I think Drustvar is one of -- if not THE -- most underrated zones in the game; it's got great aesthetics, creepy vibes, witch covens, occult rituals, horrific monstrosities, and a haunted mansion dungeon! What more could you want out of a WoW zone???
This is why I preferred Alliance to Horde in BFA. Sure, Nazmir had its share of creepy stuff, but Drustvar was something else entirely. In fact, the entirety of Kul'Tiras is superior to Zandalar imo.
And it still felt like WoW. I mean there were off-things about BFA that felt strapped on instead of something integrally part of it, but overal Drustvar was really good.
With the Abby quest...afterward you talk to someone and mention Abby, and they mention that she had died some time ago. So who or what were you interacting with? After you complete the quest she vanishes and there is no evidence she had ever been there, and the stuff placed during the quest also appears to have been there for some time.
Shout out to the poor human lady in the Undercity with no will of her own. She's traumatized me since day 1 of playing WoW. And man, this is some really neat stuff. Drustvar pulling through once again as the complete spoopy package.
I remember feeling creeped out when I went down the bottom of ICC for the Arthas' heart quest and met that ghost boy, Matthias, in a cave full of faceless ones…
BFA was genuinely really well made outside of the end game loot progression. WoW's great at telling stories over zones. Its only real issue is sinking the hook it puts out at the beginning. That's why expansions like Dragonflight and Pandaria are nice because the hook is the land itself more than anything.
@@BeyondDaX Its a bummer people overlook it so much. I did quit wow in bfa because the game itself just felt bad to me but I think kul tiras was my favorite expac zone they ever added and I love the main city too. I hope one day those zones are used again in some way.
BFA was real dark. SL was pretty cartoony (dragonflight is worse) but i don’t get the criticisms that WoW had gotten less metal over time. That just started happening.
BfA was only bad storywise in the war campaign and maybe the patch zones were a bit rushed. The zone stories aswell as the zones themselves were all fantastic.
Thaddius background dialogue is creepy as hell. Best example starts with a female voice saying something akin to “help me! SAVE ME!” Followed by a deep male voice saying “STOP SCREAMING”
@@IvyTinwe it’s quieter than her voice but sure enough you can make out a male voice snapping at her to stop screaming. Wowhead might have the audio in the sounds section of the bosses page
I've always thought those screams come from Thaddius' final touches before reaching him, but if they are "remnants" of voices from Thaddius's trapped souls, it's pretty terrifying.
One of the things that truly bothered and disturbed me was in Valsharah, there's a quest there where the owlkin have gone crazy, and literally started using magic or alchemy to MELT local dryads into slime monsters. Absolutely sickening. Hated doing that quest.
im supprised you didnt list a Ur'zul which is a creature made up of the dranai that wasnt able to evacuate in time from argus, all mashed together into a abomination which you can get as a mount
Drustvar is one of two zones in all of BFA that I really enjoyed, because the questing was so good. The other one being the troll swamp with all the creepy cannibal voodoo happening.
I love Crendor's Pointless Top 10s, I remember watching these back in high school and I'm so happy he is still around making stuff and I still find his content enjoyable and entertaining after all these years
Ahhh I woulda put Yogg-Saron on here. It's one of those cases where you gotta consider the build up to Ulduar and even his reveal at the end of it. Cause there was no dungeon journal back then, he wasn't revealed in the Ulduar trailer, just hinted. There was nothing. We just started learning about dark whispers in underground places, a mad Titan keeper, a world tree that got corrupted and started spreading that corruption around it to a point where it had to be demolished, and a mystery of three missing Titan Keepers, and the remaining one, Thorim, too depressed to bother doing anything. The Faceless ones in Ahn'Kanet and beneath Icecrown throw some hints around as well, but to any normal player before Ulduar was released, we just assumed Warcraft 3 references, left over minions from the 'Forgotten One' that Arthas killed on his way to Icecrown. But no, suddenly Thorim is motivated again to confront Loken, immediately taken by a Tentacle, the Halls of Stone mentioning that Ulduar is a prison, Loken spouting he has a Master who will take down the Titan Pantheon when he's released... And then the trailer for Ulduar just saying Brann found out it's Yogg-Saron's prison. EVEN THEN, the majority of the raid is taking on the Titan creations and freeing the Keepers. You get a view down into the prison, but you just see a random Vrykul woman sitting in a pool. The Keepers mention you need their help if Yogg-Saron is going to be contained again. Heading down and killing a unique (at the time) model Faceless one surrounded by Twilight cultists, you get into his cell, and the Vrykul lady just sounds like she's on your side throughout the whole first phase. Then her voice changes, she transforms into a Val'kyr, suddenly up pops Yoggies head and he is just teeth among teeth for every orifice. Mouth, Nose, Eyes, Ears, all maws of sharp teeth. And suddenly the fight has an Insanity mechanic, you can't even look at him. C'Thun might've been the first reveal of Old Gods, but he wasn't nearly as fleshed out. Yogg-Saron was our first instance into learning what kind of beings we're dealing with, and has been the purest form of Eldritch Horror fight the game has produced. N'Zoth had far more build up, but still never managed to compared to the atmosphere that Yogg-Saron presented over half of the entire continent of Northrend.
