I'm not going to flame you. I doubt there's a player that's made it to hero that hasn't gotten a rush off of looting a set of gear much higher than their rank would normally allow them (and therefore giving them a nice advantage in PKs and ranking.) This code lessens your chances of being able to do that. It also increases the chance of you getting a rush from grabbing a nice set of gear from a foe you just killed instead of another player, risking nothing, spamming 'get all corpse.'

I don't think there's any problem with equipment moving through Thera. One of the advantages of the slow trickle of new areas is new equipment. High ranking gear wasn't designed to be the norm at rank 11. However, if we had wanted to stop that we would have done something crazy like...make it impossible to loot out of PK or make gear rank dependent (blick.) Nobody is suggesting that, which is why the skill has loopholes. If the guarder leaves the room or starts fighting, they're not guarding. You can still make attempts at grabbing specific pieces of gear out of the corpse, etc. This also hasn't changed pit looting. I think as you see the skill play out you'll see it's far from absolute.

Ok, here's a little bitty flame...if your strategy of surviving CF is to run around at rank 11 and spam, 'get all corpse' around high ranking players, you might want to widen your play book. I'll also meet you back here in a year and we'll see if the skill is still around.