I’ve very fond memories of leveling my draenei back in this zone. The quests were pretty cool for their time. I loved the chain that involved learning the language of the furbolgs. And the ending with the elite blood elf mobs which requires a whole group to do was epic if you could get some people together to do it, not to mention it gave crazy experience and awesome rewards. More than anything however, this song reminds me of being 17 again, sitting in my room with the window open during warm summer nights, feeling the breeze through the curtains as I level during the middle of the night. I was almost in a trance-like state, going from quest to quest, not even feeling hungry or tired because I was so mesmerized and immersed in the game. Good times, good memories.
+Mangs i was like... 15 or 16 years old Burning Crusade was my first experience with wow, it was really a beautiful time, all new, the magic of the game, so much to explore, the goal to reach level 70 and experience all the adventures, and the feeling running trough the forest of this great zone at 4,5 am in a trance like state as one of my pre posters said, its magic that we all had the same feelings and experience thank to this great game, it will never be the same, as it was as we started with this game, thank you blizzard for this great (and is say the word again) experience
This game put me in a trance as a kid. A total mental world of fantasy. Pure fantasy. But it felt so real at the time. I never thought I would lose it. It just sort of faded away. This music resembles the echo of a dying dream in my mind. Life is a trip. God is good
This is some of the most profoundly nostalgia music for me, even having played since 2004. When TBC came out, it's hard to describe. I burned out on the greatest video game I''d ever played about a year and a half into it. Took a long vacation, and suddenly there was an explosion of new things in this game that had taken over my life. After 8 months or more, it was an oasis in a desert. Also, my mother had died that August, I was only 25. I suddenly was alone in life but had 90 thousand in life insurance. I did things in life I'd never done before just to do them. The morning I bought TBC at midnight, when the sun came up, it was snowing heavily. And I decided to go for a 3 mile walk in the snow listening to this soundtrack on my ipod. I'd not yet played the game and I usually never spoil the music, but the way I associate these songs with the very emotional walk in the snow, it's some of the most calming and soothing and serene music I've heard. It made me fall in love with the Draenei. When I saw the beauty of their starting zone, it was love at first sight, even to this day it impresses me.
This zone is an absolutely amazing masterpiece of art. The emotions it gave me when I first leveled through with my first draenei is unspeakable. No other video game could spark emotions in me like this game could. That feeling of magic, mystery and adventure. Still unmatched to this day.
+Norbi77 I still love to make draeneis to walk across those forests, hunt for thieves and furbolgs in their cave. Mine in nagas cavern. Sit in "middle" city watching exodar... ah...
That´s exactly the reason why I travel to Azuremyst Isle at least once a year on Halloween. I started WoW at this time many years ago and the feelings you described are exactly what I felt then. 100% nostalgia ^^
oh the the nostalgia..... I spent hours in that area to farm that blood elf mask...just to get enough money to learn 100% speed mount riding skill ...good times....I could cry
I think the Azuremyst Isle music is just very peaceful. I sometimes make a Draenei just to listen to the music. It's so relaxing. Especially if I'm in a horrible mood.
SirMalorak It is peaceful, but also sad and melancholic. Of all the soundtracks, I think the one that touches me the most in wow is: Shards of the Exodar. It makes me feel as if I was Draenei myself, and losing so much is just unbearable.
WoW music is like a time machine back to my college years for me. Failed exams and skipped class pretty much one entire year, around when WOTLK came out. Worth it, absolutely worth it. Thank you Blizzard, for these great times and memories.
Good old times now forever part of us. Like the mist on the horizon, elusive and ever shifting but always present in our memories. All those moments shine like a distant lighthouse in the sea of life reminding us of friends we've made and adventures we had. I am so happy I was part of it. Peace !
When I graduated from my junior high school,my teacher gave me a card,there are something he wanted to say to me.He said he is a Draenei in WoW,and the most important is……he said "May the light be with you". I was so excited,and then I cried.I really like that teacher.
Simply the best period of WoW here, the nostalgia is strong in this one. I keep going back to this game to relive the feeling, but it's all been watered down and hurried along now.
do I think wow is bad right now? yes. do I think it was because of any xpac besides WoD... no it was all WoD. the rest were still fun to me. as a vanilla player Wrath and BC were my favorite time. Everyone was a scumbag to each other and vanilla and would grind gold at questing zones so you could never level... still good times though.
+HexakillUltraRave That's why I play private servers. Everyone says "oh you're just nostalgic", but when I went back to Vanilla after being used to the post cata bullshit, it was *almost* like i was playing for the first time again. Naturally the feeling can't be 100% replicated, but it's still there. If anything it only proved that "rose-tinted glasses" had nothing to do with Blizzard totally fucking up a great game
I remember when TBC launched, heading over to Bloodmyst/Azuremyst as a Belf to try grind out the blood elf bandit mask(it was like the defias one but with gold trimmings). I'd often pause in Azuremyst to listen to the music. Later on I leveled through the zone as a Draenei. It had some really great and entertaining quests, against this consuming score playing in the background. You can almost imagine the Draeneis' struggle in a new world with a completely foreign environment. There's something deeply mystical about the tune too. Blizzard really nailed the music sometimes.
