I have many fond memories of that raid, how could they! That's almost like taking out Molten Core. What were the Devs thinking?

My favorite Team Speak (yes, we used TS back in the day) quote is still:
"Hey look, Mandril survived Venoxis. *Mandril dies* Oops, spoke too soon."

I so agree
it was my first instance i raid leaded and it was a blast.

and the booming voices in the Ventrillo when we downed the first boss.

my lovely Zulian Scepter of rites .... i was the first who got the drop from that instance and well at the end everyone who could use it had one but still it was good old times.

yes you can solo most bosses in ZG and now ppl only farm for the 2 mounts or getting nice alt gear or patterns ......

I've always loved ZG too, but I'm quite happy to hear that it's being repurposed as a quest area. I'd likely never raid it again anyway, this way I'll get to enjoy it on my leveling alts, and even get to fly over it once in awhile just for fun.

Ah, the golden gods of Blizzard...ALWAYS knowing EXACTLY what they're doing...