Video summary
The video captures the excitement of running through Rage Fire Chasm, the first dungeon in World of Warcraft Classic Plus, featuring a newly created Undead Paladin character. The player and their group express awe at the updated visuals, including the moonlit atmosphere outside Ogaramar and the bustling interior filled with mud huts and bonfires. A significant point of discussion among the players is the removal of world buffs, which they feel makes encounters more challenging by removing the artificial power boost that previously made them feel overpowered compared to their friends in Molten Core. Despite this change, the group acknowledges that some new areas and enemy abilities, such as the Shadow Strike used by undead mobs, are surprisingly strong and contribute to a sense of "power creep" that makes early-game content feel more dangerous than before.
As the party enters the dungeon, they engage in lively banter about racial abilities and class mechanics, particularly noting how Gnome racials like Escape Artist have become incredibly powerful due to scaling with gear, while Troll racials offer unique roleplay elements despite being less mechanically dominant. The players experiment with Paladin rotation strategies, specifically testing whether the Seal of Crusader can proc Holy Strike twice simultaneously for massive damage output. They also discuss the potential impact of these changes on the game's balance, wondering if certain races like Gnomes or Trolls might need nerfs before the official launch to prevent them from dominating specific playstyles or content.
During the dungeon run, the group faces a chaotic encounter involving a Void Walker and other enemies, showcasing the dynamic nature of the new combat system where tanks must constantly manage taunts while healers struggle with mana constraints. The situation escalates when the priest healer dies unexpectedly, forcing the remaining players to rely on self-healing abilities like Lay on Hands to survive the intense pressure. This moment highlights both the frustration and the fun of the beta environment, as the team navigates tight mechanics, manages cooldowns, and executes complex pull strategies that would be impossible without careful coordination.
Ultimately, the experience serves as a preview of what players can expect in the full release, with the group expressing enthusiasm for future content like Deadmines and high-level dungeons such as Shadowfang Keep. While some players admit to enjoying the beta primarily to test their new Undead Paladin before committing to it permanently, others are eager to see how the game evolves post-launch. The consensus is that while the current state of the world feels slightly too weak compared to the mobs, the removal of world buffs and the introduction of new racial interactions promise a more engaging and balanced gameplay experience once the game reaches its final form.
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We are about to run RFC's Rage Fire
Chasm. Oh my gosh. Look at this, dude.
The moon over the rock outside of
Ogamar. Oh my gosh. Look at this, dude.
This looks crazy.
And Hyel
in the background.
Dude, you're running through here, dude.
You're a level five orc coming through
Razor Hill.
actual cinema.
The gates of Ogamore.
Wow,
dude. This looks wonderful.
We got to go inside.
And this is at night. Imagine during the
day.
Look at the fog. Let's go inside.
Ogrear music plays.
Oh my gosh. You enter Ogramar,
dude. The hustle and bustle of the mud
huts, dude. Look at this. The bonfires.
The moon shining with Hyel up there in
the background.
Looking over the zeppelin.
Wait, did they add a zeppelin?
Did they add a zeppelin? Dude, this
looks wonderful. Amazing. I'm not used
to seeing you in Oramara. I've been
playing a horde on Burning Crusade for
months. Okay, so we're about to run our
first dungeon in Classic Plus. Our first
Wild Forever dungeon is finally here.
We're going to join up with uh with
Summit Wanji and Jake and Bake. This
should be fun. Let's check it out. Rage
Fire Chasm. Let me invite this guy. Let
me let me let me join Discord. Or
actually, we're going to do the in-game
voice chat. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello.
Hello. Hello. Hello.
>> Holy.
>> Yo, my bad. I for I had to rejoin after
I [ __ ] exited the game by accident.
You guys hear me?
>> Yeah. Yeah. What's up, dude?
>> Oh, hell yeah.
>> How's it going?
>> Nothing.
>> Hey, S. Dude, you stoked about no world
buffs in this [ __ ] or what, man?
>> Uh, no. I'm a world buff enjoyer,
actually.
>> Holy [ __ ] dude. You like You want to go
[ __ ] You want to go find that song,
Flower Bro?
>> Yeah. I mean, [ __ ] up. Like I I I know
it's not popular and I and I think it's
probably good they got rid of it, but I
I personally just enjoy the the world
buffs.
