I wonder why they over-nerf content like this. ~100g a kill might have been a little ridiculous in hindsight for them, especially with multiboxers taking advantage of such an easy boss. But cutting it so that each person in the group only gets a single gold per run is kind of far, and removes most of the incentive to repeatedly do the boss. Less people compelled to do the boss, the longer the average queue time. It's a shame, really.
Would there have really been anything wrong with cutting it back to 25-35g? It's not like it was a completely effortless task, people still had to spend the time to earn the gold. Oh well.
Think they dropped it solely to reduce load on their instance servers? It certainly did dissuade a lot of people from continuing to queue.
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