I'm currently neck-deep in working on my submission for Blizzcon's movie contest, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten you all! Over the past few days I've quickly thrown this video together in the background as a continuation of my first video "10 Secret Locations in World of Warcraft." This was a lot of fun to make and I hope I was able to surprise you with at least one of them. :)
Honestly, I loved Pandaria. I did not like doing it multiple times when leveling, but the first time or two were great and I loved the art and occasional humor.
CaptmagiKono I think most people don't like it because "AGAHWEHGA NETHEY ADDED PANDAS AHG WRJAG THE GAME IS RUINNED," but it is honestly a really good expansion, except for how long SoO lasted.
Jimmy Jarfy Exactly what its main problem was, the never ending patch at the end. Also, I was not here for it, but apparently the awful dailies early on in the expansion.
Jimmy Jarfy MOP has to be my second favorite expansion after TBC or be on par with the WOTLk for me. It had tons of story and things to do unlike - VoD
dragonicelv It sounds really fruity, but MoP was the expansion that made me start feeling some serious feels for the inhabitants of a continent that was forcefully plunged into a pointless war between two complete stranger factions. Wrath did something similar, but I really felt like the Pandarian's were a civilization of people with a long and interesting history.
Phoenix Games OMG IS PANDA LAND REALLY A THING?!!! i just started playing WoW a week ago and my friend has me set hearth stone to panda land and i always called it that since day 1 ahahahaha
I think Pandaria as a continent is amazing, Jade Forest is one of my favorite zones of all time because of how beautiful it is. I've done the quests there so many times while leveling alts because the scenery is worth it every time, the quests are rather interesting as well since there are so many of them.
I don't understand "If you can stomach going back to Pandaria", as Pandaria is one of the most beautiful continents in game. Their art team really hit it out of the park and the lore was extremely rich for each zone, so I'm not sure why the hate (unless you're trying to be funny by jumping on the Pandaria hate bandwagon). Anyways, looking forward to the BlizzCon movie submission, best of luck and keep up the good work.
plushdogg124 I'm just tired of pandaria because it took so long for draenor. Visually the pandaria is incredible, but the expansion went on about 8 months past when it should have ended.
***** The ONLY reason I haven't quit is because I run a Roleplay guild. Without that, we would all be gone I suspect. What with this being the last raid and all. There better be an announcement at blizzcon that we're getting a new expansion at christmastime or so or they're going to lose even more people. Yes Draenor is beautiful, yes pandaria is beautiful, but....beauty only goes so far.
Couldn't have worded it better. I was thinking it would be awesome if wow updated it self like Guild wars 2 did.. with small patches of story the entire expansion with little mini zones and what not... and save the rest of the focus on the next expansion.. but nope, they rather give us 1-2 major patches that is either a hit or miss... and really 6.1 was not a major patch so we only got one major patch this expansion. Im telling you what man, this next expansion better be really fucking good because Warlords of dreanor made MoP look like the next WoTLK.. I feel like the only damn good people working at blizz now in days are their art team.. every one else there is scking some major balls. AmaranteStryfe
***** Give us some fairly decent content patches, a bit more pvp, a bit of pve and questing and silliness, maybe another dungeon, we don't need another entire raid between then and now, but to do nothing...it's wrong. It's bad business.
Paul Staker Don't get the wrong idea - it's a personal server. To me it's no different than having a program like WoW Model Viewer. The only difference is that rather than being able to only manipulate characters, NPCs, and armors, I can manipulate the entire world. This is how I do big crowd shots in my videos.
Nixxiom Machinima I'm not judging you lol. But still I dunno if it's legal to run WoW on a private server to make money off of it. Just watch out. On another note does this mean you can script AI npcs to act like like RTS units and make a WarCraft 4-like game inside your server? :D Cuz if so I better get myself one of these private servers hehehehe.
Nixxiom Machinima Woa woa woa how do you get your own server like this? I'd love to go through wow all over again as a single player type of game and relive all the quest and content. Also I've done the impossible I defeated the tank training dummy with my huntard x3
Nixxiom Machinima I'm also really curious how Blizz would allow running private servers. The thing I'm scared of completing War of the Shifting Sands is the end battle due to so many NPCs, as all private servers are violating the TOS, so I can't risk that.
For #2, you can go there without glitching through walls or anything. If you keep entering the Stratholme dungeon and and exiting it, then repeating that over and over again, the game will eventually say that you've reached the amount of dungeons entered or something like that. Then, you will be put in Stratholme, but not in the dungeon itself. From there, you can go to the land that would usually be blocked off with invisible boundaries, and from there you can go to that night elf place :)
You aren't. Pandaland is beautiful. I go there mostly to grind rep for my cloud serpent mount on my warlock. (Who I'm also trying to get Thunderfury on)
I dont even play WOW but i subscribed.. i played many mmorpg and never noticed Wow because i can see gameplay is grinding to death.. but this channel made me want to try playing WOW. its really a WORLD. not just maps you play and grind. great vids keep it up.
Any1 here remember the "secret" underneath strormwind city? Lol I remember some guy whispering me saying, "hey wanna see something cool?" Then showing me how to step thru a wall or something near one of the tunnels in stormwind then u would fall underneath stormwind! Man that was so cool seeing that for the first time, also being able to get on the roofs near the bank in SW way before u could fly in Azeroth. I started playing wow back in BC and remember all these cool places, a few in org like the arena and that shrine to one of the blizzard employees who died. If u read this nixxiom I think it would be a great idea to make a video about these places, and others that don't exist in the game anymore. The feeling of exploring these places and being afraid of ur character getting stuck or a gm finding out, and the nostalgia of it all, I sure do miss it! Would love to see a video about something along those lines. Either way I love your bids! Keep it up thanks alot. Defcamp-bleeding hollow US horde
There are more secrets under stormwind aswell.If you went down and didnt fall through the ground ;) ... you could go west to the coast and then follow it north to a house by the coast of the wetlands. With art or whatever in it. Similar to the elf tower.
Yukine Chris Its not, gorgond and frostfire smashed together to create bladespires of outland. Farahlon was the laughing skull home but blizz just moved them to gorgond.
Felrane I just had an argument about that, Gorgrond shows properties present in Netherstorm, especially with all the plant life (The domes in Netherstorm), and Frostfire has the sharp, ragged peaks Bladespire had, and the massive/primal Gronn.
To get to the Nightelven ruins you have to do the Stratholme glitch that involves entering reseting and re-entering until you're locked out, after that use blink or heroic leap thru the invisible wall at the main entrance... run thru Strath until you find the huge untextured plauge... thing xD you cant miss it, run along the walls until you find the one you can walk thru, after that, you'll be in a un-used valley, go over the moutains along the coast, once done you can fly. Fly towards Hearthglen and there it is!
