WoW Memories: The Temple of Ahn'Qiraj(AQ40) - Episode 7

Reminiscing about my times with the 2nd to last raid for Vanilla!

If you have any suggestions, requests, or just general feedback let me know in the comments or with a message. I try my best to answer as many as I can.

[Emajenus]

The "Why? Because It's Red" is a reference to Warhammer 40K. Where Orks painted their vehicles red because "red makes it go fasta!". And since they all believed it, their collective psychic energy (called WAAAGH!) makes it actually true.

[JonnyOgg]

"he also thought pizza hut was a local chain and was too fancy to deliver"

It's the small details like this why I watch your videos

[TractorBoy]

I remember being 8 years old and watching my mom and aunt do the Ahn'Qiraj War Effort and Raid Tier and just thinking how amazing it was, all these people coming together to push back the Insect hordes, So much nostalgia, makes me wish I could be back there

[NightTheKittenn]

First time I ever went to AQ was for transmog gear, and I was alone in the middle of the night. Was dead silent and then suddenly this lilting voice says “you will betray your friends...”
scared the absolute shit out of me because I’d had no idea c’thun talked during the raid xD

[vvvvvv]

Aint't nothing better than having the weekend off, grabbing a pizza and replaying MadSeasonShow videos over and over <3 this stuff is legit better than all the ASMR stuff for me.

[Zackius]

oh boi oh boi i've became totally addicted to these wow memories/time warp videos since a few days and i just got a new one. GOD BLESS YOU

[norleafelvanui]

That pyroblast-mage story LMAO music and editing is killing me xD

[vaxen]

Will never forget server firsting C'thun. The entire server was in awe of just the guild name as we walked around IF. Great gaming memories.

[petercarioscia]

You're seriously the Bob Ross of Wow commentary 💕

[Maxoule]

man that little guitar at the start relaxes me everytime

[frasermitchell]

Pizza Hut is too fancy to deliver... fking priceless man XD

[thurney]

The Twin Emperors were the toughest and most frustrating...wiped our guild many times! Long run back!!! Neat memories, thanks for the vid!

[justinkaiser]

Love ya mad season. I don’t play anymore but it brings back so many good memories and your stories are awesome...got a knack for great storytelling.

[xgetxsickx]

Your cinematography is truly amazing. I'm completely immersed by the time your intro is finished.

[Kligan]

I discovered this series recently, and I love it! The editing is great!
I have a funny story with Ahn'Qiraj raiding.
Once, when we were killing the last boss of AQ20, our off-tank warrior disconnected. And we didn't really have anyone else to switch him with in the middle of the night. So our raid leader asked me (I was playing a feral druid) if I could possibly offtank the boss in bear form. And for me it was the moment of my life! :D
I never told anyone, but I was collecting some tanking gear that I manage to find here and there, because I wanted some day to off-tank something in the raid. So I replied "heck yeah I can!" and put it on.
We pulled the boss, then it was my turn to take aggro from the main tank. Everything's fine, we're doing it. Now main tank needs to take aggro back... But he can't. I had 100% aggro on me at all times.
Raid leader was shouting at me to stop hitting the boss. And I was shouting back that I'm literally doing nothing, not even targeting the boss!
It went on and on - the boss was throwing me around the area, while I wasn't hitting him or dong anything at all in fact, and the main tank was splitting his ass wide open trying to aggro the boss back, until healers ran out of mana and we wiped.
If I recall correctly, bear form back then had passive aggro gain around it. Even when you don't do anything. And Blizzard went a little to crazy with how much aggro it was gaining.
Hence ended my off-tanking feral druid career in vanilla. Raid leader was pissed. Later he did, however, utilized my "bear" to off-tank some adds in easier raids that we were farming. But never anything serious :D

[MPArmyGDtime]

Twin Emps was our guilds most difficult ever kill. The challenge of it was just insane and just like you said everyone had to be perfect. When we finally took them down the first time I believe we only killed them successfully again 3 more times. As for Huhuran, she was ultra easy for us after the entire guild got enough NR. I was the top dmg dealing mage in the guild and my fellow 2 or 3 mages were just behind me. She was burned out pretty quick. We also killed all optional bosses because loots were scarce and it helped satisfy the people. Only tried Oro after the twins and that was easy but didn't bother with C'Thun because Naxx was out. We didn't even get that far in Naxx either. This was about 1 month prior to BC release and our guild leader and a few officers announced that they are done with WoW entirely. They were good folks out of Quebec and I didn't blame them at all for leaving. They had really busy lives with their families, and I missed them dearly moving on in WoW. AQ40 and Naxx were the guild breakers for sure. Also, the guilds that did stick around in BC broke up anyway because raids were only 25 man (SSC and TK). That's another story. Thanks a ton for the video.

[Beats-ulwt]

I’ve been binge watching every single upload of yours. I am 26 now and can’t wait to relive my teenage years. I never got to raid or see any end game in vanilla, I did TBC. I loved it so much. Enjoy my money you revenue from me :)

[Kugo]

Hey Madseason, I love and appreciate everything you do- keep up the great videos!

[Fantax]

I can't wait for my own adventures in Classic myself. I started in BC and loved the old world so much.

[yvoification]

As someone who cleared aq40 and 40man naxx, I feel immense pride watching this. I also feel horrible memories of fighting to stay awake during twin emps to c'thun clears early in the morning.