I want you to know I still find and listen to this video all the time. Still gives me chills, and this is the only place where I can seem to find it. Never take it down. Much love from Canada, October 2023.
YUhave2Bawsome As Nobbel prophesized in the machinima colab with nixxiom machinima... Illidan is back.. he is a god damn lore god.. That nobbel. Everything he prophesized before WoD was out as to what came after, has come true.. he freakin predicted THIS. And everything that's coming.
I can't help but shed a tear every time I hear this. Black Temple was to me the most fun and memorable raid ever. I feel so lucky that I got to play in TBC.
Soloing Black Temple as a Demon Hunter is really weird. Because all of a sudden, I don't see faceless mobs to kill. I see loyal Illidari soldiers. I see an army preparing to invade Argus and lay waste to the demonic homeworld of the Legion. But then they were murdered. Murdered for the crime of trying to end the burning legion. FOR LORD ILLIDAN! THE ILLIDARI CAN NOT BE STOPPED!
Trust me after reading Illidan's novel I began to hate myself for all the solos I did in BT. But I still enjoy beating the shit out of scourge zombies in ICC.
With the addition of 7.3, and the "You Are Now Prepared!" achievement for doing the Argus questline, Blizz lost out on quite possibly the best chance to introduce such a title.
I have spent a full night now just going back listioning to all these epic pieces of music. Let me tell you nastalgia has hit me like a fist. One thing however it has helped me realize that no matter what happens to this game it will always hold a special place in my heart. Blizzard has truely put their heart and soul into this game and the epicness that is wow is just off the scale. I am sure I can speak for all of us when I say thank you blizzard for allowing us to take a part in this story
Dont forget the time it takes to get a raid together, the amount of times you wipe and have to run back in, and the times people leave and you have to find a replacement.
Betrayer... in truth, it was I who was betrayed! Still I am hunted... STILL I am hated! Now, my blind eyes see what others cannot! That sometimes, the hand of fate MUST be forced! Yeah, we lost Illidan, we were not prepared ¬¬
Such a weird feeling listening to this and reading all these 10+-year-old. It's been 16 years since I was first here. Insanity. This was and is still the pinnacle of WoW
Step 1: Listen to this. Step 2: Listen to 'Gardens of Karabor' from the Warlords of Draenor preview soundtrack. Step 3: Look up 'Triumphant Reprise' on TvTropes.
To me this really captures Illidan's desperation... to become more powerful.. And also his great pride in the sacrifices he's made for that power... combined with the sadness of losing everything...
***** Even those 95% were well within their rights, since the concept itself was ridiculous. But each to their own. You liked it. You got an expac you liked. So Good for you.
***** The raid was originally designed as a 40 man level 60 raid. It was introduced near the end of Vanilla and was the hardest raid ever designed at that point. It stayed in that version throughout TBC as well, but Blizzard removed the original version, changed all the mobs and items, and put it as an intro level 80 raid in Wrath. It was the first raid that they fully *removed* from the game in its original form, followed by Zul Gurub, Onyxia's Lair, all the vanilla dungeons etc. Basically, Vanilla is dead on retail, and that annoys a lot of people, myself included.
Jordan Ehdieb "Vanilla is dead on retail" ...and? Aside from obvious nostalgia filter, what was so great about vanilla raids? Aside from, you know, nothing.
Rykanable The community of having 40 man raids. Yes some guilds had half of those 40 people do nothing. It was still an epic experience to have 40 people needed to take down a boss. And the learning experience where everything was not already explained in game. Vanilla was great, but TBC was perfect.
The difficulty to even get to BT(before nerfs), its amazing environment, the awesome music, the thoughness of advancing boss after boss and the history related to every single step you did in there made defeating Illidan one success so heartfilling that nobody out of the game could even imagine. It may be something "useless" for your quotidian life but some experiences in wow raids were really impressing and involved REAL feelings that made normal people feel triumphant for one day.
Illidan is not dead. He has gotten too mutch demonic energy. Demons never die they are only send back to the nether or void or what its called. Illidan will return.
