It's really sad that Blizzard never gave the Furbolg a redemptive storyline. Playing Warcraft 3, you get the impression that prior to the Burning Legion's invasion of Ashenvale, the Furbolgs were close allies of the Night Elves, and their corruption was such a big theme of northern Kalimdor in Vanilla WoW. I really wish there had been quests and ongoing stories to make the Furbolg's a kind of unofficial Alliance/Night Elf race, a bit like some ogres are for Horde, or better yet, like the Dryads and Ancients for the Night Elves.
I always felt bad killing furbolgs, they've had it pretty rough. They're only hostile because they've either been corrupted by demonic magic or because they're traumatized from dealing with demonic magic.
Haven't played WoW in so, so many years, but I still love watching these videos. I don't remember my gear, or what the numbers on my fancy rare belt were, but I do remember all the pointless things. Some of the stuff I loved most about this game.
I really hope that Alliance get Furbolg in the future. Maybe they could do a revamp of Azuremist Isle while they're at it and show the Stillpine now prospering alongside the Draenei and they then decide they have recovered enough with the help of the Draenei that they join the Alliance. Would be pretty awesome.
6:38 Azuremyst Isle is my favorite zone in the game. It's beautiful in a kind of alien, ethereal way, and it has the absolute best ambient music of any zone. It's just a really relaxing place full of potential pointless top ten placements. I'm sure Crendor must have already done a top ten fishing spots... but the little "river" between the starting level 1-5 area and the rest of the zone is my favorite spot to fish.
Fun fact, the rod is given to the player before they accept the quest. If you don't autopilot and never even take the quest at the stone in the first place, you get to keep the rod and not have a dead quest in your quest log!
Biggest thing I love with the Winterpelt is their language is cross-faction in /say and /yell, and available to anyone who goes and does the short grind to cap it out. It's a fully accessible means to communicate across the faction language barrer, and I think the first time an additional language has been available to permanently 'learn' in game, to anyone.
So I just discovered your videos and have been binging the hell out of them. I've worked in video games for a decade, and your videos showcase what I love the most about game development. You highlight these little details, whether it's interesting environment art, environmental storytelling, or small little narrative choices that would seem like a waste of time for a developer to put in, but you show how these little things can add such depth to the world and create curiosity in it's players. We see so many negative videos tearing games apart these days, so seeing a ton of videos praising the little things does make it feel worth it.
No Teldrassian furbolgs? Such a shame. One of my first memories of WoW was getting lost in Ban'ethil Barrow Den and being unable to find my way out. Good memories...
Just started playing Classic and made a night elf, I was in there with another guy and thankfully my memory of decades ago saved us a lot of time running around and getting lost. Still brutal for a low level area!
Crendog I've been a fan since the start. Found you while I was still in high school, haven't had time to watch you in many, many moons. This was an amazing pick me up when I needed it. Keep up the amazing non content.
YAY furblog list :D tried to find a list of these on your channel when got a hamster and wanted a dwarf / furbolg themed name. suggested on twitter when couldnt find these here. Named him General Stormsqueak in the end. happy vibes
Furbolgs are just peak Warcraft imo. There's just something about Furbolgs that make me feel idk, at home? I'm not sure how to explain it but I always get happy whenever we go to a Furbolg area.
What's cool about the Winterpelts is that you actually can learn and speak Furbolg after their questline, which is one of the only methods to communicate with another faction players (if they also can speak Furbolg)
I remember one thing I and guildies would do : the Timbermaw Hold Death run! Basically get a lower level character to the Felwood side and see how far we could make it through. Back then they attacked, now they just do nothing.
The failed world tree that is Grizzlemaw is actually the primary reason why the Emerald Nightmare exists in the first place. As Crendor said. The roots went so deep that it touched Yoggys Prison, and through that interaction. He was able to reach into the emerald dream and corrupt a portion of it, turning it into the nightmare that we know today.
I know some hidden lore about the Furbolgs. I thought I'd include these tidbits here. 1) Inside Timbermaw Hold, a path leads down to a wooden blockade covered in claw marks. This can be found in both Classic and Retail WoW. It is unknown what it was ever meant to be. While Furbolg are often on a discussion for Alliance race candidates, they often were the unpopular picks, and especially fell off with the Pandaren being playable. A similar entrance is near the Blackmaw camp in Azshara, suggesting it's a location under Hyjal. 2) The Drogbar, as they exist in retail, are a re-design. The original intent was a Furbolg variant, that explained their origins more, and were the "ancient Furbolg, but different" referenced in the War of the Ancients novels. Art for the original design was in the Legion Artbook. As a nod to it, the new Furbolg models in Dragonflight used the Drogbar animation skeleton. 3) Ursin is a realm in the US. All realm names are WoW related. There is no Ursin that we know of in World of Warcraft - the bear wild gods are Ursoc and Ursol. It might have been a misspelling of Ursine, the Furbolg language. Season of Discovery recently added Idol of Ursin Power, which is its first official reference. There is some speculation Ursin might have had a larger role that's not happened yet, such as another bear wild god, but Blizzard has never clarified.
