers are are fried. Okay. Like was not even loading the guys. >> Sick. Coming to terms. Oh, I forgot. I forgot to read that one. It's okay. Okay. Tears fall pumpkin. Steal 10 pumpkins. Stealing a paladin stealing. Wait, that's weird. I would never do that. Finally, we're moving on. I think this is my first I've never streamed leveling an undead like this. Have I? Yes, we have sanctity aura in its baseline. Oh, true. I did. I did. Gordo. Es Gordo. Richard Flair. Dude, this guy's name is Ric Flair. Master one weeds. Always got big hands and not good at picking. Shut up, Gordo. Where do we find the scarlets? Graphics field. Graphics feel good for the most part. Apprent cloth. Yeah. Ah, what are these new icons? I don't have a problem with new icons if they match the art style. Which to be fair, I think these do match the art style. Oh, dude. Here's our first look at the new water. Dude, first look at the new water. I actually think the new water looks very good. And I am a purist when it comes to the old water. Like I dude I I do not like the retail water. I think it looks like this like liquid metal. It looks like mercury. But this that looks better than most modern games. It actually looks insane. I don't I don't like that they did the retail spell books. Like where do I find my profession? Where's fine minerals? Oh, can I get an invite for a layer to SANJ Jackson? Thank you. What? I was in the Okay, it layered me in combat. I was It did work. It worked in combat. There's some Season of Discovery items. What? Why? Like where, dude? I think it's so fried that blessing of Might is 1 hour long. The reason why from a balance standpoint, the reason why the Paladin buffs were so strong is because they're short. So when they get rid of that, then it like justifies nerfing them. Forsaken Bastard Sword. >> What now? >> The Red Messenger. Why is your last name Jackson? I don't know. I was just typing random names and somebody in chat in all caps said, "San Jackson goes hard." And I was like, "Yeah, you know what? You're right." And then I pressed enter. Speak quickly. >> What would you ask? >> Level six. >> All right, Holy Strike. All right, moment of truth. We got to see if Holy Strike's any good. It's probably ass. 25% weapon damage plus an additional two to four is holy. The unders city. The ruins of Lord are on. Oh my gosh. There's Deleran, dude. There's Doran. There's Doran. And there's fog. Oh my gosh, look at the fog. Wait, that's crazy. Minus one. Your character doesn't know about Deleran. Oh, true, true, true. Minus one. Minus one. Minus one. No, no, no. Fail RP. The reason why I'm going Undead Paladin, I think it's important for me to test it. And I also think from like an entertainment standpoint, I think people will think it's interesting to see me play Undead Paladin in the beta. For me, when it's real, like when it matters, I'll probably go back Alliance. But when it's game time, it's game time, dude. Okay, so I'll say right now I mean I've got to level six so far. I'm about to be level seven. I got to say the feel of the game feels pretty good. It's hitting a point where a lot of people are mentioning how fast I'm killing stuff. The damage and everything is about right. But now as a paladin at this point I've added in an extra attack and holy strike it doesn't do that much damage. It's only 25% of your weapon damage plus like three flat holy. But with that being said and it's on a 12c cool down but there's a lot of times it's on cooldown when I'm running in between mobs. So effectively that cool down it's null. So like I'm like jousting mobs and it's like joust boom I nuke it. So it's like the first hit I'm doing like most of health and damage. That's why I'm doing so much more damage I think. But in addition to that I don't think they changed any of their health values the mobs yet. And I think that's something that's really important to get right. I think they do need to consider scaling the mob health up and I think they said that they were going to do that or they they they have done that but I don't know at what point they start. So maybe they haven't started doing that yet but I think they should start doing it probably around level six. I mean I don't know what what other classes get at different levels. They should at least consider doing it fairly early because I mean look look how much damage that holy strike did. It was only eight, right? So it's not that much. But I mean I I I think if they literally had like like what this is 120 health. Wait, could you see it? Could you see the other people's health before like I think if it was like 125 just a little bit they start it. You know guys at lower levels that kind of stuff does matter. I also think yeah I am kind of regening mana way too fast or so. Something is going on. Look these guys are taking this node and I'm like okay I'll just refresh now. See you later bozos. And then I just spawn right in front of this thing. Elon husk with nerfs to rise fury and holy