[goodthink]

I think SoL was the last expansion that was any good for eq, however, at the same time it did introduce things that fundementally broke the game.

a) the bazaar; no getting around this. You add the bazaar you have 300 afk people selling, and lose all the interactivity of selling over /auc in a zone like ec. the bazaar was the one thing i really believed ruined eq. i would hate to see any kind of bazaar put into the game.

b) the decrease in difficulty from 1 - 10 and hell levels; i believe it was SoL that made getting to level 10 signifigantly easier and added the forumulae that 'evened' out the hell levels.

c) zone like paludal; paludal made it possible to go from 1 to 20 in less than 6hrs. it emptied all the old world zones forever.

i love the bestlord, but i don't think the downsides are worthwhile. sol was certainly marked the decline of eq, imo.