Wow in 2004 (closed Beta) when I was a 13 year old little kid was definitely an entire new world to discover. So far, no other game made me feel as immersed into the world as classic WoW. Part of it was that the Internet was still in it's infancy, thus information was difficult to come by. Once I found a Nightblade dropped by a Goblin in Stranglethorn Vale. I put Fiery Weapon on it, and went to grind Elite Ogres in Alterac with it on my Paladin... Back then, soloing elites was an act of badassery, and I grinded levels killing them for days on end. I haven't felt that kind of satisfaction in WoW since then. Even getting rank 14 was a different kind of satisfaction since it is a team effort, whilst the Ogre episode was a lone wolf training-from-hell adventure. Like when Blazer fought in the Blade's Edge Mountains in the Tales of the Past 3 Machinima. Thanks for making this video. I doubt many of the players who discovered all this 15+ years ago have the time to go back nowadays, and the ones who do go back have different motivations.
If you have world explorer you get to see all of these niche areas the open world in wow has some amazing and beautiful places if you care to explore 💚🇮🇪
Playing WoW for the first time as a kid was a gaming experience that's hard to match. Experiences like the one you're describing just felt so much more. There's the part of being new and a kid, but, in general, it was different times as well as you mention. And I'm very glad you enjoyed the video :)
my most memorable thing to take from classic wow is that I actually got to visit Mount Hyjal on a live classic server with a couple of great guildies/friends, took tons of screenshots there, now that I have stopped playing classic I still go back and scroll through those photos to cherish those great moments.
Thanks mate - it's my pleasure :) I'm glad you continue to get enjoyment from the videos. I hope to bring more content in the future. Have a good one mate.
Totally agree on the locked doors and zones making low level players intrigued about the game world! That was absolutely the case for me back during vanilla. Also when flying over Searing Gorge and the Burning Steppes when travelling between IF and SW made me very curious what that zones would be like once I reached that level. The skull level dragons and cultists felt very intimidating to me.
I totally share your view that flying over areas like the Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge has the same effect of intriguing new players. The flight from Stormwind to Ironforge is awesome. I think it's very well done by Blizzard.
Another awesome video, got so excited when I saw you posted a new one! One really cool "hidden" area for me as a lifelong Alliance player when I tried Horde for the first time was that wooden construction north of the goblin and shredder infested valley in Stonetalon mountains, where you can climb up really high and then jump down into the lake. So amazing, when you find something in the game that you've never seen before!
Great to hear mate - glad you enjoyed the video :) Wow, that must have been an awesome experience. That's such a cool and exciting place - a masterpiece of exterior design! Definitely a favourite of mine when I think about it.
I realy like how you upped your game. Very good research went into the making of this video, and it shows! These are the kind of videos i like the most. It always brings a smile to my face when people talks about the more hidden places of Azeroth. The whole game is so full of detail that sometimes is hard to see it all :)
That's a great one - especially with the small backstory :D Even if there isn't much to see, it's still those small details that mean a lot in the end.
Moe!!!!! I missed your videos!!! Another great video as always! Please stay with us, maybe even some Forgotten TBC areas video? any video i will watch from you
Thanks a lot for the supportive comment man! Glad you enjoyed the video, and I would definitely like to make a similar video for TBC if possible sometime :)
I've been busy with education-stuff mostly :D I'm glad to be back with a video, however, and to see "old faces" in the comments. Thanks for the support man and I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
Great work as always! Loved the little creative approach to telling about your discovery of the hidden path... "shifting into bearform for better isolation" :D perks of being a druid :D Keep up the great content. You are one of the very few truely unique and original creators aroud... pls keep it going :) Greetings from the phillipines :)
Awesome to hear mate - I'm glad you enjoyed the more "creative" part of the video, and I'm glad you enjoy the content :) Phillipines, wow - it's crazy when I think of people watching the videos different places across the world.
@@moegdalswowvideos6800 thanks for answering ;) you really read your comments, nice :D haha well i am from germany, just living in the philippines ^^ always sunny, pretty women and the rum is good ;) haha.. yeah please keep up your content, enjoy it a lot.. :) you really do unique stuff!
Just finished the video. Fantastic. You could do an entire series on under-utilized interesting areas of WoW. There are so many nice spots that come to mind that are just bypassed by the general flow of the game. Perhaps we can contribute some ideas for your videos. Thanks again.
My pleasure! Very glad you enjoyed the video man. I think there are a lot of cool places out there that don't get the attention they deserve. And you're always welcome to come with suggestions :)
Theres some hidden places i descovered in my very early years in the game, I wonder if you ever stumbled across them yourself, if we are ever on the same server, Mankirk is my horde server, i might just show ya where i mean . As always great video mate, I hope you enjoy your journey into the Dark Potral when it opens!
