It's been decades so I barely remember it. Only that THE worst was newer abilities and power creep trivialized content from older expansions (I'm talking to you mana burn). This was offensively bad considering the prior expansion content was THE best era of EQ and deserved more respect than to be shit on that hard (even though it's pretty rote execution for raiding here now and less of an issue in 2019 with all the known exploits, repetition, and skeleton farm crews)
Bad:
- Key quests and bane weapons
- Shit atmosphere, zones, and art. Never got the tinglies finding a dungeon like Dalnir or Droga
- Made velious mudflation look like a walk in the park
- Nexus trivialized travel and thus the demand for Wizard and Druid services
- Mounts were goofy (but on the flip side gave people a plat sink and something to desire)
- Raiding was now an XXL sock commitment.
- I don't remember it being very PUG friendly and what was around wasn't going to make you rich like say, a fungi or T-staff would have.
Good:
- Class balance really fleshed out some of those dealt shittier hands, I'd love to play a ranger again
- AA's were amazing and still one of the best additions to the game ever
- Mages weren't blueballed by the epic so much
- Bazaar. Yes this was an amazing addition, people saying there is "player interaction" in EC are very special people. It's the misguided POE philosophy, most people hate doing it and it takes up too much damn time better spent playing the actual game. There was still bartering in the Bazaar too, the only downside was no comfy rain to listen to and just as shit visuals.
- Clickes and gear from the raid scene really let you do some cool things and gave you something to work towards. The shrink wand among a billion other things.
- The invisible bridge was fun
Overall I enjoyed Luclin. It just dropped the ball hard in some places and at the expense of some really great prior content. Luclin set the stage for POP and they go together like PB&J... other than Velious POP was THE best point EQ was ever at. Luclin by itself was just a low.
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