Nice write up, and agreed. Would definitely be high on a list of creepy bosses or boss buildups, with a couple of these already. Surprised this wasnt based entirely on 'out in the world' events, and ended up more half bosses, half world/quests.
Yeah I feel like it was that entire fight that got people so hooked on the Old God idea. It's a bummer we really can't fully recreate this feeling anymore today. People will leak models, put together hints and share any type of reveal way earlier. If they throw a single faceless one into an expac with dialogue that hints towards a master or something, everyone knows we're fighting an Old God later. I do hope though that they find ways to make these hints more subtle next time. If the hints towards a completely new continent on Azeroth are true for the next expac that kinda gives them an unique opportunity to do that since the equivalent of a faceless one there could be something entirely different and we have no idea about who or what an old god there would be like.
Difference between yogg and nzoth is that yogg was subtle. He wasn't the face of the expansion, patch or even the raid. He wasn't in trailers, cinematics, he wasn't *shown* so to speak. He was way creepier because he was unknown to us, hiding in shadow, not showing his true face, unlike nzoth who we were shown again and again like a moustashe twirling villain in half of the cinematics. It never felt like nzoth was really in control of anything.
@@VValkyrto be fair there’s a REASON for that. N’zoth had a tiny chunk of the black empire, only made his move after the burning legion was decisively defeated, And we fought him at his full power, unlike Yogg, C’thun, or Yashy. N’zoth was by old god standards the weak wanna be “macho” guy people made fun of. Him being a let down at least fit the character plus his background work of corrupting Deathwing was his only true win and turns out Netharian let it happen. the emerald dream was only able to be influenced by him due to Yogg opening a gap. N’zoth is canonically the weakest of the old gods. Yogg was also canonically the most clever. So N’zoth is weak and stupid.
@@Skullhawk13 I mean, don't get me wrong, I get that it fit's the lore so to speak, but that doesn't change the fact that this part of the lore sucks 💀
I always thought that witch in the jade forest who turns people to stone was really unsettling. It seems kinda stupid but they really did the atmosphere right in that quest chain.
Maybe because I recently did these quests again but Gorgrond had some creepy stuff going on too. The Crimson Fen with spores that choke out your vision and thoughts and drive you insane with all of those zombies walking around. But also a couple of the Botani quests in the south where you find out that any victims they don't transform into those plant zombies, they fatten up with fruits, honey and mead to later be used as mulch
Agreed! Especially since you have to rescue a kid at one point and he gives you some exposition, seeing all that creepy stuff through a traumatized child's eyes was really disturbing.
One of my favourite bits of the Cata revamp involves Stalvan, his brother Tobias was in Gilneas until the Worgen joined the Alliance so once Tobias is free to travel he goes to Duskwood looking for Stalvan and nobody is giving him a straight answer. Fast forward through a few quests and eventually Eva sends you to Manor Mistmantle where Stalvan rises from the grave and confronts Tobias, saying something along the lines of "everyone just sees me as a monster, what would you know about that" and then, surprise (unless you did the worgen start zone), Tobias shifts into his Worgen form and helps you kick the shit out of Stalvan. It's a really cool double threat of tying into the old zone lore with a revamp quest and introducing the Worgen to the Alliance questing experience in a way that reflects on what it means to be a monster, be it through appearance or through actions.
imagine beating back waves of undead, demons, and other nightmareish monsters, getting to the final chamber of a raid dungeon, and this little 6 year old girl is sitting there, saying nursery rhymes, and then when you all apporoach, she goes hostile, has like more HP than any other boss, and starts killing people left and right, while skipping around and humming. Pretty sure even Sargaeras would shit his pants.
you missed the cat in the stormwind horrific visions that asks you to kill a rat for it because he is just "so hungry" and if you do, the rat will beg you to stop and when it dies it turns into a human, and the cat thanks you and starts eating him.
There's also that quest in Zandalar where you meet a ghost kid that wants to unite with his mother. it turns out the mother had killed his own child in order to gain immortality. You end up killing her and the can be together...
BfA had more blood and guts than any other expansion in wow. Nazmir literally blood fountains. Everything Drust was blare witch levels of screwed up, and the horde did the most stright up Evil things ever.
What I like about Stalvan is he reminds me of the old Magic: The Gathering card "Uncle Istvan"... Uncle Istvan was one of my earliest cards and I remember having him fight crazy huge monsters that are like 10/10s... The reason Uncle Istvan can do that is he is a 3 black 1 uncolored mana human creature who is 1/3 BUT has the text "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures." Fighting a huge leviathan creature? A mighty colossus? Doesn't matter, none of them can hurt this old man, who, by the way, is an old hermit living in the woods with an axe covered in blood and a skull hanging from it... His flavor text says "Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch." Makes me want a Halloween deck...
that sounds so similar, one has to be a reference to the other. not sure if the card or the questline came first but either way, the mention of “uncle”, the axe, the name, all that is way too similar for them not to be somewhow related. that’s really cool!
