The WoW Zone That Makes You Feel Small

[@enchantedecho57]

Mulgore was my childhood. When I first picked up WoW in Vanilla, I was too young to properly understand the entire concept of an MMO, and would just make new Tauren characters all the time so I could replay through this zone and relax.

[@twotamatos]

Oh yah Tauren hunter was the first character I made at age 7 or so it was so fun to jump back into it in vanilla. Wow is such a pretty game the feeling of that first starting zone is just not replicated in many things always reminds me of driving up through Nevada right before it cuts off to desert or yah riding through I-80 just dipping up n around salt lakes mountains n valleys

[@BrewmasterDonegan]

Thunder Bluff will forever be my home

[@Randall_Kildare]

Wouldn't it be great if we had a portal hub in every capitol, instead of just SW & Org?!

[@Derekzparty]

Friends don't let friends walk through Thunder Bluff while drunk!

[@tru3sk1ll]

Same Tauren shaman lvl 60, from Mulgore 2004

[@Soleryth]

It's nuts that people stick to Org in Classic altho it's way harder to navigate and get to the NPCs. In TB the auction house, bank, inn, vendors, mailbox, and repairs are all in the same spot !

[@vegetablelomein1111]

Same. TB at night is awesome.

[@CRBarchager]

The race Tauren is an anagram of Nature.

[@mikfhan]

and taurus is latin for bull of course - minotaurs for everyone! still wish they made plains running so kodo could be bigger creatures, then made worgen into just a shapeshift disease for humans like they did in elder scrolls online.

[@tru3sk1ll]

Same Tauren shaman lvl 60, from Mulgore 2004

[@cromandum217]

no its not

[@ThunderXSurge]

​@@mikfhan I wish we had plans running AND Kodo. It'd be fun for roleplayers and low levels, suits the zone too

[@The_Toxic_Avenger]

​@@cromandum217 yes, it is...

[@Mucrush]

Considering that the taurens are one of the biggest playable races, Mulgore still makes you feel small

[@b1oh1]

Thunder Bluff is not only a peaceful city, it's also the most efficient layout. Reagent, trade, AH, bank, and food vendors along with a smelter, mailbox and even a pond to level fishing...all within such a small radius. It's a more efficient layout than IF and it's a much tighter area. If anyone plays on turtle wow, they implemented a pretty cool version of plains running. Great video!

[@appathegoat]

Every time somebody advertises turtle wow in an unrelated wow video is another person I tell to never try crap private servers.

[@SchlossRitter]

Another knock against IF, the pool of water in the back is not fishable, which was frustrating for my first main being a Dwarf and not knowing about the open part of Iceflow Lake either.

[@misfit492]

Shenna pay for this one?

[@TD_JR]

The whole stretch from Tirisfal through Silverpine into Hillsbrad has always been my fave. It's the full range of gloomy and unsettling in Tirisfal through an uneasiness and foreboding into Silverpine which opens up into the settled yet conflicted Hillsbrad area. Favorite zone on Alliance side is and always has been Darkshire. It's got that wonderful Halloween / Zombie thriller vibe to it.

[@frikaleoteras]

The music theme of this zone is incredible...

[@mistahanansi2264]

Thunder Bluff was the one place I'd go just to just chill and enjoy the sounds of rain and relaxing tribal flute music. Being so high up in a tranquil village built on the buttes while fishing from the tiny pond made me feel disconnected from the troubles of Azeroth, as well as real life... (unrelated: I played a troll though)

[@Randall_Kildare]

TB is the best Horde city, no question.

[@CookieCurls]

It was great when in SoD Phase 1 TB was the main city everyone was in. Loved that time.

[@MrBoombastyc]

Back when I played WoW, Thunder Bluff used to be my "timeout" place/city regardless of race. I'd do my trading and crafting there etc.

[@mikewhite955]

I love that the old zones are so empty. Sometimes you find a little treasure at a spot you did not expect. When you get of the pass you know that you go into the wilderness. Today there is a pass everywhere and there are so much places where is no direct shortcut, you have to fly to shorten things up.

