My favorite expansion and the peak of EQ felt like PoP to me. So much to do, so many items, so many raids, solo/group/money making/questing potential. Improvements to AA's and mudflation was still manageable.
SoL would be my next favorite. Yes, boohoo fast travel and the bazaar but they made the game more playable. No one that isn't a poopsocker likes sitting around in EC in the dead of night with 30 people online as people try to high ball things with low trade volume, my interactions have consisted of offering .85 - .90 of the list price and meeting someone at T1, no exceptions except staring at chat for 4 hours as nothing I need is listed in between bone chip and spiderling silk spam. The bazaar felt more like an actual market even if social interaction suffered. Fast travel was already trivialized with the existence of dial-a-port except for a few out of the way places in Kunark or Velious (which were still a PITA to run with PoK books). AA's were an amazing addition to the game.
What came next was unabashed garbage except Lost Dungeons which I enjoyed.
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