Funny u said that, i found a place called kurzens compound..a reference to colonel kurtz of the vietnam movie apocalypse now ; ) i dont remember its exact coordinates but its somewhere in the stranglethorn jungle
Thanks to a bunch of clowns who competes for the sake of competing, they rush thru the levels then start calling others slackers for taking their time lvling. Im one of the victims.
Saturday's fishing contest must be hell on pvp-realm? good that i played pve-realm. oh and then i won the northrend fishing contest some day and got the title.
Wrong Fact: Whenever you tried that horrible attempt and went for a mana drink it is then when you will unstealth a rogue because he is raping you while you’re oom
After they kill you because rogues gang up on mages before rogues attack themselves. We rogues see mages as fresh meat, but also to avoid from blowing our cover. I usually waited for one rogue to attack and right after he kills the mage I kill him and then other rogues join in lol.
@@davida472 I prefer priests and warlocks. Rogue prefer killing clothies in general, but iceblock + frost nova + blink can be pretty annoying for rogues IMO. Until you get shadowstep anyway
In my humble opinion, this is the magnum opus of WoW zones. Everything about this zone was just nailed. Excellent quest structure, excellent aesthetic (dangerous jungle filled with predatory animals and murderous trolls?), and it was the first zone that really allowed full fledged PvP engagement. Grom'gol felt like a refuge, and Booty Bay was just this perfect lawless Tortuga-esque vibrant shanty town. Okay, gonna go fire up classic and run around.
Gaps, gulches, hills to hide on. Flat areas. It had all scenarios. I wish the whole of wow could have this giant jungle. Splitt it fictionally with some faction borders and outposts and add pvp events in these borders. If people would combine they could make the best. Just like in real world. But ego is preventing it. Everyone wants own idea, own appreciation
It was definitely one of the, if not the most memorable zone in all of WoW. I absolutely loved that arena place that happened every 3 hours. And the gankage. THE GANKAGE!!! So many good days.
I've spent many a night atop that huge waterfall, just gazing out into the vast horizon; sometimes I'd catch a sunset or two. At times I'd catch the sunrise by the ocean shore while fishing. I could reminisce forever with this ambience. Thank you!! Do more please!!
those were the greate days of wow indeed! i love watching over silitus and hearing the egyptian music and the sand storms with all the bugs flying around them.. so epic.. :D
I really appreciate your videos. I love that you recorded live video to go along with the sound. Also, It's great that you gave us the option with just ambience or with music too. You're doing everything right!!
The music perfectly encapsulates that sense of wonder, mystery and unease. Alliance players typically came here after questing in Duskwood and PvP wasn't really a thing until then. Also the open spaces and many obstacles (trees, hills, ruins, etc.) made it possible for you to charge into an enemy and suddenly be confronted with three, just because those three trolls were hiding behind a tree.
These videos are amazing for studying. I've been off WoW for years and unfortunately will never go back, but the music composition is beautiful and perfect for concentrating! Thanks for uploading these great videos!
@@doubleg8279 MMO's are huge time sync, which isn't as available as adult as when you're in the 14-25 years range. That's one the reasons I never went back. There could be other reasons, like Blizzard being on the downfall for many years now, the controversies and scandals involving their bosses, and the fact that many of WoW's MMO mechanics and gameplay elements are very dated by now.
Exploration was my favorite part of this game and STV did not disappoint. It was such a contrast to dreariness of Duskwood, though the two shared a border. You really felt the change in atmosphere once you crossed that threshold. I was so out of my depth when I ran to Booty Bay, but it was thrilling at the same time. So much fun was had.
Ikr? I always did STV while lvling, still do in Classic. I love the place, but ofc I dont play on PvP servers, that wouldnt be as relaxing! I still remember the first time, I entered STV in early 2005 on my first char. I was only lvl27, too low for STV, but I had gotten a quest to go to Ratchet, and silly me figured, it would be easier to go through STV and take the boat than running all the way through Darkshore, Ashenvale and Barrens. I mean, there was a road for me to follow all the way, how could that go wrong, right? Ah, that sweet naivete. By the time I was maybe 20% of the way, I was getting insta killed by wildlife on the middle of the road, as quickly as res timer allowed it, I only got as far as I could go from my corpse. And then a lvl50-something came riding through and saw me, asked what I was doing in STV at my lvl, and then offered to bodyguard me the entire rest of the way. This total stranger took time to just slowly go through STV with me joined to his hip, killing everything that came after me, like I was a supermagnet. And then he even gave me the quick tour of Booty Bay, fp, bank, boat. Those were the days! Also, yes, ofc I got the needed respect for STV. I had no need to repeat that 🤣🤣
I don't want to be selfish, but i actually think that the nostalgia hits most hardly the children who grew up playing wow, such as me... I was about 6 yrs old when i ran into STV and getting killed right off while crossing the Duskwood - Stranglethorn bridge as an Alliance player... Rard was my name, Rogue was I. Nostalgia is the best, yet the hardest hitting thing
I'm at that critical moment in my life where I'm not sure whether playing wow was a waste of time and life chances or it was worth my years. What is certain though is that it's beautiful.
WoW wasn't a waste of time. Honestly it probably prepared you for the proper modern era where everyone has to community digitally and being cool with that. Also remember that money isn't everything and that your in-game experiences were likely more rewarded than IRL could've been at the time. I miss it badly and my kids now and envious of my memories of the Classic-WoW era
If something has intrinsic value to you and you mentioned is beautiful - then yes it was worth it. Perhaps it was just what you needed at the time - and that's why you were attracted to it. Now you can hear the sound of your childhood/teenage years playing in the background. As for life chances - it's never too late. Whatever it is you want - it's yours to grab it. Have a good day brother
@Aleph Va So, how do you think about it 3 years later? I quit playing after Pandaria, but had my peak during Burning Crusade and gradually played less afterwards. I played so much back then that I never seriously played games afterwards, it was enough for the rest of my life. :-) Now 7 years later I really think it was a very special and unique experience in life and I mention it as one of my favorite things I did in my life. So my conclusion is that it was not a waste of time for me personally. I regularly come back listening to these soundtracks, especially while I'm working. But for me it's not repeatable and I don't even try, that's why I didn't seriously play any computer games since then. Nowadays I prefer to spend my time learning a bit Koine Greek, so I tried to decipher a few verses of your profile haha...
