One of my favorite things about old EfU was the variety of items to find. I enjoyed the themed loot for each quest, (Especially the rat gear.) Unfortunately I've noticed on EfUA several of the quests I've participated lack this variety. Often the same item is dropped multiple times.. and on one occasion one tunic of a particular leather armor was dropped four times in the quest, as well as the three sets of armor left on the ground from groups before.
I suggest a more variety of loot given out on quests, or lessen the drops of 'gear' items.
As the server matures and the pool of ambient loot made by DMs increases, this will change. Hard to expect of a newly-born server too much in this department, when DMs are busy mostly stomping out bugs and adding content. If you've some ideas for ambient loot though, there's a thread you can post in which'd help the DMs with this matter.
It may not be a bad idea to assign a few players to make some custom loot as busy as you all are.
The fox is in the hen house.
There actually -is- a decent amount of quest-specific-loot out there, but more certainly doesn't hurt.
As a matter of fact we have a thread specifically for this. It's called the Ambient Loot Suggestion Thread (//%22http://www.escapefromunderdark.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19919%22), and it's a place where you can design common, dropable items for various quests and such. It's great fun designing loot.