And starting a new post here so my response can be seperate... in regards to item loot.
Yes people will loot bronze BP's, just to be jerks. But its really not a big deal to loose that bronze BP (except maybe on a large race). With boxing enabled a naked healer can heal a bronze class and they can level with some nice held items and bag their really nice gear like FBSS. It raised the bar. It will probably decrease population overall for a long long time. Especially if people have to rely on uber toons to pl their melees. I wouldn't be able to play a melee effectively at all with a population under 400 on an item loot server. Once you get into the 400+ range things become more sane as they will be naked clerics and druids and shams to group with who don't want to "just solo and gank". It's a lil delusional to think that people will be honorable. There's 20 people tops here that wouldn't loot peoples bronze. The rest would.
But as the pop stands right now it will be shamans, necros, wizards, mages, enchanters solo ganking melee's and everyone else. While completely naked. (Necros will get a nice boost with everyone naked)
I love item loot. It makes the game much more compelling to me. But we need boxing if we implement it with a pop under 400. We could probably live without it if we could find a better solution.
One crazy idea would be to do item loot, but make everything No Drop. Only make extremely nice, but not game changing items (fungi, FBSS, CoF, tranix crown, Resist Gear) dropable. General PvE gear like Quest armor aught to be No Drop still, or common items. Rare items droppable, and common/quest gear No Drop.
Or generally BIS PvP + resist dropappable with decent mid range pve gear no drop. And maybe one tier of kunark gear like seb scale or w/e is passable for 50+. People will love to fight others for those blue diamond bits. I would remove bagging items with it customized. Also it would probably require a few iterations of tweaks to get just right.
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