WotLK's BEST Kept Secrets - I GUARANTEE You Won't Know Them All

[@WillEmmo]

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[@aidanwow1593]

Here's a grim part of the lore. Windle's daughter was apprenticed to Jaina and died when the Mana Bomb was dropped on Theramore.

[@rayn5554]

I'm fascinated about the fact that some weird human being actually give a fuck about that kind of things

[@guepardar]

@@rayn5554 let people enjoy things and mind your own business

[@shr1mpleTV]

@@rayn5554 have you ever read a book?

[@Purriah]

@@rayn5554 ok friendless permavirgin. You know normal people have interests, right?

[@antoniokontos5677]

Slowly walks away

[@SvendleBerries]

When you jump into the well portal for the Dalaran sewers, theres a sleeping "Washed Up Mage" behind a grating (you can see him briefly in the video behind WillE at 2:18) that gives a quest for the cooking recipe for "Kungaloosh". To unlock it you need do a few quests in Sholazar Basin: - Need an Engine, Take an Engine - Venture Co. Misadventure - Have a Part, Give a Part - Wipe That Grin Off His Face - Dreadsaber Mastery: Becoming a Predator - Rhino Mastery: The Test - Some Make Lemonade, Some Make Liquer - Still At It - The Taste Test Not sure how obscure this quest actually is, but its something I didnt learn about until I started playing Wrath private servers lol

[@Mavidyatunes]

Kungaloosh is a pretty common WoW original drink and dev inside joke I can't remember who said it was their idea but basically a dev would make a really strong liquor mixed with juices punch bowl type drink for parties named Kungaloosh. It was also a popular item because it gets you wasted fast. Kungen and other big time streamers at the time would usually raid with a bag full of Kungaloosh while tanking. Thanks for listening to my TEDTALK.

[@ECKtrain]

@@Mavidyatunes Really? Thanks for that interesting piece of trivia!

[@CustardCream33]

@@Mavidyatunes probably what they drank before behaving strangely with women

[@iriswaldenburger2315]

Ah I remember doing this … pita quest for a basically useless item … but it was fun

[@SvendleBerries]

@@iriswaldenburger2315 It wasnt completely useless. I liked to use it to level my cooking up to 400 (I think you can get it at 375 cooking, cant remember). Dont need to farm mats for it, can just buy the two ingredients you need from vendors in Dalaran.

[@Frostgnaw]

10:00 that's so cool that Blizz puts easter eggs like this in the game. Who would have thought they would put their employee handbooks in the game.

[@RB939393]

Really cool that they also made a reference to Jeffrey Epstein's black book

[@Mksui]

@@RB939393 daamn.....

[@Colty95]

The lore story behind what Windle Sparkshine does is kinda sad. "Windle and his wife, Jaxi, were the parents of Kinndy Sparkshine, the young apprentice to lady Jaina Proudmoore in Theramore Isle. Although they missed their daughter, Jaina often allowed Kinndy to visit Dalaran, as it was only a simple teleport spell away. When the Horde began threatening Theramore, Jaina stopped by the home of the Sparkshines and assured them she would do everything in her power to keep Kinndy safe. However, Kinndy was one of those who died in the Attack on Theramore Isle. Jaina, the sole survivor, met with the Sparkshines at A Hero's Welcome and spent the evening talking with them. When Windle left to put the lights on, Jaina accompanied him. The Kirin Tor had granted Windle special permission to have a glowing image of a laughing Kinndy show up above the lamp posts when he lit them." But i'm not sure if this backstory was added after Wrath or it was planned from the start.

[@vaels5682]

Deputy Pa'trolla Badge is good for that preraid gearscore set KEK

[@raulventura7295]

You keep pulling these out of the old hat and it's magic everytime! Keep up the wonderful job!

[@NomicFin]

I farmed for the Kirin Tor Familiar back in the day. It took a lot of effort but it was a cool pet. It's rather large and occasionally does the arcane explosion animation.

[@_Nye_]

before the video: well.. ive played wotlk on pservers for years. im pretty sure i know all of this. after the video: .. i did not know that.. GJ!

[@rayven203]

For what it’s worth, Brazie Getz is a reference to Joe Pesci’s character Leo Getz from the Lethal Weapon movie series. Whatever you want, Leo Getz.

[@BSwitchGTG]

"I GUARANTEE you won't know them all" is typically just asking for it, but I gotta admit as someone who's been in game forever, I didn't know about the last two. Well done WillE - as always, love your work!

