This is something the modern game will never see again - a new race, in their own starting zone. These 'allied' races are such a lazy way to introduce races.
i'll never get back that feeling, huge world, strange creatures, dangers in the shadows of the trees, looting stuff, going down to ghostlands, dead scar ... this game left a scar in my soul seriously...
i know rite? you think, gah fuck this im gonna go explore the world a bit like the good old days, fly around look at some old zones and its just not the same..
This zone will forever encapsulate my wow experience. It's a masterpiece through and through. What I wouldn't give to go back to those times where i made 10 blood elves just to inspect each class again and read all the new quests and items for the first time. This zone was where my journey truly began. My brother and I were sharing an account, both making paladins, me secretly mailing his hard earned gold to my level 10's so I could get weapon training... I miss it so much. These few words dont even scratch the surface. This music sends me into heartbreaking reminiscence. Thank you for the upload.
There is just something excruciatingly painful and incredibly emotional about reliving the memories of such a wonderful game and time of my life which I will never be able to experience again.
Jackson Mentzel fr😭 I wish I could go back ... tbc.... coming home from school not even worried about questing or leveling but just excited to explore a vast world.... so many great memories it’s sad bc I don’t even have a laptop and am too poor to get one now and probably will never be able to relive wow again
Holy shit, i can basicly feel the moment i was playing back in the time of 2008. being 11-12. Sitting there, playing on an old pc. Barely scratching out 30 fps on low settings. Music on 100% on an old trust headset. My dad comes into the room and ask if im having fun, and if i would like a glass of cola and some m&m's. One of the most happy periods in my life, and this music makes me re-live this exact moment. Now im sitting here, in my apartment. 25 years old, on a good pc playing WoW classic and all the m&m's and coke i could buy myself and eat it all. Still, nothing compares. Thanks Everness.
I didn't play WoW when it released. I was in my senior year of college, so I was too busy studying, working a part time job at GameStop, and preparing for grad school overseas in Japan. But my roommate asked me if I could use my employee discount to pre-order and purchase the game, which I did as an early holiday gift for him in 2004. He played it on his laptop in the living room area while I studied in our room. But whenever I would pass through the living room to go to the bathroom, or stretch my legs, or make something to eat in the kitchen, I would hear the sweet melodies of this game. He was a great friend, that was a great time, and those were wonderful memories. I miss those days dearly, and oftentimes I wish I could go back and relive them. My life is good now, but those times were magical, and while I never really played WoW much, the music means so much to me. I can only imagine how hard and heavy the nostalgia is for people who associate such strong memories of playing the game with this incredible music. Their minds must be instantly transported to those virtual worlds. I love reading all these life stories of the fond memories people had discovering and playing WoW in those vanilla days and how this music brings back the richness of those experiences.
So beautiful, the sound of foot on grass, the radiating sun-light, Elder springpaw attacking me, the recurring sound of "I can't attack that yet"...It's just too beautiful.
Does anyone else find themselves creating a new character just to feel this experience all over again? I still casually play WoW but I just feel like it’s for nostalgia reasons and it’ll never really be the same. I remember exactly where I was in my life when this came out it’s crazy how much has changed
You are so right! It will never ever be the same. Times have changed, people have changed, the game has changed, it will never be the same feeling and this naive amazement again.
@@tchibou25 Doesn't work. The only thing that works is realizing that it wasn't wow, it wasn't a patchlist or expansion. It's because you were experiencing it as new, for the first time. The only way physiologically speaking to create synthetic sensations of PURE naivetes is to take a psychedelic, preferably in a safe environment, and just exist.
For me personally, when i play WoW and return to the zones i used to quest in, it gives me some sort of the memories and joy back. Does it feel the same? No, but there’s still something inside of me that gives me a little bit of dopamine. Only Skyrim is able to do something similar for me.
I really wish I could wipe all my memories of wow so I could have that new player experience again. I've played for 10 years now and I wish I could go back.
I played excessively in 2007 and stopped somewhere in 2008 Recently went on a private server and almost 10 years later I could basically relive it for the first time again because I forgot so much
Elvis Bretthauer Nice tactic, but boy do I not have the patience to wait that long xD This video gave me a flashback of a random, forgotten moment with a girl i was dating at the time of playing, hell yea!
Rekkedge tf you talking about? They're the ones who have been asking for classic this whole time. They're the reason we're getting this. What did you think, that new players were asking for classic?
By far the BEST starting zone music for any race in the game. Hearing this evokes so many feelings and memories... I'm a die hard Alliance player but they certainly got the aesthetic and soundtrack for blood elves right, because I was drawn in like a moth to a flame. How can anyone resist such resplendence?
Was so much attracted by the civilized side of it also, and also why I always despited the rest of the Horde, their cities and people are a mess. Taste shared! xD
Personally, I like the Goblins and Gnomes soundtracks better (Castaways and Gnomergan from cataclysm) but the Eversong woods music holds a nostalgia from a different time in World of Warcraft.
I remember playing WoW for the first time as a Blood Elf. My dad was already an expert, but wanted to level with me and teach me about the game. I had the music on all the time, and it facinated me. And leveling was the most fun. Thanks Dad for showing me this beautiful game.
My father did the same thing! Ive been around WoW my whole life and both of my parents played it, but sadly my mother cant play it anymore. My father used to let me stay up late and watch him do quests, do raids, and all of that stuff. We used to go through old dungeons together when i was still fairly low level (i was in the 50-60 and he was max level) and he told me about stuff in the game and i loved (and still do love) learning about the history. Now i have a level 120 Blood Elf thats a demon hunter. Even though i do need to still get gear and stuff, i always go to Eversong and just stay there listening to and looking at the beautiful story the landmarks have, the music, and the ambience.
Bwahaha funny to see how our experience with the game are similar. Mine was a huge player until WOTLK, and showed me the game as a kid, as he was part of a guild along with my mom. Nowadays, I still play it, while constantly listening to theses songs.
when i turned 12 my dad showed me wow classic and i never got to max level until tbc classic came out and i had the best time tanking and now i am leveling through wotlk and it has been some of my favourite experience in gaming ever. sorry for bad english not my first language
I will NEVER regret those 100000000000 hours I played this game. I wish I could turn back time and be this young girl with her own computer with nothing but WoW on it and with my own little guild I had back then and LOOOOTS OF TIME. Those moments will never be lost!
@@xerilaun While I don't recommend Blizzards own servers, but if you want a good WoW experience, a Vanilla+ as it were, then look up Turtle WoW. In my opinion it's the best we'll get
Diablo 1 and 2, Starcraft 1, Warcraft 2 and 3, and vanilla WoW all have amazing music. Warcraft 1 is somewhat DOS retro I guess. Not sure about all the WoW expansion music as I have not played WoW very much at all. Sub fee + paid expansions + cash shop + WoW token concepts are discouraging from my consumer standpoint. Good music for free on YT though :)
I hear Shadowlands is absolute 🗑 compared to the hard work they put into several expacs. They KNOW that WoW is finished as a game and they killed it!!!
There is a big contrast in the mood of music between the Blood Elves and the Night Elves. The Blood Elves' music sounds magical & mysterious, but there's also a sense of worry in the music considering their hunger for magic and their rivalry with the Scourge . However, the Night Elves music sounds more calming and graceful considering their strong connection with nature and their commitment to be healers (shown by their moonwells).
I understand your viewpoint, but I'd like to add that I feel the strings and more strumming gossamer tones in the Blood elves' music is more aimed towards the general air of royalty that surrounds them. You're very right in saying the music is sounding worrisome, but I'd even go as far to far as to say it's a mournful type of music. It's all very distant and echoing, to reflect upon the many lives lost in their legacy of becoming the Blood elves. It's all very reflective of a secluded wondrous people with unique knowledge and powers, listening to this music as an outsider to the blood elves invokes a feeling of both warmth and welcoming, and one of being in a very isolated and faraway place.
Not to mention the racism and ego of the night elves. What was that shit that Fandral said? If we came from trolls how come there are still trolls? Lmao.
