God dammit. This game. This expansion in particular. It got me through some shit times. I would happily spend hours on WoW, in between working at the local store. Life was straightforward and simple, yet kind of directionless. My dad would question when I was going to get out and 'start life' but I kept up the mantra "time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time". See, what people don't understand is that WoW becomes a home. It's music, charm and landscapes are like a warm, reassuring blanket. Here in WoW, you fit in. You have direction through quests and raids, and a team of awesome pals to join you. I wasn't isolated - I had IRL friends, but WoW was my little holiday home. My retreat from stress. I'll always remember looking up from the game one night as my dad chatted casually to me - just to engage with me I think. He scooped up a book I was reading, and put it down on the side of my desk in a slightly balanced/awkward way, and went to bed. I got up the next morning to find he never woke up. He was gone. I watched his body being carried away by paramedics. I reflected on my time spent in this game as a safety net, and quietly vowed to move on and up in the real world. I looked back at the book he put down and realised how much the world had suddenly changed overnight for the worst. How fragile it all was. Now I have a career, my own place, a wife and a child on the way. But I occasionally dip back into this game and see how my characters are doing...see how the world has changed, maybe do a few quests and dungeons and re-live some memories of a time just before my family was torn apart all those years back. The Grizzly Hills and it's music encompasses so many mixed emotions that WoW helped me get through, but also how it allowed me to realise it was time to move on. It was a bittersweet conclusion, but I don't regret playing. I just wish I could relive that peaceful moment I first got lost in the Grizzly Hills. Not a care in the world. If only my dad could see me now.
I lost my best friend right at the end of WOTLK. This was her favorite music. Very sudden. She had a teenage daughter. My dad died about 4 months later. Pretty much sucked all the way around. However,there was comfort in time. For me I looked at the true source of the comfort. Not the means of delivery.
returning your quests in your brand new swift flight form watching the environnements on a cool saturday morning in summer, without any care in the world as its the holidays feelsbadman
+Rouvenor for me is even more . i had good eye sight back then. now because of a rare neurological condition i lost my ability to play games....... and i was a gamer at heart. i will never be able to go back to wow
i dont wanna grow up, im right in THOSE days, no friends, no work, no worries, still young, and i feel like im about to be an old guy, trying to escape the inevitable, i really dont want to
It was the greatest thing when I found out what the main instrument here was called, because it's definitely not a violin. For anyone interested, it's a Swedish instrument called a nyckelharpa.
It was.. the furthest raid progression I had, furthest PVP progression, most friends online, wintergrasp, the whole northrend continent was really captivated me and I was playing from vanilla until 2 months ago, wotlk was by most the best expansion in my opinion.
Ah the hills, I loved them so much, I used to spend hours fishing in the rivers and mining cobalt. occasionally I would get smashed by a rune giant but that was okay
Reading all these comments made me realize that I never properly mourned WoW. So now I sit here a 29 yr old man crying. I know it sounds silly but this game was such a huge part of my life for 7 years. I quit playing a year ago and I still find myself thinking about it. I have a child and am married now but nothing fills that WoW void. The sense of adventure, friendship, fun, collaboration, community, freedom, and exploring. I'll never forget this god dam game. This song has helped me mourn WoW and the sense of freedom and adventure I lost since I've stopped playing. Nothing will ever compare to Pre-Cata WoW. R.I.P Gordondon, Nayko, Moses, Nuno, Apache,SittingBull, Boobs, and all my twinks (esp my wotlk 69 dk blood twink). R.I.P Ohana, I'll never forget those guild Kara runs.... Rest Easy...
Aaron Greene dont immediately disregard this comment but... join us on warmane! its a private 1x experience wotlk realm with blizzlike scriptng a healthy playerbase and all that kind of jazz. Dont think aaah these private servers are not for me, just try it once man. Its honestly amazing im level 57 right now:)
I hear you. The Dun Morogh music makes me cry, every single time. All of those hours, all of the people I met. I would talk to them some days more than my own friends and family. Don't holdthe tears in - while we can't relive those magical days, the memories will live on forever x
@@DV-zv4ox isn't it strange how Wow music can envoke a feeling and a time when things were simpler? It was just background noise then and now it's a key to such great and fond memories.
I was a hunter, when I quit playing, I released all my pets, one by one, in every place I found them... I remember to be waiting for days, weeks until some of them finally appears, if you were hunter, you know it was a hard and nice task. I know it sounds stupid, but finally I went to Amberpine lodge, saw that amazing landscape, the river, the bears, dressing my original night elf clothes, and listening this beautiful music, closed the game, delete my hunter.... Nice moments in that imaginary world.....
That is a nice story right here that you're telling. I don't think any one of us old or even recent classic players could do the same, i guess we all just got bored with the game at some point and moved on with other sht but i'd never picture myself doing the same RP as you did, having played a hunter forever. :)
When I started playing World of Warcraft with my boyfriend five years ago I loved the music, but when I made it to Grizzly Hills this song ruined me. I knew right away if and when I get married I wanted to walk down the aisle to it. In three weeks I will be walking down the aisle toward my best friend, that same boyfriend, with this very song playing (the first 2 minutes). It is what I am looking forward to the most about the whole day. It will also be the nerdiest thing I have ever done, and I've done some rather nerdy things.
The thing that made me love this music was when I was doing a quest "The Cleansing", where you had to go to the peak of a mountain and "Cleanse" yourself from your Inner Turmoil (A crappy Staff-wielding version of yourself). When you defeat him, you actually get a Slow Fall buff, because your Soul has Lightened (Don't ask me, it's gaming logic!). I used this 3 Minute buff to glide to Grizzly Hills, and this music combined made it the most majestic and beautiful moment I ever had in this game.
