Bazaar - It is convenient and it takes away all the ripoff ass jacks or lamers who try to cut your prices by 20-50%. True it takes away the interaction and to a certain extent the kind folks ( who gives out random stuff to real noobs ) but it really saves lots of time buying selling. Anyone remembers you have to wait in queue to see someone bags of stuff via trade window when some random dude in EC " WTS 3 bags of stuff T1" ?
Paludal - This zone just destroyed the levelling curve and created more newbie whiners who complained that their XP is damn shitty post 50. ( most of my servers back then still level in Sebilis and Velketor post 50 )
Dawnshroud/Netherbian lair - Coupled with paludal, no one else will leave the moon before level 45++. And you get dudes asking you where is Lower Guk, SoldungA/B, Befallen etc because there is no reasons to go those zones anymore apart from farming the occasional item.
AA - Some nice class customization and nice new feats for classes. A everlasting stay on EQ since then. It also made Everquest changed from "Evergrind" to "Evercontinuinggrind" where raid guilds no longer just looked at your level and skill for recruitment but how many AAs you have.
Cats - Just destroyed the medieval feel. But Shar Val is a nice city.
Cities - Shar Val, Sanctus Seru, Katta Castelleum all very nice. However Shadowhaven simply destroyed the need to go back to any starting city anymore. And unless you are a wizard or druid, travelling to and fro from the moon is just a waste of time
Nexus - Boats without the ship, replaced with a black hole. You dont even have the seas to look at while you wait. Instead you have 3 nice stone walls and an NPC dude looking at you while u wait on your ass.
Character models - Crap for many players. The older graphics card at that time all suddenly seemed inadequate.
Raiding - Cool as hell like Velious and Kunark for me. Especially Ssra Temple and Acrylia as well as the Deep. Vexthal is a cool zone but the insane amount of monsters HP is ridiculous.
Gear - Way too OP. You dont even need any gear change pre EP in POP if u had full VT gear. Hell, you could even use just VT gear to reached Potime if your guild is coordinated enough. It was that good.
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