I logged back in back in March & played wow classic for 3 months & got a rogue up to level 60 ! I remember back then seeing my Mage on retail but never bothered to play it , Just seems odd how I have magically got a level 50 Mage blood elf that I never had ..... I’ve sent a message to a GM so will see that they say... will kinda suck if I have to grind to level 50 again before the new expansion . Also what happened to only pvp realms on retail did that get scrapped ? I’m on stormreaver it was a high population many years ago it’s now very low!
Levelling on retail is extremely fast, going from 1-50 in the current game is absolutely nothing like going from 1-50 in classic/vanilla.
I played the recent free weekend and got a fresh character to level 30 within a couple of days of fairly light play.