Conveniently, this topic is somewhat obliquely addressed by the devs in the preview for 3.4:
The implication here is that it's not cleared out -- it's still very dangerous. Now, I tend to fall on the side of "just because people heard of the WoL doing it doesn't mean that others can't do it, it's just that no one's heard about it because they're not the Hero of the Realm," particularly since nothing in the instance itself or the story around it establishes the trip as non-repeatable. It is, however, quite unsafe. It's not the sort of place, I'd argue, that newbie adventurer or random non-combatant could go.
In RP, my FC has run some IC trips to the Library, but they're all pretty circumscribed. We RP the time limit as the length of time it takes for the defenses to catch wind of your presence and attack in force, each trip is to a different area in search of something specific, the group has to sneak in and out, and so on.
Quote:Though long-since abandoned by its Sharlayan keepers, the Great Gubal Library does not want for visitants, its halls ever stirring with the voidsent guardians who walk its corridors. With danger at every turn, the fool who dares trespass here would find not wisdom but certain doom. Yet it was not long ago that an intrepid adventurer braved the deepest depths of this forbidding vault of knowledge, returning unscathed and wiser for the experience─a feat of daring that would be sung of the realm over. Mayhap that is why an anonymous individual would beseech that selfsame champion to return in search of long-forgotten knowledge. One can only hope this venture proves yet another enlightening lesson.
The implication here is that it's not cleared out -- it's still very dangerous. Now, I tend to fall on the side of "just because people heard of the WoL doing it doesn't mean that others can't do it, it's just that no one's heard about it because they're not the Hero of the Realm," particularly since nothing in the instance itself or the story around it establishes the trip as non-repeatable. It is, however, quite unsafe. It's not the sort of place, I'd argue, that newbie adventurer or random non-combatant could go.
In RP, my FC has run some IC trips to the Library, but they're all pretty circumscribed. We RP the time limit as the length of time it takes for the defenses to catch wind of your presence and attack in force, each trip is to a different area in search of something specific, the group has to sneak in and out, and so on.
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