Stop playing for more than 6 months, start a race+class combination you haven't played before in a realm you haven't played before with no addons/heirlooms/guild/cash
As a kid I was marveling at the beauty of Ashenvale. Now as an adult I'm writing this from a gaming studio where I'm an environment artist. This game changed my life, and I don't think I could ever put into words how meaningful it still is to me. Thank you for these videos. The nostalgia almost hurts.
I also want to design environments in the future! Listening to WoW classic soundtracks to get some inspiration for my own story. Do you want to share some of your work as an environment artist?
Sounds like you are all about the visuals... I'm all about the sound and music... I remember playing Unreal Tournament in my (admittedly elder) youth, and adoring the soundtrack. I never liked Drum and Bass before, found it too "messy". But the DnB on that soundtrack, was phenomenal. It really got me into that genre in a BIG way, that I could then understand and appreciate just how complex it is. Many years later, whilst playing WoW Vanilla, I got into a raiding guild, and became friends with our lead Warlock and his girlfriend at the time (best priest ever). After years of playing, joking, taking the piss, having fun times, realising that we (me and the Lock) both loved the same type of DnB, we met up on a guild meet. We had long conversations about the type of stuff we listened to, very similar tastes. Turned out (so I found out on our second guild meet a year or so later), he wrote music for computer games, and Unreal Tournament was one of his games that he'd written music for. All the DnB music on that soundtrack was his. He was insanely proud that knowing how much I loved DnB at that point, that it was a track he'd written that got me into that genre. ruclips.net/video/i_0G6WPuss4/видео.html by Michiel Van Den Bos Maybe you'll randomly meet and become friends with the designers on the Blizzard team at some point without even knowing what they do for a living :)
@@aussie870 a year later. i hate leveling a draenei shaman. dead world. dead game. wow gamers die and live again many times it seems. Now it feels like im in my veritable old days, seeing the world i love crumble before my eyes. To combat this i listen to music from my young days. ( I WILL NOT PAY FOR BOOSTS!)
One of my very first and fondest memories of Vanilla WoW, was entering Ashenvale, around level 20 as a Dwarf Hunter. As i started moving through the zone it over whelmed me. It felt MASSIVE, mysterious and genuinely really interesting to experience. I miss that a lot.
I remember I liked it when my character the female elf did /hurrah while she was running this town jumping all around like a rabbit, she looked very funny
Man.....so much emotion attached to this wonderful horrible game that stole years of my life, ignited my imagination and continues to haunt me to this day. I hate it and love it.
haha. I know those feelz m8. I usually start crying when listening to this music. It also has to do with my condition; an overly active nostalgia gland
I was a low level human rogue, I asked a level 44 Night Elf to take me all the way to his lands so I could meet with my Night Elf friend. I quested through these amazing zones, and the music in particular always brings back powerful emotions. Thank you.
I did the opposite. My first and main character, NE Hunter, level 10 I took the boat west and died many times running to Stormwind. From 10 I did Westfall, Duskwood (coincidently during Halloween), all the Human quests and eventually got my favorite item: Swift Palomino. For whatever reason a NE on a human mount wouldn't auto-dismount upon entering battlegrounds, so I could sprint ahead of everyone in WarsongGulch and whatnot.
It's funny how the books stated that the night elves actually did not live in Ashenvale, but that they used it as a hunting ground to harvest meat and furs and whatnot. It was only until the horde's arrival that they actually began to live there in order to defend Ashenvale From the horde's destruction.
I still remember the sense of dread and danger when my troll warrior first left the Barrens and stepped into Ashenvale... This wasn't Horder territory anymore, my big smelly feet were now stepping on contested lands. Lands that looked so greatly different compared to those I travelled before. I haven't played WoW in over a decade but I'll always have fond memories.
This is why I wish Blizzard would get back to telling faction stories alongside main story arcs. THIS is why there is a divide and why I would prefer to not see the playerbase current asking of cross faction play become a thing. MAYBE for raids but even then, just switch factions. This coming from a player who as 20-+ toons at level cap. I felt the same way as you and love your wording of this feeling. I recall feeling the same way as I started as Horde and now play Alliance.
Yes, that feeling when you first start playing the game and you find a green item, damn what a happy moment, everything shines brighter around you, birds sings, Tyrande gasps in horror, but you happy, your first green item from that silly bear that died for nothing, true meaning of being a noob, enjoying life to fullest.
so true, a felling you cant live twice sadly...then you become just another grinder/farmer to get something,dont get me wrong i love the game have been playing it for the last 12 years of my life, but never got that feeling again (and neither from any other source of entertaiment)
I never played WoW but just read your pinned comment on how you chose music based on the culture and lore of the areas. Just wanted to let you know, this detail and concept value is appreciated even by a non-gamer. What an excellent channel.
Dunno if u played since my response, I played wow since it came out and I agree about ur first response,blizz have a real knack with the beautiful music.
Mine was too!:) And i still remember my first "pvp" and "honor kill"at crossroads.I just wandering around crossroad i enjoy the new game what i find,questing and to meet new people and one time somebody just running in to crossroads on mount.I dont know wtf happend :) This was the first time when i saw alliance.:) One enemy with deat's head.Ofcourse all low lvl and guard try to kill it and after 4-5 min some higher lvl horde player join the "RAID" and the stranger try to escape towards Ratchet,but he can't because i use war stomp when he is on me,and the raid kill itt finaly! :)
My first pvp match was in Barrens near the Wailing Caverns I was a Night Elf druid and I met a Tauren druid. We dueled to death in bear forms at level 19 if I remember correctly. I barely won with like 5% hp left. My level 60 friend was waiting for me at the Wailing Caverns entrance in case someone was trying to gank me :D
Wow this was like a trip back through time. I remember playing the original World of Warcraft when it launched. I was 17; now I'm 34. Everyone was exploring in awe and not much was known about the world. The feeling of discovering all of these new areas and completing the quests accompanied by the amazing score of music was truly something to behold. World of Warcraft has already gone down in history as the most popular MMORPG, but the originality and community/friends that were built during this time makes it mean so much more to many of us. I wish I could go back in time and experience this again. Growing old has its pros and cons.
