I’m reporting this as a bug because it is not working as intended or some other failure is occurring.
The new itemization allows for rare mobs to drop unique gear that can upgrade to higher item level and quality.
The problem is: Players from certain high population servers are somehow sharding out to other realms, and farming all the rares. Then they sell them on their server.
A low or medium population player can not farm for the items because sharding is sending the high population server players all over the shared Sharded Cross Realms.
Just go the Auction House of Bleeding Hollow and see the disproportionate amount of epic rare uniques there are compared to other server Auction Houses.
We can’t be expected to all transfer to one or two servers. This cross realm sharding and yet separate auction houses breaks the game.
-edit- I just wanted to add, it would be different if players from the lower population servers were inviting players from the high population server to them. But that is not what is happening. Some automated system is breaking the farms.