"Heh, roleplay is fuckin' dumb, i'm a grown ass woma--" 6:14 *grizzly hill's soundtrack comes on* "*rips off armor, revealing calico set, fishing hat, rp walks to the nearest lake and emotes about how beautiful the scenery is**
The island southeast of Land's End in Tanaris was actually part of the AQ unlocking event in Vanilla. I used to go there in BC when water-walking and speed potions were introduced (needed both to get there, plus epic mount). Either way, it was removed in Cataclysm as it served no purpose anymore. I used to fancy myself an explorer and loved finding secret places in WoW. Cata removed a bunch of areas I used to frequent in Kalimdor, especially when AQ was made into an outdoor, explorable area (there were some secret areas down the coast of Feralas and Silithus).
#3 was part of quest chain to open AQ. You received a blessing from the gnome in the hub close to Gadgetzan which allowed you to visit this place and kill pirates there to return a book with instructions how to summon the shark boss in Azshara for the blue fragment.
Stormwind graveyard is one of my favourite, I know that everyone knows about it but ppl rarely go there. It has really nice music and the queens grave. I like to AFK here because it just such a nice place, it makes me feel like I'm in another world. I LOVE to rp here and sometimes I miss battle grounds just so I can go sit in a bench in stormwind cemetery and listen to the music.
Hey Nixxiom, This is a secret location for and if you have another video. In the jade forest in pandaria.You see that big river stretching through southern jade forest to northern. Well if you start at the bottom and go up all the way to serpent's heart, just a little bit northern to that you'll see a mountain near the river. On the mountain you'll see a little pandarein hut with a table in the middle. There will be 2 dead skeletons there stareing down at what looks like a bored game. It's a really fun/weird spot that is forgotten and not noticed bye anyone. This place needs some love too.
Those highbourne ruins have lore behins them. Its where the high elves originally landed but after several went insane they immagrated north. Was one of the reasons people suspect old god burried under tirisfal. Also fun fact on the map if you checked your zone while ther it said quel thalas and was part of that tiny section on the map. Not sure if its still there.
RemnantOfThePast Those ruins are actually where the high elves moved to after first landing in the area that would become Tirisfal Glades. In fact, they landed on the coast that contained the Whispering Forest. Whatever is under the surface was driving some of them mad so they left and wound up where these ruins are.
¬.¬ I know but at the time of landing they were still High borne not the High Elves we know as the they hadn't adapted to their new environment yet I can source wowwiki.wikia.com/Dath%27Remar_Sunstrider Dath'Remar was a Highborne Also mine was the TL;DR version for most of the WoW community that give no real shits but thank you for correcting me on the actual ruins. Been awhile since I really played wow and I forgot roughly were the ruins were in relation to tiris fall. I forgot they were right above strathholme . img689.imageshack.us/img689/7397/northeron.jpg this is what that whole area would roughly be laid out like base on WC3 I had this banked in my fav tab as I was using it to help develop an RP characters background back in Cata.
Just FYI, the Moonglade spot does not require a flying mount to access. The hills are actually climbable using a ground mount with a lot of spacebar spamming.
Nixxiom Machinima A little east of 8, Just above dark shore is a hidden long path just above shatterspere valley which back then was also a hidden place strangely. Also is that giant land in 1 that huge other continent looking thing on the bottom of our maps? I was really looking forward to some content there.
The islands outside of tanaris was the first "GM island", but they changed location for their HQ because players were able to reach their little hideout. That's probably why they removed those islands in cataclysm.
Went to the GM island during LK. With a mount and the path of frost talent of the Death Knight, the island was reachable before getting fattigued. The island was probably not reachable before that. :)
omg I lost it at "go check it out if you can stomach going back to Pandaria" and then immediately after.. "have you ever been to darnassus? probably not.." haaahahahaha. its true though! i wonder if the game makers are upset about how much beauty and mystic atmosphere they put into darn and no one enjoys it nearly as much as stormwind.
You can actually still reach those Highborne Ruins north of Western Plaguelands. Just enter Stratholme through the original entrance, reset the instance until you can't anymore (too many instance resets) und then keep on running into the instance. You'll quickly reach an invisible wall, you can just blink, lock-port or maybe even warri-jump through. after that you can run through complete Stratholme until you reach the end with old Naxxrammas in it. Walk up to the walls on your right and you'll see, that you can walk right through them. Head on a for a little distance and you should sometime be standing on the cliffs overlooking those ruins.
I once found the elven ruins in Eastern Plaguelands. I was trying to get to eversong woods on an undead, so naturaly... I just walked by the shore. Eventually I reached the ruins, and I had No clue on what it was, so I just kept walking. Later I realized that I didn't have BC, so i hearthed back to Brill. Good times...
you can still get to 9:00 on retail :) I flew there recently out of boredom, starting at tirisfall glades and just flying along the shore. at one point my toon started to do the "flying backwards" animation but she was still flying forward. I was even able to get into stratholme and explore that and into the previous Ghostlands
It kind of saddens me that places like Ironforge don't get that many visitors currently. I mean, the place looks nice, people should visit it. I really hope Blizzard makes other cities apart from Stormwind useful, so that it gets visited more often.
If you want to get to number 2, continuously re-enter Strathlome through the portal in plague lands until you get an error for too many entrances into the instance, at which point you can begin to move through un-instanced Strathlome north and you will eventually find the ruins if you search hard enough. I accidentally found my way there when farming postman transmog.
I enjoyed Panderia myself, the Asian mythology mixed in with the mysticism of the zone is very interesting if given a chance. Plus the fact that the flying mounts (dragons) are featured and stylized as eastern dragons. ignore the haters and whiner who want nothing more than the return of vanilla wow or those purist that can't stomach change in a fantastic game.
Finally, you made the second part of this. I was really looking forward for this! I would tell you inguild, but you're too busy for us ahah. I really hope you get the first spot this year. Here's to an european rooting for you!
Never knew about #1, it's cool that there are still "behind-the-scenes" areas like this to explore in Wow even today. It reminds me of back in BC when people found a way to jump off of Outlands and survive, ending up in an endless ocean with the silhouette of Outlands in the sky.
I've found two skeletons playing a game of mahjong on a mountain in Pandaria. It's somewhere northwest of the Serpent's Heart in the Jade Forest. You need a flying mount to get to it.
My favorite down time, in-game hobby pre Cata flying, was exploring every nook and cranny of the map (and outside of it). I did a lot of instanced dungeon exploring too, which can still be done as far as I know. There were so many awesome places you could get to (and probably weren't supposed to get to) with levitate or slow fall and engineering. I miss that sense of adventure.
I remember when I first found the landmass south of SMV...I took an instant fascination towards it. For the next video, I think you should consider the smiley face underneath Karazhan. On live realms you have to duel a lock to fear you through the wall. I'd imagine it's a lot easier on your own server. Oh and goodluck at Blizzcon!
