#vanilla servers

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doing the Wetlands run and dying 20+ times because there’s no boat to Stormwind from Teldrassil but you really want to play a night elf

running literally all the way to one end of Duskwood and back and hoping to god you don’t run into Stitches because he will beat your ass

also running all the way to one end of Stranglethorn and back

no mounts until level 40

not even being able to afford level 60 mounts

those level 60 night elf mounts that didn’t have the armor on them and I’m a fool for being excited when they got armor

literally anything involving the Onyxia quest chain including EVERY TIME someone triggered the event in the keep room and all of the guards turned into dragons

Naxx and Molten Core attunement quests

Cheating your way into places like underneath Stormwind and Ironforge and also the Ironforge airport and that place you always flew over in Wetlands on the flight path because NO FLYING

when you actually needed every single flight path and if you didn’t know one in between where you were and your destination you were screwed

I dinged level 60 killing the mobs outside of Karazhan before they were leveled up and Kara became a raid

Stormwind park? but also no Stormwind harbor and also the old Stormwind auction house 

that PvP building in SW was like a special kid’s club because only people with Knight ranking or some such higher could enter it

easily attainable PvP titles

old water textures

the pre-AQ event when you had to feed NPCs literally any crafting materials you owned 

boy anduin wrynn (oh how far we’ve come) and lady katrana prestor chilling next to each other in the keep 

no Malfurion in Darnassus it was just Tyrande (but also remember when Staghelm was in Darnassus too)

for some reason I miss those quests in Darkshore where you’d go down the coast and find the remains of turtles and huge sea thresher beasts and have to turn them in to an elf lady who I’m pretty sure died in Cata

having to go to your class trainer to actively learn spells every time you leveled up and sometimes you’d get lazy and not go but then you’d be weak AF and levels behind and learning new spells was just so exciting and rewarding

lockpicking (I remember digging up all the chests from around Sunken Temple and in Redridge Lake just to level up my lockpicking skill like it was basically a third profession)

weapon skills

It came up as somewhat jokingly in @themagicalmercantile but I think it would be interesting. When vanilla servers go live, will you be playing a current character in the past?

Not gonna lie. Kinda hyped about fury warrior Bear before she lost the use of one arm and became a sun walker.

But blizzard is hiring a completely new team in order to rebuild an old ugly dated game and is probably all the costs are going to be sunk costs and they could have spent these resources on making their other teams better and they are going to spend millions of dollars and years of man hours in development in order to accomplish this

Thats like.....the 40 man raid boss of Pandering