Nothing beats Eversong as a zone and Silvermoon as a city. That glowing aura all around you and deep beneath the surface you can feel it in you bones, the dark, sinister secrets that lie behind closed gates and high balconies. You feel that sense of awe and admiration for the beautiful home of the Elves but you are never entirely peaceful, a sense of uneasiness you can never really shake off. I warms and chills me to my very core every time I traverse Quel'Thalas.
Maybe when we first played this game, we had a different view of the world, ourselves, and had different thoughts (even assurances) of where we'd be today, and maybe our expectations aren't what we wanted. But maybe when we experience this feeling of nostalgia - both how it reminds us of how happy we were then... and as we share our memories of a whismsical time, we realize we were happy together. Maybe we also forget that we had a slow of problems then that we got passed today. Maybe that shows our bond with one another, and this human connection shows that things really aren't so bad after all. Hello my fellow fans of the old days of WOW. Wherever you are, I wish you well, and want you to know if you're here sharing the moment with one another: things really are better than we give them credit to be. Best of luck to you, and be proud of yourself.
I find the blood elves themselves quite intriguing. Their glowing green eyes. Their long ears that can bend downward with emotion. Their affinity for magic. And lastly, their history. Their world is so wonderfully polarizing in both its beauty and decay. I remember just standing still in the middle of these woods, listening to the sound of what I thought to be magic reverberating through the air, a constant flow of life and energy. The golden light bathing everything in warmth and the curly, whimsical-looking tree branches lending even more character to the forest. Blasting my way through annoying scourge in the haunting sadness of the Dead Scar. I'll always miss this world. Edit 5/11/2020: Wow, I never thought this tidbit of prose would blow up the way it did. I truly appreciate all of the likes and comments, and I hope you are all doing well - or are finding the will to survive - right now despite this troublesome year. Unfortunately, while I do not forsee myself returning to WoW anytime soon, I still feel the same about all of my memories of playing so long ago. Being able to empathize with and relate to one another through sharing our thoughts like this is my absolute favorite thing about TH-cam, or the entire web, really. Thank you Everness, and everyone here who feels the same!
I put this on to use as background music while writing a paper. Instead I'm scouring the comments and seeing all these positive/nostalgic notes. I'm really fighting the urge to click the WoW button on my taskbar, making a Blood Elf and just quest through it one more time
I've been doing that for finals since I had to quit 8 years ago, and this finals season I finally gave in. Joined a WOTLK private server, made a toon, and am going to play the crap out of it when finals are over. Nostalgia is a helluva drug
This ever autumn lands, the eerie, mystical and magical music... This cello... The lore, the people, the quests. Everything made me fall in love with the blood elves.
I remember my first time playing WoW; it was during the Lich King expansion. I created my first character, a Blood Elf Paladin, and instantly fell in love with the lore, visuals, and gameplay. But what was most enchanting was the boundless unknown of the world. I saw the whole world of Warcraft as Eversong Forests. So, when I finished all questlines at level 20 in the Blood Elf zones and stepped into the portal to the Eastern Kingdoms, I was stunned by the large scale of the continent. Every time I went to new locations, it felt like a miraculous, wonderful event. I'm thankful to Blizzard for creating this game. I will always love WoW, especially the Blood Elf storyline. These memories will warm my soul forever.
It was my brother that brought me into WoW. Still very young, i was not allowed to play for that long from my parents viewpoint, so i always used to take a seat next to my brother once everyone except us went sleeping, whispering, always asking questions, why use that spell, why farm this, why go there.. With his Belf mage called Frostbozz. This game was the very first thing we bonded over. Whenever i have got trouble falling asleep i click on this video. Takes me back to the days not knowing where going what doing while exploring. Almost every comment in this comment section is so damn relatable. Thank you for giving me a ride back in time..
My very first character in WoW was a Bloodelf Rogue. That's a nostalgia that can't be undone. Had hundreds of hours of RP in this zone. Sitting at the shore at night, the full moon shining down on the sand, illuminating it in the purest of silvery glow. Just watching and listening to the tides of the ocean. Or visiting the Inn. Lounging on one of these divine, luxurious pillows. Letting the gentle flow and hovering of pots and magic sooth you. Watching other adventurers come and go... It really was more than just a game. An experience that sticks with you.
Started playing WoW early WoTLK. First ever character was a Blood Elf.. This music and scenery hold more emotion to me than any real life event. Makes me cry of sadness and cheer in joy. Such emotions are beyond any game i've ever played. The experience was to die for and I wouldn't have it any other way. I love this.
I get that nauseous feeling when I hear this. Like having a sudden trigger of someone you loved who has died. I used to dream of the music long after I gave up WoW. It's crazy how so much emotion can be tied up in a game. The Game.
I know you commented this 3 years ago but I just want to say that's exactly what I'm feeling right now, this horrible feeling... It's beautiful of course, but I feel as If I'm so overcome with grief listening to this, that it's painful.
I love how at 20:12 you just see a player jumping around while recording this. It really gives that funny sense of how WoW is both fun and immersive with it's player-base and music soundtracks for each zone.
Call me a Sin'dorei enthusiast, but I only play as Blood elves. I leveled all playable Blood elf classes to level 110, and each time I leveled one of my Blood elves, I always enjoy the music of Eversong Woods! Especially the part that starts at 29:06 It so fit the Blood elves! A mix of beauty and sadness... May the eternal Sun guide the Sin'dorei people to even more prosperity!
In a sense, so am I. Except on vanilla private servers, for obvious reasons, I always pick belves, and they are the ones with which I go the furtherst.
The first time I created my first pg it was a blood elf hunter, still remember how much mindblown I was looking at this world and going around completing quests so I could become stronger and visit more intriguing places and indeed I faced the creepiness and darkness of the Ghostlands, after that I moved down to the haunting Trisfal Glades so I could take the zeppelin (ofcourse I missed it the very first time landing on my head lol) and leave those spooky regions once it for all. I couldn't believe how happy I was to see the light again in Durotar and when I stepped inside the OG Ogrimmar was something else, the music, the big walls, I felt like an ancient gladiator! Basically I felt in love with Kalimdor and the Barrens instantly became my favourite area of the island, especially at night when I was chilling in the big village in the middle. I wish I could go back in time and relive these moments for the first time ever but it's not possible. Sometimes I just stop myself and start thinking about my days spent playing this masterpiece and I'll never forget it. I guess a piece of my heart and soul is still resting in the barrens, somewhere safe.
I was literally walking around these 3 zones 2 days ago. I was on a call with my buddy for 3 hours and i was reading the wow wiki tryna find out what happened to Quel'Thalas. Ghostlands, everong woods and Quel'Danas were all part of Quel'Thalas but everything changed when the death nation attacked. I even followed the dead scar all the way to the sunwell raid so he could see it. He played the original WC games but never WoW so he was familiar with the lore. Growing up in Africa, i never expected this game to have such an impact on my life and i dont have many people to share the nostalgia with, so when this video popped up, it hit all the right spots man
It was March of 2007. After years of hesitation I finally decided to buy WoW and its first expansion: the Burning Crusade. First character I rolled was a blood elf hunter. Ah, such memories!
Warcraft is a universe. The different zones, cultures, stories about dark forces and hymns about heroic champion slaying dragons, evil kings, etc. Everything fits together in a way that it creates an enormous feeling about diving deep down in a universe every one ever dreamed about. It is awesome. And the day a WoW vanishes, there will die more than just a game is going to die. I think I can say that I am a bit worried about this day. I'm a bit ashamed about this, but I admit that I am going to cry on this day.
I hit level 70 in like 14-16 days or something after release with my Blood Elf. I did not sleep much ... when I joined a level 70 dungeon group, team members were all shocked that the run could not begin, they were just standing there gasping for a good 5 minutes. It was all worth it just to hear the shock in their voices!
Anu belore dela'na A-sephah balla'na This is perhaps one of the most spectacular and mystical places in a fantasy game. Too much nostalgia for Burning Crusade.
I've leveled countless Blood Elves but this area is where I turn the music to max and find myself just standing still listening to the magic remembering being in these exact spots almost 15 years ago...
