The old world is already too easy.
Look at the solo artist challenge for example.
People soloing things that required 1-2 groups before. Mobs that people say you need 2-4 group raids are being duo'd and 1 grouped.
You want to prevent old world becoming too easy... You're too late hehe. Between OP clickies like Donal's or SoulFire and people have BiS gear and the knowledge; the old world, even including Kunark, is far too easy.
PoP was easily the best expansion EQ had though. So much depth, fixed lots of areas of the game (balanced classes even further with new AAs and spells, all 7 tradeskills made relevant, long chain quests, depth of raiding that allows the most casual and the most hardcore to raid, both group and raid progression). The itemization did make items from Velious mostly useless though there were a few gems (AoW ring, Vulaks stuff, Dozekar quests, shroud of longevity, avatar weapons, clickies) that remained useful. But if you want to talk about items becoming useless after 2 expansions... I'll bite. What will players be using from classic that they cannot replace in Velious? A few piece of planar armor may retain value, some clickies, Tranix crown? Not much else.
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