We cleaned them with 30 good geared players guid raid. It was not too hard, but some bosses like Emersis, spawning like 20 horde clones with 50k+ hp became real problem. They just wiped the raid lol (okay, we bursted dragon next time ignoring them).
Geared players can only get garbage with nature res, which is not needed in AQ40.
Twinks and new players players can not pass this raid (and 8 purple items from all 4 bosses on 40 pug raid is not enough to motivate to kill them).
I’m in a dadgamer guild, we only raid twice a week (and lose our first reset because some monkey’s think Thursday-Friday night is a good launch time instead of the weekly reset), we decided focussing AQ40 was a more valuble use of our limitted time than going to the nightmare dragons.
We can clear HM Viscidus and Huhuran without NR, so going seems pointless.
Me neither, but I suspect it’s because atlas loot isn’t updated to show the SoD drops for it. So people don’t waste their time googling to find on wowhead the new loot. Or even bother going into it blindly.