shield and gable blessing a king spam prop maybe have quite serious threat problems in a raid setup unless steal fury and holy strikes holy damage is really good scaling from spell power. Yeah. Hey all that stuff by the way if it wasn't apparent. I have a lot of very in-depth conversations about that kind of stuff. If you catch something that I have not caught, which is very likely because I'm only one guy and and I don't have like enough time to look at every single thing, reach out to me about it and I and I'm going to forward it. The great outdoors. Sit near Eleanor's Basic Campfire by typing sit in the chat window and wait until you receive the boosted rest buff. Okay. Minus one RP chat window. Wait, so what is this? How long do I have to sit for rested XP? Grants various camp benefits after one minute spent in sitting near the camera. You may also craft using trade skills as long as you do not move. Ah. Oh. You gain the following camp benefits. 10th. You receive a small amount of rested XP. You can only receive one of this effect per hour. I worry if they they put too many uh XP boosting things. Camping 101. Cooking. Speak with William Pigman to learn to become a cook. Mining load stone. What is a load stone? erect a load stone that allows you and others sitting nearby to gain 12 increased melee attack power exclusive so it does nothing. I do have a little bit of a concern about the amount of experience increasing things or like things making you level a little bit faster. A lot of the feedback now keep in mind I'm not much of a leveler. I'm not a huge fan of leveling. I like playing at max level. That's me. But a lot of the feedback I'm seeing from the community and from a lot of other people, there was a lot of hope that maybe they would have made leveling slower even or it take a little bit longer to take to 60. Now, do I agree with that? Not necessarily. But I think it's interesting because on paper it seems like there's going to be a lot of opportunity to level much faster than in vanilla. I don't think they should really adjust it, right? I think if anything, if it was a little bit faster, I personally would be okay with it. But it seems like there's a lot of little things >> that might make it faster. There's so many quests now that it shouldn't need so many XP buffs. That's another thing I am noticing more quests. And if there's more quests, it's like an N squared problem, right? You're hitting this like leveling speed from two angles. One, there's like outright like flat XP buffs that you can get. Like you get percentage XP buffs or I just sat at a campfire for 1 minute and once per hour I get a bar of rested experience. So those things really add up over time. Now, couple that with the fact that they've added like a thousand new quests into Vanilla WoW. I think it really is going to scale pretty pretty heavily, and I am okay with it being a little bit faster. That's my personal take. I'm just surprised that they've added so much given that a lot of the feedback that I've seen is that they hope that it's slower. Seeking refuge. >> Oh, look at the Oh, I didn't even notice. Look at the pal. This is the paladin mount. Wait. I'm listening. >> All their eyes are messed up, dude. All the undead's eyes. Look at the undead's eyes. This guy's crosseyed. Hold on. Does this look different than the one that was posted on Twitter? So, I think the data mind paladin undead mount was the retail model of the mount. Oh, this is only the level 40. It's not epic. Either way, like this actually looks very classic. Is it too cool looking for a level 40 mount? Maybe. And I also think when we're talking about art design and direction and all that, I do think that is something to consider, but I don't think they're too far off the mark with actually how it looks. Like, I'll be honest, I thought this was the epic mount. I said this was epic. So, I just thought it was epic when I first saw it. Continue your training. Blessings upon you for aiding Dawnstone. Our order is still taking root here, and it would be devastating to lose one so promising this time before his time. Please accept this as a token of our thanks. Would you ever take an interest in our ways? Our monastery Bandarion keep lies on the bluffs northwest of Solid and Farmstead. We welcome all who seek guidance in the light. >> Do not. >> Okay. You know what I think they should do? They need to find a way to increase the value of uh of Seal of the Crusader. I think Seal the Crusader is lacking a little bit. And I think with them getting rid of improve Seal of the Crusader and the Retribution talent tree, I think that Seal of the Crusader as it is is a little bit of a miss. I feel like they need to do something here. And I don't know what. I don't have the answer to it, but they definitely need to do something here. Uh, I like taunt being tied to judge. Now, I miss righteous defense because I love righteous defense, but I think the taunt being tied to judge, I think is