Nostalgia is a small part of it. The game's mechanics were deeper and more interesting. Players were forced to make difficult choices and gearing was hugely rewarding due to the end game structure.

Classes had actual identity and higher skill ceilings. Sharding, layering, cross-realm play, etc, were absent, resulting in tighter communities.

I had about 100 hours on Nostalrius. Nostalgia brought me in, the superiority of the actual game design is what kept me there until the server was taken down.

Asmongold made a video on the problems of modern WoW and why these changes have resulted in the mass exodus of players.

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Posted by Greace

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Posted on 7/13/19 at 4:36 pm to Cs

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Players were forced to make difficult choices and gearing was hugely rewarding due to the end game structure.

Classes had actual identity and higher skill ceilings.

Yep man. Spamming one button is definitely higher skill.You are right about class identity though. Except you only had one identity. If you were a paladin you healed. Nobody wanted you for anything else. There was no difficult choices in vanilla. There were cookie cutter talent trees. Gearing is a complete mess in vanilla with several items around the level 40 area being just better than raid level epics.

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Posted by VABuckeye

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Posted on 7/13/19 at 5:21 pm to Cs

I remember trying to clear a camp at about level 40 in Arathi Highlands. It took me forever but there was a sense of accomplishment when I finally got through it. Not to mention the PvP zergfest that was Southshore. Amazing stuff back then.

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