Power on our lives is stolen from us IRL then the system is selling us a virtual one, a fake copy made from 0 and 1 that reduces our desire to its representation, all of that to make us bear with our condition, take it as eternal and never stand again for a real and human life. That merchant system is using our passions, our emotions, our thirst of discovering and desire of community, that's why it feels good AND bad at the same time my dude.
A thing is only a waste of time if you did not enjoy it or if it's not leading to enjoyment :P For example working is not always fun, but you do it for money. Practising something hard is not always fun but you do it because in the end you will be able to play guitar. And some things you just do for enjoyment like eating a cake or reading a book on the beach or talking bs with your friends. WoW is that. If you did not enjoy it, then it's a waste of time. A waste of time is something that gives you no enjoyment and leads you down a bad path or does not lead to enjoyment later.
My times in Azeroth are probably forever over and the old feeling of wonder and adventue will never come back, but yout videos make me reexperience all those feeling and help me calm down and get focused on my studies. Those Kind of videos are what I've been looking for for a long time. Thank you for your work, I hope you'll get back to Warcraft-stuff after you are done with Overwatch!
Ah. My most feared, dreaded and at some point eventually, loved leveling zone. What joy I had listening to your music while hearing my own death sound over and over. Truly much more immersing and blood boiling times than what you get in MMO's nowadays.
Though I had to quit WoW because it was a huge time suck I do miss the pretty scenery and the ambiance. Half the fun was just wandering around to the music.
That's exactly it. WoW became my second life. It was getting to the point where it became my only life. The people.. The experiences.. The moments I shared with others and experienced in this game can never be replaced.
Thats what Ive never understood in those, who just wanted to rush through lvling and get to endgame. The journey is the point. I started playing to relax from a lot of stress in my workplace, where young fresh me did not have a great working environment. I still play 20 years later, tho in other ways. But its still the journey, that matters to me, even tho I raided in a top raiding guild for over 10 years. Now Im back to just enjoying and taking it slow. I love going back to Classic, even if I cant quite catch the old memories. And I always went exploring. Every new zone I came to, I went to explore every single nook and cranny. I never understood those ppl, who claim, that after lvl30 or so u have to grind 2-4 lvls every 10 lvls, coz theres not enough quests. I never had that problem, coz I actually explored! Even when Questie came out, and most ppl exclaimed in exitement over all those quests, they had been missing for so many years, I think, I could count on 1 hand the quests, I hadnt found on my own. Man, now I really want to go play some Classic 😁😁
Stranglethorn was like a WoW character rite of passage, it always felt like I was shipping out to dangerous places where there wasn't a horde town or city around the next corner to take a break at. Instead around every corner there were angry trolls, deadly mobs and lots of monkeys either scratching their armpits in a tree or walking around with swords and fireballs.
I discovered this just recently, but I want you to know that your videos will be the constant soundtrack of my WarCraft-themed DnD sessions from now on, starting from this one! Thanks man, awesome work!
Lots of good and infamous memories are had with this place. This place is awesome to level in, the PvP is fun when there are max level wars going on, and it’s got so much content for a wide level range.
I mostly remember the music from doing the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganzas on a relaxing Sunday afternoon. Yes, there was a lot of PvP, but that made having friends only better.
My all time favorite zone, period. The jungle, the sun and the pirates. Booty Bay should've been a major point of interest. Back in the day it was crowded and I really loved visiting it. Now it's not that much visited but still has a very special place in my heart. The music that plays in this whole zone is fantastic, one of the best in the entire game in my opinion.
I've shared this video with all my friends because I couldn't help but share the passion and love for this music. Thank you for creating such amazing songs!💋
Words cannot explain the nostalgia and the great feeling I get when jamming this specific one.. I remember accidentally taking the zep to STV as a lowbie and the raptors were Level ?? Beasts lol
docile yet dangerous ! well done. i always imagined this song "should feel special" but i didnt think so. until I started the video. then i could understand what it was.. . there was a time when, finally hearing this music ment that, you were nearing the level cap, you FINALLY were high enough for a mount, you were almost near the high end. this was the music that was introducing you to the later parts of the game. i could feel that and remember that, after hearing the music. and for that feeling, it was a special soundtrack. simple but meaningful.
memories coming up ... after studying i'll definitely pick up this game again. The world created in this game is unbelievable. hope the game isn't dead by then.
So many good memories from this zone during vanilla. You were actually starting to get to a decent level and would see enemy players regularly. Quests killing pirates were epic. There was so much to explore and navigate through. I remember getting the cold blood talent seemed so cool and I would just camp in stealth along a path in the woods and wait for some lower level ally to walk by. Good times.
