What do YOU miss?

I sort of miss the time when everything simply felt "new" and I was still just getting the hang of the game. Instead of being preoccupied with getting X new character to Y level as fast as possible, stuff like exploration, questing and other game quirks kept me interested more than levels.

Basically how I'm playing now is just "Wait for new content -> Lay waste to everything in said new content -> Wait for next new content" and it's pretty disheartening to see how much they've streamlined this game.