I've seen a lot of great suggestions from you Cub, and this one is the best yet. Love it!
As far as introducing new max hits and armor into the wilderness.....let's stop living in the past and try something new. Yes, I agree that if something is completely overkill it would ruin the wilderness, but what has been suggested here does not. Not at all. Potentially, it could make PKing much more exciting and worthwhile if done right, which is very easy to do. Here's a list of ideas, one or several could be implemented to keep the Dragon Fire weaps from being too overused thus upsetting PKers:
- First and foremost, obviously, the Dragon Fire drop should be extremely rare. This will ensure that not every last PKer can easily obtain one.
- Certain Combat/Skill requirements could be set into place to wield said weapon. Let's say people with 60 1 99 - 99 1 99 get ahold of these weapons and they're deemed too powerful; simply add a reasonable defense requirement and the higher level pkers can still benefit from it. If this isn't enough you can always add non-combat skills and make people earn the right to use the best weapons in the game.
- If all else fails, you can always nerf the shop value of these enhanced weapons, thus a skulled player will lose it upon death. Combined with an extremely low drop rate (Thus resulting in VERY expensive weapons) only the most elite will risk such an expensive item...and they'll have a hell of a target over their head.
As far as the full set of dragon armor goes, I don't see it causing any problems. A full set would be extremely expensive, (20-40M?) and if someone is willing to risk so much they deserve an edge over the other PKers anyway. As it is med and sq are available but almost no one uses them, and no one is bitching about them being there.
Stronger P2P weapons and a full set of dragon armor needs to happen eventually. Done right, it will add a lot of diversity and potential reward to p2p pking. Remember, we can always try things out on the test server to make sure nothing is too overpowered....