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Classic · Pandaria · forgotten dungeons

Dig through old Azeroth with me.

A notebook for the half-forgotten parts of World of Warcraft: dungeons nobody queues for, alts left on a shelf, and the patches that shaped how the game feels today.

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A dusty shop interior with scrolls and barrels in Pandaria
A pandaren sitting quietly in a forest

“Every old zone has one corner I never looked at properly.”

From the first page of the notebook

Dig first

I pick one old place or class and spend real time there before writing a word.

Keep the odd bits

Small things stay: a lantern, a book title, a line from a quest nobody reads.

Leave it tidy

Every entry closes with a note on what I would change on a second visit.

The Bag

Four pockets, sorted by what I find in them.

What is inside

Old dungeons, old classes, alts and the odd patch note. Short entries, taken one item at a time.

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Dungeons

Corridors I know by heart, and a few I only half remember.

Classes

The Mistweaver, the odd hybrid and the ones I keep dropping.

Alts

The characters I swear I will finish. Progress reports, honestly.

Patches

What changed, what it felt like and what quietly went missing.

A torch on a dark dungeon wall

Who is digging

One player, many old saves.

Timmothy Hopkins here, playing since the early days and keeping notes since the first time a patch deleted something I loved. The bag has been open ever since.

A game is mostly remembered in its small rooms, not its boss fights.

Timmothy Hopkins
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How an entry gets dug up

Four stops, no shortcuts.

01

Find it

Pick a place, class or patch that has been bothering me for a while.

02

Go back

Play it again, slowly, with a pen nearby.

03

Sort it

Keep what still holds up. Drop what only lived in memory.

04

Shelve it

Write it up, tag it and put it on the Back Issues page.

Margin notes

Lines from the notebook that stayed on the page.

“Karazhan was never finished, and somehow that is why it is still talked about.”

Two pandaren by a red banner

Margin note · Classic entry

“A good rotation is mostly muscle memory, and muscle memory is mostly patience.”

Margin note · Monk entry

“An alt is a promise. I have made more promises than I can keep.”

Margin note · Alts entry

Reading tracks

Three ways through the bag.

Pick whichever one fits your evening.

Quick look

5 min one short entry

  • One item at a time
  • Plain language
  • No spoilers
  • Easy to skim
Start small

Slow walk

Reader favorite

30 min a few entries

  • One dungeon, one class
  • The long way round
  • Screenshots and notes
  • Side stories included
  • Good with coffee
Take the walk

Whole shelf

All of it whenever you like

  • Every Back Issue
  • Old and new together
  • Updated as I go
  • Never repeats
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Loose ends

Questions that keep turning up in the bag.

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Where should I start?

With the Back Issues page. Pick whatever title looks oldest and work forward from there.

Do you only cover old content?

Mostly, yes. New things show up when they remind me of something older.

Can I request a topic?

Yes. Tell me which dungeon, class or patch you miss and I will check whether there is room in the bag.

Are these guides?

Not quite. They are notes on what stayed with me, with enough detail to help if you want to go back.

How often is it updated?

Whenever I find something worth keeping. Some weeks it is one entry, some weeks it is several.

Back Issues

The newest items from the bag.

Got something to digup?

Send me the dungeon, class or patch you miss. If there is room in the bag, it joins the queue.

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Contact

Leave a note in the bag.

One inbox, one reader. Short notes are welcome and long ones get read twice.

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