[fadetree]

I liked PoP ok. Hated stuff after that.

Insane gear inflation, blurring the lines between classes, removal of travel, huge amounts of AA's needed to do anything, the ridiculous defiant gear dropping like rain all contributed to me quitting live. But the final straw was the Mercs...I just couldn't believe they did that. It's just a fundamental violation of what EQ was all about.

I suppose they figured that since they weren't getting many new subscribers, they might as well trash the low game and focus all on the raiders, butchering the low game so that any fool could get to max level in no time. Of course, once there, they have to grind eleventy billion AA's.