[@FuzzyDreamin]

When I first started playing WoW many years ago (end of BC, right before Wrath launch) I picked a troll shaman (which I still play to this day) and ended up wandering across the Barrens and discovering Mulgore... I was still a little low lvl for the Barrens, and honestly such a newb to these games that I didn't know much about quest lvl zones anyway, so I just went in and did all of the starter quests there as a slightly over-leveled troll. I loved the zone so much and it's still very nostalgic for me. I feel the same way about the night elf starting zone and Darkshore, too, as early into my playing I made a nelf on another realm when my own realm went down for a bit. But aside from that nostalgia I think I like the human starter zone/s the best of the alliance areas, for all of the combined story and simplicity of the quests.

[@FirstLast-gk6lg]

Iron Forge/Stormwind is the best place to live, you can travel between them in minutes due to the tram and both are beautiful, safe, and clean

[@AvenueEmpire]

Blasphemy

[@Myrdden71]

Clean? I recall a rat roundup quest in the Tram area ;)

[@FirstLast-gk6lg]

@Myrdden71 lol I mean it's not perfect

[@nestor-martinez]

I used to park my Tauren Hunter "Joshy" over the cliffs of Thunder Bluff and just listen to the music back in 2005-2006. What a lifetime ago!

[@shakedbm3829]

I remember having picnics in mulgore with my WoW friends. Mulgore will forever be one of the most tranquil memories of my childhood.

[@nickfoster9350]

Grizzly Hills, Howling Fjord, Silverpine Forest, Redridge Mountains, Duskwood, WinterSpring.

[@sethketa]

Whenever I want to just relax I pull up the music of Mulgore. Even though I quit playing WoW back in 2010, this music is still amazing 14 years later.

[@PlayfulFruitLPer]

Leveling through Mulgore as a Tauren Shaman is a perfect experience, just like Teldrassil as a Night Elf Druid or Elwynn Forest as a Human Paladin. It feels perfect and immersive... Mulgore is so closed off as a zone, moreso than any other starting zone in my opinion. I never played Horde beyond level 10 back in the day and the ONE horde race I tried was Tauren. Later on I made the journey as a low level Night Elf all the way to Mulgore just to hang out there while home sick from school.

[@ponder3020]

For me, it’s the Barrens (classic version).

[@Travybear1989]

Same, The Barrens are probably the best zone in the entire game.

[@Myrdden71]

Barrens has always been my favorite zone...the size, variety of mobs, music, surrounding zones and a port, three dungeons...so many memories there.

[@Hoenir]

The older i get, the more i want a proper housing system in WoW. You could choose where to build your home (Mulgore for me), gather materials, decorate everything, farm stuff. Like ESO has but without the macrotransactions. I know people have a cold feet since Draenor and Blizz greed but still...

[@Randall_Kildare]

Barah, I would be happy with the Purse-Dog racial *'Camp'* being set at some rando building out in Azeroth. They'll NEVER give us Murder-Hobo's an actual HOUSE, not after the Garrison debacle.

[@ZackMeetsWorld]

They’ve hinted at player housing coming in the midnight expansion

[@joelbartor]

Housing system creates problems that’s why it can’t be practical .. if you can build anywhere in the world then it becomes a giant mess and will affect the world and gameplay negatively , and if it’s instanced then it kills the aliveness of the world ( like in wod) , and finally sure the idea is fun on paper but it’s pretty useless

[@peelsreklaw]

@@joelbartor FF14 and LOTRO have instanced neighborhoods of many houses, it's a pretty good compromise between instanced and open world

[@JS310]

Mulgore was my first zone and remains my favourite zone. It just has such a unique feeling to it, the quests aren't even that interesting but i could live there lmao

[@Corristo89]

Blizzard basically ruined every starting zone by turning them into warzones for all the 13 year old CoD kiddies high on energy drinks who think that RGB makes PCs faster.

[@KarlPedal-qu7hu]

TRUE AND REAL

[@vyrusunderscore]

what the fuck does this even mean

[@vyrusunderscore]

starting zones (in retail) are usually empty and supposed to be a speed-running version of the past self it used to be. getting rid of all the unnecessaries and leaving only just the gameplay part to move onto the next thing. if you dont like moving on, then find yourself a version of classic that suits you. i dont get where all the random hate comes from for the most illogical reasons.

