A part of the issue was like 2/3 of the most active/aggressive levellers were mages, and many of them refused to work together.
This meant even once research was patched in mages were overlevelled. They needed a back log of pets to get to their most uptodate pet. There were far more mages than there were components dropping.
The scarcity of mages pages (or rather the excess of magicians) was compounded by everyone trying to level research - many useful pages got burnt trying to level up skills / brute force combine.
Exactly the same is likely to happen on a new server - mages are fun and effective (as highlighted by the proliferation of level 30 mages complaining the game was too hard while melees were all still stuck at level 13 with a Minotaur axe if they were lucky).
Would love to see an eq style server start with just the most basic classes - war, rog, cleric, wizard and add the deeper ones later.
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