I get what you're trying to say, but you're coming out wrong. Saying that Rid, D.Ring and BB items are the only 3 good things to come from ground kings is wrong. N.Legs, E.Body, A.Body, N.Head and so on although they can be obtained via other means, if you can do both and enjoy both then why not?
Point of perspective here really.
If every LS that does Einherjar also camped land kings full time, you wouldn't be saying this.
I don't play on Quetz anymore but as you can see I do follow the 'drama' on both this forum and BG.
Regardless, from my point of perspective on QC right now there are two serious players on the field regarding the ground kings.
Vanquished and Kazoku.
Both have their fair share of claims and kills indeed keeping up the stream of new gear coming in combining both the Kings and Einherjar.
Of course, doing both is faster then just doing Ein, or just doing kings.
In this situation.
I don't know how long you have been in the HNM business, but before Einherjar was released you would find not just 2 king linkshells in te King zones, but it would not be uncommon to enter a Dragon's Aery where over 200 players were standing in the pit waiting for Fafhogg to pop.
That my friend, considerably slows down both claimrate and incoming gear.
Of course the shells with more members using claimbots resulted in 2 or 3 linkshells getting more claims then others but you couldn't say that anyone had monopoly on the ground kings.
You can't really brag about claiming 2 kings a week in those situations, you'd be lucky if you claimed 3 kings a month.
And the lag... oh the lag!!
(Kings meaning the HQ pops)
Einherjar was therefore a very welcome addition to the game because even though at a slower rate drops the same abjurations as land kings.
You cannot look down upon a linkshell that leaves the kings for what they are and focus on Einherjar, because in a sense, for a lot of them this became a faster way to obtain abjuration gear.
It takes less time and there's also a lot less drama involved.
Also, we usually don't budge on our BB prices we listed, I've watched many many many BB items fall to the floor because people didn't want to pay our prices, sure we've let a couple slide for cheaper, most were to friends of LS members, but for the most part we're very strice with our pricing. Same goes with N.Heads and so on, we usually won't budge.
Trust me, if someone wants to buy but is only 500k short and you happen to be fighting Aspid with nobody else inside the LS at that point wants or needs an egg and you will sell it for less, because at the same time when there's more then one person and they start bidding against each other you will sell it for 1 or 2 mil more then you actually ask for it.
It happens, and more then people think.
Not budging for Abjurations I can understand as there will always be somebody in the shell needing it and the droprate doesn't really justify giving a discount on those items.