The expansion Luclin is what started EQ down the road of no longer being the dangerous, exciting and high risk game that it started out as.
PoP further relished Kunark/Velious completely obsolete, as players in the upper level range but not quite yet at the highest level, simply piggy backed in the starter planes for the great xp and the easy items that outshined even some raid items in previous expansions.
Since EQ is going F2P, I started a trial account to see how the start of EQ is now. Made an iksar SK and literally went from 1-19 in about 4 hours...it felt cheapened and the starter items were better than endgame items in the kunark/velious era. It just feels cheap and easy now. I liked it much better when Velious was the endgame.
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