Lustrous Russet is a good event item. It was still being handed out in GM events circa 2003ish? Not sure after that.
The % was greater than it should have been, as Rogean indicated. But, statistically, its not that bad, imo. I never got a piece of gm-holiday event loot on live because I was never at home on a holiday :P
With the amount of players on the server, the amount of loot given out at this once-a-year holiday event.. is negligible.
Keep in mind, in contrast to live prekunark, we don't have a full brigade of Ogre newbies on the server with full suits of Lustrous. Prior to the level limit being added to fearplane, they were in there ninja looting and/or training to loot. Just an FYI/IMO, compared to historic eqlive, this event is nothing in LR distribution %s to players.
If the zone was handling 350-400 clients, that's what I'm impressed with. Last year's Halloween gathering caused zone crashes if player entities in the zone exceeded 130ish. Big difference.
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