Phew! Thank goodness somebody necro'ed this thread, because there are some things about the loot table that I think need to be addressed
Primarily, decent spell slot gear basically doesn't drop anymore. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure it's because a change in Enhanced Edition has increased the gold value of spell slots on items and thus pushed most of the better spell slot items out of the normal loot tables (due to the whole "8000gp + base value of the item" thing). For context, I have a couple of high-ish level characters and consistently ran some of the highest level content on the server for the past two or three years now. This includes Ghastria, Sithicus (including Veidrava, which I will get to shortly!), Perfidus, basically everything. I also have a veritable legion of mid level and low level characters and have run just about every other dungeon (except for some of the newest ones) more times than I can count, and I can count pretty high (at least to a
hundred). Strangely, I haven't seen any spell slot gear that gave anything higher than level 3 (for full progression casters) drop since at least December, and possibly earlier. Now, I personally don't get much use out of spell slot gear on my caster, mostly because he's a high level with a bunch of spell slots from his level and caster level, but fourth level spell slots make a huge difference for mid level casters, to the point where having an extra one or two of them can determine whether or not you can handle a given dungeon or encounter (think extended hastes, shield of faith, divine power, etc). Obviously, this doesn't even begin to touch on the usefulness of higher level spell slot items, but I personally find those ultimately unnecessary (even if a neat little trinket) so I won't touch on them. Anyway, if this change in drop rate for spell slot items is unintentional, I think it should be fixed, and if it is intentional, I think it may be worth addressing in terms of reasons why the change was made (oh yeah, this is assuming that this is a real phenomenon and not just bad luck on my part).
I've got some other things but I don't really feel like typing it
I will say, however, that on the whole, the state of loot on the server has markedly improved since I joined the server, and I think the Dev team deserves some kudos for it!