Warcraft III Easter Eggs 7: Legacy of the Damned

[@Abelhawk]

Just a note to all first-time viewers: I missed MANY Easter eggs this first time through. At the end of the playlist you'll find two "addendum" videos where I cover (almost) every one I missed in parts 1 through 8. I appreciate you pointing out ones that I missed in the comments, since some may have still slipped through the cracks, but you may want to wait till you see all the videos first just in case. Thanks for all your support!

[@reactedmortel5254]

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[@lightningemperorxd4456]

Abelhawk did you get the ring of protection +5

[@fotismanolopoulos1098]

To answer the possession question the possession foe blizzard is making someone obey you whatever you tell him to do (infestors from sc also follow the same mechanic but i dont know for dark archons)

[@aleksandarvil5718]

@Abelhawk, here're some answers to your questions: 9:45 Easter eggs of Chapter 5: 1) Inside of city there is marketplace where you can buy various items, while north of Garithos' base (inside of walls) you can find Mercenary Camp, where you can hire Bandits, Forest Trolls, and Kobolds. 2) Outside of city, just across the river, there is goldmine and Goblin Observatory (where you can hire Shredders and Zeppelins). Just south of goldmine there is camp of Bandits, Rogues and Rogue Wizards that can be slain or possessed. 3) When you possess Peasants, you can build your Human base and units. Only in this mission you can train Gryphon Riders. In the next chapter you CAN'T. 4) {This mission is very similiar to *The Starcraft* _True Collors_ , where Kerrigan can destroy only one of TWO sleeping bases, until wake up.} 10:01 1) East of Sylvanas' and Varimathras' base there is two Red Dragons that are burning ruined farm with *[Dragonbreath]* that can be slain; there are also burrels (where you can find [Belt of Giant Strength +6]). 2) North of Garithos' base you can find Sasquatches that are holding [Scroll of Beast]. When you (playing as Garithos) cross the bridge and enter to City, you can find **Lordaeron City Mutants** and *_Jacobs Reject_* near (destroyable) City Stash. *13:04** The title of final chapter is reference to "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin*

[@superfreaktitan]

Abelhawk, if you still are having trouble on the last mission I accidentally discovered a trick that will make it childsplay using an item from a previous mission in a rather unorthodox fashion. In chapter 4 "Return to Northrend" After you kill Sapphiron you'll find an item called 'Horn of the Clouds' (I think) that allows you to cast the 'cloud' ability. While it may not seem very useful, this item will prove critical in the final mission. It may seem tempting to drop when you have such fantastic items to find in Azjol Nerub, but you have to keep it. When you get to the final mission take control of 1 obelisk to hold until you destroy Illidan's allies. Also, it is critical that you have at least 1 spirit tower in defense of the obelisk. Now once that is done, GIVE THE HORN TO ILLIDAN! If you drop it in front of him he will pick it up. Then when he attacks your tower, instead of attacking your units, heroes, or even transforming into a demon, he will simply use the 'cloud' ability over and over on your tower, allowing you to easily kill him and fend off his attacks (the cloud ability lasts 30 seconds which coincidentally is the Horn's cooldown time). This buys you plenty of time to destroy his allies and build your forces to conquer the rest of the obelisks. Let me know if it works out for you.

[@Abelhawk]

That is a hilarious exploit! I'll try that out the next time I play through. :D

[@Abelhawk]

Let me know if you can confirm it! It sounds like an awesome workaround.

[@DonEstebanXXL]

This Mission is really easy, even on hard. Illidan won't take the fourth Obelisk if you don't take more than one. So just grab one Obelisk and then proceed to kill the Naga and Blood Elf Bases. Necros, Abos and Meat Wagons worked for me and make this mission an absolute joke.

[@krunokovacek7182]

Hi guys, I read some comments and I see that some still have difficulties in last mission of undead campaign. It is actually real easy if you know how to trick the system ; 1.In last mission the less troops you have, Illidan will march with less troops. Just use heroes, and then Illidan will go for the obelisk alone. 2.Arthas can become mightiest hero in the game using a great trick - whenever Arthas is activating obelisk, kill him- after reviving on the altar he will have more agility points - he will have faster attack rate and more armor. I got him to the point, where arthas had about 800 armor ;) ;) ;) It is more difficult to destroy naga and blood elves base using just 2 heroes, but it is possible if you are creative. Arthas can heal and also consume burrowed Anub'arak's beatles ;)

[@yurionedge2199]

@@DonEstebanXXL I'm pretty sure that was fixed in a patch...

