Got good feedback in the last top 10 - thought I'd throw another one together for you....enjoy! Also, the channel just hit 300k subscribers this weekend - are we beating BfA? I'd like to announce my next video series called "Madseason expeditions", where if you watch the entire 20 minute video, you have a .00001% chance of obtaining something cool! Catch me live at www.twitch.tv/madseasonshow

I always thought the Dark Portal login screen was something like us taking the portal from our world to the game world.

I can't believe that "carrying a rabbits foot in your inventory increases your loot chances" didn't make it in the list.

sacrificing the right amount of gnomes is what determines the loot drops. everyone knows that

in regards to the Emerald Dream, i was watching Mark Kern talk about some old dev stories when Classic first came out. it was originally planned to be where you went when you died. it would be like a mirror world of azeroth and you still had to go to where you died if you wanted to respawn. or you could just stay in the ED version of azeroth and quest/adventure there instead. sounds ludicrously ambitious to me, but they had a lot of crazy (awesome) ideas back then.

Your editing is always so on point, man. I don't feel like you get enough praise for that. So much damn work goes into these and it shows.

when i started with wow i thought hunter could raise his pet and use it as his mount.

"like happiness existing" big true

I remember everyone talking about Tauren Totem weapons, being a Tauren warrior. I spent a long time hoping one would drop

I played through Beta. I remember grouping with someone in ashenvale and both of us dying. As we both died, we hit release, zoned back to the graveyard and fell through the world. We fell for a short time and eventually zoned into... You guessed it, The Emerald Dream. Being a ghost and not knowing at the time how to turn off the ghost effect we both ran around this zone for a while, trying to find a way to get rezzed. At this point, we were basically stuck and had to open a ticket to a GM. I remember the GM scolding us for being in the zone until I explained to them what happened. All I remember from the zone was that it had very large trees but other than that, it was basically flat. Always thought they were going to release that zone eventually. Anyway, cool little memory I have from playing in the beta.

It's funny how most of those things actually came out in Legion (Emerald Dream, wieldable uncorrupted Ashbringer, warglaives...), like the devs had stumbled upon an old roadmap that was scrapped when they were working on TBC XD

I was a Horde player on Daggerspine when Kuroma was active. I do not believe that the account was played by only one person, as the character was on seemingly 24/7. You could ALWAYS find Kuroma in Alterac Valley, usually hanging around the alliance graveyard in the middle, and always in cat form. He would basically never shift out of cat form, not even when it would easily save his life. Really lazy, and pathetic in a 1v1, he was there ONLY to farm honor. I'm pretty sure that the alliance hated him more than we did, since he kept a lot of other people from reaching rank 14.

“Outlandish theories”

The biggest myth: thinking you were prepared

Congrats on 300k brother!

A strong rumor/myth back in the day, was that if you leveld up engineering, you'd get to craft and pilot your very own shredder, if you went goblin engineering of course. And there even was a quest where you had to collect some manual pages of a shredder pilot guide.

I remember a colleague telling me how he went to the Badlands as a lowbie. He made a mad dash for the Dark Portal, thinking he would go through before the aggroed monsters would murder him. Only he went through it and he didn't go anywhere but behind it. And then the monsters sent him back to the graveyard.

That tavern music in the beginning gets me every single time

"Why have the dark portal on the log in screen?" That's a line that hits close to the old MMO days. The early MMOs weren't 'just a game' you played into. It was like 'walking into a new world.' There weren't all those game guides where everyone knew everything. It was a foreign new world with mystery at every corner! The dark portal on the loading screen was like your portal from your computer going into Azeroth. A portal between the real world and Azeroth. That's why the portal is on the loading screen, lol.

In the vein of the Emerald Dream and having "finished" the Eranikus questline, I'd love to see a "Best Classic questlines that were abandoned," next!

