[August]

I have a 60 enc, 50 sham, 40 sk, 35 mnk, and 11 nec.

I don't even log on my ENC anymore - what's the point, really?

I think the problem, which modern MMOs try to alleviate, is 'what do you do at level 60'.

If you are a non gear dependent class, you pretty much have no real reason to play at 60 on this server. Yes, you can raid, but for what - gear? What do you need gear for? To raid more?

It's the whole treadmill cycle. Modern MMOs lose out because they've devalued the journey to 60. It only exists to get you to their end-game-badge-farming mania so you can be at the tip-top of that rotating sheet of plastic. I first realized this when WoW turned their ratings from percentages (+1% crit to 21 crit rating) to ratings that scaled back percentage inversely with level. So, I gained 10 levels, and my crit got worse - awesome. Now my time was spent trying to get back to the same crit level that I originally enjoyed.

In EQ, the journey to 60 is literally everything, because the end game is just so shitty. Timer-based, non-instanced, trivial (with today's knowledge) mobs that provide better loot for..... ??? what purpose. You're already doing the hardest things in game - the best thing you can hope for is some droppable gear to twink out a toon.

Which leads me to the altoholic syndrome. I have a 60 enc that I farmed sweet gear with, so I could enjoy leveling on another class. Leveling on another class.

Now I have enough money that I can comfortably equip up to 3 toons at a time, which is why I have a 50 shm, a 35 mnk, and a 11 nec. They all represent different areas of leveling in Classic+RoK, so I tend to hop on whichever one has the right level of enjoyment to fit my mood for the day.