I know that things like the screaming demon mace are extremely powerful, but I don't think making them unique or greatly reducing their number is always the answer. Cf is a game where a lot of the players have extremely limited playing time. There are a lot of good items I haven't seen since the late 90's. I've run through a couple 180 hours characters looking for some things (not even the ultra powerful ones like etched dragonscale or dragonkind), and none of the characters ever even saw one of them. Reguardless of how much of an outlier an item is, I think you should take into consideration that certain timeslots are a lot less dangerous and can be a sort of whirlpool for the best items. When the numbers go down this far you get that one guy logging in when his enemy cabal is ALWAYS strong and a lot of the goodonly evilonly stuff isn't EVER available to him cause it's all tied up in the 3 hours he's always sleeping when his cabal is seriously in power (how's that for a runon sentence?!?!?!). In summation, charred bracers and other overused common items becoming limited good, lowering item numbers that are already under 10 bad. Just a thought.