I really have to wonder if Blizzard was considering adding Tuskarr and Furbolgs as playable races in an earlier draft of Dragonflight. They certainly setup the lore for both and I could absolutely see Belameth as a starting zone area for Furbolg heroes.
I actually think I would play WoW again if they made a "pre-sundering", a completely new game; and actually worked with people and other game creators/companies to make it good. 2004 wow was so clean, but unpolished and gameplay was better than many of the 2014-2024... including the retail, that's so tiring to even watch for an old man.
I still find Ursoc so sad. Gets corrupted multiple times and we have to kill him multiple times. And when he's finally in his seed for rebirth thinking that we finally got rid over everything that could corrupt him again and can finally lead a normal life, the Winter Queen decides to sacrifice him permanently.
Since I learned furbolg language from winterpelt now my tauren speaks taurahe, orcish and furbolg that's kinda cool haha very underrated aspect of an adventure game
While I think there won't be a fourth update on the furbolg models, I do think Blizz went wrong direction with the Dragonisle ones. They just made them into bear-man-gorillas with five fingers! Five! Buuuuuut, I guess they can use the same reasoning as with the centaurs over there, they are distant cousins with little in common with the continental furbolgs.
I remember exchanging OC backstories on an RP server and absolutely losing my shit and immediately feeling bad when a friend told me his OC's family was massacred by corrupted furbolgs... and that is all I think of at first when anyone talks about them lmao
And then, having saved Ursoc's sprit twice, his spirit traveled to Ardenweald, to slumber until it was time for him to be reborn. Until his anima was drained by Aralon at the order of the Winter Queen and his spirit was destroyed forever. Gee, I wonder why people get so mad about Shadowlands.
I found your videos like 3 weeks ago and i have watch almost all of the pointless top ten. And if there is anything i have learned, its that inside pointless things are treasure.
... If Crendor dares to venture outside WoW, I _strongly_ hope he checks out Sydney's annual duck fashion show. You read that correctly. Annual. Duck. Fashion. Show!
Obviously, quests are just content for players to do, but the fact that they made the uncorrupted blackmaw tribe leader to be completely idiotic is kind of unfortunate. In Burning crusade, the Alliance gets a quest in zangarmarsh to attempt to "save" a lost ones encampment. The feralfen tribe, worshipped arakoa, so the dranei quest giver was all like, ok, lets make you a spirit of the arakoa and trick the feralfen into being chill. It didnt work. The elder was like, no fucking way our spirit will tell us to be friendly with the dranei, promptly called us fakes, and then said that they just wanted to be left alone, and allowed us to walk away in peace. Yet the furlbogs, nah they get treated like this.
Your content is still more original than whatever the other guys are putting out now. Hiru keeps recycling content, Madseason is still in Limbo, and Platinum is Blizzard's whipping boy now
Holy hell, I remember watching the podcast you did with Dodger, Jesse and TotalBiscuit back when I was playing Guild Wars 2, only to now be watching you make WoW videos when I've finally gotten into wow. On a whim I remembered that your name on the podcast was "WoWCrendor" and not just Crendor. It's awesome to see you still making content and being alive still. Back then I just liked you for your takes on the podcast, but it's honestly making me emotional to see you still okay. I know TB would be happy you, Dodger and Jesse are all moving forward. Take care of yourself man. Oh and make a new series about Classic Anniversary!!
Reaching exalted with Timbermaw Hold also awards what is, in my opinion, one of the most wholesome achievements in the game. "They Love Me In That Tunnel" 🥹❤
It's really sad that Blizzard never gave the Furbolg a redemptive storyline. Playing Warcraft 3, you get the impression that prior to the Burning Legion's invasion of Ashenvale, the Furbolgs were close allies of the Night Elves, and their corruption was such a big theme of northern Kalimdor in Vanilla WoW. I really wish there had been quests and ongoing stories to make the Furbolg's a kind of unofficial Alliance/Night Elf race, a bit like some ogres are for Horde, or better yet, like the Dryads and Ancients for the Night Elves.