>> How about like if I wouldn't have uh I
wouldn't mind the world buffs if they
weren't like so strong that they're
better than like all of your gear
combined. You know what I mean?
>> Yeah. Well, it's the biggest problem
with world buffs is losing them. So you
lose your world buffs and it's like your
whole week went to waste.
>> Yeah. You lose your world buffs in in
like molten core and you become like a
wet noodle compared to all your friends.
You know what I'm saying?
>> Yeah, it's bad. Dude, do you guys think
everything's too weak? Like they gave us
all these new abilities and stuff and
they didn't scale the mobs up.
>> Some of the new areas are kind of crazy.
So like uh that new area on the left
side of undead start like uh like of
Bril, right? West undead area. They
those guys were [ __ ] pretty damn
strong. I'm not going to lie. They're
like two-handed sword [ __ ] mopy with
some like instant like
>> Oh, the shadow strike thing. Yeah,
that's that's the only thing I've seen
that I'm like, "Oh, damn. That was
that's a lot."
>> Yeah, that's probably the most notable
thing I've come across that was like
damaging.
>> Yeah, that's the biggest thing to me is
the power creep. I think the power creep
is a mess. This is easy.
I mean, I'm getting toasted, dude. I
don't know.
Oh, it's fine.
See? Easy. Hey, man. Thanks for the
Blizzcon content. I'm new to your
streams, but I was glued all weekend
long. It's amazing what you do. I
thought I'd let you know. Looking
forward to watching more regularly. Oh,
thanks, dude. I I really appreciate it,
man. Yeah, it's been uh it's been a good
time, dude. Yeah, I mean I kind of tried
to wipe us there as a joke, but easy.
Like I was saying, hey, what what has
been your guys favorite thing so far
about the classic?
>> I think some of the new quests like for
Undead, just kind of reading through
them and like how they intertwined the
paladin lore so far has been cool. It's
kind of kind of RP, but it was it was
cool how they intertwine it.
>> Yeah, that was cool, too. Actually, I
think for me like the favorite part is
uh just like figuring out like little
interactions and like the the
nitty-gritty kind of like turbo nerd
stuff.
>> I don't know what you mean by that at
all.
>> For example, it's just like taking a
seal or like some ability and seeing
seeing how like different buffs and
different abilities interact with one
another. Like I noticed with paladins,
they have holy strike. Whenever you have
seal the crusader active, it changes the
tool tip.
>> Oh, that's interesting. Yeah, it
increases the damage. So, you don't
actually like lose damage scaling on uh
on Holy Strike whenever you seal the
Crusader up.
>> It's kind of crazy. It's the little
things now that are going to be
changing.
>> Yeah, there a lot of little stuff like
that's like super interesting. Or like
even the UI like I think the character
screen is amazing,
>> too.
>> Yeah, I think the racials are like OP.
It might not be that bad, but I think I
think the racial
>> gnome's like which ones are insane?
Someone has like lots of crit.
>> Is it Gnome?
>> Night elf is good. Gnome's good.
is the crit. Yeah. Yeah.
>> But the thing that with Gnome that's
crazy is like their ratios will scale up
with their gear whereas the night elf
ratio like as you get more crit crit's
less valuable, you know, cuz it's like,
oh, you might have just crit anyway if
you have like 30% crit, but if you have
5% crit, then it's really
>> Yeah, but it might be the difference
between you rocking a completely
different piece than other rogues,
right?
>> Yeah, maybe. What's it's an active,
right? But on a trinket or something was
so like was insane that people would
just rock uh an extra trinket. You know
what I'm saying?
>> Yeah. Well, gnomes gnomes basically have
their their escape artist is this
instant cast and it's like a 3second
freedom now. It's like a 3second fap
almost. It's not really a fap cuz stop
stuns, but
it's more like a blessing of freedom.
>> Okay, that's cool.
>> Yeah, gnome gnomes are crazy. Gnomes are
probably going to get nerfed. I hope
they do a little bit of balancing. I
don't know if they're I not balancing,
but like if they do make Rachel's like a
little more. I just would hate to see
80% of the server of alliance be.
>> I think you're going to see a lot of a
lot of things change from now until uh
until launch.
>> It does. I mean, it looks like a lot of
the ratios are really good across the
board now. Like seem like they're pretty
all [ __ ] good.
>> Well, like the more I look at it, the
more I think cuz that's what I thought.
