Hogger was, if memory serves, the first elite mob a new human player would ever encounter. People were not expecting him to be as strong as he was, plus he called for gnoll backup to help him fight and the area he was in had pretty fast respawning groups of gnolls and some roamed around. All of these elements were dangerous, but splicing them all together in a scenario where players had typically felt safe and comfortable soloing all their quests without help, and you have a recipe for death and dismay. Also, with servers frequently crashing or going down during vanilla, and players being unable to just stop playing, they would make new level 1 characters on other servers just to waste time until they could play on their home server again. When a bunch of level 1 humans spawned in large numbers in Northshire, they would roam around aimlessly killing things out of boredom, and it started to become a way to pass the time to test themselves against tougher and tougher enemies that they could kill in large numbers despite being level 1. Hogger became the measuring stick for these level 1 raids and would be swarmed by groups of level 1 players as if it were a raid encounter. All of this became pretty traditional for a lot of folks and further spread stories of Hogger and firmly cemented him as a historical figure.
In an alternate universe, Hogger actually united the gnolls and caused the Second Gnoll War which weakened the Alliance enough that the Burning Legion was able to steamroll through Azeroth.
I miss when hogger was actually a threat, when you needed a group to kill him unless you were a hunter. Now anyone can just walk up and kill him while 3 levels under him. Mobs are too easy to fight now.
I really liked this video! I know it was an April Fool's joke but it was neat to learn about a smaller, more often overlooked villain than the big overwhelming monstrosities like some of your other videos. Doing some more small time villain videos like maybe about the Centaurs or the Defias Brotherhood might be really cool!
BY THE WAY, Hogger is not dead, when you are doing a horde BfA intro (the stockades part), you can find a female human prisoner in Hogger’s room and a costume of Hogger. And when you interact with her she says like: “Aha, Hogger’s not dead - this is just a costume”.
Nice video, Hiru. Instead of doing the standard villains like everyone has, you chose a much more trivial, but perhaps much more relatable and memorable foe. Hogger is probably the most iconic of all mobs in Elwynn and likely one of the first, if not the first elites you'd encounter as a human player. Those drawings really do really lift the video to a higher level. Instead of the in-game or stock footage, this adds a personal and unique touch. Love this series and your channel!
Maybe one day we can be gnolls as a playable race, and the stockades could be retconned and used as the starting quest for the gnolls, and Hogger becomes the gnoll leader. :P
I think the Gnolls should be made a playable race (at least in part because they would be the best alternate race to turn the Worgen model into). But I don't think it is necessary to retcon the stockades to make Hogger one of the race's main characters-- afterall, "There must always be a Hogger" so... whichever one is calling itself Hogger now would be one of the racial heroes.
ive seen nearly every lore video on nearly every villain yet this is one i actually learned something in, the gnoll wars in fact. Also i would love to see an undead hogger or something with the bronze drakes and letting us go back in time to fight hogger, or something with the druids and the nightmare reliving their experiences with hogger or other small but infamous villains.
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I really enjoyed this episode, since this villain is much more insignificant character than all the others. You should do more of these!
I think a lot of horde guilds in Vanilla if their server was down used to roll a level 1 alliance on a random realm and raid hogger as level 1s. Some of the most memorable and funny evenings ever if you ask me
We used to all roll ally alts on another server and do “hogger raids” from time to time. You were supposed to try to get there while still lvl 1 or 2 and then the goal was just to overwhelm him with numbers lol
Also need to note in bfa that durning the horde chain where they infiltrate Stormwind and go into stockades to free the Zul Trolls there is a Hogger costume laying next to a woman in a cage where she tells you that he made her wear it.
Hogger's Lore is his notoriety of being the Terror of Elwynn. He wasn't a deadly target, but he was the introductory stage to cooperative efforts. Hogger did not forgive people who tried tackling him alone. And it was also a good way to introduce the threat that Elites were supposed to be. When you saw that Golden Dragon Ring; you knew you had a challenge on your hands. Much like how the Sons of Arugal were in Silverpine Forest. His legacy lived as the first elite people fought against; and likely first time they had to get a group together to take him down. (Or the first quest they've had to skip out of pure frustration of said difficulty spike)
So Garfang is WoWs version of Ghazghkull Thraka from WH40k :P Unite dumb orcs, I mean gnolls, under one banner. Respect the green tide... I mean, furry tide!
Just for laughs, during Vanilla my guild would organize raids of freshly minted characters against Hogger. The rule was that you created a new Human, Gnome or Dwarf (too much travel involved for Night Elves in Vanilla) and immediately traveled to the meeting spot just near Hogger's position. Dwarves and Gnomes used the subway between Ironforge and Stormwind to get there. The goal was to get to Hogger as low level as possible. Once a large enough group of us were gathered, we'd proceed to tackle him like he was a raid boss with our extremely limited abilities and gear. Given how he was much higher level than us and an elite, it was a glorious bloodbath. Gnoll adds could utterly wreck the raiding group but they could also spontaneously level some lowbies if we dropped them. It was surprisingly hard (assuming no one cheated on the pre-raid leveling) but a whole lot of goofy fun. I think Hogger killed more of us than any actual raid boss ever did.
