AAs fixed the balance of several classes. Keep it in. Rangers, Druids and Wizards all became much more valuable raid members once AAs went in. Also it gives you a purpose to play your main instead of alt #276
Bazaar opens up a venue for more loot, and allows you to sell loot while AFK, meaning loot that generally wasn't worth your time to spend in EC to sell now gets bought and sold more regularly. Bonus: you don't need to even pay attention to beggers, scammers or lowball offers.
Horses allowed for a solid purchase, a right of passage for most casters. It also provides for the mana regen that allows for more endurance style fights.
Nexus ports to GD, DL, NK, Tox and GFay. They were on a 15min recast meaning you could spend anywhere between 0-15min waiting on a port. Meaning the average duration is about 7.5min. Your use of the word instant is extremely misleading. What you mean to say is unaided, in that people stop sending my Druid tells for ports on their alt with no money.
On this server you can find a Druid or wizard to port you faster than 7.5min almost always. If you want to argue it kills player interaction, bullshit. I've been a Druid on this server since 2010. If I'm just porting someone I get two interchanges with people. 1. Their request for port, explanation of why they need the port/what they can or will offer me. 2. Thanks/GL, sometimes shortened to just 2 letters "TY". Occasionally if I didn't SoW them to start or if they need invis or lev, that request will come in there somewhere. That describes a solid 90% of my ports. Never do these people invite me to a group or guild or ask if I want to duo.
Asking for assistance with no real benefit to myself in helping you and then just responding with a "TY" after I help save you an hours journey... Isn't interaction much at all. Any more than you interact with the guy at the drive through. Or the gas station.
Luclin doesn't need fixing. People just need to stop being irrational about how bad it was. Luclin was great once you get past it's failed launch. And once you realize planets have moons and places with magic and teleportation, it's not surprising they went to the moon.
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