[@Lamsan02]

As alliance, Mulgore was always "that horde place I need to explore just for the achievement". But I fell in LOVE with the northern part of the zone, where the place ends with some tranquil slopes and some plainstriders hanging around. If I'm close, I always stop there and emote /sleep and just lay there lol.

[@Tuxcz]

My first character was a Tauren druid, I never played MMOs before. I thought the starting zone in Mulgore (level 1-5) is big, then I ran around the hill and saw whole Mulgore, then Thunderbluff and thought to myself wow, this game has a big world. Then I stepped into the Barrens and discovered map button and my mind was blown.

[@KhorbiusZex]

Nothing will ever be close with Eversong Woods... it was something else.

[@Saint_Rising]

Blizzard should update their maps again and give us a post-cata, post-conflict era. Something peaceful like classic maps but with the consequences of the cataclysm, just inactive. No more wild tornadoes destroying everything, no more wild fire. It feels stupid to fly around those areas and feel like you didn't do anything while questing there because everything is still on fire.

[@Pr0fezzore]

Dun Morog Forever, the first zone where i start play WoW in 2005. In second place comes mulgore

[@thomas_walker]

desperately wish for a graphical overhaul of mulgore (or the old world in general). it'd look unimaginably beautiful

[@Bogtog777]

My first characters were an undead warlock and tauren druid. There was no better time playing wow than the beginning when you are still a huge noob. I wish i could reexperience it new all over again.

[@ariesdk5487]

Man, I miss this game.

[@saad594]

I always played a night elf druid, and I decided once to venture into horde territory while still a lower level, and ended up in mulgore, I loved everything about it and ended up going back so many times after that.

[@mahtan2685]

0:42 good old mangos 1.12 visual bug with the Bloodhoof Village wind mill floating without it's base until you get closer 😉

[@mynameisforrest]

Alliance player here mainly. But my two favorite zones in the game are Mulgore and Dun Morogh. When I first tried the wow Beta out, I was playing around with a Tauren Druid, and the atmosphere was just great

[@Myrdden71]

I enjoyed Mulgore very much on my druid and hunter, both Tauren. The music is very nice, and the openness is also enjoyable.

[@nimbuscapitalsolution]

The issue with mulgor is that many of the quests requires you to find and hold items. Much more than say Tirisfal or Durator. Given the lack of bags early game, it can get really annoying

[@georgeofkunstatandpodebrad8147]

4:49 what's so goofy? Worgen have their own running. And given the Tauren are nomads it makes sense.

[@radicalcentrist4990]

Mulgore definitely has the coziest vibe of probably any area in the entire game. But I only ever made one tauren in my entire life and I didn't even get that far with him, so that would probably make Mulgore my least visited area in the game too.

[@IronHorse1854]

Mulgore is great, but Eversong Woods is my home

[@tru3sk1ll]

I'm a Tauren Shaman, from old school Azeroth, rolled in 2004, champion of Mulgore, chat champion of the barrens, Mankrik's #1, adventurer of 1k needles, hero of zul'farrak, wearer of deathchill armor, vanquisher or eranikus, bequeathed with the zandalarian hero charm, master of windfury, bearer of Lok'amir il Romathis, YOU SHALL BOW BEFORE ME

[@somervillettv2272]

like many others Tauren Warrior was my first class and was the best introduction to the game imo (i didn't survive barrens and rerolled Undead Rogue)

[@rph8704]

One of those caves with the Venture Co. is so huge it probably could have been a dungeon

[@PawPrintCat]

Mulgore was my very first experience with WoW when I was around 7-8. I remember punching plainstriders for money/xp when my armor and weapons broke bc I didn't realize I could repair them LOL. I will always love this zone the most

[@Chrysaetos11]

There are many chill zones in classic/vanilla. Cataclysm ruined most of the world by shoving constant action and stimulation in your face.

