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For anyone wondering where the Azshara furbolg gate leads, it's to a huge underground cave complex called Barrow deeps that's below whole Hyjal. You actually visit it in Warcraft 3 campaign.

It’s cool how you first meet problematic furbolgs in NE starting zone at ~5 level and then this theme is developed up to 50+ levels. There are many things like that, this was one of the most important parts of classic wow: really well done chekhovs guns across the world

When I was leveling through classic (my first experience with WoW) I always loved finding small things hidden away and scrapped content. A few things I'd like to mention: -Uldaman quest that takes you to the gates of Uldum surrounded by stone giants, a crack in the gate, but leads nowhere. -Tel'abim -Quel'thalas, the one accessible in vanilla. -The Wildhammer do appear before cata. Shadowmoon in Outland -The hints at Pandaria with the bridge in the Swamp of Sorrows and turtles in SoS and Darkshore. -Almost completely unused area in the islands off of southeast stranglethorn.

THIS video exemplifies why I think you have the current best wow content. EVERYTHING you mention you also SHOW in the video, even the Pyrewood Villagers switching to their worgen forms (I don't even know how you can record that without just staying there for a while waiting for sundown) I applaud you sir

Remember the baby gryphon you save from the cage in the old questline in the Hinterlands? Sharpbeak? He is all grown up and makes his return in Zaralek caves all these years later. 😊

the goblins that join the horde in cata aren't the same ones from the steamwheedle cartel, they're from the bilgewater cartel

Way back when I played vanilla, it was so exciting running across stuff that seemed to have no purpose. I remember being in Tanaris and came across the entrance to Caverns of Time before it was a thing. As a level 60, there was an unknown level elite dragon that would 1 shot you. Then there was also Uldum.

15:40 one thing I like about Turtle Wow is they add a Gryphon mount as an exalted reward for the Wildhammer clan. It works just like a normal mount though, but looks like it’s flying close to the surface

Another one that would be cool is the other side of the city in Blackrock Depths. When you enter the dungeon, turn left, then take another left and right your way to the big fire golem boss, there is a giant door behind him. Back when they were making the dungeon that door was meant to go to the other side of the dungeon. BRD was actually meant to be twice as big, which is just insane. It would be done like UBRS, made into a 10 man raid inside a 5 man dungeon.

Content like this is why turtle wow is so successful. They've released so much custom content that still makes a lot of sense in the wow world, like Tel'Abim and Karazhan Crypts. They're also releasing their own version of Gilneas soon

Thanks for this video, WillE. It honestly makes me want to come back and play WoW Classic. I played retail from March 2005 Vanilla WoW through June 2022 Shadowlands. I finally stopped playing in June of 2022 after playing over that 17-year window. Seeing this footage of the "old world" of WoW really brings back special memories. So many of those memories are burned into my mind and are very vivid. I think that Vanilla WoW was the best gaming experience I've ever had in my life. I'm 39 years old now, but I was playing Vanilla WoW during my undergraduate years as a student. I am tempted to come back and play Classic WoW, but I'm not sure I want to do that again. I would need to have one person I know play with me rather than go in alone. One of my big turnoffs about retail WoW was the ever-increasing raid difficulty of mythic raid content. As a GM and raid leader for 15 years (2007-2022), this job became increasingly difficult. I don't miss it, or at least most of it. Ha. We achieved multiple CEs over the years, but it became real, serious work, not a game. That's really a shame. Even for the average raider who had no managerial or leadership responsibilities, the process of delving deep into a mythic raid tier became exhausting. That hurts guilds, teams, and community. It's toxic for the game itself.

I remember hearing that Hyjal was going to be an end game zone with dragons fighting demons. They could still do something like this if they are going towards a Classic+ route.

I had a buddy ask me a couple of years ago about how I felt about earlier wow (we had started talking about wow classic since WoTLK classic was on the horizon) and after I explained to him that I'm the opposite of most people nowadays it seems in that I specifically look for a game that will ask me to spend hundreds or thousands of hours progressing through it and one that demands my full attention while I'm playing, I gushed on my personal experience with vanilla, BC, WoTLK, Cata, and Pandaria. I can't quite make a verbatim statement, but BASICALLY what I told him was "the way I remember the level of interest I had in WOW back then was as follows: I spent days of my time leveling, collecting supplies, and planning JUST to be able to explore zones without having to worry about dying. When you like a world so much that you can sit and devour hundreds of pages of lore on it and then go spend significant time gaining power just to safely explore that world; it's a safe bet that it's at least a somewhat enjoyable world.

what i love most about the vanilla world is that there are secrets everywhere. you need an antidote for someone poisoned? questgiver isnt sure what to do, but his mentor lives on the other continent. go ask him. that guy has an idea, but you need to head to a far away location where its rumored that something can cure even the meanest stuff. if you take later versions of wow, the solution is always convienently placed right around the corner. there is a curse on this town? no problem, kill 20 mobs, gather 5 whatnots and visit 3 shrines that are all placed right there. quest done, the next one sends you just a little bit further. yes, you do have to travel a lot for those classic quests, but the feeling of putting work in and discovering the whole world is so good. it gives everything a bit of mistery. it doesnt feel like its something minor the questgiver or some minion couldve done while you take care of important stuff.

