Blizzard had 60 levels to play with, and they ensured the process was slow-going.

Yes they make some beautiful zones, yes they tell a nice story, but the game part of this game happens after your final ding. Nowadays, when a World of Warcraft expansion comes out, Blizzard is doing its best to usher you towards the level cap as quickly and as efficiently as possible. You know the fruit vendor that walks around Ironforge? The one that seems entirely arbitrary? Trust us, they had a really important purpose once upon a time. Given how slowly your resources replenished in vanilla, any successful player makes a point to stop by their food and drink vendor to keep their health and mana pools healthy. So don't sell off that Linen Cloth! It's more valuable than you can imagine. In fact, I distinctly remember several high-end guilds straight up requiring people in their fold to have a capped First Aid skill. Druids, Paladins, Priests, and Shamans also kept their First Aid skill healthy, despite the fact that they could sew up wounds with mana. It wasn't even exclusive for DPS classes either. So, by actively leveling up your bandaging ability, you were able to tide yourself over much more efficiently after having a nasty run-in with a Defias bandit in Westfall. And health pools took a long time to refill. But in vanilla, First Aid was one of the most important assets in anyone's arsenal. It made sense: it was basically useless in an era where players' health regenerates in nanoseconds. The First Aid profession was removed from World of Warcraft in Battle for Azeroth. Just be careful when you're storming The Crossroads, okay? First Aid is critical

They'd immediately tank your total honor, meaning you'd no longer have access to the upper tiers of the PvP vendors' lootbox. But vanilla had this weird system where if you killed opposing faction NPCs marked as 'civilians'- think vendors, innkeepers, etc.-it would count as a dishonorable kill. Today, you can kill pretty much everything in World of Warcraft without batting an eye. (Image credit: Blizzard) Beware dishonorable kills

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