I just came back after quitting early early early in Cata . I switched factions from my old main and started a brand new character and have been questing maybe have run like 15 LFG dungeons , mining , herbing , fishing , cooking , and battle petting my way to 100 because I just resubbed , haven ' t bought Legion yet . I ' m having a blast and you ' re right , for me a lot of the vanilla stuff was new . I took my Alliance Pandaren up to level in the Plaguelands and found the Alliance are making a push to reclaim Lordaeron and so are butting up against the Forsaken . actually there seemed to be increased tension between Alliance and Horde all over . With heirloom gear I barely touched Kalimdor quest zones and didn ' t put much of a dent in the Eastern Kingdoms so I ' ve got plenty left to explore on alts as well . My buddies keep poking me , trying to get me to boost to 100 but I have absolutely no desire to . Ya I tried to LFG and power level my way through Outland because I ' ve played TBC content up down and sideways but now I ' m in Northrend on an Alliance toon . I ' ve never had an Alliance toon that high level so this is all a new perspective on this content for me . I don ' t remember Cata content from 8085 and never played MoP or WoD so 85100 is a complete mystery to me too . I ' d always encourage any player just to play 1110 , you ' ll learn so much more about your class , specs , the world . there ' s an insane amount of content that can all come before the max level end game stuff .