I personally don't mind the difficulty increase since I'm not a shitter, but Vanilla WoW is a game for shitters. Dungeons not being easily completable by most of the playerbase will only cause the game to die as the frustrated noobs will be regularly kicked from dungeons. Now sure you can get to 60 without ever stepping foot in a dungeon, but the reason most people play niller is that they have a nice comfy and fun game they can play while watching things and talking to their friends. Turtle playerbase is already filled to the max with absolute mouth breathers who click and turn and backpedal and singlepull in dungeons. I myself don't play with these people, but at least I recognize that they are the backbone of WoW that makes servers feel alive. Without them Epoch's pop is going to be horrendous, with only "hardcore" players wanting to stick around (by hardcore I mean above average, like the people who play 8+ hours a day and know mechanics and use keybindings even if they aren't uber elitist).

I will wait to see how things pan out. But I seriously hope if their numbers suck they take this into consideration. I would love if the server is great and has good pop, I will not be playing on a 200 pop slop even if the gameplay is what I prefer.