It's gotten to the point where Crendor is haunting my dreams, I can't even sleep without hearing "Hello everybody and welcome back to pointless top a show that makes top 10 lists out of pointless things."
honorable mention: the standard wow cave. same design all over the world, you go left you reach a small pond, you go right and you end up above it where they usually put the quest objective
There are two slightly different layouts of it. The big (frozen) pond version in the dwarf starting area and the small ppnd version from thr Orc starting area. There is also the extra wet version, which is thr same base layout but with more water found as the one non-ogre-mound cave on Firegut Rock in Burninf Steppes.
I've noticed that while both fishing ponds in the garrisons have a cave with only minor tweeks, that skeleton with the ball and chain on it is in both of them.
Regards the crystal cave : In Donkey Kong 3 (back then, the super nintendo) you can find a bunch of crystal caverns. Inside the cave is little "bananabird" trapped in a crystal. You free it by playing a little minigame. The crytals will glow up and make sounds in certain ways. All you do is repeat it with the A, B, X, Y buttons. And yeah, obviously, the soundpatterns become "more difficult" by the time to remember. Hope that helps. Lovly video once again crendor. :) Wish you a happy sunday 🌸🥳😊
Crendor's vidoes have had such a positive effect on how I play the game. I try to be more unhurried now when I play and notice what is there to be found and considered. Thanks, Crendor. ❤
Gotta love Crendor's dedication to not re-using the intro and filming a new one for every single video, ecsn when there's just a random blood elf running around in the statue.
I wish there was mention of the cave connecting tirion fordring's old hiding spot to Strathholme. It has these unique side cut sections where you have to hide behind the tree roots to avoid the roving 61 elite, at least back when elites were scary. Really cool experience
I always liked that one cave in Felwood because it starts out like a normal cave like anywhere but as you keep going in deeper it expands into like a mini city with bridges and stuff. Always make sure your hearthstone is charged when going in though because that walk back out sucks haha
Umm. What about the big ass caves with the spinny worm things in Deepholm? Bro, this subject deserves two or three vids. Also, the Rambo one on Redridge was a BA!
6:20 the crystals refer to the banana bird caves in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie’s Kong Quest. In the caves the crystals play a tune and you replicate the tune to release the banana bird.
Ungoro Crystal cave always reminds me of the Donkey Kong Country 3 caves with crystals so it was weird that you mentioned it. But hey glowing colorful crystals in caves is always a win and who knows who did it first but game devs should do it more.
First one in this video gave me an idea for a pointless top 10, terrible deaths or horrible ways to die being shackled under water and left to die until your water breathing wears off would be just awful
Only two of the caves on this list are ones I haven't visited/explored. The Storm Peaks and Winterspring caves. I am an avid cave explorer and have sought them out extensively in zones I like. But I don't like snow areas or deserts. I've even found the cave on the back of Mount Mugumba or whatever in Zuldazar. I like WoW caves.
Recently revisited Northrend, in middle of Grizzly Hills is the ruins of a world tree, Vordrassil, with a furbolg colony occupying the stump. You can explore the hollowed-out roots, that rotted when the tree fell. Not *quite* caves, but worth an honorable mention because they look so cool. The walls look like they are crumbling, theres mushrooms everywhere and even little skylights here and there letting sunlight in. You can almost smell the funky, earthy scent of a hollow log.
Agree with #6, the unique design is interesting and holds up on its own (it has a friggin mezzanine) but also it was one of the many things that made Outlands a fun new world to explore. Any player ready for Burning Crusade at launch had been around Azeroth a time or two, and would have been by that time well acquainted with all the standard cave templates. So the Warmaul Hill cave was kind of mind-blowing by in contrast to the expected cookie-cutter ogre cave.
the crystals in un'goro i think are a reference to the land of the lost tv show. both it and un'goro crater are these "lost world" type settings where dinosaurs roam free, both have remnants of an ancient scientifically advanced civilization (titans in wow, altrusians in TLoTL), and, most importantly, both have crystals and pylons for them to slot into. more specifically, in both theres an emphasis of combing crystals of different colours to get different results. in wow its just stat buffs, but in TLoTL you could do stuff like make force fields or (theoretically) open portals across time and space heck, when i was looking at the quest text for first using the pylons it specifically mentions arranging them on a table w slots in it, which is how its done in the show
The first time I walked into the Crystal Cave, back in vanilla, I remember not wanting to leave it for a long time. It was such a great place to hang out for a couple of hours, relaxing. 🙂
Dunno if this would maybe qualify as a cavern, but Jadenar was always my favorite cave system back in Classic. The way it seemed to stretch on, and have distinct areas made it feel like an instance all its own.
