Nothing wrong with min-maxing. If I want to play a game based on creativity and story I'll look into D&D, whitewolf, or other tabletop games.
I play EQ to be the most efficient genocidal killer I can be, watch stat numbers go up, and get better gear. I just don't really consider EQ to give the ability to do anything but kill mindlessly for hours on end, the only real challenges being presented by the ineptitude of fellow players. I mean really, how many freaking days can you roleplay, "We're in Ass/sup yet again, smiting the evil frog ghouls". Especially if you did it on live 10 years ago. I group with like-minded players, and we have fun doing crazy stuff that most groups our level are not able to. I'm the person who likes to solo the crazy mobs that take most people a group to kill, or group up with another player and do challenging things that we probably weren't intended to do. That attracts me to game-breaking classes like bard and doing things like swarm kiting 50 mobs in the planes. I play with my own goals in mind, and those usually dont involve grouping with 4 lobotomized hybrids who all somehow fail to grasp eq's challenging mechanics of, "press autoattack" and watching my exp dwindle to nothing.
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