I thought they were like everybody's
overpowered,
but I don't actually think that as much
anymore. Yeah, I think gnome just really
stands out. Gnome really stands out.
Troll really stands out. But it also
depends on what you're doing. Like
trolls basically have a second bandage
every 3 minutes. Torren kind of sucks.
They can randomly pick up an herb on the
ground like without herbalism.
>> What the [ __ ]
>> Yeah, torren are like super RP. Like
their racials are super super RP which
is cool. Like I actually like that but
just compared to everybody else they're
not as good. I don't think like torren
is the class for bots or sorry the race
for bots. Like all these bot torn
hunters are going to be running around
and like they're just never going to
stop moving and they're going to keep
the 30% speed.
>> Yeah, that's the bot. That's the bot
class.
>> Getting extra plants.
>> Torn hunter. This is a boss like not
paying attention.
>> Jake, do you usually judge crusader?
>> I'm using.
>> Look at that fella. Wounds the target.
Barbaric crossbow. That's kind of sick.
So Jake, what were you saying? Do you
judge crusader?
>> What are we doing? Still a fury.
>> Yeah, but you should you should judge
crusader and then swap to fury and it's
like massive for your holy strike and
your fury auto attacks.
>> Am I good to accept this quest? Is that
>> Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry.
>> All right, I'll listen. I'm learning
from the people's paladin today, baby.
I'm signed up for espan school.
>> Yeah,
>> dude. Undead Paladin is so [ __ ] cool,
dude.
>> Yeah. I'm just going to do it for the
beta, though. Wait, do you die in this
place if you jump in the lava?
>> Yeah, you do. Uh, like
>> insta crazy. It will it should tick you
for your whole life bar at this point. I
think over I think a thousand, right? Or
is it
>> Oh, I totally just jumped in and jumped
out. I got so lucky.
>> I think it would one tap you at this
point, I'm pretty sure.
>> Is it nor is it normal lava? If it's
normal lava, it will.
>> Yeah, chat says 600 damage, so it'll
kill you. Yeah.
>> Wait, somebody died like that in
hardcore? That's so funny. Yeah, like we
you don't even have Righteous Fury yet.
But when you get Righteous Fury, I think
16,
you judge Crusader
and you hit him with a holy strike after
the Crusader judge. It's just like a big
chunk of holy damage.
>> There's the taunt.
>> Yeah, I wish I had a threat meter. Oh my
gosh, dude. I just did 71 damage with
the holy strike here. I should put in
the combat log up so you guys can see
it. We need to see if the uh the undead
racial can proc on two hits at the same
time.
I got your lay. I got your lay.
Lay me. Lay me. Lay me. Lay me. Lay my
own hands.
Thank you.
You should kill the uh the void walker.
Nice.
>> I got used to these keybinds right now.
>> Yeah, I know. I know. I know. I'm going
to stun next heal.
Got it.
Sick.
>> Juicy pull.
>> See these are my That's my tapable pull.
We just pull everything. Pop all cool
downs. Everybody almost dies. I love
like boom. Hammer of justice. Bling
protection. Lay on hands the tank. It's
so good. Pull timer. Pull timer.
Tangga man.
Oh my gosh.
>> Ranged 10 yards away.
>> I'm going to taunt I'm going to taunt
this thing. Stay on the bus. Okay, good.
I got you.
>> I still did taunt it, but you can taunt
off me. Nice. Nice,
dude. All the healing gear. Look at
that. We're getting tons of caster here.
>> All right, got to kill the ad first, I
think. Wait,
>> you're probably okay to kill AD.
>> Yeah, I'm cool. I'm cool with killing
this dude.
>> What?
Oh,
why why do we keep Why do we keep
breaking this?
I I don't know if we're like
heartbeating or something. I don't know
why I was breaking. Whoa, big cloak. Big
cloak.
>> I'm out of mana.
>> Nice.
>> Okay. Increased damage and healing done
by magical spells and effects one.
That's [ __ ] great, dude. That's has
strength on it, though. Oh, it's a
two-hand sword. The [ __ ]
>> What's going on with this cloak here,
guys? What's going on with this cloak?
We all rolling need on this. Are you
guys just greeting it or just greet it?
Okay. Yeah, duh.
>> Oh, I need it. I need it. I need it.
