Original EQ before the plane of hate/fear/sky - perfect in my opinion. Every zone was accessible. No ridiculous twink gear. Mostly a group centric game as raiding was a small novelty on a couple mobs. The epitome of what I think an MMORPG should be.
Kunark - The beginning of the end, added ridiculous twink gear, added many easy outdoor zones to level up in which were very limited in original EQ past level 25. And increased the grind by adding 10 levels which were all basically hell levels.
Velious - Not a bad expansion, twink gear wasn't amped up as much as Kunark, great faction work and nice quests, no new levels or aa grind.
Luclin - AA's increased the grind even more, super fast leveling in PC Sony gave up on caring about low levels, made twinking even easier with the bazaar, made travel even easier with ports, stupid lore, and the character models were horrendous people get attached to the look of their character.
And lastly, I left EQ around Luclin because Dark Age of Camelot came out and while I did not play that game terribly long, I never really came back to EQ with the same addiction as from 1999-2001.
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