That day in the school yard my friend was telling me all about the legendary game 'World of Warcraft'. He was describing its various races, the Dwarves, the Gnomes, the Tauren, the Orcs. For some reason he hit a cord in me when he said you can start your adventure off as Dwarf with a musket. The more and more he talked, the more and more I was interested in this mysterious, yet well known game. I had only heard of how 'nerdy' it was, as they so depict it in popular media. That night when I got home, I started the download of the game, and begun the free trial (however long it lasted in those days). After hours of waiting, It was finally done and I logged into this strange world. I was met with a server selection, a vast sea of letters, red, orange and green. Words I did not understand and letters that made no sense. I called my friends house, and asked for him (there was no texting at the time and the only form of messaging him through social media was through MSN, and he wasn't online.) Finally when I was talking to him I asked him what to do on the screen, and he told me to make a character on the realm he was on, the Roleplaying server of 'Wyrmrest Accord' a server made for new players at the time. When met with the character creation screen, I was amazed at the options before me, I could play as a mighty green skin, and slash my enemies to pieces. Or I could play a human 'mage' and throw balls of fire. But for some reason, this short, bearded man with a musket drew my attention like you could never believe. I made his hair jet black, and his skin pale white like the snowy land of his home. Having been a fan of LOTR I tried to name him Gimli, at the time I spelt it 'Gimly', but alas it was taken. So I conjured up the name Gubly, and I logged in for the very first time. Que 2:00. A great white world was before me, stranger Dwarves, looking much like myself were running around, firing off their loud rifles. Gnomes of various colours waddled under foot. I instantly took foot, not knowing what a quest was or having any care to learn. I shot at what I wanted and as much as I wanted and soon my character exploded in vibrant gold colours, I had leveled up for the very first time. The bottom corner of my screen was flashing pink, accompanied by a tinking noise, and I soon came to realize my friend was messaging me. We eventually met up at the Wendigo cave, and we camped there for hours, firing at the damned beasts until it was no challenge at all. Gubly and Aermoss had many adventures from that point on. I can still remember leaving the other end of the Deeprun Tram and seeing a city with a visible sky! I was baffled at the sheer size of the world before me! Hours, Days, Years have past, and now I sit ontop of an account with 4+ lvl 100s. Gubly has been race changed so many times, I forget he was my pride and joy once. The game has become numbers for me, numbers and expectations. There is no spirit for me, no mystery, no wonder. But that time we had, shall have an impact on my life longer than anything else I have yet lived through. (( I wanted to write more but I doubt anybody has read this far, also I am tearing up wayyy too much.))
Wubchok yeah, that feeling of a new adventure is absolutely wonderful. The misteries of Undercity, the relaxing music of Mulgore, the raids, that friendship feeling that u get in those long stances from Vanilla... Oh, and how epic it was to go PVP with your friends! I remember when my real life friends were with me in arathi, we had just killed the giant and we were just sitting around a bonfire while talking about nothing important... Good ol' times, m8 :')
Wubchok Yup, that´s how I feel aswell although I had an undead priest, coming from the WC3 game which are just as awesome, I roleplayed on as the survivor of Tirisfal Glades. So when Arthas disappeared from the game, I no longer felt like I belonged there and with the new expansions the population is dropping. Every good party has to die sometime, I just wished that this one didn´t. It´s one of the most if I may say so, close to magical experience I ever had with a game. Logging on today is something entirely but those days were one of the best, and I know there will never be anything like it.
Ahri man Going to be late and waking up early to do something in the world, and back then it actually felt like you were doing something, like you were going on a magnificent quest across the world of Azeroth, and the people you met would stick with you for the rest of your days, going on more adventures than you could ever dream of. But no, those days are done, the people have gone, and the quests have become calculated outcomes.
And for some reason that is exactly the part that has been cut out from Cataclysm. Like I don't hear it in-game any more, neither in Dun Morogh nor in Wintersprings.
4:25 One night, when taking a flight path to a destination I don't remember, I passed over Dun Morogh at night and those beautiful piano notes started to play as I looked down to the virtual world below, seeing no one, only the snow illuminated by blue light and the moon. It was such a simple moment, yet so incredible.
I think all of us here created an emotional bond to their music and beautiful speechless scenery, knowing that in the end of the day you could just log in and feel at home and safe.. oh gosh i miss it. However a reality check eventually hits us, and it makes us realize that this unrealistic world of characters and friends is not real, and then we stop playing, but forever have our memories and stories lingering in our subconscious as real emotions. Long Live World of Warcraft and their amazing team for creating such an amazing piece of work
hey mate, thanks for those beautiful words. this music reminds me of a time when i thought life was eternal. why can't i still believe it today? it was a great feeling...
