I would assume the reason the drop rates are lower is because there are not as many people farming them. On live, you have a shit ton of people killing the mobs 24/7. With the drop rates increased, you obviously get a lot of gems. On live, it would not be a big deal because there are plenty of players. On R99 however, every lvl 20 unrest twink would be 200 MR. All these twinks would kill the server population because they would destroy every new person trying to level. I do remember leveling my bard on Live down in The Hole. I soloed there for a long ass time making bank and maxing AAs for each level. I assume the Hole's drop rate was probably low until Luclin or maybe PoP.
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