fine. Actually, do we have so many quests to turn in? We're about to go around the world. So, this is one of the best feelings in the world. This is one of the things that when you talk about that right there, okay, the spectacle, the power of the ding, right? Whenever something whenever you level up and how how that feels. But one of the other best feelings is this right here. What if you have a bunch of these quests to turn in and you can just go around the world. >> Boom. Complete quest. >> You got another one. Boom. Complete quest. You pick up a new one. Boom. You pick up a new one. >> And I'm going to keep doing it. And when when you're in a small area and you go through and just boom boom boom. And you're just seeing your XP bar. You're seeing your you like zoom in on your XP bar and you're just seeing the thing just like ride up. >> What is it? >> Boom. Boom. Oh, you level. And look at that XP just roll on up. Level eight. So cool. This is one of those things that they just got right in vanilla WoW in 2004. Oh, interesting. Look at this. Hold on. I just found out something interesting. So, your seals don't affect your holy strike, right? When I when I use Seal of Righteousness and I when I cast Seal of Righteousness and I use Holy Strike, it does not proc off of it. Right? So, I'm going to show you this real quick. I'm going to hit something. I'm going to show you my combat log. Okay, so look at this. So, right here, you can see Holy Strike right here without a Seal of Righteousness right next to it. Right? Holy Strike and then melee. Right now, check this out. Keep in mind, Holy Strike is an instant strike that causes 25% of weapon damage plus an additional two to four. Here's the crazy part about what I'm talking about. When I cast Seal of the Crusader, it gives you 32 melee attack power. The Paladin also attacks 40% faster, but deals less damage with his attacks. If I use Seal of the Crusader, that 25% becomes 35%. Plus an additional 4 to 7 instead of 25 to weird, right? Isn't that how we're going to bring Crusader? No. Holy Strike is a new ability. I don't think it's bugged. I think it's I think it's tech. It's got to do something with the attack power, maybe. Here's the thing. In vanilla WoW, there's a lot of interactions between uh different abilities and stuff like that for paladins and different ways to do things that is not in the spell book. It's not in the tool tip. This might be something they did that was related to that. We're like, "Hey, I I used steal the crusader and then I want a holy strike. I'm going to go ahead and holy strike." So the crusaders up swing nine holy. Wait, judgments are 40 seconds now. Why? That's so long. That's like unnecessarily. Okay. Judging Judging Crusader on the target literally doubles the damage of Holy Strike. Look at this. Crusader on the on the target. Double Holy Strike damage. I think we got the tech, man. Judge Crusader hit with righteousness. Keep crusader up. Holy strike for 19 damage. Swap back right. Okay. Now, okay. Now we're cooking. All right. All right. Now we're cooking. I go crusader judge. Boom. Swap righteousness for the autos. We're cooking, dude. I come in. I go judge. Holy strike. Righteousness. Huge. Crusader. Judge. Holy strike. Righteousness for the next hit. Yeah, that's big time. What is the swing timer add-on? It's built into the game. I convinced Blizzard to put in a swing timer. 38 crit holy strike. Okay, dude. We're figuring out the tech. >> Beware the living. >> Oh, thank you. Elixir of minor force. Is that new? Oh, what? Minor arcade. Wait, are these new? Thank you. Yes. Look at that. Those are new, dude. Five spell damage is probably pretty good at this level. There's many new things. Wait, that's so cool. A mana well constructs a mana well that allows you and others sitting right every 10 mana every 5 seconds. What's going on? >> Oh my gosh, I didn't get parry. >> Hammer of justice. >> A sealed letter from a fan. Hello, Mr. Jackson. I hope this message reaches you well. I would like to inform you I'm indeed interested in the SPAN frean event that I heard rumors about attached to the deposit. Okay, there does not there there's no frean contest. Where did you find that out? Dude, this looks insane. Look at how Okay, the thing they did right there there's a lot to say, hey, they got to work on this. They got to do better here. They got to do better there. whatever it is. But the thing that Blizzard did right with Classic Plus with Wow Forever is you've got the feel, you've got the textures and the feel for, you know, and it's not 100% perfect, right? It's not 100% the same, but it's very, very close to what you had in classic with like how the trees look and all that, but the way that they applied like modernday techn Look at that, Zeppelin modernday technology to Wait, am I getting smoked? Oh, frick. the way they apply the modern-day technology to the classic game. It didn't give you factual authenticity of like the authentic vanilla feeling. But what