+MrSnuggle Grizzly Hills was the only zone that I took my merry little time working in. I would literally do everything there was to do in the zone, just so I could listen to the music. It was sooooo relaxing.
It's strange how one song is able to stir so many memories. These were some of the happiest times in my life and it saddens me to know they are gone. I'd like to go back for just a little bit to experience the awe and novelty that I once had with WoW.
This place was pretty much Alaska meets Norway to me. Howling 'Fjord' clearly was Norwegian based and the Vrykul leaked into Grizzly Hills too, honestly eastern Howling and most of Grizzly Hills are my favourite areas in the game even to this day, there's just something so awesome about the wooden housing, huge pine trees, snow and the music
I live in Alaska, I've gone hiking up to Angel rocks and play this in my backpack speakers, a to keep bears away and B it just puts a pep in my step :)
As a Norwegian, Howling Fjord didn't feel like Norway to me at all. Grizzly Hills was so familiar it made me cry. My heart swells every time I hear that fiddle.
***** Way to make assumptions there, buddy. I'm from Bergen, SMACK DAB in the west coast of Norway. I know exactly what Norwegian fjords look like. Almost all of Howling Fjord are canyons with lots of sheer drop cliffs at the coast with beaches underneath. That's just not how glacier fjords are formed, and not how Norway looks. Those sheer cliffs are only there when the canyon is formed by a river slowly eroding the sedimented rock, like how the Grand Canyon was formed. Also, all the trees there are scattered and weird, not forming anything that could remotely be called forests at all, and the colour and placement of the grass does not seem natural. Whenever I go to Howling Fjord it feels foreign to me, like a fantasy landscape would. The complete opposite is true for Grizzly Hills.
this song makes me think of sitting by a fire pit over looking a valley of pine trees, with a bright blue river twisting through seemingly every tree. The sun sets a dark redish orange over the snow capped mountains, as I pet my hound on his head, snuggle even closer to him underneath our red lumberjack blanket, and take another sip of my hot joe I realize nothing is better than experiencing what life has to offer, even when sometimes you feel sad, fuck that because what's the point?... that's good enough for me to persevere, don't cry because it ended, smile because it happened.
Mickey McFinigan how is it possible that you explain the feeling i have my whole life in just 1 comment you're a wonderful personlike everybody who got the same feeling lets stop thinking lets start living together
My brother plays the bassoon. The first time we played in The Grizzly Hills and this song started playing, we stopped on our tracks to listen. When the bassoon solo began, we were on the verge of tears, seriously. Ah, the memories... If this song doesn't make hair all over your body stand, YOU are doing something wrong.
I got teary eyed whenever I leveled in Grizzly Hills. I grew up in Washington state, and Grizzly Hills brought back so many memories of the forests around Mt. Rainier National Park. I lived on McChord Air Force Base and going out on the flight line with my dad and seeing Mt. Rainier in the background? Breathtaking...
When my dad passed away in 2011, I started to play WoW with a friend. This song was one of the most amazing healing things to me in the game. And some Kate nights after my friend would leave after we played. I'd find myself wandering listening to grizzly hills music just hunting any misc npc with out a quest... Just to listen to this and staying in that moment the grizzly hills had to offer me as I mourned my father alone with my computer and my little toon experiencing a new world away from my current one. This song still makes me cry all this time later.
I love this music. I remember the Bears fishing in the river, the wild horses running for in the glades, the Giants throwing stones down at the dwarfs, the Taunka villages and of course the furbolg inhabiting the old world tree...
this track is so beautiful, and has such emotion behind it. The opening fiddle melody presents this zone as it is, untouched by the death and cruelty of the Lich King. Then out of the silence comes the flute with a soft, pained melody reminding us of the pain the rest of the world is suffering. But in the end the fiddle comes back in almost reassuring us that good will win out in the end, and at least we can take comfort in this one place that stands as a reminder that the Lich Kings power is not all-consuming. Such a poignant piece of video game music
I remember.. as if it was just a morrow's day ago.. As I looked into the dark wilds of this frigid land. Seeing the sun peeking past the clouds, shy and timid. Shifting my weighted sword upon my back and breathing in the cold, dry air. Watching this land full of life, and wonder.. So much to see, and explore. I can't describe the joy that was within my heart to know that I was to be part of this movement. To be there when it happened. To find myself he who brought the world another level 80.
When I reached max level in WotLK I spent my days in Grizzly Hills finding alliance to world PvP. Just this one zone. And I chose it of course, for the music. Really I just wanted to be in that zone forever, for any reason. One of the all time best pieces of game music IMO. Makes me imagine a life in the forest hills like that...reading, fishing, painting, ... so peaceful and stoic. This is how humanity is supposed to exist...
Man I fucking miss Wrath. That game was what an MMO should be, I wish it just stayed the way it was forever and Arthas never died, best game experience I'll ever have.
Franz Lucien Ros played warmane for a while, 12k players at the time but the progression is over, current WoW is actually a lot better than I anticipated.
I never EVER went to grizzly hills except once for the DK-seal-majigger that was BiS for a long time and when I did I listened to Iron Maiden. Now I feel oh so bad - this is a masterpiece.
Dillon Hockett True, but too much is...Well, too much. I can still listen to Maiden for hours on end but I never was open minded enough to give Wotlk OST a try - until Ulduar. That's when I actually tuned into ingame OST from time to time.
There's a reason I log out most of my characters in Grizzly Hills even still, and its because of this. Spent most of my time there just to listen to it in game while roaming. Good times..
