Update to Rare Item Policy

[Fogel]

Rare items will now be removed from players who have been inactive for at least 30 days on a weekly basis. These items will then be redistributed using one of three methods: the auction house, SMOBs, or through special events or quests. Items that appear on SMOBs will be found inside "a tough leather bag embroidered with gold", which will be either held by the SMOB or found in it's inventory and will load on a low %. Note also that most SMOBs are now no travel, so you will not be able to find most of these bags through locate object.

If you're not familiar with the list of rare/unique items, here it is:

Unique:

a heron-marked longsword
Cal'bekkar, the stained battle-maul of legends past
Rhilor, the tainted chain
a heron-marked blade from the Age of Legends
a jade-embedded cinquedia paired with a sturdy wooden sheath
a reflective onyx shield
an ornate Two Rivers longbow
the tainted blade of Shadar Logoth
Mah'alleinir, the wolf emblazoned war hammer
an ancient shocklance
a tainted black sword

Rare:

a long bladed hunting knife
a perfectly clear glass dagger
an intricately carved longsword
a sharp dagger of obsidian
a set of Sharan-marked boots
a pair of Sharan-marked vambraces
a plumed ebony burgonet with Sharan markings
a pair of Sharan-marked steel-reinforced ebony gauntlets
a pair of Sharan-marked ebony greaves
a Sharan-marked, steel-reinforced ebony leather belt
Sharan-marked, ebony pauldrons
a Sharan-emblazoned cuirass
a golden heron marked belt
a yew spear with a fire blackened tip
a thin strip of embroidered cloth
a figure of an armored soldier raising his sword to the heavens
a bear statuette
a berserker's pendant
a platinum mace with steel spikes
a golden etched obsidian morning star
a giant obsidian-studded bastard sword
a platinum handled serrated long blade
a gold headed double-bladed battle axe
a two-fisted pike with a bronzed steel shaft
a hero's talisman from the Age of Legends
a strange black helm with a double horn crest
a bright green orb

[Fogel]

The odds of there being a rare item in a SMOB bag have been greatly improved.