I remember being a kid during TBC and going on a trek through Kalimdor as a dwarf. Went on the boat to Auberdine, got off, went through the thousand needles, barrens and ratchet and back. I had so much fun just exploring the world. I just got back into Classic and decided to do it again.

Experiencing Vanilla WoW was absolutely amazing. Never before had a game captivated me like that. And never again it will because in this day and age, you know too much about a game before it is out. And until something truly new comes along, it’s already been there. Truly one of the greatest games to have ever existed.

I imagined that furbolg door was just the entrance to the caves of the druids of the claw from W3

I would love to see them do a classic plus where they flesh out these areas with new raids, pvp, and quest content in the spirit of classic. It would make development cost cheaper and would probably get a lot of people playing seeing as how classic is going through a big resurgence organically.

Love this type of content! This is what made the world so huge and magical back in the day before wowhead and youtube answered every question before anyone even tried to explore it themselves.

Its amazing they made such a huge world with NO LOADING SCREENS in 2006. Unbelievable almost.

As someone who really enjoyed Warcraft 3, I always wished to see more of Dalaran in WoW Classic. It was such a major location in W3 with Kel'Thuzad summoning Archimonde, Illidan trying to destroy Ice crown with the eye of Sargeras from there, Kael'Thas struggling with Garithos, getting locked up in the dungeons and then freed an lead to the Outland by Vashj and Illidan. It even had a "Raid-like" Dungeon level in W3, so why not explore that again in WoW? Instead we just have this giant purple blob :D

I believe that the Ashbringer quest line should have been a quest line which reign through three different sets of expansions . Firstly, as it's stated going to SM and hearing the story about Mograine's 2nd son who is located in Outlands, then you head to Outlands and find his son. He orders you to go into Sunwell, defeat Muru, and purify one of his shards (Because the Ashbringer's core is believed to be made from one of Naaru's crystals). After you purify it, Darion (on outlands) finally orders you to go to Northrend and try to purify it. You go through the expansion and in Ulduar the Dwarfs help you make the blade it self, finally perhaps at the end of TOGC or perhaps in ICC you imbue the light into the sword’s mold and combine it with the purified Muru’s Crystal/Shard, you create a reforged ashbringer.

Turtle WoW has done an incredible job reviving a lot of this content that was originally scrapped. IMO, Turtle WoW is currently the best version of Vanilla+ we have access to.

They were super ambitious, having to cut so much stuff: from Karazhan to Azshara being a very unfinished zone. It would be so cool to see everything that is hinted at, glimpsed or imagined, coming to life as continued storylines, further raids and unlocking areas and faction rewards. Classic+ would be so cool if it brought closure in so many areas while providing a new 60-70 experience that takes a whole lot of players' desires and turns them into gameplay elements.

Coming across those hidden, seemingly forgotten and empty locations while playing Classic made the world feel so much more substantial and real. I felt as though I was stepping into a world with a long and mysterious history. I really appreciated this subtle environmental storytelling, inviting me to go beyond quest objectives and wander aimlessly for hours. Thank you so much for your video 🥰

Your video inspired me to start a new classic era char. Honestly blown away by how busy the server is. Genuinely never seen stormwind this busy. Been getting groups in the open world so easily as well. Didn’t think I could feel that classic feel again!

On the note of Hinterlands, specifically the Wildhammer Dwarves, there's a Horde equivalent that could easily be added if Blizzard wanted to do something with it, the Revantusk tribe, it, like the wildhammer dwarves, was a reputation back in Classic but didn't last as long being removed in patch 1.11, the troll tribe didn't fair as well as the dwarves did, their areas are just used as a quest hubs and the reputation never got re-added later like the Wildhammer reputation did in cata. Definitely feels like they wanted to do something there but it was cut since each faction had a reputation there.

Your idea about the scarlet raid and the reforged ashbringer is great. That’s the direction they should have gone. I truly feel like the burning crusade was a turn for the worse overall in the way that they approached expansions. It was fun don’t get me wrong. But they should have used the vanilla world longer..

