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Huh? You're buying an account that gives you the ability to further buy monthly access to a living, changing world, and nobody reasonable who forked over money to Blizzard expected or expects otherwise.

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I totally would expect that I would be able to play without buying expansions.

What would actually happen if I logged in now with my account that I haven't used since vanilla? Would I be told I'm SOL?

You can play all the content available on the original continents(though revised to the latest version of that content/area) up to a maximum level of 60.

I think vanilla accounts automatically get the battle chest version, which is expanded to included the previous expansion during each expansion. It looks like the battle chest includes everything up to Pandaria, now.

https://eu.battle.net/shop/en/product/world-of-warcraft

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