He isn't a demon he is part Illidari part night elf and yes can die their is no such thing as the nether you should pay more attention to the story line. And this song is my jam
this music bring old good days back..epic music..Tbc had the best raids ever..especially Bt..i'll never ever can forgot the theme musics atmosphere of there...want to experience that again omg =( i have wotlk
Old times... This soundtrack is perfect. Whilst in Black Temple, you can imagine how the previus, divine temple looked like. It remembers me of the sad story about Illidan and Akama. It remembers me of the countless wipes we went through. In some way it lightens me up, but also saddens me. I wish those old times back
I miss the TBC, but i remember the first time than get up there, saw him, and wipe (2 weeks after the server changed to WotLK, and 1 week after i level up to 70), the raid disbanded, but i stay alone up there with Ilidan, the beautiful scenario than the sky show me, and with such and endless song, i never forget that
so many feelings in this song... i remember riding by the BT and feeling so small and puny compared to it. i hope blizz is able to bring that feeling once more.
True, I play there for 2 months now, and the content what is out is pure blizzlike. I missed the old TBC days, and feenix wow brings back those memories ;)
This song really brings out the feelings of Illidan. It starts off slow and mystical, Like how Illidan was in the beginning, Pure and good hearted. Then it dives into the deepening sounds of sadness, Of Illidan's betrayal and heartbreak by Tyrande, Switching over into the madness of the Betrayer in Outland. Just awesome!! FOR THE HORDE!!
When i first heard this theme in the Wrath of the Lich King theme music for the login screen it just amazed me. Say what you will about Blizzard and their decisions for the game over the years, but they still have a way to pay homage to their masterpieces and work hard to amaze us with even more works of art, like this music.
@Brokengamezone You reminded me of the good days..Raiding MC and BWL...even when MC was on 'Farm' it still required an organized guild and good players to conquer it. That was when WoW was fun.
2024, who is still here listening to this, and waiting for illidan to come back 👌 ❤
I want you to know I still find and listen to this video all the time. Still gives me chills, and this is the only place where I can seem to find it. Never take it down. Much love from Canada, October 2023.
I still listen too 🎉🎉
That was one long loading screen.
it was indeed
Long? It's shorter than the usual Dalaran loading screens!
MrAwesome sadly yes
that was one original comment
HDDs were real slow 😅
Guess it took us 40 more levels for Illidan to think we're finally prepared.
genius
Genius
50*
Mysteriously solved in 1 year.
Welcome back old friend...
BoxHeadMAG We were not prepared
YUhave2Bawsome Actually some of us were >.>
Deyamira Blackthorn Agreed, but most us were not, evidence to that are the forums and reaction videos. Try lazypeon and cobrak for instance :P
YUhave2Bawsome As Nobbel prophesized in the machinima colab with nixxiom machinima... Illidan is back.. he is a god damn lore god.. That nobbel. Everything he prophesized before WoD was out as to what came after, has come true.. he freakin predicted THIS. And everything that's coming.
+YUhave2Bawsome 😢
I got an eargasm when I heard this in WoD in Shadowmoon Valley. It truly brought me back.
I know right holy shit I literally just stood there and listened for 5 minutes.
Same!
***** I know right? I thought I recognised it from there as well. :D It's awesome! :D
+autismi keksi
where in SM valley did you hear it?
+Σοφία Τσάμη
It's all over the place
watch?v=zy-0qL1J8Io
This piece gives me chills and tears in my eyes every time I listen to it, due to memories, and thoose awesome days. Miss it!
So true :)
Music still send chills up my spine, 6 years later. I remember walking into BT before they nerfed the need for attunement, was incredibly epic.
Man some of the music in this game is just on a whole new level
I can't help but shed a tear every time I hear this. Black Temple was to me the most fun and memorable raid ever. I feel so lucky that I got to play in TBC.
Soloing Black Temple as a Demon Hunter is really weird.
Because all of a sudden, I don't see faceless mobs to kill. I see loyal Illidari soldiers. I see an army preparing to invade Argus and lay waste to the demonic homeworld of the Legion.
But then they were murdered. Murdered for the crime of trying to end the burning legion.
FOR LORD ILLIDAN!
THE ILLIDARI CAN NOT BE STOPPED!
Trust me after reading Illidan's novel I began to hate myself for all the solos I did in BT. But I still enjoy beating the shit out of scourge zombies in ICC.
I only go to solo BT 'cause i want to see our leader Illidan ! And in the end i don't want to kill him !! I take a lot of screenshots with him ;)
Francesco Salvia FOR LORD ILLIDAN DEATH TO THE LEGION AND SARGEARS!!!
what about the sex slave?
