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Originally Posted by Scrubosaur
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Luclin : VT = awesomesauce
PoP : pretty much every boss fight was damn fun.
LDON : boring as hell, rinse and repeat instanced dungeons
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I agree with this. In my opinion, PoP was the pinnacle of Everquest.
Luclin brought AAs which were a welcome addition for most classes and amazing for others. Wizards, rangers, paladins and druids became viable at end-game. I understand people hated raids in Luclin because of the stupid amount of hitpoints mobs had and the colossal time-sink it was to key your guild for Vex Thal, but for me, luclin was just amazing. Akheva Ruins is my favorite zone in the whole game.
Then PoP brought more AAs and classes became truly fantastic and an absolute blast to play. Divine Arbitration for clerics, Fading memories for bards, druids becoming amazing healers, blah blah blah. People on p1999 will dislike PoK and the easy-mode transportation it offered, but let's be real here; yes it made life easier, but the game was far from easy-mode even with PoK books. If you died, you were naked, lost xp and still had to get your corpse back and preferably a rez. Still very far from popping a few feet away at the spirit healer, clicking a button to respawn and another button for the repair bill.
This is why, i think, Project 1999 should eventually go up to PoP and stop there. It was the perfect balance between nice quality of life improvement, class balance improvement, and general awesomeness to play. It would offer tons of content for the casuals and hardcore people with plenty of room inbetween. It could offer the option for "classic" guilds to work their way up from hate/fear/sky -> VP -> ssra/vexthal -> planes if they should so desire.
I understand the strong desire for people to keep it "classic", but i have bad news, Project 1999 is not classic anymore. Classic is level 50 max and old world only. We're in kunark now and velious will be out eventually. Stopping at PoP without LDoN would be amazing, keep instances out of the game to keep the exploration and social aspect of the game going, but having the quality of life improvement, AAs to bring out balance and plenty of content for everyone would be so cool, i would cream my greaves.
My 2 copper pieces.