Good timing. Just so happened to read the AoC thread this morning where MNM was mentioned, and I'm like "oh yeah, I forgot about that game."
Read the last half dozen new pages, and saw a stress test for today of all days. Guess I'll give this one a shot for a few hours today.
Was watching that overview video posted last month and there was a spot with them sitting in the dark and it had the spell sound effects and I'm sold. My earliest memory of EQ was sitting on orc hill in Kith, not being able to see shit, but those spell effects and sounds are burned into my memory. The fact that I still remember any of this a quarter century later is bizarre.
I never got into replaying EQ, but I did play the EZ Server emu around 2010 a lot. Myself and some guy who played with his wife were the highest levels on the server for a while and would help the developer test out the highest level zones. But otherwise haven't played it.