This place was single handedly responsible for many of my vest memories of wow. The low lvl pvp in the open world was such a big flavor. We strictly fought low lvl pvp and hunted the alliance with hunter tracking. Oh the sound of gunshots and screaming night elves. The first two handed windfury proc on a mage. The tense wait for the rogue to appear. Good times
+MrR0cksor Exactly. My first character was on a pve server and I loved STV then. Now, with all (or almost all) private servers being pvp servers, getting through STV is horrible XD
I just love this. Always remember my time I spent in this zone. Leveling, Ganking, Gurubashi, the auction house where I can trade with the opposite faction, zul-gurub and much more :D
I started playing wotlk wow when i was 6 years old, i didnt really knew a single word in english so my dad helped me out in terms of creating character, using the ,,options" tool etc.. I always liked guys with knives so i made myself a human rogue. I wanted to do a night elf rogue but i didnt knew how to switch from one race to another so i just locked in my Human called ,,Rard". Yeah, randomized name and what? I loved my character so much, doing all these quests in Elwynn, accidentally passing the south river and met a bunch of ?? spiders and wolves haha i loved it. I also remember how i randomly ran onto Hogger and i was really confident about killing him. Shamefully, it was the hard to kill-before Cataclysm hogger so i had no chance, and i joined a group of literaly 4 mages and we destroyed that suckass. Goldtooth was also really hard to kill, not because he was hard, it was cause when you entered the mine, you accidentally pulled about 3 of these kabolds and rogue was very bad for killing multiple enemies at the same time... I stopped playing wotlk at about lvl 42, remembering the old Stranglethorn, it were some great times running the first time into Booty bay, being ganked all the time and accidentally started attacking some horde guy and being demolished by the booty bay guards. Great times. Now im 14 and i dont regret a single minute passed while playing WoW! 17 Now, its actually not painful at all read this text after the younger me :D
@@PresidentialWinner exactly mate!! sadly im starting to forget memories from my childhood even though im only 17, but i'll still remember the most important things, from both life and wow! :D
I want to add to this. It was actually my uncle who gave me the inspiration to WoW. When I was about 3 or 4 i always wanted him to create new character for me with the "Create Character" button, it was my biggest desire :) i also remember him walking into blackrock caverns dungeon in burning steppes i think, as a horde. It was about 2005 or 2006 back then, i was about 3 to 4 years old. Omg he played horde back then very back then but then he got to alliance, especially draenei and played draenei shaman since then. :) My uncle was one of the biggest people in my life when I was small... :)
Me trae recuerdos cuando mis amigos y yo estábamos en Gurubashi... recuerdo que nos reiamos, nos enfadabamos y llorabamos juntos..... Los echo de menos 😔😔💕😫😫😭😭
Oh what fantastic memories of RUNNING from the very top of STV to Booty Bay just to hand a quest in, then all the way back - When you got your mount at 40, and WoW was still pure.
Story: I was 14 maybe 15, playing Everquest; I had played EQ since 1999, then diablo II, lvl 98 hc conc barb. 60 necromancer classic EQ. I used to play Tides of Darkness over at my grandfathers on his nice pentium III intel pc....then Warcraft 3 came out. Nelf Archer will always be my waifu; but in WoW Tauren all the way. Name was Draegoloth (creature in DnD). Warrior Class. Nothing like nostalgia almost causing a novel; nothing like the good days when camping gurubashi arena with immovable object/(certain weapon) then hot swapping to Revenge before it was patched with Sul'Thraze the Lasher Sword (from shimmering flats dungeon...come on guys...) The Ocean couldnt contain the amount of salt accumulated
I just love all your Videos. As I don't really find time to play the game I spent my whole teenage period on anymore, it's a great opportunity to feel nostalgic. What do you think about making a zul aman video, maybe including ghost lands. I loved zul aman incredibly, the music and this whole atmosphere was just gorgeous, especially with the last boss yelling through the instance to make you feel the urgency of your mission. Would love to see more raid/instance videos too, as these are probably places that I spend the most emotional evenings in. Love you
I listen to wow music and read the comments What I can say is that I only see nostalgia! We all want to go back in time and play world of warcraft As if we were living in an unreal world of beautiful but more beautiful than reality
In my honest opinion, one of the best zone music in the game! Miss the time when I would sneak around clothers in Booty Bay with my druid and then get busted by the goblin bruisers!
I remember rock climbing to the high point in Westfall and looking down on STV. I couldn't wait to go there. When I finally could, I was ganked for the first time,within 5 minutes of being there by a max level tauren Horde. Watch in ghost form as he danced, and waited for alliance players to show up, that turned into an epic WPvP battle. Great times.
man the experience of being a lvl 15 horde character and being like "I wonder where this ship in ratchet goes" and end up exploring a cool new area whilst trying to avoid people ganking you was amazing
Every time i leveled a character i was happy to reach the level to enter stranglethorn..one of my favorite areas.. I remember the first character i leveled there and i was standing next to a full Zul Gurub raid group. I also dropped the fiery axe (epic random drop) with strenght on it and i was wearing it as a hunter :)
the best zone in the game. wish whole world of warcraft was like this. ive spent months of my life in this epic guerilla war zone. whenever i hit 30 on a character going to stv for pvp and hunting down the opposite faction was always in priority for me. my best memories are from 4 years ago, me and my friend played on molten-wow wotlk and continuously went to stv on our undead warrior and death knight, we ended up twinking on level 79 and committing mass genocide and attacking darkshire every friday, pissed off level 80s couldn't beat us until they started outnumbering us
Yeah... What Kamo said. Maybe you could kill a few tigers, panthers and sharks at level 30, but that's about it. If you wander in Kurzen's domain or get trapped by those Trolls, you'll "be more the prey than the predator"...
Always liked leveling here and still do now. Came back for Vanilla wow, started in BC stopped at MOP. Now that the kids are all grown up and living there lives, it's nice to come back to something I enjoyed. Better then cable TV.
I'm already getting nostalgic over the time I spent on Elysium (R.I.P) from June 8th to August 23rd last Summer, right before the birth of our first son. I managed to ding 60 that very day. :) Looking forward to WoW Classic - hopefully I find the time for it.
45:00 - Ghoul parkour starts. It's almost like when you're a kid in your dad's car, looking through the window and imagining a man jumping over obstacles.
