The Vietnam of WoW

It's missing the sound of your character dying to stealthed rogues.

All the sudden PvP.... All the ganking.... This... This wasn't a leveling zone... this was a war zone.

Fun fact: Using Arcane Explosion ANYWHERE in STV will result with de-stealthing at least 4 Rogues.

If you take away the pressure to level as fast as you can, listen to the music and take the time to read the quests WoW is very beautiful.

main theme for a true ganker in wow

In my humble opinion, this is the magnum opus of WoW zones. Everything about this zone was just nailed. Excellent quest structure, excellent aesthetic (dangerous jungle filled with predatory animals and murderous trolls?), and it was the first zone that really allowed full fledged PvP engagement. Grom'gol felt like a refuge, and Booty Bay was just this perfect lawless Tortuga-esque vibrant shanty town. Okay, gonna go fire up classic and run around.

Was expecting a 1-hour loop of "Fortunate Son."

*Night elf enters the zone* "HMPH-AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

3:16 "Time is money, friend."

I guess 14 people never found all the pages ;)

*Entering stealth*

>See level ?? horde >Instantly Shadowmeld >Stand there for 3 hours >Hearth and go quest in Desolace Yeah screw this place.

When every single tree had an Undead Rogue behind it, waiting for an opportunity to gank lowbies questing.

Stranglethorn was like a WoW character rite of passage, it always felt like I was shipping out to dangerous places where there wasn't a horde town or city around the next corner to take a break at. Instead around every corner there were angry trolls, deadly mobs and lots of monkeys either scratching their armpits in a tree or walking around with swords and fireballs.

Good morning Vietnam!

does anyone else find this extremely relaxing and also great for studying/reading? i have a lot of nostalgia with this sound track

* applying crippling poison *

Nostalgia why must you hurt me so often

Damn, listening to this music is like traveling through the past, all these images in my head, i could lay in my bed and continue this for HOURS, better than reading a book.

This is the greatest zone with the best music. Greatest summer of my life was playing wow Freshman year

I really appreciate your videos. I love that you recorded live video to go along with the sound. Also, It's great that you gave us the option with just ambience or with music too. You're doing everything right!!

Aaah...the constant running from the graveyard back to your corpse.

I've spent many a night atop that huge waterfall, just gazing out into the vast horizon; sometimes I'd catch a sunset or two. At times I'd catch the sunrise by the ocean shore while fishing. I could reminisce forever with this ambience. Thank you!! Do more please!!

"Everyone Has a Plan Until They enter Stranglethorn Vale" Mike Tyson

I'm at that critical moment in my life where I'm not sure whether playing wow was a waste of time and life chances or it was worth my years. What is certain though is that it's beautiful.

Though I had to quit WoW because it was a huge time suck I do miss the pretty scenery and the ambiance. Half the fun was just wandering around to the music.

No idea why but this music is very easy to fall asleep to for me, I don’t have the rogue ptsd of many other people

My times in Azeroth are probably forever over and the old feeling of wonder and adventue will never come back, but yout videos make me reexperience all those feeling and help me calm down and get focused on my studies. Those Kind of videos are what I've been looking for for a long time. Thank you for your work, I hope you'll get back to Warcraft-stuff after you are done with Overwatch!

Exploration was my favorite part of this game and STV did not disappoint. It was such a contrast to dreariness of Duskwood, though the two shared a border. You really felt the change in atmosphere once you crossed that threshold. I was so out of my depth when I ran to Booty Bay, but it was thrilling at the same time. So much fun was had.

The music perfectly encapsulates that sense of wonder, mystery and unease. Alliance players typically came here after questing in Duskwood and PvP wasn't really a thing until then. Also the open spaces and many obstacles (trees, hills, ruins, etc.) made it possible for you to charge into an enemy and suddenly be confronted with three, just because those three trolls were hiding behind a tree.

How…. How can that song Bring back so many memories, not Gonna lie, wow has such a big place in my hearth

Playing this game as a kid leveling up on a PVP server was the most fun I've ever had playing a video game

Ah. My most feared, dreaded and at some point eventually, loved leveling zone. What joy I had listening to your music while hearing my own death sound over and over. Truly much more immersing and blood boiling times than what you get in MMO's nowadays.

These videos are amazing for studying. I've been off WoW for years and unfortunately will never go back, but the music composition is beautiful and perfect for concentrating! Thanks for uploading these great videos!

After 5 mins: "What an awesome video" ... After 55 mins: "Re-activating subscription" ... FU! Cheers anyway.

I mostly remember the music from doing the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganzas on a relaxing Sunday afternoon. Yes, there was a lot of PvP, but that made having friends only better.