So blisseful yet melancholic. The music told the story of the elves that had fallen to addiction. They were beautiful on the outside, but decaying on the inside.
If anyone has sheet music for any this please let me know. I was 12-13 when I was leveling a BE through these zones, my mother had passed away recently so hearing this music really takes me back to that time, and it's perfect because it really has that emotion of grief and mysteriousness in it, sometimes I go there and fish for an hour and think back to when I was a noob finding everything for the first time and the excitement of meeting people and questing with someone else for the first time. If you're out there Belysong I still remember you, I was Dominus.
I can't determine what that's from exactly, however I'd say it's safe to assume it has something to do with WoW, going off of the title. I admit, I can't read Bass cleft, which is what that's in, however it does has a similar rhythm to some of the music in-game.
Running, clicking the space bar thinking it made me go faster... damn, WoW was my childhood dude. This haunting cello invokes feelings of melancholy and a yearning for simpler times...
I wish I could have that feeling back, playing the first time wotlk, doin my first quests as a b11 Rouge, knowing I'll be one of the best later. Exploring every inch of this new world and enjoying the feeling you'll never get again in your life. This one time you visiting this world fo the first time. It was just amazing. I never talk about feelings, I just write this down, a little bit drunk and none of my friends or anyone would ever know. Just keep this for me. I wish all of you a good time and never forget how great a first time, no matter what about it is, can be. Live Every moment you get.
I remember when bc first came out and killing those two abominations in the shadowlands was really difficult, and people who had managed it would hover around the area to help everyone else. Recently I made another blood elf character and killing them was as easy as any other mob. Made me kinda sad lol
God....first walking to the orange trees afar...seeing the sky...curious of everything around me...ohh the magic was surreal...a vast adventure awaiting my touch...curiosity of the unknown...
I'll never get that feeling of finally deciding to switch to Horde back in Cata, and picking the Blood Elf. The experience, the music, the way I felt back then, not a single care about what's going on in the real world. I miss this game so so much and the music team is just outstanding. (Which is honestly an understatement) R.I.P. to the old WoW days, I would give anything to feel the way I did when I first started. This music makes me wanna cry of happiness.
same here! i was a dwarf pala dreaming of switching to horde and it was made possible with BC i logged in to my dwarf, entered Dark Portal, ran around the Honor Hold and went straight to level Blood elf paladin and played him until cata first raids
Isnt it fascinating how much Music can stick in our heads for so many years... I will always remember thie time when i first played in this zone. This is one of my favorite Themes (among others like Ashenvale forest or Nagrand) I swear even in another 18 years when i come back to listen to this i will remember those days
This is the music of my rebirth. After playing Night Elf since WoW started, I switched to Blood Elf when BC came out and never went back. More than a decade later, hearing the cello playing throughout this starting zone soothes my soul and brings back such sweet yet nostalgic memories. Thank you for the unforgettable adventure, my life-long blood elf friend.
wish i could go back in true wow... those leveling, scareness of GOSTLAKE, and huge castels of stormwind city, flying dalaran, thoses BGs, ICCs .. trying hard not to cry
As both a WoW nerd and a classical music nerd, I have to say this music is so phenomenally written. The cello melody sounds like it could be by Dvorak.
I lived in the US back then I still remember going into best buy and buying the expansion box. I took a day off work and installed it. Old wow installations took a long time, but i remember how my mage BE ran around the golden fields listening to that sad deep music. I wish i could get that moment, that afternoon again...
-I will never forgot that moment when i was create my first char in WOW "rogue blood elf "and this song sounded when I ventured into my first missions. -"It was and is" a server with few players and you practically didn't see anyone, you rarely saw someone (to know where he was going and what he was going to do, but he only wished him the best)(And rarely talked to them,but I enjoyed those conversations While searching or completing the missions, I stopped occasionally to observe the surroundings, I could feel the sound of the birds, the river, the light wind that gently stirred the leaves of the trees and contemplated that calm atmosphere of mystical fantasy. autumnal forest -It brings back many memories that I will never live again :´(
I was sooo young when I started playing WoW and one of my first characters was a blood elf. I remember hearing them say "Remember the Sun well, instead of Sunwell" and my first thought was, "WHY?! WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE SUN?" I wish I was a noob again
My first ever character was a Nelf Druid, but after admiring the Blood Elves, i quickly made a Belf Warlock, and i will never regret it.. The music, the trees, the beasts, the dead scar, the silvermoon city, the quests, the background ambience, everything was perfect.
Hard to describe the feeling of this game's early days. Vanilla, BC, WOtLK. Just so good. No experience is meant to last forever, though. Eventually it just got repetitive and focused on boring raids hoping for epic loot. Wish I could wipe my brain and go back to vanilla WoW.
No you really don't. You tell yourself you do (hell, you might actually believe it) but you really don't want to go back to Vanilla. Class "balance" in Vanilla was utterly nonexistant, no mounts till 40 (and, even then, they were cripplingly expensive), grinding for your levels instead of questing everywhere, nonsensical flightpaths, no LFG, 40 people competing for the same raid loot, bosses that REQUIRE a certain damage type to defeat (Viscidius, AQ40 for instance), ugly graphics, and the Reck Bomb. Need I go on? Clean your nostalgia goggles. Vanilla was fucking horrendous.
Most of what you said in refutation to mugs point was about raids, which he stated he found boring. No lfg meant you had to actually connect with people in order to get things done. You felt like you made a major achievement in getting your first mount. Just my 2 cents.
@@onlycorndog6322 2 years later you *still* look like a fucking idiot while several hundre thousand people are enjoying classic, and two years ago tens of thousands were on private classic blizzlike server having fun. Shut the fuck up.
I remember getting WoW when I was 12 after playing RuneScape for years. I joined right as burning crusade came out and I played around with so many different classes and races, mostly human and night elf. I remember seeing two blood elves who came to Elwynn Forest and sat in the clearing south of Goldshire. I’d never seen one before, and didn’t have Burning Crusade yet. I remember when I got it a few weeks later I rolled a mage I named Mageroyal and being so enthralled by Eversong Woods. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen in WoW, it felt so ethereal and beautiful to me. Nothing ever felt as magical to me in the game as that experience did.
The Blood Elf music, man I remember the first time I heard the music. I remember clearly back in 2007 when I bought TBC against my friends' advice not to, since I had no high lvl character yet. I remember when I made my first belf and logged in, the colours, the sounds... It was Epic. I remember getting to the Dawning Lane (The road that leads through the Ruins of Silvermoon) and the music starts up hard and slaps me in the face. No music has really been able to do that to me in my mind.
I swear, even tho i main alliance.. for the first year of playing wow i was in horde, and my first ever character was a blood elf hunter... and just the music alone brings me back of those noob days when everything was new, fresh, unknown, where i made many mistakes as i learned the ropes of this game, how later i felt like an idiot when i learned i could have just done that instead of this.... Damn, i miss those days. Even orgrimmar brings chills of nostalgia as i was an auction house dweller haha. Most of the time when people say they miss a certain expansion or time, its just because of nostalgia and the ''fresh noob'' feeling. Once you become a veteran and had played for years, explored everything, you can already expect what will happen and its not the same anymore :/
I met a friend of 12 years in this zone. He asked where I got my wolf pet from (edge of Silverpine Forest). We were 10 years old at the time. Good memories :)
Guys it was too good that feeling of...just feeling so small in a huge whole world, the ambience, the cluelessness it was just so magical and wonderful man i swear. What a great fucking time of my life. I was about 9 yrs old when i started playing, i was just a kid and the effect of this game on me being a kid really brought that noob feeling to its fullest potential and i thought it was a big deal too to stay up until like 12 am playing this game and then when i went to sleep on the weekends i could not wait to wake up the next morning to play. This really did leave an imprint on my soul man. It's insane. I'll never forgot that feeling or those moments of finding out something new and just wondering what was next and thinking wow how will i ever reach level 80 let alone take on the Lich King when a group of five players all get decimated by knucklerot in the dead scar area lol . It was just so perfect, god bless this game. I have yet to have that feeling to this day or will i ever again? Who knows, i really hope so.
sadly i've never felt more at home anywhere than these dang woods. this weird kid from summer camp told me to play this game like 13 years ago so i made a blood elf mage the year this campaign came out coincidentally. I thought the entire game was the sunstrider isle. ran around at like level 12 before someone showed me the bridge to silvermoon city and i lost my mind. from there it was the best moments of my shit life lol
All those days making new alts just to play thru eversong/ghost lands again and again. I’ll have to go back to wrath classic just for this alone again. Spent a lot of time with friends RPing here. Man… was a good time to be a kid playing this game.
