I enjoyed Luclin and PoP greatly. The raiding was fun and rewarding. (Although I enjoy NToV loot and Velious style armor questing more.)
I think Sony made some serious missteps with Luclin though. The whole moon thing in general is just a bad idea. We didn't need Vah Shir, we already had Kerran. (And there were Kerran Monks to boot!) I found I cared about pre-Luclin raiding and story but when Luclin hit I was like "Snakes and Cats on the moon and Krishna is the final boss?!" This does not resemble EverQuest as I know it.
What saved the expansion for me were the AA's. They let me work on my character outside of the raid hours and this was a lot of fun. Plus it actually let me put that raid gear to use rather than the "Raid to get gear to raid better" mentality.
What should happen 3 years down the road after Velious? I say fuck Luclin. The devs should develop original, lore-friendly mini-expansions (a few zones at a time) that honors the previous 3 without rendering them obsolete and jumping the shark and sending us to the moon. There is plenty of untapped real estate in the old world to work with.
And if some AA's make it into the game, that'd be great. I play a Ranger after all.
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Scythic Wolfeye - Ranger
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