In 2007-2008 I spent many hours playing WoW. I remember that the first expansion I got was The Burning Crusade. I played it up to Cataclysm, but not graduatelly lesser and lesser. Recently I just played the free edition (levels 1-20).
Today, reading a post by 
Why a 40+ years old man (then) started spending time and money on a fantasy videogame? I talked about this already in this old post. As an artist, I always need visual inputs, new images - and possibily a narrative context for them images. In WoW - as in many other games - what I look for is seeing new environments and creatures. Of course, the style of those worlds and their inhabitants have to be acceptable for my taste. Manga fairies with sparkly swords, well, no, thx.
I found some video of my Night Elf Druid in 2008:
Probably that old character (level 75, I think) is not retrievable. Starting again from zero is a bit too much for me, maybe ^^