This is where it all started for me. I'll never forget hearing that music for the first time, logging onto my mom's account (she was also a belf and got me into the game) and being so excited at learning the new spells, doing a quest for the first time, and getting lost in the beautiful landscape. What a time to be alive ❤️
So excited. My PC is coming in tomorrow. Haven’t played Wow in a few years. Gonna be playing TBC classic and leveling a blood elf priest. Literally my favorite questing zone. The music, the atmosphere, the quests. Ahhh…. I can’t wait.
Listening to this made me dizzy from all the memories and nostalgia. I forgot about my entire day. My entire adult day filled with errands and work. To be honest, it's been 15 years, and I sometimes feel like Jack from the tv series Lost, in that flash forward scene, where he says: "Kate, we have to go back."
I just decided to quit WoW for good but I will always love my memories and these woods were always amazing from TBC all the way to Shadowlands. "Hold your head high."
I still come back to this from time to time to read the comments. It's the only way I can feel someone really understands what I feel when I read these comments.
It's like visiting the zone all over again...chasing that feeling of nostalgia. I get close to remembering the feeling in those different moments in early WoW, but it always feels like something that's sorta at the tip of your tongue. You can stretch out and try to mentally grasp for the bits and pieces, but never being able to fully have the original sensations you had as a child. Sad that I can't revisit it, but happy I was able to experience it to begin with and knowing so many others have shared those memories as well.
Such a mysterious yet inviting ambience. Gives you a feeling of peace, but at the same time you can feel that something isn't right, that there's something... unnatural in the distance. Perfectly compliments the attack of the Scourge.
I listen to this and watch it on my second monitor while 3D modeling and basically just creating a world in Unreal Engine. This is really inspiring and amazing! Reminds me of the good old days in Azeroth. Thanks @Everness
I´ve started WoW again and again... and I haven´t been able to use another character that wasn´t a BloodElf Paladin. Memories are amazing and nostaliga is at its max with these images and soundtrack... love WoW
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As clear in retrospect as it is now, this zone, this music and this race's introduction, is without a doubt Blizzard's masterpiece.
Well, that's a surprise to see you here.
Gonna play TBC when it comes out eh womble?
What a coincidence to find you here when having a random urge to listen to Eversong woods Music after ages :D
This is something the modern game will never see again - a new race, in their own starting zone. These 'allied' races are such a lazy way to introduce races.
This zone and Teldrasill/darkshore/ashenvale are my favorites. Also love ghostlands.
Bal'a dash, malanore.
Anar'alah belore...
Bal'a dash, malanore
Anu Belore Dela’nah!
Doral ana'diel?
Gosh, I miss that phrase.....
i'll never get back that feeling, huge world, strange creatures, dangers in the shadows of the trees, looting stuff, going down to ghostlands, dead scar ... this game left a scar in my soul seriously...
i know rite? you think, gah fuck this im gonna go explore the world a bit like the good old days, fly around look at some old zones and its just not the same..
same
I know :(
took the words from my mouth. Love you all.
I agree
This zone will forever encapsulate my wow experience. It's a masterpiece through and through.
What I wouldn't give to go back to those times where i made 10 blood elves just to inspect each class again and read all the new quests and items for the first time. This zone was where my journey truly began. My brother and I were sharing an account, both making paladins, me secretly mailing his hard earned gold to my level 10's so I could get weapon training... I miss it so much. These few words dont even scratch the surface.
This music sends me into heartbreaking reminiscence. Thank you for the upload.
There is just something excruciatingly painful and incredibly emotional about reliving the memories of such a wonderful game and time of my life which I will never be able to experience again.
Jackson Mentzel i know the feeling, friend
It's still there.. Back2basics-wow
Jackson Mentzel fr😭 I wish I could go back ... tbc.... coming home from school not even worried about questing or leveling but just excited to explore a vast world.... so many great memories it’s sad bc I don’t even have a laptop and am too poor to get one now and probably will never be able to relive wow again
@@rage13371 you're in luck mate tbc classic is announced
@@serdarkucuk7884 I saw that. When is the projected release date ?
" I need a target "
Johan de Groot my ears ;-;
"I don't have a target"
oh my god i heard it in my brain
Johan de Groot “I can’t attack that”
Im about to lose my mind, you've been gone for so long, i need a target, i need a target, i need a target, target, to finaly ding level 10
i can still hear those mana wyrms dying.
* Weird fart sound* * falls a sphere*
Popprrrrffftttttttrrrrrrr!
I tried. ( •-•)
or those springpaw tiger/cubs we had to kill
Oh god yes
whsshhhh
The words "I'm out of range" reverb in my head
i need to get closer.
You're still far away
"I don't HAVE enough energy" "Not enough energy"
I'm dying xD
I can't loot that yet.
Holy shit, i can basicly feel the moment i was playing back in the time of 2008. being 11-12. Sitting there, playing on an old pc. Barely scratching out 30 fps on low settings. Music on 100% on an old trust headset. My dad comes into the room and ask if im having fun, and if i would like a glass of cola and some m&m's. One of the most happy periods in my life, and this music makes me re-live this exact moment. Now im sitting here, in my apartment. 25 years old, on a good pc playing WoW classic and all the m&m's and coke i could buy myself and eat it all. Still, nothing compares. Thanks Everness.
Like your story, I have huge nostalgia for this zone and this game when it was good too, but man, might wanna be careful on all that sugar intake lol!
❤❤❤
im dyslexic
I didn't play WoW when it released. I was in my senior year of college, so I was too busy studying, working a part time job at GameStop, and preparing for grad school overseas in Japan. But my roommate asked me if I could use my employee discount to pre-order and purchase the game, which I did as an early holiday gift for him in 2004. He played it on his laptop in the living room area while I studied in our room. But whenever I would pass through the living room to go to the bathroom, or stretch my legs, or make something to eat in the kitchen, I would hear the sweet melodies of this game. He was a great friend, that was a great time, and those were wonderful memories. I miss those days dearly, and oftentimes I wish I could go back and relive them. My life is good now, but those times were magical, and while I never really played WoW much, the music means so much to me. I can only imagine how hard and heavy the nostalgia is for people who associate such strong memories of playing the game with this incredible music. Their minds must be instantly transported to those virtual worlds. I love reading all these life stories of the fond memories people had discovering and playing WoW in those vanilla days and how this music brings back the richness of those experiences.
You people keep going on about your memories in Eversong Woods, but do you REMEMBER THE SUNWELL?
Remember the Sunwell!
You mean the pool of awesome?
Faith in Bloodelfness restored.
But for some reason, we still damned...
But do you remember the lessons of the past?! Oh wait wrong race...
My home in another life.
My home too when i die
I can't help but play as a Blood Elf. I mean I love night elves but..... something about Blood Elves just calls to me........ like coming home.
@@Sejanus Same :) I hope I'll wake on Sunstrider Isle :)
@@angelamcclelland7498 :)
I'm proud be a blood elf
So beautiful, the sound of foot on grass, the radiating sun-light, Elder springpaw attacking me, the recurring sound of "I can't attack that yet"...It's just too beautiful.
xD
Those poor lynx cubs!
You summed it up beautifully.... (I promised myself I wouldn't cry)...sniff
This is so beautiful. I’m crying... of laughter XD
I NEED to TARGET something first!
I want these times to come back.. getting older sucks 😭😭😭
Wish I could go back in time and level here as a kid just like I used to.
Tell me About it. In my 40s now 🙄
There is still time to make new good memories. Go forth and do so.
the past makes you stronger
You look like a blood elf!