Vilix Kazzak Although, I wouldn't go as far as saying that the "Unrealistic world of Characters and Friends aren't real." Friends are probably one of the strongest bonds that I could create through this game. And if anything, it is not "Fake". I love this game with a passion, still do. And this world has become a part of my life. Not the opposite hehe. This is art. Art never dies. And art is real.
well said my friend. However when i said friends i meant the ones u sometimes speak to from guild or raids, where u know their character name, but have no clue bout their real name, location,age,sex, etc ;p
it's snowing this morning at my village and it's still dark, the wind blows and carries the snow from the roofs, i'm looking at the windows listening this.
November 2004. Seems like ages ago. Still remember walking around Dun Morogh for the first time. My little gnome warrior had no idea the years of adventure that were ahead of him. I haven't played since Warlords was released but revisiting the music is always a joy. Someone once said that this wasn't a game they once played but rather a place they once visited. That still resonates with me. The detail of the zones, the immersion that the music brings. It felt almost real. I miss it.
I remember back when I was 25, this was around december 2006, a nelf hunter showed me and my friend how to glitch on top of IF. This great piece playing in the background... just wow.. all the feels and the nostalgia. To think I've wasted/spent so many years of my life on this game.
Been playing for 8 years and i'd spend another 8 years on this game just to get that feeling of finding out just how big wow really is, Finally reaching level 5 and leaving the starter zone to realize just how big wow actually is. Dat nostalgia
I seriously regret seeing what wow became. When i was just twelve, i entered wow and spent my best gaming days trying to get better and enjoying the simple life in the game with little achievments making it all but worth my time. each level and item was just amazing. from vanilla to wotlk with BC included were in my opinion the best wow games ever created. I still think of these music pieces even though i quit a long time ago.
This music is op, makes me want to re sub instantly, I've been quitting on and off for the past couple yrs but don't think a true wow player ever really quits.
me too, there is something about this game i just cant leave.. i dont know what it is, prob all the memories i have on the different characters that draws me back all the time
i feel the same way. going to so many different places on this game with so many different people is addicting. its like living multiple different lives in a few years , always making alts to reinvent myself...i don't have that luxury in this life. pain, shame, and mistakes are real
A cousin and I found a tree next to a Path in Loch Modan, way back when you couldn't fly anywhere except Outland. If you went behind this tree and jumped well enough towards the mountain, you would actually get on the wall and be able to climb the mountain. You could then follow the path through those unattainable mountains in the Burning Steppes, all the way to the very top of Ironforge. You could visit the tiny airport behind the peak, and see trappers sledding down the peak. We were the only people we ever knew, or saw, who knew this. This music kicking in when you finally reach Ironforge, it's burned into my memory. Needless to say I was kind of disappointed when you could finally fly in Azeroth. No more exclusive path or knowledge necessary.
I remember way back in 2004, when I was listening to sample music on their website before WoW released. 1:07 was the piece they had for Dun Morogh. I just remembered thinking, "Wow, this is going to be awesome". Sometimes I wish I could recapture that sense of wonder you get the first time you step into a new world.
For some it was Durotar, Elwynn, Teldrassil or Mulgore that gave them the best memories... I'll always remember bringing my level 6 dwarf paladin for the first time into Kharanos talking to all the different class trainers to see their different dialogues, going into the forge if i remember correctly and looking at the armor on NPCs... I'd ask myself "how did they get that? Man i wish I could at least wear shoulderpads". And the inn, ahhh the inn. So peacefull. Nothing like coming inside a safe place and resting before a warm hearth with soft soothing music in the background after hours of farming in the snow. I will always be a WOW player at heart and I hope Legion will save it.
I'm studying while listening to this! God i miss these good old days... Makes me wanna get back into wow.. but at the same time i know it won't be the same anymore... i wonder what all the people i met in Vanilla are doing at this moment in life! GOOD MEMORIES
i miss all the lands, all songs, all feelings, i miss all.. one day i shall return before my journey's end on this life, i will return to see the great days of old, and to remember the feelings i've left there..
The first time I crested a hill in Dun Morogh, looked across the snowy valley and heard 1:07 I was in love. As someone else said: The magic has now gone but those memories remain.