[@glennowen4940]

The Forgotten One wasn't supposed to be memorable in the first place. Because the name says it all.

[@fotismanolopoulos1098]

This actually makes sense,also,his actual version that is different from the one you encounter is also kinda forgotten,as another forgotten has taken his place at the campaign

[@Abelhawk]

More like _Forgettable_ One, am I right?

[@thesilentstorms-]

I've heard that the final Arthas vs Illidan cinematic was originally supposed to be a movie-like cinematic like the rest but they ran out of time and used units instead. I've also heard that there are unique units of Arthas and Illidan in the files that can act out the fight on a map, but I've never even found a picture of someone doing that. I was hoping to see that here and hope you might make a video about that in the future. Also the game manual tells you exactly what units you should have in your army when you try to blitz Illidan's three towers, this is how I was able to beat it my first time.

[@Abelhawk]

Yeah, there are "Cinematic Illidan" and "Cinematic Arthas" units in the game files, though for some reason I've never really thought about placing them on the map to see how they work. I'll have to look into that. It definitely makes sense that the cinematic was changed from a full-blown cutscene, but I kind of like the transition from it to the final cinematic of Arthas's ascent.

[@glennowen4940]

I thought when I was playing Frozen Throne long time ago, I remember there was the cinematic fight.

[@hex808080]

I finished TFT for the first time TODAY, in HARD mode! Weird how a couple of hours later I randomly found your awesome videos! I remember trying to finish it a decade ago, in normal mode and then with reduced difficulty with no success, and during all this time a part of me was feeling a bit of a failure for not being able to :P Then, after years, I just started both games again in hard mode, and you know what, it wasn't that bad! The general "secret" is just to hold on at 50 food until you finish all gold mines, then build a HUGE 100/100 food army to take over the enemy base. If the enemy has multiple bases (such as in the last mission), repeat for each base. Also, as it was said, Illidan's attacks are proportional to how much food you're using, so just keep it low. In the end I was just wandering around the map with 120k worth of gold, making experiments with units, facing the occasional Illidan's attack ;)

[@mohammadfadhil4305]

These videos made me replay all of the The Frozen Throne campaigns. Nicely done.

[@ddGrandahl]

You managed to be one of those few youtubers who i keep my eyes on my subscription box for new videos. Great job

[@GarmrKiDar]

6:31 Working theory: the banshee that possessed Mug'thol wasn't the sharpest lightbulb in the toolbox and also had a crush on Sylvanas

[@jcdenton2187]

She could also be speaking that way to pass off as the ogre lord. More likely though it seems like WC3 views possession more like mind control in these cutscenes

[@homerrigsbee6491]

There were a few things in Dreadlord's Fall I found interesting on my last couple of playthroughs of Warcraft III. First, there's a marketplace that's near one of Garithos's bases that functions like it does on normal melee maps in that it gradually gets better items over time. As a result, you can get things like Claws of Attack +12/15, Khadgar's Gems of Health, Pendants of Mana, etc. I ended up stocking up Sylvanas and Varimatharas's inventories while I was finishing up. Second, I finally managed to take out Garithos before Detheroc on my last playthrough of this level, which I had never done before (I made a point to challenge myself last time) so I heard something I hadn't previously. This is probably common knowledge but if you beat Garithos first, Sylvanas says something about it being fun to destroy the Humans, but that Detheroc is the real target. However, if you beat Detheroc first, she doesn't say anything. I just thought it was interesting that they gave her an extra line of dialogue there.

[@kurzackd]

10:40 - Arthas: "Doesn't anyone stay dead anymore?" lol

[@petrmatko6628]

You got the wrong time buddy

[@petrmatko6628]

10:40

[@Martini5]

no, just him

[@aleksandarvil5718]

*Mal'Ganis*

[@kurzackd]

@@petrmatko6628 oh yeah, right. Thanks! Fixed it now! :)

[@lryuuzakimisamisa]