I was flying around zandalar lately and turns out there are many secret spots hidden in the mountains! If someone wants to take a break and just fly around, I would definitely recommend this area
Dunno if you're into the glitchy areas or not but I personally find them quite interesting. One of my favorites is in Deepholm, where you glitch yourself through like 2 rocks and then you get this vast land expanse with many different terrain patches and purple crystals and a weird glowy spiral on the ground at point.
Thanks for your concern for my health, but I don't need help "stomaching" going back to Pandaria since it was the most solid expansion we've had since WotLK. Leaps and bounds better than both Cataclysm and WoD combined, and gives WotLK a run for its money in the raiding and visuals department.
So, I found a secret location all by myself. I was bored out of my mind, flying over Dustwallow Marsh for no reason on my blood elf toon. Off the coast of Dustwallow Marsh is an island called "Alcaz Island." According to WoWhead, there used to be (and still might be?) an Alliance quest that takes you on a fly-over of the place, which isn't too impressive. But, landing there on my max level toon, the Alcatraz Island pun was rather obvious, as the place looks like a prison island... or at least, like it used to be. All of the buildings are broken and the place is being patrolled by level 69 elite naga and black dragons. - The only friendly NPC on the island is called "Doctor Weavil's Flying Machine" which is a helicopter that holds a black-bearded dwarf. According to WoWhead, this dwarf was a raid boss for a level 25 raid back in vanilla. If that's true, then Alcaz Island is a good place for vanilla fanboys to go and take selfies. - The place has stockades, watch towers, and even a little dungeon-like area with some rooms blocked off by openable portculleses and skeletons leaning against the wall, one of which you can only get to by swimming through an underwater tunnel. It's really awesome, and since I'm too chicken to exploit the glitch to get into Kharazan Crypts, the dungeon at Alcaz Island is probably as close as I'll get.
#2 is known as Quel'thalas ingame. Should one manage to get in, the map will say "Quel'thalas". Everyone not aware of this usually calls this Northern Lordaeron.
That place you mentioned that is north of the Eastern Plaguelands known as Quel'Thalas, is still reachable today. What you have to do is go to the dungeon Stratholme. Enter and then immediately exit and reset all dungeons and instances. Go back in and then out and reset. Do this until you are locked outta the dungeon. Once you are locked out you can go inside the dungeon but with no NPCs and any dungeon activity will be non existent. At the front there will be an invisible wall which you can not pass through normally. If you use a character that has a means of protecting yourself forward you can pass through it. Warriors 'Leap of Faith', a Mages 'Blink', and anything of the sorts will get you through. If you are a Warlock you can use Demonic Gateway which will allow you and anyone else to get through the invisible wall. Once there go to the very last boss of the dungeon. To the left side there will be a gate which you can open and you can continue to what was originally going to be a raid entrance to a vanilla raid that never happened. In the other side you'll see what looks like an original design for the Lich Kings ship that hovers over the Plaguelands but with no texture. Pass the green entrance and before the untextured ship if you try moving up against the wall you'll go through the wall to an empty plot of land which you can find Quel'Thalas on the northern edge of the land mass. In this plot of land you can't fly, but you can glide off the cliff and reach Quel'Thalas. Once there you can then fly until you go back up the cliff and land on the plot of land. This is a secret location that existed in vanilla wow and still exists today in season 3 of BfA and is by far my favorite place to visit.
Robbie Johannson Well it makes you an illegal immigrant and Blizzard tends to send firing squats to said individuals locations. They are pretty much known for it and many tried to bring justice for lost loved family members in court but the hive-mind that Blizzard is cannot be sentenced by law for they are omnipotent to the greatest extent. Have a good one, mate.
I know there is either a pile of books or a bookshelf in Karazhan that you can use to jump out a window and get to a nifty looking troll village. You'd need slowfall/levitate/some other 'anti-fall-to-your-DOOM' spell to get there safely though. Love your videos btw! Showed a bunch to my friends and it always gives everyone a good laugh and a smile :)
I remember having to go out to those Gnomish Islands south of Tanaris for the Ahn'Qiraj quest chain to open the gates. They were rather tough to get to before flying came out, and you needed a swim speed buff from a friendly naga in the area once you did a quest for her, if I recall...
ahhh... i remember back when, if you wanted to go to old ironforge, you had to start a duel with a mage at the bank, run to the door, get polymorphed, then hope you walk into the door right and clip through. also, i tried like 5 times to go to the land of what could have been, but either i didn't start at the right spot or with the right angle, or they removed it in the patch the other day. my repair bill also ended up skyrocketing.
Nice video, Nixxiom. Seriously, my favorite secret location is the cinematic location in Pandaria. I've never checked it out. But now, thank you for telling me its location. I will visit it as soon as I can :)
I love this series! I think the gnome islands must have been overwritten when they added Uldum. Maybe like Eyes of the Beast it was removed accidentally but "too complicated" to restore.
You should do like a 'top 10 interesting places in Wow'. When you first star off as a goblin there is a cool place in Kezan which always amazes me called 'The Pipe'.
ty nixxiom for this vid . i quitte wowo about 1 years ago but when i watch your vid i have the same feeling when i play it it in the first time . and now i back because of u (ty soo much )
I remember getting to old ironforge back in vanilla wow. Back then that place was just full of theories and speculation and it was just amazing. I am kind of sad that they opened it up and didn't leave it as just an interesting place to get to.
There was dozens more of secret locations. And most of the locations you are showing were HARDLY accesible before cata, which made discovering them very very rewarding. I stopped playing WoW right after Cata and just awhile ago started playing on vanilla private server
There is this secret little place i go to. It's between Feralas and Mulgore. It has a big tree where you can stand on, it has its own DEEP lake, has its own hut, and a rowboat. I always hang out there when i wait for queues or chat on global.
underneath dalaran, you use to be able to fly through the wall where the well is. It's the dalaran arena area under there. Not sure if you did that already.
No.3 the island below Tanaris, there was a quest chain that sent you there, it gave you a swim speed buff to get there. With Cata, they removed the chain and had no use for the island anymore.
Hunting for hidden places is my favorite thing to do in WoW. I can spend hours doing this, while even the best dungeon can often bore me. The hidden lake above Darnassus is among my favorites. I often go there to unwind.
There is still a way to get to the elven area on the border of tirisfal on the live servers. I hope you know about the way to get there via Heelvsbabyface's video on the howto. Thanks for the awesome uploads Nixxiom and thanks for keeping us updated!
couple neat hidden places: 1: Old thousand needles if you wallclimb out of Zul'farak, you can get into a portion of the thousand needles zone, pre-flooding. 2: the island north of icecrown Origionally used for some Argent Tournament dailies, this island is fully populated, but because everyone HATES Toc and everything related to it, this island sits abandoned and rarely visited. 3: Outside EQ, Instanced Silithus (and outside instanced silithus) outside of the aboveground AQ instance (i think its AQ20, the one that doesnt have cthun in it) theres an instanced copy of Silithus, which is pretty cool. however, outside that to the west, by climbing the mountians, theres an large white jagged expanse that is also really interesting.
