Not a bash by any means but logged in last night to find folks arguing over last nights event ending. Select few went home with five and six events items. I know we can find a more effective way to reward players. Folks always give you guys crap about the rate you drop event items, and how it's never enough. This will only fuel thier fire I assure you.
Being one of the players who received Five of these I will tell you that I was there on Sarberius and Gareth double client. The other three I obtained I simply used the public EM RPC runebook which has been locked down at the community teleport hub for almost two years, which I have been stocking on a vendor for almost two years at 5k gold.
So when I got there I saw this sheild which could be highlighted and at that point I knew this was going to be a item give away. So I used my brain, grabbed some recall scrolls and recalled in on 3 of my 12 active Ultima Online subscriptions and claimed them.
What I did with the items
1. Traded to Solus who has it on display in his Chesapeake Museum
2. Sold one to Nezuna the GM of DMG at a discount and sent the gold to Lineman as part of my debt repayment.
3. Sold one to Funtony and sent the gold to Lineman as part of my debt repayment.
4. Gave one to Nightly Spirit who gave Kijustsu Anei Village a Crystallized item to use in RP who didn't make the event.
5. Saved one for display in the Mage Tower.
or part of select townships that firmly place their proverbial lips on the keisters of the ems and Mesanna. Hell, theirs even a customized home in one of the townships altered by Mesanna with burning fire bearing a statue in her likeness. Must be some published event /storyline for that somewhere........
Coulda just said the township name....as for the house I already knew you would post something about it and WildStar already replied to that. As for becoming aware of these things I would suggest adding these forums to a feed. That way whenever something is posted you will get an alert about it like I do. So... I think that about covers it from my end.