Reduced Proc Rates Aren't Classic

[Freakish]

My argument with the Mistwalker nerf is that they had the ability to modify the proc rate on items. It would make sense that items such as Ringed Mace of Ykesha would be taken out because they were deemed too strong.

Edit: And I haven't posted this on bug forums because how do I prove it? There is going to be people saying "I love this weapon, it procs a lot!" regardless of it having a proc or not. People in 1999 / 2000 didn't know anything about EQ. They sure didn't know max dexterity would equal 2-2.5PPM, or anything like that. They would see their weapons get lucky strings of procs and say "Wow this weapon is awesome!" or bad luck on procs and say "I don't like this weapon, it doesn't proc much."

[koros]

And your argument only makes sense in the extremely unlikely event that ringed mace had a proc mod for a while, and that proc mod was then was removed, which would have eliminated the "need" for it to be removed in the first place.

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/item.html?id=6607

Notice in the history how it doesn't have a proc mod and hasn't since lucy started? What makes you think it ever had a modified rate other than the fact that it stopped dropping?

Ringed mace was only in for a few weeks at most. Some dev probably designed it and it somehow ended up as a random drop, so they took it out and forgot about it.

[koros]

In fact here's a more likely scenario: Look at the item ID in lucy. it's 6607. Now look at all the items around it (6603-6609, you can change it in the address bar). They're all HS drops. I bet some dev created several items planned for HS one day, someone else put it in the global file for KC, and they took it out when someone figured the RvR for it as a KC drop was too high.