LOL that intro, Lich King, the greatest character in all of WoW gives you a 4-8 damage weapon, just like a level 2 kobold would drop.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

He has fallen on some hard times man. First he was burnt to a crisp + balded, then he got rekt by an Undead Hunter/Rogue who also looted his BiS helmet and then promptly disenchanted it.... It is what it is...

@Trakester3

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro lol

@BobInGreek

Ай бұрын

That's why wow is not quality anymore . Everything epic is in the starting area 😂 so nothing feels epic anymore like getting inside ICC and meeting marrowgar or getting into northrend etc

I agree with other commenters, the story is much better when it isn't fed to us little pieces at a time. I hope to see you get a lot more subs in the future because this is more of the kind of content WoW needs.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Well, if you plan on sticking around, I will be doing plenty of videos like this for Dragonflight, but before Dragonflight comes out I do have a few surprises up my sleeve :)

@bonefetcherbrimley7740

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro This is an excellent summery of the Shadowland's story! I now understand the story much better. Thanks!

@OrochiMarcio

21 күн бұрын

@@adanzaro Looking from afar, Shadowlands' story really doesn't seem to suck as much as when I tried playing through it...

Planning to hop back into wow with dragonflight and I missed out on most of shadowlands so this was a much needed recap. Thank you!

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it :) I am now in the editing stage of a big video about the entire lore before Dragonflight which I intend to publish in a bit, so if you want a whole lore recap, keep an eye out!

Ty so much! As a loremaster (in game) I been slacking these last two xpacs so you really helped me get my footing ready for dragonflight.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, glad you found it helpful! It seems that the story of the First Ones will be further explored in DF and expansions to come so it's good to catch up on it! If you're interested in the lore, I have a new series called Warcraft Lore in a Minute, there are only two episodes out so far, but more to come! Also if you're interested in BfA since you missed that too, I have a video in this, abridged but longer form format out for it so it might be worth checking out :)

Went back and only played 9.0 from taking a break since Wod first patch. So this was a nice recap for me to prepare for Dragonflight, as others commented, I realized the lore is pretty interesting when you look at the whole expansion events as a whole. Thanks

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome :) If you want a full recap of the entire lore, that's on the channel as well :D

Disappointed with both Blizz and the story, I had given up a little bit before the Battle of Ardenweald. Thank you for filling the rest up in such a well-told and concise manner, that I could go straight to the Dragon Isles!

Thank you for making everything make sense! I wish much success for your channel because I'd like to see more of this.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! :D I'm working on similar videos at the moment, so expect new stuff very soon!

@mac1462

Жыл бұрын

Still doesn’t make any sense to me, and I don’t think it’s the KZreadrs fault I think blizzard just started over complicating and ruining their own universe, everything up to cata is gold then they just started shoe-horning things into the past and acted like it was the story all along, the dread lord origin being a great example lol.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

@@mac1462 I mean, they've been shoe-horning stuff into the past long before Cataclysm. The Draenei for example, did a video about it. Burning Legion was something you can also call a shoe-horn, it wasn't there in Warcraft 1.

@mac1462

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro yeah you’re right, but in wc1 there wasn’t really any story beyond “green men from portal” at least what you listed seemed like a cohesive story, time travel and kung fu pandas is just cringe

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

@@mac1462 Sometimes, a lot of people forget how jarring TBC felt to the fanbase when it came out, what with all the space stuff. Story goes in all sorts of directions, otherwise I feel like it would get stale after almost 30 years :)

Great video! I haven't played since BFA and now I'm jumping on the dragonflight bandwagon this really helped thank you

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, glad to be of help :)

Fantastic overview of Shadowlands story bro! Good job!!! I quit Shadowlands around 9.1 so this really helped me understand it all before I jump into Dragonflight. Which I am doing so right now :)

Just what I needed as a recap. Liked & Subscribed. Thanks, man

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome :D Recaps for Legion and BfA are also up as well, and Warlords of Draenor one will be coming soon!

Thanks for taking your time doing this, cheers

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it :) I'm working on a big video next, so if you like lore, keep an eye out!

This makes so much more sense. Thank you for organizing the retcons and new lore into a coherent video.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, glad you enjoyed it, more to come soon :)

Thank's for this was nice to get a recap of everything. It's a shame a lot of the "main" more channels are seemingly done with WoW now.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Gimme a bit of time and I'll get there ;) Glad you enjoyed it!

Loved this vid, thanks man. Subbed.

amazing video, thank you for this bud

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :D

thanks! I left the game during legion and recently came back to play MoP remix, and was thinking very hard of getting dragonflight, but since I have to buy the War within to get it ive been iffy since I dont know what the hell is going on story wise haha. I think this helped!

I shouldnt learn this from a YT video. This whole story should be presented in game cutscenes and cinematics. Great summary 👍

@YA-kr4fr

Жыл бұрын

it is ingame

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

I mean, where do you think I got all the info from? xD I'd say about 95% of the content in the video is from the game, while only a minor part came from the new Sylvanas book.

