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  • i wish i could've been around in vanilla to do this raid...i started playing back in wrath and...im just so jealous of those people that got to experience what this place was like back when it was hard and people couldnt just solo this place....wow is just getting too easy...if its this easy in cataclysm...im almost scared to think about how easy it will be when MoP comes out....

  • The terrifying grandeur of this music. It gives me chills, and certainly a flashback or two to the damp, pulsing walls of the hive of Evil itself.

    If Ahn'Qiraj wasn't difficult enough as is, you always had that feeling that the raid itself was closing in around you...

  • To the people who complain about Cata being "too easy": do heroic mode and quityerbitchin. I'm glad I finally get to finish content without raiding 24/7 for once.

  • @cerulee You are kidding, right? The Looking for Raid feature makes all the raids require almost no tacts at all, gives them the feel of a normal dungeon with slightly better gear. They have ruined a great game over time, someone may not feel it, but it is a shadow of it's former self as it is now. Cataclysm was the finishing blow to finish it off.

  • @DokmoBros um, I didn't say anything about LFR. I said heroic mode. That is still legitimately difficult. Complaining about LFR is like complaining that Baskin Robbins has an ice cream flavor you don't like when there are others to choose from. If you hate LFR so much than don't use it.

  • I'd really like to download that, where can I find WoW soundtracks now that MV, MU have been closed plz ? : p

  • Prepare for the return of the ancient ones!

  • I face C'Thun on a Fun server... Druid Heal... He casted "Dark Look" after 3 minutes, I was healing myself, and then I took this => 32k (15k Absorbed) (damage excess 25k)...

    Me : What ! I wasn't in the Ray ! *I look at the damage* oO' 72k Even my powered servercrafted armor !!

    (Sorry for english mistakes)

  • the part at 5:44 makes me think that I am so close to the dark god himself that he is gradually draining away my will to live and killing me with it! (God that sounded nerdy!)

  • AQ40 still one of my all time favourite raids, wish Blizzard would bring out more instance just as epic as this one, with good music, atmosphere and story. Besides Ulduar, the last couple of raids have been a downer.

  • Buru the Gorger is the greatest boss ever.

  • LSD trip!  :B

  • death is...close

  • And imagine Trolls alone defeated C'Thun and silithid without any divine help, any fancy magics or stronger allies help. Incredible.

  • I'm pretty sure that the whole reason why C'thun was so terrifying was that you were in his domain - there were no Titanic forces to save you, you were buried beneath the sands of Southernmost Kalimdor, with only your strength to rely on against an entire ancient empire which even the dragons could not defeat at the apex of its power.

  • @KingTomJoyce Yeah, it was that.... And also probably the fact that he could crit you for like 80 FUCKING K.

  • Oooooh man! 0:55 gave me a shiver over my spine, or what ever the word is ;)

  • @MrPwnwOOt Indeed, there's nothing like doing aq40 with that playing in the background.

  • I remember the countdown to Ahn Qiraj, the server lag like hell and crashed, Hordes and Alliance killing each other at the gates. I missed the 40 man raid

  • This music is so relaxing

  • Easy mode is fine, but when you take the feeling of accomplishment out of a game. The game is just a boring grind fest. When everyone and their mother has "epic gear", the gear is no longer "epic".

    People never complained about hard high tier instances, what vanilla lacked was 5 man dungeons and PvP content. But instead of just fixing that, blizzard made the entire game baby's milk bottle - easy feeding.

  • @BlueCrystalGem Hope you cleared pre-nerf Sunwell, then. And all the hardmodes in WotLK and Cata pre-nerf. All the difficulty is still there. It's just not a massive barrier to newbies entering the content. It's in hard modes for experienced players to go after on their own.

  • I miss these times :(

  • @Kimflodin well vanilla did have alot of bugs but it was ALOT of fun. I would say

    TBC>Vanilla>WOTLK>CATA. In every aspect CATA seemed better but I never quit during WOTLK days but I have during cata, it's missing something vital but don't know what =/

  • @lolzor44 Cata's vital missing piece is *fun*. The game is just a random grind, and when you finish 3 weeks of repeating the same content on a daily basis, you're done until the next patch. Oh, and raids... finished regular mode? Ready to go on??? Okay, REPEAT IT AGAIN with more FIRE!

  • @darkwoodmovies WoW's always been like that since day one. What Cataclysm is missing isn't fun, it's just you who have played the game for a very long time and doesn't find it enjoyable anymore.

