Started in Vanilla and reached 60 about a month or 2 before TBC released. Only raid I ever saw back then was AQ20.
Vanillaaaaaa! And stopped with wotlk and started to play on classic pserver-realms years ago..! :)
Thought I posted in this thread.
Started I think Feb 2005 or Jan 2005 can't remember.
My friends started on release as Horde, wanted me to play but I wasnt about the Dungeons and Dragons type games (I didnt give it a chance).
I watched my friends play the game thought it was stupid lol
I was too invested in Counter-Strike 1.6 at the time too be bothered with WOW and my friends and I played FPS for the most part.
I read the game manual and got a little excited about the game and decided if I was going to play I would be a Priest.
Then one day I brought my computer over to a friends house to LAN and was given a free trial key...first character was a Dwarf Priest.
Walked over to the guy with the exclamation point on his head, accepted the quest and started smiting wolves...stopped playing cs 1.6 that day lol
I was so hooked on the sounds, art style, colors, spells and the game as a whole.
How about, Beta vanilla /flex
Cleared
MC - Full
BWL - Something like 6/7 from 8 bosses
AQ20 - 1/2 from 6 bosses
AQ40 - 0
Naxx - 0
Still playing, since Vanilla Beta
2007 but never made it the end game until wotlk. i honestly feel bad for people who started playing later on due to the fact they never got to experience both sides of the game. blizzard certainly drove away from their original design intentions either for the better or the worse. good thing we will be getting both soon :D