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  • I realy wish i was playing back then, it looks so awesome, the most thing is that it is so far away in time now and i would loved to play back then =).. anyone have a video where i can see how the zones and mobs looked like??

  • RIP WoW 2004-2010

  • This was when the game was FUCKING epic. This video gave me chills. I was a bystander for an AQ opening back in the day. </3 Miss this type of fun, real talk.

  • Why blizz? Whys did u make wow so eazy now? Only for the money?

  • back in the days when it took at least 50 real raiders to take down something that big. now u can solo onyxia as a DK -.-

  • @Sperandio09 you can solo the lich king with a dk acctualy.

  • It's a sad thing to think that all these players that i just seen probably quite wow.

  • I hope they make another world event as epic as this one, this was the the thing that just amazed me in my time of playing wow

  • i dont care what any one says, i love the classic dungeons, of vanilla... i want blizz to bring this one back!

  • This is when I loved this game, Its far too dumbed down now... no challenge in anything, its was all about the money from bc forward.

  • wow...i'm a the medivh server and alot of the guilds i saw in that vid are still around.

  • Jan 23 2006? I was skiing

  • These event are why people loved WORLD OF WARCRAFT back in the days. Unique world event, where you could move outside from the cities, and do something OUTSIDE, IN THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT. Now everyone just sits on their asses in the 2 major cities, and queue BGs, dungeons from there. Cities of Warcraft.

  • Geil :)

  • Totally agree with Nickpatient there PvP was totally unbalanced I played a roge i lost 2 duels out of 500 ... nothing more to say really

  • If anyone wants to play Pre-BC and BC servers, goto wow-one dot com, pick which server you want to play on, and follow the instructions and register. There's even a download link for the 1.12 patch.

  • I would be forever grateful if Blizzard made a pre-TBC server.

  • @xzbyte2002 I'd like to get pre-TBC and TBC server^^

  • @xzbyte2002 True. But honestly? The nostalgic feeling wont come back. I promise you that. It's a memory in your mind, a very positive. If you have actually have the chance to play this Game again like it was back there - all nostalgica would be lost. It's the exact same thing with other non-mmo games you remember: When you re-install them, you a) think "Wow I thought that gfx would look better!" and so b) the whole feeling is a different one. Not negative, but different.

    /waiting for Titan

  • @Nhordmyr no.... i play again classic and it came back the epic feeling !

  • Blizzard should seriously consider server events on a scale like this again. The servers are upgraded and should be able to withstand massive events like these.

  • So many years have past, and vanilla is still my fondest memory of all time :-(

  • thanks for the video... i have some fond memories the night AQ opened on frostmane. i remember a giant beetle near cenarion hold punting me halfway across the zone to my death but i just so happened to land next to a guildie i was grouped with who proceeded to rez me using jumper cables....good times

  • I think we all agree wow was on his top in BC, Vanilla had some great stuff, but getting disconected all the time isn't so great as some of you may think. The game was just still in development: mechanics were terrible, the game had a lot of bugs, and pvp was just horrible.

  • this was singularly the best thing blizzard ever decided to do, no exceptions imo

  • lmfao i love the noobs that are like "omg w t f thay hav airlums wtf!!!!!" hahaha idiots

  • lol at the wrath and cata babies saying vanilla sucks, hey kids go back to Xbox

  • @madhorde i am quite a wrath kid... but I wish ive played vanilla :(

  • @madhorde lol, wrath and cata babies want to play vanilla because they think it was awesome??? They dont think it sucked

  • @DarkBoneFTW It didn't, at least not for me, even tho i was a casual. I enjoyed every hard bit of it. I honestly did.

  • You guys actually don't miss vanilla, you miss the feeling to start something new and fresh. Remember molten core, no one can tell me this was an exiting time.

    greetings from Switzerland and have a nice day :)

  • @aabbcc5631 This is true, it's the memories you miss...I started in Wrath, but i miss it and i know it wasn't the best content, but it's the memories i have with it, if I had memories of bc and vanilla content, i'd miss it too...but you gotta move on people, you woulda been bored of MC, AQ, and Naxx 40 by now i'm sure...considering 5% of people were even good enough to get in naxx 40.

