1:43 i just love the fact that as you get closer to Yogg Saron a haunting and depraved version of the song of the titans starts playing, it’s like he enjoys mocking the noble tones of the creatures he controls and slapping you in the face with it
Being a kid when this raid released it didn’t feel real. I would see people run around with the tier set on and I would just be in awe… I only ever managed to find 1 raid that ventured further than just the 4 boss outside (I only ever pugged back then). Entering the antechamber for the first time I remember specifically screaming “DAAAAADDD LOOK I MADE IT INSIDE” and he watched me while the raid I was with cleared the way to the council of iron. Then we made it to kologarn and never beat him but I angled the camera so I could look behind him. I would have literal dreams of beating kologarn and exploring the whole area behind him… only other raid that even captured this feeling for me was naxxramas and black temple.
21:20 - Definitely captures that feeling of just awe and wonder and the vast, ancient mysteries of the Titans that Ulduar presents to us. A perfect example of storytelling with music.
Wrath was the beginning of raiding for me. I did Naxx and then took a break, and ended up raiding through ICC with essentially the same group every night, right until the end. ICC was the most fun I ever had raiding, but Ulduar was my favourite place to go. The environments, the hum of the halls, the song of the Titans growing ever more haunting and the groaning of Lovecraftian horrors locked away. Just listening to this puts me back there. Thanks for making these videos, they're windows to yesterday. Right arm! Now left arm!
Ah Ulduar, so many fond memories of this epic raid. I've been playing wow since 2005, this raid is by far one of my most fav. Algalon was such a brutal fight back then when it was new. It took us a while before we got him down.
@@Everness1 Apologies if you've answered this many times before, but how do you make these videos? Are the scenes reconstructed in a model viewer or are these from in-game raids?
I love the art in this raid. The Decent into Madness even has its own ominous looking symbol labeling the room. The art even gets creepy inside, I hope there's more stuff like this in the future instead of bleak walls.
silver2zilver Agree. Sublime, epic, heroic piece of artistry. A testament to things glorious. Despite appearing in a childish video game, deserves a place among great work.
Realm First!: Deaths Demise here. I'm proud of that realm first because this was an amazing raid that defined WoW. And it was made by the people who designed the raids in Vanilla WoW. This was their legacy before they left Blizzard.
Shoutout to a fellow Death's Demise. Yogg 0 still stands as one of my favorite fights of all time. Combat Rogue was insane then, and I loved every second of it
I actually liked this raid dungeon more so than The Icecrown Citadel. No offense to the Lich King, but I found fighting Yogg-Saron to be more disturbing and more creative than the Lich King.
Joeykm1972 Me too. It was tougher, more diverse, took more time, it was more of a harsh epic legendary journey rather than just a raid. Not my favorite,.but definitely the best ever!
I remember when Blizzard cared about quality and didn't skip out on cool looks, music and making it special. So many bosses + a ton of hardmodes, sometimes more than one per boss. The mystery with Algalon.
This video captures the essence of Ulduar both visually and through sound. It's not just nostalgia I feel regarding this raid, but also a sense of euphoria. If ever I was in love with something intangible, it was the experiences and setting of this raid.
I love coming back to this. The brass section in the beginning just sounds so imposing and regal and then it starts to devolve as the haunting choir echoing from those majestic walls twists and loses that noble sound. I can never get it out of my head. I don't want to. One of the best raids of the game, such a grand experience. If I could experience that raid for the first time again, I would happily do so.
I don't know what it is about the part of 28:38, but it's definitely one of my favorite pieces of the entire WoW soundtrack... It just fits Ulduar so well. It's perfect for this massive titan facility, but at the same time sounds like there's something very wrong here. Which, y'know, there is.
General Vezax and Yogg-Saron and the rooms they stay in. The broken walls, the translucent chains, the ominous imagery in the coloured windows and the pools of Saronite. Excellent scenery for a battle with an Old God. The sanity mechanic, the hallucination rooms and the exposed brain. This was Blizzard raid design at its very best.