Ossie u i like u
They should implement a title achievement in Legion called "X , The Prepared"
thats acctually a great idea sell it to blizzard
My toon is already named prepared.
With the addition of 7.3, and the "You Are Now Prepared!" achievement for doing the Argus questline, Blizz lost out on quite possibly the best chance to introduce such a title.
I have spent a full night now just going back listioning to all these epic pieces of music. Let me tell you nastalgia has hit me like a fist. One thing however it has helped me realize that no matter what happens to this game it will always hold a special place in my heart. Blizzard has truely put their heart and soul into this game and the epicness that is wow is just off the scale. I am sure I can speak for all of us when I say thank you blizzard for allowing us to take a part in this story
wow, how time changed huh
Dont forget the time it takes to get a raid together, the amount of times you wipe and have to run back in, and the times people leave and you have to find a replacement.
How I feel exactly. The music makes the game. The art and music put into this game will never be touched by any competitors.
Betrayer... in truth, it was I who was betrayed! Still I am hunted... STILL I am hated! Now, my blind eyes see what others cannot! That sometimes, the hand of fate MUST be forced!
Yeah, we lost Illidan, we were not prepared ¬¬
Sylvanas Windrunner Illidan is BACK!!
Sylvanas Windrunner Not only is Illidan is back, he is our new master. We are his illidari.
I wanna be his bitch
+Sylvanas Windrunner I hope illidan-sama comes and kills us all
+Burak Sırma Lol
I've never played this raid but I imagine it is awe inspiring
This brings back memories! To finally reach Black Temple was a big reward after having to deal with the Kael fight.
Vanilla is not dead. Vanilla will never die. It is just evolving and try to get better. No expansion can kill the original in my opinion.
Vanilla sucks hard
Dmitriy Voropay
cata was shit
@@PokerFaceNoLifer TBC > WOTLK > MOP > LEGION
rest are dogshite
Waited too long for your return Illidan. Please stay with us this time.
Yesterday I noticed this in the possible loots on Illidan : the flower of Tyrande *cries a lot*
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Memento is one of the things that illidan guards the most. It's probably the only thing that connects him "physically" with Tyrande.
THE ILIDARI CANNOT BE STOPPED!
All these moments will be lost to time, like tears in the rain..
Such a weird feeling listening to this and reading all these 10+-year-old. It's been 16 years since I was first here. Insanity. This was and is still the pinnacle of WoW
00:11 till 0:50 makes my heart cry damn feelz
Step 1: Listen to this.
Step 2: Listen to 'Gardens of Karabor' from the Warlords of Draenor preview soundtrack.
Step 3: Look up 'Triumphant Reprise' on TvTropes.
The Black Temple *is* Karabor. The name was changed when it become corrupted.
You don't say?
What's the point of doing that?
***** Because 'Gardens of Karabor' is an 'uncorrupted' remix of this.
You don't say?
that feeling when we were encountering Illidan for the first time ...
really good moments, don't regret anything.
Wow, finally someone who feels the same way.
Only a small fraction of music can make you feel emotional like this.
This is literally the best music in WoW. WoW has so many good tracks but this one defiantly takes the crown.
Welcome back buddy, missed ya!
Epic. Truly epic. The whole Black Temple raid was awesome. Storyline, bosses, architecture, music.
To me this really captures Illidan's desperation... to become more powerful.. And also his great pride in the sacrifices he's made for that power... combined with the sadness of losing everything...
damn, 9 minutes loading screen.
ccpossible Yep, my loading screen exactly
and dc'd :)
All the other stuff is great... but we're here for 7:22.
i prefer first 1-2 minutes
One of the best mmo game experience in my life.... I miss u tbc
4 years later still coming back here, will always love you wow no matter what people say, keep up the good lore :)
just here for a feel trip
0:20 Black Temple release
long pause with some other addons
8:00 LEGION BITCHEZ
one of the best music to listen to while raiding. totally fits Illidan's story. how its kinda slow dark and sad. great song!
Damn, the memories of hanging out in Black Temple on raid nights. I could never get enough of that place!!
Welcome back Illidan, we missed you, also Tyrande missed you.. I think you still have her flower, right?
