Learn more about traditional Korean music - Pansori, Gugak and much more here: ru-vid.com/group/PLSPton-iLShTmE1uIR_aGfPb3MLf6nz2U Here is a guide to many of the instruments from Korea: artsandculture.google.com/story/QQXBWFVCGDVvKQ?hl=en
The Cycle Ends killed me in the fight because I was stunned IRL, the vocals and the OG Guild Wars 2 motif is *chef's kiss*. Fortune's Favor is both hilarious and very appropriate. A World Without You had me crying buckets. It really marks the end of an era. These are my highlights from an absolute banger of a soundtrack. Thank you to the whole music team they knocked it out of the park.
"The Cycle Ends" has to be the best piece of game music I've ever listened to. So gripping and beautiful. I was in awe after doing the meta with this soundtrack in the background.
Ngl I was already emotional at the end but when the vocals of A World Without You came I just started ugly crying. EoD was a masterpiece on all levels ;;
i got tears rolling down in the end too .___. And anet really accomplished my love to Aurene. I freaking love her :') feel so sad for her to be the only one left. But i'm sure she will be the new mother of all.
I think the ending song of EoD is a great opposite tarck to the first ending track Fear Not This Night. It makes you look back to this entire journey. It feels like everything is coming to an end. A grand finale
Dude, 1:38:40 Become Like Water is actually impeccable, short and sweet: I remember hearing it and going "AURENE'S THEME" then it turning into a Canthan twist, and then the swell from things like S4, but once again with the Canthan twist. I love what the GW2 music has become, a catalogue of leitmotifs and ideas that get sprinkled out, and don't get me started with the final boss fight(s), especially hearing Mordy's theme again
We would NEVER have gotten THAT much identity from the awesome music themes since HoT if Jeremy Sould would have stayed as a main composer. Losing him really was a benefit. He might create awesome tracks too, but they're all so generic in the end, like you can change pretty much any soundtrack from base GW2 (especially Shiverpeaks areas) with some from Skyrim and you wouldn't even notice that it's from a completely different game. Maclaine Diemer, Lena Chapelle and all the others though? They creaty truly amazing tracks that couldn't fit better to the game and the specific events they're written for!
The goose bumps from the "End of Dragons" Theme starting with the opening of the "Factions" Theme from the first installment. Still sends a shudder down my spine every time I hear it
1:14:30 The Slums is still the best thing I ever heard. Like, holy crap. The hopelessness in that one song, and how it embodies the darkness in humankind, it's insanely well done.
I came for this 37:50 Good god, I stood like a minute just listening to this ost when I first heard it. What a masterpiece. Also this one is amazing 30:05
The last one is also the name of the last series of stories developed for the original Guild Wars, which revolved around the founding of the Ministry of Purity, the events that lead to them seizing power in Cantha and the consequences.
Lots of amazing pieces but I was most amazed by how much the fighting music has increased in quality. Parabellum fits the encounters of Cantha so well and I'm always pumped when it starts playing.
"The Kestrel's watch" and "The petrified forest" will get me every time. Each time I'm playing in the former Kurzick zones and I'm beginning to hear those first notes, I push the music level to the max. So much nostalgia and hope in those composition. But honestly this expansion OST is utter dope. Doing Dragon's end meta on one end or finishing the living story on the other one and listening to those very last songs in the playlist is such an experiment. What a game OST, I mean from Lion's Arch to Auric Basin to the Thunderhead/ Aurene peaks to the Echovald forest and so on, pure magic. Chers!
haven't been able to play the last 2.5 months due to some freelance projects, but I've been listening to this over and over while I work. my biggest project is finally done. :) now I can hear the music in game!!
This ensemble of composers and performers really nailed it. This is by far the most compelling, comprehensive, and fitting music they have done in GW2 to date. It lifts the weight of Cantha easily on its shoulders.
This entire OST gives me mad nostalgia and makes me miss the first time I ever played through this expac which was not long after I first started altogether back when this came out. Wish I could erase my memory and do it again
I cannot say this enough but the people responsible for the OST got better and better with every release. I miss Soule but Diemer and all the others are amazing too
22:10 this soundtrack kept me ingame, its not the the meta or the challenges ... its the landscape jadesea and this title which gets me always goosebumps !!!
Thank you for uploading this! The whole soundtrack is amazing. What a wonderful combination of composers and musicians. Beautiful synergy!!!! I love it. ❤
Your comments in the description are invaluable to understanding the soundtrack for me. Really hope they dont take this upload down, but just in case I'll back up your notes elsewhere lol.
Arenanet has always been very open minded whenever it came to uploading their content - I read the Terms of Use, and what I do is all according to it. 😊
Ooof, i like so much battle themes written by Andi Roselund, so powerful and involving! They are doing my willbender gameplay even more aggressive. P.s. All of this OST is amazing. Such atmosphere created by it is precious!
I've always thought there's no touching the original soundtrack, but Imma be honest: That opening theme works better than the original main theme. I always gotta sit there and stare at my character until its done xD
I love this! I would have hoped that they would integrate some of the old Factions OST as well just like they did with integrating a bit of the Nightfall OST into PoF but this is nice too. The soundtrack just became better with each release. Stunning! The track at credits was so surprising and such a big moment. I also love the integration of synthesizers into the new OST. Really fits the theme of the new Cantha.
That's indeed the main Korean flute called Daegeum, but it has some processing on it. It's quite similar to the Chinese Dizi, because you put a membrane on one of the holes - so you get this richer sound. :)
I think one song is missing which i am trying to find. it's the song where u gather in the middle before u collect all the magics for each crystal spiral. it has a deep powerful voice behind it with heavy drums.
I'm still kinda sad they didn't integrate some of the old Factions OST in the game like they did with the latter releases :( I was so excited to hear the Ritualist theme in Shing Jae Monastry again
Hey - What about the song that plays when we find Canach's Ship? The same soundtrack now plays in Lion's Arch for April's Fools. I cannot find it anywhere.
I'm afraid there aren't shamisens in this soundtrack. All the stringed Asian instruments in this soundtrack are Korean zithers: either gayageum, geomungo, ajaeng or yanggeum.
do you by any chance know which song was playing when you reunite with canach and sayida? it also plays at an estate in new kaineng i think, kinda bossa nova sounding?
I am here anytime you need help finding tracks :D You might be looking for The Battle on the Breachmaker (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jC1xopc4TXs.html - specifically the 2nd phase of this track plays in the instance). First track that plays before Mai summons Scarlet is called "Parabellum".
