Rare Mobs of Classic WoW: 3 Lost Tales | World of Warcraft

My favouire (and also lore-relevant) rare mob in the game is Snarlmane . He is a lvl 23 undead rare gnoll on Fenris Isle, Silverpine Forest but most players probably don't know his history. Even though Illidan Stormrage's attempt to destroy the Frozen Throne with the power of the Eye of Sargeras was unsuccessful, the Lich King's power severely weakened and Arthas had to rush to his master's aid in Northrend. Due to the Lich King's weakening control a minor part of the Scourge became self-conscious, and led by Sylvanas Windrunner, they sought to conquer the remains of the Kingdom of Lordaeron by eliminating the remnant of the failed Burning Legion and the doomed last Alliance resistance. Thus the Civil War of the Plaguelands began. Despite the Legion's failure on Kalimdor, the remaining Nathrezim dreadlords still commanded a formidable force in Lordaeron, so Sylvanas and her Forsaken undead were vastly outnumbered. To overcome numbers of the dreadlords' armies, she decided to possess the local savage creatures' chieftains (and also the bandit lord, called Blackthorn) with her banshees to lead these armies against the dreadlords. Among the savages Sylvanas turned to her side was the ogre lord, Mug'thol (who was under Sylvanas' control until he found the Crown of Will to regain his freedom and you might know him from the eponymous quest), and also Snarlmane the gnoll warlord who appears as an undead rare mob in the times of World of Warcraft. How Snarlmane died is unknown, but apparently he was raised as an undead by the Scourge necromancer and former Dalaran wizard, Thule Ravenclaw.

Finding a rare mob in classic was an exciting thing, even though the loot wasn't all that great , just finding something odd in an area you thought you knew was magical.

My favorite memory of when I first started playing involves Narillasanz. A fresh level 30ish warrior and friends, making the journey up the river to see what there is to see, suddenly obliterated by a massive dragon. Since 2007, whenever I'm in the area, I think of that and it makes me smile.

Im not lucky or observant... except for when it comes to a Jedi Warlock upload! Keep up the awesome content =D

Damn. Need a series of this! I occasionally remember stumbling into rare spawns thinking "huh, seems to be some lore here". Always found the Dark Iron Ambassador in Gnomeregan interesting. Felwood also had some funny ones - uncorrupted beasts for example. Or Varo'then in Aszhara who got reduced from legendary commander(?) to a rare spawn, hah. Duggan Wildhammer in Easter Plaguelands too.

The unused Horde quest in the Wetlands means there was some intent that the player continued their questing from one zone to the other in EK instead of hitting a dead end at Arathi Highlands and having to backtrack to keep leveling.

Harvest Golem Mystery – one of the best Turtle WoW quest lines actually explaining with lore appropriate reasons why, where, who and when … too good to skip on that.

There is something uniquely charming about vanilla and the way it was designed, rare mobs included. Running into a rare that you'd never seen before could be spooky, but it'd also encourage you to group up and bring it down before somebody else did. The loot didn't even matter. The stories that WoW generated organically are what we all remember most fondly.

This guy doesn’t miss. These are the very types of wow videos I could listen to for hours: a mix of learning something new while exploring the old world we’ve grown to love over the last 20 years. Keep them up bro!

Woah these hidden stories were really cool! Makes you wonder how why they scrapped these questlines..

These videos have been amazing! Please consider doing another like this.

This was cool! I'd love to see more cut content relating to quests and rare mobs, I've spent a LOT of time farming rares for greens to add to my collections or sell on the AH and I can't count how many times I've been like "Huh, I wonder what the story is here" when I find a rare Naga among a bunch of Murlocs or something. Great video!

Harb Foulmountain kind of reminds me of Balgaras the Foul in the Wetlands. A dwarf warlock said to be the mastermind behind the Dark Iron attack on Dun Modr + Thandol Span, but Balgaras himself is a Bronzebeard dwarf, not a Dark Iron. Different clan, just like Harb & the Grimtotems, but allies all the same (probably because of Ironforge's poor view of warlocks).

Maybe back when they were creating Vanilla, it might just simply have been cases of "Whoops, this will overlevel players by the time they reach X and we can choose between tweaking the exp of all the quests or cull some of the easier to remove missions involving very few NPCs".

Keep doing these Rare Mobs investigations, so good!

There are actually a lot of interesting rares in WoW from Classic to WotLK. One of the most interesting and well known rares is Speaker Mar'grom, a rare in Blade's Edge Mountains. He's unusually chatty for a rare and has a lot of lines. He walks around the ogre camps and preaches to overthrow their Gronn overlords (which is quite interesting piece of lore if you know the story introduced in WoD, namely the story of Ogre Rebelion), but also preaches against seeking Ogri'la (either because he thinks a peaceful solution is fragile or because he doesn't believe in it). A noble soul trying to liberatehis people. it's a shame that he's a xenophobe and attacks everyone who isn't ogre. Another rare from BC I absolutely love is Doomsayer Jurim. He's interesting because judging by his race and clothing he's a member of Auchenai, but he's very far from Auchindoun Crypts itself. One hint as of why he is out in the field right now might be his warlock shoulderpads, which have a very distinctive look. I have two theories: 1) Those are supposed to be heads of his dead bretheren (Unlikely due to the shape). 2) Those are demon heads. And since demons has returned back on Outland, he decided to go outside and take vengence on Burning Legion. Unfortunately he's not Maraad or Ixamos and cannot be redeemed, so we'll have to put his troubled mind to rest. Lastly I'd like to point out Eastern and Western Plaguelands as points of interest. Why those two? Deathknights. And not just regular deathknights - rare ones. Why are they so interesting? Because they are named after WC III Deathknights, which implies that they are survived veterans from the Scourge campaign in Lordaeron. You have a lot of the old ones, such as Lord Darkscythe, Lord Maldazzar, Baron Bloodbane...the list goes on. While we speak of WC III vets I'd also like to point out one particular veteran that isn't in the plaguelands, but has connection to WC III - Illanna Dreadmoore. Illiana is interesting because she takes a last name after Duke Dreadmoore, which either implies she's either his wife/relative (and that he was an elf) or Blizzard was limited by male models at the time and softly retconned Dreadmoore into a female. But anyway, great video as always and I would love to see more like these!

very cool video, rares mobs and unused quests are super interesting. You should make that a serie

Had no idea about the zeppelin above Dun Modir!! Rad

Happy to have found your channel! Loving getting to experience more depth in the game world through your videos.

Neat! I remember running through Algaz on my shaman in classic and thinking it would have been a fun zone to have quests in. Shame the horde missed out on that.