Need it. Need it. Need it. Need it. Need
it.
>> Oh, yeah. All right, you you can take
it, bro.
>> That three fire was just OP. What a
weird uh twoander.
>> All right, you got to jump right away.
Everyone has jump.
>> God. Oh.
Yo, that's
>> Oh, dude, that's huge.
>> Priest takes that. No,
>> I need this more than you, I think.
>> Damn. [ __ ] Yeah, that's a BOE.
>> That's insane. A bop, actually. Oh, it
doesn't have the thing. It should have
the
>> I need this more than you, I think.
>> Yeah, it should have the the uh dragon
or whatever on it if it's BOP. All
right. All right. Well, grats freaking
casters are getting crazy loot.
>> Wait, they
>> as the number one rep paladin as fans
the number one rep paladin.
>> Yeah, that is true.
>> Oh [ __ ] this burning crusades.
>> That is true.
>> How's beta and paladin feeling so far?
It's okay. I I think I think the world
is a little bit too too weak. Why are
you playing hard? This is disgusting. I
agree. It's just for the beta because
you know undead paladin is new.
>> She won. I'm I'm going to go back and
I'm going to send this guy from the
back. Oh, I missed. Oh, it's Oh, we're
so dead.
>> Oh my dude. What?
>> I'm trying to get to this void walker.
We can get the void walker.
>> Uh here. Yeah. Taunt him. Taunt him and
then I'll taunt him and then I taunt
him.
>> Yeah. Okay. I'll
>> I'm jousting. I'm jousting. Okay, good.
Okay. Keep running in in front of me.
Keep running in front of you.
Okay, cool.
Oh, frick.
Line, line, line, line. There's a big
line.
>> Line line.
>> I'm taunting. I'm taunting. And then you
taunt off top off of me. We can ping
pong.
>> I play. I have.
>> It's okay. Save it as long as you can.
Line line, guys. Okay. I have hammer
again. All right.
>> We're good. You getting a hot
>> I'm taunting. I'm taunting. Heal
yourself. Heal yourself. I'm taunting.
>> Okay, now taunt off me. Sheep the guy
again. Sheep the guy again.
>> Huge. All right, we're we're killing.
We're killing back. We're killing back.
>> Dude, this is sick, actually.
>> Let's go. Hold on. Oh, I got laid.
>> Why are we wanding the Why are we
wanding the sheep?
Okay,
>> dude. If this was hardcore, our [ __ ]
hearts would be going crazy right now.
>> Hey, wait, wait. I just realized brother
died in R.
>> I'm landing now. Oh, right before the
hit. Okay. Okay. I realized that the
healer was gone. And
>> wait, what happened?
>> Dude, that was sick.
>> The priest is The priest died in
freaking spear. He's running back. Let's
>> Oh [ __ ] man. No healer.
>> Yeah, dude. We were healing ourselves.
It was great.
>> That was Dude, that was so sick. That
was such a good
>> We're ready for things.
>> Let's go.
>> I love I love doing stuff like that.
>> Wow. Two actually two paladins have
crazy bounce back and and like lay a
hand. Waiting for the shot caller to
tell us to run, dude. And nobody said
anything, so look around.
>> Dude, let's like,
>> dude, microing microing that stuff is so
fun where it's like, okay, you taunt.
No, I taunt heal. He's like, he needs a
heal, but I'm like, I know if I cast a
heal, he's going to die. So, I'm like,
I'll just taunt. You heal yourself cuz
you have you have enough mana to do that
and then taunt off me and then I'll
heal. Is dude like something like that
is just so fun. I I love I love that. So
fun, dude. Okay, that was a good little
good little finale.
>> I want to play rogue though in the real
game, but this for just trying it out. I
feel that. Got to tank Van Clee, dude.
Yes.
>> Oh my god, that'd be that's my favorite
dungeon, I think.
>> Dude, that's going to be fun.
>> Dead mines is I love going to Deadmines.
I'm like I just love going in there
every time.
>> Yeah, that's going to be a fun one.
Dude, you know what's going to be fun is
the level 20 meta of like trying to do
like shadow fang keep and stuff like
that cuz years ago in the classic beta
when we were doing like cathedral and
armory at level 30 was crazy just like
popping all the consumes and kiting
stuff out like that. It was just so so
fun. I can't wait. That's that's going
to be the best part of the beta for
sure.