Wotlk was out for a month or two when I started playing. My first toon was a Tauren Druid and after leaving Mulgore I kept dying in northern barrens ( no gear and obviously too low a level for most mobs lol ) and my friend who was questing in Grizzly Hills stopped what he was doing to give me a escort to crossroads and then onwards to Orgrimmar , hooked me up with some gold and gear and sent me on my way. Questing finally landed me in Mor'shan Ramparts and then into a new zone called Ashenvale ! the music, the beauty, the excitement and fear of the opposing faction attacking me. I'll never forget that sensation. The enchanted forest and night elf music really left it's mark on me. I still log in every so often and play and the first thing I always do is fly to Ashenvale and hangout for a few .
Andrea Turturro I remember as a noob trying to avoid the main path through the zone as alliance because at that point if I remember you would be about level 20 while horde would be in their 30s if they was going through that zone.
This will never not remind me of the spring of 2008 when I first started. Walking around ashvenvale as a 20-something BE warlock, just amazed at the size and beauty of this zone. Wish I was a noob all over again.
Horde in Ashenvale.... *HISSSSSSSS* Coming from a horde player now lol. However, in 9.2.5, they should be adding cross-faction grouping for some content, and I will be switching my mage to gnome or night elf, probably, from BE!
Sometimes I would just sit in Ashenvale near the border of the Barrens and just fall asleep to this. This is the zone that made me fall deep in love with WoW. I never wanted to level up and move on.
I started playing around the start of TBC Classic. I remember being a level 18 Draenei Priest, fresh off the boat from Azuremyst, doing a bit of questing along the southernmost point of Darkshore. I was attacked by a panther, and in my attempts to fight back I drew in another one, so I just started running. I reached a hill and figured "maybe these panthers can't get over this, and I can escape that way." I looked behind me to try and see if they're getting closer, and realized that they had lost interest. But then, I turn around. I see massive, towering trees of green and purple, with a blue, hazy aura around the barely visible sky. I see lush plants, blooming vibrantly. I see sparkling fireflies, making brilliant lumination among the twilight of the forest. And then, I hear this 2:37. I feel like everyone has that one zone that they venture into for the first time and realize it's just gorgeous. For me, that zone is Ashenvale.
I grew up playing this game. I started when I was 12 years old at the very end of vanilla (Nov 2006) and my first character was a night elf. I played until about 2017 and did a few months of Classic in 2019. The night elf songs will be forever etched into my memory. In fact, I almost view these songs as religiously important. I can barely listen to the first few moments of this video without experiencing such extreme nostalgia that I have to turn it off again. It's only on very rare occasions that I listen to this. Even now I still follow WoW's development. It doesn't really leave you. Can anyone relate?
I remember being 12 years old taking 1 month of non stop play trying to level up to 20 to get my mount this zone taught me a ton like to read what the quests say and don't trade out rare items for grey vendor items. Never been as immersed into a game as I was wow
When I hear this music I always feel strong emotions. As of I am...homesick. Still remember entering this magic zone as a solo leveling human pala. Looking up to the giant trees with a wondering feeling. Dangererous roads to go and always glad to arrive at save havens with allied night elves...This music is truly enchanting, because it instantly brings back so many memories. Thanks for this awesome classic WoW music video!
This place will always have a special place in my life. Those statues in Ashanvele, the temple of the nagas, the hellscream and the place where thrall fought against the mannorath are all here. I had wondered first time of WoW History because of this amazing place. This is the only place where I disconnected from reality for the first time. my childhood is here, my lonely is here, my memories all of them are here. This place is so special for me.
So much nostalgia.. I can't begin to express the amount of fond memories I have of this place and the music. Thank you, Everness, for taking the time out of your day to make this video so that many avid WoW players, past and present, may reminisce of past memories
I am a Horde player but the burning of Teldrassil just outraged me to my core. The lands of the Night Elves are among the most iconic and beautiful places in fantasy history.
Ashenvale is the zone that made me fall in love with WoW.Back in 2009, A helpless noob Hunter asked for help, I was on the same quest so we grouped together and finished it with ease. Months later we started our own guild and raided together. Still friends to this day even though we barely play anymore.
i remember....in 2004...when i first stepped into Ashenvale for the very first time, the big words : CONTESTED TERRITORY appeared, i got a shock and turn back into horde territory frantically. it took me a couple minutes to catch my breath...before i venture back inside...man..the memories.....
Brings me back to 2004 and the first time I entered the Ashenvale forest. This amazing music came up and I fell in love with the WoW world. The music, the colours, the exploration. So many memories! I love how everyone is coming from different parts of the world but we all are deeply connected through this.
I haven't played WoW since they released "mists of pandaria" but I remember having so much fun as a night elf. My favorite memory would be traveling back here and like 80% of the night elves had the "night elf Mohawk" me included lol and we all started acting like Mr.T I can't wait to get WoW classic!
I must have been 11 years old when I came up from The Barrens, hardened by the intensity that was levels 10-19 Warsong Gulch, feeling like I could take on whatever troubles this "Ashenvale" had to throw at me. Nothing could have prepared me for sharing a zone with the Alliance. Nothing. Ashenvale was the first taste I got of open-world pvp (at least when The Crossroads wasn't under attack) and it will forever be the reason why I prefer competitive multiplayer over anything else. Thank you, Ashenvale.
I genuinely get home sickness listening to the music of my most beloved zones. I want to live there. I Re-roll characters just to be at home again, grinding them through all my favourite zones.
I swear to God, some of my happiest memories are just grinding in Ashenvale killing the various mobs. There are so many hidden paths and secret passages...every twist and turn has something new! :)
Playing in this area as a kid was always something. The music fits so well: just hearing it you can see the lush vegetation, twisting vines and hidden ponds. I had that peculiar feel of big areas with verticality in old games. Ah, nostalgia truly is the sadness of having been happy.
