The World of Warcraft iceberg, Explained

the GM telling a story about Woo Ping rather than just saying "he was removed because there was no use for him anymore" was really cute

Great video! Loved the ending!

"Why does a fire in Dreanor in the past teleport you to Pandaria in the present? No clue" Hmmm, yeah, they should've called that island "timeless" or something...

>CDC researchers studied the corrupted blood incident >that study went nowhere despite how it perfectly emulated how people would act during a real life pandemic sans the magic we were warned, and we did not listen

I barely played WoW, but somehow I actually know what “Kilar’s Fingers” is referencing. So, way back in the day, when the tv show “Cheat” on G4 had its episode on WoW, they showed an out of bounds glitch, where they entered into an area that was a long expansive plane, with some strange polygonal geometry scattered about. I for some reason remember them pointing out a row of five random cones in this out for bounds territory and commenting “players have dubbed this landmark, ‘Kilar’s Fingers’,” or something to that affect. It’s a totally obscure reference, but it’s oddly one of the few that I actually think I may have known.

I'd be impressed if anyone but me ever experienced this; but right around Cata launch when they revamped the zones there was a quest in Winterspring where you'd be captured by yetis and made to hang from the ceiling like Luke in Empire Strikes Back. They gave you an ability to break free, however at the time I had to go AFK so I logged out while hanging. When I logged back in, I noticed I was free from the ceiling. Instantly I started to try to kill yetis, but they all for some strange reason were locked in an "Evade" state. I kept trying to kill mobs, and in my confusion I opened up a ticket and started exploring the world. I went to an Alliance town and attacked the Flight Master, and to my surprise I could spawn Hippogryphs constantly due to him bugging out and constantly re-aggroing. I managed to find a player, and started attacking him. Since players lack Evade mechanics, the players would be taking damage but wouldn't notice me. Evidently, I was invisible and invincible to all players and NPCs in the game world. The ticket remained active, and I went to Hellfire Peninsula and started attacking random players and NPC's in Honor Hold. It was hysterical watching players scramble about not realizing what was happening. This all culminated in me queuing up for a battleground and holding the Lumber Mill in Arathi Basin; there would be 10+ players all camping the mill and running in circles AoEing in a futile attempt to damage the invisible force that was killing everyone around them. This however, got the GM's attention. I was pulled out and put in a GM sleep/stasis mode, where I told them what happened. The next day I logged in and had a bonus level and a Burning Crusade collectors edition pet in my mailbox. I guess he was grateful I didn't tell internet forums and cause a mass crisis for a few hours before they hotfixed it. Was one of my favorite experiences in WoW.

Learned a lot about Kanye today.

>The story of Woo Ping Everyone liked that.

The Pandaren Xpress thing is a joke about how EverQuest 2 had an in-game command to order pizza delivery IRL

You know, I figured by now I'd hate these iceberg meme videos for being forced or something, but they're a surprisingly efficient way of learning a whole bunch of history about each game or series they cover. I really like them.

That DM talking about Woo Ping I think wins the epic kayfabe award. It also may have been Chris Metzen in disguise.

"WKM Room" at 14:15 is a reference to "William Kenneth Max" the father of WoW 3D artists "Chad Max". He apparently helped redesign Orgrimmar for Cataclysm.

The Karazhan Crypts are actually explained in lore. Back when Medivh was still alive and possessed by Sargeras he built a secret underground section to Karazhan that was basically the same spire, but mirrored into the depths and depraved and twisted. Instead of normal library you had library full of books on demonology and other evil arts. There were operation theatres, dungeons and fel hound pens. With Sargeras' study at the very bottom.

