17 MORE Minutes Of USELESS Vanilla WoW Information | Classic WoW

[@WillEmmo]

Click this link sponsr.is/WillE and use my code WILLE to get 25% off your first payment for boot.dev. That’s 25% your first month or your first year, depending on the subscription you choose.

[@JV-ux1rq]

Shout out to Crendor the OG USELESS King

[@bstring7773]

*Pointless, quite different lol 😅

[@el.chill.4]

You mean pointless? Don't call my boy useless

[@eydis9554]

For me the most surprising information is the quest Compendium of the Fallen. It's a lvl 30-ish horde only quest in Thunder Bluff that ask you to steal a book from Scarlet Monastery. Sounds harmless enough. Well the fun part is that it's not exactly horde-only. You see, you can't pick this quest as an undead. The tauren simply say that he doesn't like the Forsaken and them joining the horde was hasty bargain. After that he straight up refuse to give you the quest. Three guesses how I learned about this one.

[@lychenthrope]

Is it possible to have the quest shared to an undead?

[@Stephan4Ubers]

@@lychenthropewhen you try and share it tells you that the undead player is not eligible.

[@FortuitusVideo]

Annoying. But honestly, that kind of thing made Classic so great. It really was a world you lived in.

[@jamesrobertson6205]

I wonder if you can get higher reputation with thunderbluff to get the quest

[@eydis9554]

@@jamesrobertson6205 Nope, undead are specifically excluded from the quest.

[@General12th]

Hi Will! The Black Stallion was my first mount ever. I remember seeing it at the vendor in my 20s and resolving to buy it when I hit 40.

[@selalewow]

I grinded my human rep as my night elf druid just to get this mount :)

[@dfuher968]

@@selalewow I got the black stallion on my human priest (bought at lvl 39 to be ready!). And then I grinded Darnassus rep to get a Frostsaber epic mount! Ah, those were the times!

[@BackstabAna]

Omg I wanted the black stallion as my first mount i just didn’t know where to get it!!! Definitely getting it for another character soon!!

[@Eyevou]

10:13 Back in WoW Alpha (0.5.5 and below) That set piece under the water was actually on its own island, above sea level.

[@hookandjet]

How very interesting! Did every thing shift downwards, or was it in all directions? Because I assume they simply HAD to fix somethings that were moved...

[@Zack_Wester]

@@hookandjet wild guess there was a island there there was stuff planed a dev, programmer, designer said nope drop that (one reason or another). they pushed the ground to the ocean floor but forgot to remove all the item placed on it.

[@maxw27]

The black stallion was my very first mount back in vanilla at level 40. I named him Clip Clop and even made a short video of him back in the day uploaded to a video sharing website called PutFile. That was my land mount all the way until the TBC where I could finally get the black PvP mount through points. I'm surprised more people don't have it, thank you for letting me know Clip Clop was all the more special. Edit: I knew to go to the Wetlands for a black horse because of Thotbot :P

[@mcfarvo]

Vanilla is a treasure trove

[@persperspersp2866]

yeah an actual rpg with proper depth. Nothing past frozen throne had this kind of care and love

[@wolololer]

@@persperspersp2866 If only leveling was faster i would play it alot more, i just think the leveling is way too slow and the mounts taking so much time to unlock the game is rly slow, i dont have time to grind for so long nowadays . But damn looking at other expansions and looking at vanilla wow i rly apreciate what vanilla did.

[@Lethe626]

Brewfest surprised me one year. During I think Cata or Pandaria, I decided to talk to all the npc's at brewfest...one said he had something I never claimed. He gave me the OG ram mount from vanilla. Fucking dropped my jaw

[@lychenthrope]

That was a holdover from when I believe Wrath changed the mounts. If you still had the tickets, there was an NPC that would trade you the defunct tickets for the original mount.

[@YourD83]

The Lost Vikings reference foes a step deeper even - each of these has a chance to drop an item that refers to their Viking counterpart. Erik had some boots that allow for better jumping I believe (Erik was the only one who could jump). Baelog drops a bow (he was the viking with access to weapons) and Olaf drops a shield (as he had a shield that he could use to glide)

[@brettpach]

Funny story when wow classic dropped a friend and I duo leveled as warriors and prepurchased black stallions when we were in wetlands then trained riding at 40. We were 2 of the very fastest to 40 on grobulus and made a horrific reign of terror over the horde in thousand needles running people down like we were riders of the apocalypse. It's quite possibly my favorite memory from wow classic.