I used to come to this zone just to listen the music and relax :p Best soundtrack IMO along with Zangamarsh from the entire TBC and TBC had excellent soundtrack...especially SWP and BT music.
This was the first thing I remember about that game. I no long play because life, but I cannot forget Azuremyst. Best place ever. Thanks for the fantastic music.
I love exodar and it's beauty and the relaxing music, while I created my 1st draenei paladin I felt I was a real draenei and that's my home! non of the cities and races could give the feeling! "May the light embrace you..."
This song reminds me of hours and hours of farming Blood Elf Bandit masks for selling on AH to FINALLY get some money for the things I need. It was the easiest way to make money at low levels. =D
This brings me back to the days of levelling my Draenei which I still play now in Legion. Love this music and the Draenei are my favourite race. The Naaru have not forgotten us. Also, love the touch of the Draenei Shaman in the lower left hand corner with Lightning Shield
This is by far some of my favorite music in WoW. It's so calming, and fits Azuremyst so perfectly that I enjoy coming back from time to time, just to roam around and listen.
I remember just being so drawn to the Draenei and the story around it, it was so mysterious and it felt so magical. And first journeying out of the starting zone into the forests and looking at the different places and then this music accompanying me through it all... there is no words to describe what vanilla wow made me feel, but I will forever remember my adventurers through these wonderful lands. :)
the reason why draenei is my favorite race is because of this zone. i absolutely loved the draenei quest, and lore. it's so erie and beautiful at the same time. and this music is just breathtaking. i also love bloodmyst isle too. i think that blizzard should make more native / indian like zones like this.
I'm not Alliance, but i love to visit this place so now and then in a peaceful manner :> I think the tauren and draenei could be very good friends actually~! Poor draenei, they've been through so much... :(
Francois424 Yeah maybe, I now prefer my Horde home though, :) but I respect most races that respect nature as well. I guess it's a tauren thing haha :-)
It's used in Draenor! I was so happy that to hear it again! :) I just love this piece of art. Everything about the Azuremyst Isle is perfect. The music, the looks, the feels..it gives me chills :)
What truly made me enjoy World of Warcraft was the fact that I wasn’t so jaded. I didn’t know everything about the game and I didn’t want to, but as the years passed I explored every single aspect of the game, and it all became dull and boring. I long for the time where the world felt mysterious, and things were fresh and exciting, but I don’t think I’ll be able to feel like that in any MMO anymore. WoW was my childhood growing up, nothing will ever compare.
Long live....Long live the Draenei!!!!!!! God how I miss the old days of wow...Just to think when BC launched I could not stand them until 3 months after launch....Now Bluegill faded into the history books lol I love this music...Then again if there is one thing wow had was some damn stunning stages and damn awesome music scores!!!!!!!
This is by far the best soundtrack in WOW imho. I love the gentle, ambient sound. Sometimes I just login with a low level Draenei just to enjoy the atmosphere...
this is the soundtrack i listen when i have a hard time getting asleep. it always worked so far. the soundtrack of Eversong woods and teldrassil will do too hehehe
This is very sad for me. This music marked the time when I left WOW for good. I was a fully pvp 80 undead lock and used to sit in the bridge between azuremyst isle and the blood one listening to this music while studying for exams. Then life started to be too much work for me to dive aimlessly inside this game and I quit. Will never forget the best moments ever!!
The Draenei and the associated art, music, and visuals is a timeless masterpiece of fictional lore ever produced. Blizzard hit out of the park when they created the Draenei race and all effects for them. "Open your heart to the light!"
I listen to this some nights, just slowly falling asleep dreaming away to the TBC times when questing in Azuremyst isle. It makes the nostalgia and memories of the area so present. I remember creating a lot of characters just to experience it all over again, it was truely a masterpiece of a game.
Blood Elves also remind of the 18th century French a bit, with the extravagance of their architecture and their 'Sun King'. Also, their architecture looks like Art Nouveau. The 'modern' Night Elf architecture reminds of the Japanese, and their more ancient architecture looks Greco-Roman.
+nathonas amen.. vanilla for its feeling and impressions. But TBC is the best atmospheric expansion, with the most immersive raids.. shame the nerf fest kicked in at the end and stuck around till ICC heroic was introduced. There wasnt a proper raid in WotLK till Ulduar and some people still think its the best expansion.. TBC had it all.
They gave Draenei and Blood Elves their own place in the world. Their own zones, their own cities. The goblin starting zone is never to be seen again and Gilneas is an empty husk. I understand WHY it's like that (Exodar and Silvermoon aren't exactly bustling cities) but it was nice to see them take the addition of new races so seriously in the beginning.
