By the time eq got to planes of power, the game was well into the era of truly "fat loot." Items with lots of stats, and lots of +hp and +mana, proliferated. This inflation of gear *has not started yet*. p99 is in the late Kunark era currently, and really outrageous gear is the rarest exception, not the norm. During the current era on p99, one is usually getting "excited" about gear upgrades that often only have maybe an extra 2 or 3 points in a certain stat. Just take a look at currently in-game caster robes for a rough idea of how modest classic era loot is.
The inflation of loot only starts, imo, in the upcoming Velious era, and really then starts to take off in the next era, that of Luclin. Of course, Velious is not here yet; as for Luclin, if the p99 devs even do that expansion, my ballpark estimate is it would probably be sometime around 2016 before we would see it.
This server is waaaaay stretched out as far as its time scale goes. If you are familiar with the PoP era mechanics and loot, we are talking about this server maybe sometime around 2020.
tl;dr version: loot inflation starts in the Velious era, starts to really take off in Luclin, where you also have the AA point malarkey, and basically almost turns into a different game by the time we get to PoP.
Get used to very tiny differences in loot, in other words. Forget about getting a bunch of stuff that each adds +75hp and +75 mana and double digit stat numbers. That's stuff that simply is super-super rare during this era.
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