My favourite zone by far, as a Dwarf Hunter, i travelled through the wetlands and died countless times just to arrive in Darkshore & Ashenvale, all i wanted was to tame a tiger to have one as my own. I'll never forget traveling down that road towards the horde village and seeing a bright red name plate and knowing, that it was about to go down....
I gave myself a goal, because I knew I wanted to play: I had to finish my college application and drop it in the mail before I could buy it. I remember being home alone and I gave myself the last proofread. Into the envelope it went and first stop: post office. Second stop: Best Buy (back when it was a fun place to go). What an experience to be immersed in when I needed the future study breaks. Though I've left WOW for about four or five years, the core of it will be fond memories, and the music especially.
I keep coming back to this music. It is simply magical and soothing. Besides that... I guess I'm getting old, since I played this game from the very start in 2004, as a Night Elf druid. Man, this music and the nostalgia it brings, I think this will have a place in my hart for as long as I live... Too bad we can never go back and experience this game and it's magic in full anymore. Not only because it won't be new anymore, but also because the community at that time made this game very fun and special the way it was, something that is impossible to recreate... Glad I lived it and able to re-live it a little every time I listen to this...
I wake up early in the moring, and spend this 1 hour listening to Ashenvale music while I mediate, do affirmations, journal, plan out my day, stretch and drink water. Its a perfect start to the day.
Will never forget how I went from The Barrens into Ashenvale's Nightsong forests. Had a Tauren Druid named Johaara and a handful or friends with me. It was just pure magic, excitement and fluorescent beauty. I think I spent whole nights here. Even in higher levels i returned to that magic forest regularly. Can't believe it's been nearly 20 years now. Sending hugs to THORRN and RUMBURAK
2005. Early March. A little lvl 19 undead rogue discovered the border to Ashenvale during the Samophlange questchain in the Barrens. Was curious and set foot on the new terrain. Then the music settled in and it hit me like a truck. After that the lvl 23 cat wanted to hit me too and i left running. But this event was one of the major nostalgia from early WoW.
47:36 My god that gently sweeping, enchanting little crescendo just cripples me. I'd give anything to step back into 2007 and experience this game for the first time all over again.
i will forever love this game. Hands down, truly, to them for making it an experience such as it was. The ambience and the music man.. no words. Magnificent. Brilliant. Serene so much so at some point i would just stare into the screen and fucking cry man.. eternal wishes of visiting a place such as this.. unreal man.. fucking unreal.. 7:50.. there is not much on this planet that can compare with that song there.. such peace and prosperity..
In vanilla, I would often travel into Ashenvale and just light one up and chill out and listen to this soundtrack. I always thought it was the best in the game!
I almost ruined my life because of this game, or maybe this game saved my life. So many memories, so many adventures and challenges. It was forgetting RL problems and be in peace inside the realm of World of Warcraft, where everything was beautiful and peaceful, where your bad thoughts would stay asleep. The water slowly moving, the fauna, the hills, flying in my dragon or riding my wolf. Picking up a flower and mining for ores, fishing eels all night long because you needed those armor pots to survive the bosses in tomorrow’s raid, because your mates were counting on me, because we had a goal, because we were together fighting for objectives. Making a noob happy by giving them some gold so they could buy the só wanted item. Helping mates to persue their quest and farm goals. Having fun by trying to kill bosses with the minimum elements possible, just for the challenge. Raiding all night long commanding a group of 40 people who were counting on you, managing 40 egos and keeping a positive spirit to get things done. The sentiment of a server first kill, the sentiment of a top world 50 kill. The peace you felt after 7 straight hours of raiding where you blew up the stock of consumables you farmed last night and taking a break chilling out in Orgrimmar on top of the bank or the AH, just watching people going in and out of the buildings or just sitting in Ashenvale seaside listening to this music after a very exhausting and demanding raid. So many memories...2 years in time played during 5 years...insane and borderline sick I know, but it was my escape and thanks for that Blizzard.
I played WoW very casually... A little bit growing up, then again when Classic came out. This music feels like home to me. Idk how to describe it. I've loved many MMO's but something about these areas is so mystical and nostalgic and I contually come back to this music. I remember walking around these maps for the first time in just sheer awe of how big the forest was around me.
I still remember the moment, like it was yesterday, when i first looked up the tall trees and soaked in the mystic flair when the ambient music started playing, then the soft background jingles you can hear when music stop for a bit.
My first toon was a night elf rogue going on 8 years this December during LK. I was blown away by the immersion and music of these zones. I think blizzard made a big mistake with Cata upsetting these lands. Nevertheless, I still renew my account every new expansion for a couple months but can never really achieve that original feeling. The vanilla private servers were pretty damn close but the music always brings it all back. Great work Everness! Thank you!
Started around the end of Vanilla with a Tauren hunter. Going from the wide open, mostly desolate spaces of the barrens and mulgore (cool as they were in their own right) to Ashenvale was a shock. I just ventured north on a whim and discovered a deep, dark, enchanted forest where I didn't feel entirely welcome. It was a mystical experience and it brings me warm feels.
I miss this glory and mystery of the Night Elves. They have been reduced expansion after expansion until ultimately completely destroyed. A bunch of refugees now sleeping on the streets of Stormwind. I can't forgive Blizzard for ruining the most venerable of all races.
We organized a Horde raiding party from Menethil Harbor and ended up in Darkshore - week 1 of WoW... level 40s, barely able to fight, pushing all the way into Night Elf lands... and this music playing in the background as we battled the night away. *Memories of Tichondrius...
No other game captured my imagination and excitement like this game. I would say upto Wrath was just absolutely amazing! I love the Night Elves questing areas and Barrens Chat was also epic. When an MMO was a true Multiplayer experience.
Ashenvale was where my Nelf Druid lived back in my RP days. It's home. 💜 I've since moved to Horde but it broke my heart to see them move into Ashenvale and clearing the forests.. 💔💔
No matter what race I played, I always made it a point to come here to quest because I loved it so much. Thanks for posting this music, it's beautiful.
