AOW, Original Tunare(Hardest encounter in vellious IMHO), CT, Dain, Yelinak, Aaryonar, Lord Vyemm(Hardest encounter in TOV IMHO). All of the kunark dragons using aoe fear ect. Many of these encounters are memorable, challenging, and interesting.
And sure there were tank and spank mobs. Thinks like King Tormax, Statue of RallosZek and many of the dragons in TOV with weak aoe's. And I'm sure you could think of others.
But by and large it can be easily argued that many of the encounters in vellious/kunark were very interesting, challenging, different, and memorable. Shit Cazic Thule was old world and he was fun/interesting clear through vellious.
It's an opinion of mine(Only an opinion) that many encounters in POP were tedious and nuanced. Additionally you ALWAYS had to clear a gigantic zone just to nearly wipe to a mob that dropped only 2 items of shitty loot.
IMHO SoL made encounters more interesting(Discounting VT). But when I think of Emp encounter, Cursed encounter, and that wurm in the deep. I think of those things as adding to interesting factors of EQ. But when I think of POP gods, not so much. Spending 3 hours to clear a zone just to kill a mob doesn't sound like fun to me. Especially when the loot is sub-par. And lets be honest with our selves. People didn't do plains encounters for the fun or even the loot of it. They did it for time keys. That was it.
On the flip side during vellious all of vellious raid content, and much of kunark and classic content was frequently raided for it's loot and the fun of it. Point being that the encounters were still memorable and the loot was competitive, even if 3 expansions old.
However a time keyed guild had no reason to raid outside of potime. That meant much of the raid content prior went left idle.
ofc all of these are opinions. Your obviuosly welcome to agree to disagree.
What I have observed is people who came up in EQ during the POP era vehemothly defend the expansion. That is great, it is great you love POP. The point I am making is that it is a different game. It is not EQ classic. It is not what classic EQ goers want.
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