Yes, I'd totally be down for making legacy items no drop or lore. Frankly, I don't think it really matters -- the only people who are upset about the "influx" of legacy items 3 years from now are the mega neckbeard EC Fat Cats who have the few manastones on Blue and are already sitting on hoards of plat.
Mostly I want to make sure that we don't end up fracturing our small community over time -- people get very attached to their toons, that's part of what makes EQ so great, and fast forward three years from now, can you imagine a situation where we have the Blue server, the current Green server, and an old Green shard as well? What about three years after that, will we have two Green shards? If we siphon off the playerbase into smaller chunks, even if only 50-100 folks play on an old shard, that's an impact that we'll feel.
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