[HeallunRumblebelly]

Originally Posted by skourg3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I felt like EQ started to go downhill around GoD. I started at the beginning of Velious, so I can't speak for a whole lot before that, but Velious and Kunark content was pretty fun to go back and do.

I enjoyed Luclin; they did some really cool things. There was that monster war in that one low-level zone where owlbears and grimlings and such invaded each others caves. Ssra was awesome. The VT key quest was annoying, but pretty neat how it forced you into so many zones. VT itself was pretty boring simply because every boss fight took half an hour, much less the trash between it, but overall was okay. There were also a lot of side bosses in Luclin that were pretty fun. There were also some places you could level for awesome XP.

PoP was the pinnacle of EQ for me, especially after they removed the flagging req for PoV, BoT, PoS, maybe one other I'm forgetting. There were lots of cool things scattered around; PoJ was interesting, the stampede in PoT was cool, BoT was a lot of fun once everyone could get in there, etc. Things got to be pretty grindy once you got to the elementals because it took so much gearing (not to mention the occasional backflagging week) to get down the ele bosses, but they were also really fun and great XP. Except PoAir, that was awful. I didn't like how PoTime was instanced, though at 72 players it wasn't a huge deal. I dislike the instancing more in hindsight for it's affect on future MMOs like WoW.

The offshoot expansions were just alright. LoY added some content but was underpopulated in the higher-level stuff (like Hate's Fury). LDoN added some neat stuff that was somewhat enjoyable to grind out.

Then GoD hit. GoD wasn't bad, I found a lot of the single-group flagging zones to be pretty fun, but unless you had the right group for them it just ended up being more painful than it was worth. I only did one or two GoD raids before quitting the game, so I can't speak much after that, but GoD killed almost all interest I had in the game. It was sad.

POV, BoT...I don't think storms ever had a flag, but perhaps o_O. Also CoD, HoHonor, and PoTorment and PoTactics to my memory.

edit: these flags were still required for raid progression however.