Does anyone else find themselves creating a new character just to feel this experience all over again? I still casually play WoW but I just feel like it’s for nostalgia reasons and it’ll never really be the same. I remember exactly where I was in my life when this came out it’s crazy how much has changed
I have done it 2 weeks ago... I really miss the old good times.
You are so right! It will never ever be the same. Times have changed, people have changed, the game has changed, it will never be the same feeling and this naive amazement again.
Play on private servers vanilla servers with old friends maybe it would help revive the feeling
@@tchibou25 Doesn't work. The only thing that works is realizing that it wasn't wow, it wasn't a patchlist or expansion. It's because you were experiencing it as new, for the first time. The only way physiologically speaking to create synthetic sensations of PURE naivetes is to take a psychedelic, preferably in a safe environment, and just exist.
For me personally, when i play WoW and return to the zones i used to quest in, it gives me some sort of the memories and joy back. Does it feel the same? No, but there’s still something inside of me that gives me a little bit of dopamine.
Only Skyrim is able to do something similar for me.
My first character's born here, so many memories...
Joey Zhao I started with blood elve too :) 5 years ago... so sad, i miss that moments
Joey started with blood elf about 2 months ago
Selama ashal'anore!
I love your profile pic
My first character was a human, Warrior. My mum made it for me. ( •-•)
But don't worry, I made a blood elf afterwards. She was a Rogue, I think.
I really wish I could wipe all my memories of wow so I could have that new player experience again. I've played for 10 years now and I wish I could go back.
I played excessively in 2007 and stopped somewhere in 2008
Recently went on a private server and almost 10 years later I could basically relive it for the first time again because I forgot so much
Elvis Bretthauer Nice tactic, but boy do I not have the patience to wait that long xD
This video gave me a flashback of a random, forgotten moment with a girl i was dating at the time of playing, hell yea!
WoW Classic incoming!
Dedrich IKR! I'd do anything to get that "new player" feeling again.
Rekkedge tf you talking about? They're the ones who have been asking for classic this whole time. They're the reason we're getting this. What did you think, that new players were asking for classic?
Beautiful and peaceful melody, but there is a feeling of something sinister and melancholic under it's surface.
Welcome to the world of Blood Elves.
You're absolutely right.
Yeah, blame Arthas
@@gabrielseibeldev Arthas = Little Bitch
Isn‘t there the lament of the highborne (?) in the beginning?
I need a target. I'm out of range. I can't cast that yet. I can't cast that yet. I'm out of range! *spin jump*
I have never leveled anything that is not blood elf. Does that not happen to other races at all?
@@degageduchess72 its just a meme because belf is the most popular, the other races have them too
The spin jump lolll
I loved the contempt with which the male Blood Elf said 'I can't cast that yet', just like Lucius Malfoy
I love this zone. It is peaceful, dreadful, filled with failure and hope all at the same time. A bittersweet.
Как точно подмечено
"Горько-сладкий"
That's a spot on description.
By far the BEST starting zone music for any race in the game. Hearing this evokes so many feelings and memories... I'm a die hard Alliance player but they certainly got the aesthetic and soundtrack for blood elves right, because I was drawn in like a moth to a flame. How can anyone resist such resplendence?
Was so much attracted by the civilized side of it also, and also why I always despited the rest of the Horde, their cities and people are a mess. Taste shared! xD
*laughs in gilneas*
I’d vote Teldrasill for best starting zone music and experience.
@@zentraveler1834 Im voting Human (Elwynn forest) was my favorite.
Teldrasill made my sleepy. Bloodelfs and Dranaei are sheered second place for me.
Personally, I like the Goblins and Gnomes soundtracks better (Castaways and Gnomergan from cataclysm) but the Eversong woods music holds a nostalgia from a different time in World of Warcraft.
I remember playing WoW for the first time as a Blood Elf. My dad was already an expert, but wanted to level with me and teach me about the game. I had the music on all the time, and it facinated me. And leveling was the most fun. Thanks Dad for showing me this beautiful game.
My father did the same thing! Ive been around WoW my whole life and both of my parents played it, but sadly my mother cant play it anymore. My father used to let me stay up late and watch him do quests, do raids, and all of that stuff. We used to go through old dungeons together when i was still fairly low level (i was in the 50-60 and he was max level) and he told me about stuff in the game and i loved (and still do love) learning about the history. Now i have a level 120 Blood Elf thats a demon hunter. Even though i do need to still get gear and stuff, i always go to Eversong and just stay there listening to and looking at the beautiful story the landmarks have, the music, and the ambience.
@@NxrthRxse Me as well! Mom isn't much of a gamer though.
I has the same experience. My dad leveled me through this game lol
Bwahaha funny to see how our experience with the game are similar. Mine was a huge player until WOTLK, and showed me the game as a kid, as he was part of a guild along with my mom. Nowadays, I still play it, while constantly listening to theses songs.
when i turned 12 my dad showed me wow classic and i never got to max level until tbc classic came out and i had the best time tanking and now i am leveling through wotlk and it has been some of my favourite experience in gaming ever. sorry for bad english not my first language
Victory lies ahead.
Its funny how text is different in other language for exemple in french (i am) it says : Victory awaits us
@@xekoan507 in spanish too
Anu Belore Dela’na
@@xekoan507 La victoire nous attend?
Death, to all who oppose us!
I will NEVER regret those 100000000000 hours I played this game. I wish I could turn back time and be this young girl with her own computer with nothing but WoW on it and with my own little guild I had back then and LOOOOTS OF TIME. Those moments will never be lost!
Same, I rly want to play it now lol
sameee I wish I could go back in time when I waas like 12 and had all the time in the world to play this
@@xerilaun While I don't recommend Blizzards own servers, but if you want a good WoW experience, a Vanilla+ as it were, then look up Turtle WoW. In my opinion it's the best we'll get
Me too it’s one of my fondest memories
Ehm so you are telling me you played wow for 11 415 525 years?
That Cello is so chilling. It feels majestic, yet so ominous and creepy, what a way to introduce someone to their starting zone
music is such an important part of a game. Blizzard has always been very strong in that department.
Diablo 1 and 2, Starcraft 1, Warcraft 2 and 3, and vanilla WoW all have amazing music.
Warcraft 1 is somewhat DOS retro I guess. Not sure about all the WoW expansion music as I have not played WoW very much at all. Sub fee + paid expansions + cash shop + WoW token concepts are discouraging from my consumer standpoint.
Good music for free on YT though :)
u mean ctrl + m and youtube
I hear Shadowlands is absolute 🗑 compared to the hard work they put into several expacs. They KNOW that WoW is finished as a game and they killed it!!!
@@christianfreedom-seeker934 I guess I'll find out! Got it free with my video card. Haven't played WoW in ages though.
@@tokiwartooth4404 Starcraft 2*
There is a big contrast in the mood of music between the Blood Elves and the Night Elves. The Blood Elves' music sounds magical & mysterious, but there's also a sense of worry in the music considering their hunger for magic and their rivalry with the Scourge .
However, the Night Elves music sounds more calming and graceful considering their strong connection with nature and their commitment to be healers (shown by their moonwells).
I understand your viewpoint, but I'd like to add that I feel the strings and more strumming gossamer tones in the Blood elves' music is more aimed towards the general air of royalty that surrounds them. You're very right in saying the music is sounding worrisome, but I'd even go as far to far as to say it's a mournful type of music. It's all very distant and echoing, to reflect upon the many lives lost in their legacy of becoming the Blood elves. It's all very reflective of a secluded wondrous people with unique knowledge and powers, listening to this music as an outsider to the blood elves invokes a feeling of both warmth and welcoming, and one of being in a very isolated and faraway place.
Agreed to both comments!
Also feel like the seldom worrying tunes imply the fact that their race was brought near extinction
Not to mention the racism and ego of the night elves.
What was that shit that Fandral said? If we came from trolls how come there are still trolls? Lmao.
You hit the nail right on the head, there is a sense of worry in the belf music i couldn't have said it better myself.
My Favorite leveling zone
Can't forget my first Blood elf paladin in 2009 ,it was an amazing time
Sami Rashed i made a draenai paladin and my druid friend and i terrorized the horde at level 49. Never had that kind of fun on a game
But u got a human paladin at ur avatar, not gayelf. So?
