I helped kill Ixiblat last night for an ally-guild's cleric. I went to fear for a very brief time, before we wiped and called it. Then we headed to the arena in Kael for some good ol' giant slaughtering, and I lost the roll on some silk sleaves.
Honestly, I feel like the current progression servers are what you make of them. I've found a group of like-minded folks who want to relive the content many of us missed or just wanted to again, and we're all just proceeding at our own pace. As long as you're not contstantly comparing yourself to those folks in the hardcore segment you're not going to care that their gear is better. I don't really care what they're doing period, because I'm in content that they are way beyond, so we're not even needing to compete with them for it.
I can understand why you'd want to have a "classic" server, but it just seems to me that the player-base on the progression servers is already full of folks motivated to relive those days gone by; you just have to find them.
Best of luck, though!
Edited, Feb 10th 2007 11:57am by Barkingturtle