Started playing my resto druid in 2005 and then, when Ulduar patch came out my guild moved to another server so I just went to the bank, got all my T2 gear and did one last walk along the shores of Astranaar. He's still there, enjoying the view.
Just the music is a huge part in this game, makes you feel the zone so much more. They have a great orchestra that sounds so good, like you're in a dream or somewhere far away
Ah! I remember that time with my first toon, a human priest level 20 I got a quest in Stormwind to get something in Stonetalon Mountains. I went there on foot. When I entered Ashenvele I got impressed with the music and the scenery. Those green and purple trees. I fell in love with it and I created a Night Elf.
I've been visiting my grandparents over the holidays who own a giant old mansion. I'm the only person in the house today because I have food poisoning. I'm blaring this video and it made my otherwise miserable day. Thank you for making this.
Remember my first nelf druid, i managed to come to Ashenvale on Azjol-nerub server before my friends said they were on Aszune. The druid has been in ashenvale since march 2005 :)
This magic.. this place,, the night elven sites, these forests, the music... charm me terribly! I used to roam and wander over the ambiance and terrains there..
This right here.... my 1st character was a night elf hunter on the shadowmoon server. I can't even imagine how much time I spent listening to this soundtrack in game.
I've never heard anything more beautiful. Not a gamer, but this music is amazing. I work on Q research as I listen. Now this year is implanted in my soul more sublimely than I could have planned. Thanks, Everness, whoever you are!
It's strange how a soundtrack is able to capture such a feeling of nostalgia. Listening to these soundtracks the feeling is like rain pouring on a lake of memories and the ripples from each of the drops cause a great and somewhat overwhelming feeling of longing to come over me. It's like recalling a past life, yet it truly was an old life. A different me, a different mindset, different problems and different ambitions. I both disdain that I lost time to this game, yet find the world, community and music of it beautiful. I come and listen to these every once and a while, but they do make me emotional like nothing else. And I can't say it's positive.
I still remember entering Ashenvale for the first time as if it was today. That magical forest that was so unbelievably different from the Barrens that I came from. It blew my mind in wonder.
This took me back to a place where I didn't want to go. This and Teldrassil are my favorite music. Beautiful, a little whimsical, peaceful. Man I did not want to hear this. Makes me want to enter that World again and it has been ages.
Its like remembering a past life..
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Thats right ! 🙂
I felt that ♡
I know, brings chills down my back. Reminds me of 2009
I want to be a noob again...
We all wanna go back. :(
Legacy realms... as time goes on more and more people crave for them.
Vanilla we hardly knew ye....
Stop playing for more than 6 months, start a race+class combination you haven't played before in a realm you haven't played before with no addons/heirlooms/guild/cash
Yeah I want to go back to when I had more time to play. :(
I think Ashenvale is the most beautiful zone ever made by Blizzard, even though it's outdated now, the feeling of the zone is just unbeatable
Norbert Kada now have val'sharah, that place is nice too
the best vanilla zone really
A good second place of the most beautiful zones is Eversong Woods, the Blood Elf starting area.
not really outdated since they redid it in cata with some newer textures
I thought Nagrand and the isle of Quel'danas were gorgeous but if to look only at the Vanilla zones then yes I would absolutely agree with you
As a kid I was marveling at the beauty of Ashenvale.
Now as an adult I'm writing this from a gaming studio where I'm an environment artist.
This game changed my life, and I don't think I could ever put into words how meaningful it still is to me.
Thank you for these videos. The nostalgia almost hurts.
nice dude
I also want to design environments in the future! Listening to WoW classic soundtracks to get some inspiration for my own story.
Do you want to share some of your work as an environment artist?
Thats so cool. You made something of it. Good for you👍
Nice! Hope it inspires your work
Sounds like you are all about the visuals... I'm all about the sound and music...
I remember playing Unreal Tournament in my (admittedly elder) youth, and adoring the soundtrack. I never liked Drum and Bass before, found it too "messy". But the DnB on that soundtrack, was phenomenal. It really got me into that genre in a BIG way, that I could then understand and appreciate just how complex it is.
Many years later, whilst playing WoW Vanilla, I got into a raiding guild, and became friends with our lead Warlock and his girlfriend at the time (best priest ever). After years of playing, joking, taking the piss, having fun times, realising that we (me and the Lock) both loved the same type of DnB, we met up on a guild meet.
We had long conversations about the type of stuff we listened to, very similar tastes.
Turned out (so I found out on our second guild meet a year or so later), he wrote music for computer games, and Unreal Tournament was one of his games that he'd written music for. All the DnB music on that soundtrack was his.
He was insanely proud that knowing how much I loved DnB at that point, that it was a track he'd written that got me into that genre.
ruclips.net/video/i_0G6WPuss4/видео.html by Michiel Van Den Bos
Maybe you'll randomly meet and become friends with the designers on the Blizzard team at some point without even knowing what they do for a living :)
Back when the journey still was the destination 😢
It still is. Classic is here!
I remember that town that was on fire
Neah smells
@@firstLast-jw7bm A year later and one can still smell the salt from your comment lol
@@aussie870 a year later. i hate leveling a draenei shaman. dead world. dead game. wow gamers die and live again many times it seems. Now it feels like im in my veritable old days, seeing the world i love crumble before my eyes. To combat this i listen to music from my young days. ( I WILL NOT PAY FOR BOOSTS!)
We were not playing WOW, but living in it.
There's nothing like the Night Elf music. Unique. Epic. Nostalgic. Unbeatable. Damn It...
And here I go again
One of my very first and fondest memories of Vanilla WoW, was entering Ashenvale, around level 20 as a Dwarf Hunter. As i started moving through the zone it over whelmed me. It felt MASSIVE, mysterious and genuinely really interesting to experience.
I miss that a lot.
whats a dwarf doing in ashenvale lol
And then cata killed the sacred place ... =(
Remember we're getting WoW Classic soon...
I remember I liked it when my character the female elf did /hurrah while she was running this town jumping all around like a rabbit, she looked very funny
@@crocevappcrocevap3290 He went to mentehill and shipped over to darkshore
It was 2004. I was in the USAF. I was lonely, depressed, homesick, and this zone and music was my escape. I’ll never forget it.
