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
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.
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.
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.
+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.
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
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.
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...
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!
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
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 :(
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.”
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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...
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."
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
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.
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.
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 :)
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
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 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.
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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 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
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.
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!
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.
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!!!
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.
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.
i still listen to it. i can remember. sitting in my room at my parents flat. it was winter... i was not allowed to smoke in my room. my parents where'nd at home so i opened the windoe just a Crack. cold breezin wind passed my chest and face. i smoked my cigarette to this music and i was so relaxed. i love listen to this at winters.
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...
So I was leveling my mining today and I have never been in Wintergrasp before, and rarely do I have my music turned on. When I got into the area and listening to this music it made me wanna stay there and just sit and listen to it. Beautiful piece of music.
I used to farm my herbs in wintergrasp back when people complained about how rare frost lotus were. I remember getting almost 20 in an hour. This music made all the times I farmed there so pleasant.
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.
I flew through wintergrasp earlier today to do some farming, and stopped as I flew though just to listen to the music here and remember the great times I had here.
when life was simple
Feelz bruh T_T
This is why people miss the old versions of WoW. Not because of the actual content of the game, but because it was during a simpler time that we miss.
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
Exactly. I was in high school when WoTLK came out and didn't have a worry in the world.
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...
I don't care what anyone says, these were the best days of wow. Doing dailies and questing in Northrend. The music and the feel of Wrath was so nice.
I to miss those days.
You can still go back and listen to the music and do the daily quests
WotLK was probably the best xpac it still have the old dev team and a lot of heart was put into making the xapc really unique and fun to explore
ColdTurkey440
So go back to northrend?
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
With music like this, Wintergrasp was truly worth fighting for.
we made it. we made it.
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 😂
the best time of my life....
I miss it so much man. Please, someone invent a time machine.
@@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
@@KNByam private servers boyo
@@nasir3680 See you man💯
@@nasir3680 Hi, im from the future you are right, Blizzard launched a wrath of the lich king remade, and they nailed it
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.
Oh my God I'm crying
RIP
I killed them both, but I'm crying too
@@98BlackTransAm I can only hope that this is the sort of track that will be associated with my memory when I'm gone.
Reminds me of living in Michigan (as a kid), my parents fighting and eventual divorce. My sister and I getting split up and the loneliness.
I come back to this at least 3 or so times a year xD
Glad to see you again
still kickin 8 years later :')
real
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
Waking up in the morning, almost noon, during summer vacations, and listening to this right after logging in...
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.
+CorvusDei2012 Me too. I loved Wotlk and my guild so much.
C O M F Y
You are awesome.
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.
Beautifully said
that first chord is instant nostalgia.
Now imagine hear this 12 years after
we made it. we made it.
@@XNarutoXbleach I came back to listen to this just the other day. Wotlk classic has been great.
@@ZentetsukenVII yea man, im top 5 priest OCE for 5v5, having a blast
i remember just going there to listen to the music. I loved it so much
+alecyo12 totally :) also, when u run strand BG, u get the music whenever ur inside one of the demo shops :)
+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
Me too. After the battle was over I just loved staying there and doing dailies and listening to the music.
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.
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 quit about 5 years ago, but I always find myself listening to the soundtracks after a few beers. Good times won't be forgotten xx
After 11 years, have you played the game again?
the trumpet solo bit is the saddest noise ever made
I have nothing but respect for someone that can play that high and quietly on a trumpet
dude im crying...
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.
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...
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!
boomerang2455
Yep, those are my two favorites--this and grizzly hills! SO BEAUTIFUL! Goes to show it doesn't take complexity to create perfect sounds.
Shooperman mine too, the third would be storm peaks
Shooperman idk man these are some pretty thick chords...
terrokar forest is the best
This makes me cry, everytime.
Man, the feeling, the sound,the chill , the ambient and even when seeing the upload date is over 13 years ago... Ah is already a distance memory....
I remember just coming to Wintergrasp to listen to the music. It was really peaceful and I miss it.
Where u there to kill someone?
@@davidoscas2 "I remember just coming to Wintergrasp to listen to the music"
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 Me too.
+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.
+riku45
Are you me?
Ryan Swann time enjoyed is time well spent, remember that :)
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'm still here enjoying this after 12 years
I never considered this a sad track while I played the game, but it hits me harder than any other track now that I've quit a long time ago.
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.
Legion is good man!
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 :(
So... MUCH... SARONIIIIIITE!!!
Dont forget the titanium.
hahhaha
😂😂👍🏼
I had no idea how much this would affect me in the future
Same omg
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.”
@@boomerang2455 You are always in the good days. The "good time" is always happening, all we need to do is remember that.
Truer words have never been spoken.
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.
when i hear the horns at 4:50 , as a member of the horde, it was one of the most foreboding pieces of music i've ever heard.
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
see ? :)
@@leanajs yeah... fk... you got me aight
I used to go there just to listen to wintergrasp soundtracks....miss those good ole times
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.
Exact sentiment I have. I lomg for those times.
