I flew over the Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes many times when leveling my dwarf hunter up. I used to be intimidated seeing these giant flame spiders, black dragons, fire elementals and Blackrock orcs all with skull levels. Not only that but when I finally set foot in the Steppes at I think 51, it was just awesome to go through the gate from Redridge into this burning, smoldering wasteland.
I had similar feelings while passing on the gryphon between Stormwind and Ironforge. Those were epic times, the young age combined with the lack of other mmo games experience made these feelings so powerful. :) Salutations, Meisio
Blackrock Mountain was, quite literally, the centre of the gaming world back in 2005/06. It was a time where everybody was playing it. All my friends were. If you didn’t, you were in the outgroup. People talking about WoW, all the time. The excitement, the hype, the huge content. The demented fights with the Horde in the mountain early in the evening when raids gathered. The dungeons and raids themselves. There was a unique feeling of epicness to it, a sense of sharing a common adventure mixed with a degree of novelty that in my view, no further iteration of WoW nor other games have been able to recreate ever since. Perhaps my fondest memories as a gamer. If there is one moment I wish nostalgia could have captured, it would be IF crowded with people shortly before raid time, then all these people flying to Searing Gorge in squadrons before making their way to Blackrock Mountain across a handful of violent skirmishes. Good times.
Wow, nicely described :) I liked the 'violent skirmishes' term especially. :D I was a Method member back then, we gathered there at the MC point, not in IF. Very few where fool enough to enter a skirmish with Method :D I was extremely OP with my gear and most of the time I was killing with 1 shot or in few seconds any player. I 'liked' rogues mostly who were camping the door from Searing Gorge. We were sitting there before the raid sometimes, to help people in need. :)
Some of the best ganking happened here, forget hillsbrad! Although, that was fun too... this zone was near perfect. Not to mention the deathrun (especially when wiping in mc/bwl), at least you got to leap off a cliff at the start of the way back. I had so much PVP footage in the searing gorge/brm/burning steppes, and tons of other places like tyrs hand, stv, and on and on... but sadly its almost all gone, thanks to google video shutting down.
@@Shadowfynx I agree whole hearted. And as a horde player, I vividly remember all the gigangic battles in blackrock mountain on a pvp server. Tuesday after a reset, 8pm server time... and there'd be massive 40v40 battles. Trying to get down to the molten core zone in BEFORE they added the NPC to teleport you there. Where you had to jump through the tiny window to zone in through an invisible portal...oh and because blizzard zone ins were buggy sometimes, there were occasions where you'd just fall straight through and die in the lava if you couldn't swim back around to the little ramp on the side fast enough. I started playing the day after thanksgiving 2004(so yes, that means I also remember when you had to split the raid up into various groups because the only way to get into molten core was at the end of the BRD dungeon). I remember all of vanilla very fondly as I played non-stop all the way through vanilla's cycle. I remember on my rogue solo'ing the bar room in BRD to get the Barman Shanker since pre weapon normalization, the slow swing speed was BIS pre raid. Usually though, all the rogues in the guild would stealth-run together to make the kill quicker and we'd keep running it over and over until everyone got their weapon. I remember doing the onyxia attunement. Not once, but twice. As I played an alliance character first, and then switched to horde sometime before patch 1.5. I remember the BWL patch vividly and wiping non-stop on razorgore because no one had seen anything like the mechanics where you need to control him to deal with the eggs placed around the room. There was no information to learn from if you were a "cutting edge" guild in those days. You just wiped, and wiped... and through trial & error you'd finally figure it out. The wall that was Vael. If you didn't have the dps, you didn't kill the boss...you just had to go back and keep gearing in MC for another week. I remember having to get 40 people the cloak to make you immune to nefarian's shadow flame before you could even attempt him. I remember having to figure out the color combos on his phase 1 adds, and how they changed each reset. That was fun. Competing guilds didn't share their strategies. People weren't posting their videos on youtube or putting guides on wowhead. The only thing we had in those days were thottbot and pvp videos on youtube in 320p. I remember the AQ war effort. Farming the mobs in silithus in the big hives for hours and days on end. Farming mats for all the various turn-ins. I was there when the gong ran. I remember the introduction of ZG. As a rogue, renataki's charm of trickery was a huge deal because thistle tea was nerfed to restore 60 energy instead of 100 I believe around the same time. I remember the naxx patch and the scourge event. All of it. I remember my guild breaking apart on 4 horsemen because it was too difficult for us with the number of tanks we had AND people felt progress in the raid would be rendered obsolete with BC coming out in the near future anyway. I could go on and on and on. Vanilla WoW, in short, produced some of the fondest memories I'll ever have as a gamer. I'm 33. I've been a gamer since I was 3 or 4 years old on an NES until today. It was really a special time and yes, it was that good. It set the standard.
