i havent played lordaeron, but i do played ascalon, and fare is in lordaeron team now, Ascalon was the first server with features ive later found on other servers, like lifesteal in weapon [i think i like that the most] also it had upgrading stones, graded items, also there were uber rares like one with passive bonus [armor penetration, magic penetration, attack speed and so on] there were bosses spawned randomly that used to drop those rares, the map was being extended like once per month as well as new content, the quest were complex, making one actually think what to do, not just rushing into and cleaning the whole spawn in order to get the reward, the monsters had lvls, so u could found a diversity among the same type of monsters, also the donation wasnt over powered cuze there was just premium and mounts that could be obtained. the upgrade system consists of as i mentioned upgade stones that added bonuses but also normal gems that made items higher the base stats. there were a lot of events done daily such as capture the flag, last man standing and capture the sheep event which was fun as hell. thats why im so curious about lordaeron, since Fare is one hell of a server owner and developer