It is a feeling that private servers and classic wow cannot replicate. The only way you can experience it like it was ever again is if time machines are invented
On that note can we please create a time machine? I want to remember and talk to some people in the game that I havent seen in years one day they were there and then they never logged in again...
Destroyer120296 Why its not the same the areas in wow were not the only things changed everything is different and everything is easier and made for the common generic gamer now why would I want to play that
Except when faction change killed my once balanced server and “tenacity” didn’t give us enough boost to make it even so the horde constantly kept the place lol 😂
@@KNByamWith Classic coming out, there is a good possibility of seeing Classic Wrath. Classic Burning Crusade has already been talked about and depending on how Classic WoW goes it's possible to see it in the future. Downside is we'll be seeing it around 2025
+alecyo12 yeah... I remember going there with my Turbo-Charged Flying Machine, but the noise was covering the music. So I switched to a dragon. The wings flapping was much better ^_^. Then I was going to that tall tower in the middle. But my char was so lightly clothed, and I thought he was going to catch a cold with that FREEZING atmosphere there. Am I going paranoid again? Yeah I guess so...
+M SDoc me too. at the end on the night, when all the raiding was done and most of the guild would log, I would go here and just listen to the music before bed. It's one of the things I miss the most about wow
I long for the Panda days. I actually loved that expansion. The quest areas, Isle of Thunder, timeless island. There was so much to do. I never pvp'd warrior until that expansion came out.
I legitimately think the first 4 minutes of this is one of the best songs ever written. The emotion that it captures is fucking unreal. The perfect blend of loss, perseverance, longing and remembrance. I lost two family members in late 09 and this song will forever be entwined with them, and man, I couldn't have asked for a better song to remember them by.
despite not actually remembering this song much, the nostalgia in these comments seems to be contagious. I remember my bunch of misfit friends in middle school who all stayed up til the wee hours of the morning despite school being in the morning, and the feeling of loneliness that'd inevitable creep in when you'd be playing WoW at 3 am on a school night just vanish when you check your friends list and see your buddy is online too it's really a time that just can't be replicated. life was different, and so was the escapism you'd take part in. WoW is still a great game, but it IS just a game for me now. i can't feel it's heartbeat these days, so to speak. hopefully one day it, or something else will stir those feelings again. until then, the music will do nicely
I remember years ago really enjoying this game to the point where it began to take over my life. I can recall fondly of battling in Wintergrasp, listening to this song and wondering what the hell am I doing with my life sitting here playing in a darkened room wasting my time away. But many years later whilst I somewhat regret playing the for the amount of hours that I did, I'm glad I got to experience the World of Warcraft.
+Ryan Swann 2006-2008 were the dark days for me with WoW. I am talking 18 hours a day. When Wotlk was about to drop, my guild was cracking up, my server was getting empty and all the people I really enjoyed my experience with were gone for the most part. I decided to make a break for it and run. I quit WoW and got a job the following week lol. Although I have visited WoW a few times after that (Wotlk for 7 months, Cata for 4 months and MOP for 1 month). Playing the game the way I did is done for me I can't get the same feel I did back during vanilla and TBC.
I think like that time to time. Then I think, what the heck. I enjoyed it anyway. Without these I would probably be a very soulless, emotionless, dull person.
farming eternal fires in the corner of the map fishing for eternal waters loooking for VoA 25 man just flying around and enjoying the wintergrasp buyable pvp items while you can good times
i will never forget that mood when i stood up all night in winter opened my windows before sunrise in -16 Celsius cooled my room to 4 celsius wrapped myself in blanket while sipping green tea and was waiting over gates of VOA for some allies to come around and my buddy attacked them and i healed. spent atleast 3 mornings like this. i guess thats one of my best memories of wow wotlk
Hey, neat! A fellow corax! I come back to this music when I need a reminder of a time when I built a community, and together we found glory, victory, and friendship.