If they ever do Classic + they should rework on the places on the map you cant go to. It would be awesome to see Hyjal

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I got up to revered with Wildhammer Dwarves before TBC came out. I was really bummed when they removed the rep, and even more bummed when my rep did not count for the new Wildhammer rep in a later expansion.

Timbermaw Hold was supposed lead to a raid during Vanilla called Barrow Deeps (a location in Warcraft III). Unfortunately it still has never seen the light of day, just like many raid entrance locations around Azeroth that never led to the raids they were supposed to be the entrances to...

A few points of interest were mentioned by you that I haven't heard anyone talk about in there "cut content" videos. I didn't know Furbolgs were guarding a gate way out in Azshara. Classic has a real good oportunity to reinvent the game if they can make some changes now that players have experienced the old game as fully as they possibly could.

the whole ashbringer theories/research back in vanilla was amazing to see at the time, the dopefish wow exploration video is still cemented in my mind when i think of oldschool WoW , so many crazy zones that you didn't know existed or were unreleased , fun times

Unfinished content adds to the mystery and makes classic so cool. Following xpacs felt like products, fully polished. Classic was a huge mysterious interesting world. It wasn't a video game. A magic blizzard has never recaptured.

It's cool how the idea of "Forging a new ashbringer" still made it into the game in a sense with the Ashbringer alt skin in Legion, with the questline taking you through all the hints that were originally scattered in Classic.

Whats cool is the ashbringer story and a lot of other parts like gilneas is exactly what Turtle WoW is doing right now.

Incredible video! Another thing to dive into was the Uldaman quest chain that took you to the gates guarded by stone giants in the southern part of Tanaris , dead end quest that I’ve always wanted more from. Later expansion shows it being the gate to Uldum

What if the Azshara gate lead to that one gate in Mt. Hyjal that uses the Onyxia model and would serve as an alternative entrance/Hyjal raid like Blackrock Mountain having an upper and lower half?

I always thought the Furbolg gate in Azshara was their first attempt at connecting to Winterspring, but scrapped it and built the connection from Felwood to Winterspring instead.

Ages ago in the tricky-to-enter open-world Mount Hyjal in vanilla, I managed to get in and came across some construction barricades with blinking orange lights with the words "Under Construction" written on them.

Love the 'minor curiosities' just off the beaten path stuff from Classic. Wanted to highlight another in a series of half-finished quests: Dragon 'Loyalty' Tests. Every dragon faction, when you're introduced to them, would give you an oathstone - and you'd be asked to hand it back to them as a sort of introduction and proof that you're trustworthy. This happens for the red dragonflight via Belnistrasz in Razorfen Downs, and for the green dragonflight via Itharius in an incomplete questline involving Eranikus' shade. And this practice is even mentioned in Day of the Dragon between Ronin and Deathwing. I'd like to think we would have gotten something similar with the other two flights, but we interact very little with the blue flight, and it requires a MONSTER of a reputation grind to even have a conversation with the Bronze.

13:32 - I'd like to point out one thing - in the DK starting quest Darion gives the Corrupted Ashbringer to Tirion who then turns it back into the normal Ashbringer and uses that until Legion where it's either passed on to the player paladin or Liadrin. Darion uses a totally different weapon after that.

All I ever wanted was to adventure in Azeroth. Instead Blizzard made me a hero of the alliance and the VIP of every faction. They have a huge potential to just branch the story of the WoW from classic and build out the world the way it should be. Tack on raid tiers above Naxx, update the graphics, and create more world to explore.

Willie, would really nice to see a video talking about weapon progression. Idk if weapon by weapon of every class would b entertaining, but an overall ideal of weapon leveling with some showcases would. Cheers mate.

Love these kinds of vids! I don’t play classic at all anymore (loving DF) but came back to the channel for this one.

I love videos like this. There's just something really interesting about the mystery behind things being left in the game despite being cut, little hints to what could have been that haven't been outright explained by the devs. Especially in older games like this, it adds some interesting mystery. It's also why I wish they would go the Oldschool Runescape route and go their own way. Stop after WotLK and make new content in the Classic style that was never in the retail version.

Loved this. Hope to see future editions based on expansion content that never was.

this video aged well :)

That Dragon Isles concept art actually has a model and was in the game, but was inaccessible and wasn't textured.

Willie this was a heater of a video!!! I got so pumped listening to everything. If they did suramar type questing in classic in gilneas I would cry from happiness.