It’s crazy how it seems most of our experiences were sculpted by this specific over look while flying to stormwind or iron forge. One of my most nostalgic and moments filled with bliss I have is that music or that thought / flashback of when I Was younger and finished school for the week and my brother and I would get to play and we always thought one day we will get to the burning steppes and we will fight those. And now we think , we will make it to Friday it will be ok. Sad we didn’t know how lucky we were when that young
+Domlez Nothing is really original in this world :-) Welcome to the channel Domlez, I hope you will view other videos from my channel. With similar ambience for example I have Searing Gorge and Blasted Lands. :-) Thank you for your visit, Meisio
Your videos are awesome dude, I can see that you put a lot of work in these videos and I absolutely love listening to these while waiting for Classic WoW. Keep it up!
Better late than never :) The tours are a reason to watch the videos, not only put them on the background for music. This is how my channel is different than the other 1 million channels of WoW music. Thank you for being a constant viewer and sending me all the feedback, Kind regards, Meisio
@@Meisio I don't know if you'll see this, but the tours are amazing. they are genuinely why I use your videos for my dnd games instead of others. they give my players a small window and insight into the inspiration of the setting, a game they never played. Thank you.
I loved how you could see Blackrock Mountain all the way from the gates of Iron Forge.. From one of the safest places you could eye one of the most dangerous ones at the time in Azeroth :) Blizz really knew what they were doing back in the day..
The first time you flew over the Burning Steppes, almost 20 years ago, looking down at all the skull level mobs, with this theme playing, thinking "oh shit, don't fall off, don't fall off!"
Yep, very annoying creatures :) Even if you are 60, I think you can't pass that bridge without getting aggro (unless you are stealth of course). _Pr3lude9_ , thank you for your visit and I hope to talk to you again. If you liked the _Burning Steppes_ video, I am sure you will be happy to know that the _Searing Gorge_ video is coming somewhere next week or the following week. Also, I have plans for the old Blackrock Mountain instances too. So please stay tuned. :) Kind Regards, Meisio
The Searing Gorge is my favorite zone in WoW. Thank you so much for making these videos. I love the Darkshore one as well. Takes me back to when I first started playing. :)
I am happy you like them :) Darkshore video (2 hours, but with rain ambience) is here: ruclips.net/video/ID1KR37bqnQ/видео.html I am going to do a standard one as well, but don't know exactly when. Salutations, Meisio
Yes it was, I remember being a newbie and sitting there running back and forth from redridge because the moment you even got remotely close the ?? elementals would come charging at you. Was fun having a small group of us sit there and chat about what is in that zone. The mystery of the game was what was appealing about vanilla. I doubt that me even making a toon when classic comes out will fix that.
I had run thru there for adventures at 20 something with a full 70 pally. I kept alive but died often, not as often as you think though. Really low health and armor the entire time lol. I had a hefty repair bill at the end of it. I don't even remember where we ended up lol.
Although I'm leveling at a slow, easy pace, I'm excited to reach the Burning Steppes on my little gnome mage, so she can see the statue of Anduin Lothar for herself, and experience her first run into Blackrock Mountain., to cross the bridge, see the massive doors, and navigate into the depths of Shadowforge City, the Blackrock Spire, the Molten Core, and Nefarian's Lair for herself.