You meet lil' timmy when you saved him from the gnolls. Next time you see him, he and his siblings succumbed to the plague (or maybe you killed them so you could see their ghosts in that graveyard :O)and turned into ghouls... and you had to kill him. So the next time you (do not) see him, he's a ghost (he's from the countryside, so i guess he likes sheep). Now the ghost of little timmy followed kael, who went to outland to illidan, and than back to northrend. He's been places and there are many who could have ressed him. Kill'jaden in outland, arthas,kel'thuzad, sillvanas, or even ner'zhul himself in northrend. But, taking your idea, his mother, in grief after losing 5 childeren, might have went and learned goblin engineering so that she could make a little mechanical timmy to sate her sorrow or something... learning engineering of a race not native to human kingdoms might have taken some time, so she needed some kind of substitute.... something like penguin or whatever....afterwards, she and little mecha timmy evacuated with jaina, and went to kalimdor. And in Wow, it could just be his now old, soulless, ghoul corpse just being reanimated by whomever does that in stratholme. Man i tied this shit up like a ribbon!

[@raidmefti6897]

You, my dude, are a genius

[@junotwithat3118]

Abelhawk:What I wouldn't give to have all the original sound files. Me:What I wouldn't give to have all the respective creep lords to possess.

[@miguelyanez2285]

A Symphony of Frost and Flame? A Song of Fire and Ice?

[@Gew219]

Miguel Yanez *Ice and Fire

[@Mikebrowski]

Maybe some employe read the book in the past, really long time ago before it was HIP

[@junotwithat3118]

A game of Frozen Thrones? A Hectic Reign of Chaos?

[@luckyowl10]

I finished the final level of W3 a few times, but yeah those cheetah-like enemies are frustrating, but it's a really good idea to make a camp near the obelisks , because you can make fresh troupes there if they are killed in the "waves" of naga or blood elves. If the earthquakes destroyed the base it would have been more challenging and longer in turn. It's one of my favorite levels with the final one from Reign of Chaos, I like the fact that all in all Warcraft 3 (Reign+Frozen) has a lot of different types of game in it, not just the simple build your town , raise an army and kill the enemy.

[@robmitch4085]

I think at least with Warcraft the idea of possession is more the idea of puppetry. They still have their mind their memories their actions their thoughts and how they act and respond but there's a secondary controlling Force pushing them to your will. The unit is like a living puppet the banshee is the strings and you are the puppet Master.

[@MrBrightside11]

There are 5 Timmy in Warcraft, Timmy has 5 letter, Well, I failed making some conspiracy theory. That's all I have. 😢

[@Soli167]

Continuation: Timmy has 2 m’s in his name. 5 - 2 = 3 and Illuminati triangle has 3 sides so Timmy = Illuminati.

[@chimaeraarts]

@@Soli167 also there are only 3 Warcraft RTS games yet 3 only got a Reforged.

[@owoberon4947]

@@Soli167 half life 3 confirmed

[@gladlee7520]

4:27 Possession Possession everywhere

[@victorsotomayor7488]

I also have a trick that might be useful to you. Take out the alters at Karl's and Vaies's bases to eliminate their hero use as flame strike and tornado can be damaging to your base. That way you can focus on the obelisks and Illidan. Also, set up sacrificial skull at the obelisks closest to your base so your units can heal faster.

[@JanJansen985]

I remember the first time i got to the end of this campaign I was so mad that there was this long timed mission i just went back and played the other campaigns again

[@dragosudrea6533]

10.000 years have I waited for this ...

[@janfifian4701]

In the area you mentioned in 12:56 there is another secret. When you walk through it and join with Anub'Arak there is a stone pile to the right, which contains a hidden lever. Pulling it creates a path to secret item, this path is made of these square thingies in 12:56 - it looks quite like the bridge.

[@Abelhawk]

Thanks a lot! I completely missed this... I thought that you could just get the ring when the elevator in front of it randomly went up like the others. Great secret.

[@rikosakurauchi7161]

Banshee use wololo

[@eZU4nQsWN9pAGsU38aHj]

found your series on the hive workshop and am marathon'ing through it now. it's awesome!

[@Abelhawk]

Thanks a lot for the support! Spread the word so everyone can appreciate Blizzard a bit more :D

[@robincools5194]

There is a scroll of the beast in the first Azjol'Nerub mission south of the part where dwarves and nerubians fight eachother.

[@djcezcez8120]

Man i remember watching this series at school all the time, you are a legend in my book Abelhawk!

[@Kacpa2]

I just love how you make stuff goin on in campaign or missing or secrets so funny xD

[@vichardt8288]

This whole time... i thought the ghoul timmy was the first timmy but killed

[@SEGAClownboss]

14:28 - 13 years later and I'm STILL BITTER that Arthas won.