Thanks for the invitation mate :D sounds like that could be a lot of fun! Very happy you enjoyed the video, and I hope you have an awesome time with Classic TBC as well :)
@@moegdalswowvideos6800 well I wish we could but i honestly never thought about where your server might be, if you are ever on the states servers mention it in a future video :), otherwise i can only say theres a lot to explore while swimming shore to shore around azeroth. ;)
That's a good one, too, that I actually first discovered pretty recently as well. It has to be among some of the more lesser known areas in Azeroth for sure.
The demon quest area that rewards those rings is a very nostalgic area for me. The seal of argas were BIS twink rings later in the game. You could do the quest before the Azeroth sundering with the Cataclysm expansion and then again after the expansion was released to get two of them. When I was making F2P twinks in MOP and WOD I would always go there and get that ring for my twinks. Also had a grandfathered ring called the Gloaming Band on my main twink, it got better than seal of argas with the stat boosting when that came into the game, so I was lucky to get it before it was good. Fun times!
That's very cool - I didn't know it was good twink ring, and that you could get a second one after Cataclysm - that's a bit weird :D It's always fun to learn new stuff like that, and it's good to hear that you have had good experiences with the demon areas.
And this is just another reason why bringing Back Recruit a Friend / a similar experience rate boost for solo players (that didn't apply if you were being boosted by a lvl 60+) would've been a MILLION TIMES better than this garbage pay2skip 58 Boost...
That's a good idea I hadn't thought of. It would help make Azeroth feel a lot more alive definitely. TBC and the TBC pre-patch bring a lot of changes to the old world as well that many people will probably miss out on - Mudsprocket being added as a new quest hub in Dustwallow Marsh for example.
Wow in 2004 (closed Beta) when I was a 13 year old little kid was definitely an entire new world to discover. So far, no other game made me feel as immersed into the world as classic WoW. Part of it was that the Internet was still in it's infancy, thus information was difficult to come by.
Once I found a Nightblade dropped by a Goblin in Stranglethorn Vale. I put Fiery Weapon on it, and went to grind Elite Ogres in Alterac with it on my Paladin...
Back then, soloing elites was an act of badassery, and I grinded levels killing them for days on end.
I haven't felt that kind of satisfaction in WoW since then. Even getting rank 14 was a different kind of satisfaction since it is a team effort, whilst the Ogre episode was a lone wolf training-from-hell adventure. Like when Blazer fought in the Blade's Edge Mountains in the Tales of the Past 3 Machinima.
Thanks for making this video. I doubt many of the players who discovered all this 15+ years ago have the time to go back nowadays, and the ones who do go back have different motivations.
If you have world explorer you get to see all of these niche areas the open world in wow has some amazing and beautiful places if you care to explore 💚🇮🇪
Playing WoW for the first time as a kid was a gaming experience that's hard to match. Experiences like the one you're describing just felt so much more. There's the part of being new and a kid, but, in general, it was different times as well as you mention. And I'm very glad you enjoyed the video :)
That would be a benefit of having World Explorer for sure :)
my most memorable thing to take from classic wow is that I actually got to visit Mount Hyjal on a live classic server with a couple of great guildies/friends, took tons of screenshots there, now that I have stopped playing classic I still go back and scroll through those photos to cherish those great moments.
That's awesome! Adventurous moments like that are worth a lot, and they are even better when you share them with other people.
It's so cool that Arnold Schwarzenegger is making classic wow videos!
I know right :D
I just discovered your wonderful videos i hope one day you come back and continue with this fantastic content.. i wish i had found them earlier
Yay!! Thank you for the vid. Welcome back!
Thanks a lot man! :)
Very cool video!
Thanks mate! Glad you enjoyed it :-)
Always comin out with cool vids dude. I hope to see more from you come TBC, if you plan to! Have a good one and thanks again!
Thanks mate - it's my pleasure :) I'm glad you continue to get enjoyment from the videos. I hope to bring more content in the future. Have a good one mate.
Quit classic when TBC landed but still come back to these videos occasionally for the comfiest classic content ever made!
My favorite strange area is the island in the southwest of hillsbrad foothills. A ton of ghosts and completely different from the rest of hillsbrad
Cool, I'll have to check that out.
That's a great one as well! Another area that would really spook you as a newbie I would imagine.
When i was a kid , that demon zone in ashevale kinda got me spooked too ! nice area
Hehe, right! They really did a good job with the area I think.
Glad to see you're uploading again, love the content!
I'm happy to hear that :) Thanks a lot man, great that you're enjoying it!
