Little did Hiru know the most secretive location in all of WoW is held within Orgrimmar, in a secret chest with a piece of secret string in it. If you pull the string you unlock a secret compartment, revealing an embarrassing snapshot photo of Thrall from the Winter Veil party!
Patrick McCurry fun fact you’d get a six pack faster from swinging a two handed weapon faster than just pure running as that would engage your core more.
Not sure if it was always meant to have treasure in it; it wasn't possible to get inside the statue until it was heavily damaged in the Cataclysm. There's a bunch of poles supporting the statue suggesting the goblins are intending on repairing it eventually but several years later they still haven't got around to it yet. No idea who Janeiro was other than apparently he was important enough to build a big statue of him. Lore is silent in that regard. (Out of game he's clearly a reference to Rio de Janeiro, where the Cristo Redentor statue is, that Janeiro's statue is posed very similarly to. But there's no in-game lore I know of that says who he was.)
Back in the day on the official forums, a thread was made called "Bounty hunter". He hid himself somewhere in the world, and players that saw the post got to search for him during a certain time frame. The first one to kill him had to make a screenshot and post it on the forums to be rewarded in gold - thereafter that player became the hunted, and thus it continued for a while. it was very popular and players used hidden rooms or hard to get locations to wait for being "hunted".
Oh man. There used to be plenty of hard to get to places all around azeroth. Some you could get to by means of simply jumping and for some areas you had to do some fiddling with your modem. My personal favourite of all time is the still existing river area north-east of stormwind, up on the hills. I'm sure that location would've been a great one for this bounty hunter thing.
A good place to hide, and I can’t believe the video maker didn’t include it in his list, is the arcane library at the top of the spires above the violet citadel in Dalaran. You use “The Schools of Arcane Magic - Mastery” to get there. Back in Wrath it was the best place to go when you wanted to get away from the Dalaran lag, and hang out in trade chat. It would be a great place to hide because only people who’ve gotten the achievement and kept the book can find you.
People used to do similar in Wrath. Hiding in capital cities especially Dalaran and telling trade chat to find and trade them for x gold. Usually a couple K which was nice back then
abit late but i dont think "vealed" stairs would be made OUT OF veal (i mean veiled stairs -if anyone would ever think of such a ridiculous thing- wouldnt be made OUT OF veil) so more likely the stairs are made out of something else and then veal is used a finish, you know same effect as a 100% veal staircase but it only uses 10% of the veal
Then let me explain it so your pathetic brain can understand it; You're still bitching about a fandom that people have stopped bitching about 5 years ago. You somehow need to vindicate yourself by bashing on people, 7 years later, about a show they like. It's been 7 bloody years, smart people have moved on by know by realizing bronys aren't going anywhere. Things you don't like, aren't going anywhere. For fuck sake, you're a fan of 40k (I am too), you should know this better then anyone. It's so ironic and incredibly hypocritical of you. So it makes perfect sense, only YOU can't seem to grasp or understand it.
Well, at least you had the honesty of admitting you're nothing better then 4chan garbage. That perfectly explains your low intelligence and ignorance to the entire subject. Talking to you anymore after this would be the equivalent of talking to a Flat Earther. Literally too stupid to understand the very basics of gravity. Well done completely invalidating any and all things you have and will say. That's actually extremely hard to accomplish in every sense of the word. You should feel proud.
@@greatpower6063 what can i say... wow artists got taste... the amount of pure alpha energy coursing through the guy who got paid by blizzard to draw goblin pinup art... truly an inspiring tale on a side note... would anyone know where one can get a goblin and gnome pinup calendar? im asking for myself
I like how you had an existential crisis in the middle of the video about why you were even showing people these secret places 😂 you know it could just be for fun. Not everything has to have some objective point
That almost sounds like the whole dumbing down and streamlining of WoW. "What's the point of something if it's not efficient or for a clear objective or purpose?" Just having fun little hidden easter eggs, scrapped rooms and neat secrets can be fun on its own. :)
I believe Andrestrasz is a reference to a kid who went to blizzard through make-a-wish, and died of cancer later, so they put him that in the game as a memento, I'm not 100% sure tho; the WKM might also be the same.
Part of the make a wish could be to not tell anyone of it to keep the mystery surrounding it, Blizzard are very good in that sense. Who knows there are likely more references in the game to people who wished for it never to be disclosed.
2:57 Corrupted Ashbringer was ofc an Hunter item like shown there, as like as the rest of the whole games items. And I personaly really like the Hidden Room in Wintergrasp Fortress, every tower has closed doors, except one.
I remember way back when I was just a wee little gamer, I got to kill the high inquisitor and I got his hat on my mage. I was so excited for some reason.
I remember I found this by accident. I was fishing the cargo around the island and had my humanoid tracker on. So when all those npcs popped up in the middle of the ocean I was like "wtf" lol
The WKM room is after William Michael Koiter. It was a young boy who played an Orc Warrior & how he loved his character & the last place he logged out was in Orgrimmar. One day the young boy passed away due to cancer & his brother went to log on his character to inform his guild of his brother's passing. However when he went to log into the game he found that the Orc wasn't in Orgrimmar as expected but in the Barrens where the Spirit Healer is currently at.
Day 5 of the 12 days of Uploads before Christmas is a top 10. Next year I should just do 12 top 10s instead of a mix of my usual stuff. I still have 1 more top 10 planned, 3 more WCmini facts, 1 explore video, 1 History of x spell video, and then a new video type that I've never done before.
In vanilla wow there was a spell hunters had where they could take over their pets body and run around while the hunter was hidden. This fact, along with knowing pets always come up on the left of hunters allowed access to a secret place in Ironforge. You would stand with your left shoulder against the wall in this special place and summon your pet. When you took over his body you would find yourself on the other side of the wall. This spell was timed so you went as far as you could in 60 seconds. There was several staircases and tunnels to explore in this unknown (except to hunters) area.