[@connormac4401]

Why, Arthas is the good guy here, Illidan is working for Kil'jaden. I knew this as a little kid 13 years ago. Arthas took the frozen throne and appeased the scourge for a long period of time. If the burning legion gets the hold of the Scourge again it would be another invasion.

[@ximbabwe0228]

Arthas won because he had one sword and illidan had two

[@ffarkasm]

@@ximbabwe0228 Arthas won because he had a proper functional sword, while Illidan had two post modern artistic, but totally useless weapon looking items.

[@Semidemon666]

High quality videos. You really deserve more subscribers!

[@yurionedge2199]

It sucks that there's no special cutscene for losing in the final mission like there is in the first mission of the TFT Undead campaign. How awesome would it have been to see Illidan destroy The Frozen Throne?

[@thecolorneil]

Since you mentioned it... I just beat TFT for the first time on hard. Lots of static D on the last map, and I had to kill the Naga and BE bases with almost 100 supply of crypt fiend, burrow micro

[@Randomguybreathing]

The forgotten big thing looks like the StarCraft overmind

[@rosh98]

THE SYLVANAS EDIT SKKSKSKSKSK I'M LAUGHING SO HARD RN

[@MrGeneralissimus]

Great, now I want to play W3 campagin all over again...

[@deathya1]

You say that like it's a bad thing. I replay both Reign and Frozen Throne at least once a year or so.

[@streetguru9350]

That last level isn't that bad, you just need necromancers for an endless army, then you always want to build like 2 necropoli for defense near the spots, and surround them with as many spirit towers as you can afford.

[@paulchapman8023]

I don't think Balnazzar's death was retconned; I think he just came back, like the rest of the Dreadlords.

[@carrier2456]

Substitles on 10:24 Sylvanas: I require one more test of your loyalty Trade Lord, do it.

[@flibbernodgets7018]

I played through this recently, and found the last level really easy due to a trick I learned from playing Heroes of the Storm. I just let Illidan wear himself down on the revenants and just as he started channeling, I swoop in and jack the obelisk. Just like stealing the boss/other mercs in HotS. Use shades to find out when Illidan is attacking and reinforce with towers after. Granted, I only did this on normal, but I beat it in under 20 mins with this trick

[@DocsDota]

Arthas is a good guy, he's serving a master that is rebelling against the bad guys (aka the burning legion).

[@medwyn60]

Does little timmy secret even work?

[@shelldie8523]

Read silvanas fourth skill name for reference it's mind control but the skill is CHARMED

[@cessinehanna1012]

In chapter 2: The flight from Lordaeron, i found a hidden periapt of vitality behind the trees

[@MGstaR17]

Excellent video!! the earthquake triggers look funny, I might turn them on once. Also, there is another trick to beat the last level easily. Make lots of Destroyers, and when you see the nagas with from armor on them, cast Devour magic. this will not only disables the armor but also gives extra mana for the Destroyer and it damages sea elementals.

[@bernhartschmieder1632]

The dreadlords thing was no retcon man, they reincarnate unless killed in the void- happens to all demons

[@chimaeraarts]

So Archimonde is a OK?

[@pizzaman7298]

Archimonde did eventually come back, the sacrifice of the world tree merely delayed the burning legion

[@chimaeraarts]

@@pizzaman7298 Night Elves after hearing this: Well, sh*t.

[@Vorteksio3]

@@pizzaman7298 No, he did not. You are full of shit.

[@justOneOllie]

Sylvanas was my favourite character in TFT campaign (Grom and Thrall from RoC)

[@badrinath5306]

Eh...that rod of necromancy is permanant

[@badrinath5306]

OK it's not.I was thinking about something else that has the same icon.it basically.makes a corpse into what arthas's ultimate would

[@skywillfindyou]

Well, I surely did remember the forgotten one well.

[@MGstaR17]

Little Timmy and his Ice Shards are cool! :D I ever knew that before. Thanks. :D

[@-WarCriminal-22]

My name's Timmy (one of variations tbh, but no-one used this exact one), damn it's a good coincidence to have same name as main easter egg character in my favourite game. I don't remember exactly, but release date of this game was quite close to my birthday, but dunno

[@-WarCriminal-22]

Same shit with last undead map, I feel like difficulty jumps suddenly. Also why guards are hostile, they're undead too, wtf.

