Could be indeed both. How likely it is though ? Eh, who know honestly. It’s not like we can rely on database made by players and even less rely on our memories since it been so many years since then.

So who know, maybe Vanilla was easyier than we remember it to be. Let’s be honest we we’re all kids without much experience in mmo’s at that times(cough well most of us including me…). For some of us that was even our first mmo (Unless you we’re playing Everquest or DAOC).