Places Between Places - 10 of WoW Classic's Hidden Hideaways
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Beyond the scope of quests, beyond the reach of players... What could possibly await us? And yet, I seek it, insatiably. also hi :)
Chapters
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00:00 - Intro
01:02 - The Crypt
04:59 - The Landing
06:43 - The Islands
08:21 - The Village
09:43 - The Statue
11:17 - The Isle
13:58 - The Mountain, Above
15:37 - The Mountain, Below
16:43 - The Prison
19:22 - The Farm
20:18 - Outro
Songs Used
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"Enchanted Forest", World of Warcraft
"Cliffs and Caves", King's Field IV
"On the Ship"(Lord_Braathen Remaster), TESII: Daggerfall
"Day Theme 10"(Lord_Braathen Remaster), TESII: Daggerfall
"Tortuga", Pirates of the Caribbean Online
"Preservation", Old School RuneScape
"Majula", Dark Souls II
"Fireseeds", Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PS1)
"Searing Gorge", World of Warcraft
"Transitory Quietness", Eternal Ring
"Hawke Family Theme", Dragon Age II
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I took so long to make this video, that a couple of these locations actually made it into Season of Discovery! I really think they've nailed it with their rune quests - expect me to cover them in some way soon :)
18:10 you can find the same hole/grate at the island off the coast of barrens where you go to get berserker stance as warr. Its a neat location.
I have yet to see a compilation (not of short clips, but a thurough one) of all the "new" stuff, they added to SoD. Everything I seem to hear is "Oh this random npc now drops a new questitem, that starts a more or less interesting questline that gives a new ability at the end". That doesn't sound too exciting for me, but people keep praising it, so I'd be really glad if someone would actually do such a thing. No intention to hint at you, since your content has a vastly different style than this hunting after being the first to show of the newest stuff, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
@@Yormolch I definitely plan to cover SoD's "best bits" very soon! But the list of small changes made is quite exhaustive, so I'll leave that in the hands of others :P
Deadwind has fish in vanilla that are rare
You left out my favourite place. The little farm overlooking the Wetlands. You can get there from the dwarven airfield with careful drops or slowfall.
There is also the cabin with Defias above the Mirror Lake waterfall in Elwyn. Most players miss it although it has easy access. And there is the bugged world under Stormwind. And the Hellfire "preview" under the Blasted Lands but that one I never managed to get to.
That picture of a bowl of fruit at the end is truly beautiful
Hahaha at first I didn't understand
LOL
Brilliant
Kek
I appreciate that you talk about the entire crypt, not just the spooky hanging bodies
spoopy
Agreed.
14:00 I'd give people tours to the airfield! It's one of my fondest memories, gathering a group and going on a hike through the mountains. We'd put on a show for people flying by, wave and dance :D
thats really cool!
the good ole days, my cousin and i used to love jumping up the mountain and hanging out up there. brings back so many good memories
There's actually a spot somewhere up in the mountains where you can slow fall and jump off and you will end up on top of Ironforge bank. Me and my buddy did it during Wrath and we started summoning other Horde up there lmao!
You could fall through the floor in Ironforge bank aswell. There was a ton of unused stuff there@@dangusprime
I did the same but for the dancing troll village. Best part was I had never actually gone to the place before. I just felt like going there with a crew after watching a video so I asked people if they wanted to discover it with me. Was a real old-school adventure
Thanks for always highlighting what made vanilla WoW so cool - the huge open world, the seemingly "useless" areas, the meandering questlines.
Some of these areas have been made accessible in Turtle WoW:
1. The Karazhan Crypts are now a max-level dungeon, and parts of the tower itself are now a Classic raid (as it was supposed to be)
2. Off the coast of Taranis is the new both-faction playable zone, Tel'Abrim, with a bunch of banana-themed quests.
3.. Shatterspear Village, the "dancing troll village" has been replaced by a full-fledged, Horde-aligned Forest Troll city, where the Reventusk and Amani have set up shop in Kalimdor. Horde players get a portal from Ogrimmar to access it, you can grind rep with the new faction, and have the option to make your playable Troll character Forest-troll green if you want.