  • what they should remake is karazhan and AQ.

  • @TheSephiroth5 SSSSSSHHHHHHHHH no don"t give them any ideas.

  • You'd be surprised of how much money blizzard would make, if they opened a pre-TBC server. I'd bet a good 70% of cataclysm's population would switch. They know Ahn'Qiraj is the best thing they ever made, it's only a matter of time until they bring it back.

  • @Detnawnu agreed! when I quit my subscription on wow, that means reason for stop playing, due to some wierd reason you actually have to say why, I simply stated: I got boored and I miss the good old 40 man raids. If you bring back a fresh server that starts from the beginning. THAT would be awesome.

  • @Olebola No it wouldn't. It wouldn't be fresh at all. You enjoyed all of this because it was new, and we, as humans tend to remember the good and forget the annoying crap in vanilla. Classic servers won't bring back those memories or feelings of epic. Why? Cause you already know the game inside and out. Back then you didn't.

  • @plutarch78 Couldn't agree more. WoW wasn't better back in vanilla, I played it and there's very few things I miss about it. The thing I miss however, is being a noob. I miss the times when everything was new and exciting. I remember the first time I raided AQ and it was epic beyond measure, but only because I was a noob.

  • My favorite music from World of Warcraft <3. Since it I love ambient.

    Reminds me the old WoW world and its beautiful nature and Incredible raids...

    Good night, sweet wow.

  • i never played classic wow, but ive heard that this raid was one of the best ever made :P

  • @TheMattTrivium Yeah, epic fail ! ;)

  • Not my favorite music... Kinda creepy... <:(

  • I miss vanilla...

    But hey, a game has to evolve right?

  • -1.9 Hits, Avowry goes in for the first pull, Raid wipes-

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  • Which country is the "style" of music plz ?

  • @Chfoulu Arabic; Egyptian -esque

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  • Guys stfu about cata ruined wow. cata is apart of wow lore. play warcraft 1,2,3. And you might say something else. so.... play warcraft games b4 you play world of warcraft. I rest my case.

  • The first World of Warcraft was the best game I have ever played. Vanilla was the most epic experience.

  • 4:35 + is so amazingly haunting. It creeps the everliving shit out of me, in a very subtle way. This raid was very atmospheric that way. It made me feel uncomfortable, creeped out, occasionally claustrophobic and paranoid (ESPECIALLY the crazy noises at 5:45). I loved every minute of it, and I'm always looking for reasons to return here. I wish I had raided it when it was new content.

  • can this be downloaded or registered easily?

    (for roleplays ambient music =P )

  • Wow vanilla was the shit. One of the best MMOs I've played.

    Burning crusade was a nice extension, even if it derailed from the original.

    Wotlk is overall good but has some stupid shitty stuff in it.

    Cataclysm is just awful with a few good elements.

  • @darkshewbacca No. Cata isn't shit. It's the best expansion yet, but if you count in nostalgic feelings, I'd say the first two were the best.

  • @epicSockett new dungeons and monsters doesn't mean it's the best. It's nowhere near epic as WotLK was. Some class changes just suck.

  • @deusirae76 Wrath was amazing, I'll give you that. Well... Scenery-wise anyways. The raids and instances sucked, and you were being showered with purples with every step you take. The only really tough part in Wrath was the frogger hallway in Naxx. :/

  • @epicSockett No way, Ulduar and Icecrown Citadel had incredible settings and musics to begin with. Tournament of the Crusader was only a lootfest on the other side and Naxx was only a rehash (though I had great pleasure to go within again).

  • @epicSockett Ulduar gave us a hell of a dungeon with the hard modes and Algalon.

  • @epicSockett Yes we were showered with purple but the best purples were still unobtainable by the average players.

  • @deusirae76 That's one thing you're right about. But you've got to admit: It was a faceroll expansion. I remember even thinking about quitting WoW for good after taking down the LK. :/ =

  • @epicSockett I banned the word "faceroll" from my vocabulery since it only reflects the feeling of the average players who didn't understand how this game went just insane sometimes in the hard modes. Blizzard had a big deal satisfying everyone, and they succeeded.

  • @deusirae76 there used to be a symbology with the word "epic"

  • @Olebola This "symbology" is obsolote now.

  • @Olebola This "symbology" is obsolete now.

  • @darkshewbacca ...Casual.

  • omg at like 56 secs it starts to get rly good! :D

  • The best music of World of Warcraft !

