I don't remember how far away I was from Luclin release, but I may have played the first few days because I remember everyone talking about it. I was a barb running through Netherbien Cave (forget name of the zone) and someone says "Wow Barbs are good looking." Unfortunately, I shut off most models because my system would crawl. Was a GeForce 2, I think. In fact, it crawled even after disabling most of them, so I just went back to the old zones to get smooth framerate. Now imagine trying to run Luclin on my original system which was much slower and had a Voodoo 2. You wouldn't! Qeynos was a slideshow on it!
People forget I think how big of a system requirement jump it was from old zones to Luclin.
EDIT: I must have played during luclin launch because I made my longest lived character in late 2001 on SZ. 2001 was a big year for me in EQ. Is when I got the new system. I had barely played EQ after the first few months in 1999.
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