4. Alliance players get a flight point to Ironforge Airfield. I don't think there are any quests up there just yet (except for a holiday quest which was a pain, though not impossible, to reach with a Horde toon), but there probably will be later.
5. I don't know if there's anything at the Arathi farm, but now I want to go and look!
Turtle WoW also has new quests, new towns and quest hubs in older zones, entirely new zones and dungeons, and you have the choice to play as Goblin (for Horde) or High Elf (for Alliance), all while keeping that Classic feel and the max level is still 60, keeping all content relevant. I highly recommend the server to everyone who wanted an actual Classic + experience!
hey do I need any attunements to play high elf?
@@tychusenfieldlarsson206 Nope. You can pick High Elf off the bat, just for signing up for Turtle WoW.
I'm glad you mentioned Turtle WoW! I knew private servers existed, but I didn't know about this! 😀
The arathi farm is a guild base for thunderbrew ale, and i highly recommend you give it a visit. Thunderbrew has a lot of gms amongst their ranks so that specific guild base have some features that you wont find anywhere else, no spoilers.
I really like how laid back your experience of the game feels. WoW, especially current, feels so busy with so many tasks to do, that I'm usually sprinting from objective to objective. I really enjoy this chance to slow down and pay attention to the details in the world, even ones with no lore significance.
thanks matey! its always nice to appreciate the little things :)
tryhards ruined the mmo experience
Sorry to say.. but that's your own mindset doing that to you. Plenty of people play the game the way it was meant to be played.
Truly, this is what made WoW so great in it's time. Not the rush to 60.
@@tyrous1743 Sorry, but no. It's not just a matter of mindset, the entire game design philosophy has changed.
Maps are not designed with this playstyle in mind, they are much more of theme parks carefully prepared to be filled with quests and world quests, squished and compressed together as to be as convenient grind islands as possible, travel and exploration has been reduced to an afterthought because players have long complained that they don't want to do that and simply want to get from one quest hub to another, rendering out other means of playstyle obsolete.
Most side quests are reduced to 30 minute bite sized pieces as to not lose players attention, and theres barely any mystery or room for speculation left as everything needs to be explained and/or shown to the player directly.
You simply cannot play this game like you used to in classic no more, be it from the story, world, exploration, or gameplay perspective.
I spent so much time exploring and wall walking when I was a kid. I loved finding these sorts of places in game.
5:00 No Man's Landing purpose was explained at some point (I believe it was John Staats, former dev of WoW and author of "The WoW Diary"): In WoW every zone is an instance of its own, and when near borders not only the player but NPCs, objects spells, etc. are seamlessly seen and interacted between instances; that was such an engineering achievement, but before this was made the whole continent of Eastern Kingdoms was a single instance and implied that, due to rounding errors when calculating the coordinates, the further you were from the middle point, you'd suffer from blinks, misalignments and such (namely Booty Bay or Stranglethorn Vale were unplayable). No Man's Landing happens to be in the middle of the North-to-South axis and was a safe place before the zone system was properly implemented.The actual spawn point where characters are placed when entering the continent is under the world, south of Southshore.
Idk if this is just here say and rumor: but I heard that very early on into the live game it was the "debug spawn" for already existing characters that the server "lost" in one way or another.
Maybe because of it being a safe zone during that early time for servers you mentioned, it would make the most sense to spawn lost characters there, thus lowering the chance the server loses them on repeat?
The by far most common way have the server lose a character is if something goes wrong with cross continental travel. Usually, if someone's PC is just slow enough to load in to the new zone, just as the boat/Zeppelin they're on has gone into the loading zone again, causing it to loop until the server doesn't know where the character should be. This happened to me a lot in legion lol, but ofc that just sent me to the faction specific debug spawns of sentinel Hill and cross roads.
