Out of the 10 Expansions..Follow

Almost every expansion had something wonderful but, seriously, how can you pick anything except OOW as the best? The exp in these zones is awesome, the new loot was a major upgrade for everyone in the game and much of it is based on single group encounters. You could use a single group to get every one of your spells - something that's been lacking many other expansions (remember trying to get RGC?)

Kunark's major addition, imo, was teaching people how to do crowd control and the introduction of epic 1.0s.

SoV finally gave us a big insight into the dwarfs and giants and dragons, oh my. I still feel the only advantage of this expansion was the coldain ring and the 8th shawl (very sorry to see it stopped at 8).

SoL was a graphical update and the introduction of the vah shir. The zone content was cool and some of the quests are still fun but two of the encounters are still the worst designed in the game - Katta and Shei.

LDoN had a great idea but it failed to pan out when the items the vendors have became outdated SO fast and made the entire expansion almost worthless unless you've been able to put the time in to do the entire augment quest. The one thing I give them credit for with LDoN is that some of the existing problems were resolved - RGC became an easy spell to get and augments were introduced. One of the worst problems with LDoN is that some classes require drops from them to get their 2.0 epics and now that the vendor loot is trash, it's difficult to get anyone to do them. Not being able to add/remove people to LDoNs was also a problem that should have been addressed.

LoY was and still is a joke. Even the best loot isn't worth much. Except for a few spells that filled voids, I almost wish I hadn't gotten this expansion.

PoP was great but the idea of mobs hitting for 400+ just blew most people away. Many of us casters remember entering these zones with a bit over 2k hps; aggro equaled death in most cases. Finally being "ELEMENTAL" was the best feeling I'd had in the game but the quest to get it still seems unrealistic.

GoD is nice for high end guilds but sucks for everyone else. Getting spells is difficult for lower powered people and the flag quests are actually worse, by far, than PoP. UQUA IS THE SUCK. Backflagging is a major problem since only 2 mobs in QVIC or a UQUA raid is required. Because of this, I'd give GoD a slightly better rank than LDoN.

DoN is one of the most enjoyable when it comes to varied mob types, respectable places to afk if you're camping a single spawn or item while you watch tv or whatever and TRADABLE rewards via crystals. This is a close runner-up for best expansion, IMO.

DoD introduces people to futility. Similar to PoP, the progression is difficult but at least it's not rediculous like GoD. The rewards are awesome but difficult to get. Overall, this is tied with PoP for #3 best expansion due to the fact that most things are doable with a single group.

Overall, nothing made such a difference in power's power than OOW. Even for non-70 players or non-raiders, good loot is exteremely easy to come across.

How many Anchient Muramite Runes your single groups gotten?

IMO Luclin was and is the best simply because anyone that has been in Vex Thal and took the time to look around. I for one know once I got into the palace I thought Man if I were the most bad *** chick on the moon this is what my home would look like. Not all delapitated like OOW and GoD. If I took over a place or lived in a place it would resemble VT and I still enjoy going there with friends. Another thing is there are clikies from Luclin that are no where else that I have seen in game. I recently got the IVU clikie I have wanted for ages because my main BST has always had to buy potions or beg someone for IVU but no more thanks to a long few weeks of group farming bosses there.

Edited, Thu Dec 29 16:52:45 2005 by moedragon

Velious was definately the best expansion to date. It had the best tier'd quests like the coldain rings, the coldain shawls & the 3 tiers of armor (coldain, giants, dragons). It added tons more raid content to the game which was pretty limited in Kunark. You could choose which of the the 3 you wanted to join and without "too much" work you could switch factions. This was the only time faction was fun and not a rediculous load like Omens.

One "end zone" of velious, the temple of veeshan was even seperated into seperate wings. One wing for getting armor pieces to use with dragon faction and one wing for giant faction and then another wing for just high end raiding. This expansion was before SoE took over and messed some things up.

So the key things tiered armor, tiered quests (that weren't rediculous or restricted to certain people), and just lots of quests in general with involvement in almost all the velious zones.

In modern EQ faction is 99% useless and loot when SOE took over took a huge jump in HP/Mana which made this expansion maybe seem dumb to those who hadn't experienced it.

PoP hands down united the varius expansions. In making the game more accessible it also made the gamer more powerful. The raid loots from Xanamech to RZ are by far THE MOST ADVANCED to date. Several intriguing story lines and quests for varying level of dedication add to this expansions content desireability. PoP brought the expansions together. And did it without the half a level of xp in 30 minutes current content carrot. My oh my how did people ever love this game without beating it in 3 weeks? /salute

I have to say Kunark cause Iksars are my favorite race. PoP was a good one even if PoK ruined a lot of things. The Planes were well thought out and the progression was implemented nicely. I finallly started to do PoP and i like it so far.