Not to sound all high and mighty, but I am music major in college and experience music in my life all day and night. And as a casual gamer I find the score of a game to be one of the most significant enhancements to a game as a whole. With that being said listening to this music while traversing one of the most beautiful landscapes in gaming could almost bring tears to my eyes. I would often stop killing some ridiculous monster and just sit on my gryphon in the sky so that no sound would interrupt this music.
I liked to perch my flying mount in a tree near a waterfall and listen to the main theme along with the rush of water. It always felt like I'd found some secret spot of tranquility in a world gone mad.
Was just listening to some irish folk music and remembered this tune from my WoW days. This was the last expansion I played. Listening to it really brings me back. I used to hang out in this part of the map for hours on lazy days to listen to the music. Was a cool trip down memory lane, only to look back at the screen. 11 YEARS?!?? HOLY FUCK. I think I needs to sit down.
I lost my father 5 days before this video was uploaded What a rough year 2009 has been. Yet so simple and beautiful The years go by fast cherish the moments before they are gone.
Feels amazing blizzard used nyckelharpa as the main instrument of this zone's music. The choice is so right as it has a long history as the most used instrument of swedish folk music. You can easily hear it's a nyckelharpa by the small "tick" sound it makes every time the nycklar (wooden buttons) is pushed against the string.
Where have those ten years gone... It feels like a lifetime away now. It was a different game back then, not as rounded and comfortable for the player as it is today. It wasn't about quick and easy gratification, but doing something as a group, succeeding as a group. Yes the heroics were way easier than in TBC and at the end, we got the LFG tool, but it was still a time where the group succeeds and the lone ones only saw a part of the whole experience... Damn, I miss those times. Not just because of what the game was back then, but the people whom I had the pleasure to play with at that time. We thought things would stay like this forever, but ten years later we all have moved on and the time spent in this game and in zones like Grizzly Hills is little more than a fond memory of adventures with friends...
This music makes me happy : ) it made me think about how World of Warcraft should be..i think people stop enjoying WoW when they get too into the mechanics, they forget the meaning of the world. When they start caring about only the rewards and not the quest to obtain the reward. They care more about winning that they forget to cherish the moment with the guild..
This always makes me cry. My past, my history with this game. It's much more than 'just a game'. Some of the finest people I knew were friends, and some still are, as a result of this 'game'.
The music and scenery of Grizzly Hills will always remind me of home. Of the place I was born. Some called it cold and forbidding and couldn't wait to be anywhere else, but to me it sang with freedom and whispered softly that it would never change. And every time I go to back to visit, it keeps its promise.
Sadly the music in World of Warcraft dosen't intrest many of my friends who plays the game. Almost everyone I know starts some other music and somehow I feel sad for them. They miss this beautiful music and all other amazing music in the game. :(
I always come to this some so I can hear that fiddle solo. I love how they knew it was so good that it's always the default start up some when you come here. So much to do, from the lodge to the campus, the Blooodmoon Fortress... Not too mention wherever the hell Bronzebeard is... Such an iconic zone for an iconic game that got me hooked thanks to all iconic fiddle duet. Seriously this is the zone that made me realize this have isn't just a game. Easily my favorite zone in the game.
When i listen to this music.. all great WoW memories come into my mind.. its like it touches my heart.. i dont know, i get reminded by all those problems we got in real life.. some things that dont work as we would like to, but i dont feel bad about it.. This is one of the best songs ever made for gaming history.. I just went there to get the quests for crusade thingy for the pets and the titles.. but finding this music again is soo great, i cant even write it down how happy i feel just by hearing this music
I really miss those times when I could just come home from school and just play. Now with all those responsibilities and whatnot, listening to this makes me tear up a little and think of all the great memories I've had with this game.
Grizzly Hills has been, by far, my favorite zone in all the years I had played WoW. I loved wandering through the woods just because they reminded me of the time I had spent in Redwood National Forest. And the music is absolutely beautiful to boot!
When life gets hard I always come back to this.. I don't know why but it just makes me feel better inside.. thank you to whoever made this.. you have no idea how much it helps me get through it all. I never knew a video game could have so much impact on me like this game did. Please play this at my funeral
Canada? lel so fun Scandinavian culture, scandinavian music, scandinavian influenced race (vikings, vylkur) and scandinavian landscape. pls come again.
I was born in Minnesota, and raised in Wisconsin surrounded by the deciduous plant life that grows there. This tune reminds me of home and how beautiful it was every time i hear it, it actually makes me tear up.
I remember when I first went to Grizzly hills for questing. My friends told me not to go there because of crappy questline and slow questing or something. But i didn't listen to them. I enjoyed the land, music and the quests more then power lvling.
Listening to this melts my heart.... how i miss those times... fuck... love everyone whos been through this amazing wow journey.. classic bc wotlk, doenst matter lets cherish these times
Grizzly Hills, Thunder Bluff, & Storm Peaks. My 3 favorite places to go just to listen to the music. Sit. Do nothing (other than jump to avoid AFK). Listen. Ahhh...
this song brings back so many good memories this is one of my favourite places in Azeroth is just the feeling..sometimes i could stay for 2-3 hours just..fishing.. it was just me.. next to a fireplace just looking at the river and listening to this song over and over again. one of m most precious memories from when i was a kid.
This nostalgic soundtrack is a peak of WoW's history... it reminds us how good the game once was :( I will always remember it... best childhood... my children will hear stories of this place
Was just playing again for the fun of it, made a new mage and got into grizzly hills after some time. The second I heard this bit of music I was just like, oh yeah.... This game fucking rocks!