  • LOVE THIS MUSIC forever ;p

  • Shame i didnt start wow till 2008

  • shame i didnt start playing wow till 2008

  • I feel so sorry for all the guys who didn't face C'Thun in Classic WoW, the raid was outstanding, the music is still my favorite and the atmosphere was just too epic.

    Remember looking around the corner into the final battle room with the eye which was killing the ENTIRE raid in one second unless you don't know how to face the boss?

    Nostalgia...

  • @Kippstrahl Fuck... I could not play this game for 5 years since its release because I am not American and in those times I did not even have the Internet connection... I am fucking MAD AT WHOLE WORLD for not being able to play best of WoW... Vanilla, TBC.. Blizzard's delighted wise conciousness... They were making game for fans, tried hard, advanced, applied hardship to unite the community... Now they make game for whiners and noobs... :( life is not fare... who knew it will be a big deal...

  • @Kippstrahl who cares? Yogg Saron with no guardian activated was equally, if not more, challenging.

  • @Kippstrahl Last time i was there, i saw full gear ICC people die when they entered to fight C-thun.

  • It's.. your... fault...

  • I remember back in Vanilla seeing C'thun's eye for the first time... still gives me chills Oo

  • @bluntbeard123 ^^ it was more scarier with the music turned on, and more while you were traveling with your mount through the greati empire *brrrrrr*

  • @HalBDeU very true ;)

  • This music makes me shiver, can you just imagine in real being there in Ahn'Qiraj with an entire battle group of 40 eeople, walking throught a great and powerfull empire. I was just so scaried XD

  • "It's all fun and games till someone pokes an eye out"

    Blizz took that one out XD

  • @Lich137 actually he sayed loses an eye lol :P

  • Easily the best instances ever put together, now and forever.

  • I'm really hoping that blizz will revive AQ in a new raid with the emergence of the new old god, N'zath.

  • This was my favourite instance :;(

  • Cata's out, no AQ :(

  • Flying mounts in azeroth is cool and all, but it makes the world alot smaller than it was.

  • I dreamed of a 4th continent in the game where you can start off as a qiraji or a demon. They could also have unique classes like Gladiator, Hivelord or Mindslayer.

    Hoping that bliz is reading this.

  • I would love it if wow went back to just wow at like lvl 60 but with flying mounts in Azeroth

  • i love how these guys have a old Persian look i love it

  • Love 0:55 and all the rest ^^

  • @TheZuuler same man its awesome

  • Raiding here almost made me entomophobiac, tanking was a nightmare back then ...

  • Heyyy did somone hear Dalaran tune a bit somewhere from 8:40 to 9:00?? :))

  • @Krza91 lol yes, its like the same exact thing, under some creepy shit

  • Screw blizzard for getting rid of the old gods so fast...

  • i loved this one it was fucking hard me and my friends always got wiped at emperor vek'nilash and emperor vek'nilor (if that was his name)

  • no good making instances hard when people leave on the first wipe u wont get any of it done

  • Brrrrrrrrr, I hate bugs... Especially spiders...

  • A rather boring meandering peice imo...to each there own i guess.

  • @isthisnamegood

    When you're actually raiding AQ, its not a continuous piece. The parts where the song dies down and picks back up again are snippets that you would hear when raiding.

    When you've had the privilege of raiding AQ in its prime, the score becomes a supreme fear-inspiring melody. The kind of ambiance the Blizzard would be wise not to forget.

  • THE HIVE CLUSTER IS UNDER ATTACK!!!

  • FOR THE OVERMIND

  • 4:31 :D love it

  • thumbs up for AQ back in cata!

  • @kimflodin it just wouldnt be the same =/

  • @kimflodin , I disagree, AQ is a classic raid, I think it should stay the way it is, with the twin emperors, and plenty of other bosses still wiping level 80-85 groups, its been around for years, and Blizzard did a good job on it, it doesn't need to be changed for Cataclysm.

  • @DominusFas yeah, but it's depressing that you can outrun the entire raid with 5 peoples in less than 10 minutes :( AQ is just own zone now -.- but still the best raid in existence

  • @kimflodin I agree with you there, but AQ is one of the few large, and still untouched, things remaining from Vanilla WoW, if Blizzard changed it, I don't think it would really be the same, a totally awesome raid would, there just wouldn't be the feel of AQ there anymore.Now, if they were to make it an option to choose between AQ20/40 or revived AQ10/25, that would be a lot better. Thats what they should have done with Naxxramas, in my opinion.

