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Perhaps you only visited after the gate was opened? This zone was very busy on PvP servers, because of the horde v alliance competition to open the gate to AQ first.

I thought the AQ raids were quite enjoyable also. When else has a warrior tank needed a frost wand?

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Pre-AQ, he's absolutely right that the place was a dead zone and no 60 would bother spending any time there.

Silithus was really only busy for those 6 months between patch 1.9 and 1.11. Well, probably a bit longer than that I guess since original Naxx was such a shitshow. At most 10 months, though.

Why do you consider the original Naxx to be a shitshow?

By the way, it can still be accessed, since it looks like for WoTLK they just copypasted the map around: https://imgur.com/a/uRw4V

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