I think every item should be for SOMETHING! Even if it's a skill-up item for trades, even if it's for a level that couldn't go get it themselves, even if it's NoDrop[but for somethin].....it would make it all MORE worth it. You loot a stupid 1GP Hopper leg but can say in OOC or Guild Chat, "Hey.....who needs it", and actually have responses. It would be real nice if all new recipes were with old items. Newbs would have a REAL insight to game functions if they had something to skill-up/trade/aaaaaand vend. Wouldn't that be better.....? From lvl 1 ANYTHING you loot may get a tradeskill item w/o expense to the newb in question. Don't make em valuable enough to farm, just usable by the people of that, or lower, levels who want a useful item as opposed to dozens of rotting items on corpses in their camp.....
Now we have more stuff that serves no purpose. Why don't they make every mob have legs, whiskers, fur, eye's and wings? Are new players really going to get excited about looting Rockhopper legs? No I didn't think so either.