A few ideas of Pointless top 10s could be Races. Playable races like Pointless top 10 humans, dwarves, etc. also non playable races like you did with murlocs, you could do dryads, gnolls, furbolgs, ogres etc. also, Ironforge could have been included in it, its a city in a cave.
All of Un'goro (especially the crystals and the pylons where you use them) were a reference to the 70's Sid and Marty Croft kids series "The Land of the Lost." Even "Marshal's Refuge" and the names of the NPCs all reference character names in this show.
OK so not technically caves, but can we give a shout out to Night Elf barrows? Semi-fond memories of getting hella lost in the Ban'Ethil Barrow Den, killing furbolgs at least three times over the quest quota because the exit was nowhere to be found. Apparently, I was not alone in this; in Cata they added a Sentinel Huntress NPC to be your guide. Her one and only job was to trot along behind you (unless you got too far and she'd despawn) and tell you the direction for the various objectives by making a little green mist for you to chase.
I've always really liked those kinds of areas that are on the "wrong side" of the continent, like sorta squeezed away outside the beaten path and kinda just modeled in there because the devs knew SOMETHING had to be there.
I remember donkey kong country 3 on snes had crystal caves like un'goro, it was a memory mini game to free banana birds. If you had the Australian/European or Japanese snes then the colours in the cave matched up with the coloured abxy buttons on your controller.
A pointless thing that I learned is that the back of that new starting zone they added in Shadowlands uses Stormheim geometry. Also there's a fleshed out underwater section and cave in the shoreline, implying that they planned at some point to have underwater quests.
There’s a river in the main area with tortollans and a small pirate camp on the coast when you go left at the beginning (near the ship wrecks). The tortollans can teleport you back and there’s an ettin to throw you back on the shoreline.
magnataur were in warcraft 3, the skeleton in nazjatar could be a prisoner from before the sundering who went into the cave then the world broke and sank, the ungoro cave colors could be in reference to the japanese snes controller button colors
I still like Classic Wailing Caverns, before Cataclysm nerfed it. The pre-dungeon cave is actually quite interesting with just how vibrant and life-filled it is compared to the savannah environment of the rest of the Barrens. The dungeon itself is fun to get lost in.
Top 10 hidden locations would be cool if there isn't one of those already-- those neat lil spots like the hidden squid temple in boralus (cant remember the name lol)
I dunno about the turtles and tortoises thing, sort of thought they aren’t the same, but they’re similar. Tortoises can’t swim and are flat-footed, and turtles have webbed feet and can swim. Maybe there might be an expert on shelled reptiles that can set the record straight
There’s a cave in Boralas under a house where the entire entrance is covered up. If I’m remembering correctly it’s part of the Waist of Time thing or the Ba’al pet.
I mean... Crystal Caves was a level in Donkey Kong 64, so it could be a reference? But more likely than not, the cave system itself was probably more so just a reference to Land of the Lost.
Meanwhile me looking at Andrestrasz's cave on the coast/tip of Ahn'quraj(? I don't remember the spelling, been forever since Iogged in). Not many caves just have a random Red dragon just sleeping in them.
Only game for the super nintendo with a cave full of green, yellow, blue and red crystals I can think of is Donkey kong country 3. Where you play a simon says game to free several birds.
the Un'goro crystal cave always reminded me of the Banana Bird Cave from Donkey Kong Country 3 SNES, I don't know if it's supposed to be a reference, it just always made me think of that
The Crystal Cave in Ungoro Crater could be a reference to Ilum the Star Wars, Planet that you used to find Kyber Crystals (Blue, Yellow, Green and Red) (Also it became Starkiller Base)
It's gotten to the point where Crendor is haunting my dreams, I can't even sleep without hearing "Hello everybody and welcome back to pointless top a show that makes top 10 lists out of pointless things."
Sounds like a cry for no help needed.
That's been the case since the LuckyDo Rap for me.
