Last night I logged on at midnight PST and adventured in Cazic. First thing
I did was a /who to see how many people were in the zone. Not surprisingly,
there were only 16 people in there. Most of these people were in their 20s
and low 30s. Prior to the patch there would usually be 30+ people despite
it being late at night with several of them in their high 30s- low 40s.
Most likely explanation is that with no more rubicite the high levels didn't
have a reason to be there anymore. This turned out to be pretty good
because the entire time I was there not one train was started.

There were also a lot of bards and rogues in Cazic as well. Someone
confirmed that the Mudwater Rune is No Drop like most of the other bard
armor quest components. I was told the lizard fanatic that drops it spawns
in the temple.

One thing that didn't change though was killstealing. A group with a couple
of rogues in it were camping one of the spawns that now drops rogue armor.
They had been there over 5 hours trying to get the armor. While they were
waiting, a 48 magician came into the room. Sure enough the spawn appeared
shortly and the 48 magician KS'd it and got a piece of rogue armor. To add
insult to injury, he immediately started auctioning it. I guess even with
the new anti-KS patch, the magician was still able to do more damage than
the group.

Galtin of E'ci