If I had to list other things that I personally like, and am assuming others do as well, about EQ over WoW, I'd also have to go with
1. Less cartoony graphics. I don't mind the oversized shoulderpads, at least they're not 40k big. But I can understand how people might prefer more realistic EQ graphics
2. Fucking enchanters, man. And bards I guess. There's really no WoW class remotely like it. Warlocks were WoW's necromancers, most of the rest of the classes had a WoW equivalent. Sure SK's, wizards, and monks didn't but those still had a WoW archtype fairly close to them. But enchanters and bards were a completely unique kind of archtype, and I think the reason WoW didn't continue them was they saw them as too hard to balance, I'm guessing
3. This goes along with PVE being too easy but I think there could be a decent amount of pushback to making all WoW classes able to solo to 60 easily. And I think there was this element in EQ of making classes that normally are not known to be great solo'ers great via twinking. Twinking when I was playing WoW wasn't really a thing because you simply didn't need to. You could take any class to 60 in green quality gear grinding mobs, you didn't even need to do dungeons or quests. The only WoW version of twinking was low level BG's, where it got pretty serious. But everyone knows WoW's pvp was light years better, so...
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