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Those were mega server problems. My server hosted about 3.5k people and it was quite impressive. If you farm your own consumption, you don't have to spend any additional money. Inb4 is too big with nodes: This is a huge server issue. Servers with vanilla-like populations haven't had any issues.
What server? It didn't happen however I am not suggesting it didn't. It was just a little less than the majority of servers. I was on Bloodsail at the end of the game, however I was on Thalnos Benediction, benediction and mankrik before that. Horde on mankrik. Alliance on the other three. Bloodsail was not plagued by the problems that cheap Burning Crusade Classic Gold other servers have. We saw people come onto our server to purchase mats and ah to sell on other servers.