So uh, hi.
I played on SZ from day one until late Luclin. I never played on RZ, VZ or TZ, so my memories are all Velious and Luclin.
I was a druid. I fought every single day. You might have noticed that I'm kind of an asshole and people gunned for me.
I had a suit of shitty MR gear in the bank. I don't remember exactly what all the components were, but it was stuff like the 7mr bracers. I never failed at an outdoor CR with my 120 gear. Never. Here is my dude:
http://eqplayers.station.sony.com/ch...d=631360367144. Note the 155 days /played. I died constantly.
I don't have a strong opinion about the racial imbalances although I do think Field of Bone is an overpowered noobie zone and it does seem like light races get fucked for tank and shaman races, but I don't think those things are nearly as important as Abacab seems to.
But what I absolutely do know is that in the Velious and Luclin era, spending your time trying to stick snare or root on someone wearing gear was a good way to die. One time Meatdawg came to stick it to us (Trump, sort of the pre-cursor to Black Prophecy) in Dragon Necropolis. It took Tash + Malo + four of us chain casting for a minute to get him snared.
If someone claims that it took top end gear to resist snare or root during Velious or Luclin on SZ, he is either misremembering or didn't really play.