  • laggggg fest :D

  • i wish i joing wow just a litle bit earlyer so i could get that black battle tank

  • @picketingemu Judging by your English your fucking stupid, and stupid people don't just "get" the black battle tank, so no, you wouldn't have got it, idiot.

  • @WrathMuffin mate think you are so big by making fun of ppl with spelling problems well your not big or anything like that for you are just a sad sad basterd. so get over the fakt that some ppl have spelling problem s and not every fucking word is ever spelled to you fucking satisfaction

  • @picketingemu Cool, if you wanted to insult me back you could've made the effort to spell right as well, but you didn't.

  • @WrathMuffin wasent an insult just pointing out that you an incosideret prick with no life

  • @WrathMuffin "Juding by your English your fucking stupid." i think maybe you are the one who is stupid ;p, so the majority of germans, french african chinese japanese swedish etc etc etc are stupid because they can't speak english so well if its their second language?

  • They should do a server wide event like this for Deathwing.

  • Its just pathetic that you can faceroll AQ 40 in 30 minutes now.....

  • for preTBC lovers check my channel - you are going to love it. I play on a blizzlike private server with raids that come out fully scripted. we are currently doing MC and ZG so you wont miss much :) And if you have a lvl 60 or above in retail then you get a free lvl 60 in our realm :)

  • i see alot of Privates down there.

  • Sadly, for the way the in game storyline has turned, we are unlikely to ever see an event like this again, involving hundreds of players all working in tandem. That said, I actually think it would be cool to see the qiraji eventually become a playable race.

  • @Nickpatient AMEN

  • @Nickpatient i agee before tbc i wood have said wcIII is way better why it is better now 1:cooler zones: most of the old were bad 2:flying mounts and new mount graphics look way cool 3:better story: the old wow did not have a set storyline just look at the dungeons patch wise 4: cooler looking bosses and dungeons 5: death knight 6: the races have story-lines 7: city looks much better 8: old world exploring gets boring cause when you find a cool place they kick you off 9: battle grounds
  • @Nickpatient

    I started out in Vanilla so I don't know that much about it since I was a newbie then. But in both Vanilla and TBC( remember this is my opinion )it was simple but still a really fun game. Sure, the graphics, sounds etc has improved much but the charm is gone. All we have now is rude heirloom bastards when you're leveling and almost everyone on the server is 85 with some epics. I remember that it felt like a journey from 1-70 and it was fun to just level and the raids were also epic

  • @Nickpatient I got to admit though, I still enjoy the game now also and I shouldn't complain really hehe. The only thing I really hate these days are the damn players, the social part is dead compared to vanilla/tbc in my opinion.

  • @Nickpatient your words in gods ear!

    greetings from Switzerland :)

  • @Nickpatient It is so nice to see someone with common sense who doesn't get overwhelmed by rose glasses. I honestly feel like most people who say Pre-BC was the best era of WoW never played in Pre-BC. It was good for its time but the game has improved significantly.

  • @tacticalsabre I suppose world PVP was at it's best in vanilla. I think PVP overall was best in TBC and nowadays the raids and pretty much most of the game is really great. :D

  • @Nickpatient World PVP was undeniably strong in Vanilla and while I do miss it pvp was really, really imbalanced in Vanilla. lol (Not just world pvp, that's always unfair; I mean like bg's certain classes could just wreck everyone if they had T2 gear.)

  • @Nickpatient I think that if some vanilla servers where put out people would see and put this behind them.

  • @Nickpatient The fact that 99,9% of all Wow-Vets like Vanilla much much more than everything now in Wow is - despite the massive grind you had to do back in those days - you had to EARN your shit! Nothing was shuved up your ass like nowadays. Ofc it was bugged, but everybody got over it. What I remember extremely negative where only the Server-Issues. I played EQ and Daoc aswell and no other MMO before caught me like this back there. Like with everything: Enjoy it while it lasts.

