The (almost) Complete History of World of Warcraft

that was really nice and memey, you did a good job

You can definitely see all the hard work that was put into this video. I forgot so many things that happened over the years... Loved the humor in the video!

This was really well done!! Great voice over and humour throughout, you should be proud of your effort

Easily the best and most fun WoW summary to date, really gj dude!

So tell me this, how old is Tyronde if she fought in the War of the Ancients?

Ha! Gold ticket right there

Don’t forget..
*A turtle made it to the water!*

hillarious!

Don’t forget herding cats while the legion is destroying the entire universe.

I hope this is not going to start another space war and another shitty addon. Don't do it

blizzard story writing after Wotlk basically

@@Banana-cc5rx
No that's been basically the story of warcraft since vanilla and...actually since the beginning too. (all 3 RTS games) Bad dudes show up good guys face them, some stuff gets blown up, some characters (people will hopefully care about) die for 'drama'. Then repeat that again and again because hey it works so why change things? Heck just make a big bad guy (or gal..) show up with a different flavored apocalypse almost happen every other year that the champions are fated win against eventually (and with ample "asspulls"), they must stop these baddies because otherwise everything gets blown up (every single expansion), that sure won't get old anytime soon...

@@navilluscire2567 very true

Evovels*

@@telvannicouncilor In WoW's defense, many of the expansions they highlight a new villain where there wasn't much lore for the villain before, which definitely makes it feel like these villains come out of nowhere. Hence why Ulduar and ICC are heiled as the best raids, because there was three expansions worth of plot leading up to them.

they want to hire a hitman

Titans are REALLY big and can destroy a baby planet by just slapping it really hard. Mistery solved.

Technically they respawn again :P.

i thought that we never actually killed the old gods, just put them back in their prison?

You clearly didn't pay attention. The Titans would kill azeroth if they killed the old gods.

And the trolls used to be squirrels!

Talk bout a glow up

slugg ee I thought the squirrels fucked the trolls to make elves?

I never realized that the gnomes, dwarves and humans came from titan races I knew about the elves but the other races was news to me.
It really shows how terrible the game are at conveying lore.

A cutscene from w3 frozen throne, a naga witch said that the nagas were used to be night elves? so much evolution here going on

No shit, Can hardly understand him. It's like the disclaimer at the end of a commercial... But great info...

@@johnfabian7069 I switched it to .75 speed to follow along. The .5 setting was too slow and warped the speech.

@@garapueto96 I watch almost all youtube videos at 1.5 or 1.75 speed.. this video I started at 1.75.. slowed allllll the way down to .75 to be able to keep up..

Mike Reciniello for me it was hard to understand everything since I’m not native speaker and generally don’t know English, but I wish I read your comment before watching the video 😅

If you slow it down to 0.75 you actually realize how unclear he talks LOL. He‘s still hard to understand.

Meh, he said beginning of *WoW* at 14:14, since the games really start at 6:14. 🤓

Tbf there are 3 games before wow and even lore books

Yeah, I thought I knew so much about the game but I'm way over my head here.

@@irrelevant_noob Nope, it's the complete history of "world of warcraft" not just "warcraft" therefore the game starts at 14:14

What's more amazing is the extremely drastic shift in quality storytelling before WoW came out and after...

So from high fantasy to high fantasy.

its started logic enough but i lost it when time travel got involved

seems like they stopped taking mushrooms and started doing lsd

Would certainly explain a lot.

That's the classic experience right there 😊

Haha, good one.

and to commit genocide on radical parties and criminals

From killing squirrels to killing the grim reaper, boy Lovestosplooge really is a champion.

@aaliamazing It's not reality!

💯

Well we discovered that there were 5 powerful not titans in the afterlife that controlled their pocket whatevers and they then banished the diet Artus to a place called the Maw where they forgot about him and basically allowed him to build an army when Sylvanus made a deal with him and burning the tree is apart of their plan somehow, then Sylvanus was reunited with herself because Diet Artus wants to rule everything. Anduen was corrupted by jailer and used as a puppet which messed up his head then Sylvania committed suicide I guess.
Not too long after Deathwing's experiments woke up to find the Primalist are awake and have the greatest munchies

This weirdly makes sense@@reddin-on8mm

yeah I watched it on 0.5 and I still need to watch it again to fully understand what is happening.

