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What did Xaryu say about Classic?

Xaryu brought up Classic (expansion) 17 times across 2 Twitch clips from 2026-11-03. Every line below was transcribed from the clip audio with local Whisper on our own GPU, then matched against TheWoWDB's expansion database. Each quote links to the exact second in Xaryu's own stream, so you can hear the delivery and judge the context yourself.

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Xaryu on Classic: the quotes

“caught up here we are locking down the entire shaman classic server active immediately the”

reason for this drastic measure is how the developers are approaching all shaman specs

Xaryu, 0:19:27 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“doesn't know how to duel or PVP in classic. Wow. What are you going to do, man? Keep hating on him.”

classic man. Yeah. He doesn't know what he's doing. Yes. He's lost and confused. Yes. He ... Unbelievable. I, as peekaboo's friend will stand up for the hate. All right. This is,

Xaryu, 3:29:17 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“classic man. Yeah. He doesn't know what he's doing. Yes. He's lost and confused. Yes. He”

like kick the people that are just learning the game. Like it's ridiculous. He's, he's new to ... doesn't know how to duel or PVP in classic. Wow. What are you going to do, man? Keep hating on him.

Xaryu, 3:29:12 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“We are locking down the entire shaman classic server active immediately.”

Yeah, this is the shaman Discord. ... The reason for this drastic measure is how the developers are approaching all shaman specs in WoW forever.

Xaryu, 3:18:38 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“example, like Fire Blast in Classic WoW, you don't hit, right? Because it's just not worth hitting.”

Okay, okay. Alternatively, so there's different ways to incentivize buttons to be pressed. For ... in WoW Forever, they give Fire Blast a chance to give an additional stack of heating up.

Xaryu, 3:02:49 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“All shock base damage reverted to match previous classic air values.”

Shocks. ... Okay.

Xaryu, 2:54:25 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“I think it fits classic better.”

It's on a shorter cooldown as well. ... But it does suck to lose it.

Xaryu, 2:52:05 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“I guess I'm going to say it, I think is healthier for classic WoW, but I will admit and empathize”

people are crying. So I think that's kind of the same thing. It's like totemic call, ... with shamans that it sucks to go from projection to call. It sucks, but I think call is probably

Xaryu, 2:51:40 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“something and take it away, I think it's when players get upset. If Classic Plus came out,”

this didn't exist at all. So here's the thing. Let me just say this. When you give someone ... or WoW forever came out,

Xaryu, 2:50:46 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“It reduces the control you have over your totems. You still have control. In Classic WoW,”

play a shaman, right? I play against shamans. I could see people being upset about this. ... this didn't exist at all. So here's the thing. Let me just say this. When you give someone

Xaryu, 2:50:32 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“cooldown with that stronger, right? 300%. I think is good for a classic version of the game.”

and polymorph like it's not lance lance lance lance that's not good gameplay so an eight second ... Even though it's a massive nerf, I think it's very good for the game at large. And it's good

Xaryu, 2:07:18 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“into Lance. Classic WoW was about piecing different things together to get your kill,”

8 second cooldown. In Classic WoW, the game was not about spamming just like Lance into Lance ... right like if you watch a druid pvp montage you know they're gonna go into bear form and get the

Xaryu, 2:06:45 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“8 second cooldown. In Classic WoW, the game was not about spamming just like Lance into Lance”

shock you guys. This is actually a good thing in my opinion. The reason I like Ice Lance has an ... into Lance. Classic WoW was about piecing different things together to get your kill,

Xaryu, 2:06:35 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“classic is that you can have an arcane tree and then go into the fire right go into frost go into”

tree. I love the cross play of talent trees. This is one of the things that makes classic feel like ... fire stuff like that so it's cool yeah yeah yeah okay i what i was brainstorming is should this

Xaryu, 2:02:55 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“tree. I love the cross play of talent trees. This is one of the things that makes classic feel like”

Once again, another example, you're arcane, but now accelerant gives you a reason to go into fire ... classic is that you can have an arcane tree and then go into the fire right go into frost go into

Xaryu, 2:02:50 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“In classic WoW, it sucked and no one took it.”

It's not good enough to take. ... Adding an extra spell rank doesn't make it worth taking.

Xaryu, 1:58:32 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
“That's big. As a non-Hunter player, I think this makes a lot of sense for Classic WoW.”

now have the same shared 30 second cooldown instead of separate. Whoa, that's big. ... Hunters, how do you feel? Is this something that you guys are really upset about?

Xaryu, 1:52:36 into the VOD. Watch this moment on Twitch
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Other streamers on Classic

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