That's how dreams work though. Top 10 pointless memories we'll process in your sleep tonight.
@astrealove2247 he wasn't kidding with the verse "This song is stuck in your head, you'll be singing it in bed."
Pointless top 10 dreams
honorable mention: the standard wow cave. same design all over the world, you go left you reach a small pond, you go right and you end up above it where they usually put the quest objective
Noticed that to . They must copy and paste alot . all the caves in the staring zones is like that atleast
@@notsure7060It’s a lot more time efficient to make a single asset and re-using it than making a unique cave model for every single one.
There are two slightly different layouts of it. The big (frozen) pond version in the dwarf starting area and the small ppnd version from thr Orc starting area. There is also the extra wet version, which is thr same base layout but with more water found as the one non-ogre-mound cave on Firegut Rock in Burninf Steppes.
except for that one quest in redridge, north of lakeshire i think it was in english
edit: i'm stupid
I've noticed that while both fishing ponds in the garrisons have a cave with only minor tweeks, that skeleton with the ball and chain on it is in both of them.
The ogre Cave has layers because Ogres have layers. Like Onions, but not parfaits.
Regards the crystal cave :
In Donkey Kong 3 (back then, the super nintendo) you can find a bunch of crystal caverns.
Inside the cave is little "bananabird" trapped in a crystal.
You free it by playing a little minigame.
The crytals will glow up and make sounds in certain ways. All you do is repeat it with the A, B, X, Y buttons.
And yeah, obviously, the soundpatterns become "more difficult" by the time to remember.
Hope that helps.
Lovly video once again crendor. :)
Wish you a happy sunday 🌸🥳😊
Un'goro and it's crystal caves and pylons were famously attributed to being a reference to Sid and Marty Croft's "Land of the Lost."
yeah! I thought of that when watching
"Ah, I don't know." And then he died...
Ah, that's how you wanna go out.
That part literally almost suffocated me to death from laughter
Don’t even get Crendor started on caverns and catacombs
Top 10 candles 😂
Crendor's vidoes have had such a positive effect on how I play the game. I try to be more unhurried now when I play and notice what is there to be found and considered.
Thanks, Crendor. ❤
Gotta love Crendor's dedication to not re-using the intro and filming a new one for every single video, ecsn when there's just a random blood elf running around in the statue.
I hope Hallowfall makes it to top 10 caverns
I wish there was mention of the cave connecting tirion fordring's old hiding spot to Strathholme. It has these unique side cut sections where you have to hide behind the tree roots to avoid the roving 61 elite, at least back when elites were scary. Really cool experience
Oooh with the roots hiding them and lots of little bugs yeah.
I always liked that one cave in Felwood because it starts out like a normal cave like anywhere but as you keep going in deeper it expands into like a mini city with bridges and stuff. Always make sure your hearthstone is charged when going in though because that walk back out sucks haha
Which one? The one with the sasquatches and the robochicken? Or the one up to the north that cata added a BIG northrend like sasquatch to?
Umm. What about the big ass caves with the spinny worm things in Deepholm? Bro, this subject deserves two or three vids. Also, the Rambo one on Redridge was a BA!
Ungoro is based off the ngorongoro crater in Tanzania, it’s a dormant volcano and it’s filled with species that can only be found in that crater.
6:20 the crystals refer to the banana bird caves in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie’s Kong Quest. In the caves the crystals play a tune and you replicate the tune to release the banana bird.
Ungoro Crystal cave always reminds me of the Donkey Kong Country 3 caves with crystals so it was weird that you mentioned it. But hey glowing colorful crystals in caves is always a win and who knows who did it first but game devs should do it more.
might check out that hawk area, never knew about it...
First one in this video gave me an idea for a pointless top 10, terrible deaths or horrible ways to die being shackled under water and left to die until your water breathing wears off would be just awful
Only two of the caves on this list are ones I haven't visited/explored. The Storm Peaks and Winterspring caves. I am an avid cave explorer and have sought them out extensively in zones I like. But I don't like snow areas or deserts. I've even found the cave on the back of Mount Mugumba or whatever in Zuldazar. I like WoW caves.
0:59 I only hope that when I die I'll be that chill about it.