[@eidany0son]

Hey Abelhawk, I read this comment for another video of secrets on Warcraft III, im not sure if its true but I think it would worth the shot to try it in case you are interested. Adriano CHace 4 months In the map of the Penguin King, in the upside of the map there is a tuskgar town, with little penguins. You can take possession of all the penguins with your banshees (one of them is called "Little Timmy"). And with another unit (that penguins can not attack) you can break the ice pillar in the right side of the fences, then you will can take out the penguins. Then, if you go with all that penguins to the Penguin King, he and the little penguins explodes, and the king leaves you an item. It is like the penguin toy, but this doesn't invoke an useless penguin creep, this invoke a Penguin King for a shor time. He has frozen breath (really is similar a Ice Wyrm, but if I remember well his resistance is like an Abomination). The best part is that you can invoke it always with the item, and it is really a nice help in the next map inside Azjol Nerub ruins. This is the original video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWezo3uLl7OigJY It would be interesting if you try it and see if its true (and of course make a video about it hehe)

[@Abelhawk]

No... unfortunately that can't be true. I would've seen the triggers that cause the penguins to explode and stuff, not to mention the penguin king-summoning item in the game's files. I wish the game had more elaborate Easter eggs like that that were really hard to figure out, but as you can see throughout this series, most secrets are fairly simple to find. That commenter is a talented storyteller, though. :) Thanks for telling me about this! I'm always on the lookout for ones I missed.

[@eidany0son]

Oh I see, its a shame tho, it sounded like a very cool secret haha

[@Abelhawk]

I know! I was hoping I would find a secret where you have to keep an item from the very first level and take it all the way to the last level to make something happen or something. I love crazy secrets like that. Oh well.

[@eddyleaf6346]

Full disclosure, i never finished the arthas vs illidan level without cheats either. Its actually the level i FOUMDND OUT about cheats in WC3 because i was so pissed i kept losing i looked it up lol

[@NiCoNiCoNiCola]

Well, actually destroying Lich King is a worst ending. Because scourge will go nuts and destroy everything without proper control. And Burning Legion will come back to destroy the world

[@immortalgamer3960]

You missed the Timmy ghoul in Blackrock and Roll 2 that you find in the cage as well.

[@qaafadgahg788]

What? i tried and there only one cage on the map and it just drops some consumable item when destroyed, no ghouls at all.

[@killertrip10]

I dunno if it's been said before but there was a human boy named timmy that sold cats in stormwind as well, besides the one in stratholme.

[@alisonpurgatory85]

I too wish the lost Timmy mini quest would’ve been kept in- for character reasons. However the player interprets it, it’s a strong moment, Arthas getting a circlet of nobility for returning a lost child. I think it’s a reminder of the noble character he used to be- and maybe a sign that he’s recovering some of that lost kindness. The beginning of his campaign does feature him wanting to be a good ruler to his kingdom, in a very twisted way. Whatever he felt, if anything, he did still save someone, without being promised anything in return.

[@CIAinTaiwanAndUkraine]

The Mercenary camps' color are orange in The Dark Lady, which implies that Blackthorne and his bandits were formerly soldiers and nobles from Alterac

[@kedarunzi9139]

Makes sense

[@silviumatei7403]

Hei Abelhawk you can still have the 5 armies . But for the gnolls murloks and forest trolls you must poses all of them but good thing is it does not cost any food if you poses them

[@ashenone3095]

I haven't been able to beat Sympathy of frost and flame for years too...Only when I did a playthrough when i started college have I managed to cheese out a win with having Arthas complete the final obelisk while being completely deprived of resources, army and remaining on 20% on just the hero... somehow....

[@felmargego2534]

So agree with you on the Garithos one. He really, really pissed me off.

[@krisztiankovacs1014]

I had a hard time beating this level, but I used 6 meat wagon 12 necro combo to basically attack-move the naga and human bases. I didn't destroy the main enemy base, didn't have to.

[@seanmoore8336]

I just want you to know you're objectively wrong on your opinion about Illidan winning. #OneTrueKing These videos are so awesome! I looked forward to all of them and can't wait for your next one.

[@guysplace5385]

13:10 WHAT??????? I feel like a L337 (on easy though haha)

[@mahdihesari410]

my 9 years old brother did manage to finish the last chapter without cheats! more than once!! you have to do it man.