[@mariogallego5513]

Another quest giver that is easy to miss, is the drowned Dwarf that is underwater. Under the bridge that leads from Wetlands to Arathi HIghlands.

[@Fushikatz]

Especially since you have to click the letter next to him, which is hard to see in the mud.

[@Elbewrath]

About the ambience at 7:15 in UC it would be best to stop talking a bit there so people can actually hear it instead of talking all over it. Small pauses of talk won't hurt every now and then.

[@gwallace5403]

Was looking for this comment. Guy's got a real degree in yapanomics

[@oopomopoo]

Was there actually audio? I thought he was just narrating events

[@CathrineMacNiel]

@@oopomopoo yes there was.

[@salvatorestabile5547]

You could search for it yourself after the video is done.

[@Elbewrath]

@@salvatorestabile5547 No

[@dfuher968]

I made so much gold on that LW pattern for Herbalist's Gloves back in Vanilla. I was playing casually back then and explored every nook and cranny of every zone, I got to, so I found pretty much all the "hidden" quests, vendors etc. I quickly realised, that ppl were lazy, and I could make from 10s to 2g on most recipes/patterns, just picking them up as I went along, coz ppl didnt bother finding out, where the vendors were and getting them themselves. Apparently pretty much no1 found that guy in Ashenvale, plus the pattern was limited to 1 with a respawn timer. I earned enough for my riding skill and mount on that pattern alone! Which was huge for a casual player.

[@sethbordelon7751]

I'm pretty sure the random hunter trainers are leftovers from the early alpha/beta versions where hunters had to train different beast mastery types to tame different beasts, and when the idea got scrapped blizzard just turned them into regular hunter trainers

[@AccountInactive]

That key to Searing Gorge, to my knowledge I was the only Horde with it. I was on Arthas-pvp and it followed me when I did a faction change. It was fixed fairly quickly but my key remained. Very funny when allies thought they'd escaped me in that tunnel.

[@BasketChase98]

What's rarer than the flayed demon skin is the old, deprecated version that used to be able to drop for horde AND alliance players, that alliance players weren't able to turn in as the quest npc was hostile to them. It was later replaced with the current version that requires neutral with the horde.

[@auburnfire]

The Flayed Demon Skin isn't really all that rare. By the time you've done The Burning of Spirits, Sceptre of Light and Hand of Iruxos quests in Thunderaxe Fortress you're probably going to have killed 50+ Burning Blade dudes and it will almost always have dropped. (This assumes that you're soloing the quests, not being carried.)

[@VegetoStevieD]

On top of that, it's an excellent cloth farm location. I agree, it's really not that rare.

[@DaWombatGaming]

Yeah this thing drops like candy in my experience. All of my classic horde characters did it because I never skipped desolace. Took zero off-quest farming

[@Timosaurus48]

That was a weird segment, it's not rare at all and he even shows this with the drop rates.

[@Dukenukem]

You missed the frostsaber mount that is aliance exclusive and was even modified in TBC to be 100% speed but only basic riding (as it had no riding requirement to begin with in vanilla). I Always use the Black Stallion mount for my human girl characters, just to add some more RP into the game. Just buy it when you are in wetlands (100% chance on 30+ char to be there at some point) and ride from the logging camp on him right as you turn 40.

[@iamlegion3093]

I remember watching an older tv show that was on G4 (maybe?) that showed gaming secrets. Two hosts on it? They finally did a world of Warcraft episode, I was super hyped when it happened. They showed you the Kerrigan in the Shredder in addition the chicken feed and /dance to get the pet. I was blown away back then.

[@Ictar]

I always loved the audio for the entrance of the Undercity. That cinematic from Warcraft 3 gives me chills still! "What are you doing my son?!" "Succeeding you, father."

[@nim1043]

i used that black horse on my priest! i was sad that there wasnt a swift version of it haha.

[@LPcrazy_88]

AV was a quick rep grind compared to how ridiculously long AB and WSG took to get to exalted but it was definitely not just a weekend. I'd say more realistically 2 weeks even if you went hardcore. Absolutely love these trivia videos, can't get enough!

