Any old school EQ players here? Hola at me!
People that complain about how hard/annoying things in WoW might be make me laugh...they have NO idea how hard playing an MMO used to be!
Remember dieing in EQ? you didn't just die...you FUCKING died! You spawned naked, your corpse with ALL YOUR GEAR was left at the EXACT spot you died. You either had to A) Try to drag your corpse to a safe spot B) Find someone trustworthy to drag it for you/loot your stuff for you (oh because consenting someone to your corpse means they could actually loot ALL your items) or B) spend up to 100 plat, or whatever the Necromancer felt like charging/how desperate you were, to use one of his coffins to summon your corpse to him.
Remember races had different night visions? Dark elves and Dwarves lived in caves so they had excellent night vision...Humans however could literally not see 5 inches in front of them at night. You had to kill wisps in East Commons until one dropped a greater lightstone.
Remember trains? In WoW if you run to far from an enemy they eventually evade back, this is the very reason they do this. In EQ, enemies followed you forever, making infinite kiting possible (druids were very easy to level). However, in dungeons, if you agro a TON of shit and manage to make it to the entrance and outside, those mobs wipe you off their threat list and attack EVERYONE around them. Meaning one person could train a bunch of mobs to the zone and manage to get TONS of people killed (seen it numerous times...fuck you Solusek B!). This would suck if someone did it on accident, but players would of course able to do this on purpose as well.
Remember how each race had their own language? and you had to learn their language to communicate with them? (I believe there was a "common" language that all races shared, but each race also had their own language they could "switch" to). Honestly...I kind of miss this from an MMO, EQ was the only one that did it and it hasen't really been done since (correct me if I am wrong). I used to sell languages for 1 plat, you take the boat from Butcherblock to Freeport and just spam a couple text macros in the Halfling language. During the ride it looks like "GYDJDF HGDSJFJD GSJFJLS GSJYFJSDF" but once you zone to Freeport you had the language learned and could read what the person was saying and communicate with Halflings in their own language.
Remember how Kelethin bank was THE hotspot? either that or the spirs in Greater Faydark...this was the area ALL trades were done. Some servers it might of been Freeport. However players were able to attack ANY NPC they wanted, the important ones, such as bankers, were generally tough as fuck and would usually beat the crap out of whoever attacked him, but you were able to pull NPC"s away from their post and chain cast Root on them to keep them in place, no one would be able to use the bank until that player died/logged or a GM came and set things right. Eventually I believe they fixed this issue.
Remember how hard dungeons were? you literally HAD to hug the back wall otherwise shit would agro from OTHER rooms! And if your group wipes? you BETTER get back quick or your spot will most likely be taken. No instanced dungeons here my friend.
Remember when they came out with Epic weapons quests for every class? Each class had an elaborate quest to obtain some crazy ass stated weapons, BiS in the game at the time of course. Well I was a cleric...cleric epic weapon had a clickable res...cleric epic weapon was hands down the best epic weapon in the game...cleric epic weapon required an item off of an NPC that spawned behind a high level dragon...this NPC was a random 1-72 hour spawn...UGH!!!!
Remember no flight paths or any means of fast travel besides teleports/boats? So you could get a teleport to the general location of where you wanted to go, but in the end you would have to run BY FOOT the rest of the way. Sow plz!
Remember kill credit went to whoever got the killing blow? Meaning you and your friends could spend HOURS on a boss, a level 1 could hit it for 1 damage and get the killing blow AND looting rights.
EverQuest was such a great MMO at the time, but looking back today I realize how shitty it actually was. But for those of you who complain about WoW, trust me and any fellow old school EQ players here, you have it WAAAAAAAAAAY easy.