Ahhhh, and now that is a good suggestion, but I have always been more for dungeons that look more like actual places and less like.. "runs".

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Davion Telemos - Monk of the Four Winds
Korthan Isharnos - Dragon Shaman of Thunder Spirit Zamasham

I enjoyed the Minotaur area greatly in contrast to the random _____ nests, if only because of traps and random treasure. I'm a large supporter of anything in gameplay that can increase roleplay without harming either. I love RP, but i also like playing a game.

I pray the technical limitations of the server aren't too hampering in this regard.

Well the snag with that is, if you have too many chests and not enough keen eyes to spot someone trying to pilfer the contents, a lone sneaker profits immensely without pulling their blades. Extra chests, in my opinion, should be secreted away behind locked doors where you can't see them spawn. Or they should require a key that is randomly generated on one of the things that's guarding it, but obviously they could still be trapped.

But yeah, I'm pretty sure we could use more models for chests.

Oh don't get me wrong, i think there should be more physical loot, but i also believe it should be harder to get. Killing a few kobolds is nothing, chest or no chest. I'm a big fan of traps, locks, and hiding, and other DM style mean-spirited things. Treasure hunting should be dangerous, but it should not be a gauntlet more than 50% of the time.

If you are refering to the 'forgotten treasure' chests- I agree. It would be fun to have a few more of those in randomized places. I also agree with what Tormak said above about places looking like actual places, but I don't think much is going to change.

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Just thinking out loud here... "MAYBE" there can be a "JOB thingy" similar to that of the Merchants that can store supplies in those nice convenient crates that one can just store either Weapons, Armors and whatnot, instead of just resources. Then one could just spawn said box with the box having a convo that would give an inventory of items.

Not sure if this would basically be the same thing as having a merchant stall, falling under the same paramaters of "couldn't make it work" but thought maybe it was worth sharing.

To me, obviously the original suggestion is terrible simply because it is silly and stiff and inflexible. It stifles many types of RP. There's a lot of reasons why a character would not sit around in a city, tethered to a stall, just to try to sell something. (Example, my Zakharan character is a desert nomad merchant who detests the decadence of soft city-dwellers.)

As for the loot, I'm not a huge fan of how the best loot is distributed much since the game pretty much puts it only in reach of epic powerbuilders who can solo every boss without trouble over and over again. If your character cannot do that, you won't really ever get loot drops, since you have to group (which lowers your frequency since you cannot simply pull a group out of your pocket at will vs Mr. Boss-Farmer-Soloing-Powerbuild), and those groupmates will probably want that epic drop too (cutting your frequency to almost nothing).

My epic character has a group she runs with because she's not an uber powerbuild and when I had the time to spend running dungeons with them for long sessions everyday, the most she ever got was 1 epic drop of a flawless crystal for months of work. I'd think to myself 'this is dang boring' and run into epic mages soloing everything or guys powerbuilding 70+ AC melee monsters and it really wasn't a mystery as to why they had everything since they'd do it alone all day... It just feels like you're playing Diablo 2 sitting around Bhaal-running all day.