Words cannot explain the nostalgia and the great feeling I get when jamming this specific one.. I remember accidentally taking the zep to STV as a lowbie and the raptors were Level ?? Beasts lol

Oh man, childhood ❤playing all night, looking for those damn scrolls for Ernest 😂

If you grinded Stranglethorn for 10 years like me, this epic ambience is the vibe to get that work grind poppin' 💯🔥

By far my favourite zone/music, and the one that had the most lasting impact. For me, this is where the game truly took off and I became invested.

Lots of good and infamous memories are had with this place. This place is awesome to level in, the PvP is fun when there are max level wars going on, and it’s got so much content for a wide level range.

My all time favorite zone, period. The jungle, the sun and the pirates. Booty Bay should've been a major point of interest. Back in the day it was crowded and I really loved visiting it. Now it's not that much visited but still has a very special place in my heart. The music that plays in this whole zone is fantastic, one of the best in the entire game in my opinion.

This place was single handedly responsible for many of my vest memories of wow. The low lvl pvp in the open world was such a big flavor. We strictly fought low lvl pvp and hunted the alliance with hunter tracking. Oh the sound of gunshots and screaming night elves. The first two handed windfury proc on a mage. The tense wait for the rogue to appear. Good times

When I’m was like 14 years old spent all my time in STV and gank with online friends. Good old times :(

The last words of a player in STV vanilla - "Rogue On Me... "

at 5:00 a random player jumps into the water xD

9:35 through 11:00 this the most fantastical collection of sound I have ever heard.

Those memories! The days I spent in Strangethorn with my hunter..

8:27 and...reactivating my account ...

Where is the character dying sound?

memories coming up ... after studying i'll definitely pick up this game again. The world created in this game is unbelievable. hope the game isn't dead by then.

Spent way too much time in this area, I always thought it was so much fun

I discovered this just recently, but I want you to know that your videos will be the constant soundtrack of my WarCraft-themed DnD sessions from now on, starting from this one! Thanks man, awesome work!

I started playing wotlk wow when i was 6 years old, i didnt really knew a single word in english so my dad helped me out in terms of creating character, using the ,,options" tool etc.. I always liked guys with knives so i made myself a human rogue. I wanted to do a night elf rogue but i didnt knew how to switch from one race to another so i just locked in my Human called ,,Rard". Yeah, randomized name and what? I loved my character so much, doing all these quests in Elwynn, accidentally passing the south river and met a bunch of ?? spiders and wolves haha i loved it. I also remember how i randomly ran onto Hogger and i was really confident about killing him. Shamefully, it was the hard to kill-before Cataclysm hogger so i had no chance, and i joined a group of literaly 4 mages and we destroyed that suckass. Goldtooth was also really hard to kill, not because he was hard, it was cause when you entered the mine, you accidentally pulled about 3 of these kabolds and rogue was very bad for killing multiple enemies at the same time... I stopped playing wotlk at about lvl 42, remembering the old Stranglethorn, it were some great times running the first time into Booty bay, being ganked all the time and accidentally started attacking some horde guy and being demolished by the booty bay guards. Great times. Now im 14 and i dont regret a single minute passed while playing WoW! 17 Now, its actually not painful at all read this text after the younger me :D

This is great for tabletop rpg ambience. Thank you so much for uploading these videos!

I've shared this video with all my friends because I couldn't help but share the passion and love for this music. Thank you for creating such amazing songs!💋

Thank you so much for posting these, I find them so relaxing and nostalgic.

docile yet dangerous ! well done. i always imagined this song "should feel special" but i didnt think so. until I started the video. then i could understand what it was.. . there was a time when, finally hearing this music ment that, you were nearing the level cap, you FINALLY were high enough for a mount, you were almost near the high end. this was the music that was introducing you to the later parts of the game. i could feel that and remember that, after hearing the music. and for that feeling, it was a special soundtrack. simple but meaningful.

I always looked forward to STV when I levelled my characters. It was definitely my favourite zone.

So many good memories from this zone during vanilla. You were actually starting to get to a decent level and would see enemy players regularly. Quests killing pirates were epic. There was so much to explore and navigate through. I remember getting the cold blood talent seemed so cool and I would just camp in stealth along a path in the woods and wait for some lower level ally to walk by. Good times.

9:40 Once I sat in the middle of the jungle and had closed my eyes then the song just started to drain into my soul.

I just love this. Always remember my time I spent in this zone. Leveling, Ganking, Gurubashi, the auction house where I can trade with the opposite faction, zul-gurub and much more :D

God I wish I could play old WoW for the first time again

Story: I was 14 maybe 15, playing Everquest; I had played EQ since 1999, then diablo II, lvl 98 hc conc barb. 60 necromancer classic EQ. I used to play Tides of Darkness over at my grandfathers on his nice pentium III intel pc....then Warcraft 3 came out. Nelf Archer will always be my waifu; but in WoW Tauren all the way. Name was Draegoloth (creature in DnD). Warrior Class. Nothing like nostalgia almost causing a novel; nothing like the good days when camping gurubashi arena with immovable object/(certain weapon) then hot swapping to Revenge before it was patched with Sul'Thraze the Lasher Sword (from shimmering flats dungeon...come on guys...) The Ocean couldnt contain the amount of salt accumulated

Real nostalgy... Thank You. I would love to live there!