Hey Necro! Thank you and welcome to the channel - I think this is your first comment here :) With this movie I have introduced a bit a new style of filming - while walking slowly I am also showing side details. I know it's not perfect, I still need to figure out how to do it best, but hopefully you guys like it. This is to cover the fact there aren't real viable machinima tools out there for WoW anymore. Salutations! Meisio
Can't wait for classic to come out. Even if I know it won't be the same experience as back in 2005, it is still miles better than the current shitshow modern wow has become.
It's amazing how each and every music score captures each and every zone so perfectly. I no longer play the game. These videos allow my imagination to, though.
Oh, how did you miss that? Did you played in Vanilla? In Vanilla is an absolute must to get through this zone, most of the high level dungeons and raids are here.
@@Meisio I think i remember.. someone summon me here to do raids but only once.. that was 10 years ago the last time i played wow.. other than that never went here.. maybe im too lazy to explore and dont have any quest to force me to go in this zone🙄
i think some motion from player-perspective is very helpful for keeping viewer interest engaged. have you looked at how walk vs run-speed is for this? I guess if you have unlimited time to level classes, you could use priest slow-fall also for some unique in-motion perspective :)
Thank you for the feedback. :) Walking... just walking... running is too much, I don't have time to show anything. What's left to experiment is to shoot at 60 fps and drop at 30 fps to create that slow motion effect. But NPC movement will be funny, also... I need a better battle station which can do these things... to record and to play WoW at ultra settings at 60 fps in 4K... that's too much for my computer at the moment. Maybe from spring... ;) About priest slow fall... if I don't have flying it will be a pain to re-shoot the same thing in case I got things wrong :D Greetings, Meisio
Ah, I forgot about that! I'm going to take mining as a profession for sure. I just loved to wonder Burning Steppes, Winterspring and Silithus after Rich Thorium Veins! :)
i miss when wow wass you and the enemy, not you and gathering the entire map with all your characters and clearing them like a chinese mmo. Dont get me wrong, we have played classic wow now and i see many bad things about it, but the concept was supreme. The fact that the world was so big and they did not have to clog everything up in a tight space made it feel as if you was adventuring around the world. Now it feels like you walk 2 steps and the map is over, or every step you take there is an enemy, you are no afraid of him for he it is but instead that he will take your time dismounting you, and now you are 10 scounds less afficiant.
Something is telling me you came late to the party :) Apologies, I made a joke. But you know, they can't gank you if you start fresh with them at level 1 in WoW Classic :) Salutations!
History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the old gates remained closed for Vanilla WoW
Until now
lmao
burning steppes has a lotr feel to it.
@@maxxrobbyye yes and the music both unmatched
I flew over the Searing Gorge and Burning Steppes many times when leveling my dwarf hunter up. I used to be intimidated seeing these giant flame spiders, black dragons, fire elementals and Blackrock orcs all with skull levels. Not only that but when I finally set foot in the Steppes at I think 51, it was just awesome to go through the gate from Redridge into this burning, smoldering wasteland.
I had similar feelings while passing on the gryphon between Stormwind and Ironforge. Those were epic times, the young age combined with the lack of other mmo games experience made these feelings so powerful. :)
Salutations,
Meisio
Thank you so much for uploading this wonderful music. Whenever the Classic server comes out I will be so happy to re live my experiences.
Blackrock Mountain was, quite literally, the centre of the gaming world back in 2005/06. It was a time where everybody was playing it. All my friends were. If you didn’t, you were in the outgroup. People talking about WoW, all the time. The excitement, the hype, the huge content. The demented fights with the Horde in the mountain early in the evening when raids gathered. The dungeons and raids themselves. There was a unique feeling of epicness to it, a sense of sharing a common adventure mixed with a degree of novelty that in my view, no further iteration of WoW nor other games have been able to recreate ever since. Perhaps my fondest memories as a gamer.