They gave them their own unique starting experiences to be sure. They didn't just plop Worgen, Goblin and Pandaren in the world without context, but their starting experiences just act as vehicles to level you up and are then disposed of. They aren't additions to the world like Quel'Thalas and the Draenei isles are. Gilneas IS there, but like I said, empty husk.
It might sound strange, but I like to listen to this music in bed before sleep and pretend I'm actually there in Azuremyst Isle in some kind of Draenei camp. Nestled in my Runecloth duvet and looking up at the countless stars beyond the towering canopy above me. I sleep within minutes.
This is my favorite most chill starting zone. ANyone who likes this type of ambient relazation music should check out the artist Anugama. His stuff sounds a LOT like this.
Damn dude , so many feelings just in one video.I don't even know how to explain my feelings. This soundtrack was made by God or something? DRAENEI RULES!
The new expansion Warlords of Draenor brings all of my memories from this isle back to mind. I always played on low populated servers, so it felt as if I was the only one to hear this music whenever I was on the isle. It was always so calming and warm, like the music was somehow talking to me. Now that I think about it, the Naaru was probably communicating to me :P
Ngl I'm a die hard horde fan been that way since early 2004, listening to this track was a treat for me. I'd hop over a few low lvl ally boats and just roam the coasts and forests for hours fishing n stunting on Allys who would step up all while talking to friends on vent. Nostalgia doesn't give nearly enough credit to this feeling I have listening to these haunting yet honorable sounds, Well over a decade later.
It's good to see a passion for this kind of music. Draenai are peaceful and cool and the whole 2 isles remind me that life on other planets far out in the distance could he like that.
Omg same this basically describes my exact situation that I couldn't seem to put in words. I miss the feeling so much, it's not that the game is bad now, it's that it lost its aspect of mystery to me. I want that back
I love the use of the Daduk instrument. The Draenei are very much like the Armenians. They lived side by side with another race but were massacred, and migrated far away. Deeply religious. They worship the light but in the Naaru form, just like the Armenian church is a different version of christianity. Their names too it seems do sound Armenian.
InvincibleNumanist like a ton of other cultures before them, jews for an example. The Draenei are a mix of other real historic cultures reimagined.Keep your glorification of armenian culture to yourself and dont spoil the beauty of a fantastic universe rish with Lore done by great writers.
InvincibleNumanist I always saw the Draenei as having a more Jewish inspiration, but the Armenian is definitely there. And I always did love the Duduk, it's such a great sound.
Just want to drop by again and say how this is my favorite WoW track. I think they took some Hindu inspiration in creating the Draenei, maybe the music I can't say for sure. But this music is just...perfect. I use it for doing my homework religiously.
I love this soundtrack even more in Shadowmoon Valley. It fits so well with the sleepy atmosphere of the place, aswell as the beautiful Draenei buildings
Thank you, for uploading this, its a celestial piece of art, with a melancholy touch, resembeling the tragic story about these people. I like to get blazed to this and it's a everlasting favorite of mine. Peace & prosparity to you.
Makes me sad listening to this a childhood that I never knew meant so much to me until it was gone, I used to find it hard to level there with new characters just because the sheer nostalgia that I missed could never be rekindled.
Wow. I remember when I started playing WoW, just when Cataclysm had released. I was 11. And I looked at all the races and classes, and decided to go for a male Draenei Mage. And I remember just walking around this zone, not understanding a thing, listening to this music, while talking to my best friends over Skype. Listening to this now, 11 years later, is so weird. The nostalgia is such a special feeling. This game was so amazing, and I really miss it sometimes. Nowadays, it’s easy to understand how simple and great life was back then. Life is nice now as well, but it’s hard growing up. WoW has given me a really good childhood.
We had very similar experiences, although I made a female draenei mage. I was just cluelessly wandering around the place most of the time, also helped by my lack of english knowledge at the time
for some reason i didnt rly like azuremyst the firs time i was there many years ago, now i just love it, its the most, .. the moossttt peaceful place eveer D:> this music is so soothing, thanks for the upload
Idk.. This music makes me feel like they were actually thinking about what they were creating... The culture and minds of the new races that were released.. And feel of the different zones... Hrm. :/ Was all lost in cata.
it wasn´t lost. jesus christ, cata just fucused more on the story and on the action and less on the imersion. the undead lv 1 to lv 30 quests for exemple are 10 times more awesome after Cata, all the quests we do with Sylvanas are brilliant. Before Cata it was all just "kill 10 of those guys" "gatter 10 of those weeds" And the Worgen 1 to 30 quests are also fabulous. you should try the leveling content of Cata.
I played through whole cata... I spoke out of experience. >_> Leveling was just as simple before cata... Just more tedious. I liked it more when I had to do and experience more before hitting max level.
TheOneRebornElyrize Yes, I also love the pre-cata content, I play on the Blizz retail servers but I also play on a BC private server, just to experience all the content that was lost with cata, but something I notice every day is that the cata leveling quests are way more dynamical, interesting and with a lot more lore.
