The Classic WoW Content We Never Saw... 

I kinda want them to finish up and bring in everything that they had originally planned for Vanilla, but never got around to putting out.

It would be really really REALLY interesting if they stay on the vanilla route. Ok woa. I didnt expect to get that many likes here. Thx. To edit more, I am all for finishing up what wasnt there. Though Blizzard is no longer the Blizzard back then, and I think it would be best to contact the people that were behind the original ideas to fully fledge out what was planned. I love vanilla for what it is, and I do not want it spoiled, but neither do I think that a full on puritan approach is great either. A lot of zones weren't fully finished in vanilla, and a lot of quests were just absent. If you could use the unfinished zones to fill in those gaps, in vanilla like way, I think it might just complete the game. Just try it on like, 5 servers, and keep all other vanilla servers original. Blizzard is a huge company that should be able to pull that off. Just watch the demand in the servers populations.

As much as I enjoyed TBC, I would like to see the unfinished content.

Would be very cool if Blizzard would do introspections about these cut contents. What were they planning, how far did they get, what problems they ran into, etc. Kinda like the developer commentary in Valve games, but with the unreleased content.

Stumbled across your vid 3 years after not long after the release of dragonflight, and wow, I had no clue that the dragon isles have been in since classic, and even though we didn't get the Naga as a playable race, I feel like we got a step in that direction. Also the fact that they did make 3 versions, but it's not classic, retail, and tbc, but instead it's classic, retail and WOTLK

I wouldn't be surprised if, since Molten Core, Onyxia, and Blackwing Lair were all Fire themed raids and they started coming out with other themed raids afterward with AQ40 being the nature theme and Naxxramas being the Frost (and a little shadow) theme, I woulnd't be surprised if their original intention was to release Uldum as the Arcane raid and Karazhan as the Shadow raid.

New content for classic sounds like the better way to go, old style, more content to expand some lore, ect.

They should do what Jagex did with Oldschool runescape. Wich would be classic+ but the community gets to poll updates.

I would love to see a classic plus reboot. Where they start over at classic, then work your way through a new timeline staying true to the game's original goals.

Emerald Dream deserves a mention.

There was once a potential underwater raid/dungeon in Azshara that was never made. Back in the early stages of wow if you swam off the coast of Azshara you could find a watery style Dark Portal entrance on the ocean floor. I heard that it was scraped due to the limitations of the game at the time. Personally i would love to see an underwater raid encounter today.

This was so neat! Thanks! Also, I too feel the same about that Uldum gate. I remember seeing it on my first toon questing (I started in BC) in Tanaris and thinking something cool and underground was behind that gate! I remember in Cata thinking that I like Egyptian theme and all but it wasn't my hopes for what was maybe being guarded by those giants. I'd be very into Blizz devs doing more end game content for Classic and not do BC or maybe release BC as a stand-alone somehow.

I'm of the mindset that Classic is more of an alternate universe to Retail, and things CAN and SHOULD be different going forward!

If you do the disc quest you find out Uldum is one of many research facilities around multiple worlds that the titans used. Then you talk to a tauren and she mentions they'll be looking into how to get the right key.

Thank You for this. I always enjoy watching your videos and seeing something about WOW that I just never knew was in the game.

I think Classic + should be a thing, but I don't want them to create "new" content, but rather finish the actual content they had planned to release in Vanilla. Things like Karazhan which was indeed planned to follow up after naxx. The staff Atiesh that you get in naxx creates a portal that takes you directly to the front gate of Kara even. I also think they should finish the dragon isles and possibly Quel'Danas. It was in Vanilla for a reason, the devs even said so themselves. They just couldn't add more zones because of how vanilla worked, so they were kind of forced to make outlands. But things are different now that we're playing on the version 8 framework, and the game can most definitely now support more zones. Lorewise there is TONS of stuff to make content of instead of just skipping over it all to go to Outland like they did.

lvl cap should never go over 60 thats all for me.

Karazhan Crypts was used for getting the Lucid Nightmare mount in a future expansion

The suspected Naga zone that has no textures towards the end of the video, has a lot in common with Zandalar architecture.

1.13 - no expansions just content releases... A.k.a new zones, BGs, arenas (we know they had that idea from vanilla times as well and higher ilvl gear that’s all.. No more leveling, no new systems, etc.

I would love to see them trying to put some new content into Classic after the final patch, like a new raid or new zones.

An alternative time line after the end of Classic would be cool to explore. After-all the Blackdragon Flight is always trying to mess with the retail WoW time line.