I wish I was good enough to have raided Ulduar properly. I only made it to a medium core raiding guilds "B" team, which never really made it inside. However I loved the music and took it all in. Best raid in WoW, even if I didn't progress far at all.
"Now why would you go and do something like that? Didn't you see the sign that said 'DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON!'? How will we finish testing with the self-destruct mechanism active?" -Mimiron
This.... makes for fabulous music to draw to! I'd been hunting down some WoW music to listen to in the background, and not only did I find these ambiance tracks, they're extended for quite a while! I'm really glad I found this place! Keep up the awesome work!
The best and longest raid encounter I ever experience was Alagon 10 man. Took us around 4 hours and got the dark matter trinket. So many moons and suns ago.
Determining the difficulty of the raid by things you'd do in the actual raid not by the flip of a switch. I want to shake that person's hand and have a beer with them at least.
Hard Modes were far better than Heroic Modes, hands down. Really bummed that it only lasted for this raid, but then again that's probably why Ulduar is my favorite raid of all time across all expansions, even better than SWP/Black Temple/ICC...
WotLK was the peak of WoW. We got to fight an Old-God and Algon in a raid which wasn't even the final boss of expansion. We got from fighting an old god mid patch to Garrosh Hellscream as a final boss of expansion and the wow popularity never really reached late WotLK early cataclysm level again. I am still playing it on and off in 2022 with new dragonflight but its definitely not the same experience it was 12 years ago.
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Back in retail WotLK i admired every aspect of Ulduar and thought i wouldnt be able to do it. So it was, i couldn't defeat more than 6 bosses. Thanks to the progressive Warmane's server (Frostmourne, which is buffed btw), i've been able to complete it, including all the hard modes. I fullfilled that one past time dream.
this is the one raid I'm feel fear before entering not from extreme difficulty (although high) just the setting lore and of course the music 10/10 raid
One day before the titans purged azeroth.They prisoned the old gods and starting to recover the planet.....but one of this disgusting rotten creatures had corrupt the minds of his prisoners.....that was the old god - Yogg Saron!
Hi dude, May i ask how did you got these environmental shoots? I'm trying to understand but i'm not finding anything related. Have a nice day and thanks!
There was a program called Free Far Sight back in the days of Mists of Pandaria and Warlords of Draenor. It allowed you to set up waypoints, change field of view, etc. Better camera controls, in short. It is no longer supported though. I have a vague idea of how some of the alternatives work, like how Wowhead showcase their data mined stuff for example, but it’s way too... fiddly for this kind of work.
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This raid was the definition of Epic
I agree completely.
_BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GOD OF DEATH!_
I am the lucid dream. The monster in your nightmares.
The fiend of a thousand faces. Cower before my true form.
BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GOD OF DEATH!
And it is again today
1:43 i just love the fact that as you get closer to Yogg Saron a haunting and depraved version of the song of the titans starts playing, it’s like he enjoys mocking the noble tones of the creatures he controls and slapping you in the face with it
Being a kid when this raid released it didn’t feel real. I would see people run around with the tier set on and I would just be in awe… I only ever managed to find 1 raid that ventured further than just the 4 boss outside (I only ever pugged back then). Entering the antechamber for the first time I remember specifically screaming “DAAAAADDD LOOK I MADE IT INSIDE” and he watched me while the raid I was with cleared the way to the council of iron. Then we made it to kologarn and never beat him but I angled the camera so I could look behind him. I would have literal dreams of beating kologarn and exploring the whole area behind him… only other raid that even captured this feeling for me was naxxramas and black temple.
21:20 - Definitely captures that feeling of just awe and wonder and the vast, ancient mysteries of the Titans that Ulduar presents to us. A perfect example of storytelling with music.
21:20 simply amazing.
Great work Everness, thank you.
Thank you! I personally think this is my best video. In terms of doing justice to the place and the music I mean.