[@00Eregos00]

Last Undead mission on hard isn't bad at all if you take a systematic approach. Take 4 gold mines, just defend till 10k gold on no/low upkeep, always have 2 destroyers in your army to devour magic the Naga frost armor. Then have a 100 food army ready, wait till just after Illidan attacks, go destroy an allied base, rinse and repeat until only illidan's northeast base is left. Only take 2 obelisks at most until you're actually ready to win, anything more than that is a waste of resources. There's so much gold it should never even be necessary to stop harvesting even in high upkeep.

[@00Eregos00]

Oh yeah, you need at least like 9 towers at every expansion so you can hold the line with just heroes and a couple units.

[@Ardunafeth]

I believe you missed a few in chapter 2 FLight from Lordaeron. You need to cut some more trees with those meat wagons. I thought there was a circlet of nobility somewhere...

[@Zero60133]

I remember when i played an older version of Frozen Throne, once i somehow managed to get Anub'barak armor to 46. He barely took any damage. Also the Ascent to the Upper Kingdom, after Arthas is reunited with Anub'arak, there is one of rocks that can be destroyed, it makes the platform puzzle 'freeze', so you can go back and kill few things for Ring + 5 armour. Plus last mission got bunch of stuff, not considering things you get from destroying Kael'Thas and Vashj base, near Naga base to the left, there is bunch of polar bears, and upon killing them there is Khadar's gem of health +300.

[@xConsti73x]

my anub´barak got 26 armor XD

[@Zero60133]

Apparently each time Anub'arak would level up, his base armor stat would increase by the amount of his bonus armor. This was patched eventually.

[@laurenkirby97]

Those elevator things look like they can be used to replicate some doom levels

[@filipdvorak6372]

I vaguely remember that I could take control of murlocs and gnolls in the dark lady, might be a thing in some old patch

[@alltheworldswonders4926]

I love all these Easter Egg videos man they're funny and useful good job

[@playstation645angie]

I understand you man, I just recently managed to beat the last level without any cheats. I think it was last year when I replayed all Warcraft 3. Also both original Starcrafts and their expansions.

[@Balnazzardi]

Balnazzar lives forever! My favorite dreadlord! (obviously ;D)

[@sapprine4534]

timmy is also present in multiple locations in WoW, for example: in new stormwind, selling cats for 50 silver. timmy is also present in many of the triggers in RoC, usually just well hidden empty maps named 'Timmy'. timmy is also present in the custom game map 'Skibi's Castle TD' if you pick the demon race, and this map is made by Blizzard. Wich made me believe he is in fact a demonic child. Timmy is also supposably present as an easter egg in the background of the WoW movie being locked in one of the cages just when the orcs invade azeroth. He's shown as a little blonde boy wearing a blue shirt, trousers, and looking right into the camera. While the rest of the prisoned people are being stressed out, he stays still and looking into the camera, even when the cage starts moving

[@Abelhawk]

I'll have to look at that last one! I wouldn't be surprised if they put one into the movie.

[@sapprine4534]

So I have to add things to the comment which i have written over a year ago... Timmy in WoW is'nt in fact named 'little timmy', but is a child in new stormwind. Assumingly homeless and selling pet cats for unusualy low prices. Timmy is also hidden in almost EVERY chapter of The Scourge of Lordaeron in the form of an empthy trigger map. Oh, and also, i wanted to ask how to open the standart campaigns from the editor.

[@krunokovacek7182]

Hi guys, I read some comments and I see that some still have difficulties in last mission of undead campaign. It is actually real easy if you know how to trick the system ; 1.In last mission the less troops you have, Illidan will march with less troops. Just use heroes, and then Illidan will go for the obelisk alone. 2.Arthas can become mightiest hero in the game using a great trick - whenever Arthas is activating obelisk, kill him- after reviving on the altar he will have more agility points - he will have faster attack rate and more armor. I got him to the point, where arthas had about 800 armor ;) ;) ;) It is more difficult to destroy naga and blood elves base using just 2 heroes, but it is possible if you are creative. Arthas can heal and also consume burrowed Anub'arak's beatles ;)

[@Abelhawk]

That seems like an ignominious way to win. :/ Where's the honor in winning on technicalities? Those seem like weird bugs too. I'll have to look into them.