[@JasonQuests]

I was one of those crazy guys who ground out another faction to exalted so you could ride their mounts. I think normally if you did all of the available quests you typically ended up somewhere in honored. Every faction has someone you can repeatedly donate cloth to gain a very small amount of reputation. To get from revered to exalted you had to donate stacks of runecloth. So as an forsaken shadow priest I farmed Inner Mauradon’s princess and goblin. Got the staff so I could get in by myself. Set my hearthstone to the nearby town so I could make a friend party leader, dump the instance ID on them, and leave group so I would get ported out, or I would take off my gear and kill myself and reset while running back. Got it down to being able to do five or six loops an hour, which was the instance cap at the time anyway. Sold everything and then would buyout every stack of runecloth on the auction house. It took forever, but I was the only forsaken on the server who could ride a kodo. Ironically, they eventually made it very easy to get reputation with another factions. I think it was the argent tournament dailies in wrath?

[@candlestyx8517]

Battlegrounds were a fun way to grind out main faction rep to

[@wychwethyl42069]

That first one with the kids I literally accidentally went there at that time yesterday and saw them standing there facing the wall. Terrifying mate.

[@tyriana..340]

Stay in the room for a while, it gets worse! 😁

[@IvyTinwe]

Wait, the Black Stallion is unknown? I remember wanting a black mount with my very first level 60 char (in 2005) and searching for it online, and I always bought the black horse for my human characters..

[@huntz3215]

Winterspring rep grind for Cat mount was a chore.

[@booradley6832]

WillE, about the gloves. Cloth gloves are far more common than leather ones irl for work. There are brown jersey gloves and studded or "Dot" gloves with plastic dots for grips as well as thicker felt gloves and wool ones, as well as your synthetic fabrics, rubber dipped fingers and other kinds.. They're cheaper, and more flexible than leather and more universal because the sizing doesnt have to be as exact, they wont get in the way like leather does.

[@darylcheshire1618]

The Key to Searing Gorge was important in it’s day because there was no FP at Thorium Point and you needed the key to get to MC.

[@tytygreenrich9407]

Wow still learning things about the game that I had no idea existed

[@onslaughtmp]

Black stallion was my first mount... I had to show people where it was... So cool to see this

[@MegaChickenfish]

I remember going through that arduous attunement but the extra /rude dialogue is peak. Also had no idea the Lordaeron stuff extended to the hallway. It was cool how they tied together those callbacks into the alliance cutscene there in BFA.

[@dylanfalk3243]

you using an SC2 image instead of the iconic broodwar kerrigan art is a crime lol

[@taarruz89]

We love vanilla and waiting the great reset!

[@jimmyodinson9841]

The black stallion was my first horse mount. I stumbled across it while questing there and purposely came back to get it when I had riding.

[@kriddius]

I had no idea so few people got the black stallion! It's always been my go-to first human mount

[@goofy-OD]

the black stallion is what your girl calls me

[@Corndog1340]

Love you Willie! Thanks for all the content, you're a gem!

[@alexistaylor969]

Fun fact, true herbalist gloves were traditionally cloth because very rarely were you after the roots or messing with thorned plants and leather is too think for berries and flowers.

[@SRWill64]

I've had the Black Stallion mount for forever now...at least 10 years. I made it a point to get it once I seen it in Menethil Harbor. I found it before I could even buy it and I needed to do the rep grind on my Draenei, then go back down there to buy it.

[@skeezixcodejedi]

AV Exalted was nowhere near 'a weekend' back in the day; in a lot of vanilla, AV 1 match woudl last days at a time going back and forth just fighting those NPCs :)

[@zZSleepytimeZz]

Even by todays classic standards when classic AV got released with a 50% win rate it would take you 30-40 hours, i wouldnt exactly call that a weekend unless you literally do nothing else and barely sleep. Gotta pump out that content though and just spew out random misinformation because a 2 minute google search is way too much effort.

[@LPcrazy_88]

@@zZSleepytimeZz Or more likely he just misremembered... AV was the only "quick" rep grind compared to the slogfests that were AB and WSG. If I'm retelling something that I think I'm sure of, I don't go googling it first to make sure.

[@zZSleepytimeZz]

@@LPcrazy_88 you are right, it is the fastest one and i usually dont google things i think im sure about. Then again we dont make content on youtube, especially things like guides and some such so we should be held to a much lower standard.

[@Faude18]

@@zZSleepytimeZz when i was younger and even now (when a game is really compelling and i prepared for it) 30-40h is pretty much what i can put in at a weekend. So i think it's fine.