The Dark Portal myth was actually solved with the release of "The World of Warcraft Diary" by John Staats. In the book, he explains that the reason the Dark Portal could be found all over the place was because... they weren't sure where they wanted to have the portal. Yes, even though it's supposed to have a fixed position in the lore.

3:48 I still use this noise to this day when talking about juicy stats. Such epicness.

"Going back to the days of the loch ness monster... big foot... happiness existing..." LOL TRUE

I heard they are gonna make Pandaren a playable race in the Burning Crusade

Hayven Games, one of the best WoW youtubers ever. His videos are made with such love for WoW. I really miss youtube recommendation for his new videos.

8:15 While you couldn't enter Karazhan in vanilla, you could enter its basement! You had to have a mage sheep you in a duel and then you would clip through a portcullis while in sheep form. Sometimes took a few tries. This entry was removed when they revamped Karazhan, but you get into a very similar place for the Lucid Nightmare quest now.

There’s a player currently that has the bengal tiger mount, it’s rumored to be make a wish

The stat line about Kuroma is awesome. Daggerspine was my home for all of vanilla and through wrath. I did many battlegrounds alongside Kuroma and his always present priest healer Angehoul (sp?) I want to say it was 9 months total he held GM...pretty frustrating for the rest of the people grinding. He also almost never spoke in chat which led to people spreading rumors he was a bot, which led him to start speaking in all 1’s and 0’s from time to time just to mess with people.

About entering the Dark Portal before TBC: If you watch the Behind the Scenes videos that were on the dvd, which came with Vanilla Collector's Edition, one of the Blizz employees are literally saying, that players will have to find a way to open the Dark Portal. While a bit vague, that certainly did not help quell the quest to enter the portal.

'Maybe if I try to go through the portal on a naked gnome with nothing but a banana in my inventory' The classic Moon Guard strat.

the biggest myth: you think you do, but you don't

I remember a friend of mine finding the tiger cave, and parking an alt there. He logged on daily at various intervals for months in hopes of the vendor spawning. Good times. I love myths like this. It really compounds a game's sense of scale and mystery.

Yikes this was so awesome! I still remember many of those myths and how we spent countless hours searching for them. The tiger cave was new to me though! Ahh, those were the days when fishing for the Ashbringer. Thanks for this and all of your videos man!

All the stuff that never made it into the game ... this is why I eventually want a Classic+ server, with all the stuff that was planned but never made it into the game because of time constraints.

it’s really cool to think jeff kaplan was working on a game my parents were playing when i was like 3 to now working on overwatch, a game i’ve been playing for a few years.

That 007 Goldeneye music though :D !!!

Greetings from Norway! love your vids man! keep up the good work!

Now that I had a long week I’m rewarded with a mad season video on a nice Saturday afternoon

Biggest myth not listed: Everquest 2, Vanguard, LotRO, Age of Conan, Warhammer, Aion, Darkfall, Tabula Rasa, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, Star Wars Old Republic, Black Desert, Final Fantasy 14, Runescape Update, All Points Bulletin, etc, were all going to kill WoW. 😂

To enter the Dark Portal, you need to use your Flint-And-Steel to ignite it

Now gotta wait for the baldman to watch this^

How I had always thought the login portal is that we are in a dreary world, and then we see the portal to azeroth, and we go into the world of warcraft.

One of the weirder rumours I heard (more than once) was the the simultaneous death of all world bosses in vanilla would do 'something'

I kept thinking about the first rumors of GM island and how there was certainly a way to get there by natural means. Also being able to unlock a way into old iron-forge. Great video and solid top 10 I remember just about all of these happening at the time. Freaking classic times for sure.

How about this: Make #ClassicWoWPlus , in which they would add/continue ALL that was planned from the beginning of vanilla ! Including, but not limited to most of the myths found in this video and all the incomplete quest lines / incomplete locations. EDIT: If there are concerns with overlapping content of other expansions, we *could* consider this "the PLUS timeline".

I remember joining raid group with my guild to explore areas full of elite mobs. Good times when some areas were a secret.

