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I know I'm late to the party, but these are great. I love the playthrough vids with no commentary. Maybe make them longer? You could even revisit Classic zones with different race / class and make longer to mix it up. I'd like to see BC content done this way, and more Vanilla content. Loved the Sentinel Hill, STV, Wetlands, Arathi, Elwynn / Redridge videos, and wouldn't mind seeing them revisited with different classes. Also, Un'Goro, Swamp of Sorrows, Loch Modan, Dustwallow Marsh (from Theramore), Moonglade, Desolace, Feralas, and Blasted Lands would all be on my Vanilla wishlist. Whatever you choose to post for us, I'm tuned in, so thanks for the content!
Probably the most iconic, legendary, memorable and dangerous zone of World of Warcraft. This is where the game truly opens up. You're no longer in familiar and relatively safe territory. You're in full survival mode. You discover that the world is so much bigger, so much more eventful and mysterious than you could have ever imagined. It's like growing up and becoming an adult, it's maybe like travelling. It's like you open a door and once you cross it your experience of the world will never be the same again.
Ngl in 2006 when I first entered STV exactly this happened. I was so amazed by the zone and began to understand the dimension of this huge world. I was the biggest noob back then, taking around 3 months to reach lvl 30. Good times
@@petlover0231 Probably worse. I look at back it as time well spent. I still ended up with good grades and went to a great university. Nothing lost, really.
A part of my soul is still there training my fishing skills off the dock off booty bay. A fantasy world has never felt more real now to me and back then. Somethings never change.
The funny thing is when i got to stranglethorn and saw kurzens compound and the music ect i immediatly made the vietnam connection. Funny that was a real thing on vanilla.. i was a casual player years ago and didnt explore this area much back then. What makes stv diff now?
The bit with the music and rain is just sooo spot on. Somehow in SV I have always met future long time friends, found one of the best guilds I've been in, spent a lot of fun moments and ZG is still a memorable raid for all the joy we had...
this is the stuff that makes me wanna keep playing HC Classic. Played since 04' the day it came out and while some memories cant be recreated the music and ambience takes me back there
I love the natural beauty of Stranglethorn Vale but it was so insanely dangerous. Many people I knew called it Ganklethorn for good reason. This place was a literal bloodbath with Alliance and Horde players constantly fighting each other all over the zone. Booty Bay was the only safe place in the zone and everywhere else was a lawless, and very bloody free for all.
I got ganked even in Booty Bay. The best place was even before that, while on boat from Ratchet. But indeed, the jungle was really unsafe, especially the Nesingwary's Expedition or the zone between Booty Bay and the Arena. I used to prefer the quests near the shore and deep in the jungle. :) Salutations, thank you for coming back! Meisio
That's a good one too. Coincidentally, the Kurzen Compound in the northern part of the zone is a reference to the Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now. Marlon Brando's character, Colonel Kurtz, is an American military officer who goes rogue and starts running his own operations, same with Kurzen in the game.
@@jake06750 Stranglethorn Vale is pretty much like the Vietnam of WoW. Dense jungle, full of dangers, PTSD inducing experience... and the rogues. They're in the trees, man.
At 2005 , place Duskwood. I was levelling my priest without knowledge of places. A ?? Troll Shaman tailed on me. I was running away from him while dispelling myself. He was spamming Frost shock to get close to me. All darkness and trees around me then i slipped from cliff. I found myself in a river and started to swim for find a land. Fact i was level 30 and did not know where to quest. Then swim ended near crocolisks fought a few of them. A dwarf showed up ( Hemet ). Aaaaand i got killed by 2 rogues while taking quests. That was the history of my Stranglethorn Vale entry. Most dedicated and spectacular place i have ever lived my entire wow life. Thank you Blizz.
Miss those days. Azeroth is a wonderful world with soul-touching music and great stories. I miss the world so much. Will get back after retirement if it's still there.
I am retired and trying to relive past experience, but it's not and will never be the same.. Old friends, guildies, the Guilds.. all gone now.. I am happy tho to experience Azeroth and this EPIC Adventure in the days when it ruled the world.. For The Alliance.. Lok'Tar Ogar..
@@wortis683 Bro it's never gonna be the same not on Blizz servers neither on Private servers. Those were different times we lived in. Nobody knew what was going where to go. It was a massive adventure we will never be able to re experience that simply due to the reason its not a new game anymore. Besides you can not replace your old buddies you played with.
This week I've been coding and playing these kind of videos on background. I understand perfectly what you are saying :) Thank you Chris for being here on my channel
No problem, I've gone ahead and subscribed as well. What sort of code are you writing if you don't mind my asking. And what other videos are your favorites for such work? I personally really enjoy the Elder Scrolls OST's as well.
Thank you Chris :) Nothing fancy, this week I am writing some SQL and last week I've been doing a website (HTML5, CSS3 etc.). Personally I can focus on Vanilla music in general (normal ambience and music or rain ambience and music) but I like the Kul Tiras / Stormsong Valley tranquil music tracks as well. Other soundtracks which I listen while working: Diablo 2 & 3 and something different such as Eufloria and Factorio.