I thought Challe eating horde babies was weird, and then I saw a baby Tauren pass by and was like, "maybe she's onto something, cuz I could go for a steak rn."
Not sure if you've done this, but talking about the Interrogator Vishas voicelines made me want to see a Pointless Top 10 best voice-acted characters in WoW. That would be cool to see!
Stitches is my personal number 1 because I started playing in WOTLK and not knowing anything got taken on the scythe of Elune quest to Darkshire, and then this thing comes barreling down the road at me.
Drustvar is one of the most intensely atmospheric zones -- utterly relentless from start to finish. I like the Zandalar islands a lot more than the Kul'Tiran ones, but Drustvar easily tops.
Fun fact about Raal the Gluttonous, he's not the only one transformed into a pig. Most of the pigs in Drustvar are people and a lot of your quests have you going around killing them.
Drustvar was aaaamaaazing to quest in! It was so creepy and fascinating. I really, really enjoyed the stories. The pig-men were just so out there. I think it was like the first zone of the expansion or one of the first two you could pick or something like that. And it was just so out there. That first town that had like no quests and the town was cursed by that effigy and you couldn't interact with it. It was really cool. I'd love to see more horror/creepy themed places in the future. Really neat!
all my brothers and I played on drustvar first on when BFA came out and we all drank inky black potions. All 5 of us in warmode running around. It was easily one of the best memories I've ever had in the game. Playing with Abby Lewis with my siblings and it was so freaking good I was just so impressed with Drustvar. Easily my favorite zone to quest in.
Drustvar is still one of my favorite zones. And the little kid singing was the best creepy thing EVER. I wish they would put her into the game again, somewhere else, and make her a reoccurring quest object so we spend time trying to find her in every expansion to see what she's up to this time. A raid boss would be good, once, but doing her as someone in a cave doing stuff or some backwater house making a cat quilt, or something would actually be fun to try to find each expansion.
There was an undead vendor out in the forest on Darkmoon Island that sold an... interesting collection of meat. Not sure if that vendor is still there today.
Based on Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen . I never knew WoW had a SId Vicious reference. Wow. (pun intended). Crazy. I actually reacted to this out loud.
The things in Drustvar are quite awesome, but I would have included something from Stormsong valley and one of the blood creatures from Zandalaar as well. BFA had some great visual and story elements so I am glad you included it when most write it off.
OMG #1 is SOOO true. I recently came back to WOW after 14 years. Been leveling different characters though the different expansion. She is the creepiest npc I have come across. My guildmates were laughing at me bc I was so creeped out lol....love the vid
On #10, people forget how fucking metal BFA started as. It had so much potential. Probably the best launch of any expansion right up there with WOTLK. The community was really divided on the destruction of Teldrassil and it really fractured on faction lines and there is a giant sword killing our planet. Blizzard just dropped the ball really hard trying to set up Shadowlands and a horribly out of place naga raid. The warbringers cinematic is still the best even if this expansion ended as a wet fart.
You could make a top 10 creepy list out of Drustvar alone. Hands down the scariest zone in the game and I love it for that. I remember seeing one of the beastmen on the beta and freaking out lol I hate pigs
it's honestly the perfect zone. the first time I did it, I was with 4 of my siblings and we did the entire questline together while using the Inky Black Potions to make it even darker and the entire thing felt like a salem witch hunt, it was completely perfect and i'd do anything to go back to that time when we first did it
@@Jacknorrington Shadowlands is not my number 1 probably because I was in Venthyr for the leather armor transmog, where half the zone is ruins and pebbles. But yeah, the Kyrian and Night Fae are some of the most beautiful zones of all expansions.
@@kruth6663 I only played shadowlands during the last month and never had time to explore it, but the zones were beautiful. But easily BFA had the everything I needed. I really really enjoyed Legion, but for some reason BFA blew legion out of the water in everything except the artifact/heart of azeroth issue
Drustvar was the best zone out of BfA. My sister has a friend who works at Blizzard, and that friend was part of the team that made the Drustvar questlines. Abbey Lewis was their creation.
Drustvar was an amazing zone. My favorite for the expansion. It is extremely dark, and the horror aspects were incredible. The zone is the exception to everything else recently as of late.
Thank you so much Crendor for another video! Right when I needed one ❤ Im such a huge fan of you for years since mop. Its amazing to see how far youve come
Rogue in Strands: Stun stun stun Vanish!...Stealth....Stun stun stun stun...... Rogue in STN: haha stupid noob get ganked! Billy the Orc: but your 40 levels higher than me! Rogue in STN: Shut Up Noob!
You know what Rawl (hope I spelled that right) the Gluttonous reminds me of? There’s a Batman villain called Professor Pyg, just that guy if he was a chef.
Holy sh*t, I had no idea that little girl I quested for and wrote a real life book for had that creepy of a storyline.. the tea party ritual is horrifying
I think BfA did a great job at portraying the horrors of War within the warcraft universe WITHOUT forcing a high age rating. And honestly, I think the game should be JUST THAT. Stop trying it to make it goofy or some sort of "Disney Wonderland" simulator. I want blood, gore, cruelty! I want WARcraft!
