/shrug
Tier 1 planar armor was good as well as elemental craftables. It could get expensive but was still good for the non raiders. BoT was a good place to grind AAs and even get gear if you couldn't get an elemental group with people you knew/trusted.
To me, things like the graphics, nexus/pok books and bazaar are a non issue that did nothing but make the game more convenient. Sorry that is not a bad thing.
Spot on about the barrier to raid though. You had a lot of work to do if you wanted to start raiding when PoP was current. This was less of a factor when Luclin was current IMO because if you had a decent guild that still did ntov runs for the newbies you could get some ok gear for entry level luclin raids.
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