when Luclin came out I had like a 55ish Shaman and my buddy a 55ish Cleric, I know we were not 60 and neither of us had epics. We were chilling and he said, you know there is a new xpac. I had not even bought Velious yet. But he told me of a new race and new class so we both we to an electronics boutique and picked up a copy. He made a cat rogue I believe and I started a cat beastlord. I would end up making a Troll Beastlord on RP server and wrecking people in the Oasis with the crocodile pet.
We never cared to get 60, we never cared to go through the work to get epics, we never cared to be in the popular zones grouping with randoms. We sat in Lower Guk and farmed AAs. I think I was like 55 shaman with 80+ AAs by the time of the froglok expansion. My buddy's brother took his SK to like 85 and raided all over the place but we just sat in Lower Guk. We had friends burn out and give us a 65 monk and a 75 necro; we just stayed in Lower Guk. They gave us PoK for free, so it made it easier to bank and get back to Lower Guk easier for my Troll after they took Grobb away from them. We stayed in Lower Guk till like the Fabled stuffed started dropping. That actually encouraged us to get out for a bit but around that time I think Counter Strike 1.6 was released; everyone moves on from EQ eventually.
Googling it seems Legacy of Ykesha and Counterstrike 1.6 both came out in 2003, so I played from 1999 to 2003 and never got 60 never did velious content and never raided competitively but enjoyed all the time I did grind away to make me hunt down p99. I like the p99 classic feel, things are not balanced, spells don't have descriptions or timers, there is a penalty to death, finesse is more important than just trying to brute your way through content.
tl;dr Luclin made Everquest easy, EQ is not suppose to be easy
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