Saturday morning, free from school, get up, go to Wintergrasp, do the BG, LFG for the raid... what a way to start a morning : ) , it's been over 10 years, hard to believe sometimes. I put a lot of emotion into this game, and so did a lot of likeminded people, a shame those time passed, I'll always remember...
Something WOTLK's soundtrack does better than any other is have patience. Both this and Grizzly Hills are not afraid to draw out that single note or have space in the song and in doing so they make the game slow down and make the world feel bigger - like despite the Lich King being right next door there is still peace, mystery, beautiful sunrises and quiet evenings.
None of us did. Referring to the old, tired and beaten quote just one more time: “I wish there were a way to know you were in the good old days before you’ve left them.”
Jesus....and again im here, since over 12 yrs...many things in my life changed. lots of good things happened, like bad things too. lost my ex-girlfriend that i met in world of warcraft. i made a lots of friends in world of warcraft. im stil in contact with them. one of my best playerfriend died at leukemia. we experienced an explosion of emotions. part of my life that i will always be proud of and grateful for. and no one can take this away from me. it will never be the same again. at some days i cant believe that world of warcraft music makes me feel like this. kinda hurt...melancholic, happy, sad, hopeful, strong at the same time. thank u old blizzard. i will always be one of your biggest fan in world of warcraft. even if the new games weren't that good anymore.
The absolute BEST piece out of the entire World of Warcraft soundtrack. Grizzly Hills came close, but this song just has this touchy, melancholic and deep feel to it.
I totally agree with you on this, and with the new music rolls in WoD garrison, i had wished they added this soundtrack as one of them, unfortunately they didn't :'( Probably for the best, otherwise i'd be getting too many feels everytime i go back to my garrison, haha!
Man... I'm on the verge of tearing up just listening to this song. All the memories and experiences and friends met along the way... all the battles raged and farming that was done in between... THIS piece is incredible, absolutely incredible.
Listening to this makes me so sad knowing the game was so amazing at one point. I still play WoW but its just not the same at all.. The first few weeks of WoD were amazing, but thats it. So much wasted potential on what could have been a great WoW expansion. But WoW during Wotlk will always be my number one game for the rest of my life. There was just so much heart and soul put into it. It had so much feeling and immersion and a good sense of community.
TheFatAmericans1 For the first weeks, like WoD. After you roughly explored the new content, the game comes back to its tasteless actual form ; poor community, little challenge in casual gameplay, extremely easy leveling and quests, not much specificity for each class/ character, slow paced unbalanced PvP. A very linear game overall.
I finally quit after 10 long years. It hurts but I'm just kidding myself now. I think I have to accept the fact that I have just grown out of the greatest game of all time :(
Oh man, I remember when everyone was spamming "WINTERLAG WINTERLAG" on the General chat, while the combat song was being played and the Battleground was running... Then... suddenly, one of the factions win and the other lose... the players heads back to Dalaran, where they had their Hearthstones., And... the calm music of Wintergrasp starts playing. I still remember nowdays, staying in the zone after the battle to hear this calm masterpiece of Wrath of the Lich King. Nostalgia is strong... my tears are dropping with this beautiful soundtrack
La Tui The soundtrack of every expansion has its strength and flaws, but to me they are pretty equal. Wrath is propably the weakest for me, but by a small margin. rip old Barrens.
+SayajinDwarf Music has been good in every expansion but i miss when it was about creating atmosphere where as nowadays it seems everything needs to sound big and epic, I kinda wish they went back to that vanilla/tbc style
I feel like WotLK had some of the best music, but every expansion has had amazing music. Cataclysm, for all its shortcomings, had excellent music as well, and I really love what I am seeing from Legion.
Havent played wow for years but i randomly got the chime in my head that starts at 1:33. Touched me when i heard it in game and still does. So relaxing and pure
Northrend... I played this expansion when I was studying abroad in Germany. I remember playing WG when it was freezing cold outside pouring snow, drinking my hot coco. Best time of my life. And I am glad I lived it. RIP WOTLK
This feels so sacred, its like this song is in mourning for everydeath that happened in there. Not enough people remember this but its truly a masterpiece.
