Relevant username, eh OP?
That aside, I did play in a WotLK WoW server for around a year, and it was a blast. I made a few friends travelling through Kalimdor, in Desolace and Un'Goro, and I remember very well group questing in Redridge and the lv 80 PKers in Tanaris.
The long trips throughout the continent to reach quest locations, settlements and dungeons was lovely. And asking friends and asking in trade chat every few minutes, then waiting for someone to reach the summoning stone so we could finally start. And some of those dungeons that were much bigger than others and had multiple paths, like Maraudon, Blackrock and the one with the sand trolls, I can't imagine how long it'd take a vanilla player to do some of their lengthy quests, like killing all of the centaur khans' ghost to get that weird trinket that gave like a 2% per hit to get a stat boost, it seemed so silly to me at the time.
Around the time I was questing in the Boreal Tundra, the guild I'd been for a few months had completely died out. It was a questing guild, one of the only two the Alliance had. Because I'd taken my sweet time to fully map out the Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor and level up my clothier and alchemist professions to Wrath's level, my leveling was really slow and most of the people I met left the guild and went on to raid. 'Cept for two folks I remember very well, Shadow, a wannabe youtuber alt-holic, and Muffinman, who also liked to fool around.
Anyways, back to the leveling guild. The GM took a vacation for a couple of months, and left two friends of his in charge. Problem was, these folks left as well at some point, and there was nobody managing the bank, recruiting people and the guild chat became much less lively, with the little new members we got being recieved by a handful of other newbies who would leave days later. Very little people remained.
One day Muffinman came back, having also been away for a while, and some days later the GM also logged on. Seeing only Muffin, a DK named Mickey and me in the guild, the GM had a bit of heart attack. The forums he had set up were barren, the bank barely had anything in it, and of course, the guild was empty as well.
So he had a chat with another GM, from one of the, I believe three? raiding guilds the Alliance had at the time, and got us in. The idea was that once we'd gotten to lv 80 and geared up we'd take part in their raids, without having to go through tests or any of that. I still don't know how he struck such a deal, because the raiders didn't really get any benefits, so they must've been friends. And that was the end of Warlords of Dalaran, RIP and F.
I kept being a slowpoke at my leveling, though I did eventually reach max lv. I got Though, because I couldn't get a schedule addon they had made to work, and was kicked from the guild due to