jokujunahi: This is like someone watching Game of Thrones season 1 and 2 and then skipping straight to season 7 and 8.

Ralkern: "You REALLY need to play wow...

Wait no not THAT ONE!"

CustardCream33: This guy's an idiot, reading the quest dialogues and declining them lmao

vicarious_gaming: Just play classic if you want a continuation of the story - the story has progressed 20 years since wc 3

JuanSolos: mad respect for swapping to tank and then full sending with no healer

FuryOfCalderon: This is not Elwynn Forest.

Sixsten: This video is kind of heartbreaking mainly due to how just completely inaccessible that 'follow-up' story you're craving is. Though this video is funnily timed as WoW /just/ redid the entire new player experience to focus on telling a cohesive narrative from start to level-cap (and catches you up to the current story). It also does things like adding 'follower' dungeons and raids which basically means you can do them solo as they come up in the narrative.

There is also 'lorewalking' at max level which are little short stories that give you the follow-ups you're craving, like Arthas' story.

Mainly, this video kinda woke me up to some of WoW's problems as a long-time player,, as you outlined, how much of the game just begs you to not care about it. Talents? Auto-filled. Rotation? One-button. Open-world? Fly-over it.

These are all things players have debated over for literal decades at this point, but I had never considered the angle of a new player looking to genuinely engage with the world. As you also said, veterans typically just say (including myself) 'get to endgame, that's the REAL game', but a new player is there to get lost in the /world/. I think years of player feedback have led to WoW to way to heavily internalize that 'endgame only' mantra, and it has suffered greatly for it.

If you'd like to chat more about WoW outside of a comment section, feel free to reach out. Like any other long-lived franchise, the comment section can get a bit heated lol

H8infi: And here i thought he will start at classic..

Prilliyo: You poor soul

Zaicil: Other people have already mentioned it but you basically jumped from Warcraft 3 to Warcraft 12 which is why there’s things like new characters and Jaina having grey hair

Cadmann778: me watching your intro as a decades long WoW player who follows the story; "Oh no, oh no no no no no"

Lyn685: "Everyone kind of looks like some sort of Disney character."

So true.

PestoTheMaid: "Every boss was just a vessel, actually"

Welcome to Blizzard storytelling.

skyller6853: Did NO ONE tell him to play classic instead of retail bruh

elijah6308: You should have 100 percent started with Classic. Definitely do it

KarazolaYT: Exile's Reach was honestly the single worst decision that Blizzard made. They try to load you with way too much information about the lore, game mechanics, etc. The original starting zones were all about atmosphere. They knew that the most important thing they had to do, was get players invested in the world. They did that by making sure players knew what it meant to live life as whatever race they picked. You understood what it was like to be a Dwarf, or a Tauren, or a Night Elf, or an Orc, or a Human. And in the zones after that, the game slowly opens up and crosses into the other races, and they get to understand how the race they selected fits into their faction, and the wider world. When a player is invested, you don't need to focus on teaching them the gameplay mechanics; Invested players will teach that to themselves.

Sychotix-fc8bw: experiencing both the franchises highs and the lows for the first time in the same year is wiled

LuckyGnom: Wait, but this is not how someone who just finished Warcraft 3 experienced WoW. You were supposed to play base WoW on a private server or Classic WoW from Blizzard.

thenerdbeast7375: "A friendly orc approaches trying to calm him, making me glad that the Horde and Alliance have kept their peace since the Battle of Mount Hyjal 20 years ago."

heh..hehehe...ha ha ha.... Ha Ha Ha.... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAA!!!!!!!

CptRonSolo: You poor man, like 4 days ago they updated the new player experience which adds jaina to the alliance tutorial and thrall to the horde, you wouldve loved that

laverathanf2073: Definitely give Classic a shot. It has more of that open world sandbox feel like OSRS at the cost of having none of the talking head text boxes.

For the current version of WoW, I encourage you to finish it. Jaina does come back into the story and there's a familiar face in the last Alliance zone you've yet to meet, though I think you might only see him on the Horde side while leveling. I also encourage you to look up "Daughter of the Sea." It's probably one of the hypest trailers Blizzard has ever made for the game.

Otherwise, most of your WC3 kicks are gonna come from the Classic, Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King expansions, which you can experience either through Classic WoW itself or in the current version using the Chromie Time stuff you learned about earlier.

safd930: do classic wow! version that came out after the warcraft 3 ended, different team of people are leading and designing the modern wow

CondemnedInformer: You didn't play the continuation of Warcraft 3, you played retail wow. Classic is what you want.

andrewwood1958: Absolute tragedy of modern WoW that you stumbled into BFA first

the.e.g.g.s: oh boy my ass sleep schedule payed off

Exor2: I really recommend playing the vanilla WoW classic server if you want to experience the WoW world most people fell in love with.

There are countless memorable side quests and character there especially if you start as a human.

There is even an addon that voices all quests and even includes the talking portrait like in warcraft 3.

Dec 17 2025

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