When eq came out it took about 6 months to a year before everyone became gear obsessed.
For the first 30 levels or so gear is not that important. The "way to play eq" was not settled yet. It was common in that first year to run into good players with missing gear slots.
The majority of players felt this way. The gameworld was the focus: have you been to X? etc.
That experience will never happen again with any D&D adjacent online game ever again in the history of this planet.
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