Remember the skirmishes that sometimes would erupt between guild raid groups preparing to raid Zul'Gurub that instead ended up in all out war and no raid. Icing on the cake, was the time a belf hunter forgot to get the poison from the first boss cleansed from his pet before putting it away. Led to a full blossomed pandemic on the alliance side when he summoned it in Stormwind. The poison spread by proximity and spread if not cleansed and the pet started heroically spreading... Blizz tried hotfixes, restarting servers eventually having to do a hard reset, restoring the game to the version before the poison was introduced. Eventually patching the problem away. After resurrecting death was pretty much a given no matter, as the taverns where full most caught the plague instantly. Soon most tried gy ress to avoid crowds, but ofc those where also filled with others trying the same thing. Never before or after, have I seen a so crowded gy. As the only cure for the debuff was cleansing, which only at the time Paladins had access to. Many a Paladin died when going to dense areas trying to cure those infected. Fun times
The Vietnam of WoW
Dorottya Nagy they where in the trees man...
Tank, take point.
STVietnam
Funny u said that, i found a place called kurzens compound..a reference to colonel kurtz of the vietnam movie apocalypse now ; ) i dont remember its exact coordinates but its somewhere in the stranglethorn jungle
I miss old STV....
It's missing the sound of your character dying to stealthed rogues.
OMG, I used to get so pawned here, I would get so frustrated at horde camping me.... so funny looking back
ougg AAAAGGGHHH
Yeah i was pretty guilty for doing that on the bridge next to the nesingway camp
I used to play as a hordi and quested at the beach close to Gromgol, I was killed repeadedly by alliance. blood has been spilled on both sides.
Lulu Irais jesus christ the horror and memories. cant quest here lmfao i quit and went to thousand needles
If you take away the pressure to level as fast as you can, listen to the music and take the time to read the quests WoW is very beautiful.
Just like life.
Takin it slow and easy, I loved experiencing the different biomes and creatures and meeting players.
Same. Each zone was its own experience. Its own vibes. Durotar, The Barrens, Eversong Woods ..
Thanks to a bunch of clowns who competes for the sake of competing, they rush thru the levels then start calling others slackers for taking their time lvling. Im one of the victims.
Yes i do read every single quest dialogue i still don't get it why people don't
All the sudden PvP.... All the ganking....
This... This wasn't a leveling zone... this was a war zone.
*Unfortunate son plays in the background*
Its still! :D
Saturday's fishing contest must be hell on pvp-realm? good that i played pve-realm. oh and then i won the northrend fishing contest some day and got the title.
Also a really weird RP area for a jungle cult. Good times..
This is where we FIGHT. This is where we may... DIE!
Fun fact: Using Arcane Explosion ANYWHERE in STV will result with de-stealthing at least 4 Rogues.
lol
Wrong
Fact: Whenever you tried that horrible attempt and went for a mana drink it is then when you will unstealth a rogue because he is raping you while you’re oom
After they kill you because rogues gang up on mages before rogues attack themselves. We rogues see mages as fresh meat, but also to avoid from blowing our cover. I usually waited for one rogue to attack and right after he kills the mage I kill him and then other rogues join in lol.
@@davida472 I prefer priests and warlocks. Rogue prefer killing clothies in general, but iceblock + frost nova + blink can be pretty annoying for rogues IMO. Until you get shadowstep anyway
where is the fun?
In my humble opinion, this is the magnum opus of WoW zones. Everything about this zone was just nailed. Excellent quest structure, excellent aesthetic (dangerous jungle filled with predatory animals and murderous trolls?), and it was the first zone that really allowed full fledged PvP engagement. Grom'gol felt like a refuge, and Booty Bay was just this perfect lawless Tortuga-esque vibrant shanty town.
Okay, gonna go fire up classic and run around.
Gaps, gulches, hills to hide on. Flat areas. It had all scenarios. I wish the whole of wow could have this giant jungle. Splitt it fictionally with some faction borders and outposts and add pvp events in these borders. If people would combine they could make the best. Just like in real world. But ego is preventing it. Everyone wants own idea, own appreciation
I still remember mornings in Stranglethorn. A good place to start your morning! Keep your head on a swivel, though!
Perfect quest structure? There were these pages we had to collect, right?
My favourites were always the pirates near Booty Bay
It was definitely one of the, if not the most memorable zone in all of WoW. I absolutely loved that arena place that happened every 3 hours. And the gankage. THE GANKAGE!!! So many good days.
I guess 14 people never found all the pages ;)
that fucking book haha
Took me weeks coz I was gonna buy a few in auction house and they weren't the ones I needed so had to wait or grind
Me
Exactly.
🤣🤣🤣
does anyone else find this extremely relaxing and also great for studying/reading? i have a lot of nostalgia with this sound track
Pretty much the same.
Just studying atm :D
Absolutely, I find it relaxing to write code to
yes it is. if you like thiis, i can recommend you some music
No but i do get ptsd from it
main theme for a true ganker in wow
main theme for a guy camping lowbies to provoke high levels to come out and fight him.
Personally I think it's more fun to fuck with people who can't fight back.
Oh yeah, gank is my job...love it)))
Hes still waiting in the shadows after all these years, waiting for the next prey..
*Night elf enters the zone*
"HMPH-AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
lul
LMAO
lmao, captured it perfectly.
That's why I play night elf druid. You get to be invisible and fast.
i laughed so fucking hard at this
I've spent many a night atop that huge waterfall, just gazing out into the vast horizon; sometimes I'd catch a sunset or two.
At times I'd catch the sunrise by the ocean shore while fishing. I could reminisce forever with this ambience. Thank you!! Do more please!!
those were the greate days of wow indeed! i love watching over silitus and hearing the egyptian music and the sand storms with all the bugs flying around them.. so epic.. :D
won the fishing contest a couple of times. sweet memories
wow :)
keagan snow :) it’s often difficult to choose a “favorite zone”. But I feel that STV is just one of them.