Any time I kill a WoW NPC and it thanks me for doing so, I get that creepy-shuddery-neck-hair-standing-up sensation. And I'm still farming ICC for that undead pegasus that doesn't exist, so I feel bad for Sindragosa a LOT.
Another creepy area is also the upstairs in the Stormwind Barbershop, the owner has tried to cram a Gnome skeleton under a floor plank and hid it under a carpet.
"[...] I always take a shot at the Jailor when I can." Go Crendor! Like thank goodness the level was squished down but Shadowlands itself was the least fun part of Shadowlands. Also Prot Pallys even without any points into their Stronghold Tree were just broken. I miss it so much >.
The very first one made me realize something. A proper Alliance vs Horde *war* expansion could have been absolutely amazing if players could play a bigger role in it. Instead of setting up little quest hubs and dealing with internal crap. Make us fight on the front lines and have us partake in some good old fashioned warcrimes, it'll be great! The siege of Lordaeron and the fight through Ashenvale and into Darkshore were actually kinda fun. Why'd Blizzard have to ruin it by cramming 4-5 expansions worth of storylines into 1?
0:10 Upset Children 1:13 Interrogator Vishas 2:27 Doctor Weevil 3:45 Thaddius 4:58 Cannibal Witch 6:23 Elwynn Children 7:50 Stalvan Mistmantle 10:06 Abbercrombe and Stitches 11:39 Gaal The Gluttonous and company 13:38 Abbie Lewis
I think Drustvar is one of -- if not THE -- most underrated zones in the game; it's got great aesthetics, creepy vibes, witch covens, occult rituals, horrific monstrosities, and a haunted mansion dungeon! What more could you want out of a WoW zone???
My absolute favorite zone.
This is why I preferred Alliance to Horde in BFA. Sure, Nazmir had its share of creepy stuff, but Drustvar was something else entirely. In fact, the entirety of Kul'Tiras is superior to Zandalar imo.
And it still felt like WoW. I mean there were off-things about BFA that felt strapped on instead of something integrally part of it, but overal Drustvar was really good.
Honestly BfA as a whole had insanely good zones
yep, one of fav zones
Nothing more terrifying than a carousel of baby tauren spinning around like they’re rotisserie chicken or something
Frr 😭 I’m still gonna tell myself she’s taking care of them though 💔 those little baby models 💔💔💔
Lmao
I bet they are delicious if cooked properly.
With the Abby quest...afterward you talk to someone and mention Abby, and they mention that she had died some time ago. So who or what were you interacting with? After you complete the quest she vanishes and there is no evidence she had ever been there, and the stuff placed during the quest also appears to have been there for some time.
ooh creepy!
Shout out to the poor human lady in the Undercity with no will of her own. She's traumatized me since day 1 of playing WoW.
And man, this is some really neat stuff. Drustvar pulling through once again as the complete spoopy package.
I remember feeling creeped out when I went down the bottom of ICC for the Arthas' heart quest and met that ghost boy, Matthias, in a cave full of faceless ones…
That's a representation of Arthas as a child. His name I believe is an anagram for Arthas Menithil.
Say what you want about the quality of BFA. But I'll give it props for some of the crazy dark stuff it had.
It is very dark but people love to overlook that stuff
BFA was genuinely really well made outside of the end game loot progression. WoW's great at telling stories over zones. Its only real issue is sinking the hook it puts out at the beginning. That's why expansions like Dragonflight and Pandaria are nice because the hook is the land itself more than anything.
@@BeyondDaX Its a bummer people overlook it so much. I did quit wow in bfa because the game itself just felt bad to me but I think kul tiras was my favorite expac zone they ever added and I love the main city too. I hope one day those zones are used again in some way.
BFA was real dark. SL was pretty cartoony (dragonflight is worse) but i don’t get the criticisms that WoW had gotten less metal over time. That just started happening.
BfA was only bad storywise in the war campaign and maybe the patch zones were a bit rushed. The zone stories aswell as the zones themselves were all fantastic.
Thaddius background dialogue is creepy as hell. Best example starts with a female voice saying something akin to “help me! SAVE ME!” Followed by a deep male voice saying “STOP SCREAMING”
Yeah, when I was younger I would actually have trouble sleeping if I thought about the screams too much. Fucked up!
Wait what? I never heard the man answering her :O
@@IvyTinwe it’s quieter than her voice but sure enough you can make out a male voice snapping at her to stop screaming. Wowhead might have the audio in the sounds section of the bosses page
I've always thought those screams come from Thaddius' final touches before reaching him, but if they are "remnants" of voices from Thaddius's trapped souls, it's pretty terrifying.
One of the things that truly bothered and disturbed me was in Valsharah, there's a quest there where the owlkin have gone crazy, and literally started using magic or alchemy to MELT local dryads into slime monsters. Absolutely sickening. Hated doing that quest.
Duskwood was such a great and creepy zone. I remember well still being pretty new to the game and doing Stalvan and Abercrombie's quests.
