Having a waken-able Sleeper made wayyyyy more sense on live.
Velious was released here on August 2nd, 2015, ie. more than two years ago. You know what happened on live in that time? Shadows of Luclin (1 year after). Planes of Power (less than 2 years after). Heck in a few more months if we were "on schedule" we'd not only have LoY but also LDoN.
Why does that matter? Because by the time LDoN came out no one cared about the loot from the warders. I mean maybe some people might have still wanted some items from it, but in general when you're level 65 with 200 AAs and Plane of Time drops, who cares about primal weapons?
PLUS, if we were going by live the warders would have been restored by now (without the Sleeper).
So while in some sense the dev's decision is the "most classic" choice, it's really an incredibly unclassic one this long after Velious's release. Not even Brad McQuaid himself would let a few players deny everyone else on the server some of the best items in the game for over two years. He would have done the exact same thing the live devs did: either release better items, restore the warders, or do both.
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