Crendor is lucky he was even able to upload this video considering how corrupted the file must have been.
I always felt bad killing furbolgs, they've had it pretty rough. They're only hostile because they've either been corrupted by demonic magic or because they're traumatized from dealing with demonic magic.
Haven't played WoW in so, so many years, but I still love watching these videos. I don't remember my gear, or what the numbers on my fancy rare belt were, but I do remember all the pointless things. Some of the stuff I loved most about this game.
I really hope that Alliance get Furbolg in the future. Maybe they could do a revamp of Azuremist Isle while they're at it and show the Stillpine now prospering alongside the Draenei and they then decide they have recovered enough with the help of the Draenei that they join the Alliance. Would be pretty awesome.
6:38 Azuremyst Isle is my favorite zone in the game. It's beautiful in a kind of alien, ethereal way, and it has the absolute best ambient music of any zone. It's just a really relaxing place full of potential pointless top ten placements. I'm sure Crendor must have already done a top ten fishing spots... but the little "river" between the starting level 1-5 area and the rest of the zone is my favorite spot to fish.
There are a lot of unique quests there as well. The zone deserves more love.
Azuremyst Isle music is my go-to tune for falling asleep to. Makes me feel so at peace and drift off, not a thought nor care in the world.
"The furbolg here are corrupted!"
"You don't say?"
strong contender for most corruptible race in WoW for sure
A shout out to Dartol's Rod of Transformation. people would start the quest but not finish it so the could turn into a furbolg every once and a while.
Fun fact, the rod is given to the player before they accept the quest. If you don't autopilot and never even take the quest at the stone in the first place, you get to keep the rod and not have a dead quest in your quest log!
Congrats on 500k subs Crendor! Thanks for all the great, high-quality non-content ♥
Furbolg lore in a nutshell: long ago, the Furbolg tribes lived together in harmony. then, everything changed when the Corruption attacked
When I was younger I always thought the feathers on the furbolg necklaces were their ears
Quillboars maybe next :)
I do have them on my list of to-do's
I can't tell you how many years my wife and I called them Furblogs before we realized it was actually Furbolgs. Still call them Furblogs to this day
i thought it was furlbogs all this time, oops
I was about to come here to comment this.
I was today years old when… 😮
My hubby and I used to play Wow together too and yes, we called them furblogs 😂
Furlbogs for me! Years and years and years until I realized it's furbolgs. My brother and I still call them furlbogs
I love Furbolgs! Winterspring is one of if not my favourite zone and I have such vivid memories of taking their tunnel down from Felwood to get there.
Biggest thing I love with the Winterpelt is their language is cross-faction in /say and /yell, and available to anyone who goes and does the short grind to cap it out.
It's a fully accessible means to communicate across the faction language barrer, and I think the first time an additional language has been available to permanently 'learn' in game, to anyone.
So I just discovered your videos and have been binging the hell out of them. I've worked in video games for a decade, and your videos showcase what I love the most about game development. You highlight these little details, whether it's interesting environment art, environmental storytelling, or small little narrative choices that would seem like a waste of time for a developer to put in, but you show how these little things can add such depth to the world and create curiosity in it's players.
We see so many negative videos tearing games apart these days, so seeing a ton of videos praising the little things does make it feel worth it.
No Teldrassian furbolgs? Such a shame. One of my first memories of WoW was getting lost in Ban'ethil Barrow Den and being unable to find my way out. Good memories...
Just started playing Classic and made a night elf, I was in there with another guy and thankfully my memory of decades ago saved us a lot of time running around and getting lost. Still brutal for a low level area!
I wonder if there are enough Tuskarr out there to do a Pointless Top 10 on
I recall having to gather enough of their lost younglings that, surely, there could be a story there.
Another stellar video! Your voice acting for the bear w/ Ursoc had me rolling laughing! Stay awesome, friend.
DFTBA
Crendog I've been a fan since the start. Found you while I was still in high school, haven't had time to watch you in many, many moons. This was an amazing pick me up when I needed it. Keep up the amazing non content.
1:04 That is underselling just how perfect that quest's dialogue is. Seriously go do it you won't regret it. *KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GNOMISH OVERLORDS!*
YAY furblog list :D tried to find a list of these on your channel when got a hamster and wanted a dwarf / furbolg themed name. suggested on twitter when couldnt find these here. Named him General Stormsqueak in the end. happy vibes
2:20 “you got the snow coming down”
**is raining**
Furbolgs are just peak Warcraft imo. There's just something about Furbolgs that make me feel idk, at home? I'm not sure how to explain it but I always get happy whenever we go to a Furbolg area.
