It has not changed anything. If anything it is worse. With GDKP’s you can at least justify spending a portion of your raid earnings on a flask.
I literally just read another thread of a guy who was mining for 6 hours on nightslayer in different zones and made like 50g. It is completely unrealistic at this point and GDKP’s would help curb that. Instead of wasting literal days running around competing against bots, you could level an alt and spend 1hr/week doing MC and be way ahead.
If you value your time at all, GDKP’s are the way to go. Not trying to hijack your thread with the one I made, but GDKP’s make the game immensely better. Anyone that disagrees is upset because they want the free /roll to get game bis or are not good enough to get into a GDKP as a “Carry.” I’m not justifying swiping, but you can have 2-3 alts and raid 3hrs/week and make more gold than farming some material for 15 hours.