@@shoban yes, Classic was a great distraction at night to help me relax. Not sure on TBC yet - it's great but such a time investment. God speed my friend.
Have you seen the newer videos? th-cam.com/video/leqouyOl8Vs/w-d-xo.html or th-cam.com/video/ZxO2JbMzVhM/w-d-xo.html What do you think about the new filming style? Would you have anything to add? Thanks, Meisio
@@BlodbeardHammerbanned-pg9cm imagine taking a moment of your day to read through the comments, be a sad motherfucker, and type something negative down lmao. Take time off and work on yourself
Oh Stranglethorn Vale! This is the area where I truly fell in love with the game. I played a human hunter. My one and only character I ever played. I was a very immersive player, trying to always be true to the char. Stranglethorn was the first area in the game that made me feel like actually BEING a hunter, always watching out for big game hunting and horde foes alike. It was in this area also, when I got a whisper of my future Guild Master, while I was roleplaying my a** through the forests using all kind of moves and emos and whatever. None of my friends were playing the game, so he was my first player contact and it was a very genuine and convincing invite. The guild never was "successful", but the people (many at least) were very much like myself. It was also the only guild I ever joined. The adventure lasted 4 years and although at the time it did make me mess up my real life at a very crucial point (I was almost 30 when I started playing in 2010 and was supposed to write a PhD thesis which never happened afterwards), I look back at it with very fond memories. RIP WoW-time, thank you for the memories. I am glad never to have witnessed the complete game fatigue with this one. I found cataclysm an agreeable setup to get in the game and also found no problems whatsoever to play through the content of the first two expansions without them feeling overly outdated. In my narrative it all felt very natural. I played from level 1, levelling at the walls of Stormwind through to the then highest level and retired after defeating DeathWing. I took time to get there (2-3 years to reach then max level), played every content still available in wow at that time in chronological order, every quest and zone without much repetition (except when queuing for pvp maps). I liked that some TBC zones felt very lonely and abandoned. Moving in a world that was not crowded with people shouting raid ads through the general channels. I was a hunter after all, and my animal companion often was all I needed for company. And there was always more than enough challenge even in the older zones in soloing dungeons and old bosses. It felt like a complete cycle. I once returned for MoP, a good 2 years later, dyeing my hair to grey and playing an older version of my char and while it looked intriguing, from day one I had the feeling that the game bombarded me with content in wrong chronological order (because MoP was already in its 4th or whatever patch) and I was not able to follow the storyline. Worse, the hunter skillset was changed, and I was not able to cope. I had become acceptably good at pvp before and sucked now plus the story did not smoothly play out anymore, so I quit for good. Before I did though, I spent a whole last day in Stranglethorn Vale, memorizing and saying forever goodbye to the game without any trace of bitterness. My grave is by my family home in Lakeshire. On the tombstone is written: Here lies Loremaster Ruidgard, hero of the Alliance, reknown fisher and archaeologist, but a hunter by heart.
I remember first time entering Stranglethorn... Crossed that bridge I am was incredibly excited to go into a higher level area. The music changed into a mystic forest, the ambience got lighter and I got a sense of discovering a whole new world. I was immersed in the environment when all of the sudden WHACK! A cloaked tiger attacks. 1 single hit and I was dead... wa-wa-waaaaa.
Some of my favorite memories of vanilla WoW were in Stranglethorn. Still the best zone, IMO. Great graphics, atmosphere, and music. Also as a hunter it was a paradise of possible pets. Good, good times.
I stupidly got rid of the pet I had since starting out as a hunter because I wanted one of the raptors from Stranglethorn since they were so much bigger than my pet. Once I tamed it, it shrank down to the size of my previous pet and I realized the horrible mistake I'd made, and would have to re-level my pet back to where I was before
First time i went to STV i thought my heart would freez, suddenly and female Horde Tauren walked towards me and omg did i run like hell, only to find out she was a NPC hihi, i miss those day's when i was a compleet noob :)
I was a tauren warrior and this is where I met a dwarf paladin. We fought for like 30min straight. I died to that paladin so many times so I thought paladin was an op class at the time. I hated him then but now I miss him and me fighting against him.
Man this was one of my favorite zones to level. Started in vallila but a week before tbc. Wet lands also just did something for me when you were a night elf that had to run through to get iron forge
You could never replicate the Vanilla days even with classic completely different generation all wanting the meta now. Back then it was all new there was no meta it was all about exploring and finding what worked for you a truly personal gaming experience doubt we will see the likes of it again. In a weird way listing to this makes me miss the people I gamed with from that era we gamed different then.
"Booty Bay... Shit. I'm still only in Booty Bay. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle." Still having that case of Stranglethorn Flashbacks and ptsd...
Thank you so very much for doing these reminiscent posts. Very fond memories come to mind. I used to listen to Everness channel often for this feeling, but I really love how your videos are 3 hours long. They give me something to sleep to. Thank you again and you've got another subscriber.
