The majority of the player-base is at the furthest end of the min/max spectrum (yes, hello, you 2% of exceptions), so doing something different than optimum just gets them ornery, because they wanna hit 60 with their latest new account and new character, so they can mindlessly do it again.

I got a few items on my PAL that I never got in live. Either we didn't raid it, or the content was old... but

On green I've gotten the following items I never have had before (Live, Blue... ever)
∙ Faceguard of Bentos the Hero
∙ Naradi's Helm and Lance
∙ Wavecrasher
∙ Pearly Sarnak Bauble (not a wowser, but, I've never had one before Green)

P99 as a whole allowed me to acquire Rubicite. I started just late enough in live that by the time I went to go fight for some, it had been replaced with the inagural class quest armors. I know I assembled and then sold 3 separate sets on Blue, and I almost completed a set on Green before it turned into the aforementioned Helm of Narandi (I was shy the Vambraces and Gauntlets this time).

I have nine epics on P1999, I had zero until Luclin during live lol. I also never raided top end content during any expansion on live but have killed every target on p1999 numerous times.

Back then I was in the #2 raiding guild on my server and I think we were still struggling with vindi when Planes of Power hit. P99 at this stage is a great opportunity to see it all.

Personally I'd really like to see inside ST but I'm not sure I have the play time to make it happen.

With respect, I find it hard to believe that the guild was number 2 on the server if they were struggling to even kill Vindi by the time PoP came out

Might have my timeline wrong, now that I'm jogging my memory I took a break during luclin so it was probably more around that time. I know the #1 guild was way way ahead of us though.