1) What happens to merchant guild now? Seems like it's largely fucked

2) Is anything being done to actually give newbies a chance to earn their eq?
(read: keep mid/highbies from raping the easier stuff... or, for midbies, keep
the highbies from raping their stuff)

There are probably other extended far off balance issues that we won't see for
a while, but these two come to mind.
(sorr, am on telnt)
-doooooooot doot

Merchants can still do prots,repairs,chests and shit, but they have no use of
the money they make.
That simple. Maybe they'll start business for free as money is useless except
when mipping?

-Procyon