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Blizzard: Scraps the Demon race, because they wanted them to be shapeshifters, but that would be a lot of work. Also Blizzard: Creates the Druid class.

with all the added islands over the years to the game, it's a miracle thrall and his small horde in WC3 made it to kalimdor at all.

Lol I wish the campfire afk killing thing was still in the game

Finding the Dwarven Airfields in classic back in the day was such an exciting experience. I remember there used to be a “path” through the mountains in Loch Modan that you could glitch jump up through to reach the airfield before flying mounts released. I used to sell guided tours to the airfield for like 50s or something to players who were interested. Gooooood times man

World of Warcraft's Game Masters have a semi-strict uniform policy in game, where they wear a distinct blue and black robe and hood. These items are in the game but unobtainable by players, among which are the Gamemaster's Hood, Gamemaster's Robes and Gamemaster's Slippers, respectively. Additionally, these Game Masters you would see in-game tended to be developers or higher-ranked quality-assurance staff. Your average Game Master is sitting in a booth in Texas or California, accessing World of Warcraft's in-game chat via a unique command prompt window outside of the game. This window allows them to be outside of game while still being able to assist you, which additionally allowed them to assist multiple people at once if absolutely necessary, there is no longer pressure on staff to juggle reaponses. Additionally, when you are mailed an item from a Game Master, an invisible Blizzard Ledger item is put in the mailbox from their end and sent, giving the trademark Blizzard watermark on official Game Master mail messages.

I was expecting this to be like the usual "Scrapped Vanilla Ideas" video, but this was actually a great video with information i hadnt heard.

I remember when Dire Maul was released and it would take 2 hours to complete the dungeon, partly because we would get lost every time! I also remember coming across this one book about finding Ash Bringer by fishing so trying to fish it out of some random ponds in Ferales! Good o' times.

The Emerald Dream zone file was independently located within the game directory for the longest time, existing in game but remaining inaccessible to players due to a lack of instance triggers to go to the zone. This is how we have the initial file. The Emerald Dream was, again, worked on and updated to a small extent during Legion, with Druids battling Demons in the open expanses. This was, however, scrapped yet again as the zone was far too expansive, and as they wanted to tie it into the raid.

Ay, I remember climbing up to the Dun Morogh airfield back in vanilla before you could use flying mounts in Azeroth.

Blizzard: oh shit we're running out of time to make a raid, quick just throw some shit together in a cave or something Players: wow this raid is super cool! Blizzard: exactly as planned

I want a [physical] copy of this book but there are two words that strike fear into the hearts of any Australian. Plus Shipping It'll cost me just under $100 to buy.

The Karazhan Crypts thing was explained by the guy writing the book in a video by Planet Dolan. He said that he designed the catacombs on his off-time for fun, and wasn't used because of the fact the designed it on his own without any oversight by the lore team. He said Metzen was very confused as to what these places were, since he only saw the names.

One guy made MC in a single week? Damn dude

Azshara's Crater, I think it's called, was a battleground in the works for a much larger Azshara zone. It was double the size of AV and had multiple points of contingency within it. It was ultimately scrapped for unknown reason but was very close to finish. You can see it on many private servers.

"The death effects in WoW were put in because the devs saw Lord of the Rings and liked it so much" Me: What? Fellowship of the ring isn't that old! Its a genre defining movie that is at least relatively recen... /checks release date 2001... 17 years go... ... God i feel old now...

No lying here, I've been playing on a private server recently, and the exploration behind the huge dungeons like BRD and Maraudon are so much fun because they are so big. Deciding were to go and were this random passage way will lead. Whereas the smaller dungeon system is far too linear for my liking and becomes repetitive quickly.

Huh. I got to like that dwarven airfield explanation. It always had me guessing.

Dude you should totally do an exploration of zeroth with eye of divinity you have because I read on wow dev page that theres ALOT of ghosts that haven't been seen yet by players

The first place Outlands was tested was within the Deadmines instance, where outside the caverns you can find a gaping chasm complete with floating crystalline trees, Dalaran bubbles and scorched stone. Development was halted here as they created a new zone file to continue actual development of Draenor. Initially, Draenor and Northrend were to be in the initial game but, due to time constraints and a desire to not cut on content, were held off for expansions.

Within undeveloped areas, Blizzard placed Infernals named "Guardian of Blizzard" (Infernals were originally referenced as Baelrogs internally). These mobs ran at mach speed and could instantly one-shot a player in hope of steering players away. Eventually these were scrapped and replaced with other means, chief in Mount Hyjal the famous "No Man's Land" debuff, which teleported players to Winterspring upon entering the Mount Hyjal zone.