TheVikingGuy - Same here! I will admit to being slightly traumatized after a raid or two in Silitus and those bugs give me nightmares now. Hehehee
I really appreciate your videos. I love that you recorded live video to go along with the sound. Also, It's great that you gave us the option with just ambience or with music too. You're doing everything right!!
+Jonathan Croft Thank you, that's very nice to hear, very encouraging.
The Flawlessness!!!
+Wei Zhao I haven't got a clue what your reply has to do with my original message. Did I miss something?
lol
I tolly agree with the comment too, this is a nice mix.
I've heard some of the others as well Everness, very nice work indeed
3:16 "Time is money, friend."
little goblins (:
This is the greatest zone with the best music. Greatest summer of my life was playing wow Freshman year
*Entering stealth*
Good morning Vietnam!
Adrian Cronour Here!
The music perfectly encapsulates that sense of wonder, mystery and unease. Alliance players typically came here after questing in Duskwood and PvP wasn't really a thing until then. Also the open spaces and many obstacles (trees, hills, ruins, etc.) made it possible for you to charge into an enemy and suddenly be confronted with three, just because those three trolls were hiding behind a tree.
These videos are amazing for studying. I've been off WoW for years and unfortunately will never go back, but the music composition is beautiful and perfect for concentrating! Thanks for uploading these great videos!
Ever got back since you wrote the comment? Im hoping u did 😊
@@doubleg8279 MMO's are huge time sync, which isn't as available as adult as when you're in the 14-25 years range. That's one the reasons I never went back. There could be other reasons, like Blizzard being on the downfall for many years now, the controversies and scandals involving their bosses, and the fact that many of WoW's MMO mechanics and gameplay elements are very dated by now.
Exploration was my favorite part of this game and STV did not disappoint. It was such a contrast to dreariness of Duskwood, though the two shared a border. You really felt the change in atmosphere once you crossed that threshold. I was so out of my depth when I ran to Booty Bay, but it was thrilling at the same time. So much fun was had.
Ikr? I always did STV while lvling, still do in Classic. I love the place, but ofc I dont play on PvP servers, that wouldnt be as relaxing!
I still remember the first time, I entered STV in early 2005 on my first char. I was only lvl27, too low for STV, but I had gotten a quest to go to Ratchet, and silly me figured, it would be easier to go through STV and take the boat than running all the way through Darkshore, Ashenvale and Barrens. I mean, there was a road for me to follow all the way, how could that go wrong, right?
Ah, that sweet naivete. By the time I was maybe 20% of the way, I was getting insta killed by wildlife on the middle of the road, as quickly as res timer allowed it, I only got as far as I could go from my corpse. And then a lvl50-something came riding through and saw me, asked what I was doing in STV at my lvl, and then offered to bodyguard me the entire rest of the way. This total stranger took time to just slowly go through STV with me joined to his hip, killing everything that came after me, like I was a supermagnet. And then he even gave me the quick tour of Booty Bay, fp, bank, boat.
Those were the days!
Also, yes, ofc I got the needed respect for STV. I had no need to repeat that 🤣🤣
Nostalgia why must you hurt me so often
Gotheever i kow it hurts... it hurts us all. but it does hurt in a calm way, rest in peace memmories....
After years of doubt I'm actually playing on a vanilla server !
What a great idea ! Nostalgia hurts no more (nor my wallet) ahah
I don't want to be selfish, but i actually think that the nostalgia hits most hardly the children who grew up playing wow, such as me... I was about 6 yrs old when i ran into STV and getting killed right off while crossing the Duskwood - Stranglethorn bridge as an Alliance player... Rard was my name, Rogue was I. Nostalgia is the best, yet the hardest hitting thing
Does it hurt... like a dagger in the back?
lol, I feel you man.. I could never go back although the amazing memories.. This game is required your life.
I'm at that critical moment in my life where I'm not sure whether playing wow was a waste of time and life chances or it was worth my years. What is certain though is that it's beautiful.
WoW wasn't a waste of time. Honestly it probably prepared you for the proper modern era where everyone has to community digitally and being cool with that. Also remember that money isn't everything and that your in-game experiences were likely more rewarded than IRL could've been at the time. I miss it badly and my kids now and envious of my memories of the Classic-WoW era
If something has intrinsic value to you and you mentioned is beautiful - then yes it was worth it. Perhaps it was just what you needed at the time - and that's why you were attracted to it. Now you can hear the sound of your childhood/teenage years playing in the background. As for life chances - it's never too late. Whatever it is you want - it's yours to grab it. Have a good day brother
@Aleph Va So, how do you think about it 3 years later? I quit playing after Pandaria, but had my peak during Burning Crusade and gradually played less afterwards. I played so much back then that I never seriously played games afterwards, it was enough for the rest of my life. :-) Now 7 years later I really think it was a very special and unique experience in life and I mention it as one of my favorite things I did in my life. So my conclusion is that it was not a waste of time for me personally. I regularly come back listening to these soundtracks, especially while I'm working. But for me it's not repeatable and I don't even try, that's why I didn't seriously play any computer games since then. Nowadays I prefer to spend my time learning a bit Koine Greek, so I tried to decipher a few verses of your profile haha...
Power on our lives is stolen from us IRL then the system is selling us a virtual one, a fake copy made from 0 and 1 that reduces our desire to its representation, all of that to make us bear with our condition, take it as eternal and never stand again for a real and human life.
That merchant system is using our passions, our emotions, our thirst of discovering and desire of community, that's why it feels good AND bad at the same time my dude.
A thing is only a waste of time if you did not enjoy it or if it's not leading to enjoyment :P For example working is not always fun, but you do it for money. Practising something hard is not always fun but you do it because in the end you will be able to play guitar.