It is said that Hogger is more powerful than any other thing in Warcraft, Starcraft, Minecraft, Overwatch, The Lost Vikings, and various other franchises.
In BfA, the Hogger in Stormwind Stockade is revealed to be a cosplayer. They celebrate the winner of Blizzcon 2017 Cosplay winner Kazplay by having her sitting in a cage minus the Hogger costume. They even name her Kazul www.wowhead.com/news=283666/tribute-to-blizzcon-costume-contest-winner-kazplay-in-battle-for-azeroth
Finally, the arch-villain of Warcraft gets a spotlight.
Hogger pve threat number 1 2004- Dec 2010
Why you have to make gnolls look so cute in here
Eiyne Fox Why not.
Because they are cute
Eiyne Fox gnolls have always been cute
Now I feel guilty about all the cute gnolls I've killed :(
Omg I want your pfp. So cute! And yea he did make them kinda cute
Spoiler for BFA: Hogger is in fact the physical incarnation of the Voidlords and will be the last boss of the expansion. Otherwise great vid man
Actual spoilerz: Hogger's head can be found in the stockades when horde go in for the stormwind rescue mission.
buliuol hjg
Everyone knows that in HS
Spoiler for Shadlow Lands you mean?
2.5 years after leaving WoW and I finally read something that makes me think about going back in.
Too bad you aren’t head dev.
I like how you´re not ´´cornering´´ just more iconic villains and try something different!
It's also April Fool's Day.
...and Easter. Hogger would look good in bunny ears.
Hogger was a great villain
This is the most iconic villain, Arthas is second
There must always be a Gnoll King
regular gnoll
He is our lord
@@clanjebb2017 elderly gnoll
@@flamecho5220 adult gnoll
@@clanjebb2017 Dead gnoll
Remember the famous Hogger Raids during Server Shutdowns :D
Hogger was, if memory serves, the first elite mob a new human player would ever encounter. People were not expecting him to be as strong as he was, plus he called for gnoll backup to help him fight and the area he was in had pretty fast respawning groups of gnolls and some roamed around. All of these elements were dangerous, but splicing them all together in a scenario where players had typically felt safe and comfortable soloing all their quests without help, and you have a recipe for death and dismay.
Also, with servers frequently crashing or going down during vanilla, and players being unable to just stop playing, they would make new level 1 characters on other servers just to waste time until they could play on their home server again. When a bunch of level 1 humans spawned in large numbers in Northshire, they would roam around aimlessly killing things out of boredom, and it started to become a way to pass the time to test themselves against tougher and tougher enemies that they could kill in large numbers despite being level 1. Hogger became the measuring stick for these level 1 raids and would be swarmed by groups of level 1 players as if it were a raid encounter. All of this became pretty traditional for a lot of folks and further spread stories of Hogger and firmly cemented him as a historical figure.
In an alternate universe, Hogger actually united the gnolls and caused the Second Gnoll War which weakened the Alliance enough that the Burning Legion was able to steamroll through Azeroth.
You joke, but that's actually a real possibility,,
I wouldn’t be surprised if that is an actual alternate reality in the Warcraft universe
Pardon me i think you mean hogger steamrolled the legion
@@legiohysterius4624 ok. That was funny
@@WarioWareCEO thanks as long as someone enjoyed it. Mission successful.
5:14 Deaths from hogger: None
Alright, you didn't have to flex 😂
idk how you can make gnolls cute, but good job
google baby hyenas right now and tell me gnolls can't be cute
Better then vulpera
I miss when hogger was actually a threat, when you needed a group to kill him unless you were a hunter. Now anyone can just walk up and kill him while 3 levels under him. Mobs are too easy to fight now.
Hurtydwarf you could kill him relatively easily with other classes too. Locks, pallies and druids worked just as well.
Removing “crushing blow” delivered a crushing blow to Blizzard.
I remember killing him with Power Word: Pain, running in circles, and my butthole clinched
Hogger was decently hard to solo in cata, but eventually the low lvl power creep got to him
Legend says that Chuck Norris and Segata Sanshiro kneel to Hogger.
hogger is the biggest danger to azeroth , i mean it took the might of a thousand level 5 players to kill the beast
I really liked this video! I know it was an April Fool's joke but it was neat to learn about a smaller, more often overlooked villain than the big overwhelming monstrosities like some of your other videos. Doing some more small time villain videos like maybe about the Centaurs or the Defias Brotherhood might be really cool!
