I'd prefer a different zone converted to a craft hall the same as Ngreth's Den, to high a risk that items/NPC end up on live that shouldn't be if the Den was used. I remember rollbacks in the past when an NPC in POK went live that shouldn't have been. There are a few old zones they could use that wouldn't mess things up, the old Baazar, old Freeport, etc
Which was wrong because players do and did often use those buffs to solo instead of joining a group. Solo play should not be furthered by buffs. The game is meant to be a social multiplayer experience I think, and not an antisocial one like now, but maybe I am wrong there. The elephant in the room is Daybreak itself because they want that the players do level up as fast as possible, so that those do buy expansions and AllAcess, which is the reason that they do further PL (by buffs) and never seriously limited it. The buff rules above lvl 64 are total crap because a level 65 PC could be buffed with a 5k long duration magician DS that does kill most mobs automatically and it does even stack with a ranger DS and many others. There is nothing wrong with group and mass group buffs as long as they do only affect the own group or the own raid. A mechanism should be added that does strip buffs when players are leaving the group or raid.
Defiant gear was a nice idea but the sets are way to much OPed and they declassed most other gear. Mercs are still around for those that do solo and are pure PL until lvl 50. Even the worst player can molo to max with them.
EQ2 has buffs that are group/raid only and do not persist when you leave the group/raid. While it does eliminate the buff piles. It's definitely not a better way to do things since it does more to isolate groups and have less cross socialisation outside ones own circles.
This is an aweful suggestion. If someone goes LD not only do those with them lose buffs they have given by the LD person, but the LD person comes back and will need to get all buffs that they had recieved before they went LD.
To quote Walt Disney. "That ship has sailed". And in truth, it only really matters on the TLP servers now anyway.
It sounds like you have a problem with the power of a single line of spells that probably should be limited to higher levels. Maybe you should file a bug report for the specific spells you consider to be OP for the level they will land on.
Which is why it's nice not having the Defiant until a specific expansion is unlocked (SoF?). While I am used to seeing the Defiant stats now, it's nice thinking a bronze weapon or studded leather is "good" again *laugh*
