Where did WoW go right?

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Its clear that no one posting here has high end raiding exp in both WOW and EQ other than square. Everything in WOW is significantly harder than EQ (other than the simple time required to do things). Cast sit cast sit cast sit, totally hard. Camp mob for hours at a time until spawn, impossibly hard. Die and CR while pissed off, hard. Square has stated it several times but just to clarify there is one big difference between WOW and EQ. Leveling is a major part of the total game experience in EQ, leveling in WOW doesn't mean anything other than to prepare you for the real game which starts at max level.

For a long time WOW had a great balance of what a casual player could do, a regular player, and a hard core player but sadly, starting with the sunwell debuff, blizzard decided $$$$$$ was more important that any thing else. The more stuff a bad player or casual player can do (and be rewarded like an elite player) the more bad and casual players would subscribe. We all know there are a lot more terrible/casual players than hardcore/or good players.

As for my vaulted raiding exp, did plenty of kunark velious and luclin on EQ, my RL friend is Dalnoth of Triality who some of you might know... so I got to see a lot of end game content (AUTO ATTACK LOL) after I quit.

In WOW I played a warrior. I cleared MC before BWL came out, cleared BWL before AQ 40, cleared aq 40 and naxx (before BC). In pvp I hit rank 11.

During BC i cleared kara -> BT in the appropriate order same as vanilla(including the annoying key/vial quests, Hand of Adal, etc). Duelist in s1-s3. Rage quit after not getting glad for the 3rd time and burn out off clearing BT. Came back did some sunwell and s4 quit again.

When wrath came out I bought it and played my alt a rogue. Cleared naxx with hardmodes (lol so hard) Did some legit hardmodes (nightfall title) and arena up to duelist ranking again but quit again, game looked to be going the wrong way.

Came back for one month and did some uld hardmodes quit again. Came back for two month during cata such an awful joke. Leveled my priest up to 85 did the entire deathwing thing without even reading strats full clear first time. Sat in a bg and healed for 10min without dieing with 2 dps on me. WOW is just awful now its sad...

I think this gives me a pretty good perspective with NO BS about what I have seen in both games, and square is dead on correct really.