The Lich King years felt like peak WoW.
Players have made good arguments for other expansions being more consequential for WoW's development and history, particularly Burning Crusade. But Wrath of the Lich King has always been the most beloved WoW expansion, and that is all to do with its era, that little window between the end of 2008 and the release of Cataclysm in late 2010, when it felt like everyone you knew was playing WoW and MMOs couldn't get better than this. For some, they never did.
Wrath of the Lich King has now returned as part of WoW Classic, a game that is an ongoing and fascinating exercise in trying to recapture different eras. WotLK is a vessel of mixed memories, different things to different players, and the way that WoW Classic has timed its expansions evokes a bizarre nostalgia for the time once spent waiting.
Wrath of the Lich King was a definitive end to one journey, an adventure many players had been on since Warcraft 3. That game and its expansion, The Frozen Throne, had the player controlling Arthas on his arc from hero of the light to eventually becoming the undead Lich King, and that's where it ended. No later WoW expansion would have such a core character to this world at the heart, nor feature them so prominently.
Northrend too was a joy to revisit, with Blizzard at the top of its game in how it reimagined the setting while keeping familiar elements, managing to deliver something that felt both fresh and undeniably nostalgic. A particular masterstroke was how Northrend in WoW is shaped by the events in Warcraft 3, and a constant stream of in-game Easter eggs about what had gone before.
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