Totally agree on the locked doors and zones making low level players intrigued about the game world! That was absolutely the case for me back during vanilla. Also when flying over Searing Gorge and the Burning Steppes when travelling between IF and SW made me very curious what that zones would be like once I reached that level. The skull level dragons and cultists felt very intimidating to me.
I totally share your view that flying over areas like the Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge has the same effect of intriguing new players. The flight from Stormwind to Ironforge is awesome. I think it's very well done by Blizzard.
Ashenvale what great battles we had with the alliance there back in the day
It is a great zone in many ways in my opinion!
Something very cozy about these videos. Hope this becomes a series.
Very glad you enjoyed it :)
absolutely love these kind of videos. keep up the great work! :D
Thanks a lot mate :) Awesome to hear!
Another awesome video, got so excited when I saw you posted a new one! One really cool "hidden" area for me as a lifelong Alliance player when I tried Horde for the first time was that wooden construction north of the goblin and shredder infested valley in Stonetalon mountains, where you can climb up really high and then jump down into the lake. So amazing, when you find something in the game that you've never seen before!
Great to hear mate - glad you enjoyed the video :) Wow, that must have been an awesome experience. That's such a cool and exciting place - a masterpiece of exterior design! Definitely a favourite of mine when I think about it.
"It's been a while, but im back.." then proceeds ro go away for another 2 years lmao
Tomorrow is gonna be THREE years ! DANG
I realy like how you upped your game. Very good research went into the making of this video, and it shows!
These are the kind of videos i like the most. It always brings a smile to my face when people talks about the more hidden places of Azeroth. The whole game is so full of detail that sometimes is hard to see it all :)
Thank you very much man - glad the video was to your liking :) The original WoW developers did such a good job it's hard to fathom.
Welcome back! Thanks for the great video!
Thank you! Awesome that you enjoyed the video :)
Great video!
Thanks mate :)
Hope you are doing well dude , whatever you are up to
There are quests for Felfire & the demon "valley" area, which I think come into play in TBC.
A small area I like is the Windmill in the Wetlands.
It got some nice vendors that sells potions, materials and schematics/plans.
Oh yeah I think I know what you're referring to. I'm a big fan of those "hidden" vendors that are located in more obscure places.
Best find for me was Newman's landing. I had the bright idea I could swim up the coast to avoid alliance. Nothing there but its pretty cool.
That's a great one - especially with the small backstory :D Even if there isn't much to see, it's still those small details that mean a lot in the end.
Moe!!!!! I missed your videos!!! Another great video as always! Please stay with us, maybe even some Forgotten TBC areas video? any video i will watch from you
Thanks a lot for the supportive comment man! Glad you enjoyed the video, and I would definitely like to make a similar video for TBC if possible sometime :)
@@moegdalswowvideos6800 you deserve all the support for these great videos. i can tell you work hard for them!
@@strange.277 It means a lot mate :-)
Finally back ! And with very cool places i didn't even know of, thanks (oh and perfect ending btw) !
My pleasure. Thank you man :)
Very interesting and well executed video Moegdal! Good to have some amazing content from you yet again!
Thank you very much wildman! I'm happy for the support :)
Awesome video! Your videos always remind me of what makes vanilla so great! Hope to see more in TBC
Thanks a lot man! Very happy to hear that - it's great that you enjoy the videos. I hope to bring more in the future.
YES moegdal where have you been so long?! :(
besides of that excellent video as always and unique
I've been busy with education-stuff mostly :D I'm glad to be back with a video, however, and to see "old faces" in the comments. Thanks for the support man and I'm glad you enjoyed the video :)
Great work as always! Loved the little creative approach to telling about your discovery of the hidden path... "shifting into bearform for better isolation" :D perks of being a druid :D
Keep up the great content. You are one of the very few truely unique and original creators aroud... pls keep it going :)
Greetings from the phillipines :)
Awesome to hear mate - I'm glad you enjoyed the more "creative" part of the video, and I'm glad you enjoy the content :) Phillipines, wow - it's crazy when I think of people watching the videos different places across the world.
@@moegdalswowvideos6800 thanks for answering ;) you really read your comments, nice :D haha well i am from germany, just living in the philippines ^^ always sunny, pretty women and the rum is good ;) haha.. yeah please keep up your content, enjoy it a lot.. :) you really do unique stuff!
@@niederwirrrg4947 Those are good reasons :) Thanks for the support man!
Just finished the video. Fantastic. You could do an entire series on under-utilized interesting areas of WoW. There are so many nice spots that come to mind that are just bypassed by the general flow of the game. Perhaps we can contribute some ideas for your videos. Thanks again.