  • @Nickpatient Hah. You forgot the point of this game, fun. PvP was way better in Classics, fuck bg, world PvP is the shit and it's still as unbalanced as before, but hey who cares it's still FUN. I raided shitload 40-man back then, the mechanics did not suck, in that case you suck at this game. Organize a huge raid of 40 players, making tactics for challenging bosses, that is FUN. Now raiding is dumb as fuck it's easy as shit and generally boring. But hey! that's just our opinions man.

  • @Nickpatient yes i did i menaged to complete like 90-95% of all content ... 40man lag ??? did you play on retarded computer meybe you did who knows... balanced pvp was not you're saying hmmm...was more balanced than it ever was ... im sorry that you didnt get gear like you get now - for face but for weeks and months of farming and game mechanics sucked ? now im sure you didnt play vanilla atleast not when it was max content since all tbc/wotlk/cata emchanics have been copied from vanilla ;) l2p

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  • @Nickpatient

    t as an real RPG player i must say the new changes are absolutly fail.

    in pe bc times it was something special 2 kill c´thun or the or 2 see him after the twins.

    now every kid can say "i have killed the lich king"

    its a great feeling 2 stand in front of a "boss" with 40 man .

    it is much less spectacular when you killed him already with a 10 man group.

    damn i want the old world events back!

    in Vanilla i feeled like in an other world an not like in a game.

    fucking casuals!

  • @MISTERnoTIMEforYOU Well ofcourse everyone can kill Lich King, that was an expansion ago. I have to say, Wrath was the shittiest expansion ever and should have been drowned at birth but, Cataclysm is really a lot better than Vanilla. I also think TBC content was really good as it changed things but yeah, Wrath made me vomit from my eye balls and I hate the fact that everyone could PUG fucking everything. - Complaining that people have a life outside of videogames is lame.

  • @Nickpatient

    i dont complane,

    i mean listen 2 @123pohobia123 thats all.

  • @MISTERnoTIMEforYOU not casuals, kids, i never minded casuals, thats why there were guilds :p, and i went casual for a while and it was fun hanging out with friends and doing fun stuff, but in a way i agree with you almost no skill is involved now and the game is dumbed down so much its made me facepalm countless times, and now the mists of pandoria is coming you can see this is a game for kids now, completely dead and no chance to come back, R.I.P World of warcaft, 2004-2011

  • @Nickpatient im not gonna bitch at your comment but i wish they did more world events like this

  • @chain5aw1 Yeah, so do I. I think everyone else does too. To me the whole point of something being MASSIVELY multiplayer is for servers to be able to work together like this. They said at Blizzcon that they'll probably never do something of this scale ever again. :/

  • @Nickpatient mechanics sucked? Razorgore and Vindiucous had great mechanics and were fun same with vaelstraz

  • LOL at the people who voted for this guy @Nickpatient

    sure it had its flaws, but it was FUN, raiding with 40 people, bosses were harder, world PVP... now everyone just sit and waits in their cities, HOW IS THAT BETTER?

  • pretbc(dot)org <--- best preTBC server! check it out !

  • remember the first few days of WoW :D good days many of my friends played it, and now it's like a bad game ? i wonder what happened :/

  • man i miss vanilla days :( and BC days too

  • omg.. the first person to ring the gong was a GNOEM!>!>!!!!!!

    o thank god, it was a troll

  • omg.. the first person to ring the gong was a GNOEM!>!>!!!!!!

  • im pretty sure this was the biggest questline that ever existed in any mmo... the things needed to open the portal are just... lots and lots xD

  • @eggslayer2121 Fo' sho'. The sheer number of materials that were needed as well as the fact that any level player could contribute to the 'war effort' made it a truly memorable event. I remember booking the morning off work, having logged off in Silithus the night before,I logged in just before the time that the gong would be rung. My latency was 1000+ and I stared at a frozen screen for a few minutes, then I was dead. It sucked at the time, but looking back, it was brilliant. :D 

  • Pretty cool video.