Drink every time Crendor says "Corrupted"
Instructions understood -- but I ended up at the hospital before the video ended.
What's cool about the Winterpelts is that you actually can learn and speak Furbolg after their questline, which is one of the only methods to communicate with another faction players (if they also can speak Furbolg)
Furblog = A blogging furry.
Furbolg = A humanoid race in WoW covered in fur.
Furglob = an unwanted present from longhaired cats.
I like the random people in the intro, it really shows that it's not the same stock intro every time.
Number 10 is why I love the Horde. ❤
6:02 I'm sorry but is that a Tauren head? Never noticed that while playing.
It is! What is a tauren doing in Azuremyst Isle? (Besides being dead)
I remember one thing I and guildies would do : the Timbermaw Hold Death run! Basically get a lower level character to the Felwood side and see how far we could make it through. Back then they attacked, now they just do nothing.
Now this is OG peak Crendor content
Thats alottacorruptoon
Went to Longclaw Island, there is also a Moana reference there in the form of Nuana who wants to leave the island, the water calls to them.
The failed world tree that is Grizzlemaw is actually the primary reason why the Emerald Nightmare exists in the first place. As Crendor said. The roots went so deep that it touched Yoggys Prison, and through that interaction. He was able to reach into the emerald dream and corrupt a portion of it, turning it into the nightmare that we know today.
I know some hidden lore about the Furbolgs. I thought I'd include these tidbits here.
1) Inside Timbermaw Hold, a path leads down to a wooden blockade covered in claw marks. This can be found in both Classic and Retail WoW. It is unknown what it was ever meant to be. While Furbolg are often on a discussion for Alliance race candidates, they often were the unpopular picks, and especially fell off with the Pandaren being playable. A similar entrance is near the Blackmaw camp in Azshara, suggesting it's a location under Hyjal.
2) The Drogbar, as they exist in retail, are a re-design. The original intent was a Furbolg variant, that explained their origins more, and were the "ancient Furbolg, but different" referenced in the War of the Ancients novels. Art for the original design was in the Legion Artbook. As a nod to it, the new Furbolg models in Dragonflight used the Drogbar animation skeleton.
3) Ursin is a realm in the US. All realm names are WoW related. There is no Ursin that we know of in World of Warcraft - the bear wild gods are Ursoc and Ursol. It might have been a misspelling of Ursine, the Furbolg language. Season of Discovery recently added Idol of Ursin Power, which is its first official reference. There is some speculation Ursin might have had a larger role that's not happened yet, such as another bear wild god, but Blizzard has never clarified.
I really have to wonder if Blizzard was considering adding Tuskarr and Furbolgs as playable races in an earlier draft of Dragonflight. They certainly setup the lore for both and I could absolutely see Belameth as a starting zone area for Furbolg heroes.
im just now putting this together, is the 'scare bear' achievement a venture bros reference? I dont even see anybody on wowhead making this connection
i think furbolgs have an issue with being corrupted lol
End result=Corruption!!!!
What about Top 10 Pointless Dungeon Bosses
Almost went to bed! 😂
Right? Was about to get up to go to bed, saw Crendor posted a new top 10. Only thing I could do was crack one more beer and watch.
If we do return to the old world again I want to see more peaceful furbolgs and also update models too of them as well.
I actually think I would play WoW again if they made a "pre-sundering", a completely new game; and actually worked with people and other game creators/companies to make it good.
2004 wow was so clean, but unpolished and gameplay was better than many of the 2014-2024... including the retail, that's so tiring to even watch for an old man.
my favourite furbolg tribe is the one that was corrupted
I still find Ursoc so sad. Gets corrupted multiple times and we have to kill him multiple times. And when he's finally in his seed for rebirth thinking that we finally got rid over everything that could corrupt him again and can finally lead a normal life, the Winter Queen decides to sacrifice him permanently.
My favourite part about that first quest is that you only sabotage the alliance if you rip out his bellybutton ring. 😂
Since I learned furbolg language from winterpelt now my tauren speaks taurahe, orcish and furbolg that's kinda cool haha very underrated aspect of an adventure game
While I think there won't be a fourth update on the furbolg models, I do think Blizz went wrong direction with the Dragonisle ones. They just made them into bear-man-gorillas with five fingers! Five! Buuuuuut, I guess they can use the same reasoning as with the centaurs over there, they are distant cousins with little in common with the continental furbolgs.