This music is by far the most memorable to me in the game, and out of any video game I've ever played in my 25 years. I can still remember the exact feelings I had stepping into Wintergrasp for the first time years and years ago, and it still sends shivers down my spine. This will always have a very special place in my heart, and is one of the things I miss most about WoW. I know a lot of people didn't think so, but WOTLK will always be my favorite expansion.
Reminds me of the good days back in high-school playing WOW with my younger brother. Even though its been some years and I don't see him much any more, it takes me back. ^ It's crazy how you can forget things, and how such a simple note can take you back to all the memories. Miss you Bro
The power of music is displayed by the comments on this youtube video. Very few videos have a wall of comments where nearly everyone is about nostalgia or how this song hits them in the feels. It's quite incredible if you ask me...
The music transports you back in time.... I didn't get to play Wrath in it's heyday... But I remember questing as my hunter through grizzly hills and my fav, howling fjord. I was battling depression at the time and would stay up all night questing solo. I would open my bedroom window right before sunrise. I'd breath in the crisp air and a rush of hope would wash over me.
I was just a kid back then, still remember the first time I got in Wintergrasp, the battle was on-going and I was excited and scared at the same time, I had no idea what to do, but what struck me most was the calm of this place once the battle was over and its music
These lands were bathed in crimson and what grew from them were memories, friendships, rivalries, and most of all, fun. From fishing, mining, herb gathering, or just your local fauna extermination. We were here. We existed. So to that I say: "To the many laid low so that others could prosper, thank you."
I swear I feel like I have PTSD when I listen to this music. All the battles I did on my belf paladin. I use to do it everyday. The memories are just flooding in!!!
The soundtrack made me feel like I was fighting for something while holding off those orcs to defend that titan outpost that would help the alliance win, I felt like there was something worth fighting over. Hearing that music and looking up to the sky, Knowing It'll be a fight to the death. I love this soundtrack and it really made the area, Northrend is amazing. Long live Northrend, wow, Moon-guard, and lake wintergrasp.
I want this get out there, where it belongs... This hit me so hard, the feeling of nostalgia and the fact that I will most likely not be able to chase these memories ever again. WOW will never be the same but changes happened people. We all had to move on to different things. Whether we were able to move on or not, this game meant so much to the community. I had the chance to revisit during WOD but it just wasn’t the same. I fucking wanna play this game so bad right now but there’s not gonna be anybody to play with. It honestly makes me feel happy to know that I experienced this glorious time of my life.
This music always brings back the memory of being home for Christmas break from college and spending time here farming. So relaxing (except for the war drums and stuff) and really fit that winter mood.
This is the track that made farming frost lotus a treat
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0:00-4:06 I can remember back when WotLK was the best expansion. Wintergrasp was the place to be at for PvP dominance. I was here mining Saronite, gathering flowers, fishing, and hanging out with friends just to calm down, relax and listen to this music. We had good laughs, good jokes, saddened times, but at the end of the day, we loved and enjoyed every second of the time spent on here. Knowing we were wasting time on a game, its an unforgettable experience. Always here killing the Alliance, outnumbering em 10:1, but they get the x20 Tenacity buff. if you remember that buff, that's a level 100 vs a level 80 we're talking about lmao. now... 4 years have passed... all of us went our separate ways, and hearing this music brings tears to my eyes. It is a moment I cannot and will not and will never in my life forget. They were like family to me and if I am to ever get back on this game, I hope I come across those who also played this game during Wrath or hell before Wrath to live Nostalgia moments. This game gave me the most greatest memories ever.
I stopped playing WoW soon after the end of WotLK. This music makes me want to return, just to come back to Wintergrasp and stay there a little longer.
