Durotar - Original Wow Music

This is a memory of past times.

World of Warcraft®
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All credits goes to Blizzard for the making of this music.

Composers: Russell Brower, Neal Acree, Jason Hayes, David Arkenstone, Derek Duke, Glenn Stafford, Jeremy Soule, Matt Uelmen, Edo Guidotti

[Mangs]

This music reminds me of the magical journey my level 11 undead priest went through in order to find the Crossroads.
 
So I had recently hit level 12 and went to Brill to learn new skills. While I was in the tavern, my best friend who had started a tauren warrior sent me a whisper telling me I needed to come to the Barrens, as it was the best leveling zone, and we could level together.
 
I ran around in Tirisfal Glades for 30 freaking minutes trying to find the damn zeppelin tower (didn’t know I could ask the guards). Because my computer was so bad I had terrain distance set to minimum, so spotting it from Brill was impossible.
 
When I finally reached the tower, I managed to get on the wrong zeppelin and ended up in Stranglethorn Vale. Luckily, I had set my hearthstone to Brill so I hearted back and got on the real one this time.
 
Stupid as I was however, I stood on the edge of the zeppelin as it was flying into Durotar, and accidentally pressed forward on my keyboard as I was reaching for my glass of soda, thus ending up in the water outside of Durotar. I whispered my friend in frustration, wondering what to do next, he told me to look for the gates of Orgrimmar, which I naturally didn’t see.
 
I swam to land and started walking down the coast, aggroing raptors and scorpions on my way. I managed to end up in the canyon with the harpies, and got completely lost in the caves there, asking in general chat if anyone knew where Orgrimmar was. The cooldown on the hearthstone was 1 hour back then, so hearting wasn’t an option, so I just wandered aimlessly around, killing harpies, and dying a few times before I managed to find a road.
 
Following this road, I finally came to Razor Hill and was relieved to see civilization after 1+ hour of lurking around in caves fighting harpies and thunder lizards. I asked around for the road to crossroads, and got told by a level 6 troll hunter named “omghunter” that I should just continue down the road. Well, I learned that day to never take a troll’s advice, cause I ended up in Sen’Jin village, and was now more lost than ever.
 
However, at this point my friend told me to just continue south and swim across the sea towards Ratchet, where the road to the Crossroads was quite easy to find. I have no idea how, but somehow I managed to end up on the freaking troll islands, though the mobs here were grey to me, I spent a good amount of time here walking around, looking for this so-called Ratchet.
 
Finally I understood I had to swim further south, but I soon realized that these waters were infested by level 17+ sea creatures that aggroed me from a freaking mile away and ate me before I could do much against them.
 
Many painful corpse-runs and releases later I spotted the sea port of Ratchet in the distance, and I felt extremely relieved when I finally swam ashore. I found the road leading to Barrens, and while I did get lost a couple of times, ran into a few quill boars, and read some Chuck Norris jokes in the barrens chat, I eventually ended up at the Crossroads, and was met by my friend who was currently dueling while waiting for me.
 
We then proceeded to quest together in the Barrens for the rest of the evening, well into the night, until the sun was shining through my window.
 
This song reminds me of this magical journey. A noob’s quest in the vast world of Warcraft, trying to find the freaking Crossroads.

[ReflKnight]

"Need more rage, not enough rage. Need more rage, not enough rage."

[varrand]

I nearly shat myself when i heard 0:58 again. The feels are too real. Being 12 and finally discovering the gates of orgrimmar, while watching all the higher lvls dueling infront of it.

[xNepsteR]

As a Horde player this piece of music just summarizes my entire WoW gameplay. It's just so beautiful.

[CaeiTridz]

All I can hear is the sound of boars dying.

