The Weirdest Ways Players Minmaxed Classic WoW

Skull of impending doom

you using the light of elune gave me a mini-panic attack

It’s not “hard to replicate” it’s that everyone would hate it. Yeah sure it’s cool that they could chug expensive flask and get the world first horde clear, but doing it every single week would be absurd

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My impression was that people hated the minmaxxing buffs in classic. It was like a second day job.
I can't help but think holding a light of elune in your bags from eons just for that one "epic" occasion, it's a bit over the top.

How could you not mention how alliance can get warchief’s blessing?

I wish some of these things were still tradeable/farmable

no mention of Diamond flask? Warriors stacking the +healing gear and regenerating 100's every 5 seconds was kinda wild

vanilla is literally the best version of wow because of stuff like this. TBC and Wrath was more streamlined but lost a lot of the fun and crazy aspects. You didn't NEED to do world buffs for raids. You could easily find a dad guild or transfer to a pve server and not suffer 90% of what people cried about. I enjoyed parsing and going hardcore, getting r14 gear and almost bis in naxx. Best raiding experience ever. Best pvp ever. best memories ever. Nothing compared, not one other expansion except maybe the OP deathknights at the beginning of wrath.

Holy shit, I didn't know popping that mana flask just gave you extra mana instantly, I would have assumed it worked like most other things where when you 'increase your max' it ONLY increase your max, your current stays exactly where it is. And on top of that you could spam it?? Holy shit.

The arathi basin pots were on a separate cool down from normal pots so you could use those too.

i knew all of those, and i always knew that they were overpowered.. however they always ended up sitting in my bank FOREVER, since it feels like there's never a good time to use them.
I feel like a big nerd knowing all of these lol.

Fish. Liver. Oil. Because of this level 21 quest reward item, I hit my first and last 100 parse in Naxx as a fury warrior

As a healing Shaman in ONSLAUGHT I approve of this video.

Be honest. Who uses Gliderbot back in the day? Lol

Onslaught was distill spamming as far back as BWL speedruns, definitely wasn't a new strat for naxx.

Progress efforts was wild !

I wonder how long it's going to take people to realize that min/maxers are the reason why Classic came and went in the blink of an eye.

Back in Vanilla I 10-manned deadmines all the time! Super fun, meant you could take a lot of lowbies with you

What I find interesting about unique quest rewards is that there are many of them in the early areas but after 10-20 levels there are almost none of them. It's like they ran out of ideas or time to implement those special items. It's quite sad because those items added a lot of flavor to the game.

I personally think the poor gear itemization of classic made acquiring gear more fun. Complete a quest with four possible options of gear, all four suck. Or maybe one is a fantastic piece that sticks with you for a few levels. It really felt like GOOD gear was more impactful and important, even at max level.

Absolutely hated being forced to do this every week

lol I like how vanilla wow dev has 145$$ donation goal. Cmon man xD

There are a few more oddities like this. The most notable is the turn in for a Warrior's Diamond Flask apparently also gains a buff for others. Another is on Patchwerk all the troll mages getting their health to next to nothing before pull by standing in slime to get more oomph out of the berserking racial (and using demonic runes as a dps increase for the same reason). Juju farming and crazy holiday items farming (mistletoe [suiciding in TB to clear the debuff], candy [armies of lowbie alts], etc) is another. All the silly things related to ignite management could also be a video in itself.

I knew a spriest in SoM that would use wisdom and spell power back to back anytime he went oom. It was wild

Calling it "Blackfathoms Deep" instead of "Blackfathom Deeps" actually maddened me.

I just come back to play white mane I love the 40 man raids so much fun

All normal stuff a great raider should be doing

Aw yee, there was also a buff at the end of Dire Maul, but I think it was just s decent bit of HP? The more interesting things though, were weird items with unique pvp applications. The craziest one I recall, was this offhand (Skull of Doom or something like that?) That could be activated to increase move speed and DoT yourself...why is this significant? Because it countered Polymorph, Blind, and any CC that broke on damage. And as an offhand, you could swap it in and out as necessary. A lesser one I recall being a big deal was a leather helm that shot a fireball with a dot, and a trinket that casted poison. These were big deals for rogue v rogue fights, because it allowed you to DoT at range, making it so an enemy rogue could not vanish away and escape or cheapshot. Engineering had hella useful items for this, be it the rocket helm's 20sec incapacitate, or MC helm, or the glorious elemental reflect trinkets (ever have a mage taunt you with emotes as they prepared to unleash all their cool downs to nuke you, only to nuke themselves to death?) ...gooood times.