(1:26)
Also related:
* 14:43 Illidan and Kael'Thas steal a floating chandelier-ship
* 15:39 Velen purifies the Sunwell by throwing a dead chandelier into it

they are not chandeliers, they are being of lights (can see them in shattrath) but the video is a bit ironic in some points

@@TheWolfalpino you need to look up the definition of "joke"

"But for real this time..." uhhuh.. X) and we all know Blizzard ^^"

Hey why blaming them. Whe the myghtiest heros, slayer of gods and savior azeroths (Player characters) can be resurrected then why not the bad guys too?

Probably for whenever they are too lazy to make a new character

Soap opera with orcs and furries, but hey if it was good enough for the Greeks etc!

We need more Exile effects and less Destroy effects in WoW.

I played until Cata, quit, then JUST NOW came back after my boss all but insisted I play with him. WHAT. THE ACTUAL. FUCK. DID THEY. DO?! What the HELL is going on here?! I am so lost it beggars belief!

@@Archris17 Lol! The game has changed quite a bit and will take some getting use to as you quit so long ago. Almost everyone is enjoying dragon flying (not me you'll find me face planting mountain after mountain or going splat on a building or tree) as it's a freebie at max level. Stick with it lol This video gets you through the lore so that's a plus.

For real, a small group of 20 players can pretty much kill ANYTHING, even commit deicide easily while entire armies numbering in the thousands, demonic beings, and dragons can't really accomplish jack shit 🤣. It literally makes zero sense, but whatever.

players are fourth natural disaster

@@AmariKhumalo we're just built different don't worry about it

Player characters are like a force of nature in Azeroth. It can't be stopped.

Just have everyone in the world steamroll from one end of the map to the other and hope the problem is one of the many things that die along the way.

it doesn't, at all.

Even so, both Gul'dan and Sylvanas were cowards in their respective makgoras.

" murder time" 🤣🤣🤣💀

... and Varian gets disenchanted by Gul'dan :')

My thoughts exactly 😭😭

The funniest part is that the prehistory of world of warcraft sounds a lot lot better than its history.

@@davidc1179 thats why i love warcraft 3

@@davidc1179 that's because it is

Well, this is the story of WoW, to get to the story of WoW you gotta go over BEFORE the events of warcraft 1 and the 1st invasion, WoW doesnt start till after warcraft 3

*frail nerds frantically trying to invent magic to become wizards*

I've played enough D&D to assert that even with magic, wizards are still frail nerds (d4 hit dice? really?)

I'm in this statement, and I don't like it. Lol.

number 500

There's a lot of, "We killed this guy by someone resurrected them so we have to kill them again." events in this game.

@@johnhunt4634 Just like us in the game, we keep coming back 😁

what? it’s not even in depth, it’s an ironic oversimplification if anything

classic illidan

He is his SCARSSSSSSSSSS

" HAHA SIKE "

taavs if you haven’t watched Azerothian Supervillains... it’s a gem.

No thats illafan eating more demon substance to kill more of them

replay value

I changed the playback speed 😁 he sounds funny as hell, but you can certainly hear and process the information alot better lol

@@Makooz31 Yep watching at 0.75 speed right now

Heather MsMarvel you to?

Right?? Information overload!

Omg I can't stop laughing, that was too much 🤣

You gotta get those dusts

i laughed my ass off when this came

who in his turn gets disenchanted by Illidan!

I wonder what mats he got out of Varian

He said disintergrated?

@@VibrantDesigns I heard disenchanted, he said it again with Illidan too.

This had me rolling honestly 😂

Vibrant Designs He said “Disenchanted” twice..

best line, lol

In wod? 😂

@@rastax123 that's the impression I got. WOD kind of made some sense but had a whole lot of problems, everything since WOD made no sense.

