Basically what you would do in classic if you were "in the know" is make a druid or wizard, level up until you have bind/gate. Go do Neclo for several hours, with bind/gate you could make just under 100pp / hour. Once you had a sufficient amount of plat you go out to OoT and bind at the kiola merchant. Head back to kaladim and do Tumpy quest several thousand times, and hit lvl 40+ in a day. There are a few other exploitable quests, Verant didn't crack down on until it got super popular.
Later on they started disabling certain exploitable (mostly newbie) quests for the first couple weeks on new servers. You would see a quest NPC with an ! mark before their name. The NPCs didn't respond to their dialogue and would eat your items. After a week or two they would enable them again. This was their fix to stop the ebay sellers from doing the above (or other methods) and making a killing on brand new servers.
Two of the other big ones were the stew and debt quests in rivervale (iirc deputy tagil used to exist INSIDE rivervale and got moved outside in the first couple months, but I can't find proof that I'm remembering correctly on that one). Anyways you used to be able to drag the NPCs together and keep them there with a hail bot (later on snare) and make a macro to do ridiculously fast turn ins. Could get to 30s in a day in rivervale. I think they addressed this by making Blinza higher level and moving deputy tagil outside rivervale. Technically Blinza could still be dragged with several newbies sacrificing themselves to chain drag her to the guard.
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