@Aureora

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro i meant, cutscenes and cinematics mate. Majority of people dont even look at the quest description.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

@@Aureora I know, and I'm saying we had cutscenes for a lot of stuff, much more than we did in any other expansion before. We had a few Maw/Torghast cutscenes, then we had cutscenes in the leveling zones, we had cutscenes in every major event such as Sylvanas attacking Ardenweald or Anduin attacking Elysian Hold, Pelagos becoming Arbiter, Sylvanas' getting judged, Anduin becoming free, etc. Important dialogue was always voiced instead of having to be read off of quest text, such as when Dreadlords explain their plan with Argus.

I liked shadowlands a lot, it looked like blizzard was trying to put the trama in something more multiverse oriented with the jailer being the new boss. But mid expansion they changed of plans like they did with wod.

great summary man!

Perfect, thx a lot!

A really good summary of the story.

nice vid underrated channel

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, glad you liked it! Feel free to share it with friends :)

awesome video !

much appreciated, good looks.

I didnt think the Story was bad. Maybe yes the Jailor was basicly Thanos who gathered the 5 stones. But the Story around the mainstory was totaly stunning. The Uther Story where absurdly enjoyable. Also that we did get Ysera back and stuff like this. totaly where hyped there ^^

Wow, thank you for this!

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome, thanks for watching :) More similar videos soon!

Nicely done, and I enjoyed your accent!

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks for the kind words and the donation :D You're my first donation ever! I have more videos like this so feel free to check them out if you're into lore :)

Wow. I didn't know most of the stuff in this video, about Sylvanas meeting the jailor prior to shadowlands and why she destroyed the world tree and. Where do you even find that out in the game?

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, I do not think it's mentioned in the game. I mentioned in other comments that like 95% of stuff in this video is from the game. This is the 5% that are not (and to be fair it is an important bit). The first hints were the Edge of Night short story released around Cata (though Jailer wasn't really mentioned and it was much more vague). Then somewhere around Shadowlands release I can't recall how exactly we found out about how she actually met the Jailer when she died there, it might have been an interview or something of the sort. However, the most complete version of events regarding Sylvanas' dealings with Jailer and her feelings about the whole thing is described in Christie Golden's Sylvanas novel. It's my favorite WoW novel to date! But more importantly, it really shows how much value Sylvanas put on her family and shows her conversations with the Jailer, as well as him showing her around Shadowlands which was never told to us prior to the novel. It's totally worth the read so I highly recommend it :)

@Fudzbo

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro Hey, thanks for the info. Damn, that is a lot of stuff missing from the game. Thats one thing that always bugged me about world of warcraft, so much of the important storytelling is external. Not everybody has time to track down and read the books. They could at least put all the important stuff in the game, and leave the more broad stuff for books. Everything you included in this video is extremely relevant to the game's story. Great vid, thanks again.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

@@Fudzbo To be fair, it used to be MUCH worse, especially regarding Cataclysm and WoD. I think they are doing a better job of it these days but yeah, a flashback cutscene of that stuff with Sylvanas and the Jailer while she was in a coma in 9.2 for instance would have gone a long way I think

@Fudzbo

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro Oh man, no joke. I don't even want to get started on WoD. For most of the beginning I was like "Wait a minute, how'd we get here?" Honestly though, I don't even need a cut scene. I'd be just fine with some lengthy dialogue things scattered throughout the game going better in depth various plot points.

"I was not one of those people." I'm so sorry for your loss.

this is the recap i needed. thank you :)

Good summary dude

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

Great video

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, it was fun to write :D

Ok, great summary. Tons of background that, when you're told over the course of 25 years in bits and pieces, you totally can't hold onto. Nice context. The entire story of Warcraft is incredibly disjoined and complex with hundreds of characters and man, so hard to follow. Legit, their story writers must have a 4-year degree in Warcraft Lore from Vivendi University.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much, it's what happens when a story goes on for so long with so many writers. I mean hell, look at Marvel Comics and how crazy they have been

The story in SL is not that bad, but its presentation in game was lackluster especially if you come to the game at the later stage. Btw one thing I didnt get is everyone in Shadowlands a "robot" or what :D

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Not really robots. They still have souls. The only thing that was robotic in the Shadowlands was The Arbiter - a totally mechanical creation designed to coldly judge souls to their afterlives. In Sepulcher of the First Ones we fight against the Prototype Pantheon of Death - these are the bodies of the Pantheon of Death but without the souls that their final forms would have. It's not that far from Titan lore, where the Keepers are all mostly made out of stone and metal, but they became fleshy due to the Curse of the Flesh thanks to the Old Gods. So while the bodies may be "crafted", there are still souls inside, far from robots :)

@monchirawr

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro was wondering - this premise is interesting given that the arbiter has representation (voice of the arbiter(s))

❤

thank u

I feel like when the story is told like this it sounds way better than what players think of it. However, WoW is a complex and deep story just like Lord of the Rings, so keeping up with wow is almost more challenging than when I had to learn medical terminology. But I still love WoW, so yeah, thanks for the simply and easy update!

