These have always been a form of mischief and mayhem, I would say 6 out of the 10 years playing was in South Pront with DBs or amulets.
This is more serious for me than most but...
South Prontera Field has been the go to place for fun and excitement, drama and action, you name it!
Now, it is but a fashion show...
As a Battle AB, I have frequented the field more than most, enjoying showing off characters and socially being active with other players. Business ventures here were profitable, and people enjoyed excitement. It was accustom to understand you do not AFK here, nor come with experience to lose.
This is a culture thing within iRO, and I am not the only one who thinks this.
Yes DBs get abused, yes Amulets get abused. There probably isn't 1 Amulet/DB that can survive long in that map vs the high level players and 175s that frequent the map. This USED to be different, now with the level gap between old DBs and Players, they aren't much of a threat.
There is no reason to remove them from the Prontera Field (prt_fild08) map.
Arguing that it is a new player area:
(It used to be.) Players with low levels (under 20ish) spawn in prt_fild08a, they do not interact with players in prt_fild08, it is a way for new players to not be subjected to that which is the DB/Amulet.
A wizard in Izlude can change channels (maps between 08 and 08a) for you, you can visit the lower lvl map, but lower levels can not access the regular map until around lvl 20.
Really I am just upset that the one thing I have really done in this game for the past 4ish years is being taken away... again.
They do get abused, and might catch some inexperienced players by surprise, I just (seriously) died twice by a "Mysterious Bug" in Izlude...
My Proposal:
Make a social map, allow DBs, Amulets, BBs(maybe), vending on the exterior area of the map, maybe even pvp?
Sell boxes of DBs via Kafra Shop from a vendor on the map.
Or just change it back, it was nice even before they changed DB item use rate.