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The Shire is great and stands out because it is different. If you don't like its style, you can always level up in Bree or Ered Luin.

Free players can easily level to 50 and, with careful management of Turbine Points, get to the level cap.

Reforming a 10-man casual guild in Kara over a year into the BC release into a 25-man raiding guild. It took a tremendous amount of recruiting and coordination to do this successfully when the vast majority of the guild members had never set foot into a 25-man beforehand. We averaged one boss kill per week through SSC & TK and then killed Vashj, pre 3.0, in a mix of T4/T5 gear after about 2 weeks of attempts.

WOTLK was announced two months later and our raiding soon fell apart halfway through BT due to attendance issues, but all of the work leading up to and on Vashj is a great memory for most.

are you trolling? there are login queues right now and /who have shown hundreds of active players on the servers.