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!

Rogues don't have an order hall... And you'll keep telling people that if you know what's good for you.

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".

Why are we flying by this pointless statue in booty bay? Because inside pointless things are treasures!

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.

7:15 It's a pointless thing and inside poitless things are treasure......... lets begin

Someone should tell Crendor that his pointless statute in booty bay is not that pointless after all

Ah, yes. The famous "vealed stairs." Arguably the best staircase made of baby cow meat in the entire game.

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.

Inside pointless things are treasure!

those damn goblins and their surprisingly hot pinup callendars :D

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.

It’s actually Padanren takeout

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.

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.

#4 is a shipyard worker's hideout :) Used during the building of the ship.

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

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.

#5 is just a pointless thing filled with treasure. Lets keep going.

"The Vealed Stairs" Oh lord no

Theres a super hidden underwater cave at the DMF where you get a toy that turns you into a demon blood elf chick.

The cravas in Borean Tundra where you get Turky is probably my favourite hidden room

The hidden house in a hidden back alley in the south-east corner of the Dwarven Quarter of Stormwind.

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)

Spent years in my Garrison. Never thought to swim in the pool lol.

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 ;)

corrupted ashbringer, hunter weapon btw

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.

Could you please do a video about the rooms or areas only accessable by a glitch? It would be amazing.

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.

That’s why wow it’s a great game. There are always something to explore . Azeroth is so real and alive .

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

"vealed stairs"??

"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.

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)

I feel so good that i am OG enough to know about the original Fairbanks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 dont know if youll see this as this is a 3 month old video at this point. But there is a cave outside the battleground of alterac valley. Used to go there when bored of the honor grind sometimes. Its difficult to get to as you have to kind of climb the terrain mounted and then run way off the side and jump off the cliff at the end. At the bottom of this cliff however there is a cave for some reason. If i remember correctly the cave is on the southwest end of the map, and if you try to find yourself on the map there your either outside of it or on the edge of it. I dont know if you can still get to it as I havent tried in over 6 years, but its one of those wierd "hidden" rooms for sure.

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.

Ok wow, no need to go so hard on Crendor for #5

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 love videos that are random like this. Such a soothing video

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

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.

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 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.

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.

So it's not a pointless treasure! Crendor lied to me in every video

"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

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 ^^

You left out the cave in the "eye" of the entrance for wailing caverns. That place required some precise jumping to get to back in the day and had actual secret quest in there for instance.

No "Room of Upside Down Sinners", underneath old Karazan? Probably the freakiest place ever in WoW.

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.

8:50 "Vealed stairs" Come on bro.

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.

#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.

No idea if it's mentioned yet, but there is a cave in that long stretched Northern shore of Kun-Lai Summit, where a Hozen is playing drums.

WKM is a memorial. I asked a GM once, it was a developer that died.

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.

When you use the Northrend Engineering portal you can sometimes teleport into the Dalaran sewers where you can find a vendor selling rare patterns.

AWESOME . Are you going to do a video on the secrets where you can only find them with glitches as well?

Sekret Squirrel! LOL! A nod to the cartoon! That's awesome!

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.

I dont know if its the old dalaran only or the new one too, but there is a hidden room where an NPC says he has fallen into. I forget the context sorry! But I remember its a room in dalaran somewhere.

#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

Just south of Darnassus in Teldrassil is a tiny lake with a boat. You can only acess it with a flying mount.

Wow WKM!!! I have been in orgrimmar for years and never thought that a secret room would be here !

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

Old Ironforge ?! the upper floor in Undercity?

You need to do another one of hidden rooms and Add stuff like the upside down hanging people room at Karazhan you can only get too by ghosting through a gate! My god that place still gives me the creeps

Awesome! Had no idea about the dragon cave. Will have to go out and check it out myself

Cool vid, your narration and music choice gave me vibes like the Lore podcast; relaxing and mystifying. Well done

If memory serves the sleeping dragon was a tribute to a make a wish child that got to tour the office before he passed, I think because that dragon has shown up on quite a few lists.

Didn't see anyone mention it in the comments.. you can also just use a portal in the lower part of the building to get up to the purple parlor. Don't even need to fly

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.

Love a top 10

I remember for sure what the WKM room was and it was accessible in Vanilla. The room was dedicated to a termally ill dude who toured Blizzards Studio during Vanilla's development. He ended up dying before Vanilla's release so they put this grave for him. It was in Northern Barrens in Vanilla, but in Cataclysm all of the old world was literally deleted. So they prob cut and paste it into the new map and forgot about it. Though since the map wasn't as clear as the Vanilla Northern Barrens it ended up getting sealed off. There is a chance I replied already but this is definitely what the room was, so ignore the other lol.

The coastline north of Arathi Basin had a random fishing village. Used to be very difficult to get to before flying. Unless you were a druid swimming everywhere >.>

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 :)