If there is one moment I wish nostalgia could have captured, it would be IF crowded with people shortly before raid time, then all these people flying to Searing Gorge in squadrons before making their way to Blackrock Mountain across a handful of violent skirmishes. Good times.
Wow, nicely described :) I liked the 'violent skirmishes' term especially. :D
I was a Method member back then, we gathered there at the MC point, not in IF. Very few where fool enough to enter a skirmish with Method :D I was extremely OP with my gear and most of the time I was killing with 1 shot or in few seconds any player. I 'liked' rogues mostly who were camping the door from Searing Gorge. We were sitting there before the raid sometimes, to help people in need. :)
Some of the best ganking happened here, forget hillsbrad! Although, that was fun too... this zone was near perfect.
Not to mention the deathrun (especially when wiping in mc/bwl), at least you got to leap off a cliff at the start of the way back.
I had so much PVP footage in the searing gorge/brm/burning steppes, and tons of other places like tyrs hand, stv, and on and on... but sadly its almost all gone, thanks to google video shutting down.
You were adored by the opposite faction I suppose :-) Not only ganking them, but also making them famous!
Vêfantur Mandos yup exactly
@@Shadowfynx I agree whole hearted. And as a horde player, I vividly remember all the gigangic battles in blackrock mountain on a pvp server. Tuesday after a reset, 8pm server time... and there'd be massive 40v40 battles. Trying to get down to the molten core zone in BEFORE they added the NPC to teleport you there. Where you had to jump through the tiny window to zone in through an invisible portal...oh and because blizzard zone ins were buggy sometimes, there were occasions where you'd just fall straight through and die in the lava if you couldn't swim back around to the little ramp on the side fast enough. I started playing the day after thanksgiving 2004(so yes, that means I also remember when you had to split the raid up into various groups because the only way to get into molten core was at the end of the BRD dungeon). I remember all of vanilla very fondly as I played non-stop all the way through vanilla's cycle. I remember on my rogue solo'ing the bar room in BRD to get the Barman Shanker since pre weapon normalization, the slow swing speed was BIS pre raid. Usually though, all the rogues in the guild would stealth-run together to make the kill quicker and we'd keep running it over and over until everyone got their weapon.
I remember doing the onyxia attunement. Not once, but twice. As I played an alliance character first, and then switched to horde sometime before patch 1.5. I remember the BWL patch vividly and wiping non-stop on razorgore because no one had seen anything like the mechanics where you need to control him to deal with the eggs placed around the room. There was no information to learn from if you were a "cutting edge" guild in those days. You just wiped, and wiped... and through trial & error you'd finally figure it out. The wall that was Vael. If you didn't have the dps, you didn't kill the boss...you just had to go back and keep gearing in MC for another week. I remember having to get 40 people the cloak to make you immune to nefarian's shadow flame before you could even attempt him. I remember having to figure out the color combos on his phase 1 adds, and how they changed each reset. That was fun. Competing guilds didn't share their strategies. People weren't posting their videos on youtube or putting guides on wowhead. The only thing we had in those days were thottbot and pvp videos on youtube in 320p.
I remember the AQ war effort. Farming the mobs in silithus in the big hives for hours and days on end. Farming mats for all the various turn-ins. I was there when the gong ran. I remember the introduction of ZG. As a rogue, renataki's charm of trickery was a huge deal because thistle tea was nerfed to restore 60 energy instead of 100 I believe around the same time. I remember the naxx patch and the scourge event. All of it. I remember my guild breaking apart on 4 horsemen because it was too difficult for us with the number of tanks we had AND people felt progress in the raid would be rendered obsolete with BC coming out in the near future anyway. I could go on and on and on. Vanilla WoW, in short, produced some of the fondest memories I'll ever have as a gamer. I'm 33. I've been a gamer since I was 3 or 4 years old on an NES until today. It was really a special time and yes, it was that good. It set the standard.
2:17 those vocals with the ambient intensifying tho, damn that's some good ambient music as you fight your way through that dead land.
those damn imps... every time I would try to peak in from Redridge...the aggro was massive.
