World of Warcraft is now over 20 years old, and some of its players have been playing since the release. To bring back the “good old days,” there is now WoW Classic. There, a player has now discovered something that even veterans have missed over all these years.
This is what the user discovered:
- A player is in WoW Classic, apparently on the Fresh Start Servers, exploring Feralas and completing quests along the coast.
- While fighting a water elemental, a sea giant appears next to him and walks along its planned path.
- Suddenly, the giant stops and bends forward slightly – just to release a green gas bubble from its rear, which it promptly pops. The mob apparently regrets that immediately:
This is what is special about the animation: The corresponding thread on Reddit is receiving a lot of attention from the community. Several users explain that they have never seen this animation in all these years.
This is not particularly surprising, as what the giant does is called an “idle animation,” meaning an animation that only occurs when the NPC has nothing else to do.
However, most enemies are constantly patrolling somewhere. This is especially true for sea giants, who almost always have set paths or at least never stay in one place for long.
The fact that the user caught a moment when the sea giant had a little time for its biological needs is extremely rare – and not an isolated case, as a user explains with video evidence.
“How did I not know this existed before?”
The Reddit user No_Preference_8543 writes that Blizzard itself has supposedly spoken about this very animation in the “behind the scenes” video of Vanilla WoW. He posts a link to a YouTube video that discusses it (around minute 13:31).
This video is part of the Collector’s Edition of the original World of Warcraft from 2004. It explains that there are other rare animations like this, such as goblins chasing their own tails.
By the way, if you still have the installation CDs from back then, you can check out a secret.
The animations of the sea giant and the goblins are not secret, but they are so rare that hardly any player has ever seen them or even knew of their existence – similar to the hidden items in WoW that probably very few of you know about.
Other details are either clearly visible in-game – such as the sword of Sargeras – or never made it into the game. However, that doesn’t stop fans from still puzzling over discoveries and finding out many new things: WoW fan discovers small detail – calls the whole story into question
