My favorite part was the rush to 70 in the first week(I only played 1 character then), being apart of the first few people to experience new content (I pretend beta testers don't exit), the rush to be at the top of raid progression, and the change that turned av into a 20 hour "let's stand in the field of strife and punch each other hurrr" match into a race to accomplish something. I appreciate the badge system (except the last wave of gear went overboard) for all of the victims of random number generators, but most the majority of the instances were just caves or tunnels with zero life in them, and most of the zones felt like completely separate universes who only know that the other zones exist because they're placed next to eachother(original wow was terrible at this too).

Of course I gave up on raiding only a few months in (and created a system of labels for all the guilds I dealt with) and then became ye olde 5 boxer.