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, there's almost three decades of story, it's crazy! If you want a complete overlook, I have an almost 2 hour video covering everything up to Dragonflight :)

@livinghound

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro Okay cool! I'll have to check it out. I've been playing since Cata and, unfortunately, I had to leave WoW at the end of BFA because my laptop could no longer support the game and I can't easily replace a laptop when a good one for gaming is a couple grand and then life happens. So instead I've been playing Classic since 2020. But I'm itching to get back in Dragonflight because those graphics look amazing. So it was good to get an unbiased opinion about what happened in the story so far, it's just a shame that Blizz was neglectful with putting this important information into the game.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

@@livinghound The sentiment you hear online that most of the story in Shadowlands is not in the game is actually (mostly) false. I'd say 95% of the story is in the expansion itself. Expansions like Cata or WoD were much worse regarding the story being told in books. Hope you enjoy your stay back in Azeroth! :D Dragonflight really is all that it's hyped up to be, I've been enjoying it very very much!

@livinghound

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro Oh gotcha! I read some comments earlier, so that's what you meant by it was way worse with Cata and WoD. Yeah, hopefully I can get a new laptop by Christmas and play Dragonflight

Wait, are we supposed to agree with Sylvanas here? Because I agree with her. I've never made it past the first zone in Shadowlands before I hit 60 and leave, but man that zone seems like it's full of wackjobs. Just abandon everything about yourself! You don't need friends, family, memories, nope!

Nice summary, shadowlands story isn't all that bad without long pauses. I liked shadowlands but cant wait to come back home.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think the long pauses is what made it seem non-sensical to a lot of people because it's easy to forget what happened in a questline 6 months ago. There should definitely be some recaps of sorts in between patches, in video form or something. If Blizzard isn't gonna do, I will ;P

a beba ❤

Shadowlands Story? What story?

The story doesn't seem as bad as many people make it out to be? It actually seems fine. I also enjoyed the Sylvanas novel.

but why?

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Why what exactly?

:D

Dog this story is terrible. I remember now why i left the game. Legion was great but this almost killed the franchise

So vegans in wow litteraly turn to a Letuce after some time? :D Since there is magic in nature in wow :D

Sylvanas did nothing wrong

@adanzaro

8 ай бұрын

trueee

I liked shadowlands, I think 9.0 was really good. I did miss azeroth and think 9.1 should have been half in shadowlands and half back home.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

We are going home now, so that will be nice and nostalgic :D

@Shambles_44

Жыл бұрын

I'm intrigued to find out what people enjoyed from it. I think it has to be the worst expansion they've ever done, I played far more and had such a better time even on bfa which as everyone knows was shocking.

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

@@Shambles_44 I myself enjoyed it very much :) Different strokes for different folks. My guilds/communities and in-game friends have enjoyed it as well.

@Telados

Жыл бұрын

@@Shambles_44 I liked Castle Nathria and the dungeons, the rest wasn't great

@AstralHealthGuy

Жыл бұрын

@@Shambles_44 I returned to wow on shadowlands, I stopped playing on burning crusade so it was a very long break. I think the story was good 9.0 not a huge fan 9.1. I love ardenweild I think it beautiful and think the rest of the zones were great as well. I actually think they fit core warcraft well. Ardenweld very night elf and troll inspired. Maldraxxus is very undead and alittle orc. Bastion is human/light/drenai. Ravendreth gave me blood elf vibes for some reason. I liked that they where trying someone new as well. The maw was the worst though. I feel like it was a great Expansion for transmogs and mount collectors as well

great video! but the 3 things you tell us in the beginning reminds me why i stopped playing this game for its vague wishy washy story that you can only really get from books and youtube videos. Sylvanas died in cata and sire Denathrius controlling Sargeras..........cmon

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

When a story goes for almost 30 years now, there are bound to be many details strewn all over the place. If you want to follow the story further and have it analyzed/explained, keep a look out for new videos :)

"Sylvanas killed herself" *record scratch* WTF is this emo retcon crap?

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

It's not a retcon, what are you talking about? Edge of Night was a short story released around Cataclysm and it was known since then that it happened - they even say that's how she got the val'kyr there.

I remember why I stopped at cataclysm. Warcraft had a unique storyline up until wotlk. Now it just a marvel copy. Judgement? That is such a marvel ripoff it aint even funny. No story is worth it anymore after wotlk

wow, that story was absolute garbage. . ..

@adanzaro

Жыл бұрын

Not everyone is going to be happy with it I imagine. I really enjoyed it!

@schustererik83

Жыл бұрын

@@adanzaro I'm glad some people did