So what's there to do in Velious anyway?

[t0lkien]

Luclin was game breaking and ugly - visually and thematically. It had some good parts, but overall it was a negative. I loved SSrae as well. The path to VT was soul destroyingly tough, but simultaneously created some of the best online gaming moments of my life (not VT itself). Some of the items were also awesome - the Bard singing bonus gem which could be soloed if you were really smart about it; the insta-click invisibility cloak, and so many others. AA's were a good idea badly implemented and not thought through or understood, and completely messed up what went before them in class development. The Bazaar was a useful abomination that ritually slaughtered the quaint ingame economy and trade game, and preempted the AH and the RMAH. If you like all that, nice, you now have 100+ MMOs that are reskinned versions of the same game to play. Go to town.

Classic EQ, however, is a breath of fresh air compared to the mess Luclin+ created and which WoW logically engorged with mass market mediocrity, and which the entire industry aped mindlessly, rushing with drool flying from their mouths at the thought of the delicious gravy train that would follow....

And so now here we are playing a 14 year old game on a private server because everything else is fucking awful. GG Luclin.