I remember the good old times, when I was a 12 y/o pleb just wandering around Grizzly Hills enjoying the vibe without a single care in the world. What the fuck happened ;;)
fortew3 which is not! continue playing WoW, but in moderation, and you will never say: what the fuck happened, because you will always be a part of it, you don't have to quit, EVER, just don't let it control your life.
look people, don't look at WoW as bad game, just think of this way: as long I fulfill my duties, I never have to quit playing, that tought is what kept me playing all this years. Cheers!
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God dammit.
This game. This expansion in particular. It got me through some shit times. I would happily spend hours on WoW, in between working at the local store. Life was straightforward and simple, yet kind of directionless. My dad would question when I was going to get out and 'start life' but I kept up the mantra "time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time".
See, what people don't understand is that WoW becomes a home. It's music, charm and landscapes are like a warm, reassuring blanket. Here in WoW, you fit in. You have direction through quests and raids, and a team of awesome pals to join you.
I wasn't isolated - I had IRL friends, but WoW was my little holiday home. My retreat from stress. I'll always remember looking up from the game one night as my dad chatted casually to me - just to engage with me I think. He scooped up a book I was reading, and put it down on the side of my desk in a slightly balanced/awkward way, and went to bed.
I got up the next morning to find he never woke up. He was gone. I watched his body being carried away by paramedics.
I reflected on my time spent in this game as a safety net, and quietly vowed to move on and up in the real world. I looked back at the book he put down and realised how much the world had suddenly changed overnight for the worst. How fragile it all was.
Now I have a career, my own place, a wife and a child on the way. But I occasionally dip back into this game and see how my characters are doing...see how the world has changed, maybe do a few quests and dungeons and re-live some memories of a time just before my family was torn apart all those years back.
The Grizzly Hills and it's music encompasses so many mixed emotions that WoW helped me get through, but also how it allowed me to realise it was time to move on. It was a bittersweet conclusion, but I don't regret playing. I just wish I could relive that peaceful moment I first got lost in the Grizzly Hills. Not a care in the world. If only my dad could see me now.
damn, im speechless
I lost my best friend right at the end of WOTLK. This was her favorite music. Very sudden. She had a teenage daughter. My dad died about 4 months later. Pretty much sucked all the way around. However,there was comfort in time. For me I looked at the true source of the comfort. Not the means of delivery.
This.. this is what WoW is about. That little gataway.
Powerful writhing.
What you wrote brought tears to my eyes, thank you.
Holy shit dude... wow....
Sunday early morning on a cold winter day questing away...
Oh my god... You got me
omg the feels! :´)
Oh my god ;_; I miss Wrath so much.
Waking up on a Sunday freezing morning on a nordic island somewhere in the 10th century AD...
returning your quests in your brand new swift flight form watching the environnements on a cool saturday morning in summer, without any care in the world as its the holidays feelsbadman
We are never gonna get this feeling back again are we....
No. In any game. They don't make them how they used to.
in wotlk classic :)
The game still exists, but I'm not the same anymore. Adulthood has contaminated me, the person who experienced these sensations no longer exists.
@@Andrew_Ryandamn, so well said. I feel same way.
We are all in awe of thus time in history
When WoW is shutting down, this is the place were I want to be until the last moment.
Crowind Kidglow well said
+Happyblot agreed
DEX_ Crowind gotta take one more ride down the river before the world (of warcraft) ends.
When there was last hours before cataclysm out i just flying around this place and thinking how i will miss Lich King expansion
@@Baxa125 yeh that was my favorite expansion.
This song takes me back to when my life was better....simpler. Growing older and depression is a bitch.
Couldn´t agree more.
no doubt i cried like a little bitch to this
Depression is a part of growing up. Things will get better,
It's like i wrote these words.
makeris32
ha same! But nostalgia is poison, move on and push forward :J
One of the best works of music in the game.
***** What are you doing here sir? :) Greetings, your subscriber.
***** I must agree wholeheartedly.
+SpaceHamster Not one of the best, it IS the best... :D
+SpaceHamster go listen to the wintergrasp track.
+bob saget yeah its the same as dun morogh. my personal favorite.
it's incredibly painful listening to this. the feels...
+Rouvenor what server did you play on
+Rouvenor :( good memories
+Rouvenor for me is even more . i had good eye sight back then. now because of a rare neurological condition i lost my ability to play games....... and i was a gamer at heart. i will never be able to go back to wow
:(
+Rouvenor Ah
*Me listening to this when I'm 65*
Grandpa what are you listening to?
Me: Sit down, let me tell you a great story....
No matter how old I get, this will remind me back to when life was much simpler. :D
+Seth Kael YES, it reminds me of my teen years, i didnt have much real friends, so i played wow to escape real life, and i dont regret it one bit!
+Seth Kael that's exactly my thought, I come here when I need some peace but all I get is sadness, I miss those days :)
i dont wanna grow up, im right in THOSE days, no friends, no work, no worries, still young, and i feel like im about to be an old guy, trying to escape the inevitable, i really dont want to
Life was simpler, but WoW wasn't... those were the days!
Seth Kael you and me both
Wow, its been 7 years. Live life to the fullest people. How fast does time fly past.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Hope you're having a great life bud :)
His cat recently passed away, now is not the time.
Matthew Etter rekt
It's been 8 years..
almost 11 now
It was the greatest thing when I found out what the main instrument here was called, because it's definitely not a violin.
For anyone interested, it's a Swedish instrument called a nyckelharpa.
I would love to see someone playing one of these.
David Castillo Just search nyckelharpa on CZcams, there are several videos with it.
Yeah, I did. I probably should have said "I would love to see someone playing one of these LIVE". Thanks, though :)
So thats what the Clicking Noise is
To your other surprise then, Mr. Blam: /watch?v=qQvZv8GZ8wg.
