Now why would they make such a small change to a zone if it weren't there to begin with? I used to level off guards in vanilla and recall selling their swords for quite a bit of money.
Here is another post confirming that guards drop fine steel. It's 2002, almost 2003, but I can't find anything older about the guard loot table.
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drops rusty weapon
Posted: Dec 18th 2002 5:06pm | IP: Logged | Reply to this
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you'd think they'd give the Captain fine steel or better but his lowbie guards are better equipped.
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Hell, just compare the loot table of picklaw raiders which are equivalent in level to guards; they drop fine steel, too.
While you're at it,
fix the guard faction hits; they should give negative factions to guards, merchants and citizens; killing guards only affect their respective faction.