Similarly to how the Darkspear Tribe of trolls are the ones that team up with the horde, I think that's how we approach the Goblins joining the horde too. It's not the entire race of Goblins that joined the horde, just the ones out of Kezan. The Steamwheedle Goblins are something separate, in my mind. That's how I view Goblins also being neutral and also apart of the Horde at the same time. Two different factions of Goblins.

I love videos like this! I think if blizzard or a private server did a V+ realm with all this scrapped content added and expanded upon, as well as some better balancing of the original classes with some added spells, this could make for some fantastic replayability. I would play that server in a heartbeat

Seeing some of these threads pulled in SoD would be super cool

The idea that we either get bonus levels (remember no hit rating just %) for bonus talent points and better weapon skills would be awesome classic+ content.

I remember a GM finding a friend and I inside Hyjal when it was unfinished and they teleported us to a small island and gave us a warning. Trying to get to hidden areas like that and the IF airfield was so much fun. :)

This dude reminds me of dangerdolan when he used to make WoW vids back in the day. With that being said this vid is awesome and im def subbing

Very interesting video Willie! Would love another one of these!

I never knew that those mobs in Silverpine and Westfall changed depending on the time of day. That's so cool

Turning attention to my favorite unused stuff in classic, top notch video

I love this kind of content 🤗 I played at the end of Vanilla to Cataclysm's ending. I have explored all of these areas and more! There was so much scenery telling stories in the early years 😢

Wow i actually thought i knew everything but i was never aware of that furbolg cave; great video!

I like how 90% of these cut content or potential ideas have been implemented in TurtleWoW lol

I like how each time a new iteration of classic comes out, the same videos get redone by the same channels over and over again

It's all we love in Classic : The world is so big and full of mysteries... If we could have the Holy Ashbringer... If we could restaure Stormwind's King If we could unlock new races (worgens etc. tho I'm not a fan) The world is full of potential

In a way this is why vanilla was so special. It all adds to the mysteries and intrigue of the world. I'm afraid if they fleshed these zones we would lose that.

Currently watching this while leveling my hunter on era. Keep up the classic content!

I'd love to see a "finished" version of classic: at the very least retrofit the added quests in TBC and WotLK, but also add more quests for the Wildhammer faction, add more to Azshara (maybe finish the furlbog areas there and add quests for them), finish the questline that starts with the trinket from Sunken Temple, and so on.

Seeing all these classic areas, and hearing the OG login screen music hit me with some hard nostalgia.

It would actually be really cool if in Classic+ we got the Worgen on the Alliance, the Furbolg on the Horde, and the Goblins as a neutral race similar to Pandas. Because it makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever that the greediest race on Azeroth would lock themselves out of half of the world's wealth by swearing allegiance to Thrall.

i really liked the Gilneas assets, and after trying the Worgen race i was majorly disappointed to see a possible new capital city abandoned... at least they brought back somewhat similar moods with Revendreth and Kul Tiras

Anyone interested in seeing more of the old unfinished zones should definitely check out Dopefish's "Exploration the Movie". It's still up on YT with the description: "First uploaded to Warcraftmovies 2005-05-19, and was later removed by Blizzard due to violating their unreleased content policy." Again, this was released in May 2005, a few months after the game released.

Turtle WoW welcomes you with most of those things

I just went to the furbolg gate in Azshara, and while on retail, it got a bit of an update along with a rename "Blackmaw Hold", we know what's there. A simple hold with a few small wings.

Goblins have always been loyal to the Horde. They do business with Alliance, but they show massive allegiance to Doomhammer's Horde.

@Azshara-gate: i would say this was just meant as again another entrance to hyjal similar to how in winterspring there was this cave with the metal grid blocking the way to the supposed tunnel to hyjal. as "the mountain" azshara is leaning against _is_ the hyjal mountain, it would make sense that you could go from there to the remains of the tree, especially since the furbolg are kinda its guardian (wasnt there even a blocked tunnel in timbermaw hold that insinuated a way to hyjal?)

Crazy Idea: For Mount Hyjal, there are 2 ways I could see going about it. The logical way and the fun way. 1. Have players work with the Cenarion Circle to restore the Elven Haven as a place where Druids can live and work with both Horde and Alliance to bring about an alliance. 2. The FUN option, have it be a player fortress. Allow players to rebuild the area like they built Garrisons, but on a much larger scale. Sure, this isn't at all realistic, but it'd be dope.

Actually a cool thing about the Ashbringer/Scarlet Crusade raid idea is that back in Classic there was an zone for the Scarlet Monastery which was the entire zone with no loading screens. Since it was originally going to be one GIANT instance like BRD. I used to work on a private server that had a custom Scarlet Crusade raid on it using the zone during TBC. They could just use that and add new bosses who've taken up the mantles of the OG Scarlet Monastery. Sorta like they did later when they added the new bosses.

that gnome loc who took the last AShbringer the world will ever see is a legend.