it does is it gives you the feeling of authenticity. It's not about how it actually was. It's about how it actually felt. Whenever it was back in 2004, 2005, you were playing WoW for the first time. This is what you imagined in your head. It's not what you saw, but it's what you imagined. That's where they actually abs that is the 10 out of 10 absolutely nail it. Hit just complete own 100%. I have a lot of little things that hey they should do a better job here. They should they should fix that. They should change this. A lot of the nitty-gritty but that this that solution that they came up with without actually modernizing the textures and everything else actually hit the nail on the head. I mean this is just beautiful, man. So good. They actually they actually cooked. Whoa. What the freak? Holy. Okay, this probably needs a little bit of work. It This looks like the the freaking highlighter factory or something just got exploded. It looks like my toilet in the What? Let's see. Is there anything new for the Wait, level 10 blues gemmed co. Wait, they cranked all the Wait, what? >> I need this more than you, I think. >> Um, wait, hold on. Is crafting like the play? Oh my Oh my go Oh, what the heck? Everything is way better than it was. Am I crazy? Blacksmithing is OP. Thank you. Oh, yeah. We need those. Thank you. Thanks. Bags. Any baggers? >> What do we make the name of the guild Beta Cox for the beta? What do you guys think? I feel like making the guild name Beta Cox is so funny. It's just a meme guild for the beta. Our real guild is Crusade. Okay, we are level 10, dude. We are level 10. We are level 10. I'm going to try Holy Strike first just cuz I think this uh cooldown reduction is going to be a pretty big deal for like jousting. Perry is a super nice leveling talent. It's like a secret OP leveling talent, but um just getting that little bit of extra cool down. We got blessing of protection. We're cooking here, man. Seal of fury. So, seal of fury is a seal from early vanilla. WoW that was removed in the patch 1.9 rework. They've reworked seal of fury and put it in the game. So, they got holy strike from the alpha, seal of fury from before 1.9. Yeah. By the way, if you guys are new here, uh I'm uh Okay, I got to show you guys this. Actually, if you guys are new here, I'm a badass and my ego is through the roof today. You know why? Because Mike Moheim, original CEO, founder of Blizzard, tweeted this. Okay, so my ego is just through the roof today. All right. Thank you. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, ego chart with rising trends. Yeah, today. Wait, that was two days ago, guys. this whole bl it's it's all a blur at this point. I don't know what day is days. Is that not sick though? Joking aside, people who work at Blizzard have told me that for years and it's like ah you know thanks gez you know but like to have somebody who used to work at Blizzard >> and was I mean the CEO the founder tweet that is like holy [ __ ] holy that's crazy. So what happened was uh my flight got delayed on Monday and you know who you know who hits me up slasher. Slasher hits me up and he's like, "Hey, I'm at this thing with a bunch of old Blizzard devs. Mike Moore, all them." And uh they told me to invite you. Like Mike and Amy Morheim wanted me to invite you. So I'm like, "Oh, no shit." I'm like, "I'm down." So my flight got delayed and I changed it to like a midnight flight. Basically, I was going to take a red eye. I ended up canceling my flight. I'm like, "Dude, I got to go freaking hang out with uh Mike Warheim and everybody, right?" So, I go and uh I I mean I've talked to Mike Moran before and Amy Moran before, but I've never met them in person. So, I'm like, "Holy [ __ ] I I got to go to this." So, I end up going and obviously Mike is there, but you know who else is there is Omar loading? Omar is there, too. So, I'm there hanging out with Omar and Mike Morheim and all these guys. You know who else is there and I didn't get to talk to him. So, by the way, if you guys don't know Omar, Omar is the guy who when he was at Blizzard, he is the reason that classic exists. Literally, he is the guy that found a you know you we think you do but you don't or you think you do but you don't. Jaylen Brack, they said in the past that you couldn't even load they basically I'm I'm putting this in like super easy to understand terms for two reasons. One, I don't understand it. two uh it should I don't think anybody really get the specifics of it but basically they can't load vanilla WoW patch 1.12 on their current server architecture right they couldn't get classic to run on on Blizzard's current servers Omar is the guy that figured out he's the actual guy that figured it out internally at Blizzard no this is guys this is a bag this is a bag it's gray now he's a he's literally this guy's a legend why are you touching it? I was pointing at it. They're working on a new game. It's called Shadow Stone, which is like a turnbased uh strategy