My class don't have such skills. But let's imagine I have.
I spent 3-4 weeks on gathering really good warrior set, hunted for some uberthings (like blademaster gloves), killed few ancient dragons for their molten cloaks and something like this.

I'm going in and disarming like mad. But some dents will come, and very likely that my superthing will be destroyed. Now, let's see. I'm a warrior, how the hell will I go to regather them? I can't kill blademaster alone, I can't kill dragons alone.

So, I will need a decent group to regather those things. And decent group is a problem, in most cases.

Now, I have only next choices:
1. don't use superthings there and carry a lot of trash in invenory (annoying and sometimes impossible, especially for giants);
2. use everything and spend few more weeks waiting for the decent group to regain dented things (and likely someone else will gahter it while I'll be sleeping/working/etc);
3. don't go.

I will surely pick #3 and will keep picking it until I make a shifter.

But I don't tink this area was meant to be a shifter-only place

It's only my opinion, though. I'm sure people will keep going there, but for me it's not an option now.