Originally Posted by Erydan Ouragan
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That's correct, bold part for emphasis.
You see a lot of hate for Luclin/PoP on these forums because this is a server dedicated to classic. So it has a high concentration of people who think classic EQ is the best, and that anything added after ruined the game. Like you said, growing subs during these expansions is the proof that the game was doing great.
I was an avid forum reader during the time i played, i remember the reactions people had when new stuff was added. You could almost hear the collective orgasm of rangers when archery mastery and endless quiver were implemented. They felt that, finally, their class became what it was supposed to be all along.
I remember clerics throwing their panties in a bunch over druids getting their ghetto CH, but then divine arbitration+group heal became the new way to heal when they realized they could be a battle cleric by summoning a proccing hammer of what the fuck and regen mana standing with yaulp. Suddenly druids having a CH didn't matter so much, because clerics were still needed in raids and group healing became fun and interactive.
I remember people being slack-jawed at wizard dps. They went from hate/sky port bitches to desired in groups due to crits, mana conservation and spell dmg focii, harvest AA and FT on gear becoming more prevalent. Warriors were not struggling for threat like they do on p99. Even though they didn't have weapon proc AA in PoP yet, they had ingenuity, allowing them to crit from procs. Casters having Spell Casting Subtlety AA made it that they generated less threat. That helped warrior tanking a lot, while still being raiding tank kings.
There was some people who didn't like it, but the huge majority of people playing during Luclin/PoP were loving the game and where it was at.
"Cats on the moon" is just a meme, it doesn't mean anything other than "meh, i just don't like it", it's not a real argument. Because there are no real arguments. They can say they don't like it, they can state their preferences and their reasons, while emotional, are valid for them.
But as far as the gameplay, class balance (inter & versus content) and general improvements, there is simply no way you can't deny the game was just better during Luclin/PoP. Not "not like it", that's fine to not like it, but to actually say "the game was worse than it was during classic/kunark/velious", sorry that's being delusional.
There are preferences and there are facts. Luclin/PoP made the game better, that's just a fact.
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