This is just not fair. The draenei are divine serene twists on demons, if a demon was an angel. The Worgen and Goblin zones and music had just as much effort put into their thinking and culture, you may not like it in comparison, but how dare you accuse them of putting less effort into it. If want to talk about the 80-85 zones, that's a whole different bag and context to examine.
I never said it was fair. I just think that they had their minds into it more when they created bc/wotlk >_> I like the Cata music too, but not in the same way.
We all must admit that Blizzard is amazing when it comes to the lore and soundtracks, just listen and remember the lore behind azuremyst isle and appreciate the true experience of the game.
Apart from the game(which I played between October 2006 until may 2012), I especially choose this track when I had this highlight in my life. Five years ago I was struggling through life in a bad relationship which already lasted for 13 years, work I didn’t like etc. Then my gf left me, I got sacked from this employer I worked 17 years for(worked my way up). So left with nothing, then I stumbled on this track(once more), drank a cheap bottle of liquor 43 and decided to things differently Now, five years later and I met this beautiful, smart woman, married her! She already had a good position as a biologist with accordingly job. I reinvented myself, now I’m doing very well. We bought this mansion which we both thought we would never even own in our wildest dreams, but the moment we set foot in it, we both played this track immediately! Life is.... well more then just a box of chocolates ;)
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Years later and I still use this + rain ASM sounds to fall asleep XD
I’ve very fond memories of leveling my draenei back in this zone. The quests were pretty cool for their time. I loved the chain that involved learning the language of the furbolgs. And the ending with the elite blood elf mobs which requires a whole group to do was epic if you could get some people together to do it, not to mention it gave crazy experience and awesome rewards.
More than anything however, this song reminds me of being 17 again, sitting in my room with the window open during warm summer nights, feeling the breeze through the curtains as I level during the middle of the night. I was almost in a trance-like state, going from quest to quest, not even feeling hungry or tired because I was so mesmerized and immersed in the game.
Good times, good memories.
MangsandZerul i had exactly the same experiece ;) Thank you for sharing this!
One love!
+Mangs same here :)
Beautiful description!
you just brought me back ! luv you
+Mangs i was like... 15 or 16 years old Burning Crusade was my first experience with wow, it was really a beautiful time, all new, the magic of the game, so much to explore, the goal to reach level 70 and experience all the adventures, and the feeling running trough the forest of this great zone at 4,5 am in a trance like state as one of my pre posters said, its magic that we all had the same feelings and experience thank to this great game, it will never be the same, as it was as we started with this game, thank you blizzard for this great (and is say the word again) experience
The Naaru have not forgotten us...
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But Blizzard have.
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I still come back at least once a year to listen to this. It only gets better with time .
fell ya brother, absolutely :)
This game put me in a trance as a kid. A total mental world of fantasy. Pure fantasy. But it felt so real at the time. I never thought I would lose it. It just sort of faded away. This music resembles the echo of a dying dream in my mind. Life is a trip. God is good
This is some of the most profoundly nostalgia music for me, even having played since 2004. When TBC came out, it's hard to describe. I burned out on the greatest video game I''d ever played about a year and a half into it. Took a long vacation, and suddenly there was an explosion of new things in this game that had taken over my life. After 8 months or more, it was an oasis in a desert.
Also, my mother had died that August, I was only 25. I suddenly was alone in life but had 90 thousand in life insurance. I did things in life I'd never done before just to do them. The morning I bought TBC at midnight, when the sun came up, it was snowing heavily. And I decided to go for a 3 mile walk in the snow listening to this soundtrack on my ipod.
I'd not yet played the game and I usually never spoil the music, but the way I associate these songs with the very emotional walk in the snow, it's some of the most calming and soothing and serene music I've heard. It made me fall in love with the Draenei. When I saw the beauty of their starting zone, it was love at first sight, even to this day it impresses me.
:(
I like the music. But I like the Ashenvale music even more. It's just so much better.
Whatcha did with the rest $89.9k?
Hookers and blow, hopefully.
My thoughts are with you.❤
Each day is a blessing...
A friend of mine introduced me to WoW when I was 50 :) This was the first place I landed and I was hooked form day one. Really lovely music
Number of times I've gone to sleep to this music...pure peace.
Omg me too. Almost every night still from approx 8 years ago
@@diabloking120 Same!!
Omg, me!
i work everyday whit that music and i got the 1hours version :)
This zone is an absolutely amazing masterpiece of art. The emotions it gave me when I first leveled through with my first draenei is unspeakable. No other video game could spark emotions in me like this game could. That feeling of magic, mystery and adventure. Still unmatched to this day.
+Norbi77 Beautifully said!
+Norbi77 agree absolutely
+Norbi77 Agree!
+Norbi77 I still love to make draeneis to walk across those forests, hunt for thieves and furbolgs in their cave. Mine in nagas cavern. Sit in "middle" city watching exodar... ah...
That´s exactly the reason why I travel to Azuremyst Isle at least once a year on Halloween. I started WoW at this time many years ago and the feelings you described are exactly what I felt then. 100% nostalgia ^^
Open your heart to the light.