Again, can't confirm but I remember hearing that for a super brief time in wrath, if a DK death gripped someone in the same spell batch as the booty bay ship they were on brought them to the loading screen, it would drag the gripped player to that landing.
So perhaps since that 0x0 coordinate was safe, they made it debug spawn, and thus made it so when you were using transit originally, for a brief moment it considered you there?
@@literallynobody9769 I do wonder whats Kalimdors equivalent of No mans landing.
also from what I remmber whit the DK death grip you only needed to pull someone off the boat when you was standing on the Botty bay dock or the other way around.
I think you needed to be on the boat and the other person on the dock.
as that would bug out the position (because the game would move you from a world location (zone) to a local location (boat), the game dont ask where your are on the world when your on a boat it ask you where you are on the boat (prevents jittering when your on a moving item).
the DK Death grip bugs it out and sends the player to the permanent boat copy under Arathi Highlands.
@@Zack_Wester yeah I think your recollection of that bug is better than mine haha.
Crazy to see someone reply to my ramblings haha, thanks!
Honestly yeah I do wonder what Kalimdors was, Honestly maybe it was just the same xroads grave yard? Since it's pretty central, maybe that would explain why nobody thought it was too weird because it was already a place in use?
@@Zack_Wester The thing is that there's no equivalent of No Man's Landing because by the time Kalimdor was implemented (EK was made much earlier) the new zone instance system already was in place and there was no need for such place.
The spawn point from a transport you're commenting exists but it's not related to No Man's Landing, although it was mistaken for long because they're similar concepts. Again, I cited the source, this was explained by one of the developers.
I do have a recent screenshot of the underground spawn for transports just South of the Sludge Fields in Hillsbrad.
The entire "Room of Upside-down Sinners" and the upside down underwater corpses in it are a direct reference to a movie called Big Trouble in Little China, straight down to the name. This is something I don't see get mentioned a lot when people talk about Karazhan Crypts.
Man i love the smooth and chilling character of your videos. Its like a friend telling a story like back in the day when the game was much more of a fantastic mistery!
Glad you enjoy it!
Ι was going to write the same thing more or less. Interesting and cool story telling from days past, gives a quite nostalgic vibe.
Quick correction on 18:10 you CAN actually find one of these at the warrior berserk stance quest on the island just off the barrens. It’s what you stand on in the middle of dueling circle. Other than that, awesome video!
oh thanks, didn't know!
Correct me if I'm wrong because this is a nearly 20 year old memory but isn't there a small opening underwater near the grate that allows you to swim under it? Pretty sure there's a Frenzy fish there that attacks you as well
Yep. Lower level fish tunnel you can swim through.
The Dwarven Farm has been my favorite hidden area for years. It's so quiet and peaceful and almost otherworldly. I think that's what makes some of these places so special.
I'm very surprised you mentioned that Wetlands farm but not the larger village in the Wetlands hills. There's Ironforge NPCs that you can ask directions and a fun signpost pointing directions to "This Way" and "That Way"
It was definitely considered - just didn't make the cut. Maybe another time :)
I love stuff like this. It's honestly probably the reason why classic WoW has hooked me in a way that a lot of other mmo's didn't. The scope of the world was just massive especially for the time and all the little hideaways in-between were great to just stumble upon. Immediately I'm reminded of the unmarked grave in Duskwood behind Darkshire and the existence of The Unseen in Raven Hill. I loved all the little oddities that weren't quest important or even significant in the grand scheme but were cool, like the twin colossals in Feralas or the dwarven farmhouses strewn about.
I'm so glad that SoD brings us to therefore unknown and unused locations that are just kind of there. Makes me feel like a kid playing wow for the first time again. And I hope many of the here mentioned will get a time in the limelight
I love videos like these! One of my most memorable moments in Vanilla wow years ago was climbing up to Mount Hyjal through a series of pretty nutty wall climbings and finding Archimondes skeleton still clinging to the world tree as well as a whole uninhabited zone which looks VERY different to what they brought in for Cataclysm.