Great Video, If you plan to do another top 10 hidden rooms there is a cave in darkshore that has a ghost of Nightelf. If you go there with a Demon Hunter the ghost will become hostile because the nightelf was killed by a demon hunter. To get to the you have to jump into a whirl pool.
The crypts of karazhan were awesome to visit before they actually opened them up for the lucid nightmare mount adventure! and yes there are dozens of other rooms and areas you did not mention but some things should remain a mystery to most ;)
Hey, you found treasure inside a pointless thing! I guess Crendor was right. It's kind of weird to see Fairbanks' room be on the list since I hardly thought of it as secret. It's like one of those "back my the day" things, bu I haven't done the revamped Monastery beyond transmog runs and his room was entirely common knowledge back when I did run it. I didn't actually get to experience it since I didn't get to raid Naxx when playing Vanilla, but I did want to a little bit about the lore event as a lore buff. From what I remember reading, the scripted event in the Scarlet Monastery is not attributed to the player but still definitely canon. It was the then-living Darion Mograine who infiltrated Naxxaramas and retrieved the Corrupted Ashbringer in lore. Retconning things from player to lore figures like that isn't that uncommon for Blizzard, and when I did a double check on that just a moment ago, I saw that the attribution to Darion was apparently apart of a larger comic that explained the events leading to Darion becoming a Death Knight. You can read a synopsis of that on Darion's Wowpedia page. P.S. You mispronounced the word 'Aerie' as "aer" in the Secret Aerie segment. It should be more like "aer-ee" since the last part of that isn't silent. That is unless there's some regional difference I missed, but I double checked that also and couldn't find anything.
Actually the dragon represented Andres who is an employee of blizzard entertainment it's a testament to how powerful of a presence he left behind when he entered a coma. The dragon is a testimony of power and that's what he provided the environment he has not woken up yet they were not sure if he will recover tho. (I'm a blizzard entertainment beta tester and Andres was a good friend of mine in world of Warcraft and a great guild member he always knew what to do we were a number 1 guild from the old vanilla wow but the guild was never the same so the guild broke up I remember the good old days of angels of eradication in wow miss those days)
You forgot couple important secret rooms: 1- Archmage Vargoth room in Dalaran. You can only access if you gather all the special books that spawn tru the city. You get a special book that acts as a teleporter. The room exist in both versions of Dalaran. In Broken Shore Dalaran, you get teleported to the room in the mage OH questline. 2- Kharazhan's hidden room above the Huntsman, This room was avaliable during the scourge invasion. I am no sure but i think you can still open the door if you unlocked it back then, but the special boss is no longer there of course.
I did not know the cave was still unknown. I went to get my ring long ago, You pretty much just need to kill one of the elves to get the ring, then bring it to the guy that sells the fancy xmog.
Yes, i did mention briefly that you get to the Mage Order Hall version in Legion Dalaran. However, the mage can not go back there. Is an one time only thing. With the book you can access it anytime :)
I would have included the cave in Borean Tundra that gives you a companion pet for finding it, as it's the second best hidden cave entrance I've ever seen in WoW. The best hidden is, IMO, in Azsuna, near the Ley-Ruins of Zarkhenar, by the rare mana elemental miniboss down in the ravine. Most people find that one by falling into it, and have no clue ot exosts until they do.
Andrestrasz' cave existed in vanilla, and also had several tauren buildings nearby. Quite an out of the way area back then given you had to swim around the coast for no reason to get there.
Apparently Michael Martin koiter as also a memorial in starcraft. Before the final mission, Raynor holds out a solders identification in which is written "M. Koiter"
my favorite secret room was the one in original dal, that you had to get all of the magic books read that gave you the giant arcane familiar pet, but that is definitely one that takes a long time to get footage for.
There was a hidden alley way in Stormwind that I always liked, which led to a building you could just hang out in and be AFK in quiet. But it became less hidden when Blizzard added quests that take place in it during one of the holdiays (don't recall which).
Theres a secret area under Kara, not sure how many people know about this, I found it by accident back in TBC, I fell through a crack in the mountain directly next to Kara and ended up in an area that's completely empty except for a huge smiley face drawn on the ground. I have a screenshot saved to an old hard drive I'll try to recover it and post it. Note that I was never able to replicate the fall through the crack.
Maybe the entire jellyfish mount questline could have been included since that is exclusively all about finding really obnoxious secret hideouts and rooms and caves.
Went to Andrestrasz's cave back in burning crusade and it was empty.Also...There was an empty tauren village on that coastline, near the cave entrance.
Viciouss if you paid attention to the lore while completing the Highmountain questline.. you should be able to make a connection. If that isn’t enough then you should unlock the new Highmountain Tauren race. Hmmm... 🤔🧐
Old Ironforge comes to mind, but you do have to glitch to get to it. I also like the semi-secret goblin vendor in Duskwood at Raven Hill. Also if you travel up the coast north from Westfall, you'll come across a secret graveyard. I think it was the first secret place I found while exploring.
So, I barely play WoW anymore (life reasons) but just want to commend you for the vid which randomly popped up in recommended - super well researched and edited, kept my attention the whole time. Keep it up!
You missed a few. First off, I can’t believe you didn’t include the arcane library at the top of the spires above the violet citadel in Dalaran. You use “The Schools of Arcane Magic - Mastery” to get there. Back in Wrath it was the best place to go when you wanted to get away from the Dalaran lag, and hang out in trade chat. And then there is the whirlpool in Darkshore. Jump in and you get an achievement. There’s a large room (cave) at the bottom. A lot of players don’t know it’s there, unless they jump in just to see what happens, or if a friend tells them to do it, or if they read about it in their achievement journal. And there’s a sort of hidden cave behind a waterfall in Darkshore, where you get the pet Withers from Apothecary Furrows. Now you can buy the pet from six different stable masters. But back in the day Furrows was the only way to obtain him. I hate it when Activision dumbs down the game like this and makes everything easier.
found the WKM mystery: However, in September of 2020 a former senior artist at Blizzard Entertainment, Chad Max, stepped forward. Chad had been the developer in charge of the Orgrimmar redesign during Cataclysm, and had added the room as a memorial to his father, William Kenneth Max. With that, a ten year mystery was brought to a close. The letters serve as a virtual memorial to honor the father of the developer who rebuilt the city, and the nature of the room itself has shifted from one of mystery to one of reverence.
theres a balcony in the mountain behind Scholomance. You have to fly to get into it but theres a tomb inside and a lighting glitch area in the back that basically makes everything black except glowing bits. Good for screenshots.