Its videos like this that make me even more sick to my stomach that Blizzard didn't allow us to face pre-nerf C'thun. I still think he would've gotten rofl'stomped in Classic WoW lol

The Flame Deflector. It's a consumable item costing bronze, wool, and flame sacs, crafted by engineers (although engineering is NOT required to use it). It grants a shield blocking a mere 500 fire damage, and importantly, does not share a cooldown with potions or healthstones.
The catch? The schematic has a whopping 0.5% drop rate off of the final boss of Gnomeregan, so any engineer looking to craft these will likely have to repeatedly solo one of the game's more frustrating mid-level dungeons.
It has obvious uses in MC and BWL, but it's also quite useful for fighting mages in pvp, because charges of it are so incredibly cheap, and even frost mages will often use Fire Blast as part of a burst combo. Classic's lack of resilience places a greater emphasis on bursting down targets, and an extra 500 hp on top of all other sources is nothing to laugh at.

This is not to be confused with the Hyper-Radiant Flame Reflector, a similarly-named anti-fire trinket which was also crafted by engineers and also had a troublesome schematic to acquire.

Razorhide buff was so strong that it even made shaman tanks viable on patchwerk, and that during progression.

I'm glad I wasn't a caster in classic needing flasks/mana pots eventually they went down in price but still since warriors optionally used the health flask since there was no dps one. Also I went insane and farmed 250+ of the consecrated sharpening stones and never had to farm or buy elemental sharpening stones.

I've sold more bags of marbles than I've ever used. I think I used it once. My god, I never even read what they did. I just wanted my money.

My guild commonly used the "resist fire" buff from BRS mind controlled mobs while we were progressing. (yes casual guild) It didn't take too long to get everyone cycled in and buffed before we returned to Molten Core. WoW Classic's quirks were fun

Such a love/hate relationship. Was such a rush trying to progress in blues and greens.

Things like Razorhide being used 2 xpacks later in dps-checks is something that you just fucking love and wish there was more of, but is also bad game design and never should have happened

Really Sticky Glue for life

What about the BOP cloak Blood Elves could get at ~15 that they used in the PVP Lvl 19 battlegrounds? Talk about completely OP - Alliance only had an item like that when they hit ~40

I remember being part of my guild's black lotus 'cartel' (before they changed up the spawns) All of us in the EPL parked at black lotus spawns, waiting for hours for them to respawn so we could get them, and co-ordinate between each other for future spawns. Sad, but fun, and never again.

Get barovs trinket. Force three guildies to use a macro to Juju buff your minions as they spawn.

just for the record: we still used bag of marbles in sunwell on brutallus during the stomp

Its been quite a while since I played the base game but I remember there were some quest items that you could mess around with that while were not game breaking were fun to have around, like the wand that transformed you into furbolgs. I remember getting this and just never finishing the quest just to keep the item. Still had the item in Legion too.

Dude you gaslighted me into thinking I was in a Mandela Effect timeline where it has always been pronounced "Blackfathom'S Deep" and not "Blackfathom Deeps"

Im not going to say how, cause as far as i know it isnt widely known, but there is a macro that allows any caster that channels a spell OR uses a long cast time spell to fire their wand while channeling/casting. It might seem small but imagine an extra wand attack on top of say... a full arcane missiles..or perhaps a cast of pyroclasm. I used it myself and it is legit.

I remember getting the Light of Elune! I wanted to save it for exactly the situation described here. Unfortunately, I misclicked it when doing something utterly trivial. I never got to see whether it could block all damage.

I have Light of Elune sitting in my bank to this day, as you have said haha

There was a time when BGs scaled player stats based on their ilvl, and BiS was sometimes a white item with no stats was better than a lower ilvl item with high stats.