Stalvan's story is pretty screwed up for sure.
im supprised you didnt list a Ur'zul which is a creature made up of the dranai that wasnt able to evacuate in time from argus, all mashed together into a abomination which you can get as a mount
that thing gives me the heebie jeebies :I
Drustvar is one of two zones in all of BFA that I really enjoyed, because the questing was so good. The other one being the troll swamp with all the creepy cannibal voodoo happening.
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Nazmir.
I love Crendor's Pointless Top 10s, I remember watching these back in high school and I'm so happy he is still around making stuff and I still find his content enjoyable and entertaining after all these years
Ahhh I woulda put Yogg-Saron on here.
It's one of those cases where you gotta consider the build up to Ulduar and even his reveal at the end of it. Cause there was no dungeon journal back then, he wasn't revealed in the Ulduar trailer, just hinted. There was nothing. We just started learning about dark whispers in underground places, a mad Titan keeper, a world tree that got corrupted and started spreading that corruption around it to a point where it had to be demolished, and a mystery of three missing Titan Keepers, and the remaining one, Thorim, too depressed to bother doing anything. The Faceless ones in Ahn'Kanet and beneath Icecrown throw some hints around as well, but to any normal player before Ulduar was released, we just assumed Warcraft 3 references, left over minions from the 'Forgotten One' that Arthas killed on his way to Icecrown.
But no, suddenly Thorim is motivated again to confront Loken, immediately taken by a Tentacle, the Halls of Stone mentioning that Ulduar is a prison, Loken spouting he has a Master who will take down the Titan Pantheon when he's released... And then the trailer for Ulduar just saying Brann found out it's Yogg-Saron's prison. EVEN THEN, the majority of the raid is taking on the Titan creations and freeing the Keepers. You get a view down into the prison, but you just see a random Vrykul woman sitting in a pool. The Keepers mention you need their help if Yogg-Saron is going to be contained again. Heading down and killing a unique (at the time) model Faceless one surrounded by Twilight cultists, you get into his cell, and the Vrykul lady just sounds like she's on your side throughout the whole first phase. Then her voice changes, she transforms into a Val'kyr, suddenly up pops Yoggies head and he is just teeth among teeth for every orifice. Mouth, Nose, Eyes, Ears, all maws of sharp teeth. And suddenly the fight has an Insanity mechanic, you can't even look at him.
C'Thun might've been the first reveal of Old Gods, but he wasn't nearly as fleshed out. Yogg-Saron was our first instance into learning what kind of beings we're dealing with, and has been the purest form of Eldritch Horror fight the game has produced. N'Zoth had far more build up, but still never managed to compared to the atmosphere that Yogg-Saron presented over half of the entire continent of Northrend.
Nice write up, and agreed. Would definitely be high on a list of creepy bosses or boss buildups, with a couple of these already. Surprised this wasnt based entirely on 'out in the world' events, and ended up more half bosses, half world/quests.
Yeah I feel like it was that entire fight that got people so hooked on the Old God idea. It's a bummer we really can't fully recreate this feeling anymore today. People will leak models, put together hints and share any type of reveal way earlier. If they throw a single faceless one into an expac with dialogue that hints towards a master or something, everyone knows we're fighting an Old God later.
I do hope though that they find ways to make these hints more subtle next time. If the hints towards a completely new continent on Azeroth are true for the next expac that kinda gives them an unique opportunity to do that since the equivalent of a faceless one there could be something entirely different and we have no idea about who or what an old god there would be like.
Difference between yogg and nzoth is that yogg was subtle. He wasn't the face of the expansion, patch or even the raid. He wasn't in trailers, cinematics, he wasn't *shown* so to speak. He was way creepier because he was unknown to us, hiding in shadow, not showing his true face, unlike nzoth who we were shown again and again like a moustashe twirling villain in half of the cinematics. It never felt like nzoth was really in control of anything.
@@VValkyrto be fair there’s a REASON for that. N’zoth had a tiny chunk of the black empire, only made his move after the burning legion was decisively defeated, And we fought him at his full power, unlike Yogg, C’thun, or Yashy. N’zoth was by old god standards the weak wanna be “macho” guy people made fun of. Him being a let down at least fit the character plus his background work of corrupting Deathwing was his only true win and turns out Netharian let it happen. the emerald dream was only able to be influenced by him due to Yogg opening a gap. N’zoth is canonically the weakest of the old gods. Yogg was also canonically the most clever. So N’zoth is weak and stupid.
@@Skullhawk13 I mean, don't get me wrong, I get that it fit's the lore so to speak, but that doesn't change the fact that this part of the lore sucks 💀
Drustvar is my second favorite zone in BfA (Vol'dun takes number 1 for me). I remember being VERY creeped out by the Abby Lewis questline.
I always thought that witch in the jade forest who turns people to stone was really unsettling. It seems kinda stupid but they really did the atmosphere right in that quest chain.
Maybe because I recently did these quests again but Gorgrond had some creepy stuff going on too. The Crimson Fen with spores that choke out your vision and thoughts and drive you insane with all of those zombies walking around. But also a couple of the Botani quests in the south where you find out that any victims they don't transform into those plant zombies, they fatten up with fruits, honey and mead to later be used as mulch
Agreed! Especially since you have to rescue a kid at one point and he gives you some exposition, seeing all that creepy stuff through a traumatized child's eyes was really disturbing.