I could tell Silithus was the last zone worked on, the Plaguelands however were awesome.

Hey Hiru! This video series is really something. I find all of your content interesting and entertaining. But this one is something special, and somewhat unique! Keep up the good work. Looking forward for more of videos like this.

Hiru, you are by far my favorite WoW content creator. No one else goes as in-depth as you do, especially for old content. Keep it up!

Watching this video cost me $172, I now await my WoW diary to be delivered.

We used to climb up into the Nordrassil plateau back in vanilla. Don't know if you still can, but Archimonde's skeleton is there at the world tree.

I would pay to see the devs raid molten core.

This was one of the best videos so far, back to back facts. Would love to see more of these!

Can you imagine if blizzard released vanilla servers that included all cut content?

The first intercontinental quest chain was for warlocks at level 20 for there succubus. You had to run from sw to the barrens with no mount or flight paths. Took around 4 hours for that one quest. Longer on pvp servers

Im really surprised about the talent tree thing since it pre dates WoW as a system from Diablo 2.

I like these types of videos with the history of wow and cut content the most. Keep up the good work.

Hiru has the book already before the kickstarter is done. Time Traveler confirmed.

With the way the Dracthyr are designed, they could easily do the same thing with Naga. Just have them learn Visage and have customizable Armor for their Naga form.

Very well edited, loved the transitions in the beginning!

I love behind the scenes stuff, and I love Warcraft! Great video.

I still kind of hope real player housing comes to WoW. I know I know, Garrisons are supposed to be the solution to that often requested feature, but real player housing should have been located in Org for Horde, Stormwind for Ally, not in some off-zone area we'll never have any reason to go to again. And now with so many different vanity items and the potential to make even more types where they to add the capability, I really could see this working.

Wow this is a really awesome entertaining video. Please make more!

Player housing would be so amazing. I remember a game called something along the lines of Eden Eternal had player housing that you could get, and the housing would change depending on what city you were in.

I want more from this diary! Really good video!

I always wondered what was behind that gate/portal Always thought it was some secret dungeon no one knew about

They could have adapted Therazane's model or the one her daughter uses to a flesh version to make the female ogre model.

Props to you for giving a shoutout to the book at the end and the author, nice to see credit given where credits due. Good video though, loved hearing about all the process of the early game. Always wondered what the portal in SW was for.

Nice one Hiru, great job !

Ironforge was also going to be considerably bigger, I think they planned 8 floors of it but realised players would just get annoyed at having to run around so much inside it

I love the feeling when you wake up because someone else has to go to work, but you can still lay in bed and sleep cus it's your day off.

I really appreciate what you do. Keep on doing you. You’re amazing.

Thank god they focused on races in the vanilla intro, its awesome to see them, although missing a few.... but still it represented wow so well

Nostalgia trip. Damn I miss vanilla. X-Roads raids, World Bosses, (dragons) working your ass of to gear up in epics. Everything you had was hard earned, even the mounts.

I wish could watch videos like this forever

Thanks man, really loving the videos you do about vanilla. Especially these with the never before heard facts

9:51 "they just needed a big cave" that was the best part of the video

Funny... one of the most iconic raids with, arguably, the most epic final boss encounter in the game to date (especially given the context at the time) was made in the shortest amount of time. A lot of WoW's success was accidental it seems.

I can remember my way around deadmines and wailing caverns as an alliance player (I did wailing caverns less rhan 10 times and still my crap memory remembers it). I still for the life of me cannot remember how get around waycrest manor after running normals, heroics, and mythics. Tldr: I like my dungeons THICC

The long journey thing sounds awesome. I never thought of the water totem quest as being that big of a journey, though.

Campfire ganks lmao. I didn’t know quite a bit of these. Nice work!

LOL at the airfield. So you encounter a mortar team while leaving the dwarven spawn area (steam tanks too), wolf riders while leaving the orc spawn area, a acient guardian while leaving the NE area, an abomination (also quest giver) while leaving forsaken spawn area ... you get the point. They are all WC3 units. The forge in goldshire is a WC3 building, the barracks and tower futher west also are. So you happend to see a gyrocopter base when flying around. But because it is a MMO people specualte. Imao.

It would of been nice if those larger dungeons that were shortened into parts had the option after your party beat it, to be asked "do you want to continue the story to the next dungeon" instead of just ending. That way you could play the entire dungeon (if you were a high enough level) as it was supposed to be, if you want to do a full run; or stop at the end of any part. Rather than stopping and starting randomly in LFG.

Love your videos, as always. Not sure if you have a video about this or not, but you should make a video about the changes of professions through WoW's history.

