[uygi]

Nilbog I totally understand your concern. You're absolutely right that almost no one knew about the ring when it was still available on Live. I knew about the ring in classic, and I knew it was clickable by anyone, but I was obsessed with the idea of melee-binding-anywhere. I joined the server about 5 months ago, and I just assumed at the time that the quest had already been removed.

Depending on how you look at the balance issue, the droppable or nodrop issue might be countered by clickability. If the ring is both droppable and clickable first week of Kunark, everybody will bind and there is virtually no concern about hoarding. If it is nodrop, then it can't be transferred and is only good for one shot without prohibitive faction work for most melees; if that were the plan it should be probably be made nodrop again immediately.

I do think the faction work involved should greatly mitigate much of your concern, assuming it isn't droppable. I may be the only Non-dark elf to achieve the faction without illusion thus far on server; there can't be very many. It took me 3 days of grinding faction, and I didn't really do anything but sleep and play all 3 days. I shiver to think of the work it would take to recharge the ring. The faction is really hard to increase, and there just isn't much information regarding effectiveness of the few methods there are.

Anyhow Nilbog, I'll see if I can work on some proof for you, if any exists. What would you need?