The two -ranger- spawns at the WC druid ring, Ceel Moonwhisper and Shadow Treebright, do not drop fine steel weapons and bow/arrows as they did originally. They also do not appear to be dropping as many gems as I would expect. There's a post from Jan 2001 stating this.
http://eqbeastiary.allakhazam.com/search.shtml?id=322
Also, Guard Valon at the tollbooth isn't even dropping any coin, and when you kill either Guard Valon or Colin, even if they are holding a sword/axe/whatever, they don't drop anything.