Hot Take: Noobs are a golden part of the classic TBC experience. Embrace them.

Sure, the difference this time is that they boosted instead of taking a year of playing their class wrong to get 1-70. But noobs and low skill players making silly mistakes is in the essence of 2006 TBC as someone who was there.

We like to romanticize the old era, but the truth is that from normal runs to heroics it was plagued with people who couldnt play their class, people who'd randomly go afk mid dungeon, even trolls. People who ninja'd something not even good for their class. Me there as a heroic tank carrying the three stooges who whispered me first.

So what am i doing standing on this soap box? Telling the complainers here that if you don't want minmax culture and sweats, then you have to embrace the noobs: warrior who didn't know cleave exists, the rogue without kick on their hotbar, the shammy who starts blasting like it's retail. Teach them instead of putting them on blast. I'd rather have noobs instead of toxic sweaties for tbc anni.