IMO:
Velious was the absolute last 'classic' EQ expansion. I remember playing hard core throughout beta, release, Kunark (short lived) and then Velious release.
Luclin changed the game in a way where so many original ideas were gone. They were all circumvented with new abilities and such.
Velious, in defense of it and just like Kunark, simply added content only. It changed the UI, how you get epics, and a few other things, but the original ideas and concept did NOT change. You still needed to grind, you still needed specific strategies to take down X Raid targets.
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My most favourite expansion though, personally, was PoP. By far that was the most awesome expansion to the game that was morphing in to new ideas and concepts.
Personally I played up until GoD, but by that time I was disenchanted with the direction SoE was going....same old crap just produce more content and nerf nerf nerf nerf nerf......
Sorry, I went off track there but ya, I think expansions past Velious are not the classical EQ game play. They may be awesome, but they introduce stuff that breaks through the classic game at the time. Evolution....that explains it.
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