Before the Cataclysm revamp you could go there when you entered Scholomance. You even had a quest to gather some blood and then make an offering on the balcony in order to fight the secret boss, a giant bat.
BlackLight ah I see. I didn’t know that, I unfortunately never got to run it much during the vanilla days. Still I think it’s pretty hidden or at least now not too well known.
It was where you summoned Kirtanos. People used to farm that guy infinitely as he had pretty decent loot. He was a vampire that turned into a gargoyle and I think he was the guy in charge of Dr. Karstivon and co.
That’s where I logged off my Undead Rogue when I stopped playing. All my characters got logged off in places in liked. That room is one of the last remaining places in the game that is truly DARK. Activision nerfed everyplace else, including caves, which seem to have their own luminance.
The tunnels behind Karazhan is a fun one. Skeletons hanging upside-down, mountains of bones, creepy halls. It used to be a huge area, but now only a handful of rooms are accessible. Demon hunters can get there easily, but all characters can get inside if you're clever enough.
"The Secret Aerie", or more specifically "The People of the Sky", was originally going to be a grindable Faction to unlock Pandaria Flying Mounts. It was scrapped in favor of simply purchasing the Four Winds item near the Vale flight master instead. This is fairly common knowledge, I'm surprised you didn't know about it.
There is also a room inside the tower of Karazhan, which used to "impossible" to get to when the Darkmoon Faire wasn't around, since you needed the size increase from Darkmoon Firewater to get there. Today there is properly a number of ways to access it. However, I still have an old tune trapped there, with no intention to leave
the purple parlor was also part of an achievement (probably a feat of strength by now) from wotlk expansion (was also doable in cataclysm when i quit right before mists of pandaria). The achievement required opening some books around Dalaran. The spawn points were specific but other random useless books could spawn in their place. Anyways, the reward was a pet and an item that would tp you up to the purple parlor. I believe before this "Blingtron" npc it was the only way to access it (also flying up to it, i guess)
Thank you for the video, that was really neat :) I remember when Orgrimmar changed from the old version, there was a chair in the garrison(?) where the PVP NPCs were, that kind of put you below the ground by accident. After playing around out of bounds for a while I also located that silly WKM room by pure coincidence and was fascinated by it ^^
Prior to MoP's release (or, shortly after? I forget which), you used to be able to clip through the rocky slope leading up away from the dueling area in Dalaran Sewers by mage blinking into it at the right angle. You could then fall through it and access the physical Dalaran Sewers Arena in-world template by jumping off of the terrain mapping towards it. Iunno how many people knew about it. It's patched as of Legion, either that was intentional, or as a biproduct of them revamping Dalaran.
In all the expansions up to Cata there was an island just south of lands end beach that you could only get to with either swim speed potions or water walking and a mount that had pirates on it and random goblin structures. I used to go hang out there all the time.
"managed to find him". Pretty much everyone back in the day knew where Fairbanks was, especially when the caster classes wanted the stuff he dropped. Also the so-called squirrel is actually a prairie dog
One thing I think about when I find good hidden places, is old games before WOW where you couldn't email stuff to alts. Games like Asheron's Call, where you'd find some hidden remote place to log out all your alts. Then when you want to give them something, you drop it on the ground and log out, quickly log in on the alt to get it before someone else comes and steals it.
The moment I saw the Booty Bay statue all I could hear is Credor going "Why are we flying passed this pointless statue? Because inside pointless things there's treasure! Let's begin."
I remember when mate tought me how to get inside walls in orgrimmar. You had to place your character into a corner of some walls where there was room to jump a bit before hitting ceiling or some obstacle, and you had to face the wall backwards. Then you'd mount up and just when the mount was summoned you had to jump. When made correctly, you could get inside walls. I remember exploring orgrimmar and finding out that WKM initials. Back then it was supposedly be super cool to see it, specially when you didn't know you'd find anything like that in there. :) I think this was back in the WOTLK but it's so many years ago i can't recall it well anymore.
I found the hidden room in the statue by booty Bay randomly from a toy effect. I don't remember the toy, but it teleports you to a random location, and I got teleported there the very first time I used it.
#3 was used in the questline leading to the darkspear revelion , the aerie is where chen cured voljin of the troll killing poison that the orc assasin used on him , he even makes you collect spikes from the nearby mobs to do some acupunture
If you've played WoW since 04 like I then you'll know the WKM room is a place only Games Masters can officially reach, since their avatars are invisible and can fly without mounts. Originally it was a general meeting place to observe players and pvp city boss combat. What WKM originally stood for I can't recall that far back. It did have items in it like the GM room under Ironforge and Undercity but they've long since been removed.
I remember just wanting to see if I would die jumping into the vortex and was pleasantly surprised that it had a secret quest in it though this was at Cata's launch so it was fairly unknown then.
ive been through that on my warrior haha, the pallies always kick me out but since i usually tend to get really bad lag where npcs dont load in right away, i can engineer boost all the way down it to the far end before i get booted out
I think the devs put these little gems in for explorers to enjoy. You can see that they enjoyed building the world of Azeroth and didn't just do it because they had to.
