When did "experience turned off" get turned back on?

Sometimes we find different ways of entertaining ourselves in this game. One of those ways is to twink a low-level character. I did that a bit over a year ago, and had this fun little monk that was almost full Warforged at level 10. Then I stopped playing retail and have been playing Classic. I decided to log on and play my monk today. I queued up for some TBC dungeons, and when it was over, I realized my character leveled to 12. I would never have turned on my exp on this character. Did Blizzard reset the exp-off at some point in the last year? There is no exp bar on my character screen right now. It’s like it reset, but the exp bar is not showing.

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Does it still have the experience eliminator buff?

As far as I’m aware no, I don’t think they have. I had a low level Warlock character which I purposefully levelled to 70 recently, before then it was safely hard locked at 20.

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I feel like a number of things went wonky when Plunderstorm launched (notably chat tab channel setting that had been saved were all reset on every login which persisted for a few weeks. I still see a bad UI that wiggles up and down when I click to contribute to a seed in Emerald Dream; it definitely did not move up/down before Plunderstorm and the chat channel saves breaking at the same time lead me to believe it’s all “shared resources” between the Retail client and re-used stuff for Pluderstorm.

It wouldn’t surprise me if a “No EXP Buff” was stripped off at the same time… they missed a lot of gotchas during any internal testing they did (there was no public PTR for Plunderstorm that I recall).

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I went to my other level 10 and found that the exp-off setting reset. I had to turn it back to exp-off. There is no buff.