16 Months in Outland – My TBC Story & Review

Today we look back at World of Warcraft's re-release of the first expansion, The Burning Crusade Classic. It was a game that I had some experience with back from 2008, but with so much left to explore.
With us about to enter WotLK Classic, I thought what better time to look back over how everything went down.
Join me today and check out: 16 Months in Outland – My TBC Classic Story and Review

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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
05:00 - Launch
08:58 - The World of Outland
12:11 - Endgame Begins
15:27 - Raiding
22:40 - Class Design
27:44 - Content Pacing
30:13 - PvP, Dailies and Replayability
36:39 - Closing thoughts
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[davidsawyers]

Whos here in 2025 and know we got TBC Anniversary now so TBC is back at the end of the year?

[Manifibell]

It is funny to sit here and watch this now. I wouldn't mind a season of TBC

[marcwirth]

Just stopped half way through the video to let you know how enjoyable it is! Storytelling is on point as usual, and the images already feel nostalgic... keep it up!

[tylerm]

a 40 minute long wille video? what a blessed day

[seagullphilosopher]

The vibes of TBC i think were better than Wrath..that diablo 2 guy soundtrack gave it such a unique atmosphere. I wish they would do a new Classic to TBC to Wrath rotation server. TBC is the only masterpiece expansion to WoW.

[NickPlays]

Really just want to see them bring back tbc classic in the form of Era. I would play forever

[Lintary]

I will never forget my first Karazan raid being a hunter in greens and blues. I got a whisper from a person I boosted through the DM a lot of times months ago pre TBC, "Hey want to raid Karazan? Our hunter didn't show up and we need one." I explained I would love to, but I never done it and I was in greens and blues and his answer "Doesn't matter we need a hunter to kite." and I got an invite and off I went, preforming the ancient mostly lost art of hunter kiting.

[yolover]

It was such a fun ride, got to show 2 friends what wow was about, sadly life happens, only got to play through phase 1 tbc, but it felt so good to be back.

specially returning and doing all the stuff in prepatch with them has been awesome again, reason I loved this game so much, but to be able to play with homies this time around, was so much better. Wrath is my last hurrah, wont do cata, but what a cool lil ride to go back on.

[llwonder]

really hoping for Classic+ like Asmon has talked about: Vanilla WoW world + classic wrath talents and class design. Use this as a base to make new content.

[skyclaw]

i cant believe how quickly time has gone. 1 year ago yesterday Phase 2 TK/SSC came out!!

[Ijjigunzhack]

Started watching you when classic released, ever since I've been looking forward to watching your new videos. You're currently the best wow creator by far, calming voice, interesting topics, good editing, what is there not to like. I could watch a video of you explaining how to cook potatoes and I wouldn't be bored.

[loftus]

I was in a dad guild called Salt on a PVE server. We were a chill group of skilled players with low competitive motivation and it was a great ride honestly. I agree with most of your analysis here. If you were lucky enough to be in a stable guild and were able to progress through all the content as it came out, it was a really fun time. Thanks to all my Salt friends! Loved the video Wille!

[ichbinein]

I could listen to your videos for hours.

I'm quite pleased that Classic TBC was over 6 months earlier than the original release. It lacked the scope of the oringal classic WoW, and got quite boring quite fast. I took a break after phase 2, and came back when Sunwell opened, and I don't feel like i missed much. I also switched my main to a Ret Paladin, as my Guild needed one.

[crimsontorque]

By far my favourite Wow content creator, always get the urge to play again after watching one of your longer vids, nice to see Pyrewood Village is still going strong!

[override]

Damn, I just can't compliment you enough on your details you put in your videos Willie. I love how you did this review in steps right from the beginning. I pretty much agreed with you on everything, with the exception of group/raid wide buffs. As a pally main until TBC, it was a chore to buff everyone. I didn't mind it, but group/raid wide buffs made it much more easier and less time consuming for me.
When TBC launched, I switched to my shammy, as enh was always one of my favorite specs, and in TBC, it got plenty of love.
Unfortunately, this time around, I didn't get to pvp and raid as much as I would've liked to. In Original Vanilla and TBC, I was a young, single punk who didn't have much responsibilities.
This time around on re-releases, I'm working full time and have a family to provide for, as do many of us who try play when we can.
Anyways, I agree with pvp, it just didn't seem as fun as it did "back than." You touched on the exact points that made it difficult for me to enjoy it, catching up and trying to maintain as the game progresses.
Another great upload, much appreciated on the details and honest feedback. It's nice to see these longer videos come out. I really like listening to them while I'm grinding some pre-patch honor. Only these past few weeks, I feel I've been able to enjoy pvp again, because the honor gain is greatly increased, making it easier for a casual dad player to try get gear before WOTLK officially launches.
Cheers, Willie.
Thanks for the upload.

[cole]

Every zone in Outland is gorgeous. Blade's Edge*** Mountains, Hellfire*** Peninsula, and the Bone Wastes*** are meant to be a little dreary... ya know?
The fact people love Zangarmarsh and Nagrand, the lush zones, so much means that the level designers did a great job designing the desolate regions of Outland.
I'm also one of the few people who loves Terokkar Forest as well.

[wylerhunt]

Tbc was my favorite expansion, I quit playing in wrath, my main was shadow priest tho, so not a 1 button raider... I was really hoping for a tbc server, I want to experience prenerf KT and Vashj again😢

[sanneh.]

I definitely agree with you, this expansion had some very high highs but it dipped quite a lot as well. As a more casual player I would've liked to play nerfed Sunwell for a bit before prepatch hit so that my dad guild would also be able to get further than Brutallus. Still, I did manage to kill KJ eventually and as a prot warrior main, maintanking Illidan was the highlight of my expansion for sure.
Overall I liked TBC a lot less than Classic though. I would return to Azeroth but not to Outland.

[samg]

The years creep slowly by, Lorena. The snow is on the grass, again.

[vog]

Well done! I kinda want a WotLK preview of this length before launch and then a lookback at the end.