Kicks rusty old car
“C’mon Sally, you just don’t move like you used to.”
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I’ve yet to experience a quae in WOTLK Classic and I play on a full server.
Auzuresong didn’t have a queue. I logged in probably 4x all evening (life got in the way)
and each time I went in rather fast.
I had forgotten what Orgrimmar looked like in Wrath. Was quite a wow moment.
Things in different places. lol
I’m close to finished with the DK campaign and I have to say that I completely forgot what it was like. I spent way too long trying to find my mount, for example. I’m actually having a lot of fun, though. Also forgot about the glyph tab, and how I’m just winging it as far as talent points go. 
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I am not surprised you feel this way Smashy.
Great games have come and gone.
I might have been absolutely amazed by the graphics and gameplay when I played a game for the first time 10, 15 or 20 years ago.
But if I tried to pickup the same game and replay it today, the experience would not be the same. The graphics would look clunky and dated. And gameplay that I found deep back then might feel simplistic and shallow today.
This was my experience when I tried to play Classic WoW a couple years ago.
- The sense of child-like wonder I experienced when I first played WoW in 2005… not present.
- Gameplay felt really boring. The rotations felt too simple and easy to master.
- leveling felt abominably slow.
I found the entire experience to be … BORING. It just didn’t hold my attention. The game might be the same as it was, but I’m not.
Vanilla WoW was a revolutionary game experience back in the day. But by today’s standards, it is extremely dated and dull.
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All of them were great…for thier time.
And NONE of the “classic” versions are close to anything of how it actually was during their prime.
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Lol I would love to play with you and see how you do on threat and meters.
Why do you want to rush it? Retails got you into that idea that you need things NOW, and drain your wallet with all kinds of boosts, mounts and wow token
Tell that to the people who triple the population of retail wow. Literally you can fill two retail servers with the queue in Benediction alone.
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Thats because you are bad and thats probably why you think everything is simple. I got to 66 in a week, and I had to sit in Grobbulus queues and work in the mornings
All 3 specs can tank thanks to frost aura.
You might be a bit squishy but that is the healers problem. 
I remember killing so many mobs with my pointy stick. It was both funny and frustrating at the same time.
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I rolled a new character on Bloodsail Buccaneers (RP) yesterday and got no login queue. I logged in today, finished the starting zone, and got my mount. Again, no queue.
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Yeah. The “it’s not an MMO anymore” meme has nothing to do with what the OP is talking about. The gameplay and graphics are far better in retail. Wrath was when things started getting a little less tedious but the game is still very, very slow.
IMO the only thing Wrath Classic has over Retail is the ability to play Blood as a DPS spec, everything else Retail does better. I hope that one day Blizz adds new specs to each class, with DK getting Blood DPS back (but with some new tricks to help differentiate it from Blood Tank).
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I agree I miss Blood DPS.
I don’t see how anyone actually likes this boring, slow and clunky mess though. I installed Wrath Classic got the mount and couldn’t uninstall fast enough.
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Starting in 2005 when Molten Core was the top raid in the game I began raiding progression raids in WoW. I only stopped in the last couple years as I found I couldn’t perform well enough for Mythic raiding in Shadowlands.
I did fine on every raid up until BFA, often topping the meter.
Today, I kinda suck. Rotations and raid mechanics in Retail are much more complex than anything in WOTLK. My eyesight is not as good as it was. I’m not doing well compared to other raiders in my guild.
I don’t care about rushing leveling, but it can’t be so slow that it fails to hold my attention. Classic’s leveling is just too slow for my standards today. When I tried Classic I was bored stiff.
WoW is a game. It’s entertainment. If I’m bored stiff, I’m not being entertained. Hence why I stopped playing Classic and went back to retail.
I’m happy that lots of people enjoy Classic.
Most of them probably didn’t actually play through early Vanilla content back when it was the top retail content in the game. They’re seeing the Classic content for the first time and are having fun.
I’ve played WoW non-stop since 2 months after Vanilla WoW went live in 2004. I’ve already played through Vanilla and all the expansions. I have memories of those experiences that sadly Classic doesn’t measure up to.
Quite possible. I’ve never been fast at leveling. Even back in 2005, it took me 3 months to get my mage to level 60.
I don’t like how wrath is being called classic. Vanilla is classic. The expansions are all retail.
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Vanilla is Vanilla.
There’s Classic, BC Classic, and Wrath Classic.
Nobody really cares that you want to call BCC/WOTLKC something other than what they are.
There’s plenty of options, and honestly the very idea of “Low” population on many of the Classic servers is actually laughable. Back in 2008, a WoW server was considered “Full” if there were 10K characters logged in at once. With the tech that they have now, servers can support many more players now than they did 14-18 years ago. If these servers existed in Classic, they’d have been classified as being High/Full, but with the current server tech they are listed as being “Low.”
There’s the topic itself on the matter, as well as Asmon looking it over and breaking it down. I’ve linked it to the relevant portion, but in the event it starts at the beginning, just go to about 9:30 in the video.
With all that said, if your only concern is the mount and you have no intention to continue in Classic Wrath after hitting the mount requirements, then just pick ANY low pop server. While there is normally a requirement of having a level 55 character in order to create a DK, the first one has no such restriction as Blizzard knows some folks were specifically waiting for Wrath. Only the two fresh start servers have a restriction in play.
That mount flumoxed me for quite some time until I found the pet tab.
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It is frustrating, especially when you forget to equip the weapons that are in the bag that you are supposed to use to interrogate the scarlet crusade trash mobs within the area lol.
It’s been YEARS since I’ve done that starting area. I want to say last time I did it (on Retail mind you) it was about an hour? I haven’t had a chance to do the area yet in Classic as I’m on one of the fresh start servers, but due to the slower pace of Classic I want to say about two hours on average (faster if you know what you’re doing), three tops.