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Originally Posted by Samoht
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Have you ever died in WoW? Raised a tradeskill? Taken a boat from one continent to the other?
All of these things are punishing in EQ and simplified in WoW. That's what makes WoW easier.
And the raid mechanics in WoW aren't necessarily harder, either. It's just punishing to get something wrong. The more players in a raid, the more likelihood of one person getting it wrong. Even then, they still find a way to hold your hand while doing it. The last time I raided in WoW, everything was telegraphed well in advance with a big warning across your screen to get out of the way. I'd call it faster paced, but not necessarily harder.
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I think it is unfair to compare current state of WoW to what p99 is (retro EQ). EQ Live with their mercenary forces (although I've never played it) seems insaaaaaane easy mode to level and get AAs.
While I never played 'vanilla WoW' I hear from a friend that played since launch that tradeskills were hella harder (now you can max out in like a day or less, thanks auction house), exp loss used to be insane and you earned back at a slow rate, and repairs were crippling to your pocket book and could actually destroy your gear if you waited too long. Earning gear, even in instances, was really hard to do (didn't always make it to the end before dying), epic pieces were rare.
Sure they had flight paths, but you needed to run to those town first to discover them before they could get linked, I'm pretty sure you couldn't get a port to some area at level 1, you had to crawl there yourself. Lets not pretend that sitting on an EQ boat is any kind of fun or 'look at how hardcore I am!'. Sure it adds some immersion and gives the illusion of a bigger world, but we all know they are the bane of EQ and we avoid them like the plague.
From all accounts it seems like classic WoW was more in line with EQ Velious / Luclin era, which most of the forum users seems to praise.
I admit the quest system with the Exclamation points on the map is super easy mode, but EQ quests really suck for working 'just in the game'. I'm willing to bet nearly everyone uses the wiki to figure them out as some of the hints are super obscure or misleading.