Drekvah for instance, never ever had a single one of the phylacteries that gave perma damage redux. Not once in his life. The phylacteries I used actually were novelty only, or when I was going up against a massive crew (minor preps or zombie goodness, nothing huge like major class spells for the most part other than a handful of times.
Gaspare makes much, much, much better use of his phylact
If you say you weren't being like that I totally believe you. Shit gets lost in translation in text all the time. Not sure if you were around when a bunch of dicks/ex imms opened up a underground CF site recently, literally unloading almost every single secret and quest in the game. Those are the types of assholes they have to deal with on a daily basis.
The staff from 5 years ago, had