Quests in EQ are pretty vague so first time through it can be annoying - but still only time consuming. Since quests in classic EQ don't go much farther then kill mob X, loot item Y, and return to npc Z, I'd say they are pretty easy.
Raid encounters? Back when most people were playing on 56k dial up and not using team-speak/ventrilo and most people didn't have cell phones, yeah, they might have been problematic. Still, with enough people, any encounter was possible. Wiping on a raid was annoying - but summoning corpses/rezzes was time consuming - not hard.
What are we measuring? EQ before people knew how to play or P1999? I'll accept that back when EQ was new it was more in the medium range - only because mechanics weren't discovered. Now that it is cookie-cutter, P1999 is very easy to easy. Somehow I don't remember 100+ people in raid zones daily back on classic....but may be I played on a low population server.
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