I love the drawings a lot, you made even Hogger look cute lol.
I know this was meant as an April fools video, but jokes on you I actually enjoyed it!
Thanks Rachel ! Please make more of these. they make me real happy inside.
Rachel, loving the animations, good work and keep it up!!
BY THE WAY, Hogger is not dead, when you are doing a horde BfA intro (the stockades part), you can find a female human prisoner in Hogger’s room and a costume of Hogger. And when you interact with her she says like: “Aha, Hogger’s not dead - this is just a costume”.
I wonder at this point how many hogger videos we got on youtube atm
This video makes me wish Gnolls were playable. Hey if Void Elves are a thing, then anything is possible!
I totally love the drawings :3 Gnolls looks so cool and cute at the same time at least from these pictures :3
"Traps r'gay", huh? Well it's April's Fools, so we all know what's happening
This series is honestly fantastic, coming from someone who loves the game but cannot keep up with the massive amount of lore thrown at you.
Lol, makes me want to play a Gnoll. I will be the next Gnoll King!
They'd be an amazing Allied Race.
I have bigger teeth I should be leader
Nuh uh! I have the best rock, _I_ should be the leader!
@@TheMisfitTestSubject no way! my shadow is bigger
Heitor Peres Gerspacher Lara
No Way, My fur is darker, therefore, I shall be king!
Hogger is compare to Marvel's one above all. I've seen him take down 40 level 1's and Superman while he was doing his taxes.
"If he had managed to eckscape"
Hogger was basically Vanilla WoW's Fippy Darkpaw (gnoll in newbie area for Qeynos humans in EverQuest)
Wow hiru posted a video with high quality drawings. There is a first time for everything folks.
Hehe
Nice video, Hiru. Instead of doing the standard villains like everyone has, you chose a much more trivial, but perhaps much more relatable and memorable foe.
Hogger is probably the most iconic of all mobs in Elwynn and likely one of the first, if not the first elites you'd encounter as a human player.
Those drawings really do really lift the video to a higher level. Instead of the in-game or stock footage, this adds a personal and unique touch. Love this series and your channel!
With WoW Classic, Hogger makes a glorious return as the bane of many newbs. Long may he reign!
Maybe one day we can be gnolls as a playable race, and the stockades could be retconned and used as the starting quest for the gnolls, and Hogger becomes the gnoll leader. :P
I think the Gnolls should be made a playable race (at least in part because they would be the best alternate race to turn the Worgen model into). But I don't think it is necessary to retcon the stockades to make Hogger one of the race's main characters-- afterall, "There must always be a Hogger" so... whichever one is calling itself Hogger now would be one of the racial heroes.
Lfg> Hogger 40 man, 3.3k GS, ele shaman
Its iL not GS 👍
@@GoDewy it was Gs before item lvl you pleb
Mirai Kuriyama I would be fucking in
Link achievement pls.
"An organised force of these morons" kinda souds like my guild haha
Loving the art in these vids man, awesome!
Even though this art style is simple it looks so nice :D
The 40 man lvl 1 raids on Hogger where a great time if you had a group of bored players and you could get a escort to him.
Yes!! I was waiting for someone to mention these!
That gnoll in the corner being all happy and shit is so funny xD. Good job Rachael as always!
People know about Hogger...but DO THEY KNOW ABOUT HOGGER?
I love Gnolls. I want them playable.
They were *knollonger* a problem *knollmore*
Sons of arugal are the physical form of dread and fear if you leveled an undead back in the day
Love the art style.
Also remember that the Dark Moon Fair has the Wack a Gnoll game with Hogger
Very interesting video. Good series
Hey! I would have been mad too if someone took my rock #relatable
crackheads everywhere
ive seen nearly every lore video on nearly every villain yet this is one i actually learned something in, the gnoll wars in fact. Also i would love to see an undead hogger or something with the bronze drakes and letting us go back in time to fight hogger, or something with the druids and the nightmare reliving their experiences with hogger or other small but infamous villains.
I can almost picture a Death Knight Hogger :) it would be epic
screw illidan or arthas, i want an damn gnoll expac. A very smart strong Gnoll who takes revenge for hogger.
I didn’t know all these facts. Thanks hiru and Rachel!
Rip Hogger BibleThump you will be missed
Cool video! Please do one on Mor'Ladim aka Morgan Ladimore next. I find his story quite tragic.
The gnolls in this video look so cute and fluffy!
Yay! Informative and intriguing
The series helped me focus and not lose my sanity while in the maze for the lucid nightmare mount
I can't wait until WOW Classic comes out I will be organizing 40 man Hogger groups just for S&G
Great video hiru!
Love the drawings
Yes our Lord and Savior Hogger!!
I know this is supposed to be a joke, but I really enjoyed this episode, since this villain is much more insignificant character than all the others. You should do more of these!