Perhaps you should visit Outland? There are tons of beautiful places here, including floating ship south of Netherstorm, floating islands in Nagrand, former daily quest areas nowadays forgotten by people.
I just started playing again a few weeks ago (stopped playing when Cata was released) and found those flying fish while going through Draenor. It was dark though so I didn't notice the strip of water and had no clue there was a way to an empty land mass. Gonna have to check this out next time I log on :)
Fun fact about those islands south of Tanaris. they were removed because it was part of a quest chain on the original wow. it toke speed potions + a water walking buff along with some healing from either yourself or a potion/lock rock to make it before death, since you couldn't mount while water walking back then. This quest chain was the quest to obtain the legendary hammer used to ring the gong for AQ40 back in the day, as you needed to lot a page from a book that only existed on this island. still remember it because of the weird things you needed to do to obtain said hammer.
I remember that High Elven Ruins place. It was back when "10-Day Free Trials" were a thing and Blood Elves and Draenei Starting Zones were inaccessible, I wanted to go into the Eversong Woods so much, I was a real noob back then and thought to myself that I would just walk along the coastline to Eversong, and Lo, I found these ruins at the northernmost point of my (non-instanced map). I wandered around it until I ended up on the far side of the continent and in that one troll village area.Speaking of Troll Villages, what about the infamous Dancing Troll Village from Vanilla and Pre-Cataclysm, that one village filled with nothing but friendly dancing trolls nestled in the mountains far north between Darkshore and Moonglade.
Another place that will be far more accessible in 6.2.whenever is the cliffs above Highmaul. If you travel around the west coast you'll eventually find some paths that lead up leading over Highmaul. Most of it is serene Nagrand fieldscape, but there's a very pretty lake area there as well. You can also drop down into Highmaul itself and will find that much of the recognizable areas ARE included in the world, but it's filled with elite ogres that will instantly teleport you out if you pull them. Moonglade actually has a second location to the northwest as well - A small shrine with a path that leads out to the cliffs by the coast. It's north of the old Troll village that used to be flightpath scenery. Number 3 used to be part of the AQ opening questline if I'm not mistaken. You were given something that increased your swim speed drastically, allowing you to get out there to retrieve something. I'd never been myself, so it all conjecture.
Prior to Cata or whenever it was one of the most secret locations i had ever seen was Ironforge Airport. However they changed it and its actually intentionally a place for players to reach. At the time when i first went there prior to its release there was a lot of weird stuff. Im sure it can be found on RUclips.
First video was cool seeing things theyve added since I've quit but starting this video out with old ironforge is giving me the dose of nostalgia I'm craving
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I'm currently neck-deep in working on my submission for Blizzcon's movie contest, but that doesn't mean I've forgotten you all! Over the past few days I've quickly thrown this video together in the background as a continuation of my first video "10 Secret Locations in World of Warcraft." This was a lot of fun to make and I hope I was able to surprise you with at least one of them. :)
Awesome! Hope you luck on the video and can't wait to see it!
Nixxiom Machinima I hope you win, your videos are the best.
GameSphere Master Race I got 3rd place last year - shooting for first this year! Thanks for the support. :)
Nixxiom Machinima You always go to location 5, don't you?
Nixxiom Machinima it was garrisons you was thinking of for an afk area in draenor btw just so you know
Honestly, I loved Pandaria. I did not like doing it multiple times when leveling, but the first time or two were great and I loved the art and occasional humor.
CaptmagiKono I think most people don't like it because "AGAHWEHGA NETHEY ADDED PANDAS AHG WRJAG THE GAME IS RUINNED," but it is honestly a really good expansion, except for how long SoO lasted.
Jimmy Jarfy Exactly what its main problem was, the never ending patch at the end. Also, I was not here for it, but apparently the awful dailies early on in the expansion.
Jimmy Jarfy MOP has to be my second favorite expansion after TBC or be on par with the WOTLk for me. It had tons of story and things to do unlike - VoD
dragonicelv It sounds really fruity, but MoP was the expansion that made me start feeling some serious feels for the inhabitants of a continent that was forcefully plunged into a pointless war between two complete stranger factions. Wrath did something similar, but I really felt like the Pandarian's were a civilization of people with a long and interesting history.
CaptmagiKono MOP > WOD. Yup...I said it.
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I still think Pandaland is one of the prettiest places in WoW. Also, it beats "Savageland: never leave your base, commander - "by a long shot.
Borkenheimerlein *Pandaland*
Ragnaros the Firelord Yep, "Pandaland".
Why does everyone call it Pandaland. Just call it Pandaria one time ;-;
Lol panda land. But I do agree with you though
Phoenix Games OMG IS PANDA LAND REALLY A THING?!!! i just started playing WoW a week ago and my friend has me set hearth stone to panda land and i always called it that since day 1 ahahahaha
I think Pandaria as a continent is amazing, Jade Forest is one of my favorite zones of all time because of how beautiful it is. I've done the quests there so many times while leveling alts because the scenery is worth it every time, the quests are rather interesting as well since there are so many of them.
Thank you for listing off some awesome places. One of the reasons I stayed so long was to keep exploring the world... something that is a lost art.
Exploring the whole place is one of my favorite parts of the game. It's part of the reason I go to Azeroth.
I don't understand "If you can stomach going back to Pandaria", as Pandaria is one of the most beautiful continents in game. Their art team really hit it out of the park and the lore was extremely rich for each zone, so I'm not sure why the hate (unless you're trying to be funny by jumping on the Pandaria hate bandwagon). Anyways, looking forward to the BlizzCon movie submission, best of luck and keep up the good work.
plushdogg124 I'm just tired of pandaria because it took so long for draenor. Visually the pandaria is incredible, but the expansion went on about 8 months past when it should have ended.
***** The ONLY reason I haven't quit is because I run a Roleplay guild. Without that, we would all be gone I suspect. What with this being the last raid and all. There better be an announcement at blizzcon that we're getting a new expansion at christmastime or so or they're going to lose even more people. Yes Draenor is beautiful, yes pandaria is beautiful, but....beauty only goes so far.