One of my favourite bits of the Cata revamp involves Stalvan, his brother Tobias was in Gilneas until the Worgen joined the Alliance so once Tobias is free to travel he goes to Duskwood looking for Stalvan and nobody is giving him a straight answer.
Fast forward through a few quests and eventually Eva sends you to Manor Mistmantle where Stalvan rises from the grave and confronts Tobias, saying something along the lines of "everyone just sees me as a monster, what would you know about that" and then, surprise (unless you did the worgen start zone), Tobias shifts into his Worgen form and helps you kick the shit out of Stalvan.
It's a really cool double threat of tying into the old zone lore with a revamp quest and introducing the Worgen to the Alliance questing experience in a way that reflects on what it means to be a monster, be it through appearance or through actions.
You have been on fire recently. Keep up the great work! Always love when you upload
imagine beating back waves of undead, demons, and other nightmareish monsters, getting to the final chamber of a raid dungeon, and this little 6 year old girl is sitting there, saying nursery rhymes, and then when you all apporoach, she goes hostile, has like more HP than any other boss, and starts killing people left and right, while skipping around and humming.
Pretty sure even Sargaeras would shit his pants.
So we get alice from smt?
you missed the cat in the stormwind horrific visions that asks you to kill a rat for it because he is just "so hungry" and if you do, the rat will beg you to stop and when it dies it turns into a human, and the cat thanks you and starts eating him.
I honestly legitimately really enjoyed horrific visions because of stuff like that which let me go over the entire city with a fine comb for secrets.
Kind of like the pigs in Drustvar, most are people transformed into pigs and a lot of your quests are to kill them...
Thanks for making my overnight shift more tolerable Crendog
Two of these are in Drustvar, and two from Duskwood, fits very well frankly, bit surprised that there aren't any from Nazmir though.
Nazmir is underrated!
Nazmir was creepy as hell. The giant turtle loa carcass made me nauseous lmao
There's also that quest in Zandalar where you meet a ghost kid that wants to unite with his mother. it turns out the mother had killed his own child in order to gain immortality. You end up killing her and the can be together...
Oh yeah that one ruined me...😢
BfA had more blood and guts than any other expansion in wow. Nazmir literally blood fountains. Everything Drust was blare witch levels of screwed up, and the horde did the most stright up Evil things ever.
I think this video deserves a part two. I love videos like this.
What I like about Stalvan is he reminds me of the old Magic: The Gathering card "Uncle Istvan"... Uncle Istvan was one of my earliest cards and I remember having him fight crazy huge monsters that are like 10/10s... The reason Uncle Istvan can do that is he is a 3 black 1 uncolored mana human creature who is 1/3 BUT has the text "Prevent all damage that would be dealt to Uncle Istvan by creatures." Fighting a huge leviathan creature? A mighty colossus? Doesn't matter, none of them can hurt this old man, who, by the way, is an old hermit living in the woods with an axe covered in blood and a skull hanging from it... His flavor text says "Solitude drove the old hermit insane. Now he only keeps company with those he can catch." Makes me want a Halloween deck...
that sounds so similar, one has to be a reference to the other. not sure if the card or the questline came first but either way, the mention of “uncle”, the axe, the name, all that is way too similar for them not to be somewhow related. that’s really cool!
I thought Challe eating horde babies was weird, and then I saw a baby Tauren pass by and was like, "maybe she's onto something, cuz I could go for a steak rn."
That panicked children one is some classic wow horror vibe. Holy phuck.
Indeed it showed the horrors of war that not even those classic hardcore fans would notice
@@BeyondDaX shows how evil and twisted the horde still are.
Not sure if you've done this, but talking about the Interrogator Vishas voicelines made me want to see a Pointless Top 10 best voice-acted characters in WoW. That would be cool to see!
matt mercer matt mercering as fyrakk gotta be in there.
I may not play WoW anymore, may never play it again, but I will NEVER miss a fresh Wowcrendor video!
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Stitches is my personal number 1 because I started playing in WOTLK and not knowing anything got taken on the scythe of Elune quest to Darkshire, and then this thing comes barreling down the road at me.
imagine dedicating an entire expansion to killing a little girl for killing a cat. Now thats some John Wick shit right there.
Drustvar is one of the most intensely atmospheric zones -- utterly relentless from start to finish. I like the Zandalar islands a lot more than the Kul'Tiran ones, but Drustvar easily tops.
Fun fact about Raal the Gluttonous, he's not the only one transformed into a pig. Most of the pigs in Drustvar are people and a lot of your quests have you going around killing them.
Holy smokes Crendor, this was one of the best ones you've done, so much stuff I had no idea about. And that number 1 spot..... YIKES
nice video thanks! No 9 obvsly is about Sid Vicious from Sex Pistols and Nancy his gf, the IRL story is creepier than the wow one XD
The horde impaling a women to a wall with a child crying is common in wow. The horde always win and the alliance never get justice.
