Secrets, Mysteries & Urban Legends in World of Warcraft | 2004 - 2017 & Beyond
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- With Legion taking a keen interest in secrets, let's examine the role they have played in the game since launch, back when World of Warcraft a very different game indeed.
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One of my favorite things in WoW are the little secrets you can find in the mountains between zones. They almost tell a story and make you wonder, "What happened here?"
this!! so love it
Run thru the UC as a spirit, and there's more ghosts hang in out
This is why Cataclysm was my favourite expansion. I spent so much time in Vanilla WoW exploring the map and looking for secrets, I even got into Caverns of Time before it was released and explored that area or got under/behind Stormwind and explored the vast wastelands behind it.
I was fascinated with all the hints and unreachable areas that Vanilla WoW had to offer and when Cataclysm actually finished the entire map and allowed us to fly and explore it, it allowed me to satisfy that curiosity I had felt all those years ago. Little things like the mushroom fairy ring in Tirisfal Glades were my reward for exploring the map.
Hayven R.I.P. I will miss him aswell~
Not that I forgot about Hayven, but man, when you see his name on screen it just brings back all the feels. We miss you, Hayven.
My fallen brother, but he's not alone for I shall one day join him in the light.
meh
Sorry, What happend to him?
He passed away last year
I went to old Hyjal back in the days. It was glorious to walk around this unfinished zone, wondering what things could come :)
Oh god, Thotbot. I doubt there are many players left that remember that one.
Bighappykitty back in my day, we used thotbot but still got lost
Wowhead: He's an NPC in Sunken Temple. Here's his position, drop table and abilities
Thotbot: Hey guys, my friend said he saw him. In Dire Marsh I think? idk
I remember thotbot, course I've been playing since vanilla.
I've only been playing since late Wrath, but I still clearly remember Thotbot xD
Thottbot was how I got anything done. And when that didn't work, wow.alakazam was the next best thing
Hope you enjoy! The broad goal here was to give an overall view of how this aspect of the game has changed over the years - perhaps there might be time in the future to do a deep dive on the really cool ones (like ashbringer) and go through the story of how it all went down - who started the rumours, who the key players were, that kinda thing.
I haven't enjoyed. Where can I get a refund?
BellularGaming Thanks for a shoutout for the discord mate! We appreciate it!
Keep up the good work :)
BellularGaming well you could get corrupted ashbringer if I recall correctly. I remember an Easter egg of pre cata wow, carrying the corrupted sword the undead in the Scarlet areas would bow to you
I don't know if you have planned a Halloween video, perhaps a video on some of the scary or spooky events or items in the game. Or a video on the history of the headless horseman and how the Halloween event has evolved.
for real!,?
Hayven Games... The Nobbel87 of WoW exploration.
Another nice Easter Egg regarding Ashbringer: go to Escape From Durnholde dungeon (not sure if you need to be an Alliance character or not), and head South to the Inn of (then still intact) Southshore, and you will see a conversation and origination of Ashbringer. I stumbled on it while killing time on my pally.
Crunchyfrog 28 once upon a time, I went to that place to buy a shirt to match my new mog. And saw a text comming from the inn. And holy bananas! It was a happy day. I spent, after that, like an hour wandering about. In hope to find more stuff xD
I remember seeing that back in Wrath. It was cool to discover. Later, that whole scene was put in to the wow comics.
I remember there once was a rare mob deep in the sea near Arathi Hightlands, which dropped a trinket that gave you certain chance of stunning the enemy. Back then there were very few good trinkets, and cc reduction wasn't introduced yet. So in spite of being a low level trinket, it was considered to be quite powerful in pvp. It was already pretty late when I heard about it, but when I swam there to have a look, I still found someone camping there.
Blizzard has stated that there are still ghost npcs in the world that people have yet to find.
MrZurata when have they stated that
Lol 2010
Did you say a g-g-ghost? D:
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Absolutely LOVE this video and I'm not even through the whole thing. Does such a great job explaining why I loved Pre Cata WoW. I still love the game, but that mystery of course is gone and with how the game is made now, it'll never really be there again.
Urukior4 one day we can dream on official legacy servers... one day
its not blizzards fault though. its all about the addons and resources. but blizz is working hard to bring this back with all the riddles and stuff in legion.
The game is made a lot better now, and the mystery isn't gone. Stop using 999 addons and Google to hold your hand every step you make, and try to figure things for yourself. The Legion riddles which lead to secret mounts would never be done by 99.99% of players otherwise.
The mystery and Atmosphere of Vanilla WoW will never be seen again soley due to the nature and evolution of the internet.
