Maybe I can add to this nostalgiafest

  • Playing a Night Elf Hunter, thinking I was unique in planning to be a "damage dealing machine"
  • Not knowing I could get a pet until about lvl 25 as a hunter and it taking almost 2 hours to hoof it back to the starting zone to do the quest
  • Installing Cosmos UI without any understanding of what addons did and how to use them
  • Addons that would walk your character from one zone to another for you
  • Addons that could handle conditional statements in combat meaning you could create a single button that was more efficient at DPSing than a human player ever could be as long as you mashed the hell out of it.
  • Raiding MC with absolutely no clue what I was doing. Basically just point and shoot with little to no strategy
  • Tier 0 and 0.5 gear and working so hard to get it.
  • Being so proud when I saved the 1000 gold to buy my epic mount.
  • Using feign death and goblin jumper cables to save the raid from a wipe many many times.
  • Having to read quest text to figure out where to go to do quests.
  • The ability to scale any hill or mountain side in the game via glitches in the textures.


Vanilla wow was the most fun for me, but I think that is the same way you remember things better than they actually were. The game as it stands today is the best it's ever been IMHO. I long to return to the vanilla days when druids, paladins, priests, and shamans had to heal in raids or stay at home, warriors were the only viable endgame tanks and raiding was something you replaced your girlfriend or wife with.

But those days weren't that great. The game was just exciting and new to me and I didn't have a yardstick to measure it with. Now I see the major improvements with every class having 3 viable specs, and the content being more accessible.