I'm happy we don't have port books in P1999 - the world seems big, and it should.
From SoL:
Ssra was awesome, no question. It was full of all the things which make EQ great: named, camps, rares, side stories, raid mobs, challenge. I really enjoyed the time spent in there.
VT was wretched - none of the mobs were especially hard if you had the right raid mix, it was pure grinding and repeated exercises in 30+ mins of CH rotations (trivia: this zone finally broke LoS from chaos healing and forced us to adopt CH rot). If you never experience the pain of AE knockback, AE blind, gating Thalls, be thankful. The only redeeming element: death runs. Oh, and the Ant Legs bracer - that thing owned.
Horses were ok, but they forced you to use new models (and we all know classic troll with purple eyes is the best model in all of EQ) - so that's a huge negative there.
In the take it or leave it SoL analysis, I say leave it - only on just barely. For all other expansions which followed... keep moving, nothing to see here.
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