Been playing 8 years now with an 85+ of each class and 6 or 7 90's. Killed Garrosh a few weeks ago and I just feel empty. Other than raiding I can't find a reason to log in.
In BC my server which was skywall sucked. The best guild wiped of Lady Vashj for 3 months at like 2% I heard. Don't even think the server got into BT by end of the xpac.
I killed the prince in kara once and never did any other raids.
My group couldn't reliably get Shade of Aran each week.
I cleared trash to curator then was sitting outside the back door for an hour while they got a mage in for the 1 tank fight so my bear geared cat form wouldn't shock anyone which annoyed the hell out of me.
I ran SV for the CE rep items so much the place to this day makes me sick to the stomach.
The only H 5 man done much was Mech and most of the others needed guild groups cause they were apparently too hard for pugs.
Yet even with all of this BC was still the most fun and memorable times in WoW.
LFR and Flex and Normal being alot easier to get groups for and beat is all well and good and it is nice to see it all but when you have seen everything already and theres still 6 months or more of nothing till a new expansion it gets annoying and boring waiting for half a year.
Having new stuff that you haven't seen yet gives you something to look forward to and to log in for. But having beat normal and not really being good enough to do heroics, which lets face it its the same boss with a few new twists and hurts more. It leaves you looking back to the good old days when it might of been hard but there was always a new boss waiting for you to get to and you couldn't skip content.
So many players feel that they don't need to make an effort on normal because if they can do LFR in ungemed and unenchanted gear then they should be able to in normal.
Blizzards view of wanting players to see the content they have created is good but why if they want their work seen and experienced do they then seem to say the complete opposite by making it so easy to skip all the old tiers and the older expansions raids? Is only blizzards current work good and worth seeing? Doesn't make sense because if its not worth seeing now then it never was because the moment WoD comes out the good SoO suddenly becomes old news blizzard won't care about anyone experiencing.
Once a new normal comes out noone wants to do the old anymore simply because you can bypass it. I know alot who were happy to be in kara near the end of BC but the moment heart of fear came out MV groups disappeared overnight. Don't think anyone on my server has run an MV, HoF, ToES or ToT proper runs since SoO came out. WoW keeps losing players at the end of expansions because players have no new current content they haven't seen because blizzard pushed people into the last raid by all of this catching up bull. A full set of 496 epic gear should take more than 10 minutes of opening chests on a freebie island to get. You shouldn't be in the highest raid in the game 10 minutes after you hit the level cap.