I started playing this game late and was caught between the latest months of Velious before Luclin, so things went from bad to very easy in some ways, because I could evolve my character faster, even without gear, through AAs.
I didn't hate Luclin too much, because it opened up a lot of opportunities, but it also had some real issues for me, such as:
1) New player models looked so terrible, I considered quitting until I found out you could toggle them off.
2) The theme jumping into a blend of sci-fi and fantasy was not ideal. There was more lore to be explored in Norrath. There was no need to move to the moon yet. The themes didn't transition well because of that.
3) New class, new race and so on, while most classes needed to be tweaked before introducing the spaghetti linguini that was beastlord.
Why have a cat brace btw? Was it not enough to have lizards? I guess they went from exotic pet to a normal pet theme here. Not a playable race still.
4) The Bazaar and Spires were good QOL tools. It could be implemented in the existing world just by waving some technicalities and introducing some more evolved humans who can teleport and buy/sell fast through a network.
In the end, Luclin tried to introduce some much needed things, such as AAs, Bazaar and Spires, but made everyone look ugly and created a new race that was not needed, while also introducing a new class when there were many classes that needed to be fixed.
It was a way to keep people subbed, but hell, not the best way to do it.
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