I was a cata baby, so a lot of these little corners of Azeroth that were reworked are still so fascinating to me. The thing that made me fall in love with wow was the atmosphere and just existing in the world. I remember just walking around Darkshore and taking in all the different variations in the scenery, wondering what these ruins were for, or why the climate is the way it is, and I feel like your videos do a good job of catering to that wonder I felt. Keep up the lovely work!
Watched both these WoW episodes back-to-back, then the next recommendation is a video on Silverlight. Man, you know how to play on my nostalgia. Instant sub.
All of your videos are a gift, meditations on the peaceful serenity in the games you enjoy. Thank you for sharing your time with us
Thanks for making this lovely video. I played WoW from March of 2005 through June of 2022. Our guild was a Horde guild named Obsidian Spur, originally on Sargeras up through Mists of Pandaria, and then we moved the guild to Thrall where it still resides. My name was Wretchedmist, undead priest and GM of our guild. Looking back now, I feel extremely fortunate to be part of that player base who played the original Vanilla WoW. I know all of the locations in this video, and it really made me feel good to go back in time here and relive these places through your video. I remember when we first went to Alcaz island and went into the prison area. We found King Varian Wrynn in there, and if I recall he was a yellow NPC back then. I think we went there with one of our rogues, which makes sense with the Defias Brotherhood quest chain. I still have the screenshots somewhere from 2005-2006 or whenever that was.
This was a time when fantasy was a key part of WoW. Going slow, stopping and looking, theory crafting, exploring the world, imagining, being present. The game was way, way more about living the fantasy in conjunction with the dungeons, raids, pvp, farming, etc. This element of WoW no longer exists, nor has it for many years. It's much less about guilds and community, and that's not just due to the game's age, but intentional game design changes made by the company over years. Death by a thousand cuts. It brings sadness to my heart about the game I once loved so much. I don't know if I'll ever come back. If I do, it will be as a casual. Raiding - especially mythic raiding - had become so tedious, requiring immense energy, effort, and time as guild master and raid leader. Extreme boss tuning, hundreds of wipes, scripted CD usage, 10-15-minute fights, countless one-shot mechanics and raid-wiping mechanics, mandatory high parsing requirements, high player turnover, the influence of e-sports, the list goes on and on. I tip my hat to all players who are having a blast in Classic WoW and Season of Discovery. You're playing the best iterations of WoW (outside of original Vanilla) that create the opportunities for this community, guild, and fantasy again.
Thank you for sharing!
@@Veriganic Thank you for the reply, and thank you for making this video and content.
EXCELLENT vid. I instantly subbed when I saw the title alone, and it didn't disappoint. I've watched this like five times so far! Stories and places in old games is great stuff. Thanks!!
This was such a wonderfully made video! Clear love and passion for the source, and I really liked the clean, understated editing style. And thanks for putting the music sources in the description as well!
11:45 the Majula music hit me right in the feels... :-)
The Pirates of the Caribbean Online music... that really brought me back. Great video!
i miss playing the original potco so much, i almost cried when i heard it. i know theres a private server reboot but u can never replicate a place and a time (they did a great job tho)
8:28 The Pirates of the Caribbean Online music!! Bravo!
I've not played WOW for very many years but, like you, I've found most of the places you mention back then. My favourite was the locked undercroft in Ironforge. I spent hours down there rooting around.
As you say, swimming around the coast has also proven very interesting. My favourite place, before the huge flood, was Booty Bay. I just loved the original build and was so upset when it was later wrecked and never rebuilt.
I won't ever return to Azeroth again so it was nice to watch your excellent video and bask in a few happier memories of the nicer aspects. Thanks a lot.
Excellent work Verigan! Your scripts paired with the visual shots and the RPG soundtracks are always so captivating! :D
Can't wait for the videos about "The Scepter of the Shifting Sands" & "Scholomance / The Barov Family"!