Couldn't have worded it better. I was thinking it would be awesome if wow updated it self like Guild wars 2 did.. with small patches of story the entire expansion with little mini zones and what not... and save the rest of the focus on the next expansion.. but nope, they rather give us 1-2 major patches that is either a hit or miss... and really 6.1 was not a major patch so we only got one major patch this expansion. Im telling you what man, this next expansion better be really fucking good because Warlords of dreanor made MoP look like the next WoTLK.. I feel like the only damn good people working at blizz now in days are their art team.. every one else there is scking some major balls. AmaranteStryfe
***** Give us some fairly decent content patches, a bit more pvp, a bit of pve and questing and silliness, maybe another dungeon, we don't need another entire raid between then and now, but to do nothing...it's wrong. It's bad business.
plushdogg124 Except Dread Wastes, jesus christ FUCK THAT PLACE MAN, WORST FUCKING ZONE EVER
The thing that blew my mind in this video was that you run your own private WoW server.
Paul Staker Don't get the wrong idea - it's a personal server. To me it's no different than having a program like WoW Model Viewer. The only difference is that rather than being able to only manipulate characters, NPCs, and armors, I can manipulate the entire world. This is how I do big crowd shots in my videos.
Nixxiom Machinima
I'm not judging you lol. But still I dunno if it's legal to run WoW on a private server to make money off of it. Just watch out.
On another note does this mean you can script AI npcs to act like like RTS units and make a WarCraft 4-like game inside your server? :D
Cuz if so I better get myself one of these private servers hehehehe.
Nixxiom Machinima Woa woa woa how do you get your own server like this? I'd love to go through wow all over again as a single player type of game and relive all the quest and content. Also I've done the impossible I defeated the tank training dummy with my huntard x3
Nixxiom Machinima I'm also really curious how Blizz would allow running private servers. The thing I'm scared of completing War of the Shifting Sands is the end battle due to so many NPCs, as all private servers are violating the TOS, so I can't risk that.
Licensed Gamers theres toness of great private servers these days you can play on, check out, kronos, nostalrius, dalaran, atlantiss wow.
For #2, you can go there without glitching through walls or anything.
If you keep entering the Stratholme dungeon and and exiting it, then repeating that over and over again, the game will eventually say that you've reached the amount of dungeons entered or something like that. Then, you will be put in Stratholme, but not in the dungeon itself. From there, you can go to the land that would usually be blocked off with invisible boundaries, and from there you can go to that night elf place :)
"If you can stomach going back to Pandaria"
Hey Pandaria is gorgeous! I mean. I'm not the only one that goes there, right...?
You aren't. Pandaland is beautiful. I go there mostly to grind rep for my cloud serpent mount on my warlock. (Who I'm also trying to get Thunderfury on)
Pandaria has one of the greatest map designs and atmosphere! Don't know why people don't like it
@@Freaklyfreakboy exactly
I dont even play WOW but i subscribed.. i played many mmorpg and never noticed Wow because i can see gameplay is grinding to death.. but this channel made me want to try playing WOW. its really a WORLD. not just maps you play and grind. great vids keep it up.
I've been a lot of these places .. Because I didn't know how to read a map
hahaha
Actually, you can use the new version of Tirisfal Glades (After battle for Lordaeron) to fly to the ruins, AND see how Ghostlands "Really" looks.
@@demonwolffelflame361 rly?
How can you not mention, in either video, Newman's Landing!? IT'S A LEGEND!!
Any1 here remember the "secret" underneath strormwind city? Lol I remember some guy whispering me saying, "hey wanna see something cool?" Then showing me how to step thru a wall or something near one of the tunnels in stormwind then u would fall underneath stormwind! Man that was so cool seeing that for the first time, also being able to get on the roofs near the bank in SW way before u could fly in Azeroth. I started playing wow back in BC and remember all these cool places, a few in org like the arena and that shrine to one of the blizzard employees who died. If u read this nixxiom I think it would be a great idea to make a video about these places, and others that don't exist in the game anymore. The feeling of exploring these places and being afraid of ur character getting stuck or a gm finding out, and the nostalgia of it all, I sure do miss it! Would love to see a video about something along those lines. Either way I love your bids! Keep it up thanks alot. Defcamp-bleeding hollow US horde
I was wondering when someone would mention this. Not alot of people know about that now
Hard to get to but fascinating. Lots of places like that in Vanilla. Probably too hard to find them all now?
There are more secrets under stormwind aswell.If you went down and didnt fall through the ground ;) ... you could go west to the coast and then follow it north to a house by the coast of the wetlands. With art or whatever in it. Similar to the elf tower.
Should've added Exodar.
Really?But you are right though lol
***** your profile pic makes me sad.
Mapueix you just had to mention that D: i didn't realize what it was at first.... the memories
***** Was just about to comment that as well
Is that the profile pic from FMA? ;.; Was very sad when I first watched that episode.
The only reason that I want to see Farahlon is because I want to see what netherstorm looked like pre-outlanding.
Gorgrond is Netherstorm, you can see it pre-sundering, Frostfire is Bladespire.
Yukine Chris Its not, gorgond and frostfire smashed together to create bladespires of outland. Farahlon was the laughing skull home but blizz just moved them to gorgond.
Felrane
I just had an argument about that, Gorgrond shows properties present in Netherstorm, especially with all the plant life (The domes in Netherstorm), and Frostfire has the sharp, ragged peaks Bladespire had, and the massive/primal Gronn.
Yukine Chris Even Blizzard has said it was Farahlon back in BC.
JARAXXUS, EREDAR LORD OF THE BURNING LEGION
Blizzard tends to fail at geography, by a lot.
To get to the Nightelven ruins you have to do the Stratholme glitch that involves entering reseting and re-entering until you're locked out, after that use blink or heroic leap thru the invisible wall at the main entrance... run thru Strath until you find the huge untextured plauge... thing xD you cant miss it, run along the walls until you find the one you can walk thru, after that, you'll be in a un-used valley, go over the moutains along the coast, once done you can fly. Fly towards Hearthglen and there it is!
"Heh, roleplay is fuckin' dumb, i'm a grown ass woma--"
6:14 *grizzly hill's soundtrack comes on*
"*rips off armor, revealing calico set, fishing hat, rp walks to the nearest lake and emotes about how beautiful the scenery is**
The island southeast of Land's End in Tanaris was actually part of the AQ unlocking event in Vanilla. I used to go there in BC when water-walking and speed potions were introduced (needed both to get there, plus epic mount). Either way, it was removed in Cataclysm as it served no purpose anymore.
I used to fancy myself an explorer and loved finding secret places in WoW. Cata removed a bunch of areas I used to frequent in Kalimdor, especially when AQ was made into an outdoor, explorable area (there were some secret areas down the coast of Feralas and Silithus).
#3 was part of quest chain to open AQ.
You received a blessing from the gnome in the hub close to Gadgetzan which allowed you to visit this place and kill pirates there to return a book with instructions how to summon the shark boss in Azshara for the blue fragment.