Drustvar was aaaamaaazing to quest in! It was so creepy and fascinating. I really, really enjoyed the stories. The pig-men were just so out there. I think it was like the first zone of the expansion or one of the first two you could pick or something like that. And it was just so out there. That first town that had like no quests and the town was cursed by that effigy and you couldn't interact with it. It was really cool. I'd love to see more horror/creepy themed places in the future. Really neat!
all my brothers and I played on drustvar first on when BFA came out and we all drank inky black potions. All 5 of us in warmode running around. It was easily one of the best memories I've ever had in the game. Playing with Abby Lewis with my siblings and it was so freaking good I was just so impressed with Drustvar. Easily my favorite zone to quest in.
@@Jacknorrington That sounds like an amazing experience!
You should do top ten zombies or ghouls
Zombie dragon is #1
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but the reason the kids do their thing at 7AM is because its the time equivalent of 6:66 aka 7:06AM.
good catch
The creepy child from Drustvar re-appears during the kul'tiran heritage armor quest....she sacrifices a dog this time.
So she is still alive and kicking?
Thats good to know, I like her
@@Selesto1 Or more accurately she wasn't alive innthe first place. At least by the time we met her
Duskwood, Gilneas, Drustvar. They really nailed the look. The sound, the vibe of them. Luckily you can always go to Grizzly Hills to decompress.
The early zones of BFA, much like the early parts of the expansion, were really good. It got totally off the rails, but it had so much potential
Man this video makes me want to go back to WoW after 10 years to just explore all the zones and new content.
What about Krond the Butcher? He's based on a real life serial killer game dev!
Nice try
@@TheBerendir Crendor reacted to the video. It was a joke, not a trick lol.
@@niclastname I know I saw it was just having a laugh. You beat me to the comment
The pig boss is a reference to the swine in DD? 😂😅
I love that lol -
I don't play wow but I think that makes this series better for me.
Drustvar also has a quest where you find a dead puppy that was sacrificed at a pentagram and reincarnated as a wicker beast
Drustvar is still one of my favorite zones. And the little kid singing was the best creepy thing EVER. I wish they would put her into the game again, somewhere else, and make her a reoccurring quest object so we spend time trying to find her in every expansion to see what she's up to this time. A raid boss would be good, once, but doing her as someone in a cave doing stuff or some backwater house making a cat quilt, or something would actually be fun to try to find each expansion.
There was an undead vendor out in the forest on Darkmoon Island that sold an... interesting collection of meat. Not sure if that vendor is still there today.
Abby was the first thing that came to my mind. I actually got chills when I did that quest.
Havent watched this young man in a while. Glad bes still around :). Still doing wow content. Hell yes
Based on Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen . I never knew WoW had a SId Vicious reference. Wow. (pun intended). Crazy. I actually reacted to this out loud.
The things in Drustvar are quite awesome, but I would have included something from Stormsong valley and one of the blood creatures from Zandalaar as well. BFA had some great visual and story elements so I am glad you included it when most write it off.
The very first thing he talks about was in Stormsong 🤷🏻♀️
@@Chloraflora oh yeah! I did not even recognize it. Nice.
Drustvar is Brother Grimm's Fairytales as a zone
OMG #1 is SOOO true. I recently came back to WOW after 14 years. Been leveling different characters though the different expansion. She is the creepiest npc I have come across. My guildmates were laughing at me bc I was so creeped out lol....love the vid
On #10, people forget how fucking metal BFA started as. It had so much potential. Probably the best launch of any expansion right up there with WOTLK. The community was really divided on the destruction of Teldrassil and it really fractured on faction lines and there is a giant sword killing our planet. Blizzard just dropped the ball really hard trying to set up Shadowlands and a horribly out of place naga raid. The warbringers cinematic is still the best even if this expansion ended as a wet fart.
You could make a top 10 creepy list out of Drustvar alone. Hands down the scariest zone in the game and I love it for that. I remember seeing one of the beastmen on the beta and freaking out lol I hate pigs
it's honestly the perfect zone. the first time I did it, I was with 4 of my siblings and we did the entire questline together while using the Inky Black Potions to make it even darker and the entire thing felt like a salem witch hunt, it was completely perfect and i'd do anything to go back to that time when we first did it
Interrogator Vicious' wife, Nancy is clear reference to Sid and Nancy. The 1986 biopic of Sid Vicious.
The best kind of notification Is a new crendor video
Of all the expansions, BFA may not be the most fun one, but to me it has the best art design, music and world building.
yeah, I think after shadowlands and dragonflight, BFA easily took the number two/three spot. I'm torn between wrath and BFA for second after legion
@@Jacknorrington Shadowlands is not my number 1 probably because I was in Venthyr for the leather armor transmog, where half the zone is ruins and pebbles. But yeah, the Kyrian and Night Fae are some of the most beautiful zones of all expansions.
@@kruth6663 I only played shadowlands during the last month and never had time to explore it, but the zones were beautiful. But easily BFA had the everything I needed. I really really enjoyed Legion, but for some reason BFA blew legion out of the water in everything except the artifact/heart of azeroth issue
I'm so glad you added Abby!