Vanishing Point I feel the same. Cataclysm stripped off so many features and game nowadays looks like glorified farmville. I miss WotLK days. I truly do, I could almost cry. I still remember how WotLK "feels" especially when listening to this music, but if I go there in a current state of the game I'd just be ruining my memories.
Ah, I simply quit because my friends stopped playing. In hindsight, I'm glad I did. WoW is an absolutely beautiful, vast, pretty lore-rich game to explore, but it suckers you into spending as much time playing as possible to have the best, coolest stuff available. You're probably right. Even though this music is crystallized nostalgia, the days that we remember fondly are long gone and are not coming back. Well, at least the music only got better with time thanks to the memories. I'd still drop a few bucks into the game just to wander around for a couple days revisiting the familiar places, and feel intensely lonely.
Vanishing Point Yup, due to all "looking for" tools and no need to leave your garrison/main city, there's no use to go out in the world anymore and it's so lonely. I miss exploring, raiding other capitals, I miss the WORLD in Warcraft. I miss the times when it was alive. It's not nostalgia, it's simply how it was, but it isn't anymore, sadly :(
Vanishing Point i can understand these feelings so much. I got raid overdozed past Ulduar and wanderd along a while to remember the good times with old long gone friends and such. This game really made me feel beautifuly sad. It hurted inside, but it was a tranquil soothing hurt. Thanks for Writing these lines my friend, i thought i was alone in the dark with these emotions you describe, wich i totally understand. You're not alone. And there are hopes of the ordinary World in the end i promise You.
This game is all about adventure for me, that's why I don't buy flying until max level, and why I take so long to level toons. WoW has never been about raiding or even PvP for me, don't get me wrong they were fun but my fondest memories in WoW are of discovering a whole zone, with zero quests in my log and an entire landscape to delve unto. That's something that existed in Vanilla that doesn't anymore, now it's all about questing and following a linear, streamlined model to get to max so then you can use the structured group finder systems to "experience" the end game content. But that isn't experiencing the content, truly experiencing the content is knowing you have a long road ahead of you; no, not a road but a horizon, and the WoW experience is chasing this unreachable goal with no hope of ever getting there. Think about it, what is so fun about being the top PvPer or Raider in WoW, knowing that you have accomplished everything you wanted to? Absolutely nothing, and that is why so many players feel like the game is empty, like it's a husk. That's because people shouldn't be able to so easily "beat" the game, and even though that's impossible, killing the last boss and having above average gear is usually enough for players to feel like they beat the content. I hope they can realize how to bring the soul back into WoW with warlords of draenor, because at the moment there is nothing fun about doing quests to gain levels because there are so many stupid ass quests. Back in the day quests were cool because they were rare, now there are too many and leveling is too god damn easy. Give me the adventure back!
I totally agree. I loved the sense of mystery and adventure old WoW gave me. I loved the handcrafted questing zones and quests that you know someone, somewhere at Blizzard worked their butt off for. Now with the whole instant level 90 they are giving people soon in the new expansion, they have completely negated out all that adventure! No one will see the old quest zones, or visit Outland, raid Black Temple, or see Northrend's glorious luster. It will all be about who can get the most gear the fastest. I for one loved exploring and enjoying the environment around my toon. I would never want to give all that content, all that adventure up, for end game content. I prefer to get there when I get there.
David Vertigan Never rare? Old Azshara had a total of 10-15 quests, and with no guide as to where the quests were you had to quite literally travel around the zone on foot for hours to find the quest hubs, but along the way you found neat scenery and cool mobs and the occasional unexpected quest which is the whole spirit of adventure, finding a quest unexpectedly and without warning is the best to me.
As much as I agree with you, this feeling of awe is largely due to being new to the game. Ask yourselves, is it really Vanilla WoW or the "Noob Experience" that made the game so great?