Stormwind graveyard is one of my favourite, I know that everyone knows about it but ppl rarely go there. It has really nice music and the queens grave. I like to AFK here because it just such a nice place, it makes me feel like I'm in another world. I LOVE to rp here and sometimes I miss battle grounds just so I can go sit in a bench in stormwind cemetery and listen to the music.
great humour, great video! keep it up dude
ApeCrimeTV Ihr WoW Nerds :D
Redet mal über die neue WoW Erweiterung :D
ApeCrimeTV haha amen
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Es ist AffenCriminalität!!!
3:25 the camp is abandoned yet the bonfire is still lit.
That profile pic says it all
Kristoffer Andersson the deer did it of course
Kristoffer Andersson Ofcourse it does :)
Hey Nixxiom, This is a secret location for and if you have another video. In the jade forest in pandaria.You see that big river stretching through southern jade forest to northern. Well if you start at the bottom and go up all the way to serpent's heart, just a little bit northern to that you'll see a mountain near the river. On the mountain you'll see a little pandarein hut with a table in the middle. There will be 2 dead skeletons there stareing down at what looks like a bored game. It's a really fun/weird spot that is forgotten and not noticed bye anyone. This place needs some love too.
Those highbourne ruins have lore behins them. Its where the high elves originally landed but after several went insane they immagrated north. Was one of the reasons people suspect old god burried under tirisfal.
Also fun fact on the map if you checked your zone while ther it said quel thalas and was part of that tiny section on the map. Not sure if its still there.
RemnantOfThePast it is if you glitch your way through Stratholme afaik. Or through Naxx.
RemnantOfThePast Those ruins are actually where the high elves moved to after first landing in the area that would become Tirisfal Glades. In fact, they landed on the coast that contained the Whispering Forest. Whatever is under the surface was driving some of them mad so they left and wound up where these ruins are.
¬.¬ I know but at the time of landing they were still High borne not the High Elves we know as the they hadn't adapted to their new environment yet
I can source wowwiki.wikia.com/Dath%27Remar_Sunstrider Dath'Remar was a Highborne
Also mine was the TL;DR version for most of the WoW community that give no real shits but thank you for correcting me on the actual ruins. Been awhile since I really played wow and I forgot roughly were the ruins were in relation to tiris fall. I forgot they were right above strathholme .
img689.imageshack.us/img689/7397/northeron.jpg this is what that whole area would roughly be laid out like base on WC3
I had this banked in my fav tab as I was using it to help develop an RP characters background back in Cata.
The little treasure room inside the goblin statue at booty bay
Because inside pointless things are treasure!
Just FYI, the Moonglade spot does not require a flying mount to access. The hills are actually climbable using a ground mount with a lot of spacebar spamming.
Nixxiom Machinima A little east of 8, Just above dark shore is a hidden long path just above shatterspere valley which back then was also a hidden place strangely. Also is that giant land in 1 that huge other continent looking thing on the bottom of our maps? I was really looking forward to some content there.
The islands outside of tanaris was the first "GM island", but they changed location for their HQ because players were able to reach their little hideout. That's probably why they removed those islands in cataclysm.
Pandorable is there a way to get to go island any longer?
Went to the GM island during LK. With a mount and the path of frost talent of the Death Knight, the island was reachable before getting fattigued. The island was probably not reachable before that. :)
omg I lost it at "go check it out if you can stomach going back to Pandaria" and then immediately after.. "have you ever been to darnassus? probably not.." haaahahahaha. its true though! i wonder if the game makers are upset about how much beauty and mystic atmosphere they put into darn and no one enjoys it nearly as much as stormwind.
It's a matter of location. Silvermoon also looks amazing but is always empty since it's a pain to get to.
It's a matter of location, not that people enjoy one over the other.
Darnassus is beautiful. Ironforge is awesome. Idk why ppl don't go there
I like gilneas more than stormwind
First time first. :D
Gratz
Hi Doron
"An amazing view"
Not with that draw distance, no...
You can actually still reach those Highborne Ruins north of Western Plaguelands. Just enter Stratholme through the original entrance, reset the instance until you can't anymore (too many instance resets) und then keep on running into the instance. You'll quickly reach an invisible wall, you can just blink, lock-port or maybe even warri-jump through. after that you can run through complete Stratholme until you reach the end with old Naxxrammas in it. Walk up to the walls on your right and you'll see, that you can walk right through them. Head on a for a little distance and you should sometime be standing on the cliffs overlooking those ruins.
I once found the elven ruins in Eastern Plaguelands. I was trying to get to eversong woods on an undead, so naturaly... I just walked by the shore. Eventually I reached the ruins, and I had No clue on what it was, so I just kept walking. Later I realized that I didn't have BC, so i hearthed back to Brill. Good times...
you can still get to 9:00 on retail :) I flew there recently out of boredom, starting at tirisfall glades and just flying along the shore. at one point my toon started to do the "flying backwards" animation but she was still flying forward. I was even able to get into stratholme and explore that and into the previous Ghostlands
It kind of saddens me that places like Ironforge don't get that many visitors currently. I mean, the place looks nice, people should visit it. I really hope Blizzard makes other cities apart from Stormwind useful, so that it gets visited more often.
creaturefromdarza10 Honestly on my server its decently populated, no where near the old days when IF+SW had about an equal amount of people.
Hey Nixxion, check out my 10 biggest mysteries in lol video if you want and let me know what you think! :D
I tried getting to #2 on my Blood elf and it teleported me to the middle of Stormwind. Don't do. So much regret.
If you want to get to number 2, continuously re-enter Strathlome through the portal in plague lands until you get an error for too many entrances into the instance, at which point you can begin to move through un-instanced Strathlome north and you will eventually find the ruins if you search hard enough. I accidentally found my way there when farming postman transmog.
God, stop dissing Pandaria. It was pretty damn good, up until SoO.
ajaxtaur
yeah except legendary questline and 10-man shit
*****
No, it did not. Pandas were great, the lore was great, the music was great (outside of the kazoo Inn music), and the quest zones were great.
it was stupid and WAAAY too Asian-themed
Matt what does that even mean? Was WotLK too Scandanavian themed?
I enjoyed Panderia myself, the Asian mythology mixed in with the mysticism of the zone is very interesting if given a chance. Plus the fact that the flying mounts (dragons) are featured and stylized as eastern dragons. ignore the haters and whiner who want nothing more than the return of vanilla wow or those purist that can't stomach change in a fantastic game.
Finally, you made the second part of this.
I was really looking forward for this! I would tell you inguild, but you're too busy for us ahah. I really hope you get the first spot this year.
Here's to an european rooting for you!
Nixxiom, one mistake, the ex king of ironforge isn't dead, his spirit is somewhere doing stuff of dwarfs.