And some things you just do for enjoyment like eating a cake or reading a book on the beach or talking bs with your friends. WoW is that. If you did not enjoy it, then it's a waste of time. A waste of time is something that gives you no enjoyment and leads you down a bad path or does not lead to enjoyment later.
>See level ?? horde
>Instantly Shadowmeld
>Stand there for 3 hours
>Hearth and go quest in Desolace
Yeah screw this place.
Just kill that scum thats it wtf
LMAO instant shadowmeld,
I feel that in my soul lmao
>See level ?? horde
>instantly shadowmeld
>stand there for 3 hours
>gank him with your other leveling night elf buds
lol
My times in Azeroth are probably forever over and the old feeling of wonder and adventue will never come back, but yout videos make me reexperience all those feeling and help me calm down and get focused on my studies. Those Kind of videos are what I've been looking for for a long time. Thank you for your work, I hope you'll get back to Warcraft-stuff after you are done with Overwatch!
Thank you! I will most definitely go back to WoW videos, but I need a certain program to be updated first. That's what holding me back.
Hooray :-)
Everness spread the word... nostalrius classic wow is online soon! the legacy continues, true feeling of nostalgia can be experienced!
This is exactly how I feel.
Couldn't have said better.
Where is the character dying sound?
bahahah I can hear it right now... My NE female going "Wahh!!" as she falls dead
Aaaah trying to get to Kalimdor with your leve 20 char. The good old days.
gorilla: hoo hoo hoo hoo
tiger: rrrggggg
*smack* *smack*
me: "muh huaaah"
me: rez sickness or run back?
Ah. My most feared, dreaded and at some point eventually, loved leveling zone.
What joy I had listening to your music while hearing my own death sound over and over.
Truly much more immersing and blood boiling times than what you get in MMO's nowadays.
Was expecting a 1-hour loop of "Fortunate Son."
It is.
Gnome enter:
RHILLOKHH
Though I had to quit WoW because it was a huge time suck I do miss the pretty scenery and the ambiance. Half the fun was just wandering around to the music.
That's exactly it. WoW became my second life. It was getting to the point where it became my only life. The people.. The experiences.. The moments I shared with others and experienced in this game can never be replaced.
That’s what wow is supposed to be. An alternative world where you live.
Thats what Ive never understood in those, who just wanted to rush through lvling and get to endgame. The journey is the point. I started playing to relax from a lot of stress in my workplace, where young fresh me did not have a great working environment. I still play 20 years later, tho in other ways. But its still the journey, that matters to me, even tho I raided in a top raiding guild for over 10 years. Now Im back to just enjoying and taking it slow. I love going back to Classic, even if I cant quite catch the old memories.
And I always went exploring. Every new zone I came to, I went to explore every single nook and cranny. I never understood those ppl, who claim, that after lvl30 or so u have to grind 2-4 lvls every 10 lvls, coz theres not enough quests. I never had that problem, coz I actually explored! Even when Questie came out, and most ppl exclaimed in exitement over all those quests, they had been missing for so many years, I think, I could count on 1 hand the quests, I hadnt found on my own.
Man, now I really want to go play some Classic 😁😁
When every single tree had an Undead Rogue behind it, waiting for an opportunity to gank lowbies questing.
It was always an UD rogue nothing else.
@@lpimentel89 hahaha really? for me it was always an alliance so for me it felt like no horde was ganking haha
yep..i used to log on and do this for 4-5 hours then log off
I recent that! I was a Troll rogue behind the tree!
No idea why but this music is very easy to fall asleep to for me, I don’t have the rogue ptsd of many other people
Same, but then I never played on PvP servers, I play WoW to relax!
Stranglethorn was like a WoW character rite of passage, it always felt like I was shipping out to dangerous places where there wasn't a horde town or city around the next corner to take a break at. Instead around every corner there were angry trolls, deadly mobs and lots of monkeys either scratching their armpits in a tree or walking around with swords and fireballs.
Idd. Even without PvP its a deadly place, especially if u try to run to Booty Bay early!
By far my favourite zone/music, and the one that had the most lasting impact. For me, this is where the game truly took off and I became invested.
I discovered this just recently, but I want you to know that your videos will be the constant soundtrack of my WarCraft-themed DnD sessions from now on, starting from this one! Thanks man, awesome work!
+Francesco Mapelli 💛🏰🐉
Lots of good and infamous memories are had with this place. This place is awesome to level in, the PvP is fun when there are max level wars going on, and it’s got so much content for a wide level range.
Playing this game as a kid leveling up on a PVP server was the most fun I've ever had playing a video game
If you grinded Stranglethorn for 10 years like me, this epic ambience is the vibe to get that work grind poppin' 💯🔥
How…. How can that song Bring back so many memories, not Gonna lie, wow has such a big place in my hearth
I mostly remember the music from doing the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganzas on a relaxing Sunday afternoon. Yes, there was a lot of PvP, but that made having friends only better.
My all time favorite zone, period.
The jungle, the sun and the pirates. Booty Bay should've been a major point of interest. Back in the day it was crowded and I really loved visiting it. Now it's not that much visited but still has a very special place in my heart. The music that plays in this whole zone is fantastic, one of the best in the entire game in my opinion.
After 5 mins: "What an awesome video" ... After 55 mins: "Re-activating subscription" ... FU! Cheers anyway.
LOL congrats! just thinking the same :P
wow isn't the same anymore. if you want to experience stv go to elysium not legion
Its not at all. I miss lvl 60 and BC days. I still have dreams about the glory days. Such a shame :(
stop saying that... Wow is the same as long as you play like you did back then. I still enjoy doing new characters and roleplaying everywhere.
Those were the best days. It died out after 70+ IMO
I've shared this video with all my friends because I couldn't help but share the passion and love for this music. Thank you for creating such amazing songs!💋
"Everyone Has a Plan Until They enter Stranglethorn Vale" Mike Tyson
Fr?
