The Greatest Adventure in World of Warcraft

From the nostalgic woods of Elwynn Forest to the rustic slopes of Redridge and the dark glades of Duskwood, let's discover what makes this one region the greatest journey in World of Warcraft.

0:00 - Intro
1:25 - Part I: Elwynn Forest
7:27 - Part II: Westfall
14:23 - Part III: Redridge Mountains
20:44 - Part IV: Duskwood
29:45 - Part V: Brotherhood's End

Video Footage:
- Blizzard Entertainment's World of Warcraft (2004-)

Background Music:
- "Elwynn Forest," "Westfall," "Deadmines," "Duskwood," and "Stormwind" from the WoW OST

#worldofwarcraft #wowclassic #seasonofdiscovery

Outro Music:
- "You're The One (Acoustic Rehearsal)" by Greta Van Fleet

Jediwarlock 2024

[cekopeko]

What does the text that appears at the end of the video mean - "tmcdq yzmfzq"? The Jedi mentioned it is a "hidden secret" though a bit too well hidden, to be honest. Am I too short sighted and these are just the initials of his supporters or there is more to it? I've tried looking them on google, read all the comments, even tried to connect it somehow with the outro song, but to no avail. Hope someone sees my comment and try to figure it out together :) Otherwise the video is, as all the others - amazing! This type of content, the one that Jediwarlock and another creator by the name of Verigan make, proves how many hearts and minds this game has won! Thank you! ❤

[kendakgifbancuher]

As a kid, I was unironically scared of Duskwood. I will only stare at it across the river from Elwynn and ponder, what monsters roam there.

[WodkaManostra]

It really shows the devs ran out of time when developing the higher leveling zones. The 1-30 zones are so much better as questing experience.

[BavarianHobbit]

I remember when I was a kid and started playing WoW I created a human warlock.
After leveling through Elwynn, Westfall and Redridge I was supposed to go to Duskwood.
I entered the area through Westfall, walked my way along the main road and then reached the first camp in the center of the map.
I saw a bunch of night watch soldiers ready to fight in the road. Looking towards where I came from.
My curiosity had me waiting and in the distance I saw Stitches appear.
Creeped the hell out of me, I tell you. I ran out of the zone and leveled to level 30 in Wetlands and Ashenvale xD.

[adamizor]

The power of classic wow's writing was in its simplicity. Now in wow you are fighting a god level threat for a daily quest. The simple act of helping out a local struggling militia that is decently hard, with little spells and resources is a more satisfying experience than killing 8 dragons by pulling 20 and using 10 different cds. Classic wow is the best game ever created no doubt.

[bigscrap]

Honestly there is no better leveling experience then the human starting zones. Is absolutely perfect the story is incredible and it's fun

[nakenmil]

Honestly, this sequence - plus the Missing Diplomat and the Onyxia raid - could've been an entire game in its own right.

[LedosKell]

The Defias questline has lived rent free in my head for the better part of 20 years. The entire story of VanCleef, the Stonemasons, Katrana Prestor, it just immersed you into Stormwind in such a great way. What's fascinating to me about the Human starting zone is virtually all of it is fighting other Humans, with a scattered handful of others in it (aside from the Defias it's primarily Gnolls but also some Orcs in Redridge, some undead in Duskwood, Kobolds, and Murlocs). But the Defias make up the bulk of your enemies. You aren't being forged as a soldier to defend against the wrath of the New Horde, you're slaughtering bandits who could very well be your neighbors and family who have flocked to this charismatic craftsman cast aside by the Kingdom he was once sworn to. It's a low intensity civil war ravaging the outer areas of the Kingdom, all because of the machinations of an insidious political figure purposely trying to usurp power within the Kingdom for herself for her own dark agenda. It's great stuff you get bits at a time over the course of these zones plus questlines in later levels all the way up to level 60.

I am biased towards this little piece of Azeroth. I am not someone who came to WoW through WC3, so I wasn't at all familiar with Lordaeron or WC3's story when I first began playing. The Defias were my introduction to Warcraft Humans and Warcraft in general, but Humans are something you can get in virtually every flavor of fantasy. The Defias not quite as much. Their story as a whole is something really special and I believe they hold a special place in a lot of WoW player's hearts, myself definitely included.

