Probably preparing for lore master achievement. Too busy to actually invite people into the party, even on kill quests, that progress is shared among the party members.
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Ye, I do it too. And I am proud of it. Because my realm is 90% horde populated. I spread the world of Alliance. For the Varian Wrynn! For Stormwind! No matter level, KILL-THEM-ALL.
If you are whining snowflake like this go retail or Pyrewood Village. Ez.
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Are you sure some people aren’t just questing in the low level zones for rep? You get epic flyer discounts and can buy the mount of other races if you farm rep for them. Fastest way to do that would sound like blasting through all of the mobs asap without thinking too much what you pull. Just pull all and aoe down asap.
It’s likely that people have started grinding Loremaster in advance. I’ve completed it already, but did have to apologize to low level players a few times and tried to balance it by helping with some elite quests when I saw people looking for a hand.
Aha, so basically you want your own world, where other players won’t come and compete with you for mobs?
Isn’t that single player? I mean besides the many reasons they could be doing it, reputation, quests, achievements, cloth loot, challenges. It sounds like you want to have a solo world or a personal layer or something.
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alright , so … some comments are quite the typical prototype of exactly the people who does this , ignoring those .
for the record ,interrupting low level areas and questing for low level players is bannable ,and it was already mentioned before by Blizzard ,and someone already got banned.
so whoever is okey with it ,you’ll be reported in game when you do this by ANY person randomly walking around and you WILL be banned for at least a week.
Don’t care, cry about it. Retail made you losers too soft. Original WoW during TBC/Wrath you could camp for hours on top of duskwood lol. Deal with it.
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You can camp people on PvP as much as you like, yeah. But even in… I think Wrath retail my guildie got visited by GM and ported to his capital graveyard after he camped the Night Elf NPC near Blackfathom. Blizzard will take action if you prevent quest completion for some time. The problem is there are now no GMs, so a lot of people would need to report you for the automatic system to trigger.
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Yeah, the problem is the ‘subjective’ element of interrupting.
Doesn’t sound like they are grieving or stopping your quest per se. They’re not camping a specific named npc 30 times in a row. They’re going around killing mobs for whatever reason, thus when they respawn its up to you to tag them faster.
In addition you know we have mega servers now, with a very large population and limited layers/sharding. I don’t know which server you are playing on (Gehennas?), but if you want less competition for mobs its up to you to play on less crowded servers. If you insist to keep playing on a mega server for the benefits, you’ll also have to learn with downsides, that’s evident.
Also say you refuse to move to a smaller pop server for whatever reason. There is no way they can ban players for killing too many mobs in an open world that doesn’t spawn enough. Then it’s up to devs to increase the spawn rate or add layering.
Blizzard can ban you from accessing their services at any time for any reason they see fit. They will refund your current sub if you raise the issue, but that’s about it.
It’s always been like that, since first ToS you signed in 2004/2005.
I’d like to see a source of that, if you aren’t making it up 
That’s the bargaining power of supplier and consumer, I’m sure you heard the phrase “It’s their game, they can do what they want.”.
Aparantly sufficient people want to play the game enough to put up with the ToS and basically any rule they make up. In theory they can Ban you for anything they like, in practice they have many considerations to make in terms of policy.
Anything is banable, it’s a question of sementics. When does ‘clever use of game mechanics’ become ‘exploits’? At what point does ‘PvP’ become ‘Griefing’? If I say you suck at the game, am I ‘harrasing’ you?
Things are formulated so broadly and without operational factors, on purpose, so they can just fill in the blanks afterwards in any way it’s convenient to them.
Having read some of the replies here I would say if they are low level questing and on the same faction as you OP then there is nothing wrong with them killing mobs, they could be nice and invite the low levels around but they don’t have to, especially since some quests like the collecting 10 items are better done alone.
You were not clear about this part, please state if they are on the same faction as you. or if they are just questing like you are. Low level Questing on a high level character is 100% not against the rules.
If I was doing it and got banned I would make a harassment complaint about the person who got me banned.
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No its not. These people have a right to quest for their achievement too. Only because you can rightclick report doesnt mean you are in the right. You should be banned for falsely reporting people because you having no idea what actual griefing is.
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one lvl 70 killed all the gnolls in westfall so i could loot all the paws for a quest didnt see this as a ruin since they invited me to group for it 
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I feel weird about this, I’m almost exalted with sw right now and I just got it all naturally while leveling up.
It’s not against the rules but it’s really demoralizing for me. I see a level 70 and I just take a break at that point and come back a few hours later (which isn’t something everyone can do) or at least that’s what I do on lower level characters especially. Most of these players do not invite me. It just kind of sucks that because someone is killing all the mobs in an area off cooldown my quest is going to take 4x the amount of time.
Well, you gimp their XP if you group with them now. Thanks to Blizzard boosting nerf.