But even without expensive ray tracing hardware, people can appreciate higher quality lighting effects, as the portal room in the present Shadowlands beta shows. Back in the day it was infamous: Just gaining access to it requires weeks of wow gold classic an entire server grinding out resources in preparation, then hours more grinding to complete the Scepter of Ahn'Qiraj questline. Then there is a 10-hour war in Silithus, and ultimately, after all that, guilds could breach the entry of AQ. In 2006, it had been months before players eventually completed the raid. In WoW Classic, it went a lot faster.

The installation for Ahn'Qiraj is still thrilling. The sand-covered ruins you input through quickly reveal themselves as a man hiding the true horrors below. Fleshy corridors form a sprawling labyrinth, chambers teeming with ancient worms and bugs. After fighting your way to the end you face the captive at the core of the raid, an older god sealed in the floor, on the verge of breaking loose. It's a shame that, by today's standards, he is a joke.

The C'Thun players fight now in WoW Classic isn't the tentacled monster of legend he once was. The C'Thun we fight has had his fangs filed down, a nerf that dates back to 2006 when guilds taking on the OG C'Thun believed him unkillable. But was he, indeed? Based on the skills WoW Classic players have accrued over the previous 15 decades, I believe we could shoot this giant eyeball how he was once intended to be fought. I believe we could destroy pre-nerf C'Thun, and Blizzard should put him WoW Classic to give us that opportunity. He took a large amount of damage to shoot down before he enraged and promptly murdered everyone, and the struggle demanded pinpoint positioning out of all of the raiders. The fight famously had a bug too, which caused ranged tentacles to spawn behind walls or directly under gamers, almost guaranteeing full bash wipes. After 80 days without a single clear Blizzard eventually nerfed C'Thun into buy classic gold wow the floor, and he was easily defeated the same day.