Which World of Warcraft feature has grown on you?

Sometimes it feels like there are too many ways to play World of Warcraft to even count — the ones that consist of your core gameplay experience from the start, the ones that don’t quite hold your waning interest until you find yourself avoiding them altogether, and the ones that you dabble in more each week until you realize that you’re hooked.

Like most champions of Azeroth, the main story quests and neverending treadmill of improving your gear in order to fight stronger monsters who drop better gear has always been the main focus of most of my play time. With each passing expansion, more additional pastimes are added. Some of these new diversions end up drawing players in to the point where gearing up becomes a secondary concern.

Not all of these side gigs have stuck around through every continent we’ve traveled through (I’m looking at you, Archaeology). But I’ll still spend time in each new zone searching for new battle pets, evaluating the latest transmog fashions, and meticulously fulfilling every achievement requirement I possibly can.

With Dragonflight’s addition of a dynamic and physics-based flying system, we added Dragonracing (now known as Skyracing) to our long list of Azerothian side hustles. At first, I would complete each race as I came across it on the lowest difficulty. After the first occurrence of hitting the same stupid tree five attempts in a row, I started to consider these races to be more of a way to fufill an easy World Quest requirement than something where I had to complete each difficulty with a gold medal time.

However, achievement hunting will make fools of us all. Once I realized that there were hundreds of achievement points in the Skyracing category that were low-hanging fruit, I decided to dust off my sky goggles and give the races another try. After changing up a few finer point of my technique, I find myself actively enjoying the races much more than the monotonous aerial grind I anticipated.

Alas, so far we haven’t heard a void-tinged peep about Skyriding races in K’aresh. I’m hopeful that we’ll be pleasantly surprised by Bronze Timekeepers at the launch of patch 11.2 next week, or even when we head to wherever the opening chapters of Midnight will take us. For now I’ll have to settle for hitting the aerial tracks until I hit wall-to-wall golds in Khaz Algar and the Dragon Isles. So what feature in World of Warcraft (recent or ancient) grew on you?