IMO it was Kunark - Velious and PoP added cool stuff for sure, but for me Everquest was all about the dungeons and small group stuff - raiding was sorta fun in it's own way but also a huge mess in many many ways. The best part of Everquest was going to a dungeon with some buddies and just crawling through trashing the place, pulling several rooms at once just for the extra challenge, maybe getting some loot maybe not but just having fun playing the game. You didn't need to farm a ton of sweet gear to do anything, gear definitely made stuff easier and made you feel good, but in that time I never felt like I NEEDED to get a piece of gear just to do things. With Velious and beyond it was so much more raid oriented, sure there was some dungeons and group stuff but it seemed so much more raid-focused, then of course Planes of Power was almost all raid stuff and even the stuff that was group oriented was just not fun at all... Luclin was somewhere in there and it was alright, but I didn't like the new models at ALL or the new graphical style they were going for, which was a big factor pushing me towards WoW instead of EQ2 or Vanguard (ignoring any other discussion on the merits of those games).
ANYWAY. That's a lot of words to say I really liked the Kunark zones the best, even as a Erudite Enchanter I bone chipped my faction in Cabalis up to be friendly to everything, even the necro guild which took a lot of extra time because I spent so much time there. And frankly, everybody knows the froglok dungeons are the best, guk + sebilis for life. I certainly had fun in Velious and Luclin also, just not as much as with Kunark. Then PoP sucked the last enjoyment out and EQ lost it's magic for me.
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