Wrath was the beginning of raiding for me. I did Naxx and then took a break, and ended up raiding through ICC with essentially the same group every night, right until the end. ICC was the most fun I ever had raiding, but Ulduar was my favourite place to go. The environments, the hum of the halls, the song of the Titans growing ever more haunting and the groaning of Lovecraftian horrors locked away. Just listening to this puts me back there. Thanks for making these videos, they're windows to yesterday. Right arm! Now left arm!
Thank you. I like that phrase, "windows to yesterday."
22:39 , the sound that brings us home...
0:00 to 1:38 this feels so epic, yet so nostalgic
now you can listen it again :) just play original WoW :)
@@robertzlatanov bruh, already did my job back in the days lmao ain't gonna do this again
best Raid in WoW. :D
+1 for black temple
BENJAMIN MITCHELL mostly people like black temple for illidan, but it was not a good raid i think
yep, the best !
Indeed. There's loads of other good raids, but Ulduar was practically the embodiment of epicness.
BY FAR
god yogg+0 was so much fun
and mimiron hm.. the last phase.. when everybody was just trying not do die..
best memories
Ah Ulduar, so many fond memories of this epic raid. I've been playing wow since 2005, this raid is by far one of my most fav.
Algalon was such a brutal fight back then when it was new. It took us a while before we got him down.
Man, the effort that went into recording the actual video must've been insane
Yes. Likely, I have no life. :)
You have plenty of life. These videos prove just that. Ulduar 4 life!
Now imagine effort that went into making music, raid, bosses, mechanics, lore. Pew...
@@Everness1 Apologies if you've answered this many times before, but how do you make these videos? Are the scenes reconstructed in a model viewer or are these from in-game raids?
I love the art in this raid. The Decent into Madness even has its own ominous looking symbol labeling the room. The art even gets creepy inside, I hope there's more stuff like this in the future instead of bleak walls.
What an expansion WoTLK was… absolutely breathtaking…
The last 10 minutes perfectly express the madness of Ulduar.
Ulduar designer have one of the crazyest dreams even in humanity, than make something near it into a game.
This is in it's own right, an amazing orchestra with phenomenal vocals.
Bravo.
silver2zilver Agree. Sublime, epic, heroic piece of artistry. A testament to things glorious. Despite appearing in a childish video game, deserves a place among great work.
Best raid i have ever seen in any game
Realm First!: Deaths Demise here.
I'm proud of that realm first because this was an amazing raid that defined WoW.
And it was made by the people who designed the raids in Vanilla WoW.
This was their legacy before they left Blizzard.
congrats on that Deaths Demise!
I hope that’s a chick in the picture cos she’s hot
@@briancooley8777 What if I told u it was a man? 💀💀
@@prod.sah1l id be disappointed at the very least
Shoutout to a fellow Death's Demise. Yogg 0 still stands as one of my favorite fights of all time. Combat Rogue was insane then, and I loved every second of it
I actually liked this raid dungeon more so than The Icecrown Citadel. No offense to the Lich King, but I found fighting Yogg-Saron to be more disturbing and more creative than the Lich King.
Joeykm1972 Me too. It was tougher, more diverse, took more time, it was more of a harsh epic legendary journey rather than just a raid. Not my favorite,.but definitely the best ever!
I mean Lich King is the GOAT, but Yogg-Saron is an old God.
I think most ppl share the same opinion.
Oh Yeah, Totally!
Also, don't forget that Mimiron's Head was a way better mount than a glorified zombie horse.
Best raid EVER. I miss these days.
I remember when Blizzard cared about quality and didn't skip out on cool looks, music and making it special.
So many bosses + a ton of hardmodes, sometimes more than one per boss. The mystery with Algalon.
This video captures the essence of Ulduar both visually and through sound. It's not just nostalgia I feel regarding this raid, but also a sense of euphoria. If ever I was in love with something intangible, it was the experiences and setting of this raid.
17:20 It always irked me how the golems do that little "knuckle cracking" idle animation despite having cannons for hands.
I love coming back to this. The brass section in the beginning just sounds so imposing and regal and then it starts to devolve as the haunting choir echoing from those majestic walls twists and loses that noble sound. I can never get it out of my head. I don't want to. One of the best raids of the game, such a grand experience. If I could experience that raid for the first time again, I would happily do so.