[@FleskPaddaProd]

The real best kept secret is the damn release date

[@pontany2]

Watcha mean, wrath released 13 november 2008.

[@recreant359]

September 26th lol

[@Boosticuff]

A new WillE video on Friday is a great start to the weekend

[@Mr.H-YT42]

I seem to remember people making a /bookclub chat channel for players hunting the Dalaran books to share spawn points as once a spawned book was first "read" (used w/ gear icon) there was a time limit before the book faded out of existence.

[@narcoleptic8982]

same

[@xerokewl537]

We had that on dragonmaw. Helped a lot

[@Defanikus]

This was amazing, I didn't know quite a few and grinded hard in WOTLK!! Hats off to you good sir.

[@gscgold]

you're right, I played all of Wrath and never knew about the shoeshine..that's awesome..ah...good old days when the game was fun and we didn't absolutely hate the company or the dev's

[@probablyilliterate]

Or when everything new didn't get immediately datamined.

[@tillr858]

haha me neither. And I never saw the awesome batch ever on a player but I guess you complete the pa'troll only rarely if ever.

[@Krelian89]

We used to hate DK and that's it

[@Max-dv1kq]

most of those people that jump the hate train are mostly bad players with shitty keybinds, which got no clue about anything or are just casuals who want to be heard without even knowing why..

[@notsofiax]

@@Max-dv1kq Or maybe because they’re sick of paying $15 a month for no new content, just reusing human model 3 times because they lack the care to do something new and exciting (reg human, worgen human, new dragon race w human form, reusing nelf animations for nightborne, the other allied races are literally just retextures of classic races) no new content excluding different dungeons/raids per new zone but thats to be expected when a new expansion comes out.. cause yknow.. that’s the bare minimum of World of Warcraft and mmos in general.

[@darkcookiemaster48]

random lore fact: windle sparkshine is kindy sparkshine's father. kindy later becomes jaina's apprentice at theramore and is still residing there when garrosh attacks. watching kindy's body disintegrate before her eyes is the exact moment which made jaina snap and start hating the horde

[@LunaTulpa]

3:50 i'm sad you didnt include that if you had the lil KT pet if you wait around by the rat, KT will eventually kill it, something the pet does passively on its own

[@zeetejarachman9697]

No one cares about retail lore, bub.

[@LunaTulpa]

@@zeetejarachman9697 im confused on how me being amused 13 years ago is related to retail lore in any way

[@xerokewl537]

@@zeetejarachman9697 Do you feel better about yourself now? Don't answe. It is a rhetorical question and I don't want to know.

[@xerokewl537]

@@LunaTulpa Zeets apparently struggling with insecurity. Anyway, I love my KT pet!! Randomly freezes & kills critters and rhe crazy laugh!

[@janakipejov3667]

KT pet? What is that?

[@Myronis]

that was one of the best wow videos ive ever seen thanks :D

[@107thFruit]

Since they play a large role in this expansion, I'll also include the reference in the name of the Drakkari Empire (Kingdom) in Zul'Drak to the 1989 MUD Kingdoms of Drakkar which I'm sure some of the folks involved in conceptualizing WoW played while they were in school. Also, as a non-reference related secret. Unless Blizzard chooses to patch it, the Scarab Brooch that drops from Viscidus in AQ40 has the same effect as Val'anyr's passive Blessing of Ancient Kings, but in the form of an active. This lvl 60 trinket if used in concert with the mace can provide a 30% shield off of a heal crit. It's actually insane.

[@Mantriox]

I've been playing on Wrath servers and even maintain my own for ten years now, and I have never heard of the Wispcloak. It's just so particular lol

[@bowserplaylist899]

how could you not know of this cloak then?

[@Mantriox]

@@bowserplaylist899 tragically despite my advanced age i have yet to become all-knowing

[@xerokewl537]

@@Mantriox BiS answer! 😁

[@johnhosemann7103]

Insider joke. The NPC AJ Green in Dalaran was a GM manager who won an internal contest to be made a character. In game he was notorious back in the day for going missing because he was coded not to leash to a location, so could be lead and hidden. The real life AJ was known to never be at his desk and was always wandering around talking with other managers.

[@TheGermanXWig]

There's an achievement for fishing things up in the Dalaran fountain that rewards the Titanium Seal of Dalaran. I remember doing it back in Wrath originally and I leveled fishing on my main so I can do it immediately in Wrath Classic.