@@MrDnbass Also human can be gay too its not somthing new in this world of warcraft remember that :P I play only female char :P
I started around the same time.It was AMAZING!
Same
Nothing beats Eversong as a zone and Silvermoon as a city. That glowing aura all around you and deep beneath the surface you can feel it in you bones, the dark, sinister secrets that lie behind closed gates and high balconies. You feel that sense of awe and admiration for the beautiful home of the Elves but you are never entirely peaceful, a sense of uneasiness you can never really shake off. I warms and chills me to my very core every time I traverse Quel'Thalas.
Maybe when we first played this game, we had a different view of the world, ourselves, and had different thoughts (even assurances) of where we'd be today, and maybe our expectations aren't what we wanted. But maybe when we experience this feeling of nostalgia - both how it reminds us of how happy we were then... and as we share our memories of a whismsical time, we realize we were happy together. Maybe we also forget that we had a slow of problems then that we got passed today. Maybe that shows our bond with one another, and this human connection shows that things really aren't so bad after all. Hello my fellow fans of the old days of WOW. Wherever you are, I wish you well, and want you to know if you're here sharing the moment with one another: things really are better than we give them credit to be. Best of luck to you, and be proud of yourself.
Without a doubt, the best zone in the game. The feeling, the atmosphere, the looming dangers, the thrill of the unknown.
I want to go back ...
What's stopping you? Play an old lich king server like dalaran and make yourself a belf :D
Azuremyst Isle
Isak Åkerberg its not the same after you have seen it all
Isak Åkerberg we’ve all tried, and all learned, you can never go back.
Yes u can 😜 in about 4 months u can relive it all. Cannot wait tbh
I find the blood elves themselves quite intriguing. Their glowing green eyes. Their long ears that can bend downward with emotion. Their affinity for magic. And lastly, their history.
Their world is so wonderfully polarizing in both its beauty and decay. I remember just standing still in the middle of these woods, listening to the sound of what I thought to be magic reverberating through the air, a constant flow of life and energy. The golden light bathing everything in warmth and the curly, whimsical-looking tree branches lending even more character to the forest. Blasting my way through annoying scourge in the haunting sadness of the Dead Scar.
I'll always miss this world.
Edit 5/11/2020:
Wow, I never thought this tidbit of prose would blow up the way it did. I truly appreciate all of the likes and comments, and I hope you are all doing well - or are finding the will to survive - right now despite this troublesome year. Unfortunately, while I do not forsee myself returning to WoW anytime soon, I still feel the same about all of my memories of playing so long ago. Being able to empathize with and relate to one another through sharing our thoughts like this is my absolute favorite thing about TH-cam, or the entire web, really.
Thank you Everness, and everyone here who feels the same!
deep.
Me too honestly....me too. I absolutely loved eversong woods
Miss the old days. :(
They now have yellow glowing eyes in the customization menu too.
When we all upload our brains to computers I wanna live somewhere like this. Maybe we’ll run in to each other.
I put this on to use as background music while writing a paper. Instead I'm scouring the comments and seeing all these positive/nostalgic notes. I'm really fighting the urge to click the WoW button on my taskbar, making a Blood Elf and just quest through it one more time
Same! I love video game soundtracks for writing and studying! Thank god for youtubers.
I've been doing that for finals since I had to quit 8 years ago, and this finals season I finally gave in. Joined a WOTLK private server, made a toon, and am going to play the crap out of it when finals are over. Nostalgia is a helluva drug
I so did the same thing, joined a private WOTLK server. Cata and beyond just lost the magic
man i miss this game so much :(
i can't play anymore but if i could i would go and solo run tk immediately and maybe magister's terrace
I too am listening to this while working on a paper! It seriously helps me focus. (I say that as I am sitting here typing this comment...)
This ever autumn lands, the eerie, mystical and magical music... This cello... The lore, the people, the quests. Everything made me fall in love with the blood elves.
chloe is it really you? you play WoW??
I remember my first time playing WoW; it was during the Lich King expansion. I created my first character, a Blood Elf Paladin, and instantly fell in love with the lore, visuals, and gameplay. But what was most enchanting was the boundless unknown of the world. I saw the whole world of Warcraft as Eversong Forests.
So, when I finished all questlines at level 20 in the Blood Elf zones and stepped into the portal to the Eastern Kingdoms, I was stunned by the large scale of the continent. Every time I went to new locations, it felt like a miraculous, wonderful event.
I'm thankful to Blizzard for creating this game. I will always love WoW, especially the Blood Elf storyline. These memories will warm my soul forever.
It was my brother that brought me into WoW. Still very young, i was not allowed to play for that long from my parents viewpoint, so i always used to take a seat next to my brother once everyone except us went sleeping, whispering, always asking questions, why use that spell, why farm this, why go there.. With his Belf mage called Frostbozz. This game was the very first thing we bonded over.
Whenever i have got trouble falling asleep i click on this video. Takes me back to the days not knowing where going what doing while exploring.
Almost every comment in this comment section is so damn relatable.
Thank you for giving me a ride back in time..
Same thing, man) So many memories..
Same, I was thinking for a second if I had written this lol
Same I used to watch mine level in bc zones in 07-08. His sub got cancelled and he didnt play until MOP and onward.
Right in the feels
Selama ashal'anore.
we will persevere
Bal'a dash, malanore
Death to all who oppose us.
May the eternal sun guide you.
Sinu'amanore, Sin'dorei.
My very first character in WoW was a Bloodelf Rogue. That's a nostalgia that can't be undone. Had hundreds of hours of RP in this zone.
Sitting at the shore at night, the full moon shining down on the sand, illuminating it in the purest of silvery glow. Just watching and listening to the tides of the ocean.
Or visiting the Inn. Lounging on one of these divine, luxurious pillows. Letting the gentle flow and hovering of pots and magic sooth you.
Watching other adventurers come and go... It really was more than just a game. An experience that sticks with you.
Started playing WoW early WoTLK. First ever character was a Blood Elf.. This music and scenery hold more emotion to me than any real life event. Makes me cry of sadness and cheer in joy. Such emotions are beyond any game i've ever played. The experience was to die for and I wouldn't have it any other way. I love this.
I remember getting a blue item as the final reward for questing to level 20 here. Man that was HUGE back in the day.
I get that nauseous feeling when I hear this. Like having a sudden trigger of someone you loved who has died.
I used to dream of the music long after I gave up WoW. It's crazy how so much emotion can be tied up in a game. The Game.
It does make sense with what happened to Quel'thalas
I know you commented this 3 years ago but I just want to say that's exactly what I'm feeling right now, this horrible feeling... It's beautiful of course, but I feel as If I'm so overcome with grief listening to this, that it's painful.
I love how at 20:12 you just see a player jumping around while recording this. It really gives that funny sense of how WoW is both fun and immersive with it's player-base and music soundtracks for each zone.
Call me a Sin'dorei enthusiast, but I only play as Blood elves. I leveled all playable Blood elf classes to level 110, and each time I leveled one of my Blood elves, I always enjoy the music of Eversong Woods! Especially the part that starts at 29:06 It so fit the Blood elves! A mix of beauty and sadness... May the eternal Sun guide the Sin'dorei people to even more prosperity!
In a sense, so am I. Except on vanilla private servers, for obvious reasons, I always pick belves, and they are the ones with which I go the furtherst.
The first time I created my first pg it was a blood elf hunter, still remember how much mindblown I was looking at this world and going around completing quests so I could become stronger and visit more intriguing places and indeed I faced the creepiness and darkness of the Ghostlands, after that I moved down to the haunting Trisfal Glades so I could take the zeppelin (ofcourse I missed it the very first time landing on my head lol) and leave those spooky regions once it for all. I couldn't believe how happy I was to see the light again in Durotar and when I stepped inside the OG Ogrimmar was something else, the music, the big walls, I felt like an ancient gladiator! Basically I felt in love with Kalimdor and the Barrens instantly became my favourite area of the island, especially at night when I was chilling in the big village in the middle.