Hmm couldn't have anything to do with activision .....or you know everyone who created WoW being gone...🤷‍♀️ this video is hilarious and informative though. I enjoyed it

I think bfa was pretty cool with the whole sylvanas thing but why did the horde even go to zandalar in the first place:/ cant remember

@@lynnaenelson3417 hey activision made cata and mop, not best expansions but not awful from coherent lore perspective

well, yes and no. He was killed but he can't be killed. As a half-demon, his soul is immortal just like all other demons, it went to the Twisting Nether where he could have resurrected himself. However, because the wardens imprisoned his physical body, he was unable to do that, which was their point. That's why Gul'dan stole his body and why we had to get it back before he could be resurrected.

I think it had to do with the Old Gods burrowing so deep into the planet. The Titans did kill Y'Shaarj by pulling it out like a tick, but it did more harm to Azeroth than good at the time.

@@SaturnYoshi In truth the Old Gods we fought aren't as dead as you can think. Their spirit are still around and they might revive in their prison with enough time. The only exception would be N'Zoth very recently because we killed him in his own "world" (a vision of another Azeroth to sum up a bit what Ny'alotha is)

@@SaturnYoshi I always felt it was their massive size, basically the difference of trying to remove a bullet from a wound with a scalpel (we the "Children of Azeroth") vs using one of those drills you drive around with in construction sites (The Titans)

"Because reasons" is the legendary weapon that can pierce plot armor. There must be a weapon like that In Game with transcendental stats.

I thought it was a widely known fact that the "old gods" that we killed were just Avatars and their real, gigantic bodies are still trapped beneath the ground/sea

I was a big fan of "because without magic, Wizards are just frail nerds"

You and literally everyone playing classic. Classic is for people too confused by the games huge amount of lore and just wanna kill things and make "friends" (more like cults). People playing classic never cared about the game. They just wanna play JRR Tolkien's version of secound life. 🤣

Lmaaaoooo

@@jasonmnosaj not really. I played classic so I can understand the basis of the story and start it slowly. It's the foundation of the lore and it's easier to follow and decide if you want to learn more or just remain in classic. I'm now updated with the lore and bought Shadowlands (waiting not so patiently), but I wouldn't be here without Classic.
I recommend the journey to anyone who wants to take it slow but learn lore at the same time. Read the quests and don't skip all the time! :D

@@jasonmnosaj Dude, I just started playing WoW and I had to make a classic account because all the changes to the world that come with each expansion makes the storyline incomprehensible.
"Ok, this area takes place in cataclysm, but the quest is during legion. Wait, didn't I just kill that guy? Why am I doing quests for him now?"
Modern WoW has what I've been referring to as "quantum storylines". You can be in one area but have 3 different storylines from 3 different expansions going at the same time, which makes it very confusing to figure out what on earth is suppose to be going on.
So the current plan is; play classic, figure out what content is old, and what is new, and why the cat people still don't have voice lines. I got a character to level 50 just in time for shadowlands so when I'm ready I can go through each expansion one at a time and hopefully figure out what on earth is going on to satisfy my massive lore bone lol.

Did the quest line in Stonetallon where Hellscream gets mad at one of his lackeys for blowing up a city full of civilians.
Next quest I do, Hellscream blows up a city full of civilians.
What happened?! Send lore!

I mean *he is* 👀

At least of the sentient races

Yeah, it’s one of the big reasons I liked it too! It was done by Hipnosworld over on deviantart and used with their permission!

That and Tauren. But there were a lot more trolls and they did a lot more with their time. Actually, of all the 23 races in the game, including Allied Races, only 11 are native to Azeroth. And that's counting the ones that are just subtle offshoots like the slightly shadowy bois that are the void elves. You have the four elves, two trolls, two tauren, goblins, pandaren, and vulpera. So Azeroth (the titan) is definitely a furry.
Oh man, looking at that list I realize it's mostly Horde. Pandaren play both sides, but then Horde has 8 and Alliance only has 2 native races and they're the oldest and youngest elves. Their other races are: 2 space aliens and 7 titanspawn. Meanwhile, the Horde also has 2 space aliens but only 1 titanspawn. So really, the Horde is the faction that's more native to Azeroth while the Alliance is the invaders. Form a certain point of view.

