People always complained about Retail leveling being just a dungeon-spamming experience but Classic is the same thing. Even from the start of Classic WoW people have been spamming dungeons. World PvP & Interaction in general have suffered greatly from this. Vanilla WoW has lost its main MMORPG elements due to all these Dungeon-farms/leveling/boosting removing people from the open world.
WTB increased herb/mining spawn rates in the world, remove busted dungeon xp, remove unreasonable XP gained from dungeon boosting etcetc. Give players INCENTIVE to be out in the world in this so-called MMORPG
If above suggestions would happen. The world would be overcrowded and not sustainable. Vanilla caps were at 3k pop/server. Servers today host approx 10k players. I think its good that people stick to their dungeons in Classic.
If you werent living under a cave you would witness multiple vanilla private servers which had nothing of this and had a super engaging Open-World environment. STV was packed with world pvp and people grouping up to fight opposing faction even though ZG - AQ was out.
I don’t like dungeon boosting but I can see why people do it. If you are willing to start groups yourself you can fill them pretty quickly at all level ranges. Most people can’t be bothered to organise a group because you have to constantly spam chat channels. My experience on dreadmist is that you can get low level groups at most times of the day except really early morning I.e after 1am. I went to Gnomeregan 2 nights ago at midnight. Took about 10 minutes to get a full group together.
Thats the thing. I didnt live under a cave, I went on with my life and never played private server. I only came back for Classic.
I played vanilla back in 2005 and 3k pop servers was a perfect balance for the server. For example, when I wanna farm elementals(on Mograine) in Arathi I constantly meet 3-5 people just waiting for the elementals to spawn. Its a hard competition for loot in the open world.
Soo…that said. I just pick my my mage and go for BRD or DM east. Problem solved.
so back in 2005 you also paid mages to level from 1-60 and afk all the way?
And as said, limited loot in the world can be solved with increased spawn rates and not forcing everyone to go dungeons if they want to earn even remotely good gold.
There is a balance for everything, but at the moment dungeon farms & leveling is far superior to anything out in the world.
Of course some people like dungeons but at the moment it is on the big expense of WORLD pvp & interaction.
If you did not play Private server Vanilla then I am sorry for you if you waited all this time to play Vanilla again. Blizzard Classic is the worst “private” server yet