Drustvar was the best zone out of BfA. My sister has a friend who works at Blizzard, and that friend was part of the team that made the Drustvar questlines. Abbey Lewis was their creation.
1:07 because we were at war in that point in WoW and we're not not. I'm tired of holding each other's hands. Let's burn another tree.
This was an excellent list.
Drustvar was an amazing zone. My favorite for the expansion. It is extremely dark, and the horror aspects were incredible. The zone is the exception to everything else recently as of late.
Thank you so much Crendor for another video! Right when I needed one ❤ Im such a huge fan of you for years since mop. Its amazing to see how far youve come
I would've had to riot if Thaddius wasn't on this list lol. Every time I'm in naxx I kill him first so I don't have to hear those screams 😭😭
Fun fact crendor- interogator vishas has just been restored in retail
Rogue in Strands: Stun stun stun Vanish!...Stealth....Stun stun stun stun......
Rogue in STN: haha stupid noob get ganked!
Billy the Orc: but your 40 levels higher than me!
Rogue in STN: Shut Up Noob!
You know what Rawl (hope I spelled that right) the Gluttonous reminds me of? There’s a Batman villain called Professor Pyg, just that guy if he was a chef.
Holy sh*t, I had no idea that little girl I quested for and wrote a real life book for had that creepy of a storyline.. the tea party ritual is horrifying
i havent seen a wow video in a LONG time. very happy to see this around spooky month! thank you :D
I think they should put a goblin inside of that statue in Booty bay and name it Crendor
The “destroy the child” jokes that would fly in a hypothetical Abby Louis raid boss would be hysterical
I think BfA did a great job at portraying the horrors of War within the warcraft universe WITHOUT forcing a high age rating.
And honestly, I think the game should be JUST THAT. Stop trying it to make it goofy or some sort of "Disney Wonderland" simulator. I want blood, gore, cruelty! I want WARcraft!
Fun fact: Thaddeus was stitched together only from women and children. That’s the cries you hear.
15:04 ok.. if that girl owns the Necronomicon, then she has to be the creepiest npc in the game
This video dropped right on time for break at work gonna have to play some WoW when I get home now
Any time I kill a WoW NPC and it thanks me for doing so, I get that creepy-shuddery-neck-hair-standing-up sensation. And I'm still farming ICC for that undead pegasus that doesn't exist, so I feel bad for Sindragosa a LOT.
So Stalvan is a huge reference, bordering on ripoff, of the vampire Strahd von Zarovich of the Ravenloft D&D adventure.
Another creepy area is also the upstairs in the Stormwind Barbershop, the owner has tried to cram a Gnome skeleton under a floor plank and hid it under a carpet.
If I’m not mistaken, it’s a Sweeney Todd reference, which makes it even better! :3
@@Sanguivore but where's the Pies?
@@elorateq3672 I ate them!
I don't know why but I find pigs (like number 2) really scary
Man, the classic backgrounds and lore are just so great.
"[...] I always take a shot at the Jailor when I can." Go Crendor! Like thank goodness the level was squished down but Shadowlands itself was the least fun part of Shadowlands. Also Prot Pallys even without any points into their Stronghold Tree were just broken. I miss it so much >.
I'm glad I didn't watch this right before bed I might have gotten nightmares from all this spookiness! 😨
I think the whole deal with the field in Hillsbrad Foothills growing humans/zombies/slaves (can't remember the expansion) should have made this list!
Very nice list! IMO upside down sinners could be there too.
What about the Suramar city kids singing something happy that ends in OUTSIDE LIES DOOM!
ngl it really caught me off guard with their tone change lol
The woman troll killing kids and others seems to be based on Lady Bathory from history, though her story's exaggerated over the centuries.
I missed you crendor I haven't seen your content in years
Great video lol very entertaining
One of my favourite zones and zone storylines in the game
The very first one made me realize something.
A proper Alliance vs Horde *war* expansion could have been absolutely amazing if players could play a bigger role in it. Instead of setting up little quest hubs and dealing with internal crap. Make us fight on the front lines and have us partake in some good old fashioned warcrimes, it'll be great! The siege of Lordaeron and the fight through Ashenvale and into Darkshore were actually kinda fun. Why'd Blizzard have to ruin it by cramming 4-5 expansions worth of storylines into 1?
U can do that as horde.
Okey, i may need to do the Alliance BfA leveling.
Drustvar was a top tier zone. Boralus was a top tier hub as well.
BFA was the decent xpac.
-hot take.
Dr Theolen Krastinov is my #1 for creepiest NPC in WoW.
BFA came out at the time I was watching AHS Roanoke for the 1st time. Drustvar was traumatizing.
0:10 Upset Children
1:13 Interrogator Vishas
2:27 Doctor Weevil
3:45 Thaddius
4:58 Cannibal Witch
6:23 Elwynn Children
7:50 Stalvan Mistmantle
10:06 Abbercrombe and Stitches
11:39 Gaal The Gluttonous and company
13:38 Abbie Lewis
There is also that quest of that woman that sacrificed her own daughter to.bwomsandi for inmortality.