brianbrigaudit2138: Remember when the first classic rerelease worlds 1st onyxia kill had a lot of mages and most of them aren't even 60.

marioeguerrap: @WillEmmo Man, people forget that the 'Rolling Ignite' wasn't just a mechanic, it was a mathematical disaster caused by the debuff limit. Since the server only allowed one Ignite slot on the boss, the first Mage to crit 'owned' the stack for the entire duration.

The broken part was that subsequent crits from other mages didn’t just refresh the 4-second timer; they added their damage to the existing pool. We’re talking exponential growth where one Mage is ticking for 4k damage every 2 seconds because 6 other Fire Mages are feeding his stack. Of course, this meant the 'Ignite Owner' generated threat for the entire raid's fire damage. The rotation wasn't about DPS, it was about managing who was going to die next so the stack didn't fall off. 10/10 mechanic, would pull aggro and wipe the raid again.

vc3928: Ackshually -- the "holy trinity" originally meant a tank, healer, and control class from EverQuest. It was called that because you needed all three of those roles before you could fill with damage dealers.

/nerd

Edit: Also should add that there was a nerf to Yogg-0 that made him into the version that Classic WotLK saw, and only five guilds killed the pre-nerf version (plus one guild that exploited a holy paladin phased to hold agro on the adds). I don't remember the details of the nerf anymore but it had something to do with making the adds that enrage easier to identify so it was much easier to pull them out with hunters. The pre-nerf version lasted all the way until the ToGC patch and was one of the lowest killed bosses in WoW history, which is why the Starz kill was so impressive. A blue post at the time said that they were relieved Yogg-0 was finally beaten because they were beginning to worry they'd made it impossible.

thomastronstrøm: I did not play the unholy gargoyle phase, but if I recall, Trolls were untouchable on the logs, because of berserk snapshot ting, with everything else

williambriese7527: I’m kinda shocked you didn’t mention stacking 16 aug evokers in a 20 man raid

marc1851: You forgot 40 frost mages in Molten Core.

MasterJohnam: Clicked, paused and commenting before watching:

I hope DK and Warlock Yogg Stars world first kill is mentioned.

williamterry8508: Ferocious bite didn’t refresh Rip until the prepatch in Cata. But dropping Rips with the dmg boost was huge. You also get a tank/dps for Ony. I would tank Ony then swap into cat after she died. Way more productive than rocking 3 tanks. Feral -> Ony, War -> Nef and DK on adds was our server first kill setup

quinn562: This is why og vanilla was great, people just played the game with the people put in front of them lol - it honestly just wouldn't have worked because of how little there was in terms of geared people compared to the rest of the general population, people didn't have room to screw around with crazy comp testing it was too much of a time sink cultivating geared people to begin along with probably being looked at crazy for even suggesting any kind of wild class stacking

I also like the idea of having to stack locks vs yogg from a rp standpoint, sometimes you need to fight the devil with a demon lol

TaKenR6: more WillE content i can watch while i level in classic anniversary to TBC prep!

prainiak5710: I think Fire Mages in Nyalotha deserve a place in this ranking, with Azsharas Font of Power Trinket PvP On Use Trinket

BongGoku: Lots of incorrect information and bad examples here. From claiming every cooldown resets in WOTLK on encounter ending, to using Naxx / Phase 1 as an example of DK class stacking, when TOGC world firsts stacked almost twice as many DKs compared to the Naxx world firsts....

martokotka: The Elder Scrolls ost during classic warrior segment is killing me

Regis_Philbin: Love the videos that go over past metas. As someone who has only been playing for a few years now I always find it fascinating.

Perryjin1: Factorio Music playing :D

BigBoss-zw6ft: WillE you forgot to mention that the arcane mage meta also included swapping an old mage set popping your cds and swapping back to the current gear. This was one of the reason why they disabled old sets from working for higher level characters.

padshardbank: Your videos are comfort videos i put on when doing chores or stretching. Keep it up mate!

martinwinther6013: The Bloodlust example is a good example for why the "holy trinity" is spawn from hell.

We should defo revisit the idea, and mebbi add a 4th whos role is there to make everybody stronger. A buffrat so to speak, that by hes/hers mere presence can dbl the dps and make the tank twice as hard to kill while giving the healers bigger/faster heals/wards/cures.

Different buffrat will benefit different classes. Mebbi one benefits ranged, another melee, a 3rd arcane etc. Will open up for sick grpcomps, and the game will have a class we can play while drunk af; grps and even raids will want them as long as they can drop thier buffs.

Kurnhelios: Shadowlands Rated Battlegrounds be like “Yep, 7 boomies is good”

General12th: Hi Will!

stevenschaeffer9475: Sad hunter never seen the spotlight

daviddunt545: warriors scale of all the states that gear provides. other classes dont. fix this one issue and they immediately stop being over powered. imagine what the dps meters would look like if spell casters had their damage scale off int.

qu3nt: bring the class not the player

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