In preparation for the release of World of Warcraft Classic, Blizzard wants to make sure you can connect with old friends. Since its been over a decade since vanilla WoW, many people who may have grown apart since then have been looking to reconnect with their friends. The forum itself is split into several sections to make it easier for players to reconnect. Each realm for both Horde and Alliance players between 2004-2006 is available to find missed connections.

It’s a cool idea, and I’m glad Blizzard’s doing it. That said, the company hasn’t done a great job of publicising it so far, and it shows. When I first learned about the tool, I made a beeline to the section for my old server, Thunderlord. It was never the most popular server, but I was hoping to see one or two familiar faces on its Classic Connections page. Instead, it was a ghost town, with just nine posts as of this publishing. I got a nostalgic dopamine boost from recognising a couple ancient guild names, but otherwise, I came away from the reanimated skeleton of my teenage years with more questions than answers. If you want to Buy WOW Classic Items, we 5mmo.com can give you a very low price, welcome to buy.

This is kinda the point of Classic, because it's not really the same without the other players you experienced it with the first time around. In my World of Warcraft Classic preview back in May, production director Patrick Dawson told me that it was the old guilds and players wanting to reunite that clamoured for the vanilla servers, giving Blizzard the push to create them.

World of Warcraft Classic refers to the state of the world-famous MMORPG before the release of The Burning Crusade, the game's first expansion. Veterans of the game often agree that WoW Classic is not only the epitome of the World of Warcraft franchise, but also that of the entire genre. Classic felt and played much more like a role-playing game where every new item drop is an accomplishment, and every new ability was a massive leap forward. Everything is rarer and harder to come by, including items and experience, but the challenge also makes it that much more meaningful and enjoyable. Currently, World of Warcraft Classic is undergoing its final testing before its official launch on August 27.