[Savard18]

It is very rare to find someone who thinks Velious was terrible. It still may be the single best expansion ever for any MMO - at least for those who experienced it and raided during that time.

You can't go from something that dominant to Luclin. You have an expansion that goes from the fantasy/D&D feel of Dragons, Giants, Dwarfs, and Gods to Cats, Aliens, and Snake people.

EQ was a hard game, Velious was a hard expansion, which is what made it so great. Luclin was what changed the game.

Luclin

Travel:
Nobody is arguing that the Nexus made things easier, cause obviously it did, but making things easier was the beginning of the end for classic EQ. Horses also killed the need for SoW and jboots. This was the start of easy travel in EQ.
My grade: Done differently might have been better, but overall - F.

Bazaar:
Not much else can be said, they should have made the bazaar have NPCs to sell your items for you, everyone was afk anyway. Trading was made easier and more impersonal.
My Grade: F

Zones, Content:
Some decent zones, and some ok ideas, but overall the Moon theme was a horrible idea. The monsters were silly and had tons of HP. Getting your key was death. Raiding scripts were different and not terrible, the bosses themselves were kinda boring. Mentioned in another post, PC killed most old world areas 8-20.
My Grade: D-


Race:
Cats are dumb, but it wasn't game breaking.
My Grade: C

Class:
Beastlords might have been a fun class to play, but they actually are a worthless class. They bring nothing new to the table that another class doesn't already have covered. Filler class, easy to play. From what I hear they are still worthless for raiding on Live.
My grade: F

AAs:
Needed for raiders and powergamers - and it created a gap between casual gamers and the rest. This was a good idea until each expansion had 20000 AAs per class. Not everyone enjoys grinding like that.
My grade: (Luclin Only) A

Overall I give the Expansion an F, which is much better than some of the newer ones that could have easily gotten a Z.

PoP was better than Luclin due to them returning to the killing off Gods thing, even thou PoK crushed old school travel for good and made the game 10x easier. LDoN and LoY on the other hand.... yikes. Not good.