I still remember to this day people talking about it in chat and ventrilo on different ways to purify it. Loved that mystery feeling back then when things were soo unknown.

The raid loot was reviled during BC on the community forums. If I recall correctly, it was randomly generated the moment the raid instance was created with the millisecond to a power being the variable that controlled random nature.

The phrase "born again hardcore" comes from the movie Full Metal Jacket.

The Bengal tiger mount was a make-a-wish reward, I just saw a post about it on reddit a few days ago?

What i love about your channel is that, you will launch video of something i never thought or asked for, and enjoy every second of it, and this is another one, wasn't thinking about such theme, but hey, here is a new video, and man it's worth the time :) Great video mate.

Its really cool to think that back then people actually thought the devs would have made an entire zone that was almost impossible to access but all but the most determined players, like an in game hunt for a kind of holy grail or lost ark.

I wish rank 15 existed, so then I could be called “Deathlord of the Undercity”

Hey what's up video guys here back with another MadSeason for you

Quit wow like 5 years ago, but I always come back to your videos. New ones, and rewatching old ones. Amazing to watch and listen while I do other stuff like chores, or taking a walk etc. Dunno if you'll ever see this comment but wish you the best. Happy New year!

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"The wowiest wow wow that ever wow wowed" - Wowington Wow Wow

I tried to figure out that nude code for Tomb Raider so diligently.... In a way, I still am.... I still am.

Thanks for mentioning my channel! Really cool video; I have always enjoyed exploring pre-Cataclysm world and wondering about the purpose or origins of some unusual locations. I am also so glad that the Emerald Dream was finally sort of added in Legion, it was a favourite place of mine.

As a Mage u can Enter Karazan! I know because I did in classic jsut last week. You can Blink inside but there isnt anything to do there. You can chill behind the bars and thats it and if you are unlucky you fall through the map and respawn after a Crash right in front of the bars of Karazan

The biggest myth of WoW is that you have to min/max to get anywhere ;)

14:43 "...Outlandish theories" I see what you did there

The tiger dropped in original Zul Gurub, super low chance but there was an actual tiger, also there is a spectral tiger gained from the playing cards sets. Karazhan, in Wrath the devs started building the undercroft which in originality was as large below ground as it was above ground with tricks and traps and some pretty creepy furniture. You used to get a mage to sheep you through the doorway, was pretty cool.

your videos and especially your intro are really calming somehow. I have quit wow a long time ago but from time to time I like to pick up on whats new and how it develops. Your videos give great insight and somewhat bring back some memories.

Guys I found a mysterious dark portal in the blasted lands. Anyone have an idea what it is? Blizz might be planning something I’m so excited.

Wasn't the Bengal tiger added to the game recently for one player on the Make a Wish thing?

The Fist of the Deity was my favorite-looking weapon. I loved it on my rogue, especially after they made it one-hand instead of main hand (which meant you couldn't dual wield it and it always looked unbalanced until the change). Then they changed it years later and I couldn't use it anymore. Can't remember why exactly, maybe because it was either sword or dagger and I was specced for the opposite on my rogue. But combining that with the Assassination set looked awesome. I always thought it looked glaive-like.

20 years after the announcement of the emerald dream and its finally in the game in Dragonflight

The Evolution of World of Warcraft Episode 3 anytime soon? :D

7:00 Is that...a song from the nintendo 64 007 original soundtrack?? Or am I going crazy lol

Back in Classic, I heard a rumor that druids could change their aquatic form into a shark through a quest in Theramore. I was devastated upon realizing it was false.

Dude the “nerdgasm” sound after the glaives made me spit out my water!!

"Outlandish" theories. Hahaha. Classic.