3. Years later he's now back
Never knew about #1, it's cool that there are still "behind-the-scenes" areas like this to explore in Wow even today. It reminds me of back in BC when people found a way to jump off of Outlands and survive, ending up in an endless ocean with the silhouette of Outlands in the sky.
stomach going back to pandaria? i love pandarian scenery, best looking expansion
The stone formation at 2:56 reminds me more of Cenarius teaching illidan, Tyrande and Malfurion.
I've found two skeletons playing a game of mahjong on a mountain in Pandaria. It's somewhere northwest of the Serpent's Heart in the Jade Forest. You need a flying mount to get to it.
Nixxiom. My mom is making baked beans and steak tonight if your interested?
Colin Kochakian I consume only the souls of the innocent.
Lol XD
Gustavo Duarte Grieder It was an innocent banana...
Sooooooo.....when's the next Warlock episode comming out :D
Nixxiom Machinima there is no such thing as an innocent bananas, bananas are evil! i mean just look at the islands of tel abim.
Really enjoying these top ten secret location videos. I'd love to see more in the future, and good luck with your Blizzcon movie contest submission.
Magni Bronzebeard is still alive comfirmed in the Book with Thrall & the Aspects.
My favorite down time, in-game hobby pre Cata flying, was exploring every nook and cranny of the map (and outside of it). I did a lot of instanced dungeon exploring too, which can still be done as far as I know. There were so many awesome places you could get to (and probably weren't supposed to get to) with levitate or slow fall and engineering. I miss that sense of adventure.
The Elven ruins are still a thing, just a tad difficult to get to.
I love these vids because they remind me that there is so much more to appreciate in this game.
I instantly went on my Hunter to go and find the Cutscene place in Pandaria and when I fixed it I got the achievement it scared me and I jumped...
You are easily (in my opinion) the best wow youtuber out there, your videos bring me lots of joy. :)
“Hidden location above Darnassus”… this didn’t age well lol
I remember when I first found the landmass south of SMV...I took an instant fascination towards it.
For the next video, I think you should consider the smiley face underneath Karazhan. On live realms you have to duel a lock to fear you through the wall. I'd imagine it's a lot easier on your own server. Oh and goodluck at Blizzcon!
Nixxiom, how can one obtain a personal server in WoW?
Pretty sure he means private server
Ferret Space Program How'd you get your own private server
Kåpla Kvëhla Download one from ACWeb. Check under the repacks section.
I was flying around zandalar lately and turns out there are many secret spots hidden in the mountains! If someone wants to take a break and just fly around, I would definitely recommend this area
my server has more people in ironforge than stormwind
I didnt know about 8/10 of these
That's because all the cities are now cross-realm except Stormwind / Orgrimmar (unless you're already on a highly populated realm)
Dunno if you're into the glitchy areas or not but I personally find them quite interesting. One of my favorites is in Deepholm, where you glitch yourself through like 2 rocks and then you get this vast land expanse with many different terrain patches and purple crystals and a weird glowy spiral on the ground at point.
IronForge Airport ;)
Thanks for your concern for my health, but I don't need help "stomaching" going back to Pandaria since it was the most solid expansion we've had since WotLK. Leaps and bounds better than both Cataclysm and WoD combined, and gives WotLK a run for its money in the raiding and visuals department.
I actually really like pandaria... :(
So, I found a secret location all by myself. I was bored out of my mind, flying over Dustwallow Marsh for no reason on my blood elf toon. Off the coast of Dustwallow Marsh is an island called "Alcaz Island." According to WoWhead, there used to be (and still might be?) an Alliance quest that takes you on a fly-over of the place, which isn't too impressive. But, landing there on my max level toon, the Alcatraz Island pun was rather obvious, as the place looks like a prison island... or at least, like it used to be. All of the buildings are broken and the place is being patrolled by level 69 elite naga and black dragons. - The only friendly NPC on the island is called "Doctor Weavil's Flying Machine" which is a helicopter that holds a black-bearded dwarf. According to WoWhead, this dwarf was a raid boss for a level 25 raid back in vanilla. If that's true, then Alcaz Island is a good place for vanilla fanboys to go and take selfies. - The place has stockades, watch towers, and even a little dungeon-like area with some rooms blocked off by openable portculleses and skeletons leaning against the wall, one of which you can only get to by swimming through an underwater tunnel. It's really awesome, and since I'm too chicken to exploit the glitch to get into Kharazan Crypts, the dungeon at Alcaz Island is probably as close as I'll get.
+TheEmber221 Yes, it used to be a quest chain. :)
is the detect traps ability ever used? EVER? I found no use for it in the entire time that I played wow (since Vanilla).
I have been a Druid Roleplayer for all this time and never knew about the Druid's retreat... I'm impressed Nixx xD
Been to all of these including GM Island, ive been exploiting for the past 7 years.
#2 is known as Quel'thalas ingame. Should one manage to get in, the map will say "Quel'thalas". Everyone not aware of this usually calls this Northern Lordaeron.
You keep saying gnome villages. Its not gnomes dude its GOBLIN
That place you mentioned that is north of the Eastern Plaguelands known as Quel'Thalas, is still reachable today. What you have to do is go to the dungeon Stratholme. Enter and then immediately exit and reset all dungeons and instances. Go back in and then out and reset. Do this until you are locked outta the dungeon. Once you are locked out you can go inside the dungeon but with no NPCs and any dungeon activity will be non existent. At the front there will be an invisible wall which you can not pass through normally. If you use a character that has a means of protecting yourself forward you can pass through it. Warriors 'Leap of Faith', a Mages 'Blink', and anything of the sorts will get you through. If you are a Warlock you can use Demonic Gateway which will allow you and anyone else to get through the invisible wall. Once there go to the very last boss of the dungeon. To the left side there will be a gate which you can open and you can continue to what was originally going to be a raid entrance to a vanilla raid that never happened. In the other side you'll see what looks like an original design for the Lich Kings ship that hovers over the Plaguelands but with no texture. Pass the green entrance and before the untextured ship if you try moving up against the wall you'll go through the wall to an empty plot of land which you can find Quel'Thalas on the northern edge of the land mass. In this plot of land you can't fly, but you can glide off the cliff and reach Quel'Thalas. Once there you can then fly until you go back up the cliff and land on the plot of land.
This is a secret location that existed in vanilla wow and still exists today in season 3 of BfA and is by far my favorite place to visit.
Can you get banned for going to that draenor thing?
Robbie Johannson Nah.
Robbie Johannson no
Robbie Johannson
Well it makes you an illegal immigrant and Blizzard tends to send firing squats to said individuals locations.
They are pretty much known for it and many tried to bring justice for lost loved family members in court but the hive-mind that Blizzard is cannot be sentenced by law for they are omnipotent to the greatest extent.
Have a good one, mate.
Yes! Thank you for pointing out the hidden lake above Darnassus. I used to RP there all the time on my Druid. Who I still have to this day.