Thank you for your service airman!
Literally same scenario but in 2006
Yeah man! 2005 June for me! Navy here!
Man.....so much emotion attached to this wonderful horrible game that stole years of my life, ignited my imagination and continues to haunt me to this day.
I hate it and love it.
I could have written this comment, you're not alone in your feelings.
I was born in 73, been seeing it everywhere lately.
Synchronicities are fun.
@@modred437 And i just returned, and the first place i went straight too - was Ashenvale.
Same here....
Love is like that.
@@diro9655 oh shit, so that's how you found out about Teldrassil?
My nostalgia gland is squirming with feels
ThatPunchKid I found another youtuber.
Aren't we all technically youtubers?
We just don't upload.
Same
My hovercraft is full of eels.
haha.
I know those feelz m8. I usually start crying when listening to this music. It also has to do with my condition; an overly active nostalgia gland
The song starting at 2:35....masterpiece, it's like the forrest along with the trees start talking to you.
Do you know the name of it? It's my favorite song in the game. So many feels.
Lieselotte Vde the songs are in the description along with time stamps
it sounds like Oblivion music
@@Sgarnoncunce Oblivion music sounds like WoW music **
@@daviddewar6008 they actually both sound like the LOTR movies
I was a low level human rogue, I asked a level 44 Night Elf to take me all the way to his lands so I could meet with my Night Elf friend. I quested through these amazing zones, and the music in particular always brings back powerful emotions. Thank you.
I did the opposite. My first and main character, NE Hunter, level 10 I took the boat west and died many times running to Stormwind. From 10 I did Westfall, Duskwood (coincidently during Halloween), all the Human quests and eventually got my favorite item: Swift Palomino. For whatever reason a NE on a human mount wouldn't auto-dismount upon entering battlegrounds, so I could sprint ahead of everyone in WarsongGulch and whatnot.
"His lands" sounds so awesome, considering it was another player
It's funny how the books stated that the night elves actually did not live in Ashenvale, but that they used it as a hunting ground to harvest meat and furs and whatnot. It was only until the horde's arrival that they actually began to live there in order to defend Ashenvale From the horde's destruction.
I still remember the sense of dread and danger when my troll warrior first left the Barrens and stepped into Ashenvale...
This wasn't Horder territory anymore, my big smelly feet were now stepping on contested lands. Lands that looked so greatly different compared to those I travelled before.
I haven't played WoW in over a decade but I'll always have fond memories.
This is why I wish Blizzard would get back to telling faction stories alongside main story arcs. THIS is why there is a divide and why I would prefer to not see the playerbase current asking of cross faction play become a thing. MAYBE for raids but even then, just switch factions. This coming from a player who as 20-+ toons at level cap. I felt the same way as you and love your wording of this feeling. I recall feeling the same way as I started as Horde and now play Alliance.
Yes, that feeling when you first start playing the game and you find a green item, damn what a happy moment, everything shines brighter around you, birds sings, Tyrande gasps in horror, but you happy, your first green item from that silly bear that died for nothing, true meaning of being a noob, enjoying life to fullest.
so true, a felling you cant live twice sadly...then you become just another grinder/farmer to get something,dont get me wrong i love the game have been playing it for the last 12 years of my life, but never got that feeling again (and neither from any other source of entertaiment)
This is an incredible comment. Tyrande gasps in horror lol. So true about greens.
kek
When even getting a grey helm or shoulders is a huge moment of progression for your character. Ah what a time.
I never played WoW but just read your pinned comment on how you chose music based on the culture and lore of the areas. Just wanted to let you know, this detail and concept value is appreciated even by a non-gamer. What an excellent channel.
Thank you! As always, trying my best.
I have played the game, but even if I don't anymore I definitely appreciate the culture and lore and especially the music.
Just how did you come here though? I'm curious..
You must start playing now, because vanilla comes back!27th August
Dunno if u played since my response, I played wow since it came out and I agree about ur first response,blizz have a real knack with the beautiful music.
my first character a Tauren. i ran up there exploring, I was blown away after spending 2+ weeks in the barrens
Mine was too!:) And i still remember my first "pvp" and "honor kill"at crossroads.I just wandering around crossroad i enjoy the new game what i find,questing and to meet new people and one time somebody just running in to crossroads on mount.I dont know wtf happend :) This was the first time when i saw alliance.:) One enemy with deat's head.Ofcourse all low lvl and guard try to kill it and after 4-5 min some higher lvl horde player join the "RAID" and the stranger try to escape towards Ratchet,but he can't because i use war stomp when he is on me,and the raid kill itt finaly! :)
MA Shakin' same here. My 1st was Tauren warrior
Hehe, I remember barrens almost made me quit on my first play.
My first pvp match was in Barrens near the Wailing Caverns I was a Night Elf druid and I met a Tauren druid. We dueled to death in bear forms at level 19 if I remember correctly. I barely won with like 5% hp left. My level 60 friend was waiting for me at the Wailing Caverns entrance in case someone was trying to gank me :D
I can fall asleep SO easily to this. I'm chronically ill, and suffer major insomnia. So THIS and similar WoW tracks are a massive help. 🙏
Wow this was like a trip back through time. I remember playing the original World of Warcraft when it launched. I was 17; now I'm 34. Everyone was exploring in awe and not much was known about the world. The feeling of discovering all of these new areas and completing the quests accompanied by the amazing score of music was truly something to behold. World of Warcraft has already gone down in history as the most popular MMORPG, but the originality and community/friends that were built during this time makes it mean so much more to many of us. I wish I could go back in time and experience this again. Growing old has its pros and cons.