It’s crazy how it seems most of our experiences were sculpted by this specific over look while flying to stormwind or iron forge. One of my most nostalgic and moments filled with bliss I have is that music or that thought / flashback of when I Was younger and finished school for the week and my brother and I would get to play and we always thought one day we will get to the burning steppes and we will fight those. And now we think , we will make it to Friday it will be ok. Sad we didn’t know how lucky we were when that young
Ah.. Mordor.. err, I mean Burning Steppes
+Domlez Nothing is really original in this world :-)
Welcome to the channel Domlez, I hope you will view other videos from my channel. With similar ambience for example I have Searing Gorge and Blasted Lands. :-)
Thank you for your visit,
Meisio
Your videos are awesome dude, I can see that you put a lot of work in these videos and I absolutely love listening to these while waiting for Classic WoW. Keep it up!
Thank you Domlez :) I am soon finished with all classic zones. I'll continue with the next patches :)
/salute
Meisio
actually great idea about walking through the locations. Liked it after three days of watching
Better late than never :)
The tours are a reason to watch the videos, not only put them on the background for music. This is how my channel is different than the other 1 million channels of WoW music.
Thank you for being a constant viewer and sending me all the feedback,
Kind regards,
Meisio
thank you for providing good content
@@Meisio I don't know if you'll see this, but the tours are amazing. they are genuinely why I use your videos for my dnd games instead of others. they give my players a small window and insight into the inspiration of the setting, a game they never played. Thank you.
I loved how you could see Blackrock Mountain all the way from the gates of Iron Forge.. From one of the safest places you could eye one of the most dangerous ones at the time in Azeroth :) Blizz really knew what they were doing back in the day..
The first time you flew over the Burning Steppes, almost 20 years ago, looking down at all the skull level mobs, with this theme playing, thinking "oh shit, don't fall off, don't fall off!"
I will never, ever forget the horns in this zone, and BRD.
0:50 This was absolute death if you ventured out of Redridge Mountains, and into Burning Steppes.
Yep, very annoying creatures :) Even if you are 60, I think you can't pass that bridge without getting aggro (unless you are stealth of course).
_Pr3lude9_ , thank you for your visit and I hope to talk to you again. If you liked the _Burning Steppes_ video, I am sure you will be happy to know that the _Searing Gorge_ video is coming somewhere next week or the following week. Also, I have plans for the old Blackrock Mountain instances too. So please stay tuned. :)
Kind Regards,
Meisio
The Searing Gorge is my favorite zone in WoW. Thank you so much for making these videos. I love the Darkshore one as well. Takes me back to when I first started playing. :)
I am happy you like them :)
Darkshore video (2 hours, but with rain ambience) is here: ruclips.net/video/ID1KR37bqnQ/видео.html
I am going to do a standard one as well, but don't know exactly when.
Salutations,
Meisio
Yes it was, I remember being a newbie and sitting there running back and forth from redridge because the moment you even got remotely close the ?? elementals would come charging at you. Was fun having a small group of us sit there and chat about what is in that zone. The mystery of the game was what was appealing about vanilla. I doubt that me even making a toon when classic comes out will fix that.
I had run thru there for adventures at 20 something with a full 70 pally. I kept alive but died often, not as often as you think though. Really low health and armor the entire time lol. I had a hefty repair bill at the end of it. I don't even remember where we ended up lol.
I love playing the Horde. but always was jealous of Alliance that they got this zone. it is so similar to Mt. Doom and is so badass.
Although I'm leveling at a slow, easy pace, I'm excited to reach the Burning Steppes on my little gnome mage, so she can see the statue of Anduin Lothar for herself, and experience her first run into Blackrock Mountain., to cross the bridge, see the massive doors, and navigate into the depths of Shadowforge City, the Blackrock Spire, the Molten Core, and Nefarian's Lair for herself.
This place was pure carnage in the pvp front. I definitely fits the style haha.