I love the dwarf city bits sticking outside the mountains all over khaz modan, they look cozy and strong at the same time. I remember seeing them go far when I was younger and thinking wow ironforge is massive
This is so cool! Real nostalgia for the days on my first character on my big brothers acc when i was barely able to play the game. A lot of time i was just walking around finding places like this, sometimes it was just random houses i thought would be cool to make my home. Please make a second part, i could watch this forever!! I can think of the hidden tauren village outside on the coast of tanaris, found that place by accident and was amazed
Brilliant video, some good memories of exploration here.
A couple of my favourites not mentioned in the video were the hidden Wetlands farm with the hallway that leads underneath the map that ends with a drop into an out-of-bounds killbox, and a place I took to calling Stonetalon plateau. If you could find your way up the hills south of Ashenvale, you eventually come across a huge featureless gap in the mountains. I just liked how weird they were.
So many hidden things in the old game!
On the classic map, there was a small house waaaaay on the south coast of Silithus. Had to hoof it all the way from Tanaris to find it.
I have NEVER seen anyone talk about this place. Shame my old drive died with the screenshots on it.
There was also a couple huts between Mulgore and the Barrens on top of the mountains that's visible from a flight path but accessible via some careful jumps. Another place nobody ever talked about visiting.
What a fantastic video! You put so much work and research into this and it shows. I can never get tired of videos like this
I have to admit, you managed to play on the few remaining strings of my love for World of Warcraft. Nice video, thank you.
Thanks for this. I played WoW when it first came out. I was a kid when Warcraft Orcs and Humans first came out lol.
I loved the nostalgia.
Yaaass! Very excited for the Scepter of the Shifting Sands vid!
Running around the Crypt is one of my personal highlights in Vanilla and Classic.
Great video. Reminds me of my burning crusade days. I played WoW from release up until end of lich king months before cataclysm. I loved using bugs to get to places you were not supposed to get to. I went to every corner of the map reaching all of these places. Some amazing scenery if you are willing to take the time for a great adventure. Long live Dopefish the greatest exploiter of them all.
The Pirates Online music at 8:40 or so brings back so many memories thank you very much 🙌🙌
Majula theme was perfect for Purgation Isle, especially with that shot of the bonfire. More content in a game is often better but for an MMORPG it's really special to have disused or questless zones and points of interest. Not everything needs an explanation or a purpose and sometimes finding your own special little pointless spot in the world is its own reward. I used to chill in that creepy little Tauren town south of Silithus on the coast all the time. Not exactly an unknown spot but a spooky little spot where you could just chill.
Great format. Very good use of music to set a mood and you're very relaxing to listen to. Would love to see more of this concept - there's a lot of overlooked areas like this in the game, though perhaps not as hidden, in TBC, Wrath and beyond. Off the top of my head, the mahjong table in Jade Forest where two skeletons are locked in an endless match.
Good stuff.
Lovely video! Thanks for bringing us back to Azeroth and places some of us have never been to :)
Fishing up peacebloom above Elwynn waterfall from the 'school of fish' was always a cool thing to show people back in the day.
Your videos have renewed my interest in WoW. They really take me back to when I used to play with my friends and brother.
I have fond memories of exploring all these locations pre-TBC back when I was in high school. I remember spending way too much time swimming as far as I could around the coast line of each continent looking for secrets, and when I found the path from Loch Modan up to Ironforge's peak I charged people to take them there lol.
Just found your channel, and your videos are so well made! I hope your channel keeps growing and you see the success you deserve. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for the time and effort you out into this video. Many of these locations took me back to a simpler time when I was a chuld maybe 9-12 just exploring. The leveling and grind took the backseat. This Wonderful littke world with something new to find behind every turn. Some of these were even new to me. Blew my mind. Took me back in a way that only wow has been abke to do. Cudos
Amazing! Using this video to teach friends of mine some English, love your clear storytelling and pronunciation!
I think I've genuinely been to ALL of these locations... I don't play WoW anymore, but I used to religiously, and this was trip down memory lane. Thanks!
This was a great watch, thanks!