[@krunokovacek7182]

yes 2nd thing I wrote is cheating without cheat codes. every time you kill Arthas while he is activating the obelisk, he will gain +15 agility points ;) it is fun to try out and even more fun when you discover yourself :) it was still working on 1.27 patch 1st thing is important to notice and play the mission that way. if you have big army all the time you just complicate things. heroes alone with good items will do even on hard mode without cheating.

[@alicerobinson1935]

Really enjoying these, looking forward to the Rexxar video.

[@محسنمالکی-ي2ك]

guys last mission just kill arthas in oblesik with your units only and when you do that each time arthas will ger more armor xdddddddddddddddddddd this is easy if you khow this

[@محسنمالکی-ي2ك]

pls answer to my question

[@luanly3041]

I know how you feel bro, i cant beat the last mission (both RoC and FT) without cheat too :(((( man im so noob

[@WiiTara]

Hey Abelhawk: Its not that they redconned Balnazar back to life if im not mistaken. Its just that demons only die when killed in the twisting nether (? or their homeworld or so). So Balnazar was killed there but his soul remained and he was reborn.

[@Abelhawk]

Yeah, I was mainly talking about how they retconned Varimathras's intentions. In the campaign, it's clear that he reluctantly does it to appease Sylvanas, but in WoW they made it so he secretly kept him alive or something. I dunno, I may be overthinking it.

[@cr128]

That lore about demons wasn’t established in WC3, so in WC3 it is implied that whenever a demon is killed, they are actually permanently dead (usually killed by powerful magic, such as another demon or Frostmourne, but not always). That stuff was retconned in later so that they could bring back demonic characters that had already been killed.

[@Abelhawk]

^

[@onatyungul872]

No actually if a demon gets killed by another demon he stays dead forever. This is why there is demonic demon hunters are in games lore. Even Archimonde was perma-dead by wisps till Garrosh messes up the time so many previously permadead (like Malganis) returns in Legion and/or WoD expos.

[@ToiletPlugger]

We're gonna need another Timmy!

[@lucdaniel1020]

I beat the last map after a lot of tries and basically what i did was take 1 obelisk and defend for a long time build up an air army( naga have weak anti air) and when my army was ready I Attacked in one Go and won.

[@RainRaiderX]

That Little Timmy quest to bring it back to the King Penguin reminds me of that mission for Mario 64 on that snow place

[@Adriane_Deathscythe]

Your Easter hunting was great.. I see lot of your videos about Easter eggs and unused things it's cool

[@Nelfel]

if you open chapter 6 you will find a dwarf named Kargin Ironknee

[@crackersgaming.5653]

I have loved these videos, please do a starcraft 1 and brood war one !

[@OWG213]

I beat the last level on hard difficulty but I was saving and loading alot also I couldn't destroy the blood elves so I would let an acolyte haunt the closest gold mine to thier base and collect gold from it The blood elves always attacked it then went back to thier base and I kept doing it till the end of the mission For the fights with illidan and his army I used mainly crypt fiends, 2 frost wyrm 2 banshees and 1 necromancer Necromancer is so helpful in killing neutralizing illidan with cripple Still it was very hard and it took me about 4 or 5 hours Just always be on the lookout for illidan's arrival with shades

[@MGstaR17]

11:42 In the Reforged version, they took out that trigger. In the classic map it is still there. XD

[@kuragari9846]

the only time i couldnt beat the last mission was when i was very young, i couldn't even play it because didn't even get past the sentinels 7th mission, but after playing countless custom and melee games, i finally did it all on hard diffucility very easily for some reason

[@dimashulga215]

Timmy is part of the infinite dragonflight traveling time

[@williambatman4522]

I was just going through the game files and saw a mountain king called Kargin Ironee who isn't used in any of the maps. I rewatched your videos but i realized you havent mentioned him yet. I'm pretty sure you're aware of this since i saw your comment in the scrolls of lore forum back in 2016. You should talk about it in your future videos

[@Abelhawk]

I did! kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5TUhoeanNt6p6M&t=207

[@rubbishopinions6468]

