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Happy June everyone, and welcome to the second episode of WoW Rocks, where I break down the geologic formations and history of some of your favorite World of Warcraft zones! Today, we examine the land of a Thousand Needles… and there was even more lore to examine here than I first thought!
0:00 – Intro
1:45 – Real-life Inspiration
3:59 – Notable Areas
7:21 – Before the Needles
Special thanks to Wowmaster for filming the footage seen in this video!
All footage retrieved from Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft (2004-).
Images retrieved from Google Images and WoWPedia. Utilized under Fair Use 2022.
Background Music: “Westfall Theme” from the World of Warcraft Game Soundtrack
Outro Music: “Brave New World Acoustic Rehearsal” by Greta Van Fleet
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Great video! 1k needles has always been one of my favorite zones because of how unique its structure is
I greatly enjoyed this, excellent job. I've always been interested in the geology of WoW and theorized how notable landmarks and terrain came to be. Excited for the rest of the series!
This is great content. Thanks for posting! Thousand Needles is one of my favorite zones, and it was cool to get a breakdown of the geology of the zone and ruins. I was very surprised at how the explanation of the dig site made so much sense. I'm excited for the next one!
Excellent content man! Keep up the Great work. This video was amazing!
Great video
#JusticeForActMan
The way you explore the material and deduct outcomes through the chillax way is nice to listen to and learn about through the visual examples. I really like the format as it somehow made a strong impression 😉
I wasn't sure id enjoy this video. I'm super glad I watched. Very interesting and well researched.
Yes very insightful. I prefer the Thousand Needles as they were in Classic.
can you do this for un'goro crater?! awesome video man
I always thought of making a series like this, glad that someone more talented did it.
SUBBED!!!
I always thought it would be cool if the underground waterways around Kalindor were connected and maybe the Tauren used them for travel. Then blizz during Legion, in the High Mountain instance, put in a section where you ride underground water ways in barrels. I fell like blizz read my mind.
Was? More like IS
I've now reached the point as a fan of your Chanel and content that I hit the like button before it even starts. Keep up the amazing work.
I think they have been also inspired by Meteora in Greece.
How cool is that…This raceway in the desert and the rocket car remind me of the raceway from star wars episode 1, where they are competing with their podracers.
This is one of the things about Cataclysm that I was disappointed about; the loss of old zone designs. I had some cool times questing in Thousand Needles. I remember one night, me and a buddy were exploring that place for the first time. For some reason I still remember talking to him about how the night seemed darker in that zone, because we were deep in a valley. It was just a neat attention to detail we noticed. It kinda irks me that you can never go back and see those zones like you originally experienced them. I guess with Classic, now you can, but it's still a different game now.
but The Great Sea was created by The Sundering, so wouldn't the rivers need to be flowing East (toward Feralas and the Veiled Sea), not West before the Sundering occured
perhaps the underground tributary was fed by the Well of Eternity itself
Its a giant tree stump
Was the Demon invasion meant to be from the 3rd war? Or the WotA? In which case there wasn't a sea east of the needles.
Thousand Needles be like
"I have some water"
First Cataclysm
"Now I'm a desert"
Second Cataclysm
"I'm TOTALLY flooded"
"Damn, can you give me a break?"
This is the content WoW needs but doesn't deserve… and exactly what my DnD campaign in old Azeroth could use. I love this kind of theories and assumptions, and everything that can fill the blanks in WoW lore. Kudos for making such a unique series, champ
I'll never forget my first time travelling through the Needles, across the salt flats and into Tanaris! It was an absolutely epic experience, there I was, level 16 or 17 Nelf, being escorted to every flight path available to the Alliance in game by my friend on his 60, with a bunch of guildies!
Making our way out from between the needles as we entered into the salt flats was a stunning transition which was promptly accented by every crockalisk in the vicinity honing directly towards me. Making our way south to the mountain pass and crossing into Tanaris, the sight of Gadgetzan just across the way was a more than welcome respite from the hostilities of our journey!
Found the channel not long ago and I'm going through the backlog. Doing the Wow Rocks binge now! 😀
I always saw the dark green structures in the Shimmering Flats (really fascinating area IMHO) but never thought anything of it until now, and I'll admit I got the goosebumps when you made me connect the dots.. 🤯
Great stuff! But the body of water that lay where the Shimmering Flats now is couldn't have been a bay of the Great Sea before the Sundering… Because the Great Sea did not exist before the Sundering!
This body of water must have been either a salty lake or an inland sea.
It could be erosion from the rain, since rain is a bit acidic, it could've eroded the limestone, revealing the tall spires of non sedimentary rock. That's why they're sturdy enough for settlement at their summit.
In the explanation you have given, there is something that does not match:
Before the Great Sundering, the Thousand Needles were an inner part of the supercontinent Kalimdor, so the Titans could have set up another observatory to monitor life around. With the Great Cataclysm, it would have been open to the sea thus creating a distinctive shape but it remains to be known at what moment it was closed again so that the water evaporated
COUNT THE NEEDLES
Deathwing dindu nudim wrong!