Coming from a person who raided a fair amount in EQ and then a lot in WoW...
The one thing that WoW didn't give me that I always loved about EQ was a sense of danger. There's something about the "unknown" that intrigues me and in EQ I got that time and time again when the game was new. I can't tell you how many times I stared at screenshots of big guilds in VP, scanning the rooms and imagining what it'd feel like to be walking through it during a full pop.
The idea of a "corpse" in EQ is something that to me has been lost by all other games that have followed. It added a lot to the game, and although it wasn't for everyone, for me it provided a unique experience.
Sounds stupid but, I remember the first time I walked through corridors in NToV and seeing some of the later bosses in their little rooms and getting goosebumps, happy that I wasn't there alone
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Anyone else feel the same way? Again I say this as someone who was a front runner for a while in WoW - led a progression guild for a while during vanilla and did every raid there, did every raid in BC, every raid in WOTLK, and I stopped raiding after beating the release Cata raids.
Now some of this might have been due to being younger, as I find my innocence and view on the world back then is different than it is for me now. Also, with P1999 and nearly everyone who plays knowing the in's and out's of almost every zone, a good bit of it is lost.