Probably redundant comment since this is a 2 year old video about a 16 year old game but... Best way to beat "Symphony of Frost and Flames" is to take the Western obelisk first rather than the southern one. Its an interesting bit of psychology i think that the majority of players go for the southern obelisk first probably because Illidan starts with the North, you automatically want to mirror him. But the Western one is more logical to take as there is an extra gold mine in that area and its pretty close to the gold mine next to the obelisk so you can secure 2 gold mines a lot more easily. Also the elves are far less of a threat than the Naga (better units plus Varshs ult is the biggest threat in the game for this strategy as it rips through your ziggurats) so its easier to secure your base being closer to them rather than being closer to the Naga as you would in be approaching from the south. After that, you basically cheese it by playing tower defense and spamming zigs around your obelisk and just building enough army to defend your main bases against elven and naga attacks until your zigs are finished. I don't remember how many you need before its overkill but i think maybe 10 would be enough as Illidan will never to punch through (unless you don't repair he will eventually obviously). Then you destroy the Naga and elven bases which i recommend starting with the naga as they are more threatening plus the elven base seemed more secure and took longer to conquer for me than the Nagas rather flimsy base position. A good way of dealing with these enemies is meatwagon/necromancer strategy to create mass skeletons, this is particularly good against naga as i don't remember them having a counter to this whereas the priests on the elven side can reduce the effectiveness of this. After this, you just slowly run through illidan, though even after this taking his 3 obelisks takes some time. But with this strat i was able to beat the mission on its hardest difficulty. There is only one mission i could not beat throughout the entire wc3 campaigns on its hardest difficulty and thats the "King Arthas" mission. So for me the hardest mission in the game is a chapter one mission lol... I just don't know how you beat that mission with a 30 pop cap and with refugee waves spawning basically every minute on each side... Maybe if i grind it for 3 hours i can slowly do it but if anyone can help me out with a good strat im all ears.

[@catxborsuq1]

I actually managed to win the last mission, without cheat codes, on heroi- I mean, hard difficulty... once. Only once. Never managed to repeat that feat. Heck, even winning on normal without cheat codes is still difficult.

[@SousukeAizen421]

just spam frost wyrm and spirit tower, dont get to high upkeep until you have all the upgrade and tower installed, once arthes is level 10, even in hard, this mission looks like a match against easy computer

[@turboking-hdm]

I explored Warcraft 3 has cheats on the day I completed the last mission on my own.

[@G4bbo94]

amazing videos!!!!!!! I've missed a lot of these easter eggs thank you!!!!!!!

[@delta5297]

Dunno if this counts as an easter egg, but if you let too many villagers get away in King Arthas there's actually a cutscene that plays. I tried going back to a bunch of other levels and purposely failing them to see if there were any other mission failed cutscenes that I might've missed, and also looked on KZbin to see if anyone else had them uploaded...but it seems like this is the only one.

[@Abelhawk]

That is unique, isn't it? Most other scenarios just come up with the "Defeat" notification. I wonder if on this one there was a different map that you played if you lost vs. if you won, or if the next level was just harder if you let too many people escape.

[@Homerrigsbee1]

I understand you not being able to beat the last level of Frozen Throne. It wasn't until 8 or 9 years after I started the game that I finally beat it, and even then it was still ridiculously hard. The key for me, as other people have said, was to take out Kael and Vashj's bases. I wanted to try taking on Illidan's base, but you can't reach it with ground units and it is absurdly well defended...

[@mastergx1]

Honestly, I didnt find this level too hard. Just a bit long. The one I really found to be a challenge was the final level of reign of chaos. That was difficult

[@dimitriwarchief301]

I think you possess only 4. Origanally it was gonna be a sodequesg to kill the forest troll guy Or maybe he too was to be possessed

[@jjcaralegal]

Well, in World of Warcraft it does have a book of beards too, i have the item!

[@Zorak9595]

I feel like The Forgotten One 12:01 could easily be a reference to Mantorok from Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. It looks exactly like him and the room is very similar as well. Combine that with the overabundance of runes which is basically the central mechanic in that game and it really feels like that's what they were going for.

[@ahmedsameh764]

maybe what I am saying to you is not a secret because it's known to me and the people who won the final level over 3 times, the thing is when you destroy the building which the blood elves and the naga revive there hero's is destroyed it drops a legendary items

[@Abelhawk]

Yes, I noticed that a Helm of Valor drops from Kael's Altar of Kings. By that point, the video was already done and was 15 minutes anyway, so I set it aside for the addendum video. Thanks for reminding me!

[@ordelian7795]

Will the next video also include the secrets you missed and didn't show in the previous videos or will that be its very own video?

[@Abelhawk]

That'll be its own feature-length video. I missed a lot.