Look at mister Nixxiom, with him fancy schmancy private server.. uuuu
I know there is either a pile of books or a bookshelf in Karazhan that you can use to jump out a window and get to a nifty looking troll village. You'd need slowfall/levitate/some other 'anti-fall-to-your-DOOM' spell to get there safely though.
Love your videos btw! Showed a bunch to my friends and it always gives everyone a good laugh and a smile :)
I remember having to go out to those Gnomish Islands south of Tanaris for the Ahn'Qiraj quest chain to open the gates. They were rather tough to get to before flying came out, and you needed a swim speed buff from a friendly naga in the area once you did a quest for her, if I recall...
ahhh... i remember back when, if you wanted to go to old ironforge, you had to start a duel with a mage at the bank, run to the door, get polymorphed, then hope you walk into the door right and clip through.
also, i tried like 5 times to go to the land of what could have been, but either i didn't start at the right spot or with the right angle, or they removed it in the patch the other day. my repair bill also ended up skyrocketing.
Nice video, Nixxiom. Seriously, my favorite secret location is the cinematic location in Pandaria. I've never checked it out. But now, thank you for telling me its location. I will visit it as soon as I can :)
Really enjoy these top 10's!
Good job, Nixxiom!
All the years I've been playing, had no idea about that druid retreat. Will have to check it out. Thanks for the video. :)
I love this series!
I think the gnome islands must have been overwritten when they added Uldum. Maybe like Eyes of the Beast it was removed accidentally but "too complicated" to restore.
You should do like a 'top 10 interesting places in Wow'. When you first star off as a goblin there is a cool place in Kezan which always amazes me called 'The Pipe'.
this is so good, keep em comeing, still more out locations out there! like the hut + lake in the mountains south of the tauren starting zone
Another awesome video mate! Keep it up, your lore and secret tops are my favorite
ty nixxiom for this vid . i quitte wowo about 1 years ago but when i watch your vid i have the same feeling when i play it it in the first time . and now i back because of u (ty soo much )
I remember getting to old ironforge back in vanilla wow. Back then that place was just full of theories and speculation and it was just amazing. I am kind of sad that they opened it up and didn't leave it as just an interesting place to get to.
There was dozens more of secret locations. And most of the locations you are showing were HARDLY accesible before cata, which made discovering them very very rewarding. I stopped playing WoW right after Cata and just awhile ago started playing on vanilla private server
There is this secret little place i go to. It's between Feralas and Mulgore. It has a big tree where you can stand on, it has its own DEEP lake, has its own hut, and a rowboat. I always hang out there when i wait for queues or chat on global.
underneath dalaran, you use to be able to fly through the wall where the well is. It's the dalaran arena area under there. Not sure if you did that already.
No.3 the island below Tanaris, there was a quest chain that sent you there, it gave you a swim speed buff to get there. With Cata, they removed the chain and had no use for the island anymore.
Hunting for hidden places is my favorite thing to do in WoW. I can spend hours doing this, while even the best dungeon can often bore me.
The hidden lake above Darnassus is among my favorites. I often go there to unwind.
Oof
There is still a way to get to the elven area on the border of tirisfal on the live servers. I hope you know about the way to get there via Heelvsbabyface's video on the howto. Thanks for the awesome uploads Nixxiom and thanks for keeping us updated!
couple neat hidden places:
1: Old thousand needles
if you wallclimb out of Zul'farak, you can get into a portion of the thousand needles zone, pre-flooding.
2: the island north of icecrown
Origionally used for some Argent Tournament dailies, this island is fully populated, but because everyone HATES Toc and everything related to it, this island sits abandoned and rarely visited.
3: Outside EQ, Instanced Silithus (and outside instanced silithus)
outside of the aboveground AQ instance (i think its AQ20, the one that doesnt have cthun in it) theres an instanced copy of Silithus, which is pretty cool. however, outside that to the west, by climbing the mountians, theres an large white jagged expanse that is also really interesting.
Perhaps you should visit Outland? There are tons of beautiful places here, including floating ship south of Netherstorm, floating islands in Nagrand, former daily quest areas nowadays forgotten by people.
Nixxiom you can still reach #2 if nobody told you, it's easy if you're a lock but still possible on any other class
I just started playing again a few weeks ago (stopped playing when Cata was released) and found those flying fish while going through Draenor. It was dark though so I didn't notice the strip of water and had no clue there was a way to an empty land mass. Gonna have to check this out next time I log on :)
Fun fact about those islands south of Tanaris. they were removed because it was part of a quest chain on the original wow. it toke speed potions + a water walking buff along with some healing from either yourself or a potion/lock rock to make it before death, since you couldn't mount while water walking back then. This quest chain was the quest to obtain the legendary hammer used to ring the gong for AQ40 back in the day, as you needed to lot a page from a book that only existed on this island. still remember it because of the weird things you needed to do to obtain said hammer.
I remember that High Elven Ruins place. It was back when "10-Day Free Trials" were a thing and Blood Elves and Draenei Starting Zones were inaccessible, I wanted to go into the Eversong Woods so much, I was a real noob back then and thought to myself that I would just walk along the coastline to Eversong, and Lo, I found these ruins at the northernmost point of my (non-instanced map). I wandered around it until I ended up on the far side of the continent and in that one troll village area.Speaking of Troll Villages, what about the infamous Dancing Troll Village from Vanilla and Pre-Cataclysm, that one village filled with nothing but friendly dancing trolls nestled in the mountains far north between Darkshore and Moonglade.
Another place that will be far more accessible in 6.2.whenever is the cliffs above Highmaul. If you travel around the west coast you'll eventually find some paths that lead up leading over Highmaul. Most of it is serene Nagrand fieldscape, but there's a very pretty lake area there as well. You can also drop down into Highmaul itself and will find that much of the recognizable areas ARE included in the world, but it's filled with elite ogres that will instantly teleport you out if you pull them.
Moonglade actually has a second location to the northwest as well - A small shrine with a path that leads out to the cliffs by the coast. It's north of the old Troll village that used to be flightpath scenery.
Number 3 used to be part of the AQ opening questline if I'm not mistaken. You were given something that increased your swim speed drastically, allowing you to get out there to retrieve something. I'd never been myself, so it all conjecture.
Prior to Cata or whenever it was one of the most secret locations i had ever seen was Ironforge Airport. However they changed it and its actually intentionally a place for players to reach. At the time when i first went there prior to its release there was a lot of weird stuff. Im sure it can be found on RUclips.
Number 3 was used for the quest line that opened the gates to Ahn'Qiraj. One of the hardest and most epic quest lines I've ever been on.
First video was cool seeing things theyve added since I've quit but starting this video out with old ironforge is giving me the dose of nostalgia I'm craving
Except now the door is open and theres a frozen guy down there.... what?