I wish I could go back in time and relive these moments for the first time ever but it's not possible. Sometimes I just stop myself and start thinking about my days spent playing this masterpiece and I'll never forget it. I guess a piece of my heart and soul is still resting in the barrens, somewhere safe.
I was literally walking around these 3 zones 2 days ago. I was on a call with my buddy for 3 hours and i was reading the wow wiki tryna find out what happened to Quel'Thalas. Ghostlands, everong woods and Quel'Danas were all part of Quel'Thalas but everything changed when the death nation attacked. I even followed the dead scar all the way to the sunwell raid so he could see it. He played the original WC games but never WoW so he was familiar with the lore. Growing up in Africa, i never expected this game to have such an impact on my life and i dont have many people to share the nostalgia with, so when this video popped up, it hit all the right spots man
the starting zone of blood elves..... I love this place.... the ambience a mixture of beauty, fascination, despair and sorrow..
It was March of 2007. After years of hesitation I finally decided to buy WoW and its first expansion: the Burning Crusade. First character I rolled was a blood elf hunter. Ah, such memories!
same, except I rolled need on everything in instances, not sure what "Loot Ninja" meant
My first character was a belf hunter too!!!!!
Sigh.....
You too? Blood Elves are awesome!
Same. I made a female belf hunter. Good times!
Warcraft is a universe. The different zones, cultures, stories about dark forces and hymns about heroic champion slaying dragons, evil kings, etc. Everything fits together in a way that it creates an enormous feeling about diving deep down in a universe every one ever dreamed about.
It is awesome. And the day a WoW vanishes, there will die more than just a game is going to die. I think I can say that I am a bit worried about this day. I'm a bit ashamed about this, but I admit that I am going to cry on this day.
Touhou: Except our bad guys change their minds to become the good guys because Reimu will fuck any incidents
I come back to this all the time - I am SO excited for Midnight!! My most anticipated expansion of the trilogy for sure.
I hit level 70 in like 14-16 days or something after release with my Blood Elf.
I did not sleep much ... when I joined a level 70 dungeon group, team members were all shocked that the run could not begin, they were just standing there gasping for a good 5 minutes.
It was all worth it just to hear the shock in their voices!
this place feels like a second home
always has me coming back
god i listen to this so damn much
@@user-iy5sg2rn4x lol no need i never left :D i listen to this very very often, every couple of days
Anu belore dela'na
A-sephah balla'na
This is perhaps one of the most spectacular and mystical places in a fantasy game. Too much nostalgia for Burning Crusade.
I really love the music in this zone...perfect for blood elves.
I've leveled countless Blood Elves but this area is where I turn the music to max and find myself just standing still listening to the magic remembering being in these exact spots almost 15 years ago...
So blisseful yet melancholic. The music told the story of the elves that had fallen to addiction. They were beautiful on the outside, but decaying on the inside.
If anyone has sheet music for any this please let me know. I was 12-13 when I was leveling a BE through these zones, my mother had passed away recently so hearing this music really takes me back to that time, and it's perfect because it really has that emotion of grief and mysteriousness in it, sometimes I go there and fish for an hour and think back to when I was a noob finding everything for the first time and the excitement of meeting people and questing with someone else for the first time. If you're out there Belysong I still remember you, I was Dominus.
I can't determine what that's from exactly, however I'd say it's safe to assume it has something to do with WoW, going off of the title. I admit, I can't read Bass cleft, which is what that's in, however it does has a similar rhythm to some of the music in-game.
@@pinstripe5487 It actually is tje right song! Just tried it on my piano ^^
@@mpld8057 Oh nice! Yeah, looking back, it does seem to be that way! (Since then I have learned bass cleft.)
Whenever the melody of Lament of the Highborne starts playing, I get goosebumps. I was so excited when BC first came out
Oh frick, you and me both!
BC was soooo epic!!!
Puella Magi Homura Akemi I’ll have to check those servers out!
Elfen41 That and Lich King are my favourite expansions 🖤
Anar'alah Belore
Dat 'cello. Seriously, the 'cello here is so unreal. The Feels
Running, clicking the space bar thinking it made me go faster... damn, WoW was my childhood dude. This haunting cello invokes feelings of melancholy and a yearning for simpler times...
I wish I could have that feeling back, playing the first time wotlk, doin my first quests as a b11 Rouge, knowing I'll be one of the best later. Exploring every inch of this new world and enjoying the feeling you'll never get again in your life. This one time you visiting this world fo the first time. It was just amazing. I never talk about feelings, I just write this down, a little bit drunk and none of my friends or anyone would ever know. Just keep this for me. I wish all of you a good time and never forget how great a first time, no matter what about it is, can be. Live Every moment you get.
When u need a party to kill the knucklerot in Ghostlands.
Luzran is a legend.
the elite mod who redefined the term "fast travel"
I remember when bc first came out and killing those two abominations in the shadowlands was really difficult, and people who had managed it would hover around the area to help everyone else. Recently I made another blood elf character and killing them was as easy as any other mob. Made me kinda sad lol
@@harrietluck9799 what do you mean by killing them in shadowlands?
@@34bully he means Ghostlands
God....first walking to the orange trees afar...seeing the sky...curious of everything around me...ohh the magic was surreal...a vast adventure awaiting my touch...curiosity of the unknown...
Played this with my mom back to 2006 till 2008 as a kid :p, Damn those memories, makes me want to cry
You are quite lucky then. None of my family play games at all hardly.
I am a wow mom the only one that plays it in mine too.
I'll never get that feeling of finally deciding to switch to Horde back in Cata, and picking the Blood Elf. The experience, the music, the way I felt back then, not a single care about what's going on in the real world. I miss this game so so much and the music team is just outstanding. (Which is honestly an understatement) R.I.P. to the old WoW days, I would give anything to feel the way I did when I first started. This music makes me wanna cry of happiness.
same here!
i was a dwarf pala dreaming of switching to horde and it was made possible with BC
i logged in to my dwarf, entered Dark Portal, ran around the Honor Hold and went straight to level Blood elf paladin and played him until cata first raids
I'll probably never find real world peace quite like what this Area and music brings me, it's beyond tranquil.
This music in tandem with the sunset time ... the red ambiance on the trees. It's so relaxing and so, so beautiful. So very melancholy.
Those bird sounds in the distance are so beautiful. I love the blood elves and their area so much.
That's an Australian magpie. 🙂
I like to mimic the cello with my voice.
minicolster I always caught myself humming along lol.
yeah it's called humming
"I NEED to target something first."
"I do not HAVE enough energy."
@@TheVoicesNeverStopTalking My mana is low!
@@YukiKunikida I can't attack that Target!
Isnt it fascinating how much Music can stick in our heads for so many years...
I will always remember thie time when i first played in this zone.
This is one of my favorite Themes (among others like Ashenvale forest or Nagrand)
I swear even in another 18 years when i come back to listen to this i will remember those days
Nobody ever quits world of warcraft. Only breaks
I did. I can come back here though for the music =D
True.
True indeed..........
You quit it for sure when you die.
You might leave wow, but wow will never leave you...
I would sell my soul to live here tbh
ｂｒｕｈ Just might be able to
burning legion: 👀
old gods: 👀
the light: 👀
Kil'jaeden wants to know your location
He-heu, well well. You've come to the right place! But, spare us you soul. 10 dollars a month will do :)
Your Soul lives in a far better place, tap into your Soul !
This is the music of my rebirth. After playing Night Elf since WoW started, I switched to Blood Elf when BC came out and never went back. More than a decade later, hearing the cello playing throughout this starting zone soothes my soul and brings back such sweet yet nostalgic memories. Thank you for the unforgettable adventure, my life-long blood elf friend.
wish i could go back in true wow... those leveling, scareness of GOSTLAKE, and huge castels of stormwind city, flying dalaran, thoses BGs, ICCs .. trying hard not to cry
As both a WoW nerd and a classical music nerd, I have to say this music is so phenomenally written. The cello melody sounds like it could be by Dvorak.
I lived in the US back then
I still remember going into best buy and buying the expansion box.
