Estrang has the right idea.
I intend to make decent items vendor buyable, as well as providing an NPC that hands out emergency lower-quality free armor and weapons (Think 'Classic EQ quest armors'). The only drawback to "loot everything" systems in normal EQ is how difficult gear is to obtain. It was never a big issue in Ultima Online, for example, because the armor you could buy from most any player-run merchant was pretty decent, and most people wore that.
Obviously, there will be problems, and problem players, but I'm hoping to work through that stuff once I get my server up.
I also wanted to note that I'm revamping the classic old-world gear. The quest armors are receiving an upgrade (I always hated how some Crafted armor for warriors had nothing but charisma on it.), and I'll be adding in a few sets as well. Old world EQ only had two sets of quest armor: Your 'quest' armor, and then planar armor. I intend to impliment at least one more in-between suit.
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