[Rygar]

Well it appears my friend gave me bad information regarding vanilla WoW death and tradeskills, I'll take your word for it so apologize for the misinformation. Perhaps she wanted it to sound more hardcore than it is today? Who knows.

And it is strange to hear mages could open portals, I never saw this the entire time I played (I suppose Dalaran or whatever the floating city just had portals to every single city, so everyone just bound there to get around). Although a warlock and a mage were maybe the only 2 characters I didn't max level out.

Regardless of your thoughts on repairs, it was one of those 'this is annoying' type things about WoW that made it slightly harder (or at least had to work around it). Same thing with spell reagents running out. It also helped keep down inflation (lots of things did). Removing those things were the beginnings of pandering to the 13 year old base.

Me comparing Vanilla WoW (again just from what I heard, started during Lich King) to Velious / Luclin just meant that the game was polished enough and still hard.

FYI thought you were comparing current WoW to p99 because of the lack of community it now has and thinking death back then had exp loss similar to EQ. Am told having a solid guild and buddies to instance with back then was a real hoot, had a strong community. I even felt it was good during Lich King, lots of folks helped me out and ran me through instances to get gear. But with every patch it became clear the game degenerated further and further.