[@TuneRawkz]

Yeah and those random people on mammoth mounts and blocking the fountain lolol

[@kenitic7945]

Love your content as always. I do kinda miss looking for the little gnome at the start of your videos though 😟

[@whiskeytangotv1758]

The log flume in Grizzly Hills is something I thought was common knowledge, but having been talking about with friends in classic not many actually knew about it. You could get on in the pvp zone at the lumber mill and it is a nice quick fun ride down to Venture Point the other pvp dailies area

[@Tomp4ul]

The lamp-lighting in Dalaran, similar to the item in Harry Potter, but also similar to a real life job back in the days before electric street lamps. A Lamplighter was a professional which made sure candle or gas streetlights were lit in the evenings.

[@Murliss]

I love this video wille! There’s so many cool little things like these ones you showed I had no clue about. I’d love to see more things like this!

[@metasamsara]

You can make mount macros based on if you're allowed to fly or not, as well as keybind modifiers

[@nadavcohen8560]

Back in the days when blizzard still had a soul it was such a great game

[@cornflakeshumunculus8373]

There is also a secret vendor in Dalaren that requires engineering to get a random teleport into the obscure well with a blind gnome that sells some unique profession patterns but she doesn’t always sell them so you have to be lucky enough to get to it before someone else gets it. Edit 1- It was an undead merchant who was under the grate and you use a wormhole generator to get to her and this wasn’t added in until mist of pandaria my mistake.

[@firestorm1658]

Never heard of that. Do you have more information to share?

[@ECKtrain]

@@firestorm1658 I think it’s a rare option from wormhole generators.

[@Speedcoore]

Wasn't that the UD Female under a grate in front of the Horde Dalaran Inn that you can get to only with the Wormhole Generator?

[@cornflakeshumunculus8373]

@@Speedcoore it definitely was and just looked it up and it wasn’t added in until mist of pandaria

[@pamelahughes7891]

The vendor was added in wrath 3.2, well before Pandaria. Her name is Kaye Toogie and she sells 3 recipe scrolls Mithril dragonling, mechanical dragonling and arcanite dragonling. She is friendly to alliance and horde. She carries one copy of each scroll so another engineer could buy them out before you.

[@NachozMan]

I skipped The Boosting Crusade, but the apathy has taken over, WOTL was the first Xpac I was old enough to know what I was doing. I'm coming back to be a DK for sure

[@Terotis80]

In WotLK the Rep gains for the Wintersaber rep grind from vanilla are increased 5-fold (250, 250, 375 instead of 50, 50, 75) which makes getting that mount completed MUCH MUCH faster. :)

[@aznmonkeyfu22]

Over by the violet hood you can fish up a rusty prison key. And then go open a chest on the right side of violet hold. And inside the chest is some decent Blue BOE and potions.

[@pwl2992]

Nice vid, im waiting for more!

[@georgeferguson5691]

Always good content with you willi awsome job I didn't know almost all of them.

[@ChairmanMeow1]

the worlds in BC/Wrath had so much passion put into them

[@TastyScotch]

Great video! Looking forward to more in this series! 👍

[@Earpugs]

Great video!

[@abfutrell]

When I first went to Dalaran, I went in the toy shop and noticed the train on the shelf and was like that'd cool if you can buy that. I click on the vendor npc, low and behold I became the first nuisance on the server.

[@AnonAmbientLight]

I didn't know about the cloaks and the troll patrol badge.

[@SuperSumalu]

I would love to see more of these!

[@EQOAnostalgia]

EverQuest Devs did the pop culture thing. WoW continued the tradition which i think is amazing. WoW had A LOT in common with EverQuest. Which is why i was kinda surprised to see Asmon shitting on EQ, since the devs of WoW loved EQ, pulled from EQ, and knew the EQ devs lol. Oh and the entire first wave of WoW adopters were EQ fans. WoW CS reps even took from EQ's approach of being VERY hands on with the player, organizing in game events, actually showing up IN GAME to address concerns, there is a reason dear reader, why classic MMORPG's are still seen as the golden age. It was just a much more personable and family friendly atmosphere in terms of being able to connect with the devs, the fan faires, community etc. I'll never forget those days. ☺

[@williamhestilow4021]

No mention of the Night Elf Mohawk? Mr. T pities you.

[@kapone2k]

The night Lanterns in Dalaran are awesome at night for all night players (I played it until 4-5 am so being in a fully litt Dalaran was just coozy and many asked who turned on the lights since they also wanted to do it so it became a social thing =) )

[@SSecret_Hugz]

I'm old, played vanilla and "sewer shark" never knew that easter egg thx m8!