game cuz he's now at Secret Door. It's a studio he's at. And then Mike Moheim started Dream Haven, which is a new publisher. And then, you know, Secret Door is one of the things. So, they're they're showing off Shadow Stone and some of the stuff, which is like Derivative of Sunderfolk, which is their game from a while back. So, I was hanging out with Omar and and Mike, but here's the thing. I didn't get to talk to him, but you know who I really wanted to meet? I really wanted to meet him. He was there. But do you guys know who Shane Deiri is? Shane Deiri is the guy who created Warcraft. Shane Deiri was there, but I didn't get to talk to him. He was in a conversation with somebody and I was talking to Omar and I was like, "Do you think I can meet Shane?" And he's like, "Yeah, 100%. I'll go get him." And then he went to go get him and he's like, "I guess he left early." And I was like, "No, I want to meet Shane Deir so bad." So I didn't get to meet him, but he was there, too. Yeah. Yeah, that's the guy. Yeah, this guy. Legendary Gathering. I'm jealous. Oh, dude, it was crazy. You know what's funny? I was I was trying to meet up with Jeff Kaplan that morning cuz So Jeff could meet I I was talking to Jeff Kaplan and he had some time before Blizzcon to meet, but I couldn't meet him before Blizzcon because I was hosting that big event that I was I was I threw that big party. So I couldn't meet up with Jeff on Friday. On Monday, I was like, "Hey, do like do you want to do you want to meet up on Monday?" Is what kind of what I was thinking. But then he was so busy because Legend of California is going into beta this weekend. So there it's not full beta. It's a it's a beta like it's a play test this weekend which I'll probably I'll try and play it for a few hours but it's hard right now with everything going on in WoW. You know you have Mike Morheim tweet out something like that about you. It's like holy [ __ ] You know I got a tank or DPS. Uh I mean I'm I do everything just like my stream. Just like the stream content guys. I'm all about complete and total character immersion. All right. I'm all about complete and total character immersion. You got to become one with your character. Listen, I normally play the human male Brett Paladin. I get it. That's why I had to lose weight to play some undead. All right? I had to lose weight and I had to become decrepit and sickly so I could play undead. All right? You got to become one with the character. Okay? You become one with the character. That's how it works. Complete and total character immersion. Cannibalism next. Oh, I already had that one down. Wait. Hey, man. So, let's expand on that. No, I don't think so. I think we're just going to skip that. >> I haven't got all day. >> Okay. Anyway, oh my gosh. Lay on hands. Okay. See Fury. Hi, Eson. >> Hi. I don't know if you remember me, but I told you about how my mom cheated on my dad in World of Warcraft with her guild leader. Anyway, I'm playing the beta now. Hoping to make some positive memories. >> Okay. Well, I would say this. I would say be careful about what guild you join. >> Yeah, just be careful about what guild you join, man. Would this be a good time to get into WoW if you've never played before? Hey, this is an actual public service announcement. Unironically, for the first time ever, if you are playing WoW, if you are playing WoW for the first time ever, I've always wanted to play and didn't know when to start. Are you going to be behind? Whatever. This is actually the best time to play other than 2004, November. This is actually the absolute best time that you could ever start playing WoW. And all your worries about does everybody know this? This is that this none of those excuses are real anymore. This is new. It's classic plus. This is WoW 2. This is this is WoW forever. Whatever. Whatever it is, there's actually a blown wide open door and you have a chance to come into WoW and be learning new things just like everybody else who's played this game for years. But now it's kind of like a it's like a reset. It's like a soft reset on everything. Oh frick. A challenge. Oh frick. I've been challenged to a duel of the content. Thanks, dude. H. Ah, yes. We seem to be at an impass. I can't interrupt you. Oh. Oh. Run through. Run through. Oh, I got the cancel. I got the cancel. Victory. Damage application. Silicon. Holy strike feels fantastic. Yeah, it does actually. Uh I think holy strike has a good spell power ratio. Wait, this Wait, this staff is sick. We already here. Blessed be thy Sven. Ah, yes. Indubitably my lege. The heavy copper maul, the mighty weapon, the mighty hammer. Ah, and to hand me the heavy copper maul. I bestow upon you a most noble and fair trade. The cracked short bow. Yes, the cracked short bow. I hope he's a zoomer and he thinks that means it's good. Thank you. Enjoy Paladino. Thank you. I will big two-hander. Big big two-hander. Thank you, man. I got this and this in one RFC. Damn. Oh my gosh. You got stacked.