The Chardok thing had a two-pronged negative effect. Firstly, as has been pointed out, it monopolized the zone making it practically off limits to anyone not part of the AoE setup. Secondly it fast tracked a bunch of people through 54-60. This is anecdotal but I believe the server was made artificially bloated with lvl 60s that would otherwise not have made it to 60 at that speed for sure and maybe not at all.
My first characted was an iksar necromancer and I did 56-60 as a puller in Chardok. Then later I leveled a barb shaman (needing significantly less exp even) to 60 and was really surprised by how much of a grind getting to 60 really is if you aren't getting PL on steroids.
All in all I think - while some point to the "non-classic"ness of this change - it has made the server a better place AND has made it more classic in effect of this non-classic change.
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03-01-2018, 05:21 AM
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