NP, if you want the server name I played on I can log in and toss some money at you if you like. I havent played in a terribly long time and have had more money that I knew what to do with for years while playing it.
You would just have to reply to me here when you are going to try the game to let me know when you are doing it.
There were some datamined strings a while back that suggested Blizzard has been experimenting with AI companions for dungeons. However I’m not aware of any dev comments about it, so it may well be something they attempted that never sees the light of day, or has since evolved into delves with seasonal companions.
No, it’s combining the progress of all of your characters together and sharing resources. So we aren’t getting screwed over for playing a lot of alts anymore.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought about this. It would be really cool. Wish we could do that with alts & trusts in FFXIV too. (though that game is the most alt unfriendly game I’ve ever seen and I hate that fact).
Being able to have a group with your alts would be awesome, but also in open world too - for things like roleplay it would be a huge gamechanger.
Though I may be in the very niche minority of people who played like 3-5 characters at once because my typing speed is insane, but still 
can we all just take a moment and realise that we are still on the minds of the devs of wow and maybe we might actually get a server dedicated for us multiboxers at some point. ive never had a dev mention us by name in a q&a before. 12mins in he mentions multiboxers
there have been alot of multiboxers pushing to get a dedicated server for multiboxers. so we can play without issues.
Honestly a lot of the features I have seen in War Within so far seem ripped straight out of ESO and SWTOR.
Which is good btw! In my opinion. Blizzard has always been at their best when they take the ideas of whats working in other games and apply their own spin on it. It’s what made WoW so popular to begin with, being the casual MMO in a world of hardcore MMOs.
WoW was popular the second it was released. It remained sold out the entire first full year so I am going to have to disagree with you on this. Yes, those things may have worked for those games but WoW never relied upon stealing ideas from other games. That neither means its bad or good, just pointing it out.