  • What's the music used for this called?

  • Its so epic from the view of a gnome! I only hope Cataclysm bring this years back.... But the past is the past, and Pre-BC times were the best by far although all that hours farming an trying to get items.

  • i started playing vanilla after they opened the gates and can someone plz tell me why they got opened and what was the lore behind it

  • I remember farming to open the gates; those were some good days.

  • they should of done this when they opened the Icecrown citadel The Fucking door just opened after the next patch no war or anything

    Blizzard, no point in putting all those mobs in front

  • @leon625 pretty anticlimactic then huh?

  • RESIST!XD

  • vanilla wow raids where the hardest/toughest... aq 40!.. bwl.. all toughies

  • They need to set MC, BWL, ZG, AQ20, AQ40 all to have Heroic modes for level 85s! Unfortunately, They're taking ZG out of the game in Cataclysm=(

  • In my opinion, they should of raised the level cap. But, they should of made all the epics still hard to get. I remember, when most 60's still had some Superior items on them.... Good Times

  • Some of theese guy do have something thats look like heirloom shoulders and chest

  • @DrCaboom becouse the design has be taken of the old vanila items =)

  • I remember when this opened, my guild didn't go near it for a week or so : /, we went the first day but it was so laggy, the framerate was just awful.

  • if u wanna relive classic wow go to feenix.nl awsome pre bc server

  • I wish WoW would create pre BC and wotlk servers alongside the current ones, that way everyone is happy.

  • classic wow server w w w . vanilla-gaming . c o m

  • classic is the best

  • A few people tried to get an AQ40 raid set up today. More people were interested in ICC10/25. gearscoregearscoreblahblah.

  • omg nostalgy...im cryin

  • I'm nostalgiaing out of my ass right now.

  • Lol guys, I miss pre-bc too but if it were ALWAYS Pre BC, then WoW would have gotten Boring. It's alwyas fun to lvl up and see new stuff, not always lvl up to 60 and see the same stuff all over again.

  • @Theb0bmeister94

    When people say they miss preBC, what they are really saying is they miss the kind of game it was back then. Epics weren't on welfare, end-game zones were epic 40 man events and etc. Blizzard could of continued what they were doing in classic with MC, BWL, and Naxx on into BC and WoTLK but nope they caved to all the whiners and carebears who complained, since they sucked at the game, that they couldn't do all the zones and get any purples.

  • @Macr0Micr0 True true. Blizz made WoW easier so they wouldnt lose any players but seriously, they made WoW too easy T_T

  • @Macr0Micr0 I think at the beginning they wanted to continue the game almost as it was before BC, but that was the time where you still needed a prequest for Karazhan and all the other instances. Now everything is for free and there is no feeling of satisfaction anymore when you get an epic item. Before WotLk you knew what you were playing for.

  • if you want to play PreTBC go to pretbc(dot)org . Im playing there right now and it is a blast! :)

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  • i remember being there watching it..................the whole srver was just standing ther waiting

    it was on my birthday too

  • lol i was on when this happened everyone started freaking out saying there were dead bodies all around gadgetzen i lollllllzed

  • OMG when i was lvl 13 hunter back in pre bc i saw one of those at crossraods he was lvl 12 elite i was able to kill him and he dropped 100 gold 

  • I hear in Cata we get to see more of those Egyptian Anubis monsters in Uldum (since the whole zone is Egyptian themed)

  • I remember this. MY computer crashes three seconds after teh gates opened.

  • yeah really!!!! the were!!!!

  • The old wow is lame think about it, took forever to get a mount really lvl 40.Walking was a bitch at low lvls when i really needed the mount then,and when i do get a mount its no fun. Example, its like giving a car to a old man who will die in 3 days whats the point. lvling from 50 to 60 took forever.Lol i never got a chance to do those old raids,about time i hit lvl 60 was when romurs of wowlk THE END :)

  • @LaughingMan9000 WoW was never supposed to be easy.. But apparently it is now.

