So when did classic get rid of xp penalties?

[Extunarian]

Still NOWHERE near classic, as the diagnal strafe / run was more than .01

This doesn't make sense...are you saying that jumping/strafing effectively raised your run speed to over 1.01?

It sounds like Aoelwind and other spent a long time tweaking mob run speed one hundredth at a time. Your off-the-cuff estimates don't really hold water against the kind of empirical evidence he has purportedly gathered.