I played alexandria for a couple of days but I have been hard pressed to find a free shard I really like. I would love to get back into GMing again but don't know of anybody with a decent shard looking for GMs.
I got a bit turned off by Warlocke's attitude with the loot thing. It's obviously broken, regardless of whether they are trying to keep up with OSI or not. The chest loot generator does really well with special stackables like regs, gold, gems, scrolls, etc. But with magic, we'll it's just bad. They bumped the runic intensities of the shard recently to be closer to OSI, but didn't do much for the world loot drop. He claims he did, but I have a full trashcan (several actually) that says that it sucks. At this point, there is ZERO incentive to monster bash. And don't even think you can get "lucky" with normal monsters. I'll bet you could farm arctic ogre lords all day long (24hrs) and only generate items to be smelted.
What I need to do is just shut up, and go write a decent loot generator that has some brains instead of generating loot as one does by playing darts blindfolded.