Noticing there really isn't much dropping from NPCs in UP and ME. Occasionally a collectable and rare tradeskill item, but nothing else. I did get one Lumber Plank, so globals seem active. I haven't had anything drop plat and no sellable items such as blue diamonds, etc. Original UP had all kinds of Luclin-only gems that sold extremely well. It was a great place to farm plat via sellables when it was current. Missed opportunity here to have similar gems drop that sell for a few hundred plat.
Vendor trash is no more. With Luck, coin is the way to go since luck does not affect vendor trash. And yeah, we hotfixed the coin drops.
Are all NPCs supposed to drop coin if vendor trash is no more? A shadow wolf in Maiden's Eye does not drop coin.
Each player individually rolls luck. If you don't luck you get the normal plat/group, if you roll luck you independently get (plat/group)*luck. Same plat for everyone, individual luck.