My heart is always open.
Aerith Gainsborough Ahhhhh! I've been expecting you....
Inachu Ikimasho Not all who wander are lost..
Aerith Gainsborough The Naaru have not forgotten us.
Remember the lessons of the Past.
I literally have this on repeat every night to sleep, and have done for the several years.
Me too🥰
I do that with Silvermoon.
In a Galaxy far far away, a foreign race crashed on a very suspicious planet...
oh the the nostalgia..... I spent hours in that area to farm that blood elf mask...just to get enough money to learn 100% speed mount riding skill
...good times....I could cry
18 people have forgotten by The Naaru
+sevenhill467 have been
+sevenhill467 they're blood elves :P
Oliver Daniel
I think the Azuremyst Isle music is just very peaceful. I sometimes make a Draenei just to listen to the music. It's so relaxing. Especially if I'm in a horrible mood.
Doesn't really sound peaceful to me, melancholic at best. People just crashed and try to survive, yo. (opinions :3)
SirMalorak It is peaceful, but also sad and melancholic. Of all the soundtracks, I think the one that touches me the most in wow is: Shards of the Exodar. It makes me feel as if I was Draenei myself, and losing so much is just unbearable.
SirMalorak ?So this music does not sound peaceful to you? You sure you are listening to the same video we are? LOL
Ahmad Abdullah Yes I am. I really enjoy the song, but for different reasons.
SirMalorak ah, Understood!
WoW music is like a time machine back to my college years for me. Failed exams and skipped class pretty much one entire year, around when WOTLK came out. Worth it, absolutely worth it. Thank you Blizzard, for these great times and memories.
Good old times now forever part of us. Like the mist on the horizon, elusive and ever shifting but always present in our memories. All those moments shine like a distant lighthouse in the sea of life reminding us of friends we've made and adventures we had. I am so happy I was part of it. Peace !
+Damon Frost thank you for that man, you are speaking right out of my soul, peace
pack your bags,kids,we're going on a feels trip,especially if you know the story.man,you can feel the pain of the draenei...
When I graduated from my junior high school,my teacher gave me a card,there are something he wanted to say to me.He said he is a Draenei in WoW,and the most important is……he said "May the light be with you".
I was so excited,and then I cried.I really like that teacher.
Simply the best period of WoW here, the nostalgia is strong in this one. I keep going back to this game to relive the feeling, but it's all been watered down and hurried along now.
Hellmut Sturmstout Man, I keep coming back and there's nothing to even get addicted to anymore! :'(
Amber Turner Ye its certainly a sad thing to find out.
+arthur bellington Googlecalendar Agreed :(
do I think wow is bad right now? yes. do I think it was because of any xpac besides WoD... no it was all WoD. the rest were still fun to me. as a vanilla player Wrath and BC were my favorite time. Everyone was a scumbag to each other and vanilla and would grind gold at questing zones so you could never level... still good times though.
+HexakillUltraRave That's why I play private servers. Everyone says "oh you're just nostalgic", but when I went back to Vanilla after being used to the post cata bullshit, it was *almost* like i was playing for the first time again. Naturally the feeling can't be 100% replicated, but it's still there. If anything it only proved that "rose-tinted glasses" had nothing to do with Blizzard totally fucking up a great game
Some of the best video game music ever made. Emotional and immersive. This was the golden era of WoW
yup......its gone :(
I remember when TBC launched, heading over to Bloodmyst/Azuremyst as a Belf to try grind out the blood elf bandit mask(it was like the defias one but with gold trimmings). I'd often pause in Azuremyst to listen to the music.
Later on I leveled through the zone as a Draenei. It had some really great and entertaining quests, against this consuming score playing in the background. You can almost imagine the Draeneis' struggle in a new world with a completely foreign environment. There's something deeply mystical about the tune too.
Blizzard really nailed the music sometimes.
This is probably one of the best melodies in WoW.
This together with Grizzly Hills..
I wan't grizzly hills for my wedding! Haha!
+ shattrath city
We are sailing on dreams of gods....
I used to come to this zone just to listen the music and relax :p
Best soundtrack IMO along with Zangamarsh from the entire TBC and TBC had excellent soundtrack...especially SWP and BT music.
I don't think any game will make me feel what WoW made me feel. I am happy because of that, but kinda sad too...
In a way... It ended gaming for me. Nothing compares. Nothing...
I feel you
This was the first thing I remember about that game. I no long play because life, but I cannot forget Azuremyst. Best place ever. Thanks for the fantastic music.
I love exodar and it's beauty and the relaxing music, while I created my 1st draenei paladin I felt I was a real draenei and that's my home!
non of the cities and races could give the feeling!
"May the light embrace you..."
This song reminds me of hours and hours of farming Blood Elf Bandit masks for selling on AH to FINALLY get some money for the things I need. It was the easiest way to make money at low levels. =D
somwun. died. in. emerdel💖
You should just spend this time at digging copper ;p
I still check for that bandit anytime I visit Azuremyst. That was MONEY back in the day!!