It can be played with a violin as well. ^^
But indeed, without the "clicking noise".
my favorite expansion.
yessssss wrath was LIFE!
WotLK was by far the best expansion
The last good one
It was.. the furthest raid progression I had, furthest PVP progression, most friends online, wintergrasp, the whole northrend continent was really captivated me and I was playing from vanilla until 2 months ago, wotlk was by most the best expansion in my opinion.
Ah the hills, I loved them so much, I used to spend hours fishing in the rivers and mining cobalt. occasionally I would get smashed by a rune giant but that was okay
Reading all these comments made me realize that I never properly mourned WoW.
So now I sit here a 29 yr old man crying. I know it sounds silly but this game was such a huge part of my life for 7 years. I quit playing a year ago and I still find myself thinking about it. I have a child and am married now but nothing fills that WoW void.
The sense of adventure, friendship, fun, collaboration, community, freedom, and exploring.
I'll never forget this god dam game. This song has helped me mourn WoW and the sense of freedom and adventure I lost since I've stopped playing.
Nothing will ever compare to Pre-Cata WoW.
R.I.P Gordondon, Nayko, Moses, Nuno, Apache,SittingBull, Boobs, and all my twinks (esp my wotlk 69 dk blood twink).
R.I.P Ohana, I'll never forget those guild Kara runs....
Rest Easy...
cheers mate!
Aaron Greene dont immediately disregard this comment but... join us on warmane! its a private 1x experience wotlk realm with blizzlike scriptng a healthy playerbase and all that kind of jazz. Dont think aaah these private servers are not for me, just try it once man. Its honestly amazing im level 57 right now:)
black-snorro let him have some solace instead of trying to shill and advertise. Not the place or time at all
I hear you. The Dun Morogh music makes me cry, every single time. All of those hours, all of the people I met. I would talk to them some days more than my own friends and family. Don't holdthe tears in - while we can't relive those magical days, the memories will live on forever x
@@DV-zv4ox isn't it strange how Wow music can envoke a feeling and a time when things were simpler? It was just background noise then and now it's a key to such great and fond memories.
I was a hunter, when I quit playing, I released all my pets, one by one, in every place I found them... I remember to be waiting for days, weeks until some of them finally appears, if you were hunter, you know it was a hard and nice task. I know it sounds stupid, but finally I went to Amberpine lodge, saw that amazing landscape, the river, the bears, dressing my original night elf clothes, and listening this beautiful music, closed the game, delete my hunter.... Nice moments in that imaginary world.....
That is a nice story right here that you're telling. I don't think any one of us old or even recent classic players could do the same, i guess we all just got bored with the game at some point and moved on with other sht but i'd never picture myself doing the same RP as you did, having played a hunter forever. :)
When I started playing World of Warcraft with my boyfriend five years ago I loved the music, but when I made it to Grizzly Hills this song ruined me.
I knew right away if and when I get married I wanted to walk down the aisle to it.
In three weeks I will be walking down the aisle toward my best friend, that same boyfriend, with this very song playing (the first 2 minutes). It is what I am looking forward to the most about the whole day. It will also be the nerdiest thing I have ever done, and I've done some rather nerdy things.
Oml thank you for this idea... This sounds like the most amazing wedding ever tbh
Well, you just brought a tear to my eye. Thanks and congrats lol
Cringe and awesome.
This is the best
this was the only time in any game that I just had to stop and listen to the music
Just realized you got featured in Nobbel's new video!
Absolute best zone music in Northrend.
storm peaks is, fite me b1tch
And Dalaran
The thing that made me love this music was when I was doing a quest "The Cleansing", where you had to go to the peak of a mountain and "Cleanse" yourself from your Inner Turmoil (A crappy Staff-wielding version of yourself).
When you defeat him, you actually get a Slow Fall buff, because your Soul has Lightened (Don't ask me, it's gaming logic!).
I used this 3 Minute buff to glide to Grizzly Hills, and this music combined made it the most majestic and beautiful moment I ever had in this game.
That quest is actaly in the Howling Fourj but yeah you can glide into gizzly hills from there just actually did that
Downloaded this and listened to it as I was walking the fjords in Norway.
One of the best experiences of my life.
Thank you. Thank you for living it
It just reminds me of a cold and sunny febuary day while questing in grizzly hills.. aaaa the memories :')
I miss the good old times :(
I have exactly the same memory :)
+MrSnuggle Grizzly Hills was the only zone that I took my merry little time working in. I would literally do everything there was to do in the zone, just so I could listen to the music. It was sooooo relaxing.
+MrSnuggle YES! OMG so many memories, still my favourite zone to this day :)
+Call Sign Looney nagrand?
Call Sign Looney same here,I had quests left but had to go on and was hard to leave that place lol
I used to afk in this zone by the river and just fall asleep to the sounds of water and this music XD I miss WoW.
I'm leveled there today, ambient was beautiful. I will return from time to time just to see grizzly hills once again :')))
And then you wake up to a lovely *You Died* box. Then you open your combat log to see it was some cunty Night-Elf Hunter. :^)
you mean some cunty goblin rogue?
Lmao true. But what better place is there to die than at Grizzly Hills XD?
Nope. ♥
It's strange how one song is able to stir so many memories. These were some of the happiest times in my life and it saddens me to know they are gone. I'd like to go back for just a little bit to experience the awe and novelty that I once had with WoW.
i completely understand :( i want that feeling back again.
so true... i feel you
Mikey3067 feel u too
Mikey3067 Warmane server. They have the option to play with both original textures and WOD ones.
Mikey3067 Guys. I feel you all
Reminds me of a better time in wow and my life...that combination invokes true nostalgia for me.
I don´t know about your life but WoW is still brilliant!