[@wefgengneon]

i think a big thing with the feeling of the huge world in wow is that you cant see to far in the distance and you have to walk there to see whats coming. in tarisland you spawn and literally can see the whole zone and more without making on footstept. makes it seem fake and plastic

[@valdranne]

Tirisfal for me, especially the Undercity. I’ve always loved the aesthetic of it and is my favorite capital city by far

[@MelvinVinyl]

When i started playing in bc, my first char was a tauren druid. The feeling and music of the zone was fantastic, i spend many hours talking to npc's thinking they were players there. After that i went alliance and made a nelf, loved the forest but just wasn't it. My main has been a worgen since cata, but taurens and their home will always be special for me. and agree, the zone doesn't feel the same since cata, i recently made a tauren again just for the zone and noticed it as well..

[@1trevor30]

This zone alone is as big as most new expansion zones. The biggest issue with WoW is we never see the scale that Vanilla brought. It brought a huge lived in world. New expansions bring in a few zones and then you're expected to play with that for like a year or two. We need a vanilla level endeavor again. I know cata kinda did that. But it was just reusing the assets and expanding on what was made already. Vanilla everything was new and used with purpose. It didn't all have to feel connected to one narrative. The world itself was the narrative. Exploration, new experiences, leveling and living and journeying. Now it's go after one big bad after the other.

[@TheBaldr]

My first character in WoW was a Tauren, it was BC, but that pretty much the same as classic. It reminded me of Star Wars Galaxies, which I had just came from. Where there were basically empty planets of big open areas, a couple hills and maybe a tree or two spread out and groups of enemies. I thought this was normal MMO design.

[@twotamatos]

Mulgore and thunderbluff are my two absolute fave starter zone in wow however I’m gonna create extensions too it, rivers to catch salmon, leveling zones with up to 50-60 leveling routes it’s such a shame it cuts off at 15 for leveling then u need to go up to barrens I didn’t notice how slapped together wow is and genuinely yah the Taurens needed more mountains I’d love for these trails to lead to a controlled burn with tonsa sharp nettley vines. I’m personally gonna create 2 reputation systems if u wanna help heal the world and fight back evil and protect the land as a Tauren should or if u want to team up with goblins who want to turn the land into casinos make ur choice each have different armor and gold rewards and leveling routes that’ll make u feel like your doing good or evil. I’m just gonna have so much fun enabling you to play Tauren Pali in vanilla on a private server

[@lunarlightasmr4660]

For me, Mulgore, OG barrens, Storm Peaks, and Dragonblight left me feelin small

[@xfloyded4555]

I only play horde but i still think teldrassil /shadowglen/darnassus are the best zones ever made

[@bobbyrabii6119]

Played a Tauren warrior from day 1 of launch named Darkhorn. Still my main. LOVED Mulgore

[@Soleryth]

Omg Mulgore mentionned Definitely my favorite Classic zone, best capital of all time, absolute vibes, intense childhood memories as Taurens were my first Horde race I just love everything about it. The only other places to have a "tauren theme" are Stonetalon moutains but they're quite underwhelming, and High Moutain in Legion, the quests were good but it lacks something, and it's not as evergreen as classic zones

[@jasonbauter2512]

If I were to live anywhere in any zone in WoW, First choice would be Mulgore, Second would be Grizzly Hills in Northrend.

[@Mufireael]

Mulglore is such a beautiful, relaxing and soothing land...

[@spaceistheplace8376]

yeah Mulgore is something.i really like this place

[@keepgoing7533]

Thunder Bluff: The smell of 'ish wafting through the air.

[@TheBlaert]

Mulgore, home of the magnificent, fantastic, superb yet humble Tauren

[@bazan002]

this makes me want to play again but sadly i will start and realize i done all this quest over 100 times sadly its not a new adventure for me but the experience will always be in my hearth

[@WolfearOfficial]

The music in the zone omg

[@Nakisey]

It's one of my favorites zones too, I love levelling there

[@Kravncr]

Elwynn Forest is my choice for sure ♥

[@JuicySoeren]

Mine aswell! Best zone ever

[@jamesdavis2359]

One of my first characters was a Tauren. The music, the scenery was pretty nice.

[@Crimsontidewave]

I survived Barrens Chat XD

[@heartofdarkness666]

I love mulgore

[@tobiasharnisch4155]

"BuT iT IS sO eMtY!121!!" some people would say about mulgore but I say it is realistic! I also love mulgore! We have many areas in WoW that feel big BUT I want it even bigger so we have bigger villages, more villages and bigger cities and this toy that shrinks you in mouse size could help there. The world stays as big as it is but everything else gets smaller so the whole world feels bigger. I kinda would love to test it on p-servers but have not enough space right now on my pc.