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I was sitting there sweating the whole time you watched it hoping I didn't make some massive error.

I saw it all live, I witnessed history, so exciting

dont get it

a new horde is formed by garrosh, secret ingredient: racism
SFOLSKFLDSJFKSDFJ

what is the next secret ingredient going to be? gae?

I love "because without magic, wizards are just weak nerds"

Hahah maybe the titans are just too powerful, might overkill azeroth xD

@@joshualastimosa5713 that's actually true. In lore it says that the Titans are too strong and will destroy the azeroth if they will try themselves. They understood that by killing 1 oldgod and ripping a hole in Azeroth. So they made an army instead to fight for them.

Pretty sure the Titans could but they didn't because the old gods had attached themselves to the growing titan inside Azeroth because apparently all planets are titan eggs???? Also something to take note of the guardians left behind aside from dragon aspects actually possess titan powers which the new races of Azeroth gained from their machines who were turned into people so it's not as far fetched as one might think.

My brother literally asked me why we could but the titans couldn't three days ago. I just said because we are most definitely more powerful then a titan

The Titans could most definitely kill the old gods, one of them rips Y'shaarj out of the world like a parasite but they realise that if they did that they would kill the world soul. The Sha in Pandaria is the remnants of Y'shaarj.

I consider that entirely canon

That's because it is... Like that's actually what happened lol

@@flamingblood8447 ”Like because that’s because what actually happened.” Do you just refrain from communicating to people or just gave up when you realized you were bad at it?

@@Gnossiene369 what even was that clap back even? it wasnt even clever. “oh u said words in a way i think makes u sound dumb hardy har ima boomer” this isnt r/murderedbywords and u arent the main character. dont look down on someone just for the way they say things, it makes u look like a clown 🤡

@@Gnossiene369 yikes

I’d give you a like but you’re currently at the perfect number

I gotta get new pants!

That's it, that's the whole story line.

Aahhhh the most annoying world quest. 🤩

The cycle of life can be cruel

8.3 is unquestionably one of the worse patches in this game's history, lore and gameplay wise. It's on par with selfie patch.

@@vamborala it's pretty clear that they decided last minute to make it much smaller Than originally planned to shift focus on Shadowlands instead. And it was probably for the best.
The 8.2 events are not in the video by the way which are kind of important to some extent.

@@sombrego2260 They should have done a rising of the Dark Empire, with a random but menacing minion of N'Zoth as the final boss ( a bit like Helion back in the day ) which we would eventually kill and realise what Sylvanas is doing, and be torn between "staying in Azeroth to deal with N'Zoth" or "Go to the shadowlands", and finally opting for the later as "more important", then returning for 10.0 in a ravaged Azeroth where the world is split between old god forces and resistant of various races.

Took him longer to recap it than it took them to make it.

@@gerardlacroix6015 in 10.0 the main enemies would probably be the Armies of the Light

It's like, the story of her undead life!

Thank you!

Was that the killian experience?

Heartstone isnt exactly lore accurate

@@ekroizm I figured as much lol, I was trying to clarify that I basically did way too many things "WoW" related!

I've only played BoA and seen a few older cinematics. This video taught me that history repeats itself and Illidan is super old.

As a DM you know that you dont wanna waste a good antagonist. Its hard to let your favorite characters go XD

That started right around when all the original creators of the warcraft universe started leaving & Blizzard merged with Activision. AKA, it's the shameless corporate money generator that's used in basically every industry. Marvel is the exact same.

Same

I mean at this point WoWs story goes on for the sake of going on.

I got around half the video before getting confused

I love time travel stories and that was just confusing crap. I guess they ran out of ideas or got lazy and decided to bring back old characters for profit, but didn't work well so they tried something even more radically stupid with the jailer.

@@Mediados It's nice

Sounds like my ex-wife...