[guineapig]

My thoughts on the importance of these items that will be removed.

The most useful item for all situations in my humble opinion is the Box of Abu-Kar.
Every class can and does use it. If it's not being thought of as important now it's simply because there are so many of them at this point. But trust me, a year from now that item will be sorely missed by many newer players.

Second in importance are the J-boots (unless you are a druid, bard, shaman or ranger). No matter what you do in this game you will be running from place to place. Don't need to say much else about that.

The Rubi-BP is most useful for Shaman in my humble opinion. It complements their regen/cani combo perfectly. For all other classes that can actually use it, the 3hp a tick regen won't do you much good once you're past your teens. I might also include bards here since they too can already regen hitpoints at a pretty good rate and can solo so the boost is more noticeable for them.

Manastone obviously excludes non-mana classes to begin with. In addition, it's usefulness is severely diminished if you don't have the ability to heal yourself. Soloing with a manastone might let you kill a mob faster but at the cost of waiting to regen hitpoints instead of mana. Shaman have Cani, mages have modrods, bards can regen both mana and hp at the same time, Enchanters will soon be able to steal mana, etc…
Also if you are using manastone in a group, it’s true that you will be able to nuke more for faster kills but then the healer just ends up wasting mana on you instead of the tank.
It’s a very neat item for sure and can save you at times, but it’s not quite as practical as some make it out to be.

Guise is practically essential to any large race tank (Ogre, Troll and to a lesser extent barbarian). In old world dungeons, unless you are constantly grouping with a shaman you can forget about being the puller for your group to say the least. If you are a large race and can’t shrink I feel sorry for you….


Just my thoughts.