[@allucknoskill4695]

if i had to live in one zone, elwynn forest

[@Ramiobomb]

I miss leveling my Tauren Warrior from back in the day..

[@tatalsaba]

Mulgore is a really nice zone to play through, too bad there's not much happening in it, hopefully that'll change if we ever get a revamp of central Kalimdor, I want it bigger, more impressive, and wilder.

[@Travybear1989]

I heard that Blizzard was going to turn the zone of Mulgore into a volcanic wasteland in the next expansion that will be similar to the Burning Steppes which will be great!

[@reptileita]

4:31 Epic mount unlockable at level 40... suuuuure, maybe for GenZ 🙂

[@supergenius74]

My first character was a tauren in mulgore way back in vanilla wow, i wanted the largest race and back then there wasn't even that many to choose from.

[@MagicWandn]

yep was a tauren main good times back then

[@djurius]

bury my heart at Thunder Bluff

[@theodorejenkins6066]

My first ever char was a tauren Shaman in BC. It was super cool! Also, I think if you made a video about azuremyst isle, it would be really good. My second char was a dranei hunter, and I'll always love azuremyst isle for that reason

[@jdmayor9060]

for me it's always Ashenvale

[@fizzbrew]

Dwarf and Tauren are master race

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

I hate the majority of post-Cata zones, they lost all their comfy atmosphere by added chasms and fires and random shit everywhere, that sits here to this day.

[@spartanninja3159]

Like darkshore loved it pre cata

[@geekyhennessy]

i would live in acherus mostly for the munting opportunities

[@clareashton5027]

I've always played alliance but when I do cross to Horde it's always Tauren I choose, I love Thunder Bluff

[@dannyjones7]

1st character I ever played and still play was Tauren hunter from 2005 😅

[@mikej.chrisoulakis8250]

Yeah.. My first player Tauren Shaman

[@Fiascodini]

"Look at Lucifwond"

[@ffarkasm]

I like Mulgore, but I don't find it _particularly_ interesting. My ranking of vanilla starting zones from best to worst: 1. Tirisfal Glades 2. Teldrassil 3. Mulgore 4. Elwyn Forest 5. Dun Morogh 6. Durotar So ye, Mulgore is a strong middle for me.

[@Bop_Craft]

Yes this area are fantastic.

[@MrTUXAP]

It is DuskWood for me.

[@yessurz]

epic mounts was lvl 60 in vanilla

[@peacecraft9354]

eMulgere is Latin for “milking out”.

[@c87kim]

Vanilla wow had day and night cycles?

[@Blobby90]

Are the Tauren native to Mulgore or did they settle it?

[@koseku3]

i always thought mulgore was inspired from taurus mountains, not americas

[@throrgrim6844]

Grizzly hills lochmodan and dun morogh.

[@Whydyoudothis]

Yea I really just don’t feel the same way about mulgore as you do….

[@kramer1916]

remember everyone hates spergmongold

[@chinita_doll]

Eversong 💛🧡❤️

[@jbarlak]

Did you really call mesa “misa “?

[@healingwithtarot]

I would live in Teldrassil 😍

[@spartanninja3159]

Same love it there.

[@greenfroggood2392]

fresh when?

[@vtr0104]

Those zebra hooves though..... :)))))

[@azorahigh3218]

Tauren supremacy

[@laffi]

I didn't watch the video, but the old Barrents were defo the biggest zone, that made you feel small. I once took my epic 100% mount years ago, probably no carrot (but I can't remember for sure), ran down from all the way north, all the way south. It took between 15-20 minutes, which is kinda crazy. If you run in real life at say 1 km per 5 minutes, that would mean Barrents could be as much as 3-4 km long in the game. That's pretty far. The best part is that there is content all over. Not so much for alliance, but still a bit for them too!

[@redhouse5819]

Maybe this location is very nice and bright, but the questing in it is boring. IMHO other starting horde locations is much better.

[@MrTcyoung314]

We just destroyed TB last night on cata classic! B I G P P V P!!!!