I played wow from beta until about 5 months ago.
I agree with the general sentiment that WoW was definitely better during the vanilla and also the first expansion. The first expansion IMO had some very difficult raid encounters and the addition of the first heroic 5 mans had a good level difficulty to them. I think though, that a lot of players reacted negatively to paying for content they never could see -and from there things got a lot easier for the 'normal modes' later even heroic 5 mans became way to easy when CC was no longer needed. I think the game was further ruined in Lich King by basically making 3 roles - tank, heal, and DPS, which basically lost all sense of class identity.
I still think wow is the king of all mmo's and the best mmo ever created, it took a lot of the good things from other mmo's and brought them in a polished package with a world and characters people love.
That said I still love classic EQ as my first MMO, and have immensely enjoyed reliving the past through this server.
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