[@nineonine9082]

Ahh I have good memories of the Image of Archmage Vargoth, that guy aws a chad before chads were a thing really.

[@Kelari313]

I love about wotlk that you really see how Blizzard were reworking bad systems they had in tbc and vanilla and had an eye for small eastereggs. I wished they would still do that that great in retail expansions (:

[@xerokewl537]

Wotlk was blizzard in it's prime forsure!

[@cattysplat]

It was a great balance between quality of life and the old RPG feel. It was however the beginning of the endless dumbing down and removal of socialising which lead to Cata, LFR and most raiders only 10 manning.

[@raider762]

I enjoyed the portal from sholazar basin to ungoro crater.

[@nobutseriously764]

“If you get caught with this, I don’t know you!” 😂😂😂

[@Silphage]

2:28 - They should reuse this idea from Legion again (in retail), the FFA PvP area in the main city. It was a fun little diversion.

[@snarky4lyfe144]

the turn the lights on one actually has more meaning , Windels daughter was killed or died or something and the turning on the lights was her favorite thing to do , i think there is an achievement and you get an item ,

[@MrSaucyBeans]

I never knew about the lights or the shoe shining that's such cool little world building!

[@mantis9693]

Brazie Getz is the perfect height from crawling under cubicles

[@DarkScreamGames]

Huh. I knew them all, except that weird trinket at the end. Never heard of that before. Cool.

[@Wyrmshield]

The gnome that gives you the lighter also has a daughter who is introduced in a wow novel later on, then when the city is reused again in Legion his lighting routine gets updated with some references to her. It's super cute

[@NovaMay]

Well, it's more sad than that. Her daughter was Jaina's apprentice and she died on the bombing of theramore (It's one of the main things that made Jaina snap). The kirin Tor gave permission to the father of her to put up little images of his daughter so he can always remember her

[@Verdis_deMosays]

Should have put the drowned rat item in there from fishing in the dalaran sewers. It's a direct reference to the Pixar movie Ratatouille, honoring his ( in this case failed) escape down into the sewers at the start of the movie.

[@heathen4236]

Wow. No. Drown rat is a simile/description that has been around like 500 years.

[@tjknell]

I can't wait for wrath it was the absolute best!!!

[@3heker]

Can confirm "it's drippring" is a very close translation. 4:30

[@unloolmaster]

great video! didn´t know a bunch of these. just curious is there also a new pattern for blacksmiths and leatherworkers as there is for tailor?

[@merc7105]

Inb4 Asmon. Good vid. Amazing I missed some of these.

[@fatalalchemy602]

Great vid make more of these please

[@richmarrero1313]

Wheres the floating gnome head...

[@aweha]

Great vid.

[@whydid666]

No the deathchill cloak is so much easier to get then the wisp cloak. because heaven forbid your RDF group gets any side boss instead of just rushing the dungeon asap.

[@TheZdowd]

I just remember mount glitching into the arena below the sewers

[@weirdodude1173]

Neat video, thanks!!

[@joaovitorreisdasilva9573]

In legion you could get wine caskets and if you hold it for one year the same shit will happen, however the blue wine is worth more gold in npcs and you can get the casket for free in Azuna (if memory serves me well).

[@coza10]

Sir what is Guarnatee mean?

[@GrimJRS]

3:08 what areas can you reach as a fly but not before?

[@Than211]

Pretty sure it's just the second floor of that wooden shack with mages standing at the top. I don't think there's anything particularly special about it.

[@GrimJRS]

@@Than211 ok thx

[@HoisinCrispyOwl]

You can glitch through a lot of the walls and get into the opposite faction's hub, fake dalaran sewers arena below, behind all the grates and all sorts of places as a fly.

[@Venakis1]

Brazie Getz is a reference to Leo Getz from Lethal Weapon 2 (Joe Pesci). Pretty hilarious guy.

[@PeterPan-wi7dd]

Windle Sparkshine is a real Huckleberry Finn :) you pay him to do his work :)

[@Vaelin94]

I played on a wrath private server for 6 years and I was genuinely surprised how many of these I was not aware of. (Brazie wasn't coded) for good reason I think LOL

[@konstantinkunz2256]

Brazies Books will likely not available as they where removed from Retail. Maybe like Jessara from Mac'Aree it will be there accidentally at the start so you better start farm gold now if you want have a chance for it.

[@metasamsara]

Did someone say thunderfury blessed blade of the windseeker

[@OldUndeadMaleModel]

Next up, most OP hidden items for pvp please

[@Doichable]

No mention of the wormhole engineering trinket that has a chance to spawn a rare teleport to the secret vendor?