On darkmoon island, there’s a shipwreck off the east coast, and if you swim down further south east (I believe), you’ll find an underwater cave. It used to be empty but they eventually added npcs in there, and a toy
I first found Fairbanks by chance in vanilla. I'm pretty sure it was a "wouldn't it be cool if there was a secret waa... OK. There is!" moment where I stumbled upon it. When I think secret rooms my go-to would be the Fairbanks one, but I feel like the original Gnomeregan and BRM (BRD/LBRS/UBRS) dungeons had way more rooms most people probably haven't seen. There are so many pointless places that were only used for certain quests, or certain drops (like feral +armour tank items) that most people just plot the easiest paths and you never get to explore. And my personal favourite secret rooms. Before you could fly, and before there was a quest that took you there, I liked the little house in Stormwind Dwarven districts canal area that you could only access by walking through an empty shop and out through the back.
I'd like to suggest a room for part 2 of this video - room in Wintergrasp pillar. Super easy to access, very easily missed and great for screenshots in Ulduar theme.
I really love that you gave the audience some background about Fairbanks since he has some good value to the lore, I really thought that you would just ignore it :)
All your videos are so click baity, but have short concise, and well spoken pieces along with a "let's get to the point attitude". It's so contradictory and I feel like I walked into Schrodinger's RUclips channel. Either or keep up the good work my main man, shit is smooth
7:08 That is nice place to see during the leveling, too bad I won't level in that map due to the fact that the leveling process in retail (and cata) is orieneted around xp/hour.
Koiter is found on Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void cutscene when you helped Raynor with Artanis on one of the dogtags in the cutscene when they need to start rebuilding Korhal.
#5 Hidden Treasure of Janerio's Point The item The Last Relic of Argus from doing Draenei Archaeology will take you there sometimes. I didn't know there was anything in that chest. I just thought the Relic took me to another boring location. lol
Well in the Fire and Fury cinematic of Wings of Liberty. The dog tag Raynor picks up also says Koiter. And is thus added into Raynor “we will get through this” speech.
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For anyone wondering, "WKM" actually refers to William Kenneth Max, the father of one of the Blizzard artists who revamped Orgrimmar for Cataclysm.
Little did Hiru know the most secretive location in all of WoW is held within Orgrimmar, in a secret chest with a piece of secret string in it.
If you pull the string you unlock a secret compartment, revealing an embarrassing snapshot photo of Thrall from the Winter Veil party!
LOL
@Davin van Velzen it's a spongebob reference :)
@Davin van Velzen lol ok then buddy. goodluck finding that embarrassing photo of Thrall then.
thanks boss
Rogues don't have an order hall... And you'll keep telling people that if you know what's good for you.
Rogues have six pack abs due to all that damn running we have to do.
Patrick McCurry fun fact you’d get a six pack faster from swinging a two handed weapon faster than just pure running as that would engage your core more.
then my paladin should have BIG MUSCLE with that enormous pure gold and iron shield he use 0_0
I was thinking "Uncrowned secrets man! C'mon! 😁
I felt personally betrayed by him telling people all our little secrets.
Why are we flying by this pointless statue in booty bay? Because inside pointless things are treasures!
lol. thats what I was thinking as well. I can only blame Crendor. lol
Not sure if it was always meant to have treasure in it; it wasn't possible to get inside the statue until it was heavily damaged in the Cataclysm. There's a bunch of poles supporting the statue suggesting the goblins are intending on repairing it eventually but several years later they still haven't got around to it yet. No idea who Janeiro was other than apparently he was important enough to build a big statue of him. Lore is silent in that regard. (Out of game he's clearly a reference to Rio de Janeiro, where the Cristo Redentor statue is, that Janeiro's statue is posed very similarly to. But there's no in-game lore I know of that says who he was.)
Let's begin!
Robert Janeiro
Back in the day on the official forums, a thread was made called "Bounty hunter". He hid himself somewhere in the world, and players that saw the post got to search for him during a certain time frame. The first one to kill him had to make a screenshot and post it on the forums to be rewarded in gold - thereafter that player became the hunted, and thus it continued for a while. it was very popular and players used hidden rooms or hard to get locations to wait for being "hunted".
That sounds extremely fun.
Oh man. There used to be plenty of hard to get to places all around azeroth. Some you could get to by means of simply jumping and for some areas you had to do some fiddling with your modem. My personal favourite of all time is the still existing river area north-east of stormwind, up on the hills. I'm sure that location would've been a great one for this bounty hunter thing.
A good place to hide, and I can’t believe the video maker didn’t include it in his list, is the arcane library at the top of the spires above the violet citadel in Dalaran. You use “The Schools of Arcane Magic - Mastery” to get there. Back in Wrath it was the best place to go when you wanted to get away from the Dalaran lag, and hang out in trade chat. It would be a great place to hide because only people who’ve gotten the achievement and kept the book can find you.
@@IamNemoN01 isn't that the purple parlor? First place in the list hehe ;)
People used to do similar in Wrath. Hiding in capital cities especially Dalaran and telling trade chat to find and trade them for x gold. Usually a couple K which was nice back then
7:15 It's a pointless thing and inside poitless things are treasure......... lets begin
That just made my day, thanks :D
Philapila your welcome C:
Wowcrendor
and inside the statue....... I knew I wasn't the only one saying it xD
Any friend of Crendor is a friend of mine
Ah, yes. The famous "vealed stairs."
Arguably the best staircase made of baby cow meat in the entire game.
I thought I was the only one who'd noticed this
I literally just posted that (including the baby cow reference). Beat me by 4 years. :-P
abit late but i dont think "vealed" stairs would be made OUT OF veal (i mean veiled stairs -if anyone would ever think of such a ridiculous thing- wouldnt be made OUT OF veil) so more likely the stairs are made out of something else and then veal is used a finish, you know same effect as a 100% veal staircase but it only uses 10% of the veal
Someone should tell Crendor that his pointless statute in booty bay is not that pointless after all
I've told him for years...I don't think he cares.
