by Aragir Lancot » Wed Nov 01, 2006 4:28 pm
Hi Marlowe.
I remember you, too. We briefly met on the Paladins of Azeroth board, and I remember you telling me how Paladins in WoW were sucky. I was playing a warrior in WoW, having figured that Furor would have impacted the game sufficiently to make Warrior a preferable class to Paladin. I was right, too. A warrior/priest combo was able to do a LOT in WoW.
Anyway, the wife and I took a year to level up to 60 in WoW, and then realized that, for casual gamers, the game ended at 60. And not just ended for one class/race, but completely ended. There just wasn't/isn't the breadth of experience available in WoW. Pretty much, once you level a character to 60, (especially if you like to wander around) you will have been everywhere and done almost everything.
So, we quit. A month ago, we downloaded EQ Trilogy and tried it out, and we're having a blast.
However, a major caveat - we have a huge amount of content and capabilities to run through before we exhaust EverQuest again. You, having been raiding Plane Of Time, are probably much closer to chewing through all the content again. For example, my character is only level 62, has only 56 AA's spent, and we never bought Discord or OOW for either account. Still and all, we've found that coming back to EQ has been a pleasant experience.
I'd encourage you to give it a shot with the Trilogy download. You can reactivate an old account for 30 days for free, and try to get a feel for where you are and what you've missed. Don't forget to download all the content files that you're registered for (we didn't figure that one out until we'd been back for 2 or 3 weeks)! Give it a whirl and see if you enjoy it. If you do, you'll probably enjoy it for a year or two, before it gets dull again.
Anyway, it's good to hear from other old Paladins. Hope RL is treating you and all others well.
-Aragir Lancot
Crusader of the Tempest Guard
Xegony