As the wise druids would say: "Ishnu-dal-dieb my dude"
rofl
:)
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Wotlk was out for a month or two when I started playing. My first toon was a Tauren Druid and after leaving Mulgore I kept dying in northern barrens ( no gear and obviously too low a level for most mobs lol ) and my friend who was questing in Grizzly Hills stopped what he was doing to give me a escort to crossroads and then onwards to Orgrimmar , hooked me up with some gold and gear and sent me on my way. Questing finally landed me in Mor'shan Ramparts and then into a new zone called Ashenvale ! the music, the beauty, the excitement and fear of the opposing faction attacking me. I'll never forget that sensation. The enchanted forest and night elf music really left it's mark on me. I still log in every so often and play and the first thing I always do is fly to Ashenvale and hangout for a few .
One of the zones where you really felt the rivalry between the two factions.
Andrea Turturro I remember as a noob trying to avoid the main path through the zone as alliance because at that point if I remember you would be about level 20 while horde would be in their 30s if they was going through that zone.
ashenvale was my personal vietnam
My favorite zone to instigate PVP !
@@UnknownPersononGoogle yeah and they will kill and then laugh at you 🤦♀️
Yeeeeah boyeeeee.
-Tyrande Whisperwind
Listen at 0:22 lmao
nostalgia intensifies
If you only understood the impact that will make on my night elf questing experience.
This will never not remind me of the spring of 2008 when I first started. Walking around ashvenvale as a 20-something BE warlock, just amazed at the size and beauty of this zone. Wish I was a noob all over again.
Horde in Ashenvale.... *HISSSSSSSS*
Coming from a horde player now lol. However, in 9.2.5, they should be adding cross-faction grouping for some content, and I will be switching my mage to gnome or night elf, probably, from BE!
Sometimes I would just sit in Ashenvale near the border of the Barrens and just fall asleep to this. This is the zone that made me fall deep in love with WoW. I never wanted to level up and move on.
I started playing around the start of TBC Classic. I remember being a level 18 Draenei Priest, fresh off the boat from Azuremyst, doing a bit of questing along the southernmost point of Darkshore. I was attacked by a panther, and in my attempts to fight back I drew in another one, so I just started running. I reached a hill and figured "maybe these panthers can't get over this, and I can escape that way." I looked behind me to try and see if they're getting closer, and realized that they had lost interest. But then, I turn around. I see massive, towering trees of green and purple, with a blue, hazy aura around the barely visible sky. I see lush plants, blooming vibrantly. I see sparkling fireflies, making brilliant lumination among the twilight of the forest. And then, I hear this 2:37.
I feel like everyone has that one zone that they venture into for the first time and realize it's just gorgeous. For me, that zone is Ashenvale.
I grew up playing this game. I started when I was 12 years old at the very end of vanilla (Nov 2006) and my first character was a night elf. I played until about 2017 and did a few months of Classic in 2019. The night elf songs will be forever etched into my memory. In fact, I almost view these songs as religiously important. I can barely listen to the first few moments of this video without experiencing such extreme nostalgia that I have to turn it off again. It's only on very rare occasions that I listen to this. Even now I still follow WoW's development. It doesn't really leave you. Can anyone relate?
I feel you son
there should be a world of warcraft amusement park, but more like a sanctuary where it's primarily dedicated to recreating these environments
Oh this is such a good idea!
A small team will do it in VR in 20 years for fun.
omg what a missed opportunity.
That is seriously a great idea
I just hope holograms like those in Star Trek, appear in my lifetime... Imagine how good playing WoW in one of those would be... ;-)
close your eyes and go back in time.... it's still there :)
Great memories! 😊
I remember being 12 years old taking 1 month of non stop play trying to level up to 20 to get my mount this zone taught me a ton like to read what the quests say and don't trade out rare items for grey vendor items. Never been as immersed into a game as I was wow
When I hear this music I always feel strong emotions. As of I am...homesick. Still remember entering this magic zone as a solo leveling human pala. Looking up to the giant trees with a wondering feeling. Dangererous roads to go and always glad to arrive at save havens with allied night elves...This music is truly enchanting, because it instantly brings back so many memories. Thanks for this awesome classic WoW music video!
This place will always have a special place in my life. Those statues in Ashanvele, the temple of the nagas, the hellscream and the place where thrall fought against the mannorath are all here. I had wondered first time of WoW History because of this amazing place.
This is the only place where I disconnected from reality for the first time. my childhood is here, my lonely is here, my memories all of them are here. This place is so special for me.
So much nostalgia.. I can't begin to express the amount of fond memories I have of this place and the music. Thank you, Everness, for taking the time out of your day to make this video so that many avid WoW players, past and present, may reminisce of past memories
I am bawling. All those people I used to know, the time we spent together in WOW. The tough time I was going through.
I am a Horde player but the burning of Teldrassil just outraged me to my core. The lands of the Night Elves are among the most iconic and beautiful places in fantasy history.
Ashenvale is the zone that made me fall in love with WoW.Back in 2009, A helpless noob Hunter asked for help, I was on the same quest so we grouped together and finished it with ease.
Months later we started our own guild and raided together. Still friends to this day even though we barely play anymore.
i remember....in 2004...when i first stepped into Ashenvale for the very first time, the big words : CONTESTED TERRITORY appeared, i got a shock and turn back into horde territory frantically. it took me a couple minutes to catch my breath...before i venture back inside...man..the memories.....
Haha I have the exact same memory but playing as my night elf huntress :) good times!
Brings me back to 2004 and the first time I entered the Ashenvale forest. This amazing music came up and I fell in love with the WoW world. The music, the colours, the exploration. So many memories! I love how everyone is coming from different parts of the world but we all are deeply connected through this.
Lots of running back and forth for the quests, but man does it have awesome memories.
I haven't played WoW since they released "mists of pandaria" but I remember having so much fun as a night elf. My favorite memory would be traveling back here and like 80% of the night elves had the "night elf Mohawk" me included lol and we all started acting like Mr.T
I can't wait to get WoW classic!
I compltely forgot about Mr.T haha thx for that memory refreshment
Beautiful. The Night Elf zones and music are some of my favorite. So tranquil.
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I must have been 11 years old when I came up from The Barrens, hardened by the intensity that was levels 10-19 Warsong Gulch, feeling like I could take on whatever troubles this "Ashenvale" had to throw at me.