This brings me back to the days of levelling my Draenei which I still play now in Legion. Love this music and the Draenei are my favourite race. The Naaru have not forgotten us.
Also, love the touch of the Draenei Shaman in the lower left hand corner with Lightning Shield
Still so beautiful all these years later. Really feels like a time long forgotten to me World of Warcraft. I really did love The Burning Crusade
This is by far some of my favorite music in WoW. It's so calming, and fits Azuremyst so perfectly that I enjoy coming back from time to time, just to roam around and listen.
I remember just being so drawn to the Draenei and the story around it, it was so mysterious and it felt so magical. And first journeying out of the starting zone into the forests and looking at the different places and then this music accompanying me through it all... there is no words to describe what vanilla wow made me feel, but I will forever remember my adventurers through these wonderful lands. :)
the reason why draenei is my favorite race is because of this zone. i absolutely loved the draenei quest, and lore. it's so erie and beautiful at the same time. and this music is just breathtaking. i also love bloodmyst isle too. i think that blizzard should make more native / indian like zones like this.
No comments on this amazing video?
Well, I've just got to say... thanks for uploading it. It's really, really beautiful and incredibly soothing.
+Atnas Ingetnamn Glad you enjoy it :)
+Cinelle TV for extra atmosphere, have rainymood (google it) running in paralel. Exquisite chilling technique for work :)
My original nostalgia.
The first zone I played was Azuremyst. Aah, the memories.
I'm not Alliance, but i love to visit this place so now and then in a peaceful manner :> I think the tauren and draenei could be very good friends actually~! Poor draenei, they've been through so much... :(
Agreed. Tauren is a race that could easily have joined the alliance if the situation had arisen.
Francois424 Yeah maybe, I now prefer my Horde home though, :) but I respect most races that respect nature as well. I guess it's a tauren thing haha :-)
fuck that shit, do you even HORDE? Me and my guild used to regularly raid this place---yep, no survivors
It's used in Draenor! I was so happy that to hear it again! :) I just love this piece of art. Everything about the Azuremyst Isle is perfect. The music, the looks, the feels..it gives me chills :)
the best game soundtrack ever made. just my opinion tho.
Love this compilation and I am coming back to it atleast once a year. Nothing can chill me out like this. Thanks for posting it those 10 years ago.
same here lol
Same, this helps my anxiety so much
@@JeremyJenner same here. There's something so outworldly about this. Something beyond just the actual setting it was used for in WoW.
It should not have ended like this... we should have been still playing wow, bros. Not reminiscing about it.
Amazing sooth music. I could listen to this for hours and hours..and I have.
remembering the music I felt very old. The best years were given to warcraft. nostalgia((
What truly made me enjoy World of Warcraft was the fact that I wasn’t so jaded. I didn’t know everything about the game and I didn’t want to, but as the years passed I explored every single aspect of the game, and it all became dull and boring. I long for the time where the world felt mysterious, and things were fresh and exciting, but I don’t think I’ll be able to feel like that in any MMO anymore. WoW was my childhood growing up, nothing will ever compare.
Don't ever change this place Blizzard. It's legacy shall live on.
perfect for meditation :3
I played this game. and am here to meditate on this amazing music :)
Long live....Long live the Draenei!!!!!!! God how I miss the old days of wow...Just to think when BC launched I could not stand them until 3 months after launch....Now Bluegill faded into the history books lol I love this music...Then again if there is one thing wow had was some damn stunning stages and damn awesome music scores!!!!!!!
This is by far the best soundtrack in WOW imho. I love the gentle, ambient sound. Sometimes I just login with a low level Draenei just to enjoy the atmosphere...
Really hypnotic.
I love it...good old times.... will never forget. For the Alliance!
For the Horde* i got your back!
this is the soundtrack i listen when i have a hard time getting asleep. it always worked so far. the soundtrack of Eversong woods and teldrassil will do too hehehe
This makes me miss WoW so much. I started playing the game in TBC and the whole entire zone of Azuremyst has some of the fondest memories for me.
This is very sad for me. This music marked the time when I left WOW for good. I was a fully pvp 80 undead lock and used to sit in the bridge between azuremyst isle and the blood one listening to this music while studying for exams. Then life started to be too much work for me to dive aimlessly inside this game and I quit. Will never forget the best moments ever!!
The Draenei and the associated art, music, and visuals is a timeless masterpiece of fictional lore ever produced. Blizzard hit out of the park when they created the Draenei race and all effects for them. "Open your heart to the light!"
I was always a Horde player, listening to this now makes me think i've missed quite a bit.
Hats off to Blizzard.
Silvermoon/Eversong & Ghostlands had an equally atmospheric zone imo just not with the same mystique Azuremyst & Bloodmyst had.
@@Roshea Hard to compete with space aliens from another planet living in crash-landed energy crystal ships. Mystique doesn't even scratch the surface.
