This game is very fun and the server is very friendly overall. I have yet to meet a person who wasn't nice
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The thing about about EQ is that some camps are almost raid-level fun and running from a train is a rush. Most modern games have pushed the difficulty way down so that raiding is one of the only challenging/exciting moments you experience.
Definitely not knocking the raid experience. If you have the time to put in it doesn't get much better than in EQ. I think once Velious opens up the raid scene will be less frantic due to increased places to go. This means smaller guilds can do fun smaller targets and work to get people epics weapons. They can even team with other small guilds for larger targets.
Basically, don't sweat that last 5% of the content if you don't want the drama. The 95% is more than enough to keep you busy and happy.