Just so beautiful ,
Thank you for sharing
Stay blessed 💐💐💐
Thank you again! :)
The part around 9:27 Is just amazing.
I actually can't wait to see what will be done in season of mastery vol2.
Can't wait to see classic again
and hype is gone
🙂
Nice work dude
Hey Necro!
Thank you and welcome to the channel - I think this is your first comment here :)
With this movie I have introduced a bit a new style of filming - while walking slowly I am also showing side details. I know it's not perfect, I still need to figure out how to do it best, but hopefully you guys like it. This is to cover the fact there aren't real viable machinima tools out there for WoW anymore.
Salutations!
Meisio
Impossible to forgot this..From BS always was going to raids MC/BWL
I always took the northern route though, from Searing Gorge, because Ironforge was my Alliance base.
Hey Paul! :-)
Wow Classic FTW
9:30 the best part
Totally agreed.
That part almost signifies a glimmer of hope in the dire wasteland, as champions begin to infiltrate the mountain...
I AGREE! The only reason I stayed in this zone was just to hear this
Can't wait for classic to come out. Even if I know it won't be the same experience as back in 2005, it is still miles better than the current shitshow modern wow has become.
See you there, my friend. Lok'tar Ogar.
It's amazing how each and every music score captures each and every zone so perfectly. I no longer play the game. These videos allow my imagination to, though.
So many npc elite and dragonkin🥰
I always flew over burning steppes but never set foot in this zone.
Oh, how did you miss that? Did you played in Vanilla? In Vanilla is an absolute must to get through this zone, most of the high level dungeons and raids are here.
@@Meisio
I think i remember.. someone summon me here to do raids but only once.. that was 10 years ago the last time i played wow.. other than that never went here.. maybe im too lazy to explore and dont have any quest to force me to go in this zone🙄
An awesome endgame zone with a Mordor feel: sadly like most endgame zones of vanilla was underdeloped and with fewer quests compared to leveling zone
great work!
deficineiron deficineiron
Thank you!
i think some motion from player-perspective is very helpful for keeping viewer interest engaged. have you looked at how walk vs run-speed is for this?
I guess if you have unlimited time to level classes, you could use priest slow-fall also for some unique in-motion perspective :)
Thank you for the feedback. :)
Walking... just walking... running is too much, I don't have time to show anything. What's left to experiment is to shoot at 60 fps and drop at 30 fps to create that slow motion effect.
But NPC movement will be funny, also... I need a better battle station which can do these things... to record and to play WoW at ultra settings at 60 fps in 4K... that's too much for my computer at the moment. Maybe from spring... ;)
About priest slow fall... if I don't have flying it will be a pain to re-shoot the same thing in case I got things wrong :D
Greetings,
Meisio
WTB Arcane Crystals for Reaper
Ah, I forgot about that! I'm going to take mining as a profession for sure. I just loved to wonder Burning Steppes, Winterspring and Silithus after Rich Thorium Veins! :)
Right in the feelz.
i miss when wow wass you and the enemy, not you and gathering the entire map with all your characters and clearing them like a chinese mmo. Dont get me wrong, we have played classic wow now and i see many bad things about it, but the concept was supreme. The fact that the world was so big and they did not have to clog everything up in a tight space made it feel as if you was adventuring around the world. Now it feels like you walk 2 steps and the map is over, or every step you take there is an enemy, you are no afraid of him for he it is but instead that he will take your time dismounting you, and now you are 10 scounds less afficiant.
The rest of Anduin Lothar
Oh, a lot of gankers here. they have all 60s
Something is telling me you came late to the party :)
Apologies, I made a joke. But you know, they can't gank you if you start fresh with them at level 1 in WoW Classic :)
Salutations!
10:57
Ahhh.. Burning Stepped. The acronym is literally BS.
Lol! That bad!? :)
Lol, it's not that bad, if you're not a warlock
@@r2dezki Fire spells issues? Or something else? :)
@@Meisio the epic mount quest
lol best laugh of the day, and it's only 6 am.
Mount Doom ripoff tbh