Then let me explain it so your pathetic brain can understand it;
You're still bitching about a fandom that people have stopped bitching about 5 years ago. You somehow need to vindicate yourself by bashing on people, 7 years later, about a show they like.
It's been 7 bloody years, smart people have moved on by know by realizing bronys aren't going anywhere. Things you don't like, aren't going anywhere. For fuck sake, you're a fan of 40k (I am too), you should know this better then anyone. It's so ironic and incredibly hypocritical of you.
So it makes perfect sense, only YOU can't seem to grasp or understand it.
Well, at least you had the honesty of admitting you're nothing better then 4chan garbage. That perfectly explains your low intelligence and ignorance to the entire subject.
Talking to you anymore after this would be the equivalent of talking to a Flat Earther. Literally too stupid to understand the very basics of gravity.
Well done completely invalidating any and all things you have and will say. That's actually extremely hard to accomplish in every sense of the word. You should feel proud.
Rpground 4chan garbage? You mean your entire fandom and it’s birth site?
what did i even miss
Inside pointless things are treasure!
Dammit, yopu beat me to it! xD This was exactly what I was gonna go say in the comments haha xD
Same here! :-)
It’s actually Padanren takeout
Pandarian express?
Pandaren express.
whats up with that bikini goblin on a motorcycle lol x.x
@@greatpower6063 what can i say... wow artists got taste...
the amount of pure alpha energy coursing through the guy who got paid by blizzard to draw goblin pinup art... truly an inspiring tale
on a side note... would anyone know where one can get a goblin and gnome pinup calendar? im asking for myself
I like how you had an existential crisis in the middle of the video about why you were even showing people these secret places 😂 you know it could just be for fun. Not everything has to have some objective point
Hirum's periodic existential crises are what keeps me coming back.
That almost sounds like the whole dumbing down and streamlining of WoW. "What's the point of something if it's not efficient or for a clear objective or purpose?" Just having fun little hidden easter eggs, scrapped rooms and neat secrets can be fun on its own. :)
those damn goblins and their surprisingly hot pinup callendars :D
raver377 would smash a goblin
Even if they think I'm not attractive the time is money. I'll give them my money and they'll give me their time.
I believe Andrestrasz is a reference to a kid who went to blizzard through make-a-wish, and died of cancer later, so they put him that in the game as a memento, I'm not 100% sure tho; the WKM might also be the same.
Not Andrestraz, that's Ezra
No that is Ezra. He is made a q-giver at the bridge north of Bloodhoof Village in Mulgore.
Part of the make a wish could be to not tell anyone of it to keep the mystery surrounding it, Blizzard are very good in that sense. Who knows there are likely more references in the game to people who wished for it never to be disclosed.
Wehttam14 yes you are 100% correct. also got a unique to him quiver made for him he was a hunter
He also had Ashes of A'lar added for him that they never removed.
2:57 Corrupted Ashbringer was ofc an Hunter item like shown there, as like as the rest of the whole games items.
And I personaly really like the Hidden Room in Wintergrasp Fortress, every tower has closed doors, except one.
I remember way back when I was just a wee little gamer, I got to kill the high inquisitor and I got his hat on my mage. I was so excited for some reason.
corrupted ashbringer, hunter weapon btw
Clearly a hunter weapon. Raptor Strike crits FTW.
#5 is just a pointless thing filled with treasure. Lets keep going.
boy. no. go watch a crendor top ten
#4 is a shipyard worker's hideout :) Used during the building of the ship.
Still confusing as to how the Chinese takeout can defy physics by not floating up into the ceiling.
"The Vealed Stairs" Oh lord no
What about the Bengal Tiger Cave? I remember people used to believe there is a vendor spawning at the random time to sell you a unique mount.
Yeah he still does.
Rizz CS No, he doesn't. It was specifically addressed by Blizzard, as well as many well-known you-tubers that vendor is no longer in game.
Corie Savoie they just say that.
It never was in the game..
Theres a super hidden underwater cave at the DMF where you get a toy that turns you into a demon blood elf chick.
I remember I found this by accident. I was fishing the cargo around the island and had my humanoid tracker on. So when all those npcs popped up in the middle of the ocean I was like "wtf" lol
Spent years in my Garrison. Never thought to swim in the pool lol.
same. that blew my mind.
The hidden house in a hidden back alley in the south-east corner of the Dwarven Quarter of Stormwind.
"vealed stairs"??
A B how are they hidden? a quest leads you right to them
My exact thought. Ew. So squishy.
If he reads this comment chain it's pronounced V-Ale-D
Don't have a cow, man!
he mispronounces a lot, I've just accepted it and don't mention it.
The WKM room is after William Michael Koiter. It was a young boy who played an Orc Warrior & how he loved his character & the last place he logged out was in Orgrimmar. One day the young boy passed away due to cancer & his brother went to log on his character to inform his guild of his brother's passing. However when he went to log into the game he found that the Orc wasn't in Orgrimmar as expected but in the Barrens where the Spirit Healer is currently at.
Day 5 of the 12 days of Uploads before Christmas is a top 10.
Next year I should just do 12 top 10s instead of a mix of my usual stuff. I still have 1 more top 10 planned, 3 more WCmini facts, 1 explore video, 1 History of x spell video, and then a new video type that I've never done before.
When's the new video type?
idk, its still being worked on
we need more history of x spell pls they are my FAV
In vanilla wow there was a spell hunters had where they could take over their pets body and run around while the hunter was hidden. This fact, along with knowing pets always come up on the left of hunters allowed access to a secret place in Ironforge. You would stand with your left shoulder against the wall in this special place and summon your pet. When you took over his body you would find yourself on the other side of the wall. This spell was timed so you went as far as you could in 60 seconds. There was several staircases and tunnels to explore in this unknown (except to hunters) area.