Not gonna lie the Glaive thing still bothers me to this day, they're *the* iconic Night Elf unit used by their main frontline unit in Warcraft 3 and the Warden Hero unit used a circular glaive-type weapon, how it took all the way til BFA for anything like the three bladed glaive to come into the game boggles my mind. And even then they fucked it up by making it demonhunter exclusive. It should have been a one handed weapon option from the beginning darnit

For the Outland thing, you COULD get there by jumping out of bounds in certain instances. You were able to do in as late as Sunwell Plateau. It was a copy/paste of the EK map. Originally on the EK map, it was an island similar to GM Isle but there were bounds put up to block you. They omitted this from instance maps though. Shame too. Whenever you see "Original Outlands", you get the cheap crap of the Deadmines. There was a much bigger map available that got little attention

14:42 nice one madseason

Biggest myth of them all. That endgame content was harder then retail.

so banned for exploiting something they wouldnt have had if GM hadnt screwed up... was the GM reprimanded or was the player the only one who saw punishment?

Did not expect to hear Dopefish being referenced after all of these years. Had no idea he did a video like this either even though I used to be a big fan...

The underwater Dark Portal in Azshara was supposed to be the entrance to an underwater raid themed around Nazjatar with the final boss being Queen Azshara or one or her top ranking lieutenants. It was eventually scrapped due to the ideas they wanted to use for it being to complex to place into the game at that time.

"[...] or happiness existing" that hurt

I haven't even seen the video, I automatically press like

I wonder if the "definitely born again hardcore" was initially influenced by the quote in the movie Full metal jacket when the Drill instructor is speaking about private pile.

Bald Man Bad

Someone has showed up online with the Bengal tiger.

Waiting for the" Asmongold reacts to Top 10 Myths of World of Warcraft" in....Three...Two....One.....

I started playing WoW around 3 months ago. Now binge watching your videos - so much to learn! :D

It is interesting, aside from including ciphers and encodings, MMORPGs are one of the remaining games, if not the only, that can keep secrets from players for so long.

I don't care what people say, I like your voice. You're like the white Morgan Freeman.

apparently the ashbringer thing is such a prevalent myth, I just learned that it wasn't in the game in classic from this video, I joined in Cataclysm.

The lack ofna way to cleanse the Ashbringer was a huge missed opportunity for classic. I remember being very disappointed when that blue post dropped.

man, dopefish brings back old memories. I remember getting behind the instance portal of karazhan back in the day and there was a big smiley face under the building in the terrain.

So it actually took them 3 expansions to use all the lore everyone liked and waited for - Vanilla, killing Illidan and killing Arthas. After that all the lore became more or less made up from scratch. Imagine how shitty would game become by now, if they released all they wanted originally in Vanilla?

I feel like some of the rumors were actually started by blizzard to encourage dedicated players to keep sinking time into these goosechases. Ashebringer especially. Easier to make 2 sentences in a fishing book and suck up hours of subs while they worked on actual content.

The best one is number one LOL, the fact that they actually made u do all the things people tried over the years for the pure version just to obtain the new alternate corrupted version, that is so sick lol.

I'm still 100% a believer in personal loot. Certain guilds always get a certain item or two more than others and it's not unreasonable to say that the same character gets in first most weeks. After all if it's part of their personality to be right at the MC entrance when raid is formed, maybe so they can hop right in and afk while everyone else gets there, it's easy to see how they would be seeding the dungeon every week, which is why we have gotten lawbringer boots in something like 20 of our MC raids, but haven't gotten a single BRE.

Not notification squad but still here because I don't have a life

Im still wondering when Guitar Pro 7 is gonna copyright flag everyone one of your videos for your intro theme. Ballzy move @madseasonshow

I'm working on a game for my internship. And I have to focus on what I'm doing. But I can have a small floating player in the corner of one of my screens. But most videos are just way too distracting. I can't focus on what I'm doing. I can only watch your videos and actually hear what you're telling. And focus on the work I'm doing. I think your voice is really relaxing. And the jokes told really monotone. It's perfect. We call it 'dry humor' in dutch. And it's the best kind of humor.

Nothing like lying down on the couch, sipping hot tea and listening to the intro of this channel.