Your videos are getting better and better. I love it ❤

I hope they release some of this stuff in classic wow.

Gotta say I would love to see new content in classic that finishes the vision they had laid the groundwork for.

My favorite expansion was TBC, i would love to see that! But! whats next Wotlk? Again content that we saw already, you see the problem here... For me personaly the way to go is, Classic+(new updates...) or a new Classic expansion and Blizzard have to stay with the Vanilla Philosophie!

Another great video vaulty, keep it up!

One flaw in the dungeon tier of classic was the lack of diversity for alternate specs. They could keep the stats equal to Naxx Tier but make a boomkin, tank enhancement, shadow priest set ect. Or you could acquire crafting recipes to make these sets like with ZF.

What I'd like to see as NEW CONTENT in Vanilla World of Warcraft: - Azshara Crater - Emerald Dream Raid (The Two World Bosses would be turned into elite that guard the entrance to the Emerald Dream raid) - Uldum Raid/Dungeon

It's a nice thought, but there is zero chance that they devote an entire development team to adding on to classic WoW. Given how popular classic has been though, I think there is a very large chance they will announce plans to release TBC, and possibly WotLK, servers down the line.

I wonder what they had in mind with the Dragon Isles? I guess we will never know.

In Legion the crypt in Deadwind Pass was where you went to get the Lucid Nightmare mount, and you even had to swim through the section of the upside down bodies to get to it.

When you dig up old concept maps for WoW, you'd see dragon isle was planned to be a level 70 zone with a raid. 70 seemed to be the possible level cap in early concepts.

i wish they d stick to the Warcraft III Lore. would love to see TBC and WotLK. but no further

I'm all for Classic Plus, in the style of Old School Runescape. TBC servers would be nice but keep it separate from Classic, maybe with options to transfer a copy of your Classic characters to the TBC realms. Now that Classic is here, I dont want it to go into the same cycle of expansions again. Flying killed world PvP, which is one of my favorite things to do in Classic. Just the other day I went with a group to do SFK and we got into world PvP on the way. It was so fun that we almost forgot we had a dungeon to do.

personally I would like to see them finish some content they had originally planned like Hyjal, maybe even Uldum, but I dont really trust their team to really capture the feeling of a classic wow Raid. maybe they could prove me wrong but I am not optimistic.

You forgot about the emerald dream too which was a cool area.

The upside-down sinners is what those hanging dudes were called.

2:52 I love that it says Old Ham xD

From one thing that I'd heard about Azshara Crater was that a lot of things with it were eventually used with Wintergrasp and (later) Tol Barad as a concept mixed with more akin to Alterac, with things unlocking by the amount of control a side had. It was something that had been brought up with some of the stuff leading up to the initial release of WotLK...the main reason it didn't get added in was due to the issues Alterac had at the time so they shifted focus to elsewhere. They'd also said that the Karazhan Crypts were intended to be a questing zone, probably with plans for Kara and reverse Kara to be raids/dungeons.

@Vaulty, when will you stream? Btw awesoem video. ;)

Yeah, I’d love to see Classic+. Also, an arena system in Classic would be amazing, even if it would be broken lol.

I always thought there would open something in Aszhara, on the eastern shore, into the mountain side. There is one particularly path-looking crack in the mountain, with a nearly vertical wall at the end, perfect for remodeling into a dungeon entrance. I was so hopeful there would be more Naga

Just got recommended this, the Dragon Isles looking like that and then becoming what it is, is absolutely insane!

I'm shocked that I've never heard of most of these. The Karazhan crypts seemed familiar, and I'd heard of the GM Island, and had wandered about the Dwarven Air field and Old Ironforge back in the day, but these were far more interesting and yet they were new to me. Anyway, I'd love to see them finish these, if simply to delay the old expansions. It would attract more attention than simply releasing Outland again. But I'm also fond of the idea of using Classic WOW as an alternate timeline and changing the lore. But I've been hoping that Blizz would release a world editor and allow players to design their own "alternate timeline" instances for years, but using classic wow seems more realistic. However, the fact that they're calling it "Classic" Warcraft seems to discourage the idea that they would change the story, because it would stop being "Classic" and instead be a 2nd WOW. I feel like they're using Classic to lure people into Retail Warcraft and Classic will remain at level 60. A massive virtual museum. Anyway, enjoyed the video.

Classic style Grim Batol as expansive as BRD LBRS and UBRS!!! Please!