Raul Gonçalves do u pvp?
ashiinsane90 not much. I prefer the levelling and lore content.
yeah i was gna say cuz pvp now is garbage compare to pvp in wotlk
This place was pretty much Alaska meets Norway to me. Howling 'Fjord' clearly was Norwegian based and the Vrykul leaked into Grizzly Hills too, honestly eastern Howling and most of Grizzly Hills are my favourite areas in the game even to this day, there's just something so awesome about the wooden housing, huge pine trees, snow and the music
I live in Alaska, I've gone hiking up to Angel rocks and play this in my backpack speakers, a to keep bears away and B it just puts a pep in my step :)
It's based on northern zealand, denmark
As a Norwegian, Howling Fjord didn't feel like Norway to me at all. Grizzly Hills was so familiar it made me cry. My heart swells every time I hear that fiddle.
***** Way to make assumptions there, buddy. I'm from Bergen, SMACK DAB in the west coast of Norway. I know exactly what Norwegian fjords look like. Almost all of Howling Fjord are canyons with lots of sheer drop cliffs at the coast with beaches underneath. That's just not how glacier fjords are formed, and not how Norway looks. Those sheer cliffs are only there when the canyon is formed by a river slowly eroding the sedimented rock, like how the Grand Canyon was formed. Also, all the trees there are scattered and weird, not forming anything that could remotely be called forests at all, and the colour and placement of the grass does not seem natural. Whenever I go to Howling Fjord it feels foreign to me, like a fantasy landscape would. The complete opposite is true for Grizzly Hills.
***** Hey, no worries, mate.
this song makes me think of sitting by a fire pit over looking a valley of pine trees, with a bright blue river twisting through seemingly every tree. The sun sets a dark redish orange over the snow capped mountains, as I pet my hound on his head, snuggle even closer to him underneath our red lumberjack blanket, and take another sip of my hot joe I realize nothing is better than experiencing what life has to offer, even when sometimes you feel sad, fuck that because what's the point?... that's good enough for me to persevere, don't cry because it ended, smile because it happened.
I cri evertim :( xD
"Smile because it happened." That is a powerful phrase. I LOVE IT!!
Will you be my mate?
I got the same feeling man, its just amazing
Mickey McFinigan how is it possible that you explain the feeling i have my whole life in just 1 comment you're a wonderful personlike everybody who got the same feeling lets stop thinking lets start living together
I was a noob Tauren Druid.. but damn every minute playing was so memorable..
My brother plays the bassoon. The first time we played in The Grizzly Hills and this song started playing, we stopped on our tracks to listen. When the bassoon solo began, we were on the verge of tears, seriously. Ah, the memories...
If this song doesn't make hair all over your body stand, YOU are doing something wrong.
I got teary eyed whenever I leveled in Grizzly Hills. I grew up in Washington state, and Grizzly Hills brought back so many memories of the forests around Mt. Rainier National Park. I lived on McChord Air Force Base and going out on the flight line with my dad and seeing Mt. Rainier in the background? Breathtaking...
I was stationed on Ft.lewis and I miss Mt.Rainier everyday since I moved home. Such a beautiful place and we plan on moving back in the next 5 years
amazing
when you wake up on a sunny winter Saturday knowing all the wrong is gone.
When my dad passed away in 2011, I started to play WoW with a friend. This song was one of the most amazing healing things to me in the game. And some Kate nights after my friend would leave after we played. I'd find myself wandering listening to grizzly hills music just hunting any misc npc with out a quest... Just to listen to this and staying in that moment the grizzly hills had to offer me as I mourned my father alone with my computer and my little toon experiencing a new world away from my current one. This song still makes me cry all this time later.
for me WotLK has the best music amongst other WoW expansions.
I Love Every Single Expansions Music! All Amazing and I don't think WoD will disappoint judging by the music that's been released
@@Gers1690iii oh you were so wrong
I love this music. I remember the Bears fishing in the river, the wild horses running for in the glades, the Giants throwing stones down at the dwarfs, the Taunka villages and of course the furbolg inhabiting the old world tree...
this track is so beautiful, and has such emotion behind it. The opening fiddle melody presents this zone as it is, untouched by the death and cruelty of the Lich King. Then out of the silence comes the flute with a soft, pained melody reminding us of the pain the rest of the world is suffering. But in the end the fiddle comes back in almost reassuring us that good will win out in the end, and at least we can take comfort in this one place that stands as a reminder that the Lich Kings power is not all-consuming. Such a poignant piece of video game music
I remember.. as if it was just a morrow's day ago.. As I looked into the dark wilds of this frigid land. Seeing the sun peeking past the clouds, shy and timid. Shifting my weighted sword upon my back and breathing in the cold, dry air. Watching this land full of life, and wonder.. So much to see, and explore. I can't describe the joy that was within my heart to know that I was to be part of this movement. To be there when it happened. To find myself he who brought the world another level 80.
Great comment man.
When I was playing WC3 and Arthas landed on Northrend, all those missions there, I'd never thought that Northrend can have such beautiful landscapes.
hrk4o Kind of an indirect philosophical message. Even the biggest hellholes have their beauties.
I want this to be played at my funeral
That Bassoon solo... is amazing
When I reached max level in WotLK I spent my days in Grizzly Hills finding alliance to world PvP. Just this one zone. And I chose it of course, for the music. Really I just wanted to be in that zone forever, for any reason. One of the all time best pieces of game music IMO. Makes me imagine a life in the forest hills like that...reading, fishing, painting, ... so peaceful and stoic. This is how humanity is supposed to exist...
