Classic is what we want it to be for us - some its the journey others its the destination. For me its L60 game play. I loved it in vanilla. Does not mean I have to enjoy my way getting to it.
Thatās the game, just like lord of the rings online and everquest and basically all the mmos of back then. It was about the journey not the destination end game was not the entire point of the game, which is what mmos have become for better or worse.
Alot of people wouldnāt even reach level cap in those old mmos but love the game/their character all the same. My advice is set mini goals of only a few levels each day not the looming goal of 60 or it will feel really slow and you will get burnt out.
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Professions matter and can get you helpful stuff. I actually went out and bought mats for someone to craft my priest a wand. I actually went out to farm linen to craft some bags that I desperately needed. Player interaction and item drops actually matter at low levels, what a novel concept for a MMORPG. As opposed to retail, where I donāt even bother looting anything before lvl20 because itās literally not worth the time, and so are professions.
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Even fighting one mob requires some attention. In retail, I intentionally pull multiple mobs not because itās quicker or more efficient, but because itās the only way to push my character a little. 1v1, you just massacre everything you come across. In Classic, I was running for dear life after accidentally pulling a second gnoll. Only to run into murlocs. I died but I felt it was my fault for not checking my surroundings. Environmental awareness is actually a thing.
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Money management exists at low levels. You may have to pick and choose which skills you want to train. You may have to think about how youāre going to afford your mount. Respeccing isnāt free. You donāt just get handed everything at the appropriate level. You earn your progress, and itās not just handed to you for sitting through piss-easy quests and mind-numbingly trivial LFD farming.
So basically, much more goes into leveling than just āādo quests fasterāā or āāspam LFD until your brain leaks outāā. There are more factors at play, thereās more downtime. Itās like youāre actually playing a game that was designed with the leveling experience as a core aspect of it, rather than something so boring that you want to pay to skip it.
hmm dunno mate, all i do on my shaman is auto swing and shock once in a while to reserve mana, pray for no dodge/parry rng. rince repeat. legit 1-5 apm. getting in the late 20s it starts to be so slow and dull that i consider quitting.
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Doing Ashenvale as Horde felt like a real adventure. It was also great fun teaming up with others to take down Sharptalon who was red to us.
Going into the Thistlefur dungeon was another highlight.
And then it started raining at some pointā¦ 
im happy that people enjoy classic, and i want it to succeed.
but the game is Old, slow, easy and grindy. everything else is nostalgia and or you āi can only be social in classic not in BFAā mentality.
and no i dont play bfa either.
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Iāve never grinded XP in my life and Iām not gonna do it now either. Thereās so many quests you have to do before 60 for attunements, keys, gear etc that you donāt even have the time to grind.
Quests maybe fine, but you get more exp via grind than running. Attunements are ok, but they are still high level content and 1st you must get there
I second this^
Getting into Classic and setting your goal as just āhit 60ā, you are doomed to a boring, tedious experience while everyone else around you is having the time of their life (for the 2nd time now).
Every time I log I say, like, ātoday I wanna do WCā, ātoday I wanna quest through Southern Barrensā, ātoday I wanna hit Hillsbradā or other stuff like that. Not just ātoday Iāll just grind some more, then go to bed when I get dead tiredā. Dude, this is an RPG - if you donāt want to play the game, if you just want to hit 60 and start grinding dungeons or whatever, then I can recommend several high-trending mobile games where all you do is grind dungeons (auto-combat button also included).
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slow = good, also 90% of bfa is even way more easier than classic, also grindy.
Are you saying that you have trouble reaching 50 without grinding? Because that would be a silly statement. You actually get to skip 1 zone in your level range every 10 levels or so due to just how many quests there are. For example, Iāve only been to Dustwallow Marsh, Swamp of Sorrow, and Desolace like 5 times or so.
No I did not mean that, i just say that grinding shortens the time to that. 
And I prefer grinding to running as at least grinding gives me exp. Running does not.
Itās not about the destinationā¦ Itās about the journey.
You totally missed the whole point, young zoomer.
I prefer to do a bit of both. I like the journey quests, but its ofc only interesting if you read the letters they are passing to eachother.
There is a story developping and I want to know how it ends.
Ofcourse after a lot of running its nice to kill some mobs too and get some real action. The game offers you a nice bit of variation between the two.
Add into that some dungeon runs which tends to be loads of fast action ever so often, or working on your professions and be at the entire other end.
Try to enjoy the game.
get to level 40
simple
I started in TBC so I never got to do the Vanilla thing. It has been huge fun going back and a huge amount is the same as it was when I started playing. I have a huge sense of nostalgia while playing and my friend started a lot later (during MoP) so itās all different for him.
Iām currently enjoying the chilled rate of doing things. I am not in a hurry to do anything and I canāt imagine getting enough gold together to afford that first mount atm, but I will get there eventually.
Raiding is not going to be complex or challenging like it is doing mythic in retail but Iām looking forward to the mayhem of having 40 of us together.
Nothing is hard per se but there is a real feel of character progression as you level. You get stronger, you have all these levels of things to manage, not just your professions but skills with weapons etc. Dying is not forgiving and that long run back from the g/y makes you reconsider how you tackle things in the open world, or dungeons.
Do not see anything bad with long leveling itself, what annoys me is that because of layering zones I am in at are dead and it is just way to painful to do quests alone, especially when every death costs you 5 min of running back to your body and probably dying couple of times trying to complete quests that become more party dependent as you get further in levels.
I basically do something else on the side :
Bubble -> MB-> SW:P -> Wand attacks -> read discord / watch something
And the cycle goes on. Or I do quests while I wait for some spawns on Destiny 2.
As most players said , the satisfaction on this game is in the tittleā¦
It is the slow paced hard levelingā¦ I couldnt care less about endgameā¦ i ve done it 15 years agoā¦ it its not something newā¦ its not something i havent seen ā¦ but the experience on gaining 1 lvl and make you feel stronger, getting 1 talent point that will do a difference is what i love the game
I have a 24 lvl rogue after so many days of launch simply because i like to take my time with the game. i could be 40 if i wanted to but why rush? There is nothing waiting for me in the end that i havenāt done but the satisfaction on going around picking herbs leveling first aid, doing some barrens chat!!! is what i love about the game so far.
because it is not a āgrindā if you learn to enjoy the experience. Lets take the legend of stalvan quest for example. For the retail population it is a āuselessā travel but for people who enjoys the quest it is nice to follow up on his footsteps and have a sense of accomplishment when you finally finish the quest. yes we all have been there and done that already but that does not mean it can be still fun.
that being said i am playing a class which i didnāt play in vanilla (was a diehard rogue fan than with full t2 perdition etc destroying ppl in bg) a mage and i am enjoying the aoe spell cleaving in dungeons which is a new experience for me.
so i would say everybody needs to find their own joy in vanilla because there is much to be found.