Mischief's random loot would have been awesome if they hadn't simultaneously destroyed the server economy from the start by making it so mobs and raid bosses dropped like 3-4 times as much loot as normal. Random loot was super interesting. Getting 5 drops from ancient croc, or 15+ from hate minis, was a novelty that wore off after the second time it happened and you realized it meant that nothing had any sort of value or scarcity. I remember seeing three pegasus cloaks drop inside an hour at Unrest FP. Two FBSS drops in a row from some SolA named. The server was a joke and I don't know why it was so popular. I guess there's just that many people who simply prefer the path of least resistance and are entertained by having everything handed to them with minimal effort. My bard had full planar armor by level 40 just from selling random loot found in SolA and UGuk and buying planar pieces in EC. What's the point of playing, then? Once I got into raiding, there was this all-encompassing apathy as nobody was ever excited about loot they got because they knew the whole guild would be full BIS halfway through the expansion. It remains a mystery to me why so many people loved that server. It was like an ezmode emulator or something, not a real Everquest experience.
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