I have to wonder what the hell game one thinks they're playing if they think there's ANY chance at no holds barred open world PvP. Like, it just suggest a lack of understanding about the game on a few fundamental levels.

For me, the mechanic I loved to mock that they introduced was escort quests.

Finally! Technology that existed and was hated long before 2004 and original WoW makes it into the modern age to slow you down as your NPCs get out of range and need to be babysat. They fixed some stuff about it but man, it's really just about people that want to take pictures of their characters with NPCs nowadays, isn't it? I'm not sure how the story was ever improved thanks to escort quests functionality that they couldn't just do with the old ' NPC chills at the next quest point of interest'.