[pb]

My dad got his hands on WoW when I was about 2 years old. I’d just sit in his lap and watch the screen. At some point later also tried pushing some buttons, liking that it changes something on the screen, and other players would get offended that I’m “ignoring” their messages (I had no idea someone texted me and only recently learned to read at all, so my dad would have to explain that it was his very little daughter playing). At like 6 I’d create a human warrior and absolutely fall in love with all of these zones. I’m 22 now, DF was the only add-on I missed. Though I enjoy the recent stuff and still get easily lost in the world despite the fact how different it is now, these zones (and music!!), as they were in classic, have a special place in my heart. Recently logged in as one of my oldest human char and did the “lion’s heritage” quest line - it was so touching, especially to finish it as a char that was around for so many years. Probably no other fiction means as much to me as this specific part of WOW.

[sucraloss]

The world building they put together in classic WoW is unbelievably good. So many cool little details make it feel like an actual world. Only in the Elder Scrolls games did I ever experience something like this.

[RocoPwnage]

I've made so many human alts at this point in my life and still every time I get the quest to go scout through Fargodeep Mine I say out loud to myself "I bet it's called the Fargodeep Mine because it far go deep" and I genuinely cannot ever not do it.

[zoltanjambrik]

What I especially love about these four zones, is that it's clearly visible they were part of the same forest. Westfall was clearcut for farmlands, in Redridge the mountains start, but if you look, you can see that they were all one forest some time ago. And the stories somewhat intertwined, too.I just wished they were more connected.

[ddplzz]

I plated Vanilla wow back when it was relatively new, mid 2005, on the patch where they just released Battlegrounds.

My first character was a human mage, and let me tell you, playing through the human zone, on not only a newer server, but when WoW itself was brand new, when every player was playing their first playthrough, when people either choose Alliance OR horde, when people only had 1 class, 1 faction, 1 character. It was a truly magical experience, and doing these zones for the first time, in that environment, was and will always be the absolute peak of gaming.

I remember at the time just being completely floored, just dumbfounded at what an amazing experience it was, little did I know that 20 years... two entire decades later, it still would not have been topped.

Vanilla questing really starts to fall off in the 45s or so, but man, that 1-30... On Humans... absolute peak..

[spaceowl]

0:18 I played Horde my entire life (been playing WoW for 18 years), but I decided to play Alliance on Classic Era when it got popular again a year ago - when I first got to this location my jaw dropped. I don't know exactly why but this location in Duswood has such a thick atmosphere. The small pond besides the monument and statues and the sort of hidden nature of it made me really appreciate that even after 18 years in Azeroth, I still haven't discovered everything.

[evdomos]

Quite literally an unforgettable experience. I have no other heart-stopping nostalgia like anything related to leveling my first Human Paladin.

[MichZilla]

As a life long Horde main, I couldn’t agree more, especially with the option of going to Khaz Modan and seeing Blackrock Mountain loom over you wherever you go, and once you finish all those zones you finally get to see a little closer to the volcano without dying instantly to a fire imp.

[fantasycraft-forge]

For me, the starting zones in classic WoW + TBC are the core of World of Warcraft. They are so different from each other, which makes them special. The music, scenery, and story are all unique. The human starting zone offers the most classic experience in the RPG genre - it doesn't get better than that. Awesome video!

[MichaelLoda]

I was just thinking recently how good the story is around the first Alliance zones around the Defias Brotherhood, so good

[allisonseamiller]

Wow! This is great. Please do more of these. The dwarven experience with the Dark Iron thread would be a great one. From Dun Morogh through through Loch Modan and the Wetlands, finishing with one last quest as you enter Arathi, and then it comes back near max level as you get into the BRM area. There was a real sense of continuity that those were all dwarven lands. Another great one would be that eleven experience from Terdrassil through Ashenvale. Or the undead experience Tirisfal and Silverpine. That one feels like it drops off a bit early, you get past those mages at the end of Silverpine and you're out in the world, but the undead have a lot of late-game lore in the plaguelands so it balances out.

[Hypnotically_Caucasian]

Defeating Morbent Fel was x1000 times more satisfying than anything in Shadowlands