Could you imagine if one day you went to the Hyjal gate in Winterspring and it was just open? Like with an entire fleshed-out level 60 zone with quests and a new raid? What a way to cap off Season of Discovery! Of course, I know it would be insane to do something like that without advertising it to everyone and making a big deal out of it, and dataminers would probably find out about it on day one anyway, but I can dream! Great video as always, I'd love to see more!

I can never stop appreciating this genre of WoW videos that remind me of how big the game is by pointing out the small details. There's something kind of haunting about seeing these dead ends that imply that there used to be plans for expansion or questlines to get patched in, but they've been forgotten over the years. I'll never quite forget when the Molten Front was new, full of people, and really sold the feeling of being in the frontlines with everyone there, and then in a few years it's completely barren, just NPCs fighting scripted mobs to try to keep selling that feeling to people who weren't there. It's not even a dead end zone you end up in for grinding levels like Silithus used to be; you sort of have to intentionally want to go the Molten Front to end up there.

Kalimdor is just built different. The fact that not everywhere you go has to have a functional purpose is what makes classic azeroth so great. The altar of storms and grim batol would be my two others. Even things out for eastern kingdoms.

I like that you take a more philosophical approach to the game.

I've always loved these areas growing up, and I am so glad to see them mentioned here! I once made the journey to the South Seas, corpse hopping as a Night Elf wisp to reach the shores. That locale, along with the Hyjal gate, the sealed Grim Batol, all gave Vanilla this beautiful sense of mystery and horizons, and wonder what could lay beyond these hidden areas. They are liminal spaces to such a wonderful fantastical degree.

All of your videos lately have been real hits, recreating and expanding on the mysteries of the old world. Very cozy and charming, looking forward to more!

Darkwhisper Gorge is totally where the last raid of SOD is going to be. The raid in the roots of the world tree below Hyjal where the legion is fighting Old God Forces leading to the story of the end patches of War Within. Just a wild shot in the dark please steal this idea developers!

Ever since I was a kid I could have sworn that several of these would eventually lead to something, but they never did which is arguably more inspiring for the imagination.

I love the "simplicity" of your content. There is no drama, high volume etc. It's just interesting facts. Thank you for being different than all other content creators.

I actually did not know about a lot of these, this is amazing and along with the swimming videos I would say this is the heart of the channel

2:10 Nevermind early concept maps, the manual that shipped with the game also placed BFD at Darkshore.

Land’s end beach takes me back!

When you mentioned Darkwhisper Gorge I was going to comment about how I actually visited it a lot to visit Mt. Hyjal back in the day, and then you went ahead and said it, lol. I remember I would guide people through to Mt. Hyjal and teach them how to wall-walk before Blizzard eventually fixed that exploit. I also remember swimming to that island south of Tanaris with my friend back in the day - we used the swim speed potion - died, and then ran back out to our corpse and popped another swim speed potion to reach it. I use to LOVE exploring the maps back then, you could basically go anywhere as long as you knew how to wall-walk and were willing to spend some time trying to work around the hills and mountains. Awesome video, makes me feel very nostalgic.

Great video man, you're knocking it out of the park lately!

I really do hope they open up Mount Hyjal in SoD and add in all of the other planned ideas for Vanilla that never made it in like the Azshara BG

this some underrated content right here, keep up the great work

Awesome video as always man! I love adventuring in game and in real life. Seeking the best places in public to be in private is a fun time.

Moooore dead ends, please! I want to visit the Winterspring valley soon; I'd forgotten how tough a place that was back in the vanilla days, and I don't think I've been back since.

Love the world building of classic wow, truly lightning in a bottle.

Thanks for focusing so much on the ambiance of the background sounds/music. It’s heavily under appreciated

Ahh... Lotro Bree-land music. One of my all time faves

5:00 Indeed I've been there a LOT, as spoilered in the video.. Rich Thorium Veins show up there and honestly Azshara was my fav route !

Excellent video! Heading straight to Darkshore to try and tame one of those sabers!

one quest from the hunter legion order hall leads to the tower of Eldrara. you are sent to "collect" initiate outfit pieces from the local mages to disguise yourself. you just duel someone outside the tower, never actually get to go in.

Another incredible video! Thank you.

Another great video. I liked that you put in 3-4 seconds of ambience per location. It's not too much and just enough to, together with the music, bring that adventurous feeling.

Another great one again. Thanks!

Hi Jedi! The lack of doodads, critters, or terrain features make Darkwhisper Gorge and the Tainted Scar utterly dreary. It's amazing how WoW can look so lively with just a handful of decorations -- and how dull it can look without it.

1:31 there are moonsabers just northwest of the ruins. Kinda near where the cat spawns. I slways thought the cats in Darkshore and Ashenvale maybe feral cousins of the domesticated mounts. Like Shadumbra.

I love all these lil obscure and out-of-the-way areas in WoW. As a kid, exploring the reaches of Azeroth ignited my imagination like nothing else.

