One thing that the merge did accomplish is that people started going to other zones to XP, this is as someone coming FROM teal TO green at the time. On teal from 45+, in many ways from 40+ you basically went to highkeep and got on the noble/bard list if you wanted to actually group for 40's xp in PUG's.
The lower population meant that you really struggled to put stuff together for anywhere else with the hive mind dictating that the path was Highkeep XP mod or nothing's worth even doing. After merge people started to actually use SolB more and other zones somewhat.
Of course now Highkeep is much less popular since people think that the ZEM change made it "bad" xp (its not) but also since the relative gear power levels have increased such that duo/trio of the bards and nobles is much more achievable.
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