  • @DominusFas well, blizz HAS actually changed AQ20 and AQ40 you may notice that they've added map to them so that you won't get lost and they've added 3 quest NPCs outside AQ, BUT you wanna know a fun fact, i and some random levelers and 2 other lvl 85 did AQ40 yesterday, i told them "if u never been in AQ40 before,u're fucked" but the others said that was bullshit, then not more than 20 minutes later the grp disbanded cus they wiped on the huge tunnel before Fankriss, at least i did it right

  • @kimflodin True enough, if I might ask, what server are you on? Also, nice job, telling them they are screwed, epic win right there.

  • @DominusFas it was a random AQ40 rep run on stormscale EU

  • @kimflodin lol I can solo up to twins minus viscidus since i have no frost on my feral.

  • @alterbridge111 yes that might be possible but just saying that every1 xept me (15 players) wiped in the tunnel

    wich means you CAN still die even if it's a lvl 60 raid

  • @kimflodin ya for sure, if its level 60 raid you will get owned hahaha.. aq40 is the hardest instance ever made in my opinion.. people will say sunwell and naxx 40 but fuck that, more time was spent in aq40 then any instance, my guild Manic on Korgath was the 12th guild in the world to attempt cthun when he was impossible, we got him to 66% and death and taxes best attempt was around 20% where he was declared literally impossible to kill and they were forced to nerf.. i miss these days.

  • @alterbridge111 i'm actually glad that blizz brought back some stuff rom aq, if ur archeleogy u can actually get AQ40 mount and u can use it OUTSIDE AQ40

  • @DominusFas Untouched? Look at the stats on the sets. No more spirit on them, and they even added hit rating. Anyway, I don't pay monthly fees to get the same stuff over and over again, remaking Naxx was fine but we don't need rehash anymore.

  • @kimflodin I would agree, but seeing as Blizzard tends to fuck up whatever it decides to remake, I would say no...

  • @Helljumper91 Tell me about it. Naxx, what a fail that was..

  • @Helljumper91 I think the new ZG heroic is easily one of the best 5 mans they have ever made, because of how well they did that I would love to see a an updated AQ! :D

  • @CarrotAtHeart Don;t you dare touch my beautiful AQ40!!!... D' =

  • @kimflodin no blizz will just make the bosses retarded like they done to ragnaros ffs he got legs he looks like a retard -.-

  • @metalhead20058 you better be kidding now or i'll stop playing WoW....

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  • @kimflodin

    He does have legs, but it's only gonna be in the new Firelands raid, not Molten Core.

  • @kimflodin wow is dead and has been dead for quite a while man,noone or nothing can revive it anymore...not even a magnificent AQ ,and what they have started ruining in wotlk,they completely finished it off in cata..

  • @JokaTHePatriot WoW's dead? umm...it's now it's more popular than any other game and has always been and always will

  • @kimflodin I am not saying anything about its popularity LOL, by dead i mean that its faded and not what it used to be,there is no more joy in playing it as it was before,atleast 70% of players will confirm that.

  • @JokaTHePatriot WoW haven't faded anything, Cataclysm is awesome,imo Vanilla>Cataclysm>TBC>WOTLK

  • @kimflodin It is still one of the most popular games out there, but it has lost TONS of subscribtions. I think it was 12 million at their peak (WOTLK) and they have lost about 2 million players after cata came out. Correct me if I am wrong.

  • Some Scary Shit, Blizzard knows how to make the right music to suit any environment

  • your. heart.... will......explode

  • 0:55 ..I'm scared O.o

  • hm.. ive heard that this raid gonna be downgraded to a 10 man and lvl 85+ something.. thats true? gonna be awsomeness :=)

  • @Yazer89 AQ20 is 

  • @Klemardplusturtles will it be tuned for lvl 85?

  • Long live the Ahn'Qiraj.. to kill them hurts me.

  • i think the reason why this place is so spooky is because if you knew its lore it would creep you out

  • Best raid in the game

  • Seriously amazing!!!! bring back the old musics!

  • I heard that a couple of quest involving Ahn'Qiraj that the twilight cult try's to get some essence from C'thun to revive him in the twilight highlands

    as deathwing serves the old gods including C'thin(If alive)

    I hope its treu an level 85 40(most likely 25/10) man Ahn'Qiraj raid would be awesome

    then again we would suceed stopping them and getting instead a nice raid,

    18 gold in return

  • your friends.. will. abandon you...

