If this is a blizzlike server then why not just make it so instead of fiddling about with the respawn rate?

I was in Stonetalon by the Windshear mine. I was simply trying to get the smoky iron ingots for the warrior quest; me and a healer. Even with two of us there the respawn rate was nuts, so we just couldn't kill the mobs without getting repeatedly killed. As soon as we'd killed one group of mobs and moved onto the next the last batch would respawn behind us and attack us from behind.

Getting killed; having to run back from the graveyard is therefore precious time wasted. By the time we got to our corpses we were surrounded by all of the mobs now respawned, plus at half health, having to try to do it all again, only to be killed. This doesn't make any sense. The retail game respawn rate works fine; please just make it the same. I can't keep on playing on Warmane with these ridiculous respawn rates; I want to be able to do challenging quests rather than pathetically easy green quests.