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You should check out modern WoW for a day just to see the mechanics they've been able to add.

Before the WoW Classic release last year, I was in your shoes and decided to try modern WoW for a few days as a goblin. It had some pretty crazy quests/events/locations compared to just spawning in Goldshire and getting some "Kill N of X" quests.

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Yeah, quest variety has increased a ton. Lots of other kind of stuff than just fetch/kill. I don't think there's really any "Collect 30 bear asses and also only 3% of bears have asses" quests left either. Maybe in like the Burning Crusade zones?

Oh don't worry, there are still plenty. It's better now though, most bears have asses.

I think they've changed the quest drop mechanics that if you don't get a bear ass from a bear, it starts incrementing the drop rate of bear asses for future kills. Previously you were just rolling for that 3% chance all over again.

The more recently added and revamped quests have higher drop rates. There are still a handful of quests that have a low drop-rate, but I find the ratio of these quests to be bearable.

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