+Psich0tyc Owl Malfurion's not gonna be happy 'bout that xD
+Psich0tyc Owl Yes, I do... I missed you too, insects.
+Illidan Stormrage Lol
Why my cat is so scared when he listen this?
because its stupid
your cat is not prepeared
AhonTrue I wasn't prepared.
***** or an Ashtounge Deathsword
socks n sandals
genious idea bringing up the wow-theme elements for the instance-theme
one of the best tracks ive ever heard. I think the music was one of the major reasons why black temple was so EPIC.
The still picture of a load bar drives me OCD crazy, I just want the game to load but I know it never will >:(
7:20 is probably some of the most epic music in video game history.
Jared _ 7:20 till when? I need to know when to stop listening!
Hits right into the soul.
Even after all these years - I am not prepared!
TBC > Vanilla > WOTLK > Cata > Hello kitty online > MOP mist of fucking panda go out of ma way ! >.
m8 it's just your opinion, for me MOP is the best expansion because they fixed everything(5.4 patch) 5.0-5.3 was SHIT.
SpyVirus
Fixed everything? ahaha... ahahaahah..AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
SpyVirus MoP was the worst thing that ever happened to Warcraft. This coming from someone who has played WC1, 2, 3 and WoW.
SpyVirus It's not about fixing everything.And they didn't fixed them at all.
***** Even those 95% were well within their rights, since the concept itself was ridiculous.
But each to their own. You liked it. You got an expac you liked. So Good for you.
Heard that 19 new developers are hired by Blizzard during Mop.. Coincidence? I think not.
It started with wotlk man. "New dances" :'(
Game went down the shitter after Wrath, but the seeds of its downfall were set at the beginning of Wrath when they removed Naxxramas.
*****
The raid was originally designed as a 40 man level 60 raid. It was introduced near the end of Vanilla and was the hardest raid ever designed at that point. It stayed in that version throughout TBC as well, but Blizzard removed the original version, changed all the mobs and items, and put it as an intro level 80 raid in Wrath. It was the first raid that they fully *removed* from the game in its original form, followed by Zul Gurub, Onyxia's Lair, all the vanilla dungeons etc. Basically, Vanilla is dead on retail, and that annoys a lot of people, myself included.
Jordan Ehdieb "Vanilla is dead on retail"
...and? Aside from obvious nostalgia filter, what was so great about vanilla raids? Aside from, you know, nothing.
Rykanable The community of having 40 man raids. Yes some guilds had half of those 40 people do nothing. It was still an epic experience to have 40 people needed to take down a boss. And the learning experience where everything was not already explained in game. Vanilla was great, but TBC was perfect.
The difficulty to even get to BT(before nerfs), its amazing environment, the awesome music, the thoughness of advancing boss after boss and the history related to every single step you did in there made defeating Illidan one success so heartfilling that nobody out of the game could even imagine. It may be something "useless" for your quotidian life but some experiences in wow raids were really impressing and involved REAL feelings that made normal people feel triumphant for one day.
Brings me back to endless wipes on P2 Illidan Definitely the most fun i've had in a game. Best state wow was ever in when this expansion was out.
Illidan is not dead. He has gotten too mutch demonic energy. Demons never die they are only send back to the nether or void or what its called. Illidan will return.
Illidan wasn't a demon.
***** and the devs have said that they will be bringing back illidan in the future expansions.
He isn't a demon he is part Illidari part night elf and yes can die their is no such thing as the nether you should pay more attention to the story line. And this song is my jam
Dood they are Illidari look it up
Was it not something with that Maiev Shadowsong saved illidan or something? something like treated his wounds? i heard it a very long time ago.
yes this is the day of the legio release. and yes i am hyped.
this music bring old good days back..epic music..Tbc had the best raids ever..especially Bt..i'll never ever can forgot the theme musics atmosphere of there...want to experience that again omg =( i have wotlk
Old times...
This soundtrack is perfect. Whilst in Black Temple, you can imagine how the previus, divine temple looked like.
It remembers me of the sad story about Illidan and Akama. It remembers me of the countless wipes we went through. In some way it lightens me up, but also saddens me. I wish those old times back
TBC... the best expansion, imo. I miss raiding when it was actually, you know, difficult.
TBC raiding was difficult? Ha, you should remember (when you played back in the vanilla times) Molton Core, Ahn Quiraj, THIS WAS DIFFICULT :D
When you guys had this epic moment, I was leveling, I've lost so much.