Knew this had to be an April first vid :D he has had 2 Hearthstone cards made now, Hogger is a legend.
This makes me wish I could play as a Gnoll now.
You can also make dungeon/dungeon bosses lore video or something like that. Because this is nicely done.
Hogger is my spirit animal
Those are some adorable artworks.
Wasn't there a blizzcon or BWWI of something around wotlk that they had Hogger risen as a deathknight for a special raid at the event
Hogger also became a part of the Darkmoon Fair with the Wack-o-Gnoll game
I think a lot of horde guilds in Vanilla if their server was down used to roll a level 1 alliance on a random realm and raid hogger as level 1s. Some of the most memorable and funny evenings ever if you ask me
We used to all roll ally alts on another server and do “hogger raids” from time to time. You were supposed to try to get there while still lvl 1 or 2 and then the goal was just to overwhelm him with numbers lol
Pogger! I get this guy from Conjurer's Calling and Power of Creation.
Must admit Hogger in this video looks cute :3
this drawings are also amazing. :)
And in BFA when we try to rescue Saurfang, we find out that Hogger was just a costume :)
I... dude. That just might be his actual head... unless im being wooshed rn
Also need to note in bfa that durning the horde chain where they infiltrate Stormwind and go into stockades to free the Zul Trolls there is a Hogger costume laying next to a woman in a cage where she tells you that he made her wear it.
"101 reasons vanilla wow was the best expac"
100000000000000000000000001 reasons vanilla wow was the best expac ;)
Vanila wow was not an expac
And it wasn't the best either
thats debatable, for me, it is, by far.
Chritzical plays I've been playing since Vanilla. I like Wotlk and Legion the best.
My favorite character
Oh noes! Hogger lore has been changed this videos needs to be renewed!
He didn't see Hogger ransack the number one raiding guild on the planet in 2009. Ignore Hogger at your peril!
Damn Rachel so good of artist she makes gnolls look cooler/cuter then worgens.
Hogger's Lore is his notoriety of being the Terror of Elwynn. He wasn't a deadly target, but he was the introductory stage to cooperative efforts. Hogger did not forgive people who tried tackling him alone. And it was also a good way to introduce the threat that Elites were supposed to be. When you saw that Golden Dragon Ring; you knew you had a challenge on your hands. Much like how the Sons of Arugal were in Silverpine Forest.
His legacy lived as the first elite people fought against; and likely first time they had to get a group together to take him down. (Or the first quest they've had to skip out of pure frustration of said difficulty spike)
2:48 the gnoll wars sound suspiciosly similar to the emu wars
In wow I have the most trouble with gnolls as a low level
So Garfang is WoWs version of Ghazghkull Thraka from WH40k :P Unite dumb orcs, I mean gnolls, under one banner. Respect the green tide... I mean, furry tide!
Just for laughs, during Vanilla my guild would organize raids of freshly minted characters against Hogger. The rule was that you created a new Human, Gnome or Dwarf (too much travel involved for Night Elves in Vanilla) and immediately traveled to the meeting spot just near Hogger's position. Dwarves and Gnomes used the subway between Ironforge and Stormwind to get there. The goal was to get to Hogger as low level as possible. Once a large enough group of us were gathered, we'd proceed to tackle him like he was a raid boss with our extremely limited abilities and gear. Given how he was much higher level than us and an elite, it was a glorious bloodbath. Gnoll adds could utterly wreck the raiding group but they could also spontaneously level some lowbies if we dropped them. It was surprisingly hard (assuming no one cheated on the pre-raid leveling) but a whole lot of goofy fun. I think Hogger killed more of us than any actual raid boss ever did.
Wait, do one for the Defias!
No gnoll can stand against the 40 man Zerg of 100 people!
Lol that gnoll in the bottom right XD 1:17
Nice drawings.
Rachel does them.
1:25 D'awwwww. That happy face!
pat pat pat
You made them look so adorable
I think I just watched this cute gnoll video for 20 times...
hogger is the fifth old god in disguise
“An organized force of these morons..” AHAHAHA
HOGGER! #HOTS
Would love to see a villains corner on Deathwing
Thanks Rachel :D
It is said that Hogger is more powerful than any other thing in Warcraft, Starcraft, Minecraft, Overwatch, The Lost Vikings, and various other franchises.
Those animations killed me... 🤣🤣👌🏼
In BfA, the Hogger in Stormwind Stockade is revealed to be a cosplayer. They celebrate the winner of Blizzcon 2017 Cosplay winner Kazplay by having her sitting in a cage minus the Hogger costume. They even name her Kazul www.wowhead.com/news=283666/tribute-to-blizzcon-costume-contest-winner-kazplay-in-battle-for-azeroth
yes, more of this
What about Gamon?