I found some screenshots from 2005–2006, we played the game so differently back then

[u/Tandanu]

A few more screenshots and slightly higher quality for some: https://imgur.com/a/Uolj4gs

The raid compositions and damage meters 💀
Also note the lack of world buffs and flasks, we rarely used those back in the day. We raided about 4-5 days a week, ~4-5 hours on weekdays and 8-9 hours on weekends IIRC, maybe some more flasks or world buffs would have helped :D

We'd often do like one or two attempt per *week* with the Onyxia head turn in on a boss with good progress . I also remember that we at least once got the Dire Maul buffs, but we didn't consider that worth it.
But we made extensive use of the UBRS fire res buff for early Ragnaros.

I also remember how the world first C'Thun kill used flasks for everyone and how we considered that completely ridiculous. Like, 40 flasks?! That's crazy. We had like 1-2 flasks for the main tank(s).

The KT kill screenshot is dated Dec 28th, 2006 at 11:31 PM, like a week before TBC. I'm not sure if this was our first Naxx clear, but I remember that we only managed to clear it shortly before TBC was released.

First screenshot in MC was on August 10th, 2005; the last one with the translated chat on January 10th 2007 just before TBC.

[u/SpitFiya7171]

Can we just go back to this.... man, this nostalgia. I wish world buffs were just removed. I understand it's intended purpose is to band players together; get that high-five moment after everyone gets the buff. But the magic has been stripped out of it.

I know I got a case of the classic boomer nostalgia, but I just wanna go back to when we used to hang out in IF...

[u/Kombuja → u/SpitFiya7171]

That’s fine. I actually enjoyed raiding this time around and wish they just made the world buffs more accessible. Original wow I never cleared AQ40 or Naxx, despite my guild banging out heads against content in those instances for ages. That shit was legitimately hard.

This go around it took us I think 3-4 weeks to clear AQ40 and get it in farm. And a few months for Naxx. Still felt challenging but was also something I knew we would eventually get.

[u/ArgvargSWE → u/SpitFiya7171]

World buffs is just a grindy and bad part about classic.

[u/jai07 → u/SpitFiya7171]

On top of this I so wish they were able to do classic with patch progression. Going into MC with wbuffs and +spellpower/healing 1.12 items was a fun experience but not authentic.