Hey Kareem, I have some videos which are 3 hours long, but I've stopped doing them since I did not receive enough feedback at the moment I made them (the channel was pretty new too). On the short term I have some plans regarding music which takes more than 1 hour, but for now, I won't be doing more videos bigger than 1 hour since I changed my filming style (I think you've seen my newer videos!? - The reason is that now 1 hour of filming (in 4K) takes me between 2 and 4 days to create it). I hope you understand. Since I don't want to leave anyone upset on my channel, like I've mentioned earlier, I do plan to come with a solution for people who enjoy longer videos / music. I hope you will be around to give me your feedback. Thank you, Meisio
Meisio - Oh My!! I REALLY need to pay attention to my inbox messages more often. I apologize for only reading this NOW and responding to you so late. Let me just start by saying, as a former WoW addict and adult who lives with A.D.D. your videos are heaven-sent. I almost, literally, require this ambiance to fall asleep every night. Yes, every night, I set my iPad to your channel and in particularly, your 3 hour videos and put on my headphones to go to sleep. It usually takes me just over an hour to knock-out and this is why I really love these longer videos. If the music or video changes and I'm awake, it triggers a whole new set of thought-processes and I end up overthinking and staying awake longer. That being said, I appreciate EVERY EFFORT you've made to provide these qualitative videos that allow me to zone-out and re-live my "glory days" of WoW and subsequently, have a good nights rest. In fact, anything over 1 hour is fantastic too, but I simply love the videos and I even watch them all in rotation. I know I am the exception of viewers, but I just needed you to know how much you've helped me and to thank you for all your efforts and hard work. Thanks again!
listening to this brings back all sorts of memories! the best is the jumping rock just north on the coast where you can plunge into the waters off a large rock, then run up the trail to do it again. most relaxing music in the game in a very rough area!!!
Thank you very much for this upload, Booty bay and Stranglethorn Vale are my favourite places in the whole game, the atmosphere and the vibe there is different... As other said, so much danger awaits just around the corner, yet so beautiful place. I sometimes just stayed in Booty bay for an hour, watching by-passers and the ships with their travelers, enjoying the music... ah, unforgettable times.
At some point while you play this beautiful and relaxing music gets interrupted by the sound effects of cheap shot and eviscerate of an undead rogue ripping you to shreds...
Thanks meisio for more wow soundtracks! I never played much past Wotlk, don't know if wow ever expressed the feeling with its music the same way it did in Vanilla. Just the little flute or string instrument in here makes me so nostalgic, cheers
My pleasure! ☺️ I think what made WoW Vanilla magical was a multitude of factors: probably a first open world game experience, being a continuity of Warcraft and of course the ambience sound combined with the genius of James Hayes and his colleagues. Salutations, Meisio
The only zone where becoming a pirate was the dream. It delivered, it delivered good! Thanks for all these World of Warcraft Vanilla soundtracks Meisio. Great comfort and great gift these are. *subscribed* Keep up the good work and make sure to get sleep.
i had so much fun in this place as a fully geared gnome rogue. it wasnt just a place for ppl to level. there were more level 60s then ppl actually leveling. i had a duty to proteccc my alliance buddies. then gank the dirty hordes. and when they die laugh and spit on its corpse. now i play as tauren main lol oh how things have changed. cant belive i played this game for 15 years.
Love your work! I'd make a suggestion that you change this to include the cata music, it's the same but just has a few extra tracks that are sooo good!
Hi Caroline. The plan is to cover all zones from World of Warcraft. This is STV Classic, but I'll definitely do at some point Cataclysm STV (one zone or both of them together, that I'll have to decide). I can't promise any date though :(
Even now this sound remember me sapphire waters, white sand, dark jungle and laughing pirates. When my guild mates used to spend most of the time in cities hub, I was used to spend most of mine hanging around here and golden road.
This fucking zone. So much "That little piece of shit got me again, I swear if I could reach through the screen" and "oh no there's a rogue here" and "god damn it another fucking rogue". So much fun too, though. The thrill of chasing someone so you can get revenge on them. Discovering all these little waterfalls, hills, shores, cliffs and strange animals. What a marvelous place.
The countless hours of world PVP here, being constantly alert, squeezing my "track humanoids" to the core, the true endgame of WoW: world PVP in Stranglethorn Vale ♥
I cant even tell anymore how many alts i created to re-level through all vanilla, bc and wotlk zones... my joy in playing world of warcraft nowadays lies in replaying old content.
*queue corpse run* - undead rogues were vicious on our server ... seemed all Horde rogues were UD and good luck getting through STV under level 35 if Alliance on PvP servers back then. Ahhhh the memories.
How many times i've had intense fights against horde players in that region Man classic wow will make me enjoy this region again! I love how the music is so calm and peaceful but this place used to be a real mess ahah
I was glad once I've finished questing here to be honest :) It was important not to stay too much around areas such as Nesinguary's Expedition, Gurubashi Arena, Booty Bay Entrance or Zul'Gurub's Entrance. And I was better off traveling on the coast or the deep jungle fighting all the beasts, instead of walking the jungle path :)
Meisio I feel you.. But as a rogue player..you know I could pick my preys as I wanted ahah You will play on EU servers on classic wow? See you, thanks for the video as always it's a great job
Sorry, I've missed your reply :( I will play EU I guess for a better connection. I live in Spain currently. But this can change since Classic can launch in 1000 years from now, right!? Ha ha :-S Salutations, Meisio
When u friend level max come to escort you and help you to do quests peacefully without being one shot by other level max .. so many memories arghhh …..