Lol a walrus teaching a polar bear how to fish
I remember exchanging OC backstories on an RP server and absolutely losing my shit and immediately feeling bad when a friend told me his OC's family was massacred by corrupted furbolgs...
and that is all I think of at first when anyone talks about them lmao
4:27 I think that's the same eating animation as most wolves (e.g. Spirit Wolf form).
Wow furbolgs have gone through so much
Top 10 npcs with torches!
Furbolg playable race when?
And then, having saved Ursoc's sprit twice, his spirit traveled to Ardenweald, to slumber until it was time for him to be reborn. Until his anima was drained by Aralon at the order of the Winter Queen and his spirit was destroyed forever. Gee, I wonder why people get so mad about Shadowlands.
This video really does drive home how often WoW just goes, uh they're corrupted, here's the quest lol
Yay the furblogs!
Furbolglicious
I found your videos like 3 weeks ago and i have watch almost all of the pointless top ten. And if there is anything i have learned, its that inside pointless things are treasure.
Happy 500k subscribers!
Celebratory top 10 Ducks video?
👀🦆
... If Crendor dares to venture outside WoW, I _strongly_ hope he checks out Sydney's annual duck fashion show. You read that correctly. Annual. Duck. Fashion. Show!
@@kneau WHAT! I am looking that up right now!
I love me some furbolgs, I even speak their language
bit oot but.. i very want the furbolg bear form for druids xD
Interesting, didn't expect to see a race list, wonder which one's next, Gnolls, Ogres or Humans?
Obviously, quests are just content for players to do, but the fact that they made the uncorrupted blackmaw tribe leader to be completely idiotic is kind of unfortunate. In Burning crusade, the Alliance gets a quest in zangarmarsh to attempt to "save" a lost ones encampment. The feralfen tribe, worshipped arakoa, so the dranei quest giver was all like, ok, lets make you a spirit of the arakoa and trick the feralfen into being chill. It didnt work. The elder was like, no fucking way our spirit will tell us to be friendly with the dranei, promptly called us fakes, and then said that they just wanted to be left alone, and allowed us to walk away in peace.
Yet the furlbogs, nah they get treated like this.
About dang time 😂
Speaking of rarely having Azuremyst Isle on a list... why not pointless top 10 Corehounds?
Love the Furbolg, but legit they are the most punished race on Azeroth. Legit just no winning for these bear folks
Cool, Im thumbs up 👍🏾 number 1k!! 😂😎
Furbolg is as Furbolg does.
And Furblog is the Furbolg's social media posts.
I used to call them flowburgers so no judgement from me.
Twitch Crendor told me to do the things so here I am doing the things.
Ogres next?
Great one! Next time maybe Pointless Lovecraftian references.
is no more pointless the statue now :(
Your content is still more original than whatever the other guys are putting out now.
Hiru keeps recycling content, Madseason is still in Limbo, and Platinum is Blizzard's whipping boy now
My uncle is Richard Furbolg.
Holy hell, I remember watching the podcast you did with Dodger, Jesse and TotalBiscuit back when I was playing Guild Wars 2, only to now be watching you make WoW videos when I've finally gotten into wow. On a whim I remembered that your name on the podcast was "WoWCrendor" and not just Crendor. It's awesome to see you still making content and being alive still. Back then I just liked you for your takes on the podcast, but it's honestly making me emotional to see you still okay. I know TB would be happy you, Dodger and Jesse are all moving forward. Take care of yourself man. Oh and make a new series about Classic Anniversary!!
GUYS STFU. A NEW POINTLESS TOP TEN JUST DROPPED
i kinda thought all furbolgs are worthless
So glad to see these bear men get some love ❤
Crendor i love you and everything, but please start calling it "Ajara", not az-shara
First
Primm alists
I don't think you said Furbolg once actually. You did mispronounce primalists tho.
preemalists
Whose idea was it to give the Furbolgs thongs??? Why not just a belt? Prolly a secret blizz furry lover.
furst
Dislike FURBOLGS ARE NEVER POINTLESS
every time i flew by high chief winterfall he was camped by the same monk for his sweet sweet firewater
like comment subscribe, but don't watch
This whole time I could only think of how much Furbolg blood i have upon my hands over all these years
Reaching exalted with Timbermaw Hold also awards what is, in my opinion, one of the most wholesome achievements in the game. "They Love Me In That Tunnel" 🥹❤
Yeah, super wholesome double entendre.