World of Warcraft Classic Hardcore: An Unexpected Return to its Roots
The past few days I've gotten the World of Warcraft bug again. It's been one of my favorite games of all time, if my playtime and sheer number of times I've returned to the MMO over the span of my life are anything to go off of. I started playing retail back in Cataclysm , the third expansion, that bid a more or less fond farewell to the Azeroth of yore. I've played off and on since then, playing for a month or two each expansion, never getting to the endgame or raid content, but feeling like I had gotten good value for it. Across the years and through various characters I had seen little glimpses of what the original World of Warcraft played like, mostly through professions, which I never found particularly useful or meshed well with questing. It was with this inexperience that I approached World of Warcraft Classic . I didn't play any of this offshoot branch of WoW when it launched and remained intrigued but uninterested as it went through the first two ex