*OT* raid reminiscing... (Off-Topic)

by slycrel , Monday, July 04, 2016, 03:29 (3067 days ago)

So, I've read a few things lately, even on this forum, about how the raids are great but could be better. This got me to thinking about the original world of warcraft days and how the dungeons were put together. There was definitely some drawbacks to the approach they had -- use an instance for many reasons, and sink a ton of time into getting things done -- however there was never a dull moment.

I did some looking around and dug up some videos. A high level player goes back to the older areas and goes through the dungeons and talks about how they were at launch. There was a ton of content to go through and the interesting thing was the content wasn't isolated to a specific area. You had quests from all over that took you into the instances, and you'd get quests for optional and unique events within (and without) the instances. If you're interested in raid/game design it's worth a look. This is some of the best immersive instanced content I've seen in a MMO.

The dungeons are blackrock spire (upper area and lower area, generally called LBRS or UBRS) and blackrock depths (BRD).

LBRS: https://youtu.be/_xQ_yPXGixE (older, vanilla style walkthru here, watch first if you're hardcore: https://youtu.be/KPePjlg9KW0)
UBRS: https://youtu.be/_xQ_yPXGixE (alternate stream of consciousness style video: https://youtu.be/1tGdVHw9HME)
Leeroy: https://youtu.be/hooKVstzbz0
BRD: https://youtu.be/b9E0nWjslmE