Guild Wars 2

Heya! I’m a composer and a huge fan of Guild Wars 2 and its wonderful soundtrack. I thought it was about time I made a fan tribute, and after nearly 35 hours of work, I ended up with this fully-orchestrated, five-minute arrangement of the Tarir soundtrack, “The City of Gold”:

https://youtu.be/buXbpRKh1ts

Credit goes to Lena Chappelle, the original composer of the themes I arranged, namely these two. Keen-eared listeners might also pick up some nods to the original Guild Wars 2 pre-HoT soundtrack, composed by Jeremy Soule.

With this arrangement I wanted to tell the story of an initially peaceful Tarir getting invaded by Mordrem, followed by it eventually being retaken by the Exalted/the players, so you’ll hear a bunch of mood changes and arrangements of various themes in the soundtrack.

I used FL Studio 11 to compose this, with East/West and Spectrasonics libraries. Shoutout as well to the following two people for lending their talents to this piece:

Violin – Matt Macellaio: http://www.soundcloud.com/trikeair

Vocal – Ivana Stivala: http://www.soundcloud.com/alwiren

Thanks as well to all my friends for giving me a bunch of feedback and criticism along the way to help shape this track to what it is now.

I really hope you all enjoy it, and any kind of feedback would be greatly appreciated! It was a lot of work but I had a blast writing it, and it relieved me of a dry period of writer’s block I’ve been having for the past year haha. If this is received well then I would be totally up for writing more Guild Wars 2 arrangements in the future!

You can download a high-quality MP3 of this track from my SoundCloud page by the way :).

That was beautiful music. I’m kind of a sucker for orchestral stuff.

lioka qiao.8734:

That was beautiful music. I’m kind of a sucker for orchestral stuff.

You and me both.

Thank you!

Hot kitten , this is good.

Love this so much!

This is great! I love the Auric Basin music, and you developed it nicely

Gaile Gray.6029:

Holy cow. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this.

Man, I’m sitting here with tears in my eyes — such a sucker for good music, for “our” music, and for how you’ve so beautifully interpreted it, too!

Wow, I took way too long to notice this.

My day has been made. Thanks a million for the wonderful comments.

And thank you to all the other people who commented in this thread too!