I listen to this some nights, just slowly falling asleep dreaming away to the TBC times when questing in Azuremyst isle. It makes the nostalgia and memories of the area so present. I remember creating a lot of characters just to experience it all over again, it was truely a masterpiece of a game.
Blood Elves also remind of the 18th century French a bit, with the extravagance of their architecture and their 'Sun King'. Also, their architecture looks like Art Nouveau.
The 'modern' Night Elf architecture reminds of the Japanese, and their more ancient architecture looks Greco-Roman.
The chills are real :´)
I dont play wow anymore, but i use these soudtracks when i meditade. Pure sounds for your mind, heart and soul!
So beautiful!!!! Already loved therace, now totally in love with their music
Deep, meaningful track, absolutely in love with that
The best time of WoW, closely followed by Vanilla. Best additional races. Best story. Best raids.
+nathonas amen.. vanilla for its feeling and impressions. But TBC is the best atmospheric expansion, with the most immersive raids.. shame the nerf fest kicked in at the end and stuck around till ICC heroic was introduced. There wasnt a proper raid in WotLK till Ulduar and some people still think its the best expansion.. TBC had it all.
not best for story. They didnt do illidans Char that well
They gave Draenei and Blood Elves their own place in the world. Their own zones, their own cities. The goblin starting zone is never to be seen again and Gilneas is an empty husk. I understand WHY it's like that (Exodar and Silvermoon aren't exactly bustling cities) but it was nice to see them take the addition of new races so seriously in the beginning.
kirbymaster5 Well to be fair, Goblins and Worgen did get their own special zones, and worgen STILL have their city, it's just not a capital city-city.
They gave them their own unique starting experiences to be sure. They didn't just plop Worgen, Goblin and Pandaren in the world without context, but their starting experiences just act as vehicles to level you up and are then disposed of. They aren't additions to the world like Quel'Thalas and the Draenei isles are. Gilneas IS there, but like I said, empty husk.
This song make me cry every time I listen to it... Remember my first character, Such a good time !
It's beautiful this, somewhat sad, like some paradise that you can see but never be, like a dream.
It might sound strange, but I like to listen to this music in bed before sleep and pretend I'm actually there in Azuremyst Isle in some kind of Draenei camp. Nestled in my Runecloth duvet and looking up at the countless stars beyond the towering canopy above me. I sleep within minutes.
I do that with night elf music , memories of playing in 4th grad.... It makes me sad that this isn't a real world
I do that too sometimes
This is my favorite most chill starting zone. ANyone who likes this type of ambient relazation music should check out the artist Anugama. His stuff sounds a LOT like this.
Damn dude , so many feelings just in one video.I don't even know how to explain my feelings.
This soundtrack was made by God or something?
DRAENEI RULES!
I swear half of the views must be me, I fall asleep to this every single night
I'm mostly a horde player, but goddamn this is one of my favorite starting zones. The music and scenery is amazing
Always loved this music. Early WoW was a true treasure trove for stuff like this.
It also reminded me of B&W2's music quite a bit.
The new expansion Warlords of Draenor brings all of my memories from this isle back to mind. I always played on low populated servers, so it felt as if I was the only one to hear this music whenever I was on the isle. It was always so calming and warm, like the music was somehow talking to me. Now that I think about it, the Naaru was probably communicating to me :P
After all these years when I am having trouble sleeping, I will put this on repeat and sleep like a baby.
I always loved the music of Azuremyst Isle. It is so ethereal and other-worldly, a great fit for the Draenei!
Ngl I'm a die hard horde fan been that way since early 2004, listening to this track was a treat for me. I'd hop over a few low lvl ally boats and just roam the coasts and forests for hours fishing n stunting on Allys who would step up all while talking to friends on vent. Nostalgia doesn't give nearly enough credit to this feeling I have listening to these haunting yet honorable sounds, Well over a decade later.
can't get enough of this. thank u so much!
Super underrated.
I played years ago and the Drainei music makes me to imagine Atlantis or Lemuria...
I remember the first time i've created a draenei.
I just stood like... i don't know, 15 minutes, doing nothing but listenning the music
I remember exploring with my Tauren druid and just hanging out off the coast of Azuremyst listening to the music. loved it.
It's good to see a passion for this kind of music. Draenai are peaceful and cool and the whole 2 isles remind me that life on other planets far out in the distance could he like that.
Yep here my adventures started as big clumsy draenei mage
Thanks for uploading this. Brings back memories. I just wish my friends would want to play again.
Omg same this basically describes my exact situation that I couldn't seem to put in words. I miss the feeling so much, it's not that the game is bad now, it's that it lost its aspect of mystery to me. I want that back
I love the use of the Daduk instrument. The Draenei are very much like the Armenians. They lived side by side with another race but were massacred, and migrated far away. Deeply religious. They worship the light but in the Naaru form, just like the Armenian church is a different version of christianity. Their names too it seems do sound Armenian.
Eh, their names sound armenian? Not to me they don't.
Draenei sure seems middle eastern though.