Great Video, If you plan to do another top 10 hidden rooms there is a cave in darkshore that has a ghost of Nightelf. If you go there with a Demon Hunter the ghost will become hostile because the nightelf was killed by a demon hunter. To get to the you have to jump into a whirl pool.
That’s why wow it’s a great game. There are always something to explore . Azeroth is so real and alive .
The crypts of karazhan were awesome to visit before they actually opened them up for the lucid nightmare mount adventure! and yes there are dozens of other rooms and areas you did not mention but some things should remain a mystery to most ;)
The cravas in Borean Tundra where you get Turky is probably my favourite hidden room
Could you please do a video about the rooms or areas only accessable by a glitch? It would be amazing.
Hey, you found treasure inside a pointless thing! I guess Crendor was right.
It's kind of weird to see Fairbanks' room be on the list since I hardly thought of it as secret. It's like one of those "back my the day" things, bu I haven't done the revamped Monastery beyond transmog runs and his room was entirely common knowledge back when I did run it. I didn't actually get to experience it since I didn't get to raid Naxx when playing Vanilla, but I did want to a little bit about the lore event as a lore buff.
From what I remember reading, the scripted event in the Scarlet Monastery is not attributed to the player but still definitely canon. It was the then-living Darion Mograine who infiltrated Naxxaramas and retrieved the Corrupted Ashbringer in lore. Retconning things from player to lore figures like that isn't that uncommon for Blizzard, and when I did a double check on that just a moment ago, I saw that the attribution to Darion was apparently apart of a larger comic that explained the events leading to Darion becoming a Death Knight. You can read a synopsis of that on Darion's Wowpedia page.
P.S. You mispronounced the word 'Aerie' as "aer" in the Secret Aerie segment. It should be more like "aer-ee" since the last part of that isn't silent. That is unless there's some regional difference I missed, but I double checked that also and couldn't find anything.
Actually the dragon represented Andres who is an employee of blizzard entertainment it's a testament to how powerful of a presence he left behind when he entered a coma. The dragon is a testimony of power and that's what he provided the environment he has not woken up yet they were not sure if he will recover tho. (I'm a blizzard entertainment beta tester and Andres was a good friend of mine in world of Warcraft and a great guild member he always knew what to do we were a number 1 guild from the old vanilla wow but the guild was never the same so the guild broke up I remember the good old days of angels of eradication in wow miss those days)
You forgot couple important secret rooms:
1- Archmage Vargoth room in Dalaran. You can only access if you gather all the special books that spawn tru the city. You get a special book that acts as a teleporter. The room exist in both versions of Dalaran. In Broken Shore Dalaran, you get teleported to the room in the mage OH questline.
2- Kharazhan's hidden room above the Huntsman, This room was avaliable during the scourge invasion. I am no sure but i think you can still open the door if you unlocked it back then, but the special boss is no longer there of course.
Unfortunately it's a top 10 list, I suppose some things just couldn't make it :/ (until part 2 shows up that is! :D)
I did not know the cave was still unknown. I went to get my ring long ago, You pretty much just need to kill one of the elves to get the ring, then bring it to the guy that sells the fancy xmog.
jose juan andrade you can also access it if you're a mage as its part of the class chain.
Yes, i did mention briefly that you get to the Mage Order Hall version in Legion Dalaran. However, the mage can not go back there. Is an one time only thing. With the book you can access it anytime :)
One I stumbled upon years ago in Cata, was through the whirlpool in Darkshore, where the demon hunter is.
I would have included the cave in Borean Tundra that gives you a companion pet for finding it, as it's the second best hidden cave entrance I've ever seen in WoW. The best hidden is, IMO, in Azsuna, near the Ley-Ruins of Zarkhenar, by the rare mana elemental miniboss down in the ravine. Most people find that one by falling into it, and have no clue ot exosts until they do.
Andrestrasz' cave existed in vanilla, and also had several tauren buildings nearby. Quite an out of the way area back then given you had to swim around the coast for no reason to get there.
Apparently Michael Martin koiter as also a memorial in starcraft. Before the final mission, Raynor holds out a solders identification in which is written "M. Koiter"
i was watching this video right after finishing wings of liberty again and noticed OH DAMN ITS THE DOG TAG but u beat me to it ...
my favorite secret room was the one in original dal, that you had to get all of the magic books read that gave you the giant arcane familiar pet, but that is definitely one that takes a long time to get footage for.
There's also the cave/area under ICC where you find little arthas that was always endearing to me.
Ok wow, no need to go so hard on Crendor for #5
There was a hidden alley way in Stormwind that I always liked, which led to a building you could just hang out in and be AFK in quiet. But it became less hidden when Blizzard added quests that take place in it during one of the holdiays (don't recall which).
Theres a secret area under Kara, not sure how many people know about this, I found it by accident back in TBC, I fell through a crack in the mountain directly next to Kara and ended up in an area that's completely empty except for a huge smiley face drawn on the ground. I have a screenshot saved to an old hard drive I'll try to recover it and post it. Note that I was never able to replicate the fall through the crack.
Maybe the entire jellyfish mount questline could have been included since that is exclusively all about finding really obnoxious secret hideouts and rooms and caves.
very true
Great video! I didn't know about any of these actually. The scarlet monetary one was the best part.
Went to Andrestrasz's cave back in burning crusade and it was empty.Also...There was an empty tauren village on that coastline, near the cave entrance.
Viciouss if you paid attention to the lore while completing the Highmountain questline.. you should be able to make a connection. If that isn’t enough then you should unlock the new Highmountain Tauren race.
Hmmm... 🤔🧐
So it's not a pointless treasure! Crendor lied to me in every video
um akchually he never said the treasure is pointless
god i love how you spelled actually haha, went for the nerdy version, eh?
I feel so good that i am OG enough to know about the original Fairbanks.
8:50
"Vealed stairs"
Come on bro.