Im pretty sure someone found through some mining that Azhara was first made to be a BG a la Alterac valley or wintergrasp, but it was scrapped and just made into the zone, or something like that

Another great video! You are doing amazing work Willie! Hope you are okay dude!

One Avenue they could do for a classic+ or even a 'wow 2' reboot would be to simply advance the storylines in all the old zones as if they'd been completed in classic. It would be so neat to see stuff like the bridge in redridge get fixed, stromgarde cleared out and reoccupied, quillboar dens cleared out (but maybe more crop up in other areas), RFK cleared out but burning blade moving somewhere else, progress made in plaguelands but ground lost elsewhere or the forsaken claim it as their own, etc etc. New people in the stockades relevant to new stories. Progress/setbacks in gnomeregan. The fate of the scarlet crusade and SM; maybe abandoned but a new stronghold built elsewhere. So many storylines where you could see the small deeds of oast adventurers realized but other dangers emerged over time. And of course put in unfinished zones mentioned here which make sense in that context. Id just like a version which is thematically familiar but 'smaller' like classic was in scope and grandiosity. New storylines and characters, new nooks and crannies to discover that dont necessarily have any gameplay or story purpose but are left to the imagination, but a more or less familiar world. Maybe set it 50-100 years in the future cannonically so that the heroes and adventurers we played are old/retired or gone and only some fuzzy memory of them remains, but overshadowed by the pressing issues of the day.

I think that many of the mentioned content adds to the over all mystery and 'décor' or the world of Warcraft.

There is a blocked gate inside of Timbermaw Hold in the tunnel leading to Moonglade suggesting there might have been a plan to make an entrance in northern Darkshore into Timbermaw Hold.

Yeah, definitely do a part 3 if possible. This was great

Excelente video! If you can talk more about purgation island, be great.

That centaur towards the end of the video made me rethink a lot of things 😂

Centaur factions were probably a design idea in Vanilla that was further developed with the Aldor & Scryers in TBC.

If you want to know about the huge demon altar there is a quest linked with it and it's about bringing back a dead Night Elf who fights a demon lord. Yes, it is still in the game and is uncut.

Eranikus and the Emerald Dream. You used to be able to take his Chained Essence to his brother in the Swamp of Sorrows - quest just ends till he is used as a plot device with Malfurion in the Moonglade. Uldum. Gates of Ahn'Qiraj. Stormwind Suburbs "The Return of Zul'jin" from the Hinterlands prophecy which was butchered for a raid boss The dimension the Worgen are really from dealing with the Scythe of Selune and the Satyrs The original purpose of the Emerald Portals before becoming raid bosses The Nether Dragonflight originally being used to heal Malygos and restore his sanity before.... raid boss. Karazhan and the Dark Riders, as well as that entire external area with the floating bodies. You were suppose to enter Karazhan from the top, fight through it to the bottom, than go from the bottom to the top in a mirror world. The Dark Riders were suppose to be being led by Teron Gorefiend. I thought a cool rep reward would of been to unlock the race as playable.

I love the fact that Turtle Wow will bring all of this content to their game 😍😍😍🙏

You forgot the part of darkshore that got updated in battle for azeroth, it shows the full statue

I really loved this video! First video I see from you and it was really great, your narration and all the content. Really would love to see more like this! ❤

I managed to get into Mount Hyjal on my warrior. Was so cool to explore it! Same with the grave under Karazhan. Can't do that type of exploring anymore. :(

Scarlet Crusade raid or instance. How about an entire expansion with that theme instead?

8:31 looks similar to the old ghost wolf speed glyph from like legion era. it was very effective in bgs u would run at mount speed in ghostwolf form if not in combat

Now ya'll just wait until WillE covers the Turtle WoW server with all those online and working as OG Blizzard intended.

Wasnt there a giant ass door/gate East of Deadmines, that was rumored to eventually have the ship from deadmines leave and become a quest hub. I think I read it on some reddit post years years ago, but it was discovered during Cata when you could fly around. probably not exactly what you are getting at, but still interesting there is a door/gate outside of Deadmines

Just a small common critique of the video, but the goblins that are playable characters in WoW are part of one specific cartel the Bilgewater Cartel it isn't the whole Goblin race as Goblin society is divided into massive merchant cartels that run like their own mini nations. For example the Steamwheel Cartel is still neutral in the war between the Horde and Alliance.