Originally Posted by
Geekissexy
I agree with almost everything you said, but you have got to be kidding me when you said that "The game has not been dumbed down".
That makes me feel like you didn't actually play at all in Vanilla.
- You actually had to use CC back then in normal groups, heroics, and raids! If you didn't most times it meant a wipe. You couldn't just AoE down all the trash pulls like you can now. Not only that, but you had to be careful which abilities you used around them because everything broke CC too.
- When you saw someone with epics back in the day, you know they had worked their butts off the get them. You had to grind out fire resist, frost resist, and nature resist for the older raids. Now you can walk in and kill all the bosses without having to worry about any of these things.
- Gold was much harder to acquire for most people. Getting your first epic mount felt like a true achievement.
- Making groups was a lot more difficult. You had to use summoning stones unless you had a warlock, and you had to sit in chat and hope you could find a full 5-man, or hope people in your guild wanted to run. Don't even get me started on 40 man raids. I can't even believe we pulled that off anymore.