AOE groups were nerfed when the deep and the grey were used to collect massive AA exp.
It has nothing to do with anything before hand. It was just the amount of AA exp people were collecting scared sony about keeping their cash cow chugging along. They nerfed the AoE areas of those zones and added in the function of mobs stop chasing you after a distance.
My group alone collected over 100 AA points in 3 days in the deep. We ended up having a Gm and a dev come by and watch how we were doing it. The mobs had 2-4k hps and hit in the 30s, and were blue to us. The same thing with mobs in the Grey.
I remember this clearly since you could run through the Fungi Grove and survive since they stopped coming after you.
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