I'm here. I like this. Thanks
Recently revisited Northrend, in middle of Grizzly Hills is the ruins of a world tree, Vordrassil, with a furbolg colony occupying the stump. You can explore the hollowed-out roots, that rotted when the tree fell. Not *quite* caves, but worth an honorable mention because they look so cool. The walls look like they are crumbling, theres mushrooms everywhere and even little skylights here and there letting sunlight in. You can almost smell the funky, earthy scent of a hollow log.
Agree with #6, the unique design is interesting and holds up on its own (it has a friggin mezzanine) but also it was one of the many things that made Outlands a fun new world to explore. Any player ready for Burning Crusade at launch had been around Azeroth a time or two, and would have been by that time well acquainted with all the standard cave templates. So the Warmaul Hill cave was kind of mind-blowing by in contrast to the expected cookie-cutter ogre cave.
the crystals in un'goro i think are a reference to the land of the lost tv show. both it and un'goro crater are these "lost world" type settings where dinosaurs roam free, both have remnants of an ancient scientifically advanced civilization (titans in wow, altrusians in TLoTL), and, most importantly, both have crystals and pylons for them to slot into.
more specifically, in both theres an emphasis of combing crystals of different colours to get different results. in wow its just stat buffs, but in TLoTL you could do stuff like make force fields or (theoretically) open portals across time and space
heck, when i was looking at the quest text for first using the pylons it specifically mentions arranging them on a table w slots in it, which is how its done in the show
That's a theory supported by two of the npc's being named William Marshall and Holly'anne (Marshall, Will, and Holly)
The first time I walked into the Crystal Cave, back in vanilla, I remember not wanting to leave it for a long time. It was such a great place to hang out for a couple of hours, relaxing. 🙂
Dunno if this would maybe qualify as a cavern, but Jadenar was always my favorite cave system back in Classic. The way it seemed to stretch on, and have distinct areas made it feel like an instance all its own.
Hey Crendor, have you ever done WoW castles?
I am ready. Bring the caves!
A few ideas of Pointless top 10s could be Races. Playable races like Pointless top 10 humans, dwarves, etc. also non playable races like you did with murlocs, you could do dryads, gnolls, furbolgs, ogres etc.
also, Ironforge could have been included in it, its a city in a cave.
I always think of the Um'Goro cave as the Christmas cave. It's at Marshalls retreat.
I Sure like me a good cave. Nice vid!
All of Un'goro (especially the crystals and the pylons where you use them) were a reference to the 70's Sid and Marty Croft kids series "The Land of the Lost." Even "Marshal's Refuge" and the names of the NPCs all reference character names in this show.
OK so not technically caves, but can we give a shout out to Night Elf barrows? Semi-fond memories of getting hella lost in the Ban'Ethil Barrow Den, killing furbolgs at least three times over the quest quota because the exit was nowhere to be found. Apparently, I was not alone in this; in Cata they added a Sentinel Huntress NPC to be your guide. Her one and only job was to trot along behind you (unless you got too far and she'd despawn) and tell you the direction for the various objectives by making a little green mist for you to chase.
I've always really liked those kinds of areas that are on the "wrong side" of the continent, like sorta squeezed away outside the beaten path and kinda just modeled in there because the devs knew SOMETHING had to be there.
I remember donkey kong country 3 on snes had crystal caves like un'goro, it was a memory mini game to free banana birds. If you had the Australian/European or Japanese snes then the colours in the cave matched up with the coloured abxy buttons on your controller.
A pointless thing that I learned is that the back of that new starting zone they added in Shadowlands uses Stormheim geometry.
Also there's a fleshed out underwater section and cave in the shoreline, implying that they planned at some point to have underwater quests.
There’s a river in the main area with tortollans and a small pirate camp on the coast when you go left at the beginning (near the ship wrecks). The tortollans can teleport you back and there’s an ettin to throw you back on the shoreline.
The #1 cave is Khaz Algar.
'Cuz it has 3 zones in it.
You should do top 10 quarries and tunnels sometime
saw that crendor posted a new top 10 and went “hell yea”
How did Jaedenar not make the list??
