Illusionary gear was put in because there are times when an item is at its absolute max. But during a crash/reboot, they repop with said item. This is a negative because lets say 6 PC characters are running around with this item. The first player to die will return to his corpse and simply find said limited item has disappeared.

This was I believe unfair and simply unjust. Hence now they will repop each time and count the limit and just respawn with an illusionary instead.