Man I fucking miss Wrath. That game was what an MMO should be, I wish it just stayed the way it was forever and Arthas never died, best game experience I'll ever have.
play Dalaran wow ^^
Franz Lucien Ros played warmane for a while, 12k players at the time but the progression is over, current WoW is actually a lot better than I anticipated.
oh yes, LFG...
So calm and serene. Appropriate for when I'm getting torn apart by a bunch of furbolgs.
I never EVER went to grizzly hills except once for the DK-seal-majigger that was BiS for a long time and when I did I listened to Iron Maiden.
Now I feel oh so bad - this is a masterpiece.
Don't feel bad. Iron Maiden kicks ass too.
Dillon Hockett True, but too much is...Well, too much. I can still listen to Maiden for hours on end but I never was open minded enough to give Wotlk OST a try - until Ulduar. That's when I actually tuned into ingame OST from time to time.
One of the things I really enjoy in WoW is this, my favorite zone.
There's a reason I log out most of my characters in Grizzly Hills even still, and its because of this. Spent most of my time there just to listen to it in game while roaming. Good times..
I won't pretend to be manly, but I was shocked at home emotional I got at 1:45
Reminds me of the Shire/Many meetings soundtrack from LOTR, beautiful
Not to sound all high and mighty, but I am music major in college and experience music in my life all day and night. And as a casual gamer I find the score of a game to be one of the most significant enhancements to a game as a whole. With that being said listening to this music while traversing one of the most beautiful landscapes in gaming could almost bring tears to my eyes. I would often stop killing some ridiculous monster and just sit on my gryphon in the sky so that no sound would interrupt this music.
same here, most of my wow memories were fueled by the music.
I used to float or stand at that river for hours and walk, just listening to the music. Almost like I forgot about real life
Ghouse666 And I thought I was the only one. Truly, WoW's soundtrack is a masterpiece.
I liked to perch my flying mount in a tree near a waterfall and listen to the main theme along with the rush of water. It always felt like I'd found some secret spot of tranquility in a world gone mad.
Same, but I'm on my Wind Rider. Lok'Tar Ogar! >:D
Was just listening to some irish folk music and remembered this tune from my WoW days. This was the last expansion I played. Listening to it really brings me back. I used to hang out in this part of the map for hours on lazy days to listen to the music. Was a cool trip down memory lane, only to look back at the screen. 11 YEARS?!?? HOLY FUCK. I think I needs to sit down.
all of northrend will forever be my favorite. and grizzly hills has most memorable music
I lost my father 5 days before this video was uploaded
What a rough year 2009 has been.
Yet so simple and beautiful
The years go by fast cherish the moments before they are gone.
I revisit this every time I feel Fall in the air in Georgia. It's so beautiful.
Northrend, the only place I roam, the greatest place in my heart of gaming.
Whenever I level characters around Northerend I always make sure to pass by Grizzly Hills just to listen to the music and view the lovely scenery
Feels amazing blizzard used nyckelharpa as the main instrument of this zone's music. The choice is so right as it has a long history as the most used instrument of swedish folk music. You can easily hear it's a nyckelharpa by the small "tick" sound it makes every time the nycklar (wooden buttons) is pushed against the string.
shlyckel shlarpa
Where have those ten years gone... It feels like a lifetime away now. It was a different game back then, not as rounded and comfortable for the player as it is today. It wasn't about quick and easy gratification, but doing something as a group, succeeding as a group. Yes the heroics were way easier than in TBC and at the end, we got the LFG tool, but it was still a time where the group succeeds and the lone ones only saw a part of the whole experience...
Damn, I miss those times. Not just because of what the game was back then, but the people whom I had the pleasure to play with at that time. We thought things would stay like this forever, but ten years later we all have moved on and the time spent in this game and in zones like Grizzly Hills is little more than a fond memory of adventures with friends...
I hope I never stop tearing up to this song.
Oh when I die, I want this to be played at my funeral. Such a beautiful piece of music, the one thing Blizzard did right
Blizzard have done many things ''right''
GRIZZLY HILLLLS! THATS WHERE I WANA BE
I am from the Canadian Maritimes. This song reminds me of home.
it shouldnt. its swedish
+WowSjadet I'd say Norwiegan/Swedish. We and Norway got pretty much the same culture and traditions.
WoWFtw8 but the instrument is called nyckelharpa and thats a swedish instrument. sure norway might have adopted the nyckelharpa to but still hahah
***** Well, to be fair, Norway was a part of Sweden for many years.
+WowSjadet That's not a nyckelharpa.
This music makes me happy : ) it made me think about how World of Warcraft should be..i think people stop enjoying WoW when they get too into the mechanics, they forget the meaning of the world. When they start caring about only the rewards and not the quest to obtain the reward. They care more about winning that they forget to cherish the moment with the guild..
Amazing comment . That's how I enjoy wow I just love the world
This always makes me cry. My past, my history with this game. It's much more than 'just a game'. Some of the finest people I knew were friends, and some still are, as a result of this 'game'.
this teritory kept me so calm and at peace i could chill all day here while playing my dk
this song was so welcoming and relaxing.
In 10 thousand years, this will still be a banger
When the servers go offline I’ll be standing in that field, around the running horses with the alliance encampment behind me.
ill be there beside you !!
Ahh... the North... Swedish, Norwegien, Danish and Finnish people, love you brothers and sisters!
i think the music and the theme of the zone is canadian :)
Uthax Hmm maybe ^^ well I can find this music in the North :)
The first song atleast is mainly played by a nyckelharpa (keyed harp), which is a traditional swedish instrument.
Uthax
as Andreas said, it's a swedish instrument and swedish style.