[@zZSleepytimeZz]

@@Faude18 as i said, if you do pretty much nothing else you can do that in a weekend, i'm the same on that front. Most people however dont have that kind of luxury and just saying you could easily get it down in a weekend as a general statement is just plain wrong for most people. When i banged it out in modern clssic it took me about 8 days doing nothing but AV 10h a day on a week leave from work, alliance did not have a great win% so that is another major part of just how wrong the statement is.

[@jomiles3605]

I have gone for the black stallion so often, that now in SoD going for the more “common” ones in Elwynn is refreshing

[@DillonG1435]

The staff @6:30 is the model of the new Key to the city staff in SOD. Thats pretty cool

[@FelLotus33]

Been playing so long and had no idea about the black stallion. Thanks for the info!

[@iriswaldenburger2315]

11:19 hey I REMEMBER doing that quest during Legion!!!

[@JeyDB]

I’m guessing Winky is a reference to One Eyed Willie from Goonies, due to the whole eye patch

[@Dark_Jaguar]

Funny that dwarf is so serious about keeping that door locked under any circumstance... because I was a shaman back in the day and I just farsighted to the other side of the gate to click the level and open it with ghost powers. While I understand the leather category on those herb gloves from an RP perspective, what I don't get is why they'd be restricted based on class. What skill does it REALLY take to put on a pair of leather gloves at the end of the day?

[@S-AI6]

I love this! Keep up the great work!

[@danielbaker4457]

What about the metal hand in LBRS...it is supposed to be the Terminators hand has he died in the second film

[@Xfacta12482]

What about *literally 100 other things he could have included*

[@ErikLundström-m6g]

Can’t believe we’re soon in 2025 and the only game I play regularly is vanilla/tbc. Never gets old

[@Rigmorock]

Ah Raven Hill... I remember trolling several lowbies with that spot in Vanilla Classic. Partly because there was the limited stock alchemy recipe that you could convince the gullible that a quick AE cast will get it to respawn faster. >_>

[@weirdodude1173]

In retail, I took an Alliance toon to Menethil Harbor to check for that mount, I was able to buy 4 mounts (Alliance only) from that guy. That helps with my collection stuff, thanks!

[@FantasyYeet]

My favorite one is that if you go to Elywnn forest and head to Goldshire Inn, theres a bunch of low levels asking for Gold :p

[@sampel3660]

The UC issue is that everything looks so small and minimalistic. Maybe a 1.2x scale would have given the outdoor area a more immersive breath

[@HeatherSchrivener-el2mx]

The ruins of Lorderon are overall way too small. Would’ve been so cool and immersive to trek through empty and broken streets and buildings, maybe dodging the odd undead. Capital city was supposed to be the size of Stormwind, after all. Have it be a section of the undead starting zone.

[@mylesmarciniak1623]

The black stallion was my first mount in 2004, I still have the original one with no saddle.

[@dsfaswow]

I would love to see you review the unsolved mystery of Opus the parrot in Searing gorge. The reddit post is 4 years old and is called: "Got this while trying to solve the Cuergo's Gold with Worm mystery...more details in comments! Help Us Solve This!"

[@nuclease2739]

there is a warrior trainer in stonard, you can't respect there for some reason x)

[@FlushJay]

I always enjoy watching your videos. You can feel the work that was put in the script. Thanks!

[@Zonalar]

You featured the famous throne-room scenes, but you've missed yet one more detail... the blood splatter where the bloody crown rolls off is still in the stone floor for you to look at.

[@superbaas8822]

He actually did mention that.

[@BaseSRKI]

It was cool, more is welcomed. Thanks👍

[@Chris_Myth]

never knew about the horse trader in menithil after 18 years!! ty

[@miskee11]

Can't wait for fresh!

[@darylcheshire1618]

As a lowbie clothy, I got irritated by the amount of unweable plate, mail or leather gear that dropped and many quest rewards only gave you a choice of plate or mail.

[@benfillmore257]

My first ever mount was the Black Stallion. I was playing a shadow priest, so obviously I had to get the black one.

[@binbadende]

This was really interesting, I loved the Lost Vikings. Together with Lemmings it was a long time favorite of mine. But I never knew that the studio has become Blizzard. Until Hearthstone I became a long time fan of the Studio until some bigger fish fried them.

[@Porkchopulous]

Also in uldaman was the boss grimlock with the same name as the dinobot transformer. And says the same line as in the movie. " me grimlock.King!"