***** Im sure it's because of the "noob experience" cause everything was totally new for all of us. However, let's be honest, Vanilla and BC general content was way better than the rest of the expansions like for example in terms of design of tiers (vanilla tiers were REALLY awesome compared to the current ones of MOP which they fucking suck), quests, dungeons, raids... everything was better
Love when the beginning of the battle music starts and rushing out of the gates playing defense. The rush of excitement running around in groups sparing with the other faction!
After 27 months without wow, I still come back listening to this music. Its weird to think that I cant play the game anymore, that I so used to love when I started playing more then 8 years ago...classic, then later BC and after that WOTLK. It should be possible to return to a game that I like to play so long but it just changed that much that I dont recognize the game anymore. Blizz should be able to come up with a solution, untill that time I will have to do with my memories :)
Och my.. back in a days i used to play WoW for hours.. 15+ hours was minimum.. doin quests, achievements, talking with friends on ventrilo, progressin with my guild on Trial of the Crusader and Icecrown Citadel.. lisening to this amazing soundtrack and flying all around Wintergrasp just to ... listen and grabbing herbs
I started playing this game in 2009, this is the first time I actually heard this track. Just flying over the area for a questline and boom, 1:34 hits. I was mesmerized by it, still am. The chord progression is phenomenal.
The music in WoW will never cease to amaze and captivate me. In my opinion though, Wrath of the Lich King plateaued Blizzard's writing capabilities in terms of music. It was equal parts dramatic and bombastic and subtle and atmospheric. It was pure writing perfection. The following soundtracks have been pretty great but they've just kinda become too loud and in your face in comparison to what they accomplished in Wrath.
This music was so nostalgic. Although this was a massive battleground and quite a debatably serious battleground, I remember flying over this zone and the music starting to play. I freaking miss logging onto my guild's tab and seeing nearly all my guildies playing Wintergrasp. Oh god the memories and good times
Playing on a RPPVP server, my guild spent a lot of time in WG defending the base (or trying to win it back). It was always a blast logging on and within 30 seconds someone shouting about a WG match starting in 10 minutes and the entire guild 25+ players would assemble along with the rest of the guild alliance, 150+ Horde swarming WG fighting the stupid Alliance who had players with 10x HP buffs because their faction hadn't had the keep in a week. I loved how the matches would often get quite frantic towards the end, and then whether it was a narrow victory or victory by a wide margin, we would hop on our drakes (and my nether ray) and chase down the stragglers, or hang out in the keep yard taunting the allies and trying to catch anyone who would make a break for the portal back to town. Miss those times and especially miss this zone! Really wish there were an official WOTLK-locked server...
I spent countless hours afk in WG just to listen to then music , every time I hear this it reminds me of a time filled with memories made with real friends
i remember the first time i stepped into Lake Wintergrasp, even though it was the Cataclysm it was active on my server for whatever reason, I had so much fun in those days.
Wintergrasp was one of my favorite pvp experiences in wow. I found an old video recorded of a wintergrasp battle on my old usb drive and I had forgotten how epic it was. So many people and vehicles fighting and blasting everything. RIP Wintergrasp. Wish they had made it scale up to current levels. Tol Barad and Ashran were not even close to the same level and that isn't nostalgia talking.
Great track. Fishing for eternal waters with some guildies; farming eternal shadow in the southwest; being ever vigilant about sneaking Alliance... frantically healing everyone around me in Wintergrasp battles; being one of a 150+ Horde defense team inside the Keep... just great memories!
xlitin there was also a fishing quest in those pond areas..standing by the shore, being a bit scared of being camped by some stubborn Rogue who kept coming back to ruin my Daily quest, all seems like happy mems that i long to have back someday again. Damn this tune and all these shared memories makes me come to tears. I love you all guys, you're my jolly happy friends forever. We were Soldiers. But the war's ended for me unfortunately. Maybe somday a Rogue will stand behind You to eviscerate you're Brains out. I want you to Think about this moment then. Think about we who digged in night after night to make a statement of our lifetimes. - Victory or Death ! -
