Fact: EQ was meant to be a PvP game

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Originally Posted by kenzar

PvP was an afterthought of the developers at best.

The game wasn't made with PvP in mind.

The above statement is a popular opinion but is not true.

Have you ever dinged in EQ and go to get your new spells or train your combat skills.. Then you go look up your spells and think "Wtf? At least half of these aren't even worth buying" or "Why does my class even get this spell?"

A good number of them seem to have very limited application on a PvE server.

How many times is a Rogue going to bother with training Make Poison on a Blue server? How valuable is a spell like Shadow Step to an SK on a Blue server? Why do Shamans even get Blind? Enchanters mana drain or minor illusion?

These may not be the best examples in the world, but you get the point that on a PvP server, every last one of those spells has potential uses in various situations.

I'm not even mentioning all the obvious PvP items in the game like Pumice Stone.

Was EQ designed with PvP in mind? The answer is yes.