We all know the feeling when we hear the stealth sound outta nowhere and we instantly prepare for a already set fight that we will loose because rogues were broken as shit. Or just try to vizualize how a warrior charges into your screen outta nowhere and this sound fits his charge perfectly
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Should've added the old 'cheap shot' sound effect once in a while randomly... it really is a part of the STV ambiance HAHA
Hiii
@@Relbl Absolutely. Stealth sound to trigger some PTSD. PTSTVD?
I know I'm late to the party, but these are great. I love the playthrough vids with no commentary. Maybe make them longer? You could even revisit Classic zones with different race / class and make longer to mix it up. I'd like to see BC content done this way, and more Vanilla content. Loved the Sentinel Hill, STV, Wetlands, Arathi, Elwynn / Redridge videos, and wouldn't mind seeing them revisited with different classes. Also, Un'Goro, Swamp of Sorrows, Loch Modan, Dustwallow Marsh (from Theramore), Moonglade, Desolace, Feralas, and Blasted Lands would all be on my Vanilla wishlist. Whatever you choose to post for us, I'm tuned in, so thanks for the content!
3 hrs WoW 360 VR Barrens omg
Enters Stranglethorn Vale:
*Sapped*
Hahhaah and goblin
@ Hahahahaha
Hahaha
classic
Stranglegank Vale
Probably the most iconic, legendary, memorable and dangerous zone of World of Warcraft. This is where the game truly opens up. You're no longer in familiar and relatively safe territory. You're in full survival mode. You discover that the world is so much bigger, so much more eventful and mysterious than you could have ever imagined. It's like growing up and becoming an adult, it's maybe like travelling. It's like you open a door and once you cross it your experience of the world will never be the same again.
This exactly.
Ngl best way I heard it described. Had so much fun ganking once I understood how to play a rogue in STV.
A true storyteller!
I'm still missing page 21 from Chapter 3 of Green Hills of Stranglethorn
Ngl in 2006 when I first entered STV exactly this happened. I was so amazed by the zone and began to understand the dimension of this huge world. I was the biggest noob back then, taking around 3 months to reach lvl 30. Good times
Nostalgia kick in the balls... So many ditched high school classes for this game.
For me it was ditched family time. Don't know if that is better or worse 😬
@@petlover0231 Probably worse. I look at back it as time well spent. I still ended up with good grades and went to a great university. Nothing lost, really.
I remember I was so hooked on wow that I was away half the time from school.
I'd skip shitty school assemblies for this.
@@johnvictorengland7703 same. ;)
"Everyone Has a Plan Until They enter Stranglethorn Vale" Mike Tyson
This music does not hit the same without the constant sounds of stealthed rogues.
Or Panthers
A part of my soul is still there training my fishing skills off the dock off booty bay. A fantasy world has never felt more real now to me and back then. Somethings never change.
Great music and great memories from the Vanilla days. You always had to be on your toes in STV.
It is a jungle after all :)
The funny thing is when i got to stranglethorn and saw kurzens compound and the music ect i immediatly made the vietnam connection. Funny that was a real thing on vanilla.. i was a casual player years ago and didnt explore this area much back then. What makes stv diff now?
@@Drift_x27 its the same. ppl come for nostalgic reasons. and fight in gurubashi arena.
(o_O)....(O_O)....(O_o)
Vietnam of Warcraft
The bit with the music and rain is just sooo spot on. Somehow in SV I have always met future long time friends, found one of the best guilds I've been in, spent a lot of fun moments and ZG is still a memorable raid for all the joy we had...
this is the stuff that makes me wanna keep playing HC Classic. Played since 04' the day it came out and while some memories cant be recreated the music and ambience takes me back there
I love the natural beauty of Stranglethorn Vale but it was so insanely dangerous. Many people I knew called it Ganklethorn for good reason. This place was a literal bloodbath with Alliance and Horde players constantly fighting each other all over the zone. Booty Bay was the only safe place in the zone and everywhere else was a lawless, and very bloody free for all.
I got ganked even in Booty Bay. The best place was even before that, while on boat from Ratchet. But indeed, the jungle was really unsafe, especially the Nesingwary's Expedition or the zone between Booty Bay and the Arena. I used to prefer the quests near the shore and deep in the jungle. :)
Salutations, thank you for coming back!
Meisio
Haha, nice one :-D
That's a good one too. Coincidentally, the Kurzen Compound in the northern part of the zone is a reference to the Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now. Marlon Brando's character, Colonel Kurtz, is an American military officer who goes rogue and starts running his own operations, same with Kurzen in the game.
@@jake06750 Stranglethorn Vale is pretty much like the Vietnam of WoW. Dense jungle, full of dangers, PTSD inducing experience... and the rogues. They're in the trees, man.
