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Originally Posted by cronik
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Item loot is great. It creates tension and provides meaning in pvp.
It's also a giant pita to manage in a game like EQ. I think item loot (minus weapon slots) is fine for classic, and maybe kunark, but once it goes passed that it has serious issues.
Basically item loot early EQ equates to "do I want to wear my diamond/BD stuff or am I a bitch?" If you didn't wear it your resists probably sucked, and if you did it made a huge impact on pvp, while giving your opponents a chance to get something nice. You couldn't really be a resist god without jewelry early EQ.
I.e. nodrop wasn't enough to compete, while still giving you a serious edge. Kunark era you could supplement planar gear and wear jewelry and still be competitive.
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I think the reason item loot somewhat worked in classic was because the droppable items in large part were very replaceable. Whats he worst you could lose, outside dragon loot, HBC? Kunark is what fucked it up, with stuff like Trak BPs and VS legs. Then the risk/reward got hosed. BiS items unless fairly easily replaceable shouldn't be at risk or nobody will bother.
Like you said, the risk you took on RZ in classic was pretty much do you want to lose a diamond ring or not. Diamond rings are by and large a PVP item, and while valuable I think that is the perfect type of item to risk losing in PVP.