08-23-2008, 07:04 PM
Quote:Groups of Words' anonyomous blogger has made a list of some of the changes from Pre-TBC WoW to what you would find today in WoW, suggesting that they aren't so much as expansions as they are sequels. It's an interesting thought, to be sure, and any player who's been around since the start may enjoy the trip down memory lane.My recollection is that there was an early auction house in Stormwind (maybe not right at the start of retail) as well as in Ironforge, but that the SW auction was held outside in the courtyard by the waggon. There was no Thorium Brotherhood in the beginning. Indeed there were very few rep grinds, and there was no cloth turn-in either. Silithus was opened the last day of beta and there were mobs there. One could jump over the wall and explore the south part of the zone (where there were no mobs, as far as I could find).
As for high level crafting pattern world drops, I remember losing the mechanical squirrel schematic that dropped for me in Westfall, because my bags were full. Some things never change.
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