Feldon Well, now we know the real reason that Avatar Loot was nerfed. It wasn’t because it was “overpowered” or because it would “break the next expansion”. It was so similar items could be put on the endboss of an instance.
As posted by Jasuo on the EQ2 Forums, two of the charms dropped by Miragul in Miragul’s Planar Shard (x4 raid zone) are very similar to Avatar Charms:
and yes, we will be back later today to talk about the new EQ2 zone which requires a LoN item to access.
So the real reason that SOE nerfed the Avatar loot is so they could give new loot in the new raid zone that is the same and it would be desireable and not mess with next expansions loot?