The server i played on in classic had a horde pop only slightly more unbalanced than this. While I don’t necessarily think merges are out of the question this isn’t inaccurate.
Yes, that will happen on an underpopulated server.
Farming dungeons to level quickly and watching youtube guides (many of which are awful tbh) is not an ‘exploit’.
Yeah. Sucks. Private servers had them too.
Farming gold in dungeons is, again, not an “exploit”. Also, congratulations, there indeed isn’t much of a gold sink beyond epic mounts and consumables, an accurate recreation of the classic experience.
Yes, Blizzard is going to create a miserable situation and get you to pay to get out of it. Yay capitalism.
There is no singular “real vanilla experience”. You can’t go back to 2005. It’s time to accept what the game was and move on.
LOL, you’re going to cry about mages farming dungeons for levels/money (something they did in classic, a lot) but insist that ferals doing 60 stealth runs a day is okay? Weird.
Your biggest problem seems to be people playing the game in a way that displeases you. Farming dungeons is the easiest and most efficient way to level up, and people will always seek out those solutions in these types of games. Slowly killing mobs one-by-one in STV so you can spend 6 hours bumbling through Scarlet Monastery from 35-36 isn’t how people play the game anymore. Get over it.
You pay because it’s a server and they charge for you to play on it. Pretty simple.
GMs didn’t “aggressively moderate” mages farming dungeons in classic.
“People aren’t playing the game the way I remember it being played. Something MUST be wrong with the game.”
Not a convincing point.