I recall like seeing it today, I was ~17 or 19 warrior in WW, watching in that settlement there how wiz of lower level could snag OW behind the wall there that made an angle and kill it while I was only just about able to solo it and they boasted about killing it for some time at even lower levels when I had no hope soloing it
how prophetic that was for the future, holds in principle to this day
another recall, while running about WW in the lower parts, I found PAxe just laying on ground and I put it in storage for when I get level for it, then in something like couple months I was able to equip it and started getting suspicious pms from somebody asking where I got it...
I gathered it got dropped there in PK and after some arguing, I kept it in the end but was unpleasant for sure since I was not one of those thick skinned folks with the mantra of those days 'what is on floor belongs to who picked it up, period'
it just goes to show what the situation was in those days, all PAxes on the server were known about
also a bit later in mines I came across a body drop with GA in it. I was level for it to equip and leveled on zombies for some ten fifteen minutes with it, then this warrior showed up asking if I had seen a drop with GAxe in it and I returned the axe and refused some payment for returning it, the guy was lucky because very likely the drop vanished by the time he got back
for me that was like giving up a lottery win, if I remember it right, I never got GA but there was that infamous Easter hen event in which I got two jmaces along with two paras, so I went from PA to JM and I think I never got GA in drop despite harvesting ETs or from other higher subs, bosses