I picked it up recently with a group of friends on turtle wow (RIP, fuck blizzard), and while I really enjoyed the social aspect, the actual gameplay felt like a chore the whole way through. Plus, it felt like an obligation to keep up with my friends who somehow had much more time to throw at the game.

Wow was fantastic when it came out. I never had the money to pay for a subscription so I played on pirate servers. I never got to the endless grind stages, but I adored exploring the early zones with all the original classes. The world looked great, the magic felt real and the fantasy was engrossing. I don't think I ever made it passed lvl 35 on any characters, but thoroughly enjoyed getting there, sometimes with friends and sometimes alone.

So only every 25. boar has a liver there?

It was more because it was a virtual chatroom and community in an age where such things were not widespread

You're forgetting the part where there are 6 boar spawns that respawn every 2 minutes and there are 15 people waiting on the next spawn.

Where is Mankrik's wife?!

why do real chores when virtual chores

I honestly miss playing WoW. It was a fun game, especially if you had a group to raid with. If only I didn’t have to give Blizzard money to play it.

I am literally in WoW classic killing boars for their snouts while reading this on the other monitor.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

As a long time player of EQ before WoW ever came out: the drops in WoW were never that bad.

I remember doing the starter weapon quest for the dark knight? One of the dark elf tank classes. Needed a special type of bone for the weapon and killed so many fucking skeletons, by the time I got the materials for the weapon, I was like level 25 or something and had enough money to just buy an even better weapon from the bazaar.

It kinda boils down to chucking rocks in the river alone vs chucking rocks in the river with friends.

Bruh this reminds me of when I played The Mana World

That game was all about the end-game. Questing up to max level was like the intro and could be done very fast with a good guide. The only good thing about leveling was getting used to new skills at a slow rate, otherwise it was kind of pointless and just something you'd quickly get out of the way.

Classic servers can't capture classic WoW. No MMO can. The internet is too interconnected.