Remember that WoW was born in the very early phases of DOMESTIC IE in your home internet access. Nor everyone could afford it or cared and as such the internet was not nearly as populated or expansive as we experience it today. This environment greatly contributed to the WoW experience and the nature of MMOs on the whole.
That era can only happen once and as such we will never see anything quite like Vannila Wow ever again.
I hope they do something with the puzzlebox of yogg'saron next expac.
That would be so good. Like an easter egg.
They are. It'll give you a buff when fighting Rastakhan in battle of Dazar'alor
Your wish was granted in the form of the one boss in the Uldir raid.
I loved the Lucid Nightmare so much. I'm a puzzle fanatic and have done some very challenging improvised technical tablet weaving to make woven bands with pixel art or letters on them this past year, and that weaving is the only thing that comes close to making and following my endless halls map in terms of true cognitive challenge. It was a gratifying and engrossing few hours, and I desperately hope that similarly brilliant puzzles are in our future.
I ended up spending 3 days in the endless halls. One of my add-ons, the one I was using to keep track of the path that I had taken, kept on making the game crash, and progress didn't save between crashes. By the time I figured out what was happening, 3 days of IRL time had passed. Thankfully, the mount is actually pretty nice, and I don't feel as if that time was wasted.
That sucks. It only took me an hour and a half using grid paper and colored pencils lmao
Great trip down memory lane. Vanilla quests were frequently puzzles in their own right without the fallback to online guides. Thanks.
Lucid Nightmare was an incredible experience, it's like a shock to go back to doing typical WoW stuff after doing the Endless Halls
Excellent video Bellular. I love when you revisit the older expansions because I didn't play back then and I only have stories of how the game used to be. You bring those stories to life very well.
One little secret a lot of people don't know: If you go into the underwater cave on Timeless Isle by the frogs there is a blue fireplace. If you sit down in one of the surrounding chairs and click on the fire it teleports you to a set of chairs and a fireplace in Gorgrond.
Don't forget the Sun Darter Hatchling pet, hidden at the end of a cave sneakily placed in a remote place on the old Azeroth and requiring you to have a ton of old alchemy potions and toys on you to get through.
Lucid Nightmare :: Endless Halls:: plenty of guides on it now, but throwing in my tips for it you may have heard some before will make you life a lot easier and faster for the halls riddle are: 1st of all what you must do: click on a color torch and then click on the table that has the same color. then you must do it for the 4 remaining colors. Tips are: DO IT WITH A DEMON HUNTER! the double run forward ability makes it a hell of a lot faster. Also any items you can bring/do to make your toon move faster, Slap speed increase Enchant on low level boots or to your cloak. Other items that you might have available still being (nifty stopwatch or Impending Doom trinket), Also a lot of speed potions. :::Now that you have all your speed increase crap next is to make your own map on with a pencil and paper as you are running through it. You can not just do squares for each room because there will be stairs going up and down and the rooms on the different levels will overlap each-other. So the best way to map it really is every time you go up or down a stairs draw the new floor as a different map!!! then my last tip is have a friend do the mapping with pen and paper, while you just constantly run your character through it. saves time from stopping in every room just to draw a square with exits. and always remember which way is North! With all these tips you will prob be able to get the halls done in about 1-2 hours max. good Luck.
R.I.P. Hayven :(
Remember the Dancing Troll village? Between Felwood and Ashenvale. Now the elves have found and slaughter them through a cave. But you used to have to slow fall to even get there, after hopping up onto a shelf in winterspring, and running around the edge of the zone. Such a tranquil spot, just a bunch of trolls in a village around a lake, having a dance party.
Eranikus was dealt with. There was a quest that took you to Moonglade, where you talked to another green dragon (Ysera or perhaps Eranikus's consort?) and you summon Eranikus and fight him again, while the Druids purified him. You eventually defeat him and he is restored.
Oh man the Chromie scenario was brilliant! I took Taliesin's advice on not reading any guides of it upfront and it was totally the right decision!
I just want to add to something Bellular said in this video. Databases like Thottbot did exist in vanilla, but didn't have nearly as much information as today. Players would use the comment sections to ask and answer questions. Since the in-game map didn't show much, they even went as far as posting geographical coordinates to help other players find specific things.
When I started playing in mid 2005 Thotbot was what helped me get through some of the questing so it's not entirely true that nothing existed back then.
I reckon what they need to do is disable quest tracking/quest markers for these treasure hunt quests and such. Like the Captain Sanders quest: why not disable quest markers for that one quest?
That kind of mystery is what made Vanilla WoW so great.
Thottbot definitely was around during Vanilla. I clearly remember it.
