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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5412821" data-attributes="member: 94022">I too think that the change was in response to a lot of feedback from both players and DM's. On the player side, items with properties or encounter/at-will powers were generally more sought after than items with daily powers even if the daily power was arguably powerful.  The utility of the non-daily powered items made them more useful overall. On the DM side, a lot of DMs really disliked the idea of "wish-lists" which the PHB/DMG definitely encouraged.  The default assumption was that players would give DMs wish lists and then the DM would populate his treasure parcels with items off of those lists.  DM's didn't like this as it seemed to take away some of the realism "How come monsters always seem to carry precisely what we want?"  The wish-list was even further reinforced by the fact that magic items sold for only 1/5 of their market value though the parcel system assumed that PCs would use what they found.  In other words per RAW a PC couldn't easily trade a level 4 sword for a level 4 hammer. The new system I think helps address both those issues.  Daily powers are now really nice and to an extent sought after, but item distribution is still within the DM's hands.  Of course, for currently active campaigns it could have wreaked havoc.  In my games for instance, I simply stuck with the old system rather than trying to figure out how many "rare" items the players had.  Of course, you don't have this option in LFR or Encounters, etc.</blockquote>

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