Those bruisers take their job very seriously.
That feel when you're exiting Booty Bay and 4 guys from other faction with skull simbol are waiting at the exit.
"I never really liked my legs anyway..."
@@neglesaks Lt.Dan is that you?
At 2005 , place Duskwood. I was levelling my priest without knowledge of places. A ?? Troll Shaman tailed on me. I was running away from him while dispelling myself. He was spamming Frost shock to get close to me. All darkness and trees around me then i slipped from cliff. I found myself in a river and started to swim for find a land. Fact i was level 30 and did not know where to quest. Then swim ended near crocolisks fought a few of them. A dwarf showed up ( Hemet ). Aaaaand i got killed by 2 rogues while taking quests. That was the history of my Stranglethorn Vale entry. Most dedicated and spectacular place i have ever lived my entire wow life. Thank you Blizz.
The creators of these vanilla soundtracks were so immensely talented. I just closed my eyes when the music started, an smiled. Such awesome memories.
I cant believe I say this, I even miss Classic Vanilla.. feels like an eternity ago aswell
It just has too much soul.
@@crepooscul think he means 2019 classic
They had to ruin it by adding microtransactions.
Miss those days. Azeroth is a wonderful world with soul-touching music and great stories. I miss the world so much. Will get back after retirement if it's still there.
I am retired and trying to relive past experience, but it's not and will never be the same.. Old friends, guildies, the Guilds.. all gone now.. I am happy tho to experience Azeroth and this EPIC Adventure in the days when it ruled the world.. For The Alliance.. Lok'Tar Ogar..
@@torrarosa7064 should give a try to private servers, there are guilds, friends and no minmaxing bullshit from the current blizzard servers.
@@wortis683 Bro it's never gonna be the same not on Blizz servers neither on Private servers. Those were different times we lived in. Nobody knew what was going where to go. It was a massive adventure we will never be able to re experience that simply due to the reason its not a new game anymore. Besides you can not replace your old buddies you played with.
your videos are like a stamina buff for my coding... i literally get twice as much done when i listen to your videos.
Try his 24h livestream. I work all day to it.
Very comforting as an adult who played this for hours on end as a child. I find that these videos are perfect for studying and working on the dream.
This week I've been coding and playing these kind of videos on background. I understand perfectly what you are saying :)
Thank you Chris for being here on my channel
No problem, I've gone ahead and subscribed as well.
What sort of code are you writing if you don't mind my asking. And what other videos are your favorites for such work? I personally really enjoy the Elder Scrolls OST's as well.
Thank you Chris :)
Nothing fancy, this week I am writing some SQL and last week I've been doing a website (HTML5, CSS3 etc.).
Personally I can focus on Vanilla music in general (normal ambience and music or rain ambience and music) but I like the Kul Tiras / Stormsong Valley tranquil music tracks as well. Other soundtracks which I listen while working: Diablo 2 & 3 and something different such as Eufloria and Factorio.
@@Meisio I also listen to the music while writing SQL! Thanks, Meisio! Fond memories of Vanilla... excited for Classic.
@@shoban yes, Classic was a great distraction at night to help me relax. Not sure on TBC yet - it's great but such a time investment. God speed my friend.
One of the best zones in the entire game. Even to this day.
Strangle gank
I don't think it will ever be surpassed
my most favorite zone in all of wow.
one of the best soundtracks in vanilla, the most atmospheric one
I agree. Jason Hayes (the composer for most of the tracks in Vanilla) had a spark of genius when he composed the music in that period.
Have you seen the newer videos? th-cam.com/video/leqouyOl8Vs/w-d-xo.html or th-cam.com/video/ZxO2JbMzVhM/w-d-xo.html
What do you think about the new filming style? Would you have anything to add?
Thanks,
Meisio
sure listened to it yesterday, they are still good for concentration so i like it)
idk what to add, but if something comes up i will let u know
Its just such a beautifully chaotic noise which is incidentally also an effective description of stv so it's doubly perfect
The one who composed this soundtrack is an enlightened one.
A deeper wisdom and understanding he must have indeed
💯
I could live in this ambience all day. But I'd probably die of nostalgia. Or one of those danged stealthed panthers...terrifying.
This is the PvE server soundtrack. On PvP servers once you step in to the zone it starts playing "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns n' Roses.
It's should be Creedence Clearwater Revival "Run Through The Jungle" most likely
Cringe.