25:20 Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh AAAhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Really gets the chills goin
it's there a name for that exact part?
when we entered Ulduar, we didn't know that the best WOW's raid and lived one of the most epic journey
*GOD* I love the music here. In some parts, it has that mystical, trance vibe, and the others are perfect for engineers or tinkers!
The sheer scale of Ulduar was amazing and the fights had cool mechanics.
I don't know what it is about the part of 28:38, but it's definitely one of my favorite pieces of the entire WoW soundtrack... It just fits Ulduar so well. It's perfect for this massive titan facility, but at the same time sounds like there's something very wrong here. Which, y'know, there is.
This part gets me every time
It plays on mimiron's final phase btw
28:28 the nostalgia... this raid and Icecrown Citadel were the best raids of any game ever. The ambience was unmatched.
Best raid I've ever played when weighting encounters, visuals, originality, music.
General Vezax and Yogg-Saron and the rooms they stay in. The broken walls, the translucent chains, the ominous imagery in the coloured windows and the pools of Saronite. Excellent scenery for a battle with an Old God. The sanity mechanic, the hallucination rooms and the exposed brain. This was Blizzard raid design at its very best.
Your channel deserve more subs bro! Thanks a lot for this!
Thank you! We'll get there :)
This composition is quite simply a masterpiece. Nuff said.
In the mountains
I REMEMBER YOU...!
I love the panning video you attached to the music. Even if I just glimpse up every so often. :D
The sequence from ~ 28:00 to ~ 42:00... just, WoW...
Mimiron
Tellement de souvenirs, j'ai 31 ans, j'avais 18 ans à l'époque... ce jeu et plus particulièrement ce raid m'aura marqué pour toujours !
I wish I was good enough to have raided Ulduar properly. I only made it to a medium core raiding guilds "B" team, which never really made it inside. However I loved the music and took it all in. Best raid in WoW, even if I didn't progress far at all.
😢 did you at least raid ToC or ICC
Thank you for giving us all od the percussion outtakes. Impressive!
@Everness i love you, your ambience videos are just....genius
I love you too, unknown internet person!
51:30 never thought I'd hear shades of Olivier Messiaen in a video game soundtrack!
45:05 can you feel it? Clicking that door and going slowly to the depths of insanity
At the very peak of Azeroth, also the very peak of the game’s PVE content.
'DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON!'
"Now why would you go and do something like that? Didn't you see the sign that said 'DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON!'? How will we finish testing with the self-destruct mechanism active?"
-Mimiron
Truly the ulduar
Well, it seems some classics can be experienced twice in life :)
You know why this raid is the best raid they've ever made? because it was just as fucking epic 15 years later. let that sink in.
Oooof, this was some good times.
This music is awesome remind me good moments! Trumpet and epic theme wow, wow is not a game is a story in music!
I love how when you start orbiting the Frost Giant boss at 35:55, his aggro senses start triggering.
had to be one of my favorite raids, love that it is in timewalking
There is one word that describes your channel....
Amazing. ;w;
After the XP encounter starts my fav Antechamber of Ulduar, so titanic 16:20
This is great! I never got to raid this place, sadly.
Wrath Classic :)
5:00 is what we all love and remember most fondly
This part right here hits heavy on the vibe spectrum, when the brasses comes in at 6:30. Amazing
I shared this to literally everyone so that the epicness spreads
This.... makes for fabulous music to draw to! I'd been hunting down some WoW music to listen to in the background, and not only did I find these ambiance tracks, they're extended for quite a while! I'm really glad I found this place! Keep up the awesome work!
We are here again together, today!
Love this raid and the music
The best and longest raid encounter I ever experience was Alagon 10 man. Took us around 4 hours and got the dark matter trinket. So many moons and suns ago.
I love Skyrim ost but i also love World of Warcraft soundtrack. WoW soundtrack brings me peace and inspiration.
best raid in wow history
I hate that i missed this when it was current content...started right near the end of wrath. Always felt like i missed out
I miss this :(
Me too :(
Yogg'Saron is my favorite raid boss ever.