Nothing could have prepared me for sharing a zone with the Alliance. Nothing. Ashenvale was the first taste I got of open-world pvp (at least when The Crossroads wasn't under attack) and it will forever be the reason why I prefer competitive multiplayer over anything else.
Thank you, Ashenvale.
That's a lovely memory. There's something special about the magic of going into PVP zones as a kid.
I genuinely get home sickness listening to the music of my most beloved zones. I want to live there. I Re-roll characters just to be at home again, grinding them through all my favourite zones.
I swear to God, some of my happiest memories are just grinding in Ashenvale killing the various mobs. There are so many hidden paths and secret passages...every twist and turn has something new! :)
9:04 was always giving me goosebumps
Playing in this area as a kid was always something. The music fits so well: just hearing it you can see the lush vegetation, twisting vines and hidden ponds. I had that peculiar feel of big areas with verticality in old games.
Ah, nostalgia truly is the sadness of having been happy.
Classic era is alive and well come play
My favourite zone by far, as a Dwarf Hunter, i travelled through the wetlands and died countless times just to arrive in Darkshore & Ashenvale, all i wanted was to tame a tiger to have one as my own.
I'll never forget traveling down that road towards the horde village and seeing a bright red name plate and knowing, that it was about to go down....
I gave myself a goal, because I knew I wanted to play: I had to finish my college application and drop it in the mail before I could buy it. I remember being home alone and I gave myself the last proofread. Into the envelope it went and first stop: post office. Second stop: Best Buy (back when it was a fun place to go). What an experience to be immersed in when I needed the future study breaks. Though I've left WOW for about four or five years, the core of it will be fond memories, and the music especially.
I grew up as a healer and a tank and it all started in Ashenvale. This is gold. Thank you!
I keep coming back to this music. It is simply magical and soothing.
Besides that... I guess I'm getting old, since I played this game from the very start in 2004, as a Night Elf druid.
Man, this music and the nostalgia it brings, I think this will have a place in my hart for as long as I live...
Too bad we can never go back and experience this game and it's magic in full anymore. Not only because it won't be new anymore, but also because the community at that time made this game very fun and special the way it was, something that is impossible to recreate...
Glad I lived it and able to re-live it a little every time I listen to this...
I wake up early in the moring, and spend this 1 hour listening to Ashenvale music while I mediate, do affirmations, journal, plan out my day, stretch and drink water. Its a perfect start to the day.
Will never forget how I went from The Barrens into Ashenvale's Nightsong forests. Had a Tauren Druid named Johaara and a handful or friends with me. It was just pure magic, excitement and fluorescent beauty. I think I spent whole nights here. Even in higher levels i returned to that magic forest regularly. Can't believe it's been nearly 20 years now. Sending hugs to THORRN and RUMBURAK
Hyjal 1 is one of the best soundtracks of the whole world of warcraft imo.
So underrated
2005. Early March. A little lvl 19 undead rogue discovered the border to Ashenvale during the Samophlange questchain in the Barrens. Was curious and set foot on the new terrain. Then the music settled in and it hit me like a truck. After that the lvl 23 cat wanted to hit me too and i left running. But this event was one of the major nostalgia from early WoW.
47:36 My god that gently sweeping, enchanting little crescendo just cripples me. I'd give anything to step back into 2007 and experience this game for the first time all over again.
i will forever love this game. Hands down, truly, to them for making it an experience such as it was. The ambience and the music man.. no words. Magnificent. Brilliant. Serene so much so at some point i would just stare into the screen and fucking cry man.. eternal wishes of visiting a place such as this.. unreal man.. fucking unreal.. 7:50.. there is not much on this planet that can compare with that song there.. such peace and prosperity..
well said. i feel the same. its like the warcraft universe is part of me.
In vanilla, I would often travel into Ashenvale and just light one up and chill out and listen to this soundtrack. I always thought it was the best in the game!
yo me 🍁🤣🖤
Same here, but I was TBC player originally - so I did that in Ghostlands instead.
This was it for me, the most magical part of wow. Walking into Ashenvale. Made me feel like I was in lotr
FUUUUU I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW! The nostalgia is real..
aaron brooks dude u r handsome
Forget about those hoardy misery music! Thanks.
Enchanted forest 5 is genuinely the most magical thing I have ever heard.
Cannot forget the first time entering this zone. The music was so peaceful and hypnotic.
Начинал играть за эльфов, музыка вызывает сильную ностальгию.
when the game was truly and unbelievably epic
I almost ruined my life because of this game, or maybe this game saved my life. So many memories, so many adventures and challenges. It was forgetting RL problems and be in peace inside the realm of World of Warcraft, where everything was beautiful and peaceful, where your bad thoughts would stay asleep. The water slowly moving, the fauna, the hills, flying in my dragon or riding my wolf. Picking up a flower and mining for ores, fishing eels all night long because you needed those armor pots to survive the bosses in tomorrow’s raid, because your mates were counting on me, because we had a goal, because we were together fighting for objectives. Making a noob happy by giving them some gold so they could buy the só wanted item. Helping mates to persue their quest and farm goals. Having fun by trying to kill bosses with the minimum elements possible, just for the challenge. Raiding all night long commanding a group of 40 people who were counting on you, managing 40 egos and keeping a positive spirit to get things done. The sentiment of a server first kill, the sentiment of a top world 50 kill. The peace you felt after 7 straight hours of raiding where you blew up the stock of consumables you farmed last night and taking a break chilling out in Orgrimmar on top of the bank or the AH, just watching people going in and out of the buildings or just sitting in Ashenvale seaside listening to this music after a very exhausting and demanding raid. So many memories...2 years in time played during 5 years...insane and borderline sick I know, but it was my escape and thanks for that Blizzard.
Hey, no shame.
I played WoW very casually... A little bit growing up, then again when Classic came out. This music feels like home to me. Idk how to describe it. I've loved many MMO's but something about these areas is so mystical and nostalgic and I contually come back to this music. I remember walking around these maps for the first time in just sheer awe of how big the forest was around me.
