Non instanced raids and cockblocking were a definite nail in the coffin for me. You could say I suppose that it went wrong right from the start when they didn't instance the raids, but that never seemed to be an issue (for me at least) until Luclin.
Being on Asian time, nothing was ever up. The "race" which so many people seem to enjoy (not that I can figure out why) just wasn't an option for us. Everything was killed a few hours before we logged on. Pretty much killed our guild.
I ended up moving to another server, and things weren't so bad.
Then oow came out, and I found to get my top mez spell I had to get a drop off a raid mob 3 times to unlock it. I could only get a group in a level appropriate zone with my guild since I couldn't mez anything. Good one SOE. Unlock a basic bread and butter spell behind a raid mob, but make me do it 3 times.
At that point WOW came out. Never looked back. Having my guild split up through cockblocking was a profoundly upsetting experience, and SOE can go die in a fire.
Liked the bazaar. POK books were irrelevant by the time they came out. (noone went to the old zones anyway) Who cares about cats and frogloks.
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