And there was an item in game called the Corrupt Ashbringer during vanilla that I also remember. It would damage you when you equipped it.
+Inkspot it didn't damage you, it reduced your max hp.
xxxxx6622 ahh my bad :)
Gave a special event if you'd go to SM
Allakazam as well was pretty much from day pre release as well. Curse add ons came in at beginning as well.
Ah, back when the world of warcraft was big and mysterious... I imagine it's been some years since it truly was, but I prefer to remember its mystery (I quit in 2008)
Eh, the keyring was an added feature of late, late vanilla. It wasn't like we always had it. We had to carry around keys in normal bags.
Everyone being all smart and using addons for the endless halls, me dumbly sitting here drawing arrows on a sheet of paper... oh well at least it worked.
Zerinaesol I used both, but at the end mainly focused on my own map, because it was easier to know where to go. Those Teleports made the addon I used nearly useless^^
I used the addon but it was buggy and not very helpful. In the end, I just wandered around until I got them all. Took a few hours.
I did both, too. I thought I was so smart with my pencil and pen for marking which doors were open and which weren't, until the open/closed doors started switching up on me. xD "Wait, room 5's north door was closed 10 minutes ago, I SWEAR it was!" Had to verify that the doors occasionally changed by talking to my guild. And that's when I used the addon and the paper together... still took like 3 straight hours. All the same, what a great quest! And everyone who's done it can commiserate about it, it's a little bonding thing that we share even when we just see each other on the mount in passing. An unspoken message of: "the endless halls were awful, right? Congrats on getting through it!" Also it's a sick mount to go with the purple versions of Thal'kiel + the Voidwalker demon on Warlocks, I use it on mine all the time now. :D
I made a map with paint :D I tried using the addon, but it just made things more fucked up for me. I think I saved the map that I made with paint, so that I'll randomly find it from somewhere and then remember the 6 hours that I spent in the labyrinth.
I found the addons unhelpful, since it didn't track warp rooms.
The days of going into General/Trade/Zone chat for asking for help on these types of quest really brought a unique social aspect to the game. I miss it so much.
I think the last part of the lucid nightmare was a awesome idea of how to do secrets in the future. After you finished that part it felt like YOU solved the last part of the puzzle, instead of just getting it from a guide.
Since I got it I LOVED the hidden ret skin. All the nods to the old theories on how to get the Ashbringer in Vanilla, some of which I may or may not have attempted myself. That being said I love the chain since I've done it, doing it was one of the greatest exercises in frustration I've had in a long time.
The endless halls took me 20 minutes, I just ran around and matched the colors
I remember the Salems Chest rumours was a lot of fun to just hear these things :D
Super job on the video! Thanks for making it. I think it sums up some of the cool things that we would like to see more of in the game. I hope the dev are listening.
No mention of Allakhazam RIP.
Wow you're right, I remember Thottbot but I toootally forgot Allakhazam existed!
Yeah, and thottbot was around during vanilla.
What!? What about the puzzle box of yogg'seron???been trying to solve that maddening thing for years XD
in the Circle of Stars, I mean.
Former veteran explorer here. Damn, I miss those days sometimes. #noggaholic
I really wish that I started playing WoW back when it got released and got the feeling of exploring all these things before everything got documented. I only recently started playing WoW and it’s quite overwhelming now.
I remember actually boundary breaking to the outland deadmines and Deepholm test sites. I'm not sure if they still make areas like that but they're a real treat.
There used to be rumors about secret quests in vanilla. It all started because of the quest to get a key for Blackrock Depths. In order to get the quest you had to die and talk to a NPC as a ghost.
Players thought that there were more quest like this, so a small group from the community began exploring the entire world as ghosts. :P
Brilliant work! Old times were awesome, challenging and demanding. The game has changed a lot but this video brings the nostalgy back.
You convinced me to give the next expansion a shot.
I started playing right before WoD, I don't really have a schedule that would allow me to play with a group of others for things like raiding. Besides, I am not the biggest fan of WoW's (understandably) old school gameplay. I enjoy the lore and the story a lot, but the subscription system punishes me for taking my time. Overall, I didn't understand the appeal of wow.
I played in a vanilla server for a couple of days, then everything clicked. Without having things outlined on a map, I had to actually pay attention to everything around me and explore, increasing the immersion. Quest text was no longer something I had to download an add-on to make interesting. The challenge was much greater, which encouraged a more slow and thought out approach, making every fight more interesting. On top of all that, the lack of hand-holding by the game encouraged player interactions when tackling quests. I remember rushing in as a warrior to save a player who accidentally aggroed two mobs. They thanked me! It felt so nice...