I expected to know most of these, but surprisingly there were several I'd never seen/heard of. pretty neat stuff.
Great video! Always interesting to see people really exploring the World of Warcraft to find this stuff.
Great video. Just sat back and enjoyed it like a mini movie.
your videos are great. i'm excited for that scepter of the shifting sands video, ive always wanted to see what its like
Great stuff!
After doing the rune quests in Season of Discovery and visiting a couple of the places you mentioned in the video, having no prior knowledge of these places I did wonder if they were created specifically for SoD or if they just used them.
Glad to see it was the second option!
Your videos are so chill to watch, and you shoot them really well too!
getting out of bounds was one of my favorite pastimes in older WoW, and indeed every MMO. I'd gotten up into the rafters in the Undercity, which was a fun time.
Been to most of those places years ago, when I was active, but still I gone trough whole vid because of beautiful nostalgic narration, thanks
What a great video! The algorythm did well for once. Looking forward to new ones
I remember the old Ironforge, because I was in the vanilla beta and it really is the old Ironforge before they redesigned it into what it was in 2004 launch, and is in Classic. That room with the purple crystals had the king in it, I think, and honestly it was a pretty bad city to go to. Every Alliance player hung out in SW instead, until they redesigned it and tried to make IF the big Alliance hub for high level players. It's honestly got a bit of a creepy atmosphere to me. I guess it's the sense of going deep into the cavernous earth. Might've also been that it was super easy to fall down into those pits and die if you were careless, and have to use the spirit healer. The main thing I remember is, the throne room in Classic wasn't there in earlier beta builds, so there was some quest that took you down to that room with the crystals.
I also remember them saying Hyjal, Emerald Dream and Karazahn were going to be some level 60 endgame content on the beta forums near the end of the beta.
Great video! I have swum all the coasts and there are some pretty neat things out in the middle of nowhere along the coasts
danke für deine herausragende arbeit , grüße aus Darnassus
Something else cool I found at the Ironforge Airfield while exploring in SoD, is that there is a Stormpike Guard NPC on the northern side. Next to her(?) are a couple of Gryphon roosts that you usually only see at flight paths.
You can also jump down a waterfall on the northern side to enter the Wetlands, into a mountain farm of some sort. You can see this while questing in the zone, so it's cool to be able to have a look around up close.
P.S. Great vid!
It's because originally it was going to be a flight point. That was going to be an additional questing area during pre-bc.
from there you can also enter one of the buildings, one of which inside ends into a white void, with an epic mount and slowfall from noggenfogger potion, you can jump into the void and float all the way back to ironforge , ending in old iron forge
I get Hayven vibes from this. Good video.
That theory of the new players born on newmans landing is actually true, I've seen it in work before during the launch of classic, and both factions spawn there
Thanks for coming back! I was starting to get worried for ya!
Another fantastic video. I hope this blows up more!
Great video and now it’s my falling asleep video wow exploring is always calming to me
Love these kinds of videos. Even after 20 years this game still captivates people and the world Blizzard made in the early 2000s is really something special.
the feeling you capture is really unlike any other wow videos ive seen. none can truly take me back to summers of the late 00s like these. i remember swimming up the side of westfall to find newmans landing the first time, my friends and i decreed it our new clubhouse for guild meetings, not that we’d have much to say haha
that's universal. everywhere around the world, kids put in a lot of effort to make the most remote and secret hideout, only to discover it's completely useless, and that all the fun was in the journey getting there
This was so well done!
That track from the early Harry Potter games threw me right back! Appreciate the effort you put into making these videos mate. WoW really does have a special experience to give a slower or more RP-focussed player that's hard to match.
These are my favorite types of videos, and you're such a good creator! Keep up the good work!
A note about Newman's Landing: In phase two of Season of Discovery, it was updated to have a quest event for the Sheath of Light Paladin rune. You investigate the last known whereabouts of a Scarlet Crusade defector and have to kill an assassin from the Crusade to continue. A nice addition to get people out into the world more.
thanks for revisit of the old classic world. Current day internet prevents us from having these mysteries in games that made us wonder and kept our fantasies busy.
