WoW is easy now, because everyone cries about how hard it is and Blizzard breaks down and makes it easier and easier. Basically people that play 5 minutes a week or have an IQ lower than a hammer want to be able to get all the shiny purples too, it is practically discrimination that a guy that plays 8 hours a day gets an advantage over a guy that spends most of his day staring at walls. Classic was actually very challenging and rewarding, I played on a PVP server and leveling up as a poor gnome warrior I was getting raped and camped every 5 minutes by a level 60 with the guild name "We Punt Gnomes," the progression through raiding took like 4-5 months minimum to catch up and get geared, and some raids took the best guilds in the whole game 3-5 months to complete after 100s of hours of failed attempts. Naxx 60 was one of the hardest raids in any MMO, I think under 10 guilds in the whole entire world, Europe and USA, that were able to down Kel'thuzad. Also back when they had PVP ranks, to get all the cool PVP epics, you had to get rank 14, which required at least 100 hours a week of hardcore PVPing for 3-5 months and still it eluded most people. There was about 10-20 people per server that were able to reach that rank.
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