The reason it wasn’t patched out is irrelevant.
This is perfectly demonstrated by the recent announcement regarding Juju Flurry:
“We also did some digging into our bug database from the Original WoW era and found that we had in fact filed a bug for this behavior while the original game was current, but the issue was not actually fixed until the Burning Crusade pre-patch (patch 2.0.3). As this bug was present throughout Original WoW, we do not currently consider it to be a bug and is merely an aspect of the original game that was carried over into Classic.”
Even if Blizzard did believe or does now believe what is happening in AV to be a bug, the fact that’s how it was in vanilla means it will not be changed.
They didn’t work that way in vanilla. That’s why it was fixed.
That’s how it worked in vanilla.
Agreed. Their inconsistency is an issue.
Sure, if you want to call it that. I don’t really care how you describe it. Regardless, all of those individual states existed in vanilla. That is to say, the items existed with that itemization, those drop tables existed, and the DR was 25% at some point.
I’d much prefer they simply chose one patch and went with it, but picking and choosing within vanilla is better than saying we do something entirely different than vanilla.
That’s not what’s being asked for here, though.
Pre-1.11 AV wouldn’t prevent what you’re seeing here; it’d simply delay the time it takes for the Alliance to get to Drek’s room to do it.