Is there really an argument that vanilla required people do every quest in the game to reach 60? You realize you can test it now in classic. It wasn't even close. I distinctly remember skipping SoS, winterspring, searing gorge, feralas and several more on my horde toon. i dinged 60 not long after i started EPL. there was no unified story chain either. i'm still peeved that i gave my eranikus (sp?) trinket to some dude in winterspring and the chain literally just stopped there. that was back when there were almost no good trinkets.