How hard is Velious, really?

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Recently I was looking at some of the Velious loot and it seemed really, really overpowered.

So, having never played any of the Velious content (I was on classic EQ since pre-kunark, but I was horrible at the game - still am), I brought up the topic in guild chat; basically asking how loot this good will not completely break the balance of the game.

The responses I got were essentially, "Dude, Velious is pretty freaking hard."

Can anyone here elaborate on this? I'm just curious.