How World Of Warcraft: Wrath Of The Lich King Classic took me back to my childhood

metro.co.uk:

A player revisits Northrend for the first time in 14 years, as Blizzard recreates the magic of World Of Warcraft’s most popular expansion.

As a kid, I spent countless hours playing World Of Warcraft on my bulky, whirring desktop. I enjoyed uncovering the vast, mysterious continents of Azeroth with online friends, fighting opposing factions and battling through dungeons. And dying. Repeatedly. Either at the blade of a max level, undead rogue or because of my Leeroy Jenkins style escapades.

That was all part of the fun. The epic fantasy music and the pops of colour on my screen made my adventures all so captivating. World Of Warcraft holds precious memories, and a chunk of my childhood.

Over the years, the World Of Warcraft franchise has expanded greatly and the game has changed significantly in terms of how I remember it. After eight expansions, it’s now almost unrecognisable as the game it started off as in 2005.

Inevitably, many Warcraft players miss those early days, both for nostalgic reasons and because when it first launched it was a substantially different game. Blizzard heeded calls for an option to return to the older, simpler times and so created a Classic version of the game, with servers that allow you to experience World Of Warcraft as it was in only its first few years.

This proved so popular that last year Blizzard launched The Burning Crusade Classic server, a recreation of the first expansion of the franchise, so naturally Wrath Of The Lich King Classic is next.

The Classic servers are faithful recreations of the original releases, so that means no dungeon finders, no quest tracker, no transmogrifications to make your armour look fancy, and no mount speed boosts until level 30. My friends refer to the Classic