Uthax
Canadian music? Do you mean the native americans or what? This is fucking Viking influenced all the way. Sweden or Norway 100 %
The music and scenery of Grizzly Hills will always remind me of home. Of the place I was born. Some called it cold and forbidding and couldn't wait to be anywhere else, but to me it sang with freedom and whispered softly that it would never change. And every time I go to back to visit, it keeps its promise.
Sounds so ridiculously Swedish I barely can believe my ears!
+TwizzElishus keyed-fiddle is a better translation. :)
I didn't play during Wrath, but goodness gracious I wish I did..
this is so relaxing, when WoD comes out i only wish i could put my Garrison here
That first hard note on the violin is enough to make a grown man cry.
It feels as if it never happened, a world too good to be true.
The anthem of crying
Sadly the music in World of Warcraft dosen't intrest many of my friends who plays the game. Almost everyone I know starts some other music and somehow I feel sad for them. They miss this beautiful music and all other amazing music in the game. :(
This music almost has me in tears
I always come to this some so I can hear that fiddle solo. I love how they knew it was so good that it's always the default start up some when you come here. So much to do, from the lodge to the campus, the Blooodmoon Fortress... Not too mention wherever the hell Bronzebeard is...
Such an iconic zone for an iconic game that got me hooked thanks to all iconic fiddle duet. Seriously this is the zone that made me realize this have isn't just a game. Easily my favorite zone in the game.
so many happy memories of this
When i listen to this music.. all great WoW memories come into my mind.. its like it touches my heart.. i dont know, i get reminded by all those problems we got in real life.. some things that dont work as we would like to, but i dont feel bad about it..
This is one of the best songs ever made for gaming history..
I just went there to get the quests for crusade thingy for the pets and the titles.. but finding this music again is soo great, i cant even write it down how happy i feel just by hearing this music
I really miss those times when I could just come home from school and just play. Now with all those responsibilities and whatnot, listening to this makes me tear up a little and think of all the great memories I've had with this game.
Grizzly Hills has been, by far, my favorite zone in all the years I had played WoW.
I loved wandering through the woods just because they reminded me of the time I had spent in Redwood National Forest. And the music is absolutely beautiful to boot!
When life gets hard I always come back to this.. I don't know why but it just makes me feel better inside.. thank you to whoever made this.. you have no idea how much it helps me get through it all. I never knew a video game could have so much impact on me like this game did. Please play this at my funeral
It's the Canada zone!
Feels a lot like Scandinavia as well.
It's the ALASKA zone.
..which is like a Canada zone.
ImperfectCT I'm not gonna lie, PRETTY SURE humankind discovered Scandinavia before they found America.
I'm not sure what part of my comment said "humankind discovered America before Scandinavia" but, I'm pretty sure you're right?
Canada? lel so fun
Scandinavian culture, scandinavian music, scandinavian influenced race (vikings, vylkur) and scandinavian landscape. pls come again.
I love that place so much...
I was born in Minnesota, and raised in Wisconsin surrounded by the deciduous plant life that grows there. This tune reminds me of home and how beautiful it was every time i hear it, it actually makes me tear up.
Man takes me back, not just in the game but IRL aswell. Such a happy and simple time in ones life.
I remember when I first went to Grizzly hills for questing. My friends told me not to go there because of crappy questline and slow questing or something. But i didn't listen to them. I enjoyed the land, music and the quests more then power lvling.
This piece reminds me of a small town in Wyoming I visited once. In fact, the whole area reminds me of that town. I miss it
Listening to this melts my heart.... how i miss those times... fuck... love everyone whos been through this amazing wow journey.. classic bc wotlk, doenst matter lets cherish these times
Still listen to this regularly. A fine piece of music which generates so many memeories when that violin begins.
Grizzly Hills, Thunder Bluff, & Storm Peaks. My 3 favorite places to go just to listen to the music.
Sit. Do nothing (other than jump to avoid AFK). Listen. Ahhh...
RIP 2008/9 :'((
damn bro, hit me right in the feels., such an innocent time of my life...
Jon yup.. Back when my life WASN'T SO FUCKING SHIT .. fml
Can't help but feel both joy and sorrow when listening to this song. A bittersweet feeling
this song brings back so many good memories this is one of my favourite places in Azeroth is just the feeling..sometimes i could stay for 2-3 hours just..fishing.. it was just me.. next to a fireplace just looking at the river and listening to this song over and over again. one of m most precious memories from when i was a kid.
This nostalgic soundtrack is a peak of WoW's history... it reminds us how good the game once was :( I will always remember it... best childhood... my children will hear stories of this place
+Scourgeborne lok'tar brother
Paul Fred Team Lordaeron here ... sorry :D
Was just playing again for the fun of it, made a new mage and got into grizzly hills after some time. The second I heard this bit of music I was just like, oh yeah.... This game fucking rocks!
Too much great old memories I keep coming back since you have uploaded this video 😢
World of Warcraft brings us together 😢
I stop here once in a while just to take me back to those days. So many hours and so many great memories
Grizzly Hills taught me a valuable life lesson: Never eat the free acorns.
this music reminds me of life
Loved questing in this zone just because of the soundtrack. Thanks for the great memories in Grizzly Hills and beyond, WoW!
And as always...I return here in New Years...listening to this with my fam. Love life and art!! Thanks for this.
I remember the good old times, when I was a 12 y/o pleb just wandering around Grizzly Hills enjoying the vibe without a single care in the world. What the fuck happened ;;)
fortew3 which is not! continue playing WoW, but in moderation, and you will never say: what the fuck happened, because you will always be a part of it, you don't have to quit, EVER, just don't let it control your life.
same
look people, don't look at WoW as bad game, just think of this way: as long I fulfill my duties, I never have to quit playing, that tought is what kept me playing all this years. Cheers!