One of my favorite zone.. interesting quests, and good battles.

Me trae recuerdos cuando mis amigos y yo estábamos en Gurubashi... recuerdo que nos reiamos, nos enfadabamos y llorabamos juntos..... Los echo de menos 😔😔💕😫😫😭😭

This is awesome dude :D I had to write a story for school about jungle adventures so i turned on this and it helped me a lot :) thanks man :D

Oh what fantastic memories of RUNNING from the very top of STV to Booty Bay just to hand a quest in, then all the way back - When you got your mount at 40, and WoW was still pure.

Fantastic work!

I remember looking for Nightblade for ages! So many memories.

Prob one of my favorite zones from classic i just love the feel of the zone

these comments are great, the nostalia is great. thank you for all of these uploads.

24:06 was always my favorite part when I would level here

Thank you for videos! It's a great and pretty work! =D

This is one of my favorites, for sure!

When you're doing Kurzen compound quests and the bushes start speaking orc...

it’s 2 am for me right now, and as i was about to fall asleep my brain projected the “WOOP... woop” sound at 2:20 and I just HAD to hear it before I went to bed. this is just such a nostalgic place for me and I miss it pre-cata. can’t wait for classic so I can die every 5-10 minutes and end up having to wait 2 minutes until I can revive due to being ganked so much. it’s the little things

THANK YOU FOR THIS! I love WoW's ambience... this is perfect.

''Every man has got a breaking point. You and I have. Colonel Kurzen has reached his and very obviously, he has gone insane. When you find colonel infiltrate his team by whatever means available and terminate the colonel's command''

I just love all your Videos. As I don't really find time to play the game I spent my whole teenage period on anymore, it's a great opportunity to feel nostalgic. What do you think about making a zul aman video, maybe including ghost lands. I loved zul aman incredibly, the music and this whole atmosphere was just gorgeous, especially with the last boss yelling through the instance to make you feel the urgency of your mission. Would love to see more raid/instance videos too, as these are probably places that I spend the most emotional evenings in. Love you

Thanks for all your work!

Remember the skirmishes that sometimes would erupt between guild raid groups preparing to raid Zul'Gurub that instead ended up in all out war and no raid. Icing on the cake, was the time a belf hunter forgot to get the poison from the first boss cleansed from his pet before putting it away. Led to a full blossomed pandemic on the alliance side when he summoned it in Stormwind. The poison spread by proximity and spread if not cleansed and the pet started heroically spreading... Blizz tried hotfixes, restarting servers eventually having to do a hard reset, restoring the game to the version before the poison was introduced. Eventually patching the problem away. After resurrecting death was pretty much a given no matter, as the taverns where full most caught the plague instantly. Soon most tried gy ress to avoid crowds, but ofc those where also filled with others trying the same thing. Never before or after, have I seen a so crowded gy. As the only cure for the debuff was cleansing, which only at the time Paladins had access to. Many a Paladin died when going to dense areas trying to cure those infected. Fun times

Every time i leveled a character i was happy to reach the level to enter stranglethorn..one of my favorite areas.. I remember the first character i leveled there and i was standing next to a full Zul Gurub raid group. I also dropped the fiery axe (epic random drop) with strenght on it and i was wearing it as a hunter :)

In my honest opinion, one of the best zone music in the game! Miss the time when I would sneak around clothers in Booty Bay with my druid and then get busted by the goblin bruisers!

These are amazing, thank you so much

This game was my second home for many years of my adolescence.

Music that fits my quiet mornings with coffee. Just chill in the jungle.

I remember rock climbing to the high point in Westfall and looking down on STV. I couldn't wait to go there. When I finally could, I was ganked for the first time,within 5 minutes of being there by a max level tauren Horde. Watch in ghost form as he danced, and waited for alliance players to show up, that turned into an epic WPvP battle. Great times.

aww man I loved this place!!! NOSTALGIA!

so chilling music. No wondering why I loved so much this game.

man the experience of being a lvl 15 horde character and being like "I wonder where this ship in ratchet goes" and end up exploring a cool new area whilst trying to avoid people ganking you was amazing

So much time spent in this place... So many god damn memories.

I've been the hunter and then hunted around STV and both were great fun

*Hope this kind of music never ends*

Talk about nostalgia... right in the feels.

This is awesome , thanks.

One word..... Ganking