Times have changed, and I'm in a position where I might be able to set up a subscription. Hearing such fun things that can be done in modern WoW, makes me really want to play again. Seeing how the next expansion might go back to the Alliance vs Horde dynamic and hopefully stay away from the "You are literally Jesus!" style of storytelling, I am really willing to give it a shot.
Lucid nightmare, was in fact a nightmare. Took me 6+ hours a day. And I tried many days, i just got to tired after a while. But eventually after aimlessly wandering around these halls, i did in fact finish it. And got the mount. And I do dare say, it is my favorite mount I have. It Is worth the hours it can take.
My favourite little thing was obtaining the mallet of zul fart
I remember watching exploration videos in Vanilla and then trying to get into the zones myzelf. Caverns of Time anyone? Oh what impression that made on my youthful mind.
The lucid nightmare labyrinth was bugged for me.
Obviously, my map made no sense at all at a specific point. But after 4 hours in there and 3/5 runes activated, i got teleported to the goal. It was like "We'll show you mercy"
Behind the uninstanced version of Zul Gurub there was a path, reachable via the wall climbing in the Blasted Lands, leading to a cave that urban legend said would spawn an npc once a month, on a blue moon, at 3.00am during a Leap Year ... take your pick, and he would sell you a rare tiger mount that was actually in the game files, just not in game. I fell for it and kept an alt there for ages, logging in every now and then hoping the vendor would spawn. Or Zalashji's Den, it was rumoured that if you interacted with him in some mysterious way then something would happen. I tried all sorts of crazy stuff to get that to happen. Would really love to know why he was placed there, a quest that was never implemented maybe.
You left out the biggest mystery!
It's been around since vanilla and is still unsolved.
Where is Mankrik's wife?
Lovely video, this Mysterie in the World is what keeps me playing.
Hey! I got the Long-Forgotten Hippogryph! :D It was a really cool mystery to follow and was just super fun (and I got a super cool mount out of it too!)
"As quest exp was rarely enough to get you to where you needed to be," Bellular 2017 extreme bars
also lies. There was enough quest xp to hit 60 before you even left the level 48-ish zones.
And that was before they added a bunch of new world quests to the mid 40's and late 50's in 1.8.
the catch was doing all of the zones in order of level, not focusing on one region and following it's questlines till the late 20's.
that's why they start throwing bread crumbs to visit and quest in other regions every 5 levels, because they intended for you go and see the world, not focus on one region.
ZanathKariashi but uh... bars
Man, I wish it was still 2008 sometimes!
Insertnamesz / Lije It can be if you play warmane
I spent just under 2 hours in Endless halls yolo style. After a hour I had the map more or less memorized in mind and then it was just looking for what was what, the last half hour was a portal that teleported me, had to figure that out, took a while when I did I got my last Blue sigil. Win.
I still feel like the endless halls should have allowed you to party up and figure it out together! Would have been so much more fun, like you're adventuring through a tomb with your buddies!
Some people did. They went onto Skype and Twitch, streaming their desktop so people could help out. Kudos to one person on wow secrets discord who did this for over a dozen people!
I swear I have heard some of these countdowns word for word on more than one channel. Anyone else experience that?
The guy you give the essence of eranikus became a hostile box in cataclysm. He shouts about gathering dragon essences to become stronger. Even if it's a weird twist. It's nice that they ended it that way
How great would it be if after hearing what illidan has done is like "illidan is still my charge" and gaurds him guarding sergeras
they fixed old hyjal quite early. you couldnt enter it anymore. if you wallclimbed up to a point you suddenly got a debuff called "no mans land" and got teleported out
The Corrupted ASHBRINGER was available through old Naxx and a long questline .in order to purifiy it you had to run around in a RAID group receiving RAID WIDE DAMAGE and do several things to purify it. IT WAS ONLY DONE ONCE. The person who did it had the option of equipping a special title or a toy version (It think it was) before it was removed from the game for being too OP and too hard to do. The Corrupted Ashbringer was only available in Vanilla WoW for a short time.
I only spent maybe 45 mins in the endless halls and mapped none of it
Great video, but i kinda missed the Gammon one, like... the urban legend that you can drop legendary weapons from him (obviously just a myth). (lv12 horde neutral/alliance hostile tauren npc in Orgrimmar) and stuff like that. But overall good video, enjoyed watching it.
The think i miss most in wow is not having a world to explore. The 6-7 small maps model implemented back in BC (wich persists up to today), made wow smaller and focused on min-max stuff. Back there, you'd only worry about that if you're in a top guild, and now it's what everyone do (stack X attribute for spec Y).