You can say what you want about the changes WoW has experienced throughout the years, but the music has stayed exceptional through every expansion.
+SayajinDwarf Disagree...LK & BC had a really great soundtracks. The others are repetitive and forgettable.
+La Tui I think thats your nostalgia speaking.
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.
I'm here again, to listen this music.
I'm crying.
Me too.
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.
Watching The Revenant brought me back here. The movie and music made me feel the same as playing in this area 😍
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
This one hits hard in the feels.
The nostalgia it brings me of the wotlk era is unreal.
That was the absolute apex of gaming for me.
This vibe though. The darkness, music and nostalgia. There were many nights I spent on my mount just to chill and listen to the ambiance and music.
Today I went to wintergrasp just to hear this song alone while I was remembering how lively the game felt those days
You commented 5 years ago here...wow true fan I love it
@@leanajs how do you know?
@@ignamax08 i can see your comment above !!! you can find it
glad to know we all get the chance to experience this one more time this year for one last hoorah before finally letting go for good.
20 years are gone. It was a feeling like no other game had.
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.
Quests were never "rare" even in vanilla. I agree the adventure needs to return.
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
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...
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."
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
And now I play it with my younger brother... how similar
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.
3:30 is like getting hit by a sledgehammer of nostalgia
Man, for me it is 1:30
Nostalgiahammer hits you for 99999.
You die.
Release spirit?
Un lugar legendario para batallas legendarias
makes me so emotional this :(
the drum beat half way through really adds to the realisation of the immense battle being fought over the snow coated land of wintergrasp.
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.
Well said
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 :)
Damn I feel you.
just go play on private servers then
***** Private servers are nothing like the real thing, no server in the world comes close.
CuddlebugEU I know that, played on few of them for a good while. Not coming back ever, no matter how bad is the next given expansion
The times I've spent amongst the rooftops here just sitting, and listening....
I still go to Wintergrasp to listen to the music...these were the best days of wow for me.
i know, i was flying through and stopped when i heard the music, brings back many memories. especially at 1:40
I'm a Vanilla baby. Stopped playing just after BC came out so I never got to hear this in game. But wow is this incredible!
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
Warmane
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 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.
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.
it's almost hard to return to these areas because the nostalgia is so high
This is the track that made farming frost lotus a treat
When that trumpet starts @2:35 is just something else...
Still one of the best expansions ever, 13 years later i'm still playing it even if i have to do it on a private server. Wotlk changes a man.
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
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.
Still coming back after all this time. I've never heard anything like this since. A bit of solitude in such times when rest is scarce. Lok'tar ogar!
I’m glad I came back and saw my comments from 8 years ago. And here we are playing wrath classic. It feels good.
Its 2020 now, this music brings me back to highschools days.. so many good memories.
It is melody of Gods. You always want to believe that the best is yet to come and the darkness is left behind
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!
Id think where the chimes come in has to be my favorite part of this whole theme. its absolutely beautiful. Right at about 1:35
Nothing like starting the morning off with a good cry.
wow has changed so much but this right here and wotlk will always be the best blizzard has to offer, Nostalgia big time
This brings back so much memories... Feels man, feels.
4:08 This has been my wake up alarm on my phone for over a decade now. No intention to change it.
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.
2:33 is my funeral music.
I still come back to it every now and then.
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!!!
Bro, me too, my holy paladin and my priest. I was in there soooo much. It's sad.
Ah, Wintergrasp. An Ode to one of the most glorious PvP experiences in all of WoW.
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
Goodbye my friend, literally the best pvp battleground ever in any MMO.
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.
Nostalgia as fuck.. No expansion will ever come close to this master peace
There is some haunting irony in the horde and alliance fighting over an ancient fortress of a troll civilisation long dead and gone.
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.
i still listen to it. i can remember. sitting in my room at my parents flat. it was winter... i was not allowed to smoke in my room. my parents where'nd at home so i opened the windoe just a Crack. cold breezin wind passed my chest and face. i smoked my cigarette to this music and i was so relaxed. i love listen to this at winters.
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...
So I was leveling my mining today and I have never been in Wintergrasp before, and rarely do I have my music turned on. When I got into the area and listening to this music it made me wanna stay there and just sit and listen to it. Beautiful piece of music.
I used to farm my herbs in wintergrasp back when people complained about how rare frost lotus were. I remember getting almost 20 in an hour. This music made all the times I farmed there so pleasant.
I love this track. It's so bad-ass yet soft and light at the same time. simply amazing.
I always enjoyed that during the middle of an intense and crazy battle the music was still so peaceful
nostalgia.... echh... Wake up Arthas !!!
Dear god, take me back!
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.
We didn't know it but this was peak life.
By far this music is amazing, classic original and calm and soothing.
Damn this song brings so many memories flooding back...
Makes... me... Cry... inside... A little... much....
Such good and great times
I flew through wintergrasp earlier today to do some farming, and stopped as I flew though just to listen to the music here and remember the great times I had here.
I am so affected by those long notes drifting into silence; as if it's describing how life is so fragile despite how hard you persevere.