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Old 06-26-2014, 04:22 PM
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Except no.

PoP was the greatest expansion. Subscriptions proved it. Reviews proved it. Lore proved it. Content proved it.

Best quests, raids and group content were available in PoP. It was also a culmination where you had conquered dragons and aliens, time to face the gods themselves. The expansion had something like 110~ Separate raid/multi-group events. Nothing else really comes close to that level of depth.

It is when tradeskills really took off in viability and worth. Probably also the point when balance was pretty damn near perfect. Wizards were excellent in groups and raids. Druids could now effectively heal most anywhere. Rangers were totally boss with bow damage and pretty formidable with melee. It took the weakest classes in groups and made everything more balanced between new spells and AAs.

People bitch and moan about PoK books. But those same people refuse to run from EC to Ro and require a Druid port. Bunch of hypocrits. And don't try to pull the interacting with players card, PoP required it just as much as classic. You needed help to get your keys and flags. Needed help to finish quests, get rezzes, do tradeskills, etc.

PoP confirmed best expansion.
popularity means nothing. Most often MMO's at their peak have alreayd been watered down and simplified so that any old schmoe can pick up andplay without a seconds thought, or any sort of true effort. This is blatantly a grab at more cash in the p2p model. Wow as an example... Despite the fact that the population steadily climbed through the first three expansions, and they added tons of new features... vanilla is the best era for WoW. The game poses more challenge there than any other point in time, which gives it a more realistic feel.
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Old 06-26-2014, 07:38 PM
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Wow as an example... Despite the fact that the population steadily climbed through the first three expansions, and they added tons of new features... vanilla is the best era for WoW. The game poses more challenge there than any other point in time, which gives it a more realistic feel.
Strongly disagree. That's as silly as the "EQ is harder than WoW" nonsense people yammer on about.

WoW's hardest period is almost inarguably Burning Crusade. Couple Cataclysm heroic raids and two of the WotLK heroic raids are a close second in difficulty tiers, then maybe AQ40 and OG Naxx, then other content*. If you honestly thought Onyxia or BWL or Ragnaros were hard, you were just really bad at video games.

The "free loot" bosses of later expansions are roughly Onyxia/MC level of difficulty. Even those bosses are harder than literally anything in Classic EQ. Classic EQ raiding is primarily about racing other guilds to the loot pinata and passing your gear check. This is x100 on this server where everything is totally played out and overgeared.


*disclaimer: I know nothing about MoP.
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