[@brucesamuelson7337]

Trolls DO wear shoes, their feet just burst out of them. But if you look, you can see what's left of the tops on the top of their feet.

[@mamataya1]

are these releveant in privateservers like warmane thats on 3.3.5?

[@goldibollocks]

Healers in WotLK be like: I got MP5 on it Grab your lvl40, let's get keyed

[@csquared4538]

Warlords of Draenor hype!!

[@Daftanemone]

Watching this I just had an unpleasant realization. Why does the well go down to the sewers? Aren’t wells typically for drinking water and not sewage? Also upon this realization I remembered you can leave dalaran through the sewers which means crystal song forest and the broken shore are constantly getting dumped my the mage city’s waste.

[@metasamsara]

Could you please show all end game gears per class and gender with and without helm & cape? I'm still undecided on my class and will probably pick my main based on aesthetics lol.

[@abduljabars]

He does in each class video

[@Fondleburg]

Segacedi pronounced Sega CD. Which had a game called Sewer Shark. I remember seeing this, but didn't put the puzzle together

[@SeruraRenge11]

Dalaran: the hub so good, they used it twice

[@jonnnyai]

I thought you would atleast mention the hiden cave in borean tundra where you can loot the murloc pet.

[@InakaAdventure]

Alright, I didnt know bout the shoe shiner

[@Catswaga]

They see me Pa'Trollin' they hatin'

[@probablyilliterate]

So the Horde has to put down Saurfang's son and gets a big, emotional RP follow up scene with Alliance leaders showing solidarity. ....and the Alliance gets a creepy gnome who sells smut and vibrators? Talk about a disparity.

[@druid_zephyrus]

And they call us the bad guys!

[@mightyblue3426]

Adult humor in an adult game- GASP!

[@probablyilliterate]

@@mightyblue3426 WoW has always been T for Teen. You could say that if it were rated M, but Teens overwhelmingly aren't adults. I see it as perverse humor written by immature adults. That's without even discussing the possibility that those texts were written by individuals involved in sexual harrassment scandals within Blizzard. I'm not one to shy away from adult humor, but there's ways of doing it tastefully, and without involving people with sordid histories.

[@server1ok]

I can't wait to light oil lamps, now that the Rus gas is offline and electricity is 60 cent ..

[@TonyJ1776]

what inventory addon is that in the video with the bags on the right of the panel?

[@aaw7410]

you forgot the pebbles in dalaran!

[@lolwhatidk]

Citizens of Dalaran!

[@TheNameOfJesus]

Can you still jump into the sewer from the top of a tall nearby building?

[@yewu]

It's hard to care about achivements and collections this time round, I have them all in retail

[@Aapo_the_Blockhead]

Especially when we dont know if this classic saga end in wotlk

[@ShadesApeDJansu]

Christian Finnish Frostiis Trolls ruined the WOTLK Expansion, you're surprised ? :) Those lore savages, shredding our lovable WoW lore to shreads. "Maybe the gnome tries to put shoes on the troll, troll goes berserk and shreds his shoes and the buff ist just a placebo when the terrified gnome compliments the troll on his shiny feet... oh the name of the buff should be shiny feet to trolls then... trolls ruin the expansion

[@HosH547]

Ayo bro i fond an amulet in northend that sometimes spons a ghost that makes sounds and follow me everywhere I can allso cast it on anyone and the ghost starts following them instead and the amulet teleports to theyre bag Sold it for 35k felt sad but needed the gold Litterly everyone who saw the ghost was begging me to sell it ... idk where it dropped but i think in nax or ulduar patch do you have any idea what was it ?

[@grahampatience7620]

Haunted momento, was common as came during pre launch event but hardly any remained a few years later and value soared.

[@xarnir5840]

Remeber that bookl hunt, last book I hade took like 3h (or so dont remeber exact) too spawn wile i looked att the same barrels ing and real life, gold contet here.

[@Buckie93]

Doesnt windle send you a letter thanking you for helping honouring the memory of his daughter or something ?

[@sikhjatt23]

That's in legion. She doesn't die until mop

[@youknowwho257]

Wrath is the most played version of wow by a HUGE far, period, not even a discursion. Every single one of those secrets were secrets indeed, before the private wow community started to play wrath for years non stop of course. After so many years in wrath most p. server players know about these secrets, so they are no secret anymore =x, but hey cool vid anyways.

[@bbiggie97]

I guarnatee he never fixes the title