Classic WoW Removed Abilities

Hey guys, today we will be looking at a number of different old class abilities from the development of Vanilla or Classic World of Warcraft that never ended up making it to the final product.
Presumably, those old abilities were cut or changed for more or less unknown reasons, but some would actually end up as NPC abilities, and a few would even be added in different forms in the later expansions.
For today's video, I thought it would be fun to take a deep dive into the Classic databases to uncover some of those "lost" spells, so we can all take a look at them. I think it is interesting to speculate how they would have changed the game and the classes they were meant for if they had been implemented, and in general it is just cool to discover removed class spells that you never knew existed.
We cannot really be sure about the nature of all the removed abilities, and know how far into the design process they were. Maybe they were never supposed to go in the live game as player spells, and they were simply used for testing, but even if that is the case we can still do all the speculation we want, and appreciate them for what they are.
I hope you will enjoy the video!

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Timestamps:
Chains of Ice: 2:15
Sleep: 4:04
Blood Boil: 5:33
Molten Blast: 7:01
Lightning Shock: 7:41
Shock: 8:01
Lightning Storm: 8:48
Explosive Shot: 9:57
Starburst: 12:14
Shadow Word: Fumble: 12:50
Spirit Armor: 15:26
Holy Word: Protect: 16:35
Play Dead: 17:22
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