Because this is not the vanilla experience. With the servers this size, and in many cases this lopsided factionwise, this is nothing like the vanilla experience.
It just isn’t. I was there for vanilla. It was nothing like this. I never had 80 people camping the LHC fp. I never had to corpse run 10 times to get into BRD. It just is not the same experience at all.
I think it’s important to look at these things on a grander scale and note that what’s happening here is nothing short of scandalous, potentially even egregious. From what I see with your post and many other posts, it would appear to me, after much analysis and years of prior theoretical classic research, that PvP happened on a PvP server. Perhaps re roll on a PvE server.
Let me clarify- just got jumped by two rogues and a resto druid at Menethil. I should have paid more attention. GG, well played. This, to me, was the classic experience. PVP happening on a pvp server.
Last night, getting killed 13 times from LHC to Strat UD, because there was a horde raid every 20 yards? That was not my classic experience. It’s just stupid and a result of the size of servers.
Are you aware that just because your current experience does not align with your past experience, does not mean that the same experience did not occur for many others in the past?
I don’t know what server you played on in Vanilla, but mine, like many others was Alliance dominated. Our entire server had 2 Horde guilds clearing current tier content as it was released, while the Alliance had 10+ raid guilds doing the same.
You can bet we ran into the same exact issues you’re now experiencing on the other side of the fence.
I literally had to get Rank 14 because we were so outnumbered that trying to get gear via Raiding was less viable than getting my gear through the HWL grind.
The “vanilla experience” is a lie made up by people deep in nostalgia. Smaller servers and no layering wouldn’t have made any difference. You are not 13/25/30 years old anymore.
Vanilla is half finished content that is still pretty fun, the end.
What makes you think the ‘server size’ is different? Did they not say that they were going to have vanilla esq server sizes? Layering is no longer an excuse.
You don’t know this, you are literally making it up. And asking someone to prove this statement is false, doesn’t instantly make yours right if they can’t.