[@Svanemyr81]

"Useless" but amazing! Keep it up! :)

[@canbeast]

Warrior trainer in SoS has saved me trips to capital cities many times

[@canbeast]

you cant respec there however, but you can train new spells

[@1un4cy]

The 1% mount is the Black Stallion Bridle in menethil harbor, check if you have it.

[@Valvad0ss]

Nice; let’s get some tbc ones soon

[@cramit79]

I really wish someone would come up with history or a story about Newman landing. I parked my toon there before original cata. Of course I quit than came back. I found it because I was trying not to get get ganked and thought swimming might but be easier. Long trip but cool spot

[@cramit79]

I have only once seen a video about that place years ago

[@BlueEclipse2305]

I remember finding that black horse. I think i was leveling in wetlands and saw the vendor and was curious

[@TuskaWoW]

love these types of videos! vanilla best version of wow

[@asenkochanov1877]

AV reputation taking 'a weekend' and the 'mounts were cheap and riding was expensive' (they switched that around in vanilla) casts a shadow of doubt on everything else.

[@oopomopoo]

12:45 ish, he corrected it in post on the video. There's a reason it's a video and not a. Podcast fam

[@asenkochanov1877]

@oopomopoo uhh, wouldn't a video by definition be better polished and proofread than a podcast?

[@soezsoez]

lost vikings d0rfs was awesome to see after i played it alot on my SNES back in mid 90s

[@Pershath08]

So I logged on to get the horses, found I already had them. Apparently I DID know one of these at some point and just forgot 😂

[@Drjebus]

I never did try the /rude at Mountaineer Pebblebitty, but I always made time to do her stupid quest to get that stupid key back in Vanilla.

[@Raii_Chu]

liked, commented, subscribed!

[@Ferrior_]

My first ever mount was the black stallion way back in vanilla! I thought it was the best looking horse as a human, so I went and got that one instead of the other horses.

[@leshpar]

I thought Winky was used in the scepter of the shifting sands questline?

[@Ambreik]

I like those kind of videos ❤

[@percy031]

I like these types of videos. Especially a compilation that you can fall asleep to. You've got a good voice for it. I think you should start having less specific videos and talk wow subjects you like

[@SuperND87]

I remember the adventure my friends and I had to go get the black stallion. I miss the those old days. Glad I still have one of those friends at least. Wow makes life long friends.

[@AcidGubba]

This is no secret from Under City. Anyone who has played WC3 will notice it straight away.

[@ChuckHaney]

I was proud of my Searing Gorge key

[@Deamonlock]

More please, more! :)

[@MesmerBaas]

I like this content way more than the SOD whine videos, keep it up

[@DanielNYR]

Winky is awesome followup.

[@cirenotloh5662]

Yes please these videos are awesome

[@Rorschachqp]

I have both the black and white stallion with no armor from Vanilla WoW. Kind of sad since it's Alliance only and I only play Horde since first year of Vanilla.

[@georgeolid2646]

Why didn't you let us listen to the sounds in UC? It takes away from the Easter egg.

[@dennisd4452]

I have the black stallion! On my second toon, a human rogue. I read about it online. Most likely from that olde website thb or whatever it was called.

[@stagnacja1]

Great video .

[@ryand7575]

I had the key to the Searing Gorge because I was like wanting to be the person in my guild to have all the keys. And I was the only person in the guild to have that key so I felt special.

[@DominicanHater2375]

I had the black horse as my first mount in Classic.

[@ecalle8638]

I love these videos so much ty m8

[@salveteinfernum]

I like watching your videos between madseason uploading the same video every 2weeks 🎉

[@JoshHolden-Aka-evani]

literally leveling a human rogue that is 38 atm i am getting that horse

[@minnakangaspuoskari]

Well I've had black stallion since cata I think or something like that when I leveled up a bunch of characters.

[@matthewatkinson2651]

These videos are awesome

[@do0ranfrump260]

I tried to get the Headless Horseman mount for 10 years and then finally gave up

[@fandyllic1975]

The only lucky thing to ever happen to me in Vanilla was getting the Headless Horseman mount in like 5 tries. I gave up on many other mounts like the fiery phoenix one and of course, Invincible. I did manage to persevere and get the Unborn Val’kyr battle pet in Northrend.

[@sam-zn5io]

As causal and don’t have much time to play maybe two evenings a weeks a play retail, but dam classic is something special wish had more time for it 😅