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I was one of the people which regularly voiced to get these removed because people would purposely troll and lock people in place. People would use them on players who were running content, AFK, doing raids etc.
There is still ways people can force someone into combat stance, by luring animals to someone, having the animal attack the person and putting them into combat stance and then using the item on them.
1.5k is way to high also, because their are alot of players that are under 1.5k which could be targeted.
I am glad these things are gone and will never return.
As for your other points I understand, and to that I say...they can make it unusable while either player is in a dungeon, raid, shadow mission, etc. As for afk...I mean there should be an afk system in this game anyway to kick inactive players after a certain amount of time, so that's not really that big an issue. Kind of annoying seeing half the population just be afk people...getting on just to afk and practically die there. I understand those who afk for a shop but they can easily just be excluded since they have a shop open.
Anyway, I digress, your points are valid, but there are ways around it to avoid such things.
If you've seen it happen, you'll know how bad it was.
Very early on, they were fun when friends play pranks on each other. But once trolls started abusing them on the innocent, that was the last straw. Also, when there were a lot of newbies (new players or alts) and bots back then, they were hard to differentiate and there were a lot of complaints as bot hunters would target all newbie like characters. And there were trolls who did it to everyone, especially if they had some sort of dispute. It was like a Reign of Terror.
It becomes a bad item once it starts being abused to hurt others. I don't think it should or return as an item. There are other ways to combat bots and it shouldn't be up to the player community to do it, it's Nexon's job to keep games clean and healthy.