Words cannot explain the nostalgia and the great feeling I get when jamming this specific one.. I remember accidentally taking the zep to STV as a lowbie and the raptors were Level ?? Beasts lol
docile yet dangerous ! well done.
i always imagined this song "should feel special" but i didnt think so.
until I started the video.
then i could understand what it was.. .
there was a time when, finally hearing this music ment that, you were nearing the level cap, you FINALLY were high enough for a mount, you were almost near the high end.
this was the music that was introducing you to the later parts of the game. i could feel that and remember that, after hearing the music.
and for that feeling, it was a special soundtrack. simple but meaningful.
Oh man, childhood ❤playing all night, looking for those damn scrolls for Ernest 😂
memories coming up ... after studying i'll definitely pick up this game again. The world created in this game is unbelievable. hope the game isn't dead by then.
9:35 through 11:00 this the most fantastical collection of sound I have ever heard.
100% my exact thoughts. If I'm ever flying through stranglethorn and this track starts I make sure to listen to it before continuing
Ok it’s from cata not classic
* applying crippling poison *
lol
When I’m was like 14 years old spent all my time in STV and gank with online friends.
Good old times :(
Those memories! The days I spent in Strangethorn with my hunter..
So many good memories from this zone during vanilla. You were actually starting to get to a decent level and would see enemy players regularly. Quests killing pirates were epic. There was so much to explore and navigate through. I remember getting the cold blood talent seemed so cool and I would just camp in stealth along a path in the woods and wait for some lower level ally to walk by. Good times.
Yes you are what they call
The rogue ganker
Aaah...the constant running from the graveyard back to your corpse.
This place was single handedly responsible for many of my vest memories of wow. The low lvl pvp in the open world was such a big flavor. We strictly fought low lvl pvp and hunted the alliance with hunter tracking. Oh the sound of gunshots and screaming night elves. The first two handed windfury proc on a mage. The tense wait for the rogue to appear. Good times
I always looked forward to STV when I levelled my characters. It was definitely my favourite zone.
+MrR0cksor Exactly. My first character was on a pve server and I loved STV then. Now, with all (or almost all) private servers being pvp servers, getting through STV is horrible XD
I just love this. Always remember my time I spent in this zone. Leveling, Ganking, Gurubashi, the auction house where I can trade with the opposite faction, zul-gurub and much more :D
these comments are great, the nostalia is great. thank you for all of these uploads.
Thank you so much for posting these, I find them so relaxing and nostalgic.
+Joe shybert My pleasure! I have plans on eventually making videos for every zone, so you may want to stick around :)
I started playing wotlk wow when i was 6 years old, i didnt really knew a single word in english so my dad helped me out in terms of creating character, using the ,,options" tool etc.. I always liked guys with knives so i made myself a human rogue. I wanted to do a night elf rogue but i didnt knew how to switch from one race to another so i just locked in my Human called ,,Rard". Yeah, randomized name and what? I loved my character so much, doing all these quests in Elwynn, accidentally passing the south river and met a bunch of ?? spiders and wolves haha i loved it. I also remember how i randomly ran onto Hogger and i was really confident about killing him. Shamefully, it was the hard to kill-before Cataclysm hogger so i had no chance, and i joined a group of literaly 4 mages and we destroyed that suckass. Goldtooth was also really hard to kill, not because he was hard, it was cause when you entered the mine, you accidentally pulled about 3 of these kabolds and rogue was very bad for killing multiple enemies at the same time... I stopped playing wotlk at about lvl 42, remembering the old Stranglethorn, it were some great times running the first time into Booty bay, being ganked all the time and accidentally started attacking some horde guy and being demolished by the booty bay guards. Great times. Now im 14 and i dont regret a single minute passed while playing WoW!
17 Now, its actually not painful at all read this text after the younger me :D
Haha cool story. Some of my best memories are from wow, not that i don't have awesome memories IRL. But when i die, i'll prolly think about Azeroth.
wow
I cried when I read your comment
It reminds me of my age when I played wow
@@PresidentialWinner exactly mate!! sadly im starting to forget memories from my childhood even though im only 17, but i'll still remember the most important things, from both life and wow! :D
@@Dorunr21 aww
I want to add to this. It was actually my uncle who gave me the inspiration to WoW. When I was about 3 or 4 i always wanted him to create new character for me with the "Create Character" button, it was my biggest desire :) i also remember him walking into blackrock caverns dungeon in burning steppes i think, as a horde. It was about 2005 or 2006 back then, i was about 3 to 4 years old. Omg he played horde back then very back then but then he got to alliance, especially draenei and played draenei shaman since then. :) My uncle was one of the biggest people in my life when I was small... :)
Me trae recuerdos cuando mis amigos y yo estábamos en Gurubashi... recuerdo que nos reiamos, nos enfadabamos y llorabamos juntos..... Los echo de menos 😔😔💕😫😫😭😭
The last words of a player in STV vanilla - "Rogue On Me...
"
Oh what fantastic memories of RUNNING from the very top of STV to Booty Bay just to hand a quest in, then all the way back - When you got your mount at 40, and WoW was still pure.
This is great for tabletop rpg ambience. Thank you so much for uploading these videos!
9:40 Once I sat in the middle of the jungle and had closed my eyes then the song just started to drain into my soul.
I remember looking for Nightblade for ages! So many memories.
Story: I was 14 maybe 15, playing Everquest; I had played EQ since 1999, then diablo II, lvl 98 hc conc barb. 60 necromancer classic EQ. I used to play Tides of Darkness over at my grandfathers on his nice pentium III intel pc....then Warcraft 3 came out. Nelf Archer will always be my waifu; but in WoW Tauren all the way. Name was Draegoloth (creature in DnD). Warrior Class.