My pleasure! Very glad you enjoyed the video man. I think there are a lot of cool places out there that don't get the attention they deserve. And you're always welcome to come with suggestions :)
Theres some hidden places i descovered in my very early years in the game, I wonder if you ever stumbled across them yourself, if we are ever on the same server, Mankirk is my horde server, i might just show ya where i mean . As always great video mate, I hope you enjoy your journey into the Dark Potral when it opens!
he is Austrian so he plays on EU
Thanks for the invitation mate :D sounds like that could be a lot of fun! Very happy you enjoyed the video, and I hope you have an awesome time with Classic TBC as well :)
@@moegdalswowvideos6800 well I wish we could but i honestly never thought about where your server might be, if you are ever on the states servers mention it in a future video :), otherwise i can only say theres a lot to explore while swimming shore to shore around azeroth. ;)
@@zantsmith4257 Hehe, it's all good. Thanks for the hint :)
Yay my favourite vanilla wow youtuber is back
Thanks mate! :) I'm very glad that you enjoy the content.
Checking in once again to say I really enjoyed your videos! I would be happy to see you return, if you're at all interested.
I think it's pretty well known, but i enjoyed stumbling into Shadowbreak Ravine in S-E Desolace recently.
That's a good one, too, that I actually first discovered pretty recently as well. It has to be among some of the more lesser known areas in Azeroth for sure.
Just found your videos man love it
That's awesome to hear. Thanks a lot :)
Yoooooo it’s my man moegdal!
Sup man! :)
@@moegdalswowvideos6800 where has my favorite danish wowhead been?
@@nothatisnotsolidsnake815 Hehe, busy with mostly education stuff :-)
welcome back! i missed ur vids, im a retail baby but i still find most of ur vids rly enjoyable to watch xD
Thanks a lot! Glad to be back with a video, and I'm very happy you enjoyed it :) I'm honored that people like the content.
Welcome back!
Thanks a lot :-)
The demon quest area that rewards those rings is a very nostalgic area for me. The seal of argas were BIS twink rings later in the game. You could do the quest before the Azeroth sundering with the Cataclysm expansion and then again after the expansion was released to get two of them. When I was making F2P twinks in MOP and WOD I would always go there and get that ring for my twinks. Also had a grandfathered ring called the Gloaming Band on my main twink, it got better than seal of argas with the stat boosting when that came into the game, so I was lucky to get it before it was good. Fun times!
That's very cool - I didn't know it was good twink ring, and that you could get a second one after Cataclysm - that's a bit weird :D It's always fun to learn new stuff like that, and it's good to hear that you have had good experiences with the demon areas.
Casually listening while working, “stone talon mountain, fire elemental, bear form, “ aww how nice. “I found it. Baron Geddan” .... wait hold up.
Slightly confusing I could imagine :D
Still my favorite wow youtuber. Hope you are doing well.
Welcome back Moegdal! missed your content! please make some more cool stuff for TBC!
Thanks a lot :) I hope to do so!
@@moegdalswowvideos6800 still coming back to your videos, just want to say they still make me happy. will you play fresh when it comes?
Felfire hill had a lot of quests in TBC for the Alliance.
whered you go man?
Very confused by your accent it sounds like an European Vietnamese accent lol. Being Vietnamese myself I find it some how comforting.
it is Austrian
Hehe, I am actually from Denmark but not Vietnamese :)
@@moegdalswowvideos6800 the way you use V and W sounds very similar to my accent lolol
Where have you gone, Moegdal? You're the one and only WoW content creator on UA-cam that sounds like Ahnold 😔 Will you be back?!
i miss your videos bro
I'm on a break but still thinking about video ideas. We'll see what happens - I'm always happy to release videos people enjoy watching :)
Hva, kommer der flere videoer?
De har sgu en røvfuld charme!
- god vind og lykke til!
Mange tak! Der er ikke planlagt nogle videoer lige foreløbigt. God vind til dig også :)
HI! You've been passive for a long time. Everything good? Still making content?
Where are you Moegdal? No TBC video :(
I haven't played much and I'm taking a break from making videos. Still love the game!
Unrelated but you've got an Arnold Schwarzenegger esque accent
please come back moegdal! i hope you have been well!! i would love to hear from you to know you are okay even if its a like on this comment :)
And this is just another reason why bringing Back Recruit a Friend / a similar experience rate boost for solo players (that didn't apply if you were being boosted by a lvl 60+) would've been a MILLION TIMES better than this garbage pay2skip 58 Boost...
That's a good idea I hadn't thought of. It would help make Azeroth feel a lot more alive definitely. TBC and the TBC pre-patch bring a lot of changes to the old world as well that many people will probably miss out on - Mudsprocket being added as a new quest hub in Dustwallow Marsh for example.
I wonder if this guy is danish