When I played vanilla back in the day, I rolled almost exclusively night elves, so I memorized Teldrassil so well that I can remember where everything is even to this day. So when I was questing in Shadowglen on my night elf druid, I found myself getting bored. This freaked me out -- I was like, "I've waited years to play this, and now I'm finding out that I may not even like it?!"
But then I started questing on my dwarf this morning -- a race I've never played, not even in retail. I had no idea what the quests were, where to find the objectives, anything. And it was awesome. Without the minimap to hold my hand, I had to explore blindly in hopes that I could maybe find the stuff that gnome lost. I laughed at quest text I had never read before and scratched my head over where Anvilmar could be.
This is the Classic experience I was hoping for! Exploring a world for the first time, searching far and wide for quest objectives whose locations aren't spoon-fed to you. I'm stoked to get back on my dwarf (and maybe play with friends this time.)
Anyone else have cool experiences like this?