Old Ironforge comes to mind, but you do have to glitch to get to it. I also like the semi-secret goblin vendor in Duskwood at Raven Hill. Also if you travel up the coast north from Westfall, you'll come across a secret graveyard. I think it was the first secret place I found while exploring.
Old Ironforge ?! the upper floor in Undercity?
HenryJaques not mentioning places you have to use exploits/bugs to get to as mentioned; except for the last one.
@@Shervin86 The door to old ironforge has been opened for ages now.
So, I barely play WoW anymore (life reasons) but just want to commend you for the vid which randomly popped up in recommended - super well researched and edited, kept my attention the whole time. Keep it up!
You missed a few. First off, I can’t believe you didn’t include the arcane library at the top of the spires above the violet citadel in Dalaran. You use “The Schools of Arcane Magic - Mastery” to get there. Back in Wrath it was the best place to go when you wanted to get away from the Dalaran lag, and hang out in trade chat.
And then there is the whirlpool in Darkshore. Jump in and you get an achievement. There’s a large room (cave) at the bottom. A lot of players don’t know it’s there, unless they jump in just to see what happens, or if a friend tells them to do it, or if they read about it in their achievement journal.
And there’s a sort of hidden cave behind a waterfall in Darkshore, where you get the pet Withers from Apothecary Furrows. Now you can buy the pet from six different stable masters. But back in the day Furrows was the only way to obtain him. I hate it when Activision dumbs down the game like this and makes everything easier.
found the WKM mystery:
However, in September of 2020 a former senior artist at Blizzard Entertainment, Chad Max, stepped forward. Chad had been the developer in charge of the Orgrimmar redesign during Cataclysm, and had added the room as a memorial to his father, William Kenneth Max.
With that, a ten year mystery was brought to a close. The letters serve as a virtual memorial to honor the father of the developer who rebuilt the city, and the nature of the room itself has shifted from one of mystery to one of reverence.
I dunno, but I would say that hidden treasure room is pretty "pointless" if you know what I mean.
stop Crendor!!! :)
theres a balcony in the mountain behind Scholomance. You have to fly to get into it but theres a tomb inside and a lighting glitch area in the back that basically makes everything black except glowing bits. Good for screenshots.
Before the Cataclysm revamp you could go there when you entered Scholomance. You even had a quest to gather some blood and then make an offering on the balcony in order to fight the secret boss, a giant bat.
BlackLight ah I see. I didn’t know that, I unfortunately never got to run it much during the vanilla days. Still I think it’s pretty hidden or at least now not too well known.
It was where you summoned Kirtanos. People used to farm that guy infinitely as he had pretty decent loot. He was a vampire that turned into a gargoyle and I think he was the guy in charge of Dr. Karstivon and co.
Mop revamp
That’s where I logged off my Undead Rogue when I stopped playing. All my characters got logged off in places in liked. That room is one of the last remaining places in the game that is truly DARK. Activision nerfed everyplace else, including caves, which seem to have their own luminance.
The tunnels behind Karazhan is a fun one. Skeletons hanging upside-down, mountains of bones, creepy halls. It used to be a huge area, but now only a handful of rooms are accessible. Demon hunters can get there easily, but all characters can get inside if you're clever enough.
No "Room of Upside Down Sinners", underneath old Karazan? Probably the freakiest place ever in WoW.
"The Secret Aerie", or more specifically "The People of the Sky", was originally going to be a grindable Faction to unlock Pandaria Flying Mounts.
It was scrapped in favor of simply purchasing the Four Winds item near the Vale flight master instead. This is fairly common knowledge, I'm surprised you didn't know about it.
What's the addon for your bag, sir? And nice video, I actually didn't know about some of these, the Scarlet Monastery one is awesome.
Agreed, I want that addon
its adibags
So glad you put #9, did that secret boss in OG SM so much in Vanilla just to scrounge for all the possible extra gear and xp we could get.
Disappointed u didn't put classic old ironforge
Old ironforge isnt a room
it was a room, if you consider a room walls with a door. Otherwise it's a really big deep cave with a door.
"I know that these are mostly caves and not rooms" then says "that's not a room" to something else :x
There is also a room inside the tower of Karazhan, which used to "impossible" to get to when the Darkmoon Faire wasn't around, since you needed the size increase from Darkmoon Firewater to get there. Today there is properly a number of ways to access it. However, I still have an old tune trapped there, with no intention to leave
Oh my!!!
#9 was so fun. Getting to take all of my friends into SM to show them the event was one of the coolest things I did in WOW.
the purple parlor was also part of an achievement (probably a feat of strength by now) from wotlk expansion (was also doable in cataclysm when i quit right before mists of pandaria). The achievement required opening some books around Dalaran. The spawn points were specific but other random useless books could spawn in their place. Anyways, the reward was a pet and an item that would tp you up to the purple parlor. I believe before this "Blingtron" npc it was the only way to access it (also flying up to it, i guess)
Thank you for the video, that was really neat :)
I remember when Orgrimmar changed from the old version, there was a chair in the garrison(?) where the PVP NPCs were, that kind of put you below the ground by accident. After playing around out of bounds for a while I also located that silly WKM room by pure coincidence and was fascinated by it ^^
Prior to MoP's release (or, shortly after? I forget which), you used to be able to clip through the rocky slope leading up away from the dueling area in Dalaran Sewers by mage blinking into it at the right angle. You could then fall through it and access the physical Dalaran Sewers Arena in-world template by jumping off of the terrain mapping towards it.
Iunno how many people knew about it. It's patched as of Legion, either that was intentional, or as a biproduct of them revamping Dalaran.
Love a top 10
WHAT?!?!?!? why are you not doing a classic review??? noobbbbb
Hello sailor
I love videos that are random like this. Such a soothing video
In all the expansions up to Cata there was an island just south of lands end beach that you could only get to with either swim speed potions or water walking and a mount that had pirates on it and random goblin structures. I used to go hang out there all the time.
