[Lagaidh]

I liked AAs I admit. It allowed me to fix my base AGI and get things I thought should have always been available like 2-handed bash (I was always and forever will be a bluebie).

The downside to them, from my perspective, were the AA requirements that raid guilds ended up having. On one hand you could say, yes, AA gave more to do to the maxxed. On the other hand, you ended up in the same boat: you'd get all the AAs worth having, and require anyone you raided with to have done the same.

There will always be a difficult task in MMOs of bringing both the hardcore and casual populations to the same game and trying to give each group the content they crave at their own paces.

What I never understood about live EQ was: why did they cater more to the hardcore? It was obvious after Wow launched that the hardcore were the minority. I have at different times been both kind of player and enjoyed each mode of play. I'd still take casual over hardcore. I guess that's why I always bristled when the hardcore side had one more "required" thing to do to stay maxxed: key, AA, piece of gear, augments.

Oh yeah. I fucking hated augments.