I like the idea of item loot, risk vs reward, etc etc. But item loot just never really fit with EQ's style. Items in EQ aren't usually some vendor/tradeskill item you can just go rebuy when you lose it. VZ and TZ had it and voted so hard against it they dropped from both servers. RZ kept it but if you were a "pker" you were shunned and people used that system to protect their items (and super blue other than the pk guilds) I think the only thing that kept item loot viable on RZ was that blue culture.
Forget that you have 10 level 60 alts here and can farm anything in a couple hours. When your main is level 30s (more like your average classic EQer) and you worked your ass off for some Temple quest armor you camped for a couple days and then you go LD, are low on health, have to go do a quick afk, etc. and some naked caster ganks you and takes it, laughs as he destroys it since he doesn't even need or want it you're probably its gonna turn lots of people away.
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