"managed to find him". Pretty much everyone back in the day knew where Fairbanks was, especially when the caster classes wanted the stuff he dropped.
Also the so-called squirrel is actually a prairie dog
One thing I think about when I find good hidden places, is old games before WOW where you couldn't email stuff to alts. Games like Asheron's Call, where you'd find some hidden remote place to log out all your alts. Then when you want to give them something, you drop it on the ground and log out, quickly log in on the alt to get it before someone else comes and steals it.
The moment I saw the Booty Bay statue all I could hear is Credor going "Why are we flying passed this pointless statue? Because inside pointless things there's treasure! Let's begin."
Number 5 is pointless
I remember when mate tought me how to get inside walls in orgrimmar. You had to place your character into a corner of some walls where there was room to jump a bit before hitting ceiling or some obstacle, and you had to face the wall backwards. Then you'd mount up and just when the mount was summoned you had to jump. When made correctly, you could get inside walls. I remember exploring orgrimmar and finding out that WKM initials. Back then it was supposedly be super cool to see it, specially when you didn't know you'd find anything like that in there. :) I think this was back in the WOTLK but it's so many years ago i can't recall it well anymore.
Sekret Squirrel! LOL! A nod to the cartoon! That's awesome!
I found the hidden room in the statue by booty Bay randomly from a toy effect. I don't remember the toy, but it teleports you to a random location, and I got teleported there the very first time I used it.
#3 was used in the questline leading to the darkspear revelion , the aerie is where chen cured voljin of the troll killing poison that the orc assasin used on him , he even makes you collect spikes from the nearby mobs to do some acupunture
If you've played WoW since 04 like I then you'll know the WKM room is a place only Games Masters can officially reach, since their avatars are invisible and can fly without mounts. Originally it was a general meeting place to observe players and pvp city boss combat. What WKM originally stood for I can't recall that far back. It did have items in it like the GM room under Ironforge and Undercity but they've long since been removed.
When you mentioned the ghost squirrels, I got an ad about squirrels.
In my opinion the cave in darkshore would be a good mention too. Little to none of the players know about it.
Jules I see a *lot* of questing people jump down in the vortex, I'd say that it's _fairly_ well known
I remember just wanting to see if I would die jumping into the vortex and was pleasantly surprised that it had a secret quest in it though this was at Cata's launch so it was fairly unknown then.
Isn't the paladin order hall hidden under light's hope chapel?
ive been through that on my warrior haha, the pallies always kick me out but since i usually tend to get really bad lag where npcs dont load in right away, i can engineer boost all the way down it to the far end before i get booted out
ninjii12 i got in there on a Rogue in accident XD
I think the devs put these little gems in for explorers to enjoy. You can see that they enjoyed building the world of Azeroth and didn't just do it because they had to.
half these comments are about crendor cause of number 5
WKM is a memorial. I asked a GM once, it was a developer that died.
Wow WKM!!! I have been in orgrimmar for years and never thought that a secret room would be here !
Cool vid, your narration and music choice gave me vibes like the Lore podcast; relaxing and mystifying. Well done
I like how you pronounced veiled stairs “veal”ed stairs. Sounds like something I would name a Tauren character but instead it would be vealed stares
The troll village hidden inside old Karazhan is a good one.
On darkmoon island, there’s a shipwreck off the east coast, and if you swim down further south east (I believe), you’ll find an underwater cave. It used to be empty but they eventually added npcs in there, and a toy
I first found Fairbanks by chance in vanilla. I'm pretty sure it was a "wouldn't it be cool if there was a secret waa... OK. There is!" moment where I stumbled upon it.
When I think secret rooms my go-to would be the Fairbanks one, but I feel like the original Gnomeregan and BRM (BRD/LBRS/UBRS) dungeons had way more rooms most people probably haven't seen. There are so many pointless places that were only used for certain quests, or certain drops (like feral +armour tank items) that most people just plot the easiest paths and you never get to explore.
And my personal favourite secret rooms. Before you could fly, and before there was a quest that took you there, I liked the little house in Stormwind Dwarven districts canal area that you could only access by walking through an empty shop and out through the back.
I'd like to suggest a room for part 2 of this video - room in Wintergrasp pillar. Super easy to access, very easily missed and great for screenshots in Ulduar theme.
I legitimately didn't know about the Thousand Needles one....now I gotta go check it out for myself
"Why are we flying by this pointless statue in Booty Bay? Because inside pointless things are treasure! Let's begin!"
I really love that you gave the audience some background about Fairbanks since he has some good value to the lore, I really thought that you would just ignore it :)
All your videos are so click baity, but have short concise, and well spoken pieces along with a "let's get to the point attitude". It's so contradictory and I feel like I walked into Schrodinger's RUclips channel.
Either or keep up the good work my main man, shit is smooth
This reminded me of the old Org and how you could glitch into the floor when you jumped off a tower in the right spot.
Scarlet monastery was re vamped in MoP bro
Cataclysm too
Yeah, cata still had the 4 wings and this was still an optional boss.
I took that draenor "port" on one of my toons i leveled and had no garrison...
was a fun time.
7:08 That is nice place to see during the leveling, too bad I won't level in that map due to the fact that the leveling process in retail (and cata) is orieneted around xp/hour.
Awesome! Had no idea about the dragon cave. Will have to go out and check it out myself
Koiter is found on Starcraft 2: Legacy of the Void cutscene when you helped Raynor with Artanis on one of the dogtags in the cutscene when they need to start rebuilding Korhal.
#5 Hidden Treasure of Janerio's Point
The item The Last Relic of Argus from doing Draenei Archaeology will take you there sometimes.
I didn't know there was anything in that chest. I just thought the Relic took me to another boring location. lol
Well in the Fire and Fury cinematic of Wings of Liberty. The dog tag Raynor picks up also says Koiter. And is thus added into Raynor “we will get through this” speech.