Mobs took forever to die one additional enemy in a fight was a pain, two probably meant death. Allen Brack at one point (before he was president) famously said that people who said they wanted Classic didn't really want what they thought they wanted. I've been privately snarky about Classic. I even read a quest or two, though I admit to using the option (still available, even in vanilla) to turn off the line-by-line scrolling of quest text. It was the first time in a decade that I wasn't gunning for the end game, pillaging the beta test to determine the fastest way to level and get to the "good stuff," and tweaking my add-ons to skip as much content as I could to get there.
And, after another minute, I realized that was okay. I was killing my fourth Kobold Vermin (sorry guys, I'm taking those candles) by auto-attacking it and waiting impatiently for my lone ability to light up, when it struck me: This was going to be slow. Plenty of gameplay things have changed - more on that in a minute - but one thing almost immediately transformed the game for me. Warcraft's bright colors and cartoony aesthetic continue to this day, so all the increased resolution and better-contoured characters in Lordaeron don't really change the game's visual aesthetic. Immediately, I was surprised by how good the graphics actually looked, for being 15 year old textures-on-polygons.
I recreated my very first character - a human warrior, because in the last-push alpha test I joined in 2004, there was no Horde - and logged in. That isn't unique plenty of people in Northshire Valley had had the same experience, suggesting to me that active players who were Day 1 WoW gamers or had participated in the original tests might have gotten priority invitations to this one. I received a beta invite for Classic, and had also been an alpha and beta tester for the original game 15 years ago.
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