This was a great subject, I remember feeling exactly like you described when visiting Blasted Lands doing the warlock quest or other spots. I think you could expand further and talk about the most desolate/lonely characters in the game, those that exist for a purpose (or not) and are far away from the others.

You never disappoint! Amazing voice too!

This was great. I love this lesser known stuff from Classic.

3:35 Thats something I can recommend to everyone playing classic or vanilla. Or WotLK for that matter. Few games has such good ambience as early wow. I can personally recommend Duskwood, Winterspring, Howling Fjord, Strat/Scholo and whole Lordaeron tbh. Lower that music volume, crank the ambience and just sit back and drift away 😊🖤

Hella cool to hearing the Lotro OST ❤️

I always liked tracking the path of the titans from ulduar to its end point in dragonblight southern sea. I like to think it was connected to uldaman and beyond.

These are the places I used to go out of my way to wander around. I think my favorite place in the game might be on the coast of Desolace at the tower on the cliff in Ethel Rethor.

love this concept, moaer!

Sadly the end of the world as we know it is coming with the cata pre patch. This broke my heart back when it happen the first time The last night of Wrath before the cata systems patch we had a druid party in Moonglade and then decide to have an all Tree Druid raid on Org ( had a pally and a cpl priests got in also some how ) The sigh of 20 plus trees running across the Barrons and into Org was awesome and one of my fave memory's in all my years of this game I been doing some streams of me running around the old world in Wrath classic and checking out the places that will go away with the passing of Wrath . I know i can visit in classic era but Wrath was the peak wow for me and we will never have another like it

Such a cozy video

Really enjoyed this!

If memory serves the night elf sacrificed there nightsaber to some cat god i think this came from the rpg guide so canon is up in the air

I like how 3 of these areas are places I farm fishing stuff in SOD lmao

Love the atmosphere/vibes of classic wow. Thanks

This video was awesome thanks!

Great Video! Thank you🙏🏻

If you play on an RP server, one of the most fun things to do is to find obscure places like this for RP scenes.

5:00 is this from Dragonflight? I don't recognize the Southwest corner of Kalimdor, but Azshara is pre-Cata

There's some magic about your videos.

Land's End Beach is also the gateway to a ton of hidden Un Goro/Silithus hidden zones. Swim west and you'll eventually be able to go straight up a mountain into a zone in Un Goro which has an incredible amount to explore.

Another video to include into my wow x DnD campaign ❤

This is more of a middle-of-the-road of Azeroth, but I've been waiting for decades for the Tower of Azora to be explained, mentioned, anything at all. Not since Randy Marsh climbed it with a couple of night elves has it been referred to as existent! Just who is, or was, Azora?

Stonetalon moutians, desolace, feralas. All felt empty

ready for epic content edit: yes I would like to see more content like this.

At the tower in Aszara you get one of the Priest runes in SOD

@Jediwarlock did you know there are more of those roads to nowhere? At least one is found between Ashenvale and Stonetalon, kinda where the tunnel is.

Great video keep it up!!!

Great video!

More like this please!

Holy Crap! Made it in before the Half Hour mark... time to sip my energy drink and relax to some JediWarlock!

I love this comfy rpg content

Have you considered doing a collab with Wowcrendor? He does a series called “pointless top 10s”for things in Azeroth. Would love to see your in-depth takes on what is deemed mundane 😊

Just my irl life has me choking on demon smog hourly lol

I have a screenshot from 2007 with my hunter and her saberpet looking at the sea on the very far end even more north of the lcoation mentioned first near mathysta ruins

The altar is a warcraft 3 building. The hero building.

Banger video

It's sad to see that the areas that once had tons of players are now completely dead. Think about how much time developers, teams and players spent in the areas and what they experienced there. Sometimes WoW feels like a partially dead world since everything works through dungeon browsers and queues these days. I miss the time when every part of the world was still alive...

King 👑 love the videos

What's the map at 4:52 from? I don't remember silithus ever having that bit jutting out to the west, under the Isle of dread.

Nice. 👍🏼

4:32 not in Turtle WoW … they make these loose ends filled with lore appropriate to exactly vanilla times and bring in new old quests. Way better than some miserable SoD or, Old Gods forbid, retail …

This video alone might get me to resub.

I don't think i ever set foot in darkshore.

This amazing

Played wow for years and didn't know about that ghost cat in darkshore. Definitely taming that when I make a hunter in classic hardcore.

by the title, i thought you ment retail as a whole

Y'all gotta play Turtle WoW and the mount hyjal beyond that gate is amazing with a 40 man Emerald sanctum raid

yes

Weird hearing LOTRO music in a WoW video...

The far south Island of Tara is

Lets goo

First! Let's Go :)

Once beautiful world of Azerot is, for me, inexorably colored and it's meaning changed by the stupidity and ineptitude of current devs that hold the reigns. Classic just hammers in the idea that no unanswered mystery will reveal it's secrets, however many mysteries may be spoiled, ruined and defiled by these prideful idiots. It's just colors every inch of Azeroth for me, and I can no longer enjoy the game.