InvincibleNumanist like a ton of other cultures before them, jews for an example. The Draenei are a mix of other real historic cultures reimagined.Keep your glorification of armenian culture to yourself and dont spoil the beauty of a fantastic universe rish with Lore done by great writers.
Its not "glorification" to point out that stormwind and lordaeron were quite obviously based on medieval europe...
InvincibleNumanist I always saw the Draenei as having a more Jewish inspiration, but the Armenian is definitely there. And I always did love the Duduk, it's such a great sound.
InvincibleNumanist Some of their names surely are from Ancient Greek. I recall names like Calypso, Menelaous, Proenitus and such
all the memories...
Just want to drop by again and say how this is my favorite WoW track. I think they took some Hindu inspiration in creating the Draenei, maybe the music I can't say for sure. But this music is just...perfect. I use it for doing my homework religiously.
I love this soundtrack even more in Shadowmoon Valley. It fits so well with the sleepy atmosphere of the place, aswell as the beautiful Draenei buildings
Thank you, for uploading this, its a celestial piece of art, with a melancholy touch, resembeling the tragic story about these people. I like to get blazed to this and it's a everlasting favorite of mine. Peace & prosparity to you.
Makes me sad listening to this a childhood that I never knew meant so much to me until it was gone, I used to find it hard to level there with new characters just because the sheer nostalgia that I missed could never be rekindled.
Wow.
I remember when I started playing WoW, just when Cataclysm had released. I was 11. And I looked at all the races and classes, and decided to go for a male Draenei Mage. And I remember just walking around this zone, not understanding a thing, listening to this music, while talking to my best friends over Skype.
Listening to this now, 11 years later, is so weird. The nostalgia is such a special feeling. This game was so amazing, and I really miss it sometimes.
Nowadays, it’s easy to understand how simple and great life was back then. Life is nice now as well, but it’s hard growing up. WoW has given me a really good childhood.
We had very similar experiences, although I made a female draenei mage. I was just cluelessly wandering around the place most of the time, also helped by my lack of english knowledge at the time
the sound of that mammoth flute. instrument called duduk
I love this still ... so many years later.
for some reason i didnt rly like azuremyst the firs time i was there many years ago, now i just love it, its the most, .. the moossttt peaceful place eveer D:> this music is so soothing, thanks for the upload
Idk.. This music makes me feel like they were actually thinking about what they were creating... The culture and minds of the new races that were released.. And feel of the different zones... Hrm. :/ Was all lost in cata.
it wasn´t lost. jesus christ, cata just fucused more on the story and on the action and less on the imersion. the undead lv 1 to lv 30 quests for exemple are 10 times more awesome after Cata, all the quests we do with Sylvanas are brilliant. Before Cata it was all just "kill 10 of those guys" "gatter 10 of those weeds" And the Worgen 1 to 30 quests are also fabulous. you should try the leveling content of Cata.
I played through whole cata... I spoke out of experience. >_> Leveling was just as simple before cata... Just more tedious. I liked it more when I had to do and experience more before hitting max level.
TheOneRebornElyrize Yes, I also love the pre-cata content, I play on the Blizz retail servers but I also play on a BC private server, just to experience all the content that was lost with cata, but something I notice every day is that the cata leveling quests are way more dynamical, interesting and with a lot more lore.
This is just not fair. The draenei are divine serene twists on demons, if a demon was an angel. The Worgen and Goblin zones and music had just as much effort put into their thinking and culture, you may not like it in comparison, but how dare you accuse them of putting less effort into it. If want to talk about the 80-85 zones, that's a whole different bag and context to examine.
I never said it was fair. I just think that they had their minds into it more when they created bc/wotlk >_> I like the Cata music too, but not in the same way.
I really love this music. 💖
This music is the most relaxing music I've ever heard. I remember my first draenei and it was so amazing levling it to this beautiful music.
We all must admit that Blizzard is amazing when it comes to the lore and soundtracks, just listen and remember the lore behind azuremyst isle and appreciate the true experience of the game.
true
With lore I'd totally agree for older expansions and such. Nowadays the story and lore is a hot mess and nonsensical.
@@asteridfk 100%
Apart from the game(which I played between October 2006 until may 2012), I especially choose this track when I had this highlight in my life.
Five years ago I was struggling through life in a bad relationship which already lasted for 13 years, work I didn’t like etc.
Then my gf left me, I got sacked from this employer I worked 17 years for(worked my way up).
So left with nothing, then I stumbled on this track(once more), drank a cheap bottle of liquor 43 and decided to things differently
Now, five years later and I met this beautiful, smart woman, married her!
She already had a good position as a biologist with accordingly job. I reinvented myself, now I’m doing very well.
We bought this mansion which we both thought we would never even own in our wildest dreams, but the moment we set foot in it, we both played this track immediately!
Life is.... well more then just a box of chocolates ;)
This is sooo relaxing to listen. Always give me good memories back in the starting zone
Although I mainly play horde the Draenei will always be my favourite race
Amazing music. Thought provoking. I'd like to hear music like this in films.