god I hated camping for fucking rubicite. IMO rubicite was Verant's hugest newbie mmorpg design flaw.
Hi let's put in 1 set of armor in the entire game that that all melee classes except for monks but including clerics can wear and put them all in one place on only certain mobs that appear rarely and drop the rubicite even more rarely than that. Make sure that there is almost no alternative to this armor unless you really enjoy store bought platemail.
I guess it wouldn't have been so bad if EQ had not taken off in popularity so much.