I've always loved Dun Morogh. The music there is beautiful and the snowy mountains are just breathtaking, My first ever character, a dwarf hunter, named Keellochan, was born here, in early 2007. I remember spending weeks running around the zone exploring everything and having no clue what I was doing. WoW was a magical game when I started playing it. I have so many fond memories of the older game. I may not play it anymore but I will always love the music.
i know the feeling. i started in 2009 as a gnome warrior surrounded by dwarf hunters at the starting zone. so many players back then. we all grouped up and fought trolls and found out how to get on top of the inn in kharanos. good times. i can't imagine how nostalgic it'd be for people who started in 04.
Made a dwarf when wow launched and hearing this music after all these years still reminds me of that day. There was another great soundtrack in ashenvale I think that I remember.
December 26th, 2004. i had just woken up after a lengthy christmas night to find out its very early in the morning and im the only person awake in my house. i got wow for Christmas just last night, the game i heard so much about and i could barely sleep the night before, filled with so much anticipation for the game that i was about to experience. I get onto my family’s pc to see the game fully installed, ready to play. i launch, log in and go to the character screen. i had made so many characters to see what was my favorite, but dwarf felt so right. it might have been because it was snowy outside and the very room I stood in was extremely cold, or the mix of the melancholic music with the cold atmosphere in my home as well as the snow topped world of Dun Morogh. either way, i was hooked; and there was no way this game was letting me go any time soon.
My god it’s getting me so nostalgic… I tell you guys, we who have known this game in its early days have been lucky. These really were blessed times. This theme perfectly catchs up how it felt back then.
And here we are. Its been nearly 18 years since my journey in WoW started with my Dwarf rogue (and soon after a dwarf hunter, because how can I tame an animal?!). The nostalgia and the sense of emotional connection to this game never went away. Its something I never again experienced with any other game,.
My first character was a gnome warrior , that I played 2 months with in Dun Morogh ( and finally reached Loch Modan after that lol ) Back in 2005 .. I remember it so well , Kharanos was sooo crowded , full of dwarves and gnomes and that epic song , Iron Forge.. Back then I thought gnome mount could fly lol.. Good time
almost the same case for me but in 2009. i had a gnome warrior and i felt so accomplished to have reached loch modan after so long. i've always been a very very slow leveler. i've gotten faster, but my record is from 30 to 90 in 3 months, for about 6-7 hours a day.
I miss those times... I was a gnome warlock. Took me forever to level up to reach Modan and then the wetlands.. Back then it meant something for me. Such changes in the atmospheres. Now it isn't that significant any more.
I remember my first character. Dwarf Paladin named McBeer. Ever since I played WarCraft Orcs and Humans back in 92 (I think) as a kid I was in love with the worlds Blizzard made. Azeroth, Sanctuary and the Koprulu Sector were my homes. WoW was like a dream come true. All the wonderful memories.
It makes me sad when I'm thinking about how many people I got to know from this game, and actually i can't even find them anymore.....yeah, played with pretty much good games, but none of them gave the peaceful atmosphere that wow gave me.... relaxing music, friends, i could spend long hours in the night travelling, talking to people.....2005-2013.....My life evolved into someone more, but i won't forget the happy hours this game gave me
One of the best zones i leveled in the old days of World of Warcraft. The dwarves have always been my favourite race. The music, the ambience, that windy sound, is also one of my favourites places for roleplaying. It was very relaxing leveling in Dun Morogh and i fcking love it :')
4.24 hits a lovely nerve. First playing in the beautiful snowly landscape with zero clue of the vast world outside the valley. Wow became very by the numbers but at the start it made me feel insignificant till I joined a guild and became a hero. Never recapture that feeling but the memory is truly beautiful and emotional.
Back when I played in vanilla, we knew the enemy Alliance to avoid and who were noobs. They logged onto our chat after fights and kidded around talked shit and had a great time. Then came WSG, AB, and AV. So many good fights back then. Now it's just nobodies who came from somewhere else on a different server. bah!
First ever character was a tauren warrior but I stopped playing it within 5 minutes because buzzards killed me. So it doesn't count. The first real character I ever played was my dwarf hunter. Man, it was awesome. Was a noob back then. Didn't know what a talent tree was or that I had one until level 30.
man my first charac was a tauren warrior, 2 friends talked to me about WoW, i built him up to lvl 8-9 then i rerolled nightelf to join one of these friends, the other was a tauren on Arak-Arahm. so much memories. 5 years after i reconnected to this character i still did not delete (the tauren lvl 8, and i played on private servers a lot). He was still there, waitin for me in the same place i left him 5 years ago in vanilla.
