Ye that's what I was thinking too, it's not punishing low level players, but balancing the rewards according to the levels. Just consider that throughout the whole duration of the event, 8 event items(farmed in less than 20 minutes in low level areas most of the times) was enough to get a new player a top d weapon. That's a freebie if you ask me. Meanwhile we spent a whole prime on toi 11(4 hours) doing single target farm and got 28 event items in total that had to be split among 9 players. That's a grand total of 3 event items per 4 hours in the most end game area the game has to offer to players(currently). If that seems balanced and logical to you, then by all means be my guest and keep it like it is. People were literally boycotting TOI during the event so they could make level 21-22 chars and spend their whole primes on mithril mines last room and school of dark arts center to gather event items for quick bucks.