World Of Warcraft: Hidden SECRETS In Vanilla Azshara in Retail WoW!

[@Utilitymonk]

Fun fact: Azshara in Classic was originally intended to be a battleground for the Horde and Alliance to PVP on, but it got scrapped, which is the reason why there are few quests in the zone that exist.

[@brandonkays3005]

that’s not exactly true; “the forlorn ridge” was to be used as an entrance to a battleground called “the azshara crater”, which was obviously never finished. it would have been more like how “alterac valley” takes place in alterac. azshara (the zone itself) wouldn’t have been the battleground. it didn’t have very many quests because they originally intended to add the emerald dream in a vanilla patch, and azshara was going to play a huge part of that so many quests would have been added later with that content update.

[@Utilitymonk]

@@brandonkays3005 That's really cool! I'll keep that in mind :)

[@JohnAlpha1]

Blizzard should add pre cata Azeroth if you select classic chromie time, the technology is there as evident by the NPCs in zones like silithius That can switch map states

[@AllThingsNerdChannel]

Agreed! That would be awesome :)

[@josejuanandrade4439]

I think others point this out already, but just in case: This NOT the vanilla Azshara, and is NOT the Cata version either.... This is a very weird IN-BETWEEN. You can clearly see the signs of the Cata version because places where there are fishes floating with no water, in vanilla those places were not under water. 12:37 Those ruins for example, were not sunken in vanilla. They some how removed all the cata structures: Gallywix mountain, the cannon, the weird road, etc... and partialy fixed the terrain, yet still is not the vanilla terrain.. is so damn weird... there are some key places from the vanilla zone missing: some ruins i used to farm satys at, a depression near the furbolg place, i think the whole furbolg entrance thing is missing, but they somehow fixed the parts were the goblins assets are...

[@Falcarious]

This isn't actually the vanilla Azshara... It's the Vanilla MAP, like when you press M, but its the Cata geography with all the structures removed. The Org "gate" is a dead giveaway, there was no road there in Vanilla. The wiki also confirms all this.

[@asdfqwerty-u9n]

the timbermaw models are not also vanilla - but if one gets hostile with them would they drop loot? and what kind of loot -cataloot ?

[@Falcarious]

@@asdfqwerty-u9n Those specific furbolgs are Friendly to both Horde and Alliance, but they exist outside the scenario in normal Azshara with Cata loot and default hostility. Wowhead seems to suggest its either totally impossible to kill the scenario ones, or they have no loot ever.

[@Boomken76]

theory is they wanted the fubogs in Ashara to have a tunnel connected to the furbogs in Felwood

[@Jediwarlock]

Absolutely incredible... shows that they had these old map files stored in Legion and they repurposed this chunk of Kalimdor as an instance map. :D

[@AllThingsNerdChannel]

It's pretty wild, right? They left a lot of stuff in the code! 🤗

[@VoidHybrid]

Get Dragonflight Engineering and learn the Element-Infused Rocket Helmet. It rockets you sky high (as long as you're outdoors). I accidentally used it to get over a wall in Argus and realized I could go out of bounds.

[@JamieStuff]

Azshara was originally intended to have end-game (level 60) content, There was supposed to be a battleground, Azshara Crater, believed to be a 40v40 like Alterac Valley. The BG map was in the Vanilla game files. I believe that the furbolg that you encountered were of the Timbermaw tribe. Back in Vanilla, there was a blocked cave nearby that was originally part of Timbermaw Hold. (The other end was also blocked in the Hold.) If you look at the Vanilla/Classic zone map, the cave entrance is marked. In-game, there really wasn't much going on in Azshara. It was a mid-40s to lower-50s zone, where the quests were to go kill a few dozen naga to collect some item, then go kill a few dozen more to collect something else. About the only reason to go there was for the quest chain to get the items needed to summon Majordomo Executus in Molten Core.

[@Falcarious]

No, those Furbolg were added in Cata, because this is actually the Cata/Modern map with buildings removed. They are also a part of the quest, which he would know if he ever finished it.

[@StrikerZero6]

Azshara was actually more of a questing zone for the horde rather than the alliance, but it was such an annoying zone that almost nobody did it, it was also planned to be a battleground at one point too

[@ceciliafuentes547]

I would like to know if the dancing troll village still there? back in the day you could only get there by wall jumping.

[@AllThingsNerdChannel]

O.o I'll have to check!

[@LightsJusticeZ]

Take a shot every time he says vanilla before the 6:00 minute mark.

[@twaggoner2008]

Did you find winterspring or was there nothing so we get left on a cliffhanger

[@AllThingsNerdChannel]

Cliffhanger ;)

[@Boomken76]

o hell I remember this, crazy busted in the day.

[@Maumau369]

in the true alpha version of azshara was a dark portal in the water, why didnt you looked for it?

[@AllThingsNerdChannel]

@@Maumau369 forgot! I’ll have to go back :)

[@Shadonicus0652]

but its not exactly vanilla azshara, but its not cata either

[@drowsyfantasy]

00:30 we aren't even one minute in and I'm already taken out by you rhyming his name with BALLOON HIGHMOUNTAIN

[@AllThingsNerdChannel]

lmao