[p.a.d.]

i admit it's a little weird to say that but.... When i'll die, i want my soul to reach vanilla WoW world :'(

[Descending]

March 2005 I started my first WoW character, an Orc Warrior named Dalthara. I remember hearing this music, while killing crabs by the Troll village just as you leave the starting area, and thinking to myself : "This really is something special I'm playing"

[Grogritark]

I remember about six years ago when I first played WoW. I created an Orc warrior. I was completely confused as to what to do. I think after finishing a few quests in Durotar (including the old northwatch keep ones, epic) I trained in mining and spent about a day getting copper ore and rough stone. I smelted all the bars and sold them to the vendor, thinking I was rich with my 2g!
Six years on and that orc warrior is much higher level. He raided four expansions, gathered over 15, 000 acheivement points and I had something like 150 days played.

Best game I ever played.

[smckenzie]

it weird how real these wow places feel to memories i have of walking there doesn't feel like a them

[PhilipKonn]

The original music in classic WoW was truly amazing. Going from zone to zone felt like going into completely different worlds. You just couldn't help getting emotionally involved as you played through the game; spending a lot of time questing in one zone and having that great feeling of accomplishment as you move to the next new zone full of new mysteries and things to explore, new people, and some old friends, too! The music just brought the entire game to life like no other game I've seen since.

I'm so happy to have experienced this game from 2004-2006. I grew so much in my ability to dream and have fun. Thanks, everyone!

[GustavbergUnitas]

10 years ago heared this first time. 10 years. Can`t belive.

[leadersofthenewschool]

almost cried listening to this... good times back in westfall. fuck i wish i could bring it all back

[ceruleandusk]

I am crying right now, this is pure art

[rasmushgh]

Farewell my friends, I am about to die from the sheer nostalgia!

[Jehowy]

All my characters were either Trolls or Orcs, when I started WoW while WotLK they both started from same area, so I heard this song A LOT, and I remember I liked it so much, every character had to at least once WALK all the way from Sen'Jin to Orgrimmar and listen to this song with me :D. One of my favourite OSTs.

[kwestyo]

Oh man...the feels....I remember my first character ever was a troll hunter named Shadowhunter, ( i really liked the trolls from wc3) i literally spent DAYS trying to find The Den where you need to turn in the first quest, i eventually made an orc warrior and just started roaming around the world, grinding boars, not knowing where i should go or what should i do, i think i was like level 20 when i went to Booty Bay out of sheer curiousity, i wish i could forget everything about WoW so when i play it again it will be all brand new and interesting and amazing...

[crorens]

I was trying to find that troll village, after the starting zone. As im running around I see a troll player and ask him where's the village. He says nothing and just points in the direction (using /point), I had no idea you could do that. Its silly, but I thought it was the most awesome thing ever, still remember it to this day. Where ever you are, troll guy, thank you.

[RickeOOO]

It feels sad to realize that ill never in my life is gonna experince something so addicting and fun, that I did back in the days playing this game, vanilla to wrath... This game back then was so far ahead of any other game, even tho I love Diablo 2, PoE and other games like that. There is simply nothing comparing to stepping in to the world of warcraft for the first time. Nothing comes even close to this.

[ChubbySkahFTW]

This soundtrack transmits the journey of the orcs and the horde in general through out Warcraft's lore; starts with a tune which transmits mystery; the Orcs arriving at Durotar, looking for answers, for a place to be safe, then turning into a big silence and this melody inspiring hope, for the exiled orcs who once were their own doom. Looking for redemption but later it turns into this this kind of tragic melody, looking in retrospective to how the war devastated them. And that's much of what I can think of now. This Soundtrack really tears me up, it transmits so much, even in Westfall.

[Rhodesbysea]

I've hardly ever gotten chills from music before but this did it, it takes me back to the old days. I remember when I first bought WoW I was so young at the time I wasn't exactly sure what to expect. The first week of release, despite the crashes, the masses of players I managed to make a host of different characters. Man just exploring durotar and mulgore for the first time was amazing. Very few games have ever evoked that much emotion.

I gripe everytime I think about what they did to the old world with Cataclysm. All the soul and substance ripped out for $$$.