I remember that song so well. When we raided BT my RL changed much to better. So i keep that song in my heart for a life time.
Why did wow fcked up al their storylines ! First illidan and then arthas ? do they think thats funny ? .....Hell no
Yeh indeed that would be so awesome i like the be the Lich Queen or ill just pretend it when im drunk
Godamn and now i wanna make an selfmade Warcraft movie about Jana Proudmoore omg omg omg am i drunk >???
true
Sincerely beautiful!
I miss the TBC, but i remember the first time than get up there, saw him, and wipe (2 weeks after the server changed to WotLK, and 1 week after i level up to 70), the raid disbanded, but i stay alone up there with Ilidan, the beautiful scenario than the sky show me, and with such and endless song, i never forget that
Im addicted to this music few years already!
so many feelings in this song... i remember riding by the BT and feeling so small and puny compared to it. i hope blizz is able to bring that feeling once more.
This soundtrack is beautiful, It makes you want to cry, Thats what real music does makes you feel emotional.
For some strange reason this soundtrack gives me the chills. Maybe it's a nostalgia feeling for when I was raiding BT back in the days....good times
so many memories man, just memories
all WOW has an Impresive sound track! this is awersome!
:D
Miss these days.... black temple was an amazing raid!!
True, I play there for 2 months now, and the content what is out is pure blizzlike. I missed the old TBC days, and feenix wow brings back those memories ;)
Ive been having long nights of listening to this music :D
This song really brings out the feelings of Illidan. It starts off slow and mystical, Like how Illidan was in the beginning, Pure and good hearted. Then it dives into the deepening sounds of sadness, Of Illidan's betrayal and heartbreak by Tyrande, Switching over into the madness of the Betrayer in Outland. Just awesome!! FOR THE HORDE!!
I really hope icecrown citadel music and atmosphere is as epic as black temple was.
love this piece to bits. so many memorys:)
I miss these days.....like 3 years ago...
the old days....ohhh my my my... :( brings sadness to me to hear this amazing piece!!!
This makes me sad.... So many memories
One of the things i still value dearly in wow, regardeless of the fact that i'm not playing anymore!
When i first heard this theme in the Wrath of the Lich King theme music for the login screen it just amazed me. Say what you will about Blizzard and their decisions for the game over the years, but they still have a way to pay homage to their masterpieces and work hard to amaze us with even more works of art, like this music.
i have a lot of memories with this music
true words are true. No matter what genre you like.... epicness should be EVERY ONES flavour
The BEST days of WoW raiding (TBC). I will never forget the memories....
the last section of this video is the best of everything
"Is this it mortals?"
"Is this all the fury you can muster?"
awesome sound very deep,I love it. I can only image the awesomeness in this times of WoW
Draenor.... we will see the greatness of the illidari again!
I'm kinda fearfull that we will see the greatness of Metzen retconning again.
back then the illidari werent even there... cuz illidan was somewhere else but not in draenor
You mean the "greatness" of Karabor, right? Because the temple's name is Karabor.
Man, those were truly the days. That was the real reason we played.
Weird how I loved to raid Black Temple in TBC, and now it bores the hell out of me. Guess challenge is a huge part of your enjoyment of something :P
Dans cette musique on ressent tellement l'ambiance de wow , qu'on a plus tellement aujourd'hui.
Je suis bien d'accord avec toi! C'était différent quand tu était devant illidan!
This music is cathartic and nostalgic. RIP BC.
By far this is my favorite song!
i miss Illidan so much. his lore is so fabulous
after listenin to this, kinda reminded me the moment I took the first trip on boat to northrend to howling fjord... touching memories
This music is just.. the best. The burning crusade for the win
i've never done black temple before, dont know why but omg this music is to die for
@Brokengamezone You reminded me of the good days..Raiding MC and BWL...even when MC was on 'Farm' it still required an organized guild and good players to conquer it. That was when WoW was fun.
The Black Temple was the single best raiding experience in my 4+ years of playing WoW.
im learning this on my violin with my friend on the lower violin and my other friend on the cello..its so beautiful :)
The Burning Crusade in my mind, my heart...is so good :'(
Black temple is my favourite raid by far. The music is so epic
i am sad that not many people get to hear this awe inspiring music nowadays...