I guess you either have to grind less effectively, then...
Or you need to get yourself used to the days when you didn't have imbued equipment all the time.

You've had a year or two where everything was wonderful. Now the golden age is over.

Only people who don't pay attention.

Btw... I hope the items won't go "poof" if you decide they have a set amount of functional hours.

It would be nice to be able to harvest imbuement stones from items, and not having them also vanish in thin air.

How is 18 hours going to stop misuse?
Such a character can be made in a single day, and a single person can make one each day..
again using them to log in countless characters to use in the lottery.

I love the idea of everything decaying. It encourages people to actually play the game and not just stand around idling. You would need to go out and get new stuff, if you want the option to go out and fight. One could argue that it will make people rarely playing the game, or not playing at all, pl...

120 hours is 5 whole days worth of fighting, and I find that to be more than enough for a non-tank to enjoy their equipment. Hunt for 6 hours each night and you get 20 days out of it. Tanks will, I hope, need to change their equipment more often as they are getting beaten up. And I love the idea of ...

In that case I guess you should also have all your skills and abilities purged, and only have the option to train 20? 50? skill levels per day. Both ideas is equally stupid. How long does it take to get relatively functional EQ these days? Start out with buying some stuff, go around, have a bit of l...

Just remember to give us info in good time, so we can transmogrify all our imbued stuff before then.

Make all items degrade by time worn or wielded. Doesn't matter if front or behind. If you tank it just goes faster. And put the decay at a reasonable time to last as long as you like. Want it to last 20 days, and it has perhaps 10 levels of degrade if repaired... item goes down 1 every second day. O...

Imbued items are supposed to be rare and unique.. Not something that people run around fully stocked in. That it has gone on for so long, has made everyone used to it being the state of affairs, and now everyone will feel this as a complete nerf when it is in reality just going a step back to what t...