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Originally Posted by Ikon
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I hated PoP. The books and so on were crap but the main thing that caused me to quit was that PC characters became too godly. Sort of like WoW where you see a high level gold mob that's supposed to be hard but you can solo it. In EQ before PoP, a special mob, even a lower level one would usually wipe the floor with you pun intended after PoP not so much.
That's the spirit of games now, not very challenging, challenge is important otherwise why bother.
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Every expansion did this.
A 60 Shaman coming back to classic can solo almost everything other than a raid mob. Tranix, Fear Golems, Efreeti, Ghoul Lord. All are trivial with Turgurs and Torpor.
A 60 Monk with BiS Velious Raid gear can tank Tolapmuj and Sebilite Protector without slow and a crappy Druid healer no problem due to raid gear. A 60 Warrior with BiS gear can tank most Kunark dragons with only a single cleric healing them, and most can be done with 1-2 groups of Velious raid geared characters.
Etc.
Content is theoretically supposed to be challenging with era appropriate gear. Once you go back an era with newer gear, spells, levels and AAs it will inevitably be found to be much easier.
PoP was the expansion where you actually faced off with the Gods in their planes. Previously you had seen Innoruuk, Cazic Thule and Tunare. PoP let you face and defeat most of the rest. Of course characters became Godly. But to actually defeat some of those gods you needed a well balanced raid of 60-72 raiders.