do you have space in Professions Supplies inventory? If it the materials gathering that is getting hung up, you may need to empty a space in the inventory before it will move out of the delivery box...
If you are killing the dragons faster than new players can run to them from the campfire, then it is okay for them to ignore the "callers" and just kill the closest dragon.
Yes, that is how it was four years ago. The gold sellers in PE zone chat made them take steps, which were heavy handed and poorly thought out. You need to to complete 5 of the low level quest chains, PE, Blacklake, The Tower District, Blackdagger Ruins, and Either Neverdeath Or Helm's Hold to unlock zone chat and Auction…
The players want old content to be hard enuff that SOME olde-thymers still want to do the content, otherwise the content never pops in queue or those players that have already run it ad nauseum will simply leave (if we're lucky) or beg to be kicked while refusing to leave the campfire (if we're not). The devs want content…
According to the Patch Notes, it has to do with slowing down the Leveling Progression. They are also moving AI to start at lvl 60. https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/11478343
So, i have not seen any gear that has the gold bonus as an equip power, but there are several enchantments that you can equip which provide a similar ability. For my money the best one is the Shiny Coin Enchantment. They are available on the AH starting at rank 5. .