rofl that resonates so much with me, I had no idea I had to upgrade and buy talents until lvl 13 or so and wondered why the enemies got harder and harder to kill even though some were 2-3 levels below me. good times
Brings back SOOO much memories...my first char was a human Mage..I got this game from my cousin and I copied him...it was like 2-3 yrs ago...Man if I had a better pc I would've played this all day man...so much memories
My first char when I had an account or shared I had a dwarf warrior because I loved dwarfs and back when I was little I thought beging a warrior was being a great soldier 4 or 5 years later I race changed back to a dwarf first time since 2010 and the memories all came back :,)
It's weird in a sense that this ost is nostalgic, I mean it was 10 years ago, 2005. It doesn't feel too old but then you realize you were 12 years old as well. The days, Blizzard knew how to make you feel at home. They still do but 1998-2005 were the golden era I think...
Some might say we are stupid for getting so emotional over a game but the truth is, I have grown up playing this game. I started when I was 8 and it first came out and i still play to this day. Oh how miss the days of running around dun morough.
This hurts in a way. I remember being 16-22 and running a raiding guild in Vanilla - WOTLK God, I made a lot of friends, and God, I miss them all. I never felt more at home.
Ok sure ive only just started in MoP and my friend has told me what is 'around every corner', but that doesnt change the fact that i have had the same reaction as everyone else. My first character was a gnome frost mage(i still have the lvl 20), and as soon as i had been through the introduction of the gnomes and what they stand for i was thrown into this city overrun by leper gnomes... for those first 20mins alone, before my friend found me, i was at complete peace running around Dun Morogh. :)
Level 1 Gnome mage.. World of Warcraft trail account, WoTLK login menu and Dun Morogh music throughout. 2 years later, with 6 level 85s and a history of worthy achievements under my belt, I'm still wishing i had that 'first character' feeling again.
Dang so much memories when my ears hears this music my first character was a dwarf hunter just like my older cousins who showed me this game I'll never regret playing this game because of all the happiness it brung me...I'll be back soon!
I know what you mean I've been long gone from WoW since 2010. I remember starting when the game came out in 2004, at the time I didn't know what I was really getting myself into. I almost quit the game right then and there UNTIL another rogue came up and said "hey want to help me with this quest and I'll help you with yours. To be honest I'm glad i said the hell with it and went along with him. We still talk to this day, I can say I have a bestfriend in New Zealand.
This reminds me of my little hunter. A female dwarf, ugly as all get out, named something horrible I can't remember now. I tamed that rare white bear (Bjarn was his name, I had to look it up lol). I loved that bear. /sigh I miss that bear.
First ever character i made was a gnome mage at my friends house back when BC had just released.. all it took was a short run to ironforge and man I was hooked to this game
major nostalgia. i remember when i made my first character in vinilla gnome lock, i was 7 years old and i really didn't know how to quest, i would have the best time running around for weeks killing mobs and this music always gave me a peaceful feeling. WoW is still fun nowa days but its just not that same kind of fun.
This music takes me back to the old days. My first steps in world of warcraft was a gnome warlock cause my brother told me warlocks were the best. I remember this one quest I kept dying on. You we're supposed to kill trolls in a cave around lvl 8. I died and I died and I died and I died but it didnt matter cause it was so fun. I sure miss those times ='(
I was horde when I played, but every time I rolled a dwarf as an alt or visited Dun Morogh for messing with the alliance I grew so green with envy over this being their zone that I could've been mistaken for an orc.
nostalgia trip.. been listening to all the old stuff I use hear... pink floyd... man so much .. trance above and beyond ... wow.. time sure does fly... I'm not 13 or 14 anymore... wow... the responsibilities Mann... fuck :/
I played this game since the begining until 2021.. now in 2023 I downloaded the game launcher again and I log into my account and I got my mouse hover over "upgrade" but I just cant do it.. Its been a week now.. Its all becuase of this very music.. Dun Morogh.. I'm stuck
I remember when i created a Dwarf hunter, created my first couple friends on the game and quested together. Now everyone doesnt really talk to you or help like they used to, everyone knows the game and just does it themselves, I remember there was a Rare spawn back when rare spawns were "Rare" . it was a bear named Iceclaw i believe. Me and the group of friends tried to kill it for the longest time kept dieing it was a pain but it was probably the most fun laughing and having fun, Cant go back
Reminds me of making my first toon (Dwarf huner named Ranniggoo on the server Seninels) with a friend and exploring the mountains. Some of my best memorys are in WoW and thats one of them. I hope they don't get rid of this music when Cata comes out...
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