  • @LaughingMan9000 The old wow actually took work and skill. If you where there for the epic opening of ahn'qiraj(i was) then you would know the wait was worth it

  • can't help it.. blizzard should have just added new continents/areas instead of also adding levels and changing gameplay. And now this cataclysm expansion has me worried:| i hope they decide to come out w/a classic server or something if they want everyone new & old to be happy! i can only wish.. thee music rocks in this vid & thx tokeh for posting=)

  • I still "like".. WoW, but classic times I say "luv" because it was more challenging ever since ppl were lv1. Also, these instances/raids have been long forgotten by most, or noobs that don't even know anything about 'em.. currently my newborn undead-lock(60) is doing vanilla style, Lol!

  • pretbc . org

    We can have stuff like this again with your help <3

  • how many people in the vid is still playing?

  • Yeah this event was nice and all, but LK is where WOW shines. Before almost no one was able to get gear good enough to do endgame content like Naxx40, BT and SW. Granted the emblem systems have its flaws but now more people can take a shot at the LK. I don't miss vanilla at all. BC was good though.

  • @plutarch78 I must agree on a few points because i never had the chance to play vanilla , at the end of the day i do wish i had been there for such a memorable moment in wow's history but you can still get these moments within the game today ... and it allows more players to see endgame content not just those who can play night and day , Blizz have done us a favour by giving us the chance to have a life and be able to raid

  • this was good times when i was there,and when moo did get the scarab lord that was pretty awesome to see :D

  • OMG WHAT WAS THAT SONG AT THE END

  • Contra soundtrack from original Nintendo hahah

  • i agree, classic wow rules!!!

  • I would die for a classic realm!!

  • god dam at the beginning you could see a lot of player with private or copreal but blizzard had to take it out that suck i want pre bc and woltk out

  • I wish they had all the talents and skills and stuff the have now, so the game is balanced, but never came out with BC/WOTLK raids

  • i wish BC and WoTLK never came out...these were the good old days pre-BC and all:) !!

  • @ikilltreesyeah Totally agreed. Should have kept adding new level 60 raid content.

  • @ikilltreesyeah I agree I hate WOTLK and TBC I wish they could have a Pre-TBC realm just 4 the people that loved it

  • @ikilltreesyeah So true!

  • @ikilltreesyeah i agree yet dont agree, i think they should make vanilla only servers and TBC servers too, so people can experience the game at its peaks.

  • @ikilltreesyeah Well with Cata it's gettin back to something like vanilla wow. :D

  • Oops, my previous comment somehow vanished :/ Anyway.

    For those wondering about the music - it's not as someone stated in comments "LCO", it's "ICO" - a PS2 game. You may know it's unofficial sequel "Shadow of the Colossus". Anyway, music tracks used here are from the soundtrack of "ICO", to be more specific these are: "Queen" and "Entity" by Michiru Oshima.

  • Thanks for sharing that flawless info, I cannot describe with words how much it means for me finally knowing who made this music.

  • People are saying, ! I wish they would bring vanilia back. Well, Would u really love to play the same game for 5 years? huh? nothing new? they game world die in like 1 and a half year. am just saying.

  • @masterbias

    well do you really want to go another 5 years with shit ass expansions with shit ass raids and stupid ass gear?

  • AGAIN NO New gear or other stuff ect. = NO players = No game. Ur mentally retarded stop playing wow.

    And Yes i will . but the gear is getting to owerpowered ;o

  • I'm metally retarded? rofl. im not going to stop playing WoW because of some scrub who never played in vanilla told me to.

    You sound like one of thoes scrubs who farmed his t9 a day after he hit 80 and got carried through ToC.

    Gtfo lols.

  • And Learn how to spell lols, you in the downsyndrom class or what?

