Look, I 100% agree that players have figured out how to do new things on emulated servers years later. For instance, Plane of Hate tracking simply didn't happen in classic ... but it may well have been possible, and everyone was just too afraid of losing their corpse to do it (we can't know for sure, since we don't have the original spawn points).
But basic stuff, like trying to use your spells (whether it was charm or Torpor), was 100% tried ... and again, it wasn't just tried, it was tried twenty times as much (probably more) than it has been here.
So I'm very sympathetic to "live was different from here" arguments ... just not when it comes to stuff that players obviously would have tried doing in classic ... like charm soloing.
P.S. I was a Shaman on live, and Torpor was definitely a crazy powerful spell back then (I desperately wanted it) ... but because it was so hard to get I wound up skipping straight to the next spell in the line (Quiessence?), so I personally can't speak to Torpor's classic-ness here.
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