I don't get why so many people loved PoP but hated Luclin. Granted it wasn't perfect/finished and the new models sucked, but it was so much more like classic EQ than PoP was.
PoP started the trend of making EQ cookie cutter. Everyone's armor was the same based on your archetype. Loot was +40hp/mana/random crap for mid 50s. Top end raid loot was the same way.
Luclin gave us:
Cazic Thule revamp, some of the best class balance eq ever saw,
Tons of single/2/3 group events that dropped nice items:
For instance:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=11711
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=9223
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/q...tml?quest=1570
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=8082
A lot of interesting ring events. Burrower, Ring of Fire, original Khati Sha (whatever his anagram name was) fight.
Grimling War or the Hollowshade more npc faction war were super cool, if not entirely working.
The very interesting lore of Sanctus Seru and Katta, plus the Sigil quest, etc, etc.
A lot can be blamed on a ton of devs leaving for Sigil, but damn if it didn't have that classic EQ feel to it way more than PoP.