This is exactly where my brother and I are right now.
Its not going to be a popular opinion, but I'm just going to say it. I completely think that the epic quests should have been 100% doable via LONG soloable/groupable content with raids offering a SHORT CUT to completion rather than being the only way to complete them.
Reminds me of when a bunch of us on the boards linked up in P99 back in ~2010. Definitely more fun for a while, up until people started taking it too seriously.
This is one of the things that my brother and I have made a conscious effort not to do on this server... take things too seriously. We're just playing the game and having fun. We are FNF in Faceless, but neither of us have gone on a single raid on this server at all. We just don't see the need to get involved in raiding yet. The Kunark start, tower gear, random loot, and free trade has made this the least sweaty server ever. I don't know that my brother will ever get back in to raiding much, but I will definitely be there in Luclin and possibly some in Velious.
This is super interesting to me. I remember back in the day when GoD/OoW came out a lot of people really hated this period. I remember lots of guildies quitting, complaints about how GoD was overturned, and just the aesthetic of the expac being weird. Was thinking this unique to my guild/playgroup or did something change since then that these expacs are seen more favorably?
It was overtuned on live when it first was released. TLP is not that. BiC is a good quest and you'll use that aug for a long, long time. PoP turns quickly into log on for time raids and otherwise don't play much on TLP. I guess it's a little different with randomized loot, but I always felt that people liked PoP more for nostalgia reasons than anything else.