  • @Zyrog always true....

  • Best raid by far. I miss the old days of Pre-BC... Staying up past midnight for school nights, feeling like a badass, while wiping on Princess Huhuran. Good times, good times....

  • Cant wait for the new AQ 5 man in cataclysm, it'll bring back memories from like 5 years. Maybe blizz havent failed us completely. Im glad to see certain things from vanilla rise again, like CC, i missed that so very much. I do hope the expansion wont be a faceroll like WotLK. Screw the casuals, i want AQ back!

  • Great one! Thanks for uploading.

    Stonex

  • these were the good days where you raided for the fun and not for the damn epics it's like your raid kills lich king and somebody has a heart attack because what they wanted didn't drop

  • I really hope the update this masterpiece to lvl 85 raiding in cataclysm ;)

  • @Yazer89 No thanks, we got enough rehash with Naxxramas. We'll have Ragnaros as an ending boss, what a surprise ..

  • Ahn'qiraj has the best lore,next to ulduar.

  • @TheFlyingpurplepanda Where can i find the complete lore for both raids? They both seem pretty amazing, both to do with Old gods and the Titans

  • @WHATYOUSAYWHITEBOY just search it on google and find the WoWikki link

  • Wow haz the best music of every game, its just so awesomesauce

  • lol i find c'thun more disturbing that Giygas (not sure if you guys know who that is)

  • Blizzard will never go "back to their roots" or create a separate BC/Vanilla server. They clearly stated "An MMO is about expanding, going back to the old times would defeat the purpose, we'd rather have players experience our new content" (Something like that)

    They will never do it. Period. Its nice to pretend but frankly, no point in hoping for anything.

  • @Shamadamun It's just nostalgia making people want a 60 server anyways. The game really sucked balls back then, but plently of people seemed to have convinced themselves that it was so much better and different than the game is right now.

  • @PremiumPastaSauce this,i agree with you.The game was very unbalanced back then,you had to invest a huge amount of time to gear up,and "casuals" had a very hard time gearing up.But i think the game is worse now,cause the meaning of gearing up now is shit,everybody runs with epics,despite their skill.So,you end up having people in raids that are totally noobs,wheres in vanilla this wasnt the case

  • @Cannibalizer93 You are just looking at the purple names of the items. Shitty epics now are the same as vanilla blues. And people who were shit got gear in vanilla same as they do now.

  • @PremiumPastaSauce They feel nostalgia because WoW was new, almost only for hardcore gamers, and not so mainstream as it is nowadays.

  • @deusirae76 No the game sucked dick. It wasn't for hardcore gamers it was just boring, you needed to grind endlessly to do anything instead of going off player skill. Stale niggas who were shitty could achieve anything as long as they put the hours in. People just let nostalgia overpower their common sense.

  • @PremiumPastaSauce By hardcore gamers I mean those who had enough time to do it.

  • AQ creeped me out. Only got to do it once, and only the ruins... though I did solo two of the bosses. >>

  • memories! i played wow since 2006,and i remember this track 4:40 when i entered the inner AQ,and i was like WOA this is amazing! I loved old wow,too bad wotlk forced me to stop :)

  • i remember back the GOOD OLD days when my Indian guild used to succefull run this AQ40 was the challange the good old times and ofc Naxx....with BT

  • this is the best raid ever made

  • @Radioactiva95

    The black temple, Naxx 40 and Sunwell too !

  • @TehZ3R0bf2 yes and Karazhan, Mound hyjal, BWL and zul'aman too:D

  • @Radioactiva95 I absolutely agree 100%

  • this raid (plus other lv 60 raids) are the reason i cap some toons at 60.. so i can fight it with other people who like doing it the old fashion way! the only non lv 60 raid i like is karazhan... lol

  • @TheMattTrivium Not really. Maybe your guild, but this was not etiquette for dying Pre BC.

  • it pisses me off that 40 man raids aren't involved with the latest expansions, defeats the purpose of them existing now, which is a great shame

  • Blizzard lost their imagination, AQ was the shittttt

  • @shelbee1000 Lmao they still have an imagination. They make up creatures and lore like nothing I've ever seen.

  • I hate how ppl only do WotLK raids and not vanilla raids...

  • 4:30-6:50 is so awesome. Its a true masterpiece. This part is so fuckin epic. This is atmosphere, this is Ahn Qiraj, THIS is vanilla WoW. Pls Blizzard... BACK TO THE ROOTS. :D