I took a day off work and installed it.
Old wow installations took a long time, but i remember how my mage BE ran around the golden fields listening to that sad deep music.
I wish i could get that moment, that afternoon again...
So many good memories. Ahh 2013.. I miss the days when I had no idea what i was doing... back when everything was fresh. And new. And exciting
the blood elves and draenei were a great addition to the game. loved eversong woods and ghostlands so much when I was younger.
-I will never forgot that moment when i was create my first char in WOW "rogue blood elf
"and this song sounded when I ventured into my first missions.
-"It was and is" a server with few players and you practically didn't see anyone, you rarely saw someone (to know where he was going and what he was going to do, but he only wished him the best)(And rarely talked to them,but I enjoyed those conversations
While searching or completing the missions, I stopped occasionally to observe the surroundings, I could feel the sound of the birds, the river, the light wind that gently stirred the leaves of the trees and contemplated that calm atmosphere of mystical fantasy. autumnal forest
-It brings back many memories that I will never live again
:´(
I was sooo young when I started playing WoW and one of my first characters was a blood elf.
I remember hearing them say "Remember the Sun well, instead of Sunwell" and my first thought was, "WHY?! WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE SUN?" I wish I was a noob again
My first ever character was a Nelf Druid, but after admiring the Blood Elves, i quickly made a Belf Warlock, and i will never regret it..
The music, the trees, the beasts, the dead scar, the silvermoon city, the quests, the background ambience, everything was perfect.
Hard to describe the feeling of this game's early days. Vanilla, BC, WOtLK. Just so good. No experience is meant to last forever, though. Eventually it just got repetitive and focused on boring raids hoping for epic loot. Wish I could wipe my brain and go back to vanilla WoW.
No you really don't. You tell yourself you do (hell, you might actually believe it) but you really don't want to go back to Vanilla. Class "balance" in Vanilla was utterly nonexistant, no mounts till 40 (and, even then, they were cripplingly expensive), grinding for your levels instead of questing everywhere, nonsensical flightpaths, no LFG, 40 people competing for the same raid loot, bosses that REQUIRE a certain damage type to defeat (Viscidius, AQ40 for instance), ugly graphics, and the Reck Bomb. Need I go on? Clean your nostalgia goggles. Vanilla was fucking horrendous.
Most of what you said in refutation to mugs point was about raids, which he stated he found boring. No lfg meant you had to actually connect with people in order to get things done. You felt like you made a major achievement in getting your first mount. Just my 2 cents.
SonofaGib 2cents I’d say is worth a dollar.
@@onlycorndog6322 2 years later you *still* look like a fucking idiot while several hundre thousand people are enjoying classic, and two years ago tens of thousands were on private classic blizzlike server having fun. Shut the fuck up.
I remember getting WoW when I was 12 after playing RuneScape for years. I joined right as burning crusade came out and I played around with so many different classes and races, mostly human and night elf. I remember seeing two blood elves who came to Elwynn Forest and sat in the clearing south of Goldshire. I’d never seen one before, and didn’t have Burning Crusade yet. I remember when I got it a few weeks later I rolled a mage I named Mageroyal and being so enthralled by Eversong Woods. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen in WoW, it felt so ethereal and beautiful to me. Nothing ever felt as magical to me in the game as that experience did.
The Blood Elf music, man I remember the first time I heard the music. I remember clearly back in 2007 when I bought TBC against my friends' advice not to, since I had no high lvl character yet. I remember when I made my first belf and logged in, the colours, the sounds... It was Epic. I remember getting to the Dawning Lane (The road that leads through the Ruins of Silvermoon) and the music starts up hard and slaps me in the face. No music has really been able to do that to me in my mind.
I swear, even tho i main alliance.. for the first year of playing wow i was in horde, and my first ever character was a blood elf hunter... and just the music alone brings me back of those noob days when everything was new, fresh, unknown, where i made many mistakes as i learned the ropes of this game, how later i felt like an idiot when i learned i could have just done that instead of this.... Damn, i miss those days. Even orgrimmar brings chills of nostalgia as i was an auction house dweller haha.
Most of the time when people say they miss a certain expansion or time, its just because of nostalgia and the ''fresh noob'' feeling. Once you become a veteran and had played for years, explored everything, you can already expect what will happen and its not the same anymore :/
I met a friend of 12 years in this zone. He asked where I got my wolf pet from (edge of Silverpine Forest). We were 10 years old at the time. Good memories :)
Guys it was too good that feeling of...just feeling so small in a huge whole world, the ambience, the cluelessness it was just so magical and wonderful man i swear. What a great fucking time of my life. I was about 9 yrs old when i started playing, i was just a kid and the effect of this game on me being a kid really brought that noob feeling to its fullest potential and i thought it was a big deal too to stay up until like 12 am playing this game and then when i went to sleep on the weekends i could not wait to wake up the next morning to play. This really did leave an imprint on my soul man. It's insane. I'll never forgot that feeling or those moments of finding out something new and just wondering what was next and thinking wow how will i ever reach level 80 let alone take on the Lich King when a group of five players all get decimated by knucklerot in the dead scar area lol . It was just so perfect, god bless this game. I have yet to have that feeling to this day or will i ever again? Who knows, i really hope so.
sadly i've never felt more at home anywhere than these dang woods. this weird kid from summer camp told me to play this game like 13 years ago so i made a blood elf mage the year this campaign came out coincidentally. I thought the entire game was the sunstrider isle. ran around at like level 12 before someone showed me the bridge to silvermoon city and i lost my mind. from there it was the best moments of my shit life lol
All those days making new alts just to play thru eversong/ghost lands again and again. I’ll have to go back to wrath classic just for this alone again. Spent a lot of time with friends RPing here. Man… was a good time to be a kid playing this game.
This is where it all started for me. I'll never forget hearing that music for the first time, logging onto my mom's account (she was also a belf and got me into the game) and being so excited at learning the new spells, doing a quest for the first time, and getting lost in the beautiful landscape. What a time to be alive ❤️
So excited. My PC is coming in tomorrow. Haven’t played Wow in a few years. Gonna be playing TBC classic and leveling a blood elf priest. Literally my favorite questing zone. The music, the atmosphere, the quests. Ahhh…. I can’t wait.
Still enjoying Classic?
@@martij30 yes. Playing lich king classic now.
Listening to this made me dizzy from all the memories and nostalgia. I forgot about my entire day. My entire adult day filled with errands and work. To be honest, it's been 15 years, and I sometimes feel like Jack from the tv series Lost, in that flash forward scene, where he says: "Kate, we have to go back."
"Kate, we have to go back." just hit me so hard
made part of my life as a child, moments that will never be back again. even if i go back to wow, it will never be the same...
Nothing calms me as this does. The landscape, the ambience and that goddamn harp. So impossibly beautiful.
I just decided to quit WoW for good but I will always love my memories and these woods were always amazing from TBC all the way to Shadowlands. "Hold your head high."
nothing will ever bring back the feelings that this place gave me... rip
Well, now you can experience it again with the expansion.
I still come back to this from time to time to read the comments. It's the only way I can feel someone really understands what I feel when I read these comments.
i feel you....
Yes! Same.
It's like visiting the zone all over again...chasing that feeling of nostalgia. I get close to remembering the feeling in those different moments in early WoW, but it always feels like something that's sorta at the tip of your tongue. You can stretch out and try to mentally grasp for the bits and pieces, but never being able to fully have the original sensations you had as a child. Sad that I can't revisit it, but happy I was able to experience it to begin with and knowing so many others have shared those memories as well.
Such a mysterious yet inviting ambience. Gives you a feeling of peace, but at the same time you can feel that something isn't right, that there's something... unnatural in the distance. Perfectly compliments the attack of the Scourge.
I listen to this and watch it on my second monitor while 3D modeling and basically just creating a world in Unreal Engine. This is really inspiring and amazing! Reminds me of the good old days in Azeroth. Thanks @Everness
I´ve started WoW again and again... and I haven´t been able to use another character that wasn´t a BloodElf Paladin. Memories are amazing and nostaliga is at its max with these images and soundtrack... love WoW