I still remember the moment, like it was yesterday, when i first looked up the tall trees and soaked in the mystic flair when the ambient music started playing, then the soft background jingles you can hear when music stop for a bit.
My first toon was a night elf rogue going on 8 years this December during LK. I was blown away by the immersion and music of these zones. I think blizzard made a big mistake with Cata upsetting these lands. Nevertheless, I still renew my account every new expansion for a couple months but can never really achieve that original feeling. The vanilla private servers were pretty damn close but the music always brings it all back. Great work Everness! Thank you!
Indeed. The post-cata Auberdine/Darskshore zone was even worse in my opinion. Just awful. I'd never dump my sub if Blizzard enabled legacy servers.
Scott Smith good news for you i guess
Indeed!
Started around the end of Vanilla with a Tauren hunter. Going from the wide open, mostly desolate spaces of the barrens and mulgore (cool as they were in their own right) to Ashenvale was a shock. I just ventured north on a whim and discovered a deep, dark, enchanted forest where I didn't feel entirely welcome. It was a mystical experience and it brings me warm feels.
I miss this glory and mystery of the Night Elves. They have been reduced expansion after expansion until ultimately completely destroyed. A bunch of refugees now sleeping on the streets of Stormwind. I can't forgive Blizzard for ruining the most venerable of all races.
Draenei are older and better.
Fuck arthas when he decided to attacked silvermoon no reason , now times change
This almost makes me want to cry :P that's how strong the nostalgic feeling is of this game for me. I was 15-16 when I started ti play Vanilla
We organized a Horde raiding party from Menethil Harbor and ended up in Darkshore - week 1 of WoW... level 40s, barely able to fight, pushing all the way into Night Elf lands... and this music playing in the background as we battled the night away. *Memories of Tichondrius...
That feeling when you enter Ashenvale from The Barrens and before that from Durotar and your eyes no longer suffer
No other game captured my imagination and excitement like this game. I would say upto Wrath was just absolutely amazing! I love the Night Elves questing areas and Barrens Chat was also epic. When an MMO was a true Multiplayer experience.
Ashenvale was where my Nelf Druid lived back in my RP days. It's home. 💜 I've since moved to Horde but it broke my heart to see them move into Ashenvale and clearing the forests.. 💔💔
Fuck arthas when he decided to attacked silvermoon no reason
No matter what race I played, I always made it a point to come here to quest because I loved it so much. Thanks for posting this music, it's beautiful.
Started playing my resto druid in 2005 and then, when Ulduar patch came out my guild moved to another server so I just went to the bank, got all my T2 gear and did one last walk along the shores of Astranaar. He's still there, enjoying the view.
Just the music is a huge part in this game, makes you feel the zone so much more. They have a great orchestra that sounds so good, like you're in a dream or somewhere far away
I just absolutely love the harp music in this place it just sounds so beautiful and peaceful to me. Thank you for making it
So many countless hours playing and grinding in this zone. Good times.
Ah! I remember that time with my first toon, a human priest level 20 I got a quest in Stormwind to get something in Stonetalon Mountains. I went there on foot. When I entered Ashenvele I got impressed with the music and the scenery. Those green and purple trees. I fell in love with it and I created a Night Elf.
I want to be young again when I played this with my best friend. I miss being naive. It was great.
I've been visiting my grandparents over the holidays who own a giant old mansion. I'm the only person in the house today because I have food poisoning. I'm blaring this video and it made my otherwise miserable day. Thank you for making this.
Remember my first nelf druid, i managed to come to Ashenvale on Azjol-nerub server before my friends said they were on Aszune. The druid has been in ashenvale since march 2005 :)
This magic.. this place,, the night elven sites, these forests, the music... charm me terribly! I used to roam and wander over the ambiance and terrains there..
ah..old memory. really nice bgm. this music make me think a lot of times i spend in kalimdor..
heartwrenching.
the first 45 seconds makes me think mystery and majestic. my favorite
blizzard should make an amusement park with those reputation points. definitely go there
EPIC UNIVERSE might one day do a Wow park.
This right here.... my 1st character was a night elf hunter on the shadowmoon server. I can't even imagine how much time I spent listening to this soundtrack in game.
Shadowmoon for the win! I was part of Kitty Spins and Why no Love before that (for the horde!) :-) What guild were you in?
Ashenvale has so much magic. Song of elune is a masterpiece. Good memories lvling there about 12 years ago
I've never heard anything more beautiful. Not a gamer, but this music is amazing. I work on Q research as I listen. Now this year is implanted in my soul more sublimely than I could have planned. Thanks, Everness, whoever you are!
It's strange how a soundtrack is able to capture such a feeling of nostalgia. Listening to these soundtracks the feeling is like rain pouring on a lake of memories and the ripples from each of the drops cause a great and somewhat overwhelming feeling of longing to come over me. It's like recalling a past life, yet it truly was an old life. A different me, a different mindset, different problems and different ambitions.
I both disdain that I lost time to this game, yet find the world, community and music of it beautiful. I come and listen to these every once and a while, but they do make me emotional like nothing else. And I can't say it's positive.
Ashenvale and Azuremyst are the best background musics to have while working.
Can't wait to go here in Classic. I'll always remember finding Ashenvale by accident when i was young.
I want to have WoW music played at my funeral. And I'm not kidding.
@Salomon Kane You troll 😂
Shattrath City music is my choice
Graveyard
High borns lament
but this world is not real
I still remember entering Ashenvale for the first time as if it was today. That magical forest that was so unbelievably different from the Barrens that I came from. It blew my mind in wonder.
Music has to power to transcend time, like a time portal. This brings me back 20 years ago, peaceful times!
^^ wants to play wow so badly, but too time-consuming. yet, can listen to its wondrous music, while relaxing and enjoying it even more. thank you 💜
Build a wall around Astranaar (and make the Warsong clan pay for it)!
This took me back to a place where I didn't want to go. This and Teldrassil are my favorite music. Beautiful, a little whimsical, peaceful. Man I did not want to hear this. Makes me want to enter that World again and it has been ages.