The uldum gate in tanaris was part of the disc chain quest from uldaman instance and it was part of the titans... but if you go over the mountain in normal wow you can see that it was a tunnel into uldum that collapsed.

Unreleased vanilla zones: Quel’Thalas Gilneas (Gilnean Wall) Grim Batol Stormwind Dungeon (portals) Draenor/Dark Portal Karazhan 40 man raid Undermine/ Bloodsail Hold/ TelAbim Tomb of Sargeras Tol Barad Hyjal Azshara Crater Naga Capital Emerald Dream Uldum Caverns of Time Stonetalon Peak (dungeon)

I think they should release new content for classic wow. just leave the abilities and everything alone.

would be cool if they go the old school Runescape route, just adding content to the classic wow world, with keeping everything that makes classic so great.

@vaulty Was hoping to see some talk on the instance in WinterSpring that never got made. Where all the ice giants are.

I think CWOW is a great idea and look foward to the nostalgia. The version that just launched was my favorite back then. One of the problems I had with the original release was the design/look, although I learned to love it, I felt other games in the genre at the time had more immersive graphics. So with that said I'd love to see a wow classic completely redesigned in a modern updated graphic style using the latest in graphic card technology.

Combine the Karazan crypts with the actual tower into a two part 40man raid

I hope they release more content for classic making it its own stand alone game. I doubt blizzard were expecting classic to be as successful considering the amount of servers on release.

I would definetly love to see all the cut content being implementend in a continued classic version of the game. I read the WoW Diary and it became clear that a lot of content was cut because of time pressure. The Emerald Dream being a major example of that and also Outland being a part of Vanilla.

A curious and very important question. Before that gets answered though I feel the community at large needs to experience what Classic has to offer. I personally am split on the issue, but really how cool would it be to see them explore some of that abandoned content or new content through the more old-school RPG lense. Only time will tell.

Eff flying mounts and abandoning Azeroth to the Outlands again with Burning Crusade. Instead, bring its best raid (Kara) and other unfinished/relevant content scaled to 60 in a Classic+.

Would be cool to see them create some new content but not too much because then you would start to encroach on BC / higher level content item/character strength levels. Additionally, I think they should have segmented server realms for ALL released of the game allowing the player to choose their max / end of the line. Blizz could easily make a bunch of money back on people who eventually get bored and want more / transfer if they implement what I've mentioned.

Vaulty, you forgot the raid portal in Stormwind you silly goose. Haha great video though. Going to show this to my Wrath baby friends

I think new content like the places you showed here would be AMAZING!

New content for classic, that would be amazing!

I think they will release old expansions, but retune them using lessons they learned from previous mistakes to fix the damage, while keeping the old class systems, etc

8:25 that " octopus" model is used in dungeon Shrine of the Storm

They should finish the projects and give us EVERYTHING they had planned or were working on. Like Kara crypts. Would love to see the crypts raid especially the hyjal area with archimonde. Final boss of vanilla being archimonde or something like that would be dope AF!!!!

Honestly, this is a great time for Blizzard to get a "do over" on the entire WoW storyline...

Guess its not mistery anymore about dragon isle.. ? They ll probably use it in new one

What about the gate portal south of winterspring where the caves and elite succubus are?

2 seconds looking at the video picture and I immediately recognized it from the south part of Tanaris. And I recall wondering back then why it hadn't been opened , and when it would be. There is also a huge cave on the southern coast side of Ahn Kir'ag that has a sleeping dragon is in, and wonder if it has any lore tied with the Dragon Isles. A watcher cave in Tanaris, Titan Tech in Oldum, and a huge cave by Ahn Kir'ag with a sleeping dragon in it, all side by side shouldn't be too difficult lore-wise. Also with Old God influence inside of AKir'ag.

They need to def. Add the Mr. T event. Also if they dont add new content I feel as if players would get bored of it they need to add harder content at slow rates

I feel like it would be difficult to make modern content into classic because you have would to design a zone with scattered, grindy questing or make a raid with bosses with little to no mechanics because thats what classic is. It will feel off to have retail content in classic unless they make it like it was back then.

Great Classic info !

Any content already done (other xpacks leave in retail). New content as the areas you've pointed out in the video. profit. $$$$

So uh… funny thing about the Dragon Isles

looking at the round plate in the entrance of uldum and thinkingg of the quest and the theme in uldaman which leads you to uldum i think uldum was tied to the same titan and acient gods theme like uldaman and ulduar

the karazan crypt was opened to get the special mount in Legion :D

Hopefully classic takes a different route and they keep adding new content similar to how OSRS does it.

