no, you can not play it (legally) on solo servers. You have to play on one of Blizzards own MP servers... But if you look around a bit, and make the character on a low population RP server, people tend to leave you alone. Do not make one on a PvP server....

I played WoW back then and occasionally zone into it these days every now and then.

Stuff I really miss from "days gone past":
- the way grouping was done
This is a perfect example of bad, lousy comfort feature in modern WoW. Back then you might have spend quite some time looking for a gourp; but then it meant something. Special snowflakes who left a group as soon and as rude as possible if somebody farted wrong were next to non-existant.

- fluff, pseudofluff removal
to make a fire I need wood to burn and fint & steel to light it up. But "awmygod my inventory" or "awmygod I forgot it because raid is more importand and now cant make food in the more important raid (???)". Whatever the reason for the removal it made the world feel smaller.

-To shoot arrows/bolts/bullets or throw knives I need those object; not have them out of thin air. Also it was cool to find some special magical ammunition.

- Dungeonkeys
Yeah, we cursed when we could not enter; we cursed more when nobody was on or near to open it. I still miss that; it made some places special.

-Stuff mattered more
thats a hard one to hold on to with progressing expansions. But there are sensible ways to expand a game and there is Blizzards style of obliberating everything in a nuclear holocause of the kind that would make Skynets war look like a childs play.

Blizzards crusade against everything thats not the current xpack is IMO very stupid.


Modern stuff I would totally miss:
Transmogging (Ironically most visual equip my chars use are Vanilla with a bit TBC and half a fistful Wrath; I prefer my swords looking like swords ;) ).

Graphic/Animation Upgrades

Class useablility (i.e. Paladins).

There are several private servers, some will be more popular than others.
Smooth McGroove (of youtubes fame) used to stream raids, one of which was MC, so you can probably get into one, although obviously easier if in the guild.

We've got our own Wrath private server for family and some of daughters friends. I think the max populate has been 7. Its fairly close to the release version, but I'm sure the drop table is a bit off. Its too generous.

Me and wife played from first week of Euro release daily for about 6 years. We used to Play with a friend from the Netherlands. As three person party (hunter,warlock and druid) we took on and beat most dungeons with in the level. But Cataclysm killed WoW for us, our friend left and we quit soon after. We came back a few times but it just didn't have the appeal.

Wrath was the highest point, but also the start of the serious dumbing down of the game.

I hate you for making this thread Elmo, now I'm actually having withdrawal symptoms and actually thinking about returning.

Just think of the reasons you quit last time. Problem solved. :P

whenever my tank got a new helm, the first thing I did was to transmogg it into Bloody Bandanna, much better :)


edit - this is what he looked like last time. Not been on for over a year now....

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/earthen-ring/Storkan/simple

Ragnaros in vanilla and MC is a huge learning step for first time raiders. My memories of MC still lives on very well today, mostly good memories, had a lot of fun wiping, getting through the obstacles of vanilla gameplay and then getting the first kills of each boss. But seriously though, MC was nothing compared to Naxx40... Even when we had MC, BWL, ZG, AQ20 and 1/2 of AQ40 on farm status, we wiped continuously in Naxx40, even the first boss in every wing took us near 2 weeks of raiding nearly everyday for 4 hours just to get our first kill, I don't even wanna mention ridiculous bosses like The 4 Horsemen.

I played 2 years of WOW as a hardcore player. I became casual shortly after BC came out and when I reached 70 and did heroic 5 mens. Then became on and off player all the way till Cata came out. I quit totally after Cata.

Didn't Crosmando announce, again, that he was done with GOG?

No that was done with ur mum

And I got another reason why he should comback.

BLACKROCK MOUNTAIN!!!

Isn't Blackrock the dungeon where if you die, you need to spend half an hour as a ghost trying to find your corpse?

Does not matter. That mountain itselft is HYPE.

Blackrock Depths and Molten Core together. And Blackrock Spire and Blackwing Lair.

Vanilla introduced instances where the raid instance portal is within a dungeon instance.

That was remvoed for awhile now.

I wish I could've experienced vanilla wow, but internet was simply too prohibitively expensive over here back when it released. Specifically, uncapped connections were obscenely overpriced.

Luckily I managed to get a little bit of gametime in on a custom server, and those first couple of levels were magical. I'm a total sucker for vanilla wow's atmosphere. BC not so much :P

Last time I checked they where still there; just not in use anymore for their original purpose. *sigh* Monuments from ancient times where ppl needed to do shit to go somewhere to get shit and had to be nice about it. ;)

One of the failed comfort addidtions that killed a bit of that worlds charme.