@@BlodbeardHammerbanned-pg9cm imagine taking a moment of your day to read through the comments, be a sad motherfucker, and type something negative down lmao. Take time off and work on yourself
I met my best gaming friend here. I was looking for help to kill some elite, and since this day we play together 15 years after
Oh Stranglethorn Vale! This is the area where I truly fell in love with the game. I played a human hunter. My one and only character I ever played. I was a very immersive player, trying to always be true to the char. Stranglethorn was the first area in the game that made me feel like actually BEING a hunter, always watching out for big game hunting and horde foes alike. It was in this area also, when I got a whisper of my future Guild Master, while I was roleplaying my a** through the forests using all kind of moves and emos and whatever. None of my friends were playing the game, so he was my first player contact and it was a very genuine and convincing invite. The guild never was "successful", but the people (many at least) were very much like myself. It was also the only guild I ever joined. The adventure lasted 4 years and although at the time it did make me mess up my real life at a very crucial point (I was almost 30 when I started playing in 2010 and was supposed to write a PhD thesis which never happened afterwards), I look back at it with very fond memories. RIP WoW-time, thank you for the memories. I am glad never to have witnessed the complete game fatigue with this one. I found cataclysm an agreeable setup to get in the game and also found no problems whatsoever to play through the content of the first two expansions without them feeling overly outdated. In my narrative it all felt very natural. I played from level 1, levelling at the walls of Stormwind through to the then highest level and retired after defeating DeathWing. I took time to get there (2-3 years to reach then max level), played every content still available in wow at that time in chronological order, every quest and zone without much repetition (except when queuing for pvp maps). I liked that some TBC zones felt very lonely and abandoned. Moving in a world that was not crowded with people shouting raid ads through the general channels. I was a hunter after all, and my animal companion often was all I needed for company. And there was always more than enough challenge even in the older zones in soloing dungeons and old bosses. It felt like a complete cycle. I once returned for MoP, a good 2 years later, dyeing my hair to grey and playing an older version of my char and while it looked intriguing, from day one I had the feeling that the game bombarded me with content in wrong chronological order (because MoP was already in its 4th or whatever patch) and I was not able to follow the storyline. Worse, the hunter skillset was changed, and I was not able to cope. I had become acceptably good at pvp before and sucked now plus the story did not smoothly play out anymore, so I quit for good. Before I did though, I spent a whole last day in Stranglethorn Vale, memorizing and saying forever goodbye to the game without any trace of bitterness. My grave is by my family home in Lakeshire. On the tombstone is written: Here lies Loremaster Ruidgard, hero of the Alliance, reknown fisher and archaeologist, but a hunter by heart.
There were no Human Hunters.
@@timmbusfahrer7998 had me wondering if it was ever added in the future because you are correct.
Cool novel, bro.
@@timmbusfahrer7998 there were if you started in 2010
Beautiful
I remember first time entering Stranglethorn... Crossed that bridge I am was incredibly excited to go into a higher level area. The music changed into a mystic forest, the ambience got lighter and I got a sense of discovering a whole new world. I was immersed in the environment when all of the sudden WHACK! A cloaked tiger attacks. 1 single hit and I was dead... wa-wa-waaaaa.
Some of my favorite memories of vanilla WoW were in Stranglethorn. Still the best zone, IMO. Great graphics, atmosphere, and music. Also as a hunter it was a paradise of possible pets. Good, good times.
I stupidly got rid of the pet I had since starting out as a hunter because I wanted one of the raptors from Stranglethorn since they were so much bigger than my pet. Once I tamed it, it shrank down to the size of my previous pet and I realized the horrible mistake I'd made, and would have to re-level my pet back to where I was before
Thank you for the hard work. I am so happy you are still making videos.
First time i went to STV i thought my heart would freez, suddenly and female Horde Tauren walked towards me and omg did i run like hell, only to find out she was a NPC hihi, i miss those day's when i was a compleet noob :)
I had the same feeling but later. My first shock was to see that orc vendor in Booty Bay. I saw before orcs, but not that close :-)
@@Meisio , you did not quest Ashenvale back then I guess, human ?
I was a tauren warrior and this is where I met a dwarf paladin. We fought for like 30min straight. I died to that paladin so many times so I thought paladin was an op class at the time. I hated him then but now I miss him and me fighting against him.
Man this brings back memories of my early 20s, man if I only felt like I did back then, this music gives me the memory of what that felt like
Man this was one of my favorite zones to level. Started in vallila but a week before tbc. Wet lands also just did something for me when you were a night elf that had to run through to get iron forge
I listen to your videos everyday in the morning while I am at work. So peaceful!
Thank you for your hard work! Keep doing what you do Meisio ❤️
People's childhoods : hanging out with friends
My childhood : wow, wow, wow (by far my greatest experience)
You could never replicate the Vanilla days even with classic completely different generation all wanting the meta now. Back then it was all new there was no meta it was all about exploring and finding what worked for you a truly personal gaming experience doubt we will see the likes of it again. In a weird way listing to this makes me miss the people I gamed with from that era we gamed different then.
Great! Soooo peaceful and restorer... Hearing this, i feel like everything is in order
Great job on this video!
A little bit of nostalgia increases my productivity by 200%, thank you! x)
My pleasure :)
"Booty Bay... Shit. I'm still only in Booty Bay. Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle."
Still having that case of Stranglethorn Flashbacks and ptsd...
Pan Demonium - hahaha!! Nuthin like walking outside town and naively exploring the arena, only to be flagged and ganked opposing faction!
The bloodsail admiral title took me FOREVER to get here. God damn it was worth it.
Booty Bay in the rain at night, crickets going wild and players everywhere. One of my fondest memories.
