Nuggie,
The dragons were never rooted on live during this era. It was never designed that way. During Luclin and PoP we were still pulling the dragons around NTOV with farm crews. Some of them even came to the zone in during the Velious era (Eashan/Ikatar).
And I said 100+. Right now the current meta is to engage the dragons with multiple flurry drakes/guards at the same time with 100 people. This has made things pretty much impossible for smaller guilds, and has basically wiped them all out.
ToV dragons spawn 1 by 1, so we aren't just competing against 100+ man zergs, but the rules that led to their creation as well.
ToV can be cleared with 40-50 players in Kunark gear. Remember, most of these dragons can be slowed. For Vyemm/Vulak I'd probably want to have 50, but they are the exceptions not the rule. Most of the dragons in the zone can and were done with much less.
But you are also talking about Kunark gear... We are now 3 years into Velious.
And as far as the "petitionquest" stuff goes...
If its true that we don't have staff members willing to handle petitions 1 day a week for an EQ or simulated patch, then we should probably be looking into finding a couple more. We have thousands of people who love this game and play here. I can't imagine that being too difficult. I volunteered a few times already, but... ya =P
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