The Pinnacle of Everquest (In your opinion)

[Fregar]

I think kunark was the pinnacle when speaking about content.
I like exploring interesting zones, and kunark is full of that. Places like LOIO, Seb, Kurn, CoM, Dalnir and many other ones.
On the other side of the coin, grind from 55 to 60 is awfull and I don't like beeing forced to group.
Also there's pretty much nothing to do after hitting 60.

Velious also has interesting content but in lower supply than kunark imo.
Quality raids is the interesting side of this expansion.

I liked AA very much with SoL, and thats why I think SoL is still damn near the pinnacle.
Sure it also added some not-to-good stuff, but it was mostly content-design related and since the level cap was not raised, you could still play in kunark/velious while getting the benefits from AAs.

PoP destroyed the game for me, and it's when I moved on to another MMO.
The game started to be almost 100% raid focused.
I slowly started to hate having no choice about what to do when logging on my character and the constant fighting with other guilds.
Game was not fun anymore: it was a second job after a day of work :0
Sure PoP did not start this trend, but it was more of the same shit with nothing else added to the mix.
Nothing to explore, trash mob hitting for 400ish, WTF?!
I liked it when they eventually added veksar, but it was too late.
I'd love seeing this zone on p99, even if the dev would have to change some things to keep the game classic-like.

So I'd say the pinnacle was around kunark, but the game remained good untill PoP and then collapsed.


From what I read some later expansions were not too bad? (the serpent thing?)
I may want to try exploring live some day, since its now free to play, but don't really know where to start from o.0