Respawn timer is horribly messed up
Does no one else notice this?
You shouldn't have a respawn timer the first time you die after logging in. I also don't ever recall--though my memory may be wrong--where you had a counter from dying in PvE. Maybe I just died too infrequently in PvE.
But there definitely shouldn't be any g*dd*mn timer this quickly, that ramps up this fast. This never happened in retail.
Did you play retail in the expansions leading up and including WOTLK? Do you remember respawn timers on your first death?