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Hello everybody! Today, join me on a deep dive around Vengeance Landing, one of two Horde starting areas in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion! After playing through here I realized just how awesome the story and worldbuilding here are, and couldn’t resist making a video about it! 🙂
All in-game footage retrieved from Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft (2004-).
Wrathgate Cinematic clip belongs to Blizzard Entertainment.
Background Music: “Howling Fjord” from the WoW WotLK OST
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Outro Music: “You’re The One Acoustic Rehearsal” by Greta Van Fleet
Jediwarlock 2023
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Yes once again nice, new video 😀 ! cozy 9 minutes for me.
Another video! Ill save that for bedtime to sleep peacefuly!
Wrathgate was amazing peak warcraft
Great video my dude. Jediwarlock is the name, and plays a shadow priest in the video which is like a jedi warlock if you think about a shadowpriests kit.
Vengeance Landing was where I first set foot in Northrend all those years ago. Nostalgic.
Valiance Keep keep is such a great starting location I think. It starts off seeming like it's going to be like hellfire was where "oh go kill 10 boars" and you are starting at the bottom once again with go kill 10 nerubians but then it turns into this cult conspiracy hunt and leads to an epic battle against a blood prince
Howling Fjord is my prefered zone ever. Starting from the shore, the more north you get, with snow starting to pile up, the more close you feel to Icecrown. Great vid !
I usually chose borean tundra, but if my character was undead it was a requirement they went to howling fjord.
Howling Fiord way nicer to quest than Borean Tundra
I think you are playing WOW the way it's meant to be played!
Many hails from a old beta player.
Is it worth it for a completely new player to classic to get into the game? I'm not sure if i'd be able to "fit in" as per se since it's been so long and I'm not experienced with classic at all?
lorewise – howling fjord
gameplaywise – borean tundra is infinitly better
Another steller video. I quit wow after classic but wrath was my first expansion. And I remember why I loved it so much, amazing questing areas and the most beautiful zones. I want to level up again!
You have a great voice for commentaries. I enjoy the great little lore details about the environment, keep those elements in your videos 🙂
I was always certain that Sylvanas was in on the Apothecary plot at the Wrathgate, but that she just had enough plausible deniability to throw the Royal Society under the bus to save herself. Shame they never went in that direction with the writing.
Back in the day, in 2008, I wanted to do Howling Fjord first. But ended up in the Borean Tundra instead.
Wrath was pretty amazing, it was cool that Blizzard gave us two different starting areas, as you can start in Borean Tundra or Howling Fjord, i think the alternate transports are at Menethil Harbor and Stranglethorn Outpost respectively.
loved it
Vengeance Landing and the subsequent follow up in Dragonblight is absolutely amazing and sets up the Wraithgate scene perfectly. It's certainly the best of the starting zones in Wrath to experience when you get up there.
This was my introduction to Wrath of the Lich King & Northrend 🤗🥰
Commenting before I watch the whole vid, but I already agree 😅 You land on the frozen shores of Northrend, meet the Apothecary, then go out to meet the BIG WOLVES & GIANTS. The shipwrecks off the coast & the mounted bombing runs 😩 You feel like this is a slow-paced D-Day Invasion!
This also was when the questing changed a bit. They started being far more linear in terms of progress. You went from one quest giver to another to another. They lead into eachother, instead of having to span the whole zone for NPCs. Once you reached the top of the lift, and get the first sights of Vrykul architecture… 😩😩😩 Blizzard outdid themselves here!!
(I haven't touched this game since the end of Cataclysm. The memories still seem fresh & vibrant, and this video was very nostalgic!)
To be honest I never gave much thought to Vengeance landing. Howling Fjord was always a go for me, but I'll try this now. Looks promising.
Great video! Thanks for making this kind of content.
Howling Fjord is definitely one of the zones that Blizzard has ever made.
I feel like I’m the only person who prefers Bornean Tundra to Howling Fjord. BT is so desolate and unforgiving, it sets a tone of absolute dread that HF doesn’t match, imo. BT also kicks off instantly with a scourge offensive against your newly constructed fortresses, letting you know right off the bat that The Scourge isn’t about to make this easy for you.
Bornean Tundra may not be as aesthetically wondrous as Howling Fjord, but I really do think it has serious merits that many players ignore because “zone flat lmao”. Next time you level a new character in Classic, try the Tundra, and really try to see what it has to offer.
I'll never be convinced that the Horde isn't the more evil and devious of the two factions. The Alliance was in Northrend to put a stop to Arthas. You don't get too many "Go fight the Horde" quests on the Alliance side. And it mostly has to do with trying to study and stop the plague. This was the beginning of Sylvanas' turn towards just pure maliciousness as far as I'm concerned. Yes, a "rogue" faction of the Forsaken. Like she didn't know what was happening.
Heck, the entire Howling Fjord area is fantastic. Horde starting area is great to give you that sinking feeling that Sylvanas didn't just come here to explore, she came here for blood. The Alliance, on the other hand, made way to settle areas that were until VERY RECENTLY abandoned. And you can see the results of the vrykul awakening. The harpoon guns with ships dangling from them, that bitter feeling that your ship might not survive the trek, and not to mention the gloomy cave the boat sails through before finally settling at the dock of Valgarde. This zone really taught Alliance players humility, while it taught Horde players strength, especially considering the Forsaken used to just be shambling about in old human settlements. Their own architecture in a foreign land just makes them feel invulnerable, that even the newest, weakest members of the world could forge a greater destiny than anyone could have anticipated.
I'm just realizing now that I could probably write an entire essay on the Fjord. 😂😂 But I'm glad you're enjoying the Classic experience! Keep up the awesome work!
Ah, Northrend, aka, CAN I SEE ICECROWN FROM HERE??, CAN I SEE ICECROWN FROM HERE TOO?? WOOO, LOOK AT ICECROWN, IT'S SO CLOSE
Icecrown Citadel makes you feel uneasy wherever you are, because you see the tower and you know, things are gonna end up there, that's the place where it all will be decided. That's why Howling Fjord (and part of the Grizzly Hills) is so chill, you don't feel so threatened, and can enjoy the landscape more.
Going to be honest, I hate Howling Fjord, lol. But I absolutely love your content so I had to listen all the way even if I'd rather be in Borean Tundra.
I, like many others, were introduced to you by the mighty youtube algorithm when you went swimming around the eastern kingdoms, even left a comment back then I believe. Enjoying your new content and will keep watching.
My advice would be to keep focusing on less known lore details or oddities across the world of azeroth while giving your own opinions and ideas about things, much like in this video. In time, your channel will only grow.
Funny how the horde and the alliance decided it would be a good idea to have a massive fight right at the feet of the mighty Lich King who raises corpses and adds them to his army. Seems like one of the most moronic things ever in like the history of Azeroth haha!