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Originally Posted by Trexller
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i bet you will
PoP was a breath of fresh air, with fresh and innovative new content after the disappointment of Luclin.
then, it all got polluted by the following expansions
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There's an argument to be made about PoP ruining what even Luclin had put into motion, because Luclin, aside from The Serpent's Spine (which I have gripes with about re-itemization of classic content) was the last expansion in which we had a starting city, and 1-60 content in the same release.
I would say that PoP set the modern design of EQ on an irreversible tract. But, also, the design of Planes of Power did allow for there to be proper power growth versus future expansions.
Folks looked forward to entering Tranquility and such at 46; though, planes irrevocably changed the 46+ grinding experience.
In every situation, Disease, Nightmare, Justice and Innovation would outperform the experience in a full group of every other zone at 46+, with the exception of some outliers like The Deep, Ssra's basement (undead!), Akheva, Umbral and similar zones with comparable mob levels and less mob stats, or niche mob types.
However, it's unquestionably better to grind in Valor than any zone once you get access to it. Same goes with Tactics, BoThunder, and Fire when you get access to those. Even if your gear is shit, you've still got aggro kiting in HoH, frogs in Storms, fiends in Valor, etc... which can simply be aggro kited without risk.
The experience in those zones are so good to the point that it turns everything prior into a playground for item farming and challenge modes - like soloing Trakanon, Kunark Dragons, or doing Velious content with less folks.
If you're planar geared and hit 65 w/ planar AAs, you're going to be demonstrably better than those with without, too. Not to the point where you aren't able to progress, but you have a slower time progressing in that era.
Every expansion since then has gotten worse.
So, PoP really did set that in motion.