I still have my screenshot at Hyjal in front the board saying "blizzard, under construction".. good days.
gborgesbardi thats because they are expansions, you know, an addition to the main game....
yeah i know, but they sort of become THE main game. You have no reason to go the other parts of azeroth.
When I finally got the time-lost proto drake after 4 weeks of camping I didn't use another flying mount for years. It was brutal and I actually got lucky. There were 3-4 people hunting for the thing at all times of the day. Getting their congrats after four weeks felt like leaving a small community in its own. We will never get back those kind of stories in WoW. People just aren't willing to sacrifice any time for big pay offs anymore. The WoD Gronns don't even compare.
Just recently on my engineer I learned they incorporated one of the oldest urban legends in the game into the questline towards the end. The workshop looks exactly the same, albeit thankfully the cataclysm pushed it a bit closer so we didn't need to glitch our way there. :P
Glad you gave a nod of respect to Haven mate!
Some professional level content of WoW. I wish regular news and all kinds of reporters were as good, kept it real and neutral. Good Job Bellu!
I was wondering where all those cool common Legion mounts were coming from! Wow am I that out of the loop? :O :O
i loved the endless halls. spent 2 hours in there. recorded it. good times. had some guildies spend 6-10 hours in there
Should probably mention Corrupted Ashbringer when speaking of Ashbringer, since the former did exist.
i remember in wrath my friends and i would levitate wall walk around behind zul'aman and jump down to base level programming. you could walk under the entire of eastern kingdoms, even zones that you couldn't enter. if you jumped off the edge of the floor you would fall fro close to a minute before dying and rezzing in the crossroads. then wall walking with levitate in southern tanaris across below un'goro to silithus jump over a programming cleft dismounting and levitating across to get to ahn'qiraj that was empty
You are really outdoing yourself with the content lately! Keep it up!
As always amazing work man. thank you for your work love it all
The ashbringer was in the game in vanilla. It was a drop from four horsemen in Naxx 40.
Correction, Corrupted Ashbringer was. The original, untainted Ashbringer was not. Just like Frostmourne.
Ahh, the lucid nightmare was worth it. Maybe not the 4 ours in the endless halls, though. Nevertheless, it was my favorite puzzle for some reason.
For the lucid nightmare I rage quit on maps then just ran through and did it in about 3 hours
Great great video! One of the better ones! Loved it.
Thottbot existed when wow was in beta, cortello's riddle was completeable, leading to a treasure chest iirc
I miss those days. If I couldn’t find a secret or quest a friend would help out. No thotbott, wowhead, or anything back then.
Ethereals, pirates, treasure hunts, void stuff and Old Gods. MY BODY IS READY FOR THE NEXT EXPANSION.
these vanilla legends to me are one of the things i would gladly see further expanded in classic servers. just let them follow a similar structure to the riddles we have seen recently but maybe even more elusive than those.
7:24 I started wow in the beginning of WoD and I did that because I was messing around and didn't know anything about anything and was just exploring on my free level 90 (I didn't even get to level 100 until the end of WoD lol).. I tried to ask people what it was and told them I jumped into the big swirly in the middle of the map of azeroth but nobody in my guild/friends knew what I was talking about and I still didn't know what it was until I just watched this video.
now that I think about it I have no idea how/why I was in kalimdor.. I was an alliance gnome and in those blury new days of wow for me, I never recalled getting on a boat or taking a portal anywhere.
9:31 - magnificent catch xD
when you mention freeing the Hunter pet from the void realm and then one of the garrison inn dailies to find an arrow in shadowmoon burial grounds that supposedly belonged to alleria I'm wondering if the Hunter pet was at one point in time allerias being an embodiment of the shadow/ void
Back in the day me and my dad had a linked account, we hunted every rare for all those achievements lol, good times
Hopefully when WoW Classic comes out Blizzard will finish the unfinished questioned and add in things like the Ashbringer for people to find.
this is the only video where i don't see his face :)
Vinallia had addons even at launch’s an a small add on called quest helper was in classic
You forgot to mention the Sundarter pet in Legion!
A tear came to my eye when I saw "Hayven RIP"
Really liked this one, well made and brings back memories
Thottbot was a thing in vanilla from almost day 1.
I followed the
Erasinus (sp) quest line. I forgot it. The thing whispers to you. The chicken thing did work.
the deathwing mount just dropped for me :)
Fant Frei grats :)
Hello. I love your videos. Please make a second part!!! 😃
You forgot one of the biggest mystery.. The Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron.
I still haven't explored old azeroth even tho I played in tbc and classic. Can't wait for fresh classic servers