The Hardest Grinds in World of Warcraft - Episode 1

Some of the grinds in this game are insane!

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[senors]

Prob the best wow related channel on youtube, love your work

[stefanshin]

The nostalgia, I remember my mom grinding for months to get the title back in Wotlk on her mage, I had to help her because when she was killing in Booty Bay people kept attacking her and I came along to PvP
Good times

[madseasonshow]

I was thinking of knocking out this grind out soon. I'll probably record & make an updated guide if you guys would find that handy

[autismolink]

I can‘t really explain how much I appreciate your videos. Im usually just lurking in your streams and listening to these videos over and over again, because they help me fall asleep. It just gives me a comfy vibe, since I know all of them so well. Much love!
- from a usually quiet watcher

[dfuher]

We had a rainy summer back during Wrath, so I figured, that was the time for "Insane". I spent 5 weeks in Dire Maul doing the Shen'dralar and Steamwheedle reps for 8-12 hours per day, until I was doing it in my dreams too. I leveled a rogue just to do the pickpocketing for Ravenholdt. The most timeconsuming was Darkmoon, which is soooo easy now. I completely lost count of all the hours/days/weeks, I spent picking herbs, grinding herbs and making cards, hoping to get complete decks to hand in. Even tho ppl cant tell, that I got the title pre-nerf, Im still very proud of it, coz I know.
And after that, all other grinds dont really seem that bad.

[hurtzz-lzgl]

Ive never played this game but the sound track always touches my heart. I can imagine 30 years from now kids listening to that song and just feel an overwhelming since of nostalgia from the past.

[AnubisofScorpio]

It's been years since I did this (shendralar included) and I always forget about ravenhold, only the vaguest of memories of running lbrs on my rogue alt. I maintained honored with bloodsail by grinding enemies close to ratchet and on the ships in Grizzly hills. Went through a lot of audiobooks back then, James Bond, wheel of time and the like. Wouldnt do it again but I wear the title proudly still, my personal badge of stupidity.

[Phiil]

I’ve spent the past two weeks of my life watching Mad Season videos. I haven’t binged this hard since they put South Park on HBO Max nor have I been as happy. Good stuff

[snuffeldjuret]

Just here for the intro. Remembering watching these videos in "preparation" for wow classic. As I hadn't played that much wow, but enough, classic was an amazing combination of nostalgia and new content for me. What a blessing that was.

[TDGenX]

I did the original Insane grind (completed it in 09). I have over 70+ exalted reps. It was a brutal grind (along with a few others). You were spot on describing all the things that had to be done. I spent a lot of gold buying cards and decks - I lived in the auction house and trade chat buying up diamonds (months)! The librams were a PITA because of them being unique and all the individual mats required to turn one in. It truly made me angry when Blizz nerfed it and just gave us a legacy achieve for Shen'dralar. I haven't worn the title in years because of that. Thankfully, I still have my original PvP titles!

Also I love your videos so much! They're clear, concise and well researched. Keep it up!

[reecevaughan]

I remember farming timbermaw rep for weeks just so I could get the agility enchant lol

[austinwilburn]

For anyone wondering, killing the goblin for 1 rep each with a 7 minute respawn, assuming any downtime, such as combat time killing him, taking a second to notice he spawns etc. We'll say 7 minutes and 15 seconds each cycle, or otherwords 435 seconds.
435 x 20, 999 = 9134565 seconds
9134565 / 60 = 152242.75 minutes
152242.75 / 60 = 2537.3791667 hours
2537.3791667 / 24 = 105.724139445 days
now 105.7 days doesnt sound too "insane" but you have to remember thats 105.7 days straight all wow through out. So lets say this man spends his day in 3s, 8 hours work, 8 hours grind, 8 hours sleep.
thats 317.1723958334 days. Accounting for little things in life that can distract someone for a "day". You might as well say this man spent 1 year, one entire year killing the same green skin scrublord. There should be a honor held in his name.

[Esinar]

'The Insane' title back in Wrath took months. I remember spending days of game time in Dire Maul farming that quest and Thousand Needles farming herbs for Darkmoon cards. People that did it after Cata - and especially after the Darkmoon Island rolled around - really have no idea how 'insane' it actually was back then. These days it's more like 'The Mildly Mental' :P

[ZybakTV]

I did the old school Winterspring Frostsaber mount grind. Was super cool being one of the only people on my server to have one....then Blizzard made it piss easy :(

[UnicornRobotAttacker]

Im knee deep in the dark depths of finals right now.... Im extremely grateful that I have the excitement of WoW Classic and the sound of your soothing voice to keep me going. Love and appreciate your videos, they just make me happy!

[EnjoyChickens]

I've been reduced to watching videos about wow grinding to cope with wow classic anticipation. I'm in big trouble.

[DrmRr]

Tbh, I'm not really sure, which one was worst for me - Insane in the membrane or Hero of Shattrath. (Goddamn basilisk eyes... )With all the grind, at some point you just zone out and don't really pay attention. BUT, the achievements that nearly drove me insane were:
1. Draenor curator - 1289 total solves. RNG stacked up on RNG, then more RNG on top. And with no flying at the start, this felt like the most mind-numbingly tedious achievement I've done. Oh yeah, and no reward for that either, except for you get to throw your junk in the pantry of the Horde garrison.
2. Going to need a bigger bag - Sometimes I still have nightmares about farming crabs. Sadly I missed the time when the pets were tradable and counter towards the achiev. As of now, I am still missing 3-4 items, but I gave it up. It's just not worth it. Killing crabs for a full hour, just so it spawns on the other side of the island, where some trigger-happy dude blows all his cds on it, as if he just saw Sargeras himself. For a measly 10ap? Good riddance.

[Xombie]

Even though I haven't been playing wow your recent videos have really interested me, keep up the good work!

[TheBlaert]

Sceptre of the Shifting Sands. Hell of a grind during Vanilla

[deltacojames]

I’ve never played WoW in my life but for some reason I can’t stop watching your videos