Really enjoyed the video! Thank you :)
I watched all 9 of your vids and bravo! Excellent storytelling and love the diversity in each video. Patiently (not really) waiting for more. Easy subscribe
Glad you like them!
I love that last one. That one's my favorite of all the discoveries I've made in this game. I gave it the name Four Foot Farm. 😊
Great vid! Hoping for even more of these to be featured in SoD! :D
When Death Knights became available a group of us made our way to Iron forge Peak and used their Death grip ability to slingshot ourselves to Arathi Highlands lol. We would Duel the Death Knight and a Mage would cast slowfall. Only the priests could make it without dying though since their Slowfall actually lasted long enough to not plummet to our deaths. Great times.
I made it to those Islands in Tanaris! Was very interesting to get there. I never thought about seeing a video about them.
one of the best wow lore videos i ever seen. i hope you will make more videos like this in the future ^^
Always nice to be suddenly washed by the notes of the Majula theme.
As always, love the video! It's these hidden things in an open world which make me love fantasy, so thank you for making a video on it. Definitely gives me an urge to play WoW again. I also don't think you are reading into the statue on the Isle too much, it seems very much like a possibility, given the wine glass is a focal point in the statue, and with the purpose of the Isle. Unless the Isle had a previous purpose before it was used for the Banished. Interesting to think about.
I love how you described the locations
Good stuff, not sure why I not seen this channel before
That Reach transition was beautiful brother.
This brings back fond memories of playing the game when I was younger. I would love to re-experience those. I may go back to wow one day and play casually. I would love to check out some of these locations. Azshara looks like somewhere I would love to live in real life!
Great video. Made me feel sad/happy I knew all these spots easily... played this game for too long haha
Love the choice in using the Hawke's Family OST from Dragon Age 2 in the last section of the vid. Really fit the cozy vibe and "taking life one day at a time" line. Gave goosebumps.
Well presented and informative video. Stuff like this is a good reminder why Vanilla was so epic, nowadays too many people focus on speedrunning to 60 and getting through the raid content. The original game design was rich in lore, stories and zone design. Something about the Night Elf statue in Azshara reminded me of how the game designers would use art design on a larger scale to make the game feel epic. Another good example is Dire Maul.
This is great, way back when i was apart of an rp event in the crypt in the pass and it was super fun, i was surprised just how big that place is
Always a pleasure when you release a new video. My RP guild had it's unofficial headquarters in an abandoned cottage somewhere in the middle of nowhere, where there was no content for players. Always loved that about wow.
Sounds like westfall.
Some of these have been used in SOD already, the only one I know of being the last one in this video. I really hope they make use of more of them, because these were some of my favorite places to go growing up
Superb video again. Could listen to your voice whole night.
Very nice video! very well made. I remember I was so excited when a friend showed me how to get to the Ironforge airfield, and then the village/farm in the wetlands down the mountain. That was a really cool discovery. Then he also showed me old ironforge which is probably my favorite because I love dwarf architecture. I remember I went back to old ironforge several times through the extensions et found out they updated it a few times even though no one was supposed to go there. It was really strange.
I've always liked exploring the world of the game. I remember when I was a kid I didnt realize the tram between SW and IF was an instance, and I swam along the coast trying to find an opening leading to its tunnel and the place where Nessy was 🤦♂🤣
But I've never thought that exploring was a waste of time. Even just seeing the gates of Grim Batol was like finding a lost treasure to me.
World of Warcraft was one of the few games that felt real and endless to me. Like the world exists regardless of us players, with all these mysterious and inaccessible locations. The game world was always larger than what one player could explore, and I love it. No matter how long I play, there's always more to it than I know.
I was taken aback by the Eternal Ring OST background music while watching this. I'm so glad someone remembers that game!
this was lovely. thanks.
Amazing storytelling, even had a few places I havent heard about before