Nothing like nostalgia almost causing a novel; nothing like the good days when camping gurubashi arena with immovable object/(certain weapon) then hot swapping to Revenge before it was patched with Sul'Thraze the Lasher Sword (from shimmering flats dungeon...come on guys...)
The Ocean couldnt contain the amount of salt accumulated
Prob one of my favorite zones from classic i just love the feel of the zone
8:27 and...reactivating my account ...
I just love all your Videos. As I don't really find time to play the game I spent my whole teenage period on anymore, it's a great opportunity to feel nostalgic. What do you think about making a zul aman video, maybe including ghost lands. I loved zul aman incredibly, the music and this whole atmosphere was just gorgeous, especially with the last boss yelling through the instance to make you feel the urgency of your mission. Would love to see more raid/instance videos too, as these are probably places that I spend the most emotional evenings in. Love you
I listen to wow music and read the comments
What I can say is that I only see nostalgia!
We all want to go back in time and play world of warcraft
As if we were living in an unreal world of beautiful but more beautiful than reality
When you leveling your character and help your friend from enemies 😂❤ Childhood is there ❤
In my honest opinion, one of the best zone music in the game! Miss the time when I would sneak around clothers in Booty Bay with my druid and then get busted by the goblin bruisers!
This is awesome dude :D I had to write a story for school about jungle adventures so i turned on this and it helped me a lot :) thanks man :D
Best zone in all of early Wow, hands down. You'd never know what to expect! Second major zone (right after Hillsbrad) where PvP took place.
I remember rock climbing to the high point in Westfall and looking down on STV. I couldn't wait to go there. When I finally could, I was ganked for the first time,within 5 minutes of being there by a max level tauren Horde. Watch in ghost form as he danced, and waited for alliance players to show up, that turned into an epic WPvP battle.
Great times.
True 😂😂
It was me
God I wish I could play old WoW for the first time again
The Stranglethorn Vale. You entered it as a boy. You left it as a man.
With ptsd
I don't see people who mentioned that 12:46 - is a fantastic part of this soundtrack... However it is for me.
man the experience of being a lvl 15 horde character and being like "I wonder where this ship in ratchet goes" and end up exploring a cool new area whilst trying to avoid people ganking you was amazing
at 5:00 a random player jumps into the water xD
A St0rmRage haha
This game was my second home for many years of my adolescence.
God damnit. This is the one that got me. NOTHING was better than ganking STV as a level 30-40 warrior
Every time i leveled a character i was happy to reach the level to enter stranglethorn..one of my favorite areas.. I remember the first character i leveled there and i was standing next to a full Zul Gurub raid group. I also dropped the fiery axe (epic random drop) with strenght on it and i was wearing it as a hunter :)
hunter weapon mem?
When you're doing Kurzen compound quests and the bushes start speaking orc...
One of my favorite zone.. interesting quests, and good battles.
Real nostalgy... Thank You. I would love to live there!
Music that fits my quiet mornings with coffee. Just chill in the jungle.
I think Stranglethorn, Nagrand, and Sholazar were my three most visited places way back when I played. Had to get my hunting quests lol
Add the sound of a stealthed rogue every 2-5 seconds and it will be perfect.
THANK YOU FOR THIS! I love WoW's ambience... this is perfect.
Are u a witch? 🧙🏻♀️
the best zone in the game. wish whole world of warcraft was like this. ive spent months of my life in this epic guerilla war zone. whenever i hit 30 on a character going to stv for pvp and hunting down the opposite faction was always in priority for me. my best memories are from 4 years ago, me and my friend played on molten-wow wotlk and continuously went to stv on our undead warrior and death knight, we ended up twinking on level 79 and committing mass genocide and attacking darkshire every friday, pissed off level 80s couldn't beat us until they started outnumbering us
If you went there at 30, you'd be more the prey than the predator
Yeah... What Kamo said. Maybe you could kill a few tigers, panthers and sharks at level 30, but that's about it. If you wander in Kurzen's domain or get trapped by those Trolls, you'll "be more the prey than the predator"...
Dude.... I remember you... I swear i killed like 3 level 79s in darkshire before!
24:06 was always my favorite part when I would level here
This is one of my favorites, for sure!
Always liked leveling here and still do now. Came back for Vanilla wow, started in BC stopped at MOP. Now that the kids are all grown up and living there lives, it's nice to come back to something I enjoyed. Better then cable TV.
I have no comments... Subscribed.. ❤️ World Of Warcraft always in our hearts.
I'm already getting nostalgic over the time I spent on Elysium (R.I.P) from June 8th to August 23rd last Summer, right before the birth of our first son. I managed to ding 60 that very day. :)
Looking forward to WoW Classic - hopefully I find the time for it.
Fantastic work!
45:00 - Ghoul parkour starts. It's almost like when you're a kid in your dad's car, looking through the window and imagining a man jumping over obstacles.
Remember the skirmishes that sometimes would erupt between guild raid groups preparing to raid Zul'Gurub that instead ended up in all out war and no raid.
Icing on the cake, was the time a belf hunter forgot to get the poison from the first boss cleansed from his pet before putting it away. Led to a full blossomed pandemic on the alliance side when he summoned it in Stormwind. The poison spread by proximity and spread if not cleansed and the pet started heroically spreading... Blizz tried hotfixes, restarting servers eventually having to do a hard reset, restoring the game to the version before the poison was introduced. Eventually patching the problem away.
After resurrecting death was pretty much a given no matter, as the taverns where full most caught the plague instantly. Soon most tried gy ress to avoid crowds, but ofc those where also filled with others trying the same thing. Never before or after, have I seen a so crowded gy.
As the only cure for the debuff was cleansing, which only at the time Paladins had access to. Many a Paladin died when going to dense areas trying to cure those infected.
Fun times
I'm on a binge with these WoW zone tunes
Awesome ambience.