Comparing EQ to WoW

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i hate when people generalize wow to be lowest common denominator. i am not saying that healing in eq is easy because ive seen my fair share of bad ones..but to be honest, it takes much far effort,skill, and coordination to heal in wow (especially vanilla through bc) than it does everquest. there i said it.

i led heroic a 32 man team through heroic 25m ICC during wotlk and that shit was not easy like normal mode was. neither was most hard mode ulduar encounters like yogg+0 or even yogg+1 or mimiron. it demanded alot of focus from all players and dead weight was always very obvious. not so much the case in everquest. 6-10 players aware of the mechanics can carry the other 40 or 50 in most cases.

although i agree that the game has fallen from grace...WoW wasn't such a weak mmo in 2004 when it was released... it still separated hardcore players from casuals via epics which could only be obtained through 40 man raids. not to mention the scripted fights were not always easy, especially since people had to figure out how to engage based on their raid composition. wiki sites were not really used...this was back in the days of large database sites like thottbot.com and before people were posting detailed strategies on encounters HOURS after they are released.

in my opinion the beginning of the end for wow was wotlk. they started allowing everyone to get epics, and just introduced a new tier of epics with the same names and 15% more stats. then cataclysm and raid finder finished it off for me.

the idea of having to grind badges, points, or faction to raise your gear score once you hit level cap was just stupid. dailies should have stuck with mounts and other mostly worthless shit like BC did. all that vendor/faction gear had alternatives, not the case anymore. now you have to get 3 factions to exalted through repetitive dailies just to get the 3 upgrades you are missing.

i can see why people don't like the game any longer, i sure don't.

stuck a chord for me.

/rant