Thank you for the vanilla version of this!
My pleasure ☺️
Make sure you check out the rest of the movies in the Vanilla series from my channel ☺️
Thank you,
Meisio
Thanks for making these and putting so much effort into quality, including the file names for each bit of music.
❤ Thank you Tikkon for your appreciation.
Thank you so very much for doing these reminiscent posts. Very fond memories come to mind. I used to listen to Everness channel often for this feeling, but I really love how your videos are 3 hours long. They give me something to sleep to. Thank you again and you've got another subscriber.
Hey Kareem,
I have some videos which are 3 hours long, but I've stopped doing them since I did not receive enough feedback at the moment I made them (the channel was pretty new too).
On the short term I have some plans regarding music which takes more than 1 hour, but for now, I won't be doing more videos bigger than 1 hour since I changed my filming style (I think you've seen my newer videos!? - The reason is that now 1 hour of filming (in 4K) takes me between 2 and 4 days to create it).
I hope you understand. Since I don't want to leave anyone upset on my channel, like I've mentioned earlier, I do plan to come with a solution for people who enjoy longer videos / music. I hope you will be around to give me your feedback.
Thank you,
Meisio
Meisio - Oh My!! I REALLY need to pay attention to my inbox messages more often.
I apologize for only reading this NOW and responding to you so late.
Let me just start by saying, as a former WoW addict and adult who lives with A.D.D. your videos are heaven-sent. I almost, literally, require this ambiance to fall asleep every night. Yes, every night, I set my iPad to your channel and in particularly, your 3 hour videos and put on my headphones to go to sleep. It usually takes me just over an hour to knock-out and this is why I really love these longer videos.
If the music or video changes and I'm awake, it triggers a whole new set of thought-processes and I end up overthinking and staying awake longer.
That being said, I appreciate EVERY EFFORT you've made to provide these qualitative videos that allow me to zone-out and re-live my "glory days" of WoW and subsequently, have a good nights rest.
In fact, anything over 1 hour is fantastic too, but I simply love the videos and I even watch them all in rotation.
I know I am the exception of viewers, but I just needed you to know how much you've helped me and to thank you for all your efforts and hard work. Thanks again!
@@KareemPinkston You too? These vids are better than sleep medication in some ways.,
Thank you for making this 3 hours long. Literally bless you man.
Crazy the memories these songs bring back :)
Crazy = good I hope :-)
Please check out the Zul Gurub video on my channel if you want to see more variations of this theme :-)
Thank you,
Meisio
night time in STV really is something that I miss- time spent there grinding the questions in vanilla while PvPing was incredible.
I stayed enough, but not too much though :) The ganking was real :)
listening to this brings back all sorts of memories! the best is the jumping rock just north on the coast where you can plunge into the waters off a large rock, then run up the trail to do it again. most relaxing music in the game in a very rough area!!!
Thank you very much for this upload, Booty bay and Stranglethorn Vale are my favourite places in the whole game, the atmosphere and the vibe there is different... As other said, so much danger awaits just around the corner, yet so beautiful place. I sometimes just stayed in Booty bay for an hour, watching by-passers and the ships with their travelers, enjoying the music... ah, unforgettable times.
The sound of waves is so soothing.
Thanks for uploading these. I may not play as much these days but the sounds and music really take me back
At some point while you play this beautiful and relaxing music gets interrupted by the sound effects of cheap shot and eviscerate of an undead rogue ripping you to shreds...
soon with sod phase 2 you can relive this experience
I remember my first time in stranglethorn vale, I made it at most 20 yards out of duskwood before a rogue ganked me
Thanks meisio for more wow soundtracks! I never played much past Wotlk, don't know if wow ever expressed the feeling with its music the same way it did in Vanilla. Just the little flute or string instrument in here makes me so nostalgic, cheers
My pleasure! ☺️
I think what made WoW Vanilla magical was a multitude of factors: probably a first open world game experience, being a continuity of Warcraft and of course the ambience sound combined with the genius of James Hayes and his colleagues.
Salutations,
Meisio
So much time spent in this great jungle :)
I am listening this while sleeping thanks for sharing
The only zone where becoming a pirate was the dream. It delivered, it delivered good! Thanks for all these World of Warcraft Vanilla soundtracks Meisio. Great comfort and great gift these are. *subscribed* Keep up the good work and make sure to get sleep.
No matter how old I get, I know there will always be a part of me left on the shores of Stanglethorn.
Thank you Meisio. I have always loved this music, and I deeply appreciate your work at making it available.
One of my favourite soundtracks to fall asleep to, so peaceful and atmospheric.
가시덤불 골짜기 정말 멋진곳이죠!감사합니다
Класс, столько сил и времени вложено в эту игру, но я не разу не пожалел об этом,продолжай свое ремесло, спасибо за это.
so many memories experienced between 2006 and 2009 magical moments rip erf
i had so much fun in this place as a fully geared gnome rogue. it wasnt just a place for ppl to level. there were more level 60s then ppl actually leveling. i had a duty to proteccc my alliance buddies. then gank the dirty hordes. and when they die laugh and spit on its corpse. now i play as tauren main lol oh how things have changed. cant belive i played this game for 15 years.
lmao. I remember how I was happy when a high level gnome saved my ass from gankers.
