pretty close to that, yeah.

Locket of Escape is the single most, and only important item on green.

Green's entire raiding future belongs in the hands of the fastest zoning bard to get himself and about maybe 3 people to chief in droga to lock that camp down for his guild. After that point the only thing that happens is potentially that guild also locks down trakanon, or not. But that wont matter as kunark doesn't last long enough to matter to raid DPS or manapool as only maybe 10 PD's will die during kunark.

Anyone who thinks green is about manastones, or rushing to 50 or guises is kidding themselves. Planning and implementing the perfect plan of blowing every possible consumable attainable to reach and lock down chief in droga is all that matters.

Mmmk, well we are kinda talking about vanilla here since that's all we will have next month, and not everyone cares that much about how well people can raid sock on a server that will get effectively wiped after Velious, but good luck on the lockets I guess?

One word for you.
LISTS

I am under the impression this is the exact type of item that will be a candidate for the list system. I doubt a single guild will have control of 100% of the lockets.

Just make all items from Green no Drop when those toons get moved to Blue...

LOL @ guys worried about Blue economy half a decade from now after being a backwater of pharming psycopaths since Green launch.

Make the items no drop? Give me a break. Please explain what you are actually worried about happening? Those players will be bringing their loots and their toons and all of their demand with them, economy will rebalance rapidly.

About lockets of escape and other such things, yeah these mega pro stuff will get lists. It will be interesting. They are a weird game altering item..just really weird.

It isn't meant to be trivialized, so it will be really cool to see how it goes down on a righteous timeline server.

Making items No drop from Green to Blue, would prevent people from just farming those items purely for bringing them to Blue to sell/use rather than use on Green.

I know if the GMs said when Green mergers with Blue they will make all items No drop, i wouldn't try so hard to get a manastone knowing i can only use it on whatever toon had it last on green.

I don't think Green will end up being a farm for blue.

Blue is going to be a ghost town after green goes live. Nobody will care about Blue before Green recycles, nobody will care after.

This is like when Diablo implemented seasonal ladders in their game, people say they're going to play non-seasonal. But that isn't going to be how it shakes out.