Every expa'sion as a seperated game with the option to clone ur character from classic to all other expansions, that's how they should have done it in the first place

Nice Video!

I clearly remember there was "Construction" road block sign somewhere around Hyjal mountain

New content would be amazing. Tired of games releasing more levels and just forgetting content. Would love to see 60 stay the max, and pursue unfinished projects

If they add nagas as playable races I’ll freaking lose it

There was a certain area in the Blasted Lands that made me think there was something important in Vanilla that was called, The Tainted Scar. It's not there in retail version of WoW and is called The Haunted Forest from Cataclysm, but it is there in Vanilla. I wonder if it was meant to have a raid dungeon in there somewhere.

There was also an Emerald Dream zone either in vanilla or in BC in the game files too.

Change the past, push the limit, prevent draenor from existing lol

Bc exp without flying mounts would be nice

The portal was actually going to be a demon raid heading to a blue dragon encounter but they couldn't finish things in time and we got the out door quest zone leading up to the back end of the portal which is hilarious

There was a gated portal in stormwind too. Don't know what that was for either.

I realy hope they go the OSRS route tbh.

I hope they expand on classic exploring the new zones, raids, and dungeons, THEN go into bc

I’d love to see additional content. It would be sweet to see the game reworked knowing everything that is known now, but kept in the old style. Kara crypts and Uld would make a sweet addition after what they have planned, then do hyjal and a big PvP release for the next set. I know naga and ogres were originally planned for vanilla, so it would be sweet to see them added in. Then they could expand into TBC, but I’d really like to see it reworked to keep big 40 mans, and a focus on keeping the community aspect of the game strong. Then giving TBC the same end game treatment where they release new content at lv70. They could continue to remake the game with WotLK. I really believe that if they were to remake the game from scratch now (especially after seeing how popular classic is) that they would greatly change their game design philosophy and we would have a vastly different game than we do in BFA. It would be so exciting to see classic reimagined all the way up to lv100 with full talent trees, player housing(originally planned for vanilla) with guild garrisons (originally a concept to build off of player housing), more challenging raids and more diverse races while keeping classes specialized but fleshing them out (as some, especially pallies were not quite fully developed in vanilla.

I always thought that Uldum was meant to be another Titan facility like Uldaman. The names sound similar plus if I remember correctly, there were some Titan relics in the area.

They should add classic content like rs os

Classic+ just gives blizzard a way to mess it all up.

Yes please. It would be awesome for there to be yearly patches with dungeon or raid content. The key would be to allow some servers to opt out, or possible to allow players to either see or not see the related content. Like with new armor, perhaps an opt-out player would see an old classic armor, but an opt-in player would see the new armor. And by "new", it could just be armor from a classic npc or mob or boss, rather than an armor that is completely new to the game. It would be nice to see that they stuck to the original visions for these dungeons too, with an art book perhaps with designs from the original teams. It's really cool to set up a classic timeline that differs from the retail timeline(s). I look forward to just exploring all of the classic world, but when that gets old it would be nice to see new "old" content, or a finishing process for vanilla. BUT, of course, the new armor/mounts/pets etc could not be better or faster than NAX level.

the last zone is the place in Vajir ( Cata exp) or the entrance of the instance. SO basically if you check those area now, are already developed. Ofc years of work. As a product you develop stuff before there are released today, with years old.

what about the portal in stormwind that was never released

If they do not move to TBC, this is what they should do: New tiered content, including raids, dungeons, and zones that were either unfinished or not implemented from original calssic. Removal of the debuff limit. Once all current content is finished, they should do what the devs always wanted to do and remove this archaic bug fix. Class/ability tuning. Seriously, there are some very small and simple changes that should be made to classes that were planned for TBC. I'm not asking for TBC talent trees, or new abilities. I'm talking about things like paladins redoubt being changed from on crit to a percentage chance on being hit. I'm talking about all the very small mechanics changing that were made in TBC to existing talents and abilities that allowed those abilities to function as originally intended. Or, and give paladins a single target taunt, and give druids a defensive ability they can use while tanking. Small stuff. Keep it very simple. Just make sure that the classes work, instead of having things in the game that are literally design mistakes.

karazhan crypts has a use in Bfa at least, its for the secret mount lucid nightmare, good luck to anyone who's up for it.

Now I want to see now is what's behind the winterspring and timbermaw hold raid portal

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