Ungoro's caves reminds me of that Banana Bird DKC3 minigame, I'm sure of that
Crystals in that cave remind me of the different colored rupees in zelda. Might be a different reference but to me that reminds me of those.
magnataur were in warcraft 3, the skeleton in nazjatar could be a prisoner from before the sundering who went into the cave then the world broke and sank, the ungoro cave colors could be in reference to the japanese snes controller button colors
part of me is glad , that you didn't mention the spidercave in azure span XD
I still like Classic Wailing Caverns, before Cataclysm nerfed it. The pre-dungeon cave is actually quite interesting with just how vibrant and life-filled it is compared to the savannah environment of the rest of the Barrens. The dungeon itself is fun to get lost in.
Could the dead mines qualify as a cave system?
Have you done a Top Ten Ponds yet? I've been here so long I can't remember XD
Wailing caverns is like my favorite zone/dungeon ever.
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Top 10 hidden locations would be cool if there isn't one of those already-- those neat lil spots like the hidden squid temple in boralus (cant remember the name lol)
I dunno about the turtles and tortoises thing, sort of thought they aren’t the same, but they’re similar. Tortoises can’t swim and are flat-footed, and turtles have webbed feet and can swim. Maybe there might be an expert on shelled reptiles that can set the record straight
omg pandaria is so pretty. should level there sometime
There’s a cave in Boralas under a house where the entire entrance is covered up. If I’m remembering correctly it’s part of the Waist of Time thing or the Ba’al pet.
how did wailing caverns not make this list 😔💔
I'm surprised the cave outside Ahn'Qiraj: The Fallen Kingdom with a dragon NPC named Andrestrasz didn't make this list!
Amazing
Can you do top ten farms? Not gold farms, not farmer npcs, but, you know, actual farms.
Top 10 Ducks now that TWW is out? Pretty please~
Isn't the difference between that caves have sideway openings while caverns have top or bottom?
I mean... Crystal Caves was a level in Donkey Kong 64, so it could be a reference?
But more likely than not, the cave system itself was probably more so just a reference to Land of the Lost.
Meanwhile me looking at Andrestrasz's cave on the coast/tip of Ahn'quraj(? I don't remember the spelling, been forever since Iogged in). Not many caves just have a random Red dragon just sleeping in them.
I don’t recall if you have done this yet or not but what about Top 10 Pointless Tables
Another great pointless start to the day!
The rupies in Zelda games have the same colours as the cave crystals !
Is this gamepad friendly now for the portbles? At least for an old casual player? 🙃
You told me to comment “or subscribe” idk why you’d want me to comment that
It could be a Donkey Kong Country 3 reference. The banana bird caves? Kinda has the same look I guess
There’s always darkness and treasures in caves. Let’s go
Yes
Only game for the super nintendo with a cave full of green, yellow, blue and red crystals I can think of is Donkey kong country 3. Where you play a simon says game to free several birds.
Nintendo SNES buttons XYAB are blue green red and yellow :)
I feel like the lightning cave would be really loud. So those dragons are probably deaf.
Wailing Caverns cave is BiS!
the Un'goro crystal cave always reminded me of the Banana Bird Cave from Donkey Kong Country 3 SNES, I don't know if it's supposed to be a reference, it just always made me think of that
I crawled out of my cave for my weekly dose of entertaining pointlessness.
Number 0, the entire War Within expansion
Should we consider Azeroth bussy as a cave?
If that yeti Toejam is a reference to the old genesis games then where is Earl?
There is no time like Nougettime
I had to stop the video to ask google, "what's the difference between a cave and a cavern?"
Still pretty confused
Best stuff to watch when you're high
A pointless top 10 of like raid or dungeon lore or secrets would be cool.
The Crystal Cave in Ungoro Crater could be a reference to Ilum the Star Wars, Planet that you used to find Kyber Crystals (Blue, Yellow, Green and Red) (Also it became Starkiller Base)
It's almost certainly to dk.
The azure span cave is not as cool as the ice cave in kun lai summit
im a simple man, i see a pointless crendor video i leave a pointless like and pointless comment
Pointless top 10 brooms.
Top ten ogres soon?
I very much misread that at first glance lmao
@@3possumsinatrenchcoat BFA Xal'atath questline as a priest has to be on that top ten
I needed this shit so fucking much
There is no such thing as pointless caves. Its for you to explore the pointless caves and make videos.
Ayyy
Yes, winterspring is the best zone.
FIRST!!!
fart
honorable mention to your mother's
You must be in middle school, just saying.
@@davidcosta2244 and you play as horde so whats the difference?