Seriously. Go look at a listing of zones and think about how much you know about each one. Quests available, good items to camp in each, good spots to xp in each, hell, even just how to get across each zone safely (even if you DO use a map!).
Personally I've leveled from 1-50 on this server 7 (8? I forget) times, and 50-60 3 times; I've been in leveling guilds, roleplaying guilds, raiding guilds; I've killed every raid boss in the game, grouped in all the main zones, solod the great item camps, xped all over, PLed, been PLed, etc...
... and I basically know nothing about 3/4 of the zones on the server except how to get from one side to the other. Every time I spend more than 20 minutes in EC, I see an item in /auc that I NEVER remember having seen before. I am constantly amazed at the number of clicky items that I never knew existed, let alone personally owned and knew how to put to good use. I learn new tricks to use solo, grouped, or in raids every week. I've spent most of my time on my enchanter over the course of 3 months trying to solo most of the level 50+ mobs in the game that are worth killing, and I'm not finished, and it has been incredibly fun. Even though I've played a TON on this server, I don't know the tricks of classes other than the ones I've taken to 60, and even then I don't know all of those tricks.
You don't need to play dumb to feel like you're adventuring in EQ, even this long after we were MMO virgins back in the day. You just need to look a little closer, think a little harder, etc. Being able to run an iksar from qeynos to freeport without dying doesn't exactly mean that you've run out of adventures to have in EQ. Lol.
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