Sounds like you should play vanilla then. Tell your friends to start a new alt with you.
What is there to do in WotLK right now? Nothing.
They all play lvl 80+
I ended up buying that. I refuse to give blizzard $60 for expansions to a game that I already bought though.
Expansions aren't even $60 to begin with.
You might want to wait on that comment until you see the Cataclysm price.
Not making any predictions, but the Activision merger hasn't exactly lowered the cost of gaming...