This is a another amazing video!! I love all the amazing things you put out I really think you have potentially to be even bigger! Your knowledge of lore and the game is very interesting, and have a very chill and positive vibe. Thanks for all the great videos

That map doesn't make sense because we already have a map from WarCraft 3 which shows Kalimdor being approximately the same size as the Eastern Kingdoms. I know Bliz isn't afraid to recon, but that would be a pretty big one to cut the previously established large continent down to a quarter of its size.

Mystery behind the WKM Room? Once that is solved, my life has reached completion. EDIT: FINALLY, the mystery behind the Karazhan Crypts has been (kind of) solved. It’s something that has always gnawed at me since I figured out of its existence and even more so once I was finally able to explore it myself not too far back.

what about the rooms under Stormwind and Winterhold? You had to duel a Mage, have the Mage polymorph you into a sheep, and you would randomly walk through a wall / door (in the Throne rooms) to access the underground rooms. In Stormwind you could also access it by climbing the mountain near the Drawbridge.

Thank you so much, I've been so curious about that portal since I started playing. And noob me tried so hard to get in, I use to think it had something to do with the beast in the Stormwind Canal.

Lol no one could afford a mount at lvl 40 in vanilla.

I have never played WOW in my life. Don't plan on, but your vids are still entertaining to me.

i would have loved to do more exploration quests. the first thing me and my buddy did when we obtain our first mounts at lvl 40 was exploring enemy territory and high level areas. 👌

Learning about the Kara crypts finally! So cool!

I see a Hiru video, i press like.

Hiru, you're general idea about the Karazhan Crypts might be right, but the specific information you mentioned about wine cellar and the such does not point to the crypts. Hayven Games posted an Alpha WoW Karazhan video years ago that shows the OG 40m design of Kara, including a basement/cellar. Ichorid also did a video on this 7 years ago.

This was awesome. Well done!

This was an interesting watch. Well done.

I really miss the longer dungeons. Dedication and willing to finish it was fun. Sunken Temple, Maraudon, UBRS and LBRS was super fun.

...PUGs could clear MC, and the devs couldn't. Mind. Blown.

So many fond memories for me playing vanilla WoW.

Nobody: Ad: let’s play raid shadow legends

Player housing... Just copy what Wildstar did, it was so fucking amazing.

New sub here, absolutely love your videos. Interesting and nostalgic, it's nice to watch whilst camping long spawn timers. Keep 'em coming!

I just started watching. your videos wish I would have found your channel sooner love your content new and old been watching alot of your countdowns. keep the videos coming man

Tauren originally had the ability to command "Plainsrunning", an ability similar to Worgen's unmounted movement ability, but was scrapped in favor for Thunderstomp.

I love the huge sprawling dungeons and raids and I wish things like kharazan, gnomergan, brd, were continued past vannila and on. If a raid or dungeo is too big to finish in one session, perfect! As long as it's non linear, that makes it very repeatable and fun to explore and delve deep inside of

Loving this content from the book!

In hindsight, I think they should have added Goblins and High Elves to the base game, I know this would have already been too many elves, but I would have made more sense and added additional rivalry between them upon the release of BC.

Using player created dps meters instead of making their own. Yeah, that sounds like Blizzard. "Why make good clear raid mechanics when everyone is just gonna use DBM? Why make a customizable UI when everyone is just gonna use an add-on for it?"

No one is going to comment on that Arcane mage action bar set up at 5:29?

i remember the druid cm posting in the druid forums about walking in the emerald dream, how cool it was.

Good video my dude, you chose unique topics and i respect the hell out of that as i'v seen way too many "Look at this easter egg everyone's seen a million times" videos.

So Azeroth sounding like Azathoth is just a nice coincidence when they decided to add all those other Lovecraftian gods? Interesting.

i still miss the old talent trees. i started playing at burning crusade

Your videos are amazing mate, keep it ! :)

That was very interesting. I never played retail am learning as I go. I always wondered what the portal in storm wind was. Thanks for the info

7:38 LEGO LOTR? Nice

"The naga homeworld" Oh i thought they once were elves from azeroth

First time in a while i heard something about vanilla wow that i didn't know. Great video :D

Love you, thx for all the videos

Yeah, I caught a 1-month ban for finding myself a way up to the Dwarven airfield.... and the top of the Ironforge entryway.... and figuring out how to fall below Stormwind and run back and forth between there and Ironforge below the tram...

Fans have made good models for female Ogres, though. Fans > Paid Blizzard Employees.

Wow thanks I really did not know most of these things and I played vanilla from 04 to 06

Really great video!

3:27 Radical feminists, where were you when we needed you?