Yes, yes. If you play WoW, you think you know grinding. You've spent a day or two murdering the repetitive mobs at a dull area. But mention that the'g' word to a WoW veteran and you're going to see the thousand-yard stare of a special forces veteran. Can you call wow classic gold for sale grinding unless you spent three literal weeks, and I really do mean -- murdering zhevra charger and plainstriders in The Barrens? The problem was acute in the famously Kalimdor zone that is sprawling, but the mill was present anywhere. It had been compounded by the absence of quests and the ways to get XP. You didn't get XP from professions or PvP, also without Dungeon Finder, running an example wasn't necessarily worth the time it took to assemble a group. However hard you tried to prevent it, you would need to spend a few evenings. Or, more correctly, a couple weeks.
This one is a bit partisan, because it is a faction-specific experience (I did play Alliance too, honest). But mention vanilla WoW into a Horde player and it is likely they'll remember the majesty and depravity of Barrens conversation: some frothing piss-cauldron of Chuck Norris jokes, tepid bants, and fresh players looking for Mankrik's wife in Consumed by Hatred, the very famously vague quest in the history of this game. Of the way Barrens chat used to be, much was due to the layout. It was a place with flight paths.
It was under attack by Alliance players who could simpy hop off sprint into the Crossroads the ship at Ratchet, and murder the quest givers. On top of this, it was an area you could waste months in, together with variation and enough size in mobs to accommodate players in levels 10-25. This combination of scale, time, and action meant there was plenty of time for discussion - most of it spent between towns due to the flight routes that were missing --and there was plenty.
As well as being permanently confused and lost, training abilities was a struggle for vanilla WoW gamers. Your pet abilities had ranks, which you had to learn using another pet before you could apply them to your primary. So if you needed a ability with, you'd have to stop using them. The game never told you that, so Hunters were running around cheap classic wow gold with the basic skills their pet came with. And there were. You'd pick up a sweet weapon, go to attack a horse, and spend another hour inducing Glancing Blows because your skill levelled up in it, overlooking, and swinging. Yes, it made sense; no, it wasn't quite satisfying.