  • Sry mentally* Sure am, but ur still retarded and dont really care. if i spell wrong. Why write gtfo when u Replayed my sentence u stupid a55 fucker, no reason to be so stupid as u .

  • Rofl cool story bro, atleast I can spell 3 letter words unlike some downsyndroms like you. Rage more, please do you seem pretty mad, it's entertaining seeing scrubs like you rage over a stupid youtube comment box. But feel free, rage more bro, thanks for the laugh. Oh and please buy a how-to-spell ABC book or something because your just making yourself look like an idiot.

    "Replayed my sentence u stupid a55 fucker"

    Is that english? do you come from some shit poor country or something? Lols.

  • "your just making yourself look like an idiot."

    Should be you're not "your". Ironic >_>

  • @holl0wed

    Touche

  • most people who say they wish to bring back vanilla are the people who never played vanilla, and looking at it seems epic for them. I've played vanilla and it was great, but progression is good too

  • the only people that I know that wish vanilla back are the people that played it, including myself.

    The whole atmosphere in wow was so much better... Now it's all about gearscore, 100 types of caps you gotta get, etc ...

    Blizzard tries to put too much into wow ... just bring back the simplicity of for example elwynn forest ^^

    Had to get that of my chest :P

  • true, I liked where everyone was on one continent as well.. but I think in cataclysm some of it will come back, because outlands etc will be a ghost town

  • @arnovs1989 Totally agree with this comment. The game felt epic and gearing up was a constant challenge, but compelling. Everything was fresh and exciting. Now it comes down to doing enough heroics and epics get handed to you on a platter.

    The old zones are the best zones. I will miss Mulgore come Cataclysm.

  • totally agree

  • @arnovs1989 Bullshit. I played it, and yes. I can easily say that it took two hours to form a 40 player group. no thank you, I prefer quality over quantity hehe :)

  • @PlaguedMan you just shouldve looked for a nice guild ... I never had such problems

  • @PlaguedMan

    It takes just as long to form a 40m today. The only 40m in the game atm is For the Hode/Alliance though.

  • @arnovs1989 EXACTLY! Simplicity!! :(

  • boy, i miss 40-man pve

  • wow and TBC were the best

  • lol u realize those  monsters were scarabs lol

  • good old times..

  • Cmon, some one must know where this music is from O.o?

  • Can anyone help out to get the music listed that is heard in this video? In the credits it said "Ahn'Qiraj music by LCO". I googled and googled, but my question still remains ...what is LCO? Is it a game, movie, serie, orchestra etc ...? Or something else?

  • Classic wow is way better then Wraith of the Noob king

    come one you don't even need to try anymore.

  • @MetalMari0 Rather that than weeks on raids, or farming rep.

  • where is the gates of ahn-qiraj?

  • @srod1855

    southern Silithus

  • I remember gathering herbs & leather and then turning them in at IF. These days were epic.

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  • The most I did for this was add to the war effort :C

  • Damn straight mate!

  • It makes me sad that I started playing World of Warcraft when Wrath of the Lich King was released. It pretty much sucks, compared to the epic things that happened in Vanilla. Opening of Ahn'Qiraj is just one of the things that are hyper-epic!

  • lol i actually started playing WoW when my server's AQ gates were opened, i kept getting killed in start places and i was like 'wtf is there a bug or somethin?";

  • sooooo where do u pick up the first quest to open aq? i'm xfering my 80 dk to one of the new servers and doin the opening to get the legendary mount

  • @jmc59462

    On February 6, 2009, sometime after Patch 3.0.8a, Bornakk posted on the forums that the Ahn'Qiraj gates will automatically be open on all new future realms. He would also later clarify in the thread that there are no plans to have an alternative method to obtain the Black Qiraji Battle Tank.

    On February 11, 2009 Server:Nesingwary US was the world's first realm to be opened in this way.

    Patch 3.2. The commendation officers in all major cities were removed and replaced with mailboxes.

  • you'll be deceived , the mount cannot be obtained anymore , because every new server already have their ahn quiraj gate open .