Nathan R best boss lorewise imo
Ez music = Ez Study
Thanks again for being great ! And not coming to the dinner :(
I thought it was gonna be my place?
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Well, you seem as desperate as I am.
Let me finish your video and we will see what happens , I might end up in wow
you never disappoint, do you?
I try not to. Thank you!
+Everness you're very welcome, please keep it up :)
Determining the difficulty of the raid by things you'd do in the actual raid not by the flip of a switch. I want to shake that person's hand and have a beer with them at least.
Hard Modes were far better than Heroic Modes, hands down. Really bummed that it only lasted for this raid, but then again that's probably why Ulduar is my favorite raid of all time across all expansions, even better than SWP/Black Temple/ICC...
Very good bgm!!
Alliance vibe
If you think... Ulduar is such a giant complex... With one missing wing
Definition of epicness
Missing?
@@THEFINALHAZARD
Halls of Valor are missing, they were a part of Ulduar
@@Caady OH, right. Thanks, it’s been a while for me
WotLK was the peak of WoW. We got to fight an Old-God and Algon in a raid which wasn't even the final boss of expansion. We got from fighting an old god mid patch to Garrosh Hellscream as a final boss of expansion and the wow popularity never really reached late WotLK early cataclysm level again. I am still playing it on and off in 2022 with new dragonflight but its definitely not the same experience it was 12 years ago.
YES!!! OMG I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO DO THIS ONE! SUBSCRIBED!
I'm using this on my next D&D session, my players will appreciate you for this :3
Awesome! "Everness" isn't a bad name for an elven bard, is it? _Wink wink nudge nudge._
Time to go home boys
We're so close now..
5:03
Well it's quite simple; if you are a friend you speak the password and the doors will open
*Speaks in magic*
-NoThiNg's hApPeNin'
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We will come back.
We are back.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for doing this!!
Back in retail WotLK i admired every aspect of Ulduar and thought i wouldnt be able to do it. So it was, i couldn't defeat more than 6 bosses.
Thanks to the progressive Warmane's server (Frostmourne, which is buffed btw), i've been able to complete it, including all the hard modes.
I fullfilled that one past time dream.
Fantastic work!
Gods, I miss that train ride to Mimiron so much.
I swear, the last time I heard this song, it sounded a lot more grand.
this is the one raid I'm feel fear before entering not from extreme difficulty (although high) just the setting lore and of course the music 10/10 raid
still my fav video of yours :)
The beginning makes all my good wow related memories flash before my eyes, dis normal?
I wish new raids have epic music like this.
Godness, this was the most amazing, beautiful raid i done ! thanks a lot for this stuff dude, keep going on ! Can i suggest you Zul Aman ?
One day before the titans purged azeroth.They prisoned the old gods and starting to recover the planet.....but one of this disgusting rotten creatures had corrupt the minds of his prisoners.....that was the old god - Yogg Saron!
49:19 my pick
We are back.
very nice and the raid also :)
Yogg Saron music starts at 49:08
we're home boys
0:00
16:50
21:20
MY GOD O.O
Hi dude, May i ask how did you got these environmental shoots? I'm trying to understand but i'm not finding anything related. Have a nice day and thanks!
There was a program called Free Far Sight back in the days of Mists of Pandaria and Warlords of Draenor. It allowed you to set up waypoints, change field of view, etc. Better camera controls, in short. It is no longer supported though. I have a vague idea of how some of the alternatives work, like how Wowhead showcase their data mined stuff for example, but it’s way too... fiddly for this kind of work.
@@Everness1 thank you very much!
00:00 - 03:00 sounds so Soviet.
For some reason I think this is a starter area for the red iron dwarves or the lightforged draenei.
even though its not
Thanks you everness, for all these song. Proust Time is coming ! Please blizzard, just make server for all extensions. And we come in Azeroth again !
17:12 ❤❤❤❤
We're coming home.. soon..