Regarding the new spell file and such.

[Leokaiser]

I agree with the sentament. I'm sure everyone has a list of features (or lack-there-of) which annoyed the hell out of them in classic (and probably still do today); these things were put up with because they didn't detract from the game so much to make the experience as a whole unenjoyable.

Thing is, this list will be different for everyone. For some it will be the spell book, for others hybrid penalties, corpse runs or the lack of parity between melee and casters. I'm sure there are even a few out there who think PoK was the best thing to happen to EQ. No one is right or wrong as these issues are a matter of preference. How then does someone running a server like this choose which changes (improvements or otherwise) need to be reverted to keep it feeling classic?

Personally I would like to have seen the dev's take classic and improve on it, but as noted, what consitutes an improvement is subjective. I guess by following history as closely as possible everyone knows what they are in for (for the most part), even if it's not fun for everyone, or even the majority (the majority on one subject will be the minority on another).