This is my favorite sleeping song 🤙🏻 thx u meisio
You are welcome. Thank you for watching / sleep well :-)
Ditto
Love your work! I'd make a suggestion that you change this to include the cata music, it's the same but just has a few extra tracks that are sooo good!
Hi Caroline.
The plan is to cover all zones from World of Warcraft. This is STV Classic, but I'll definitely do at some point Cataclysm STV (one zone or both of them together, that I'll have to decide). I can't promise any date though :(
@@Meisio Oooh can't wait! This will do just fine until then :) Thanks for all of your hard work, it's all I listen to while working.
Even now this sound remember me sapphire waters, white sand, dark jungle and laughing pirates. When my guild mates used to spend most of the time in cities hub, I was used to spend most of mine hanging around here and golden road.
Very cool selection! Captured my memories perfectly. A+ for so many zones.
Amazing, very well presented
First time I ever saw someone playing wow he was on his level 33 undead rogue in boots bay. It was then that I knew I wanted to play
The music Jungle is definitely very similar to the night elf music from Wc3.
everyone fighting for that chest in the middle 🔥
This fucking zone. So much "That little piece of shit got me again, I swear if I could reach through the screen" and "oh no there's a rogue here" and "god damn it another fucking rogue". So much fun too, though. The thrill of chasing someone so you can get revenge on them. Discovering all these little waterfalls, hills, shores, cliffs and strange animals. What a marvelous place.
Booty Bay - mmm... - my favourite place in WoW. What a nostalgia... Unbelieveable.
Excellent video and quality.
Thank you Meisio
The countless hours of world PVP here, being constantly alert, squeezing my "track humanoids" to the core, the true endgame of WoW: world PVP in Stranglethorn Vale ♥
Thanks for the cool video!
3:28 sent chills of nostalgia and gave me goosbumps. Woah. Years of memories just came back.. so many horde ganking me. Lol
I remember going to stranglethorn from barrens by misstake as a newbie and thought the place was so cool even though i knew it was way 2 high lvl
So... many... memories...
*Love this music video!*
Got ganked in booty bay repeatedly for like an hour. Finally tricked him to getting guard ganked and ran for the exit. Good times
Justice was served, for once by the booty bay guards.
I cant even tell anymore how many alts i created to re-level through all vanilla, bc and wotlk zones... my joy in playing world of warcraft nowadays lies in replaying old content.
Finding this zone after exiting Duskwood was magical
one of the best zones, IMO this place was a Caelid equivalent for WoW due to how ridiculously dangerous it was.
Best zone PvE and PvP ever created
*queue corpse run* - undead rogues were vicious on our server ... seemed all Horde rogues were UD and good luck getting through STV under level 35 if Alliance on PvP servers back then. Ahhhh the memories.
Thank you, the more popular version of this had the bird ambiance at a level that was extremely distracting.
I am glad mine is to your linking! :)
Thank you for watching and I hope you check out more videos from me.
Meisio
This place was so dangerous in 2006. A true bloodbath of opposing factions.
Back in 2006, I killed my first horde in STV and it felt great!
How many times i've had intense fights against horde players in that region
Man classic wow will make me enjoy this region again!
I love how the music is so calm and peaceful but this place used to be a real mess ahah
I was glad once I've finished questing here to be honest :)
It was important not to stay too much around areas such as Nesinguary's Expedition, Gurubashi Arena, Booty Bay Entrance or Zul'Gurub's Entrance. And I was better off traveling on the coast or the deep jungle fighting all the beasts, instead of walking the jungle path :)
Meisio I feel you.. But as a rogue player..you know I could pick my preys as I wanted ahah
You will play on EU servers on classic wow? See you, thanks for the video as always it's a great job
Sorry, I've missed your reply :(
I will play EU I guess for a better connection. I live in Spain currently. But this can change since Classic can launch in 1000 years from now, right!? Ha ha :-S
Salutations,
Meisio
I went to Stranglethorn Vale during MoP and i didn't met any player, even Duskwood was more populated
My second favorite place in the whole Azeroth, right after Mulgore
Thank you always for good music.
I just love taking a hot bath and listen to this in the background
When u friend level max come to escort you and help you to do quests peacefully without being one shot by other level max .. so many memories arghhh …..
Good times, I miss it so much. WoW was a therapy.
How nice. Thanks for this.
Not my best movie but I am happy you like it :-)
We all know the feeling when we hear the stealth sound outta nowhere and we instantly prepare for a already set fight that we will loose because rogues were broken as shit. Or just try to vizualize how a warrior charges into your screen outta nowhere and this sound fits his charge perfectly
WoW seriously had the coolest soundtrack.
Night 03 is my favourite.
God tier zone, my personal favorite back in vanilla. simple as.
I always found the music here to be so eerie and lonely. Vanilla and TBC had such beautiful soundtracks.
Ah yeh mariele but it was eternally soothing to the mind n soul 😌