Cata was the start of retail. This is why classic ends with WOTLK.
WotLK doesn’t even have raids released yet and there’s a lot to do… not like retail ‘a lot’ but core WoW things to do such as professions, gearing main and alts, and leveling alts. They feel satisfying to do in WotLK currently, unlike in many iterations of the modern expansions.
I’m hesitant to mention profession dailies, because retail is saturated with too many dailies, but WotLK does it right in that the daily quests are few and short. WotLK dailies are unlike retail dailies. Retail dailies are more tedious, time-consuming, and abundant (or pervasive).
Retail could benefit with less dailies, shorter dailies, and things that promote focusing on professions and gearing/leveling mains and alts. That was the one thing WoD did right that everyone agrees on… the process of gearing an alt was improved in WoD. Then it went to pieces with the first iteration of artifact power in Legion. Then alt progression became good again after artifact power system was made less poopoo.
The reason professions are fun for me in WotLK is that they’re tied to character power. Even though everyone is an engineer, doing stuff like a super short JC daily, the cooking daily, and the fishing daily are all satisfying even though they’re short… and perhaps because they’re short.
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