The Virgin Deathwing vs Chad Ping

One person got Bengal Tiger from Blizzard trough make-a-wish fundation

Subtitles: Spires of Iraq

12:55 imagine the amount of bread in the Chinese version

26:55 Otherworld, you say? I'm Nachtsuchen of the Order of the Hidden Eye, and a friend of mine linked me your video earlier today. I hadn't seen the Reddit post related to this iceberg of mysteries picture until seeing your video, and noticed Otherworld mentioned on it. As there was some trouble from finding out about Otherworld, I figured the least I could do was comment for clarity. It would be disingenuous of me to claim I was the one who discovered Otherworld, as the phenomena happened very sporadically to random others prior to, but I am the one who gave it the name and documented it most thoroughly at the time. To explain, however, we must wind our clocks back to the early years of the Burning Crusade... My friend and I, Blackflame, had been avid fans of exploration. There wasn't very much he or I hadn't seen. Most of our time, we spent our days going to and from place to place, climbing mountains for the sheer sport of it (as this was during the days before Wall Jumping was removed). During one particular day, as we were traveling from Wetlands to Theramore, I was standing on the box that allowed you to remain mounted when I disconnected during the loading screen. What occurred was my character being able to run at Epic Mount speed without being mounted while also being able to attack. We were thrilled, having found a new glitch in the game, and sought to recreate this over in the Barrens. Instead, we were met with something far, far different: Otherworld. It was from this discovery that we founded the Order of the Hidden Eye, an exploration community that spanned across countless countries and servers and comprised of thousands of members. Using a macro we coined the "Disconnect Macro" (which was just a macro used to attempt to color your in-game chat text and then speak, which caused you to crash on Retail servers instead of Private servers), I was able to force myself to disconnect to the login screen after loading between continents had finished. Rather than find myself no longer on my mount, I found myself no longer on my same plane of existence. Rather than arriving to Ratchet, I was met with falling below the earth. Rather than appear at the graveyard, I fell briefly again in front of the Horde area in Arathi Highlands. Absolutely befuddled, I meandered around in this bizarre reflection of the normal world. While everything seemed similar on the surface, I noticed how every player and NPC were floating above my head. As I tried to approach them from a higher angle, my friend exclaimed in astonishment when I was running through the air from his perspective. To him, and all others, I was phasing through terrain, floating through the air and wafting above the abyss beneath the terrain. Considering I was both in the world beside him and, yet, somewhere other than there, we dubbed the discovery "Otherworld". Little to he and I's knowledge is, at the time, there was an even deeper reason for this place existing. My true technological and historical understanding is hazy at best, though I do know many of my compatriots within the Exploration Community have since come to understand my own discovery better than I. My own understanding, to be open to its own clarification, is thus: During the earliest days of World of Warcraft, there was yet-another glitch that caused players to fall beneath the 0, 0, 0 XYZ location of the zone they were loading from when attempting to zone into another instance. Players attempting to enter Ahn'Qiraj found themselves falling beneath the world of Stonetalon Mountains and dying, while other players in Eastern Kingdoms fell and died beneath Alterac Mountains. Blizzard, in an attempt to fix this problem, created what I dub the "XYZ Boats" -- a Zepplin and a Boat, respectively in Stonetalon Mountains and Alterac Mountains, at these locations. The reason for being boats, in particular, is because they act as instances within instances themselves (again, to my loose interpretation of game mechanics), and served as an intermediary for players loading between zones. They helped the game servers reference the player's location and kept them from falling through the world during the loading process. This largely seemed to fix the problem, but created a very rare and specific glitch. However, because the Otherworld phenomena was so specific, or without knowing of it, the glitch of Otherworld remained. It was largely kept a secret between those within the Order of the Hidden Eye and close friends, as it was deemed far too potentially exploitable in terms of malicious use by the masses (as it was the mission of the OotHE to find glitches and exploits, and to suppress and protect potentially harmful and rare secrets while sharing exploration that could be enjoyed by all). Eventually, it was shared to a website called Ownedcore (formerly MMOwned) with eyes to observe public development of its use. Otherworld was used largely as a transitory glitch, allowing players to go from mundane regions to regions previously difficult or impossible to reach, now with relative ease. At its core, Otherworld was a "map swap" exploit that achieved the same effect as hacking game files to swap maps (but without tampering with game files), making it a much more favorable alternative. Ironically, it was thanks to Otherworld that the location of the XYZ Boats, and their purpose, was discovered. Blizzard eventually patched the Otherworld glitch some time during Wrath of the Lich King with an updated method for tracking player position (which itself lead to more glitches, naturally); this did not stop players, as an "Otherworld Hack" was developed strictly to emulate the mechanics of Otherworld. Eventually, a permutation of the glitch was discovered and dubbed "Secondworld", which allowed very specific and previously-thought lost locations (such as GM Island) to be accessed. It's to my understanding that the GM Island Raid mentioned during 23:40 and was possible largely because of this. Members of the Exploration Community (love ya bud, Dovah) placed Warlocks on GM Island, thanks to the Otherworld permutation, Secondworld, to summon a full raid of forty explorers to spend a day on the island one last time before it was removed from Retail (and Classic) forever. Thankfully, this event was recorded from multiple perspectives (and is available in its entirety for viewing on my own channel). It is one more amusing thing to mention, as well, that Otherworld was not actually possible to explore on Private servers (to my knowledge), as the mechanics of Private servers function differently than Retail servers. Other fun details to note include but are not limited to: Being able to attack and interact with NPCs, players and objects like chests, from above and below the terrain. For a time, touching water within Otherworld caused you to disconnect to the login screen, which made travel within Otherworld very tricky, as disconnecting would return you to the real world (and sometimes plummeting back down to earth or into the abyss, depending on your location in relation to the real world). You experienced the effects of being under water in terms of breath and Fatigue as well, but could "run" through water in respect to your location in the real world. Mind Controlling players while in Otherworld would cause them to fall through the terrain; this could be used to startle the hell out of them by momentarily phasing them under the world to show them you were watching before returning them safely on their surface. Objects that did exist in the real world did not exist in Otherworld, meaning you could have empty interiors that previously would be populated with things like chairs, doors, etc. This includes NPCs native to the area. This is how Swifty, myself and a few others took some fun screenshots on the Stormwind and Ironforge thrones free from obstructions. A raid was also conducted on Orgrimmar, where dozens of members and guests of the Order of the Hidden Eye flew above Orgrimmar to dazzle spectators below. Your video was a lot of fun, though I do believe the image of the iceberg has a bit of detail in need of refining and changing around in terms of depth. There's certainly much more that could be added as well, from the mundane "HELP" and "PLEH" messages atop mountains, to things such as "Old Deadwinds Pass", and beyond. While I no longer play World of Warcraft anymore, discussion of its secrets will always fascinate me. It brings me great joy to see people take an interest in exploration, even in the year of 2020. Thank you for the big smile you've put on my face. And to those who read this insanely-long post, cheers!

Im surprised "Old Ironforge" (not Alpha Ironforge) wasnt mentioned, also the Stormwind "Vault" and player housing portals. Those are also pretty popular "secrets", also Gunther Arcanus just to make Hiruma happy.

Don't forget that Dancing Troll Village was officially recruited into the Horde as part of the campaigns against the night elves in Cataclysm, and again in BFA. In fact, one of the Darkshore world quests for Alliance involves bombing the original dancing village.