I also really liked ldon, it was possible to tank ldon hard's with a PoP geared shadowknight. I liked that ldon's were 100% always up, but their rewards were low enough that people still wanted to race over PoP and GoD type gear. However when nothing was up for you to race towards ldon provided a decent backup activity you could always do.
I think that's a great way to use instancing. Don't just instance all the top tier raid targets like daybreak does. Instance b-tier raid targets instead. Something like instanced raid zones from 1-2 expansions behind the current expansion doesn't really break the competitive nature of PvE raiding in everquest 1. This thought can't really help p99, but I wish daybreak could learn from it. Although daybreak's TLP's are so badly written as to not be classic at all in the first place, so who cares.
Wonder if classic WoW will do it any better? I actually enjoyed MMORPG's until burning crusade came out (yeah that means I tolerated luclin and PoP) and I quit them all forever. (I would've stuck with omens of war but my casual raiding guild disbanded the day after WoW came out and tunare marr lost about 90% of it's playerbase in one day).
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