Quote Originally Posted by SinisterJointss View Post
Unfortunately, long gone are the days of corpse runs and the eerie feeling of imminent danger when out exploring. I miss it but i've also come to realizze that it will never be that way again. It's a shame because that was the best MMO experience I have ever had and nothing can compare to it.
Go play p99, the original/Kunark Everquest emulator. Its just as horribly brutal as you remember from 1999/2000. The graphics are horrible but its still awesome. Corpse runs, insane xp grind, "relic" quests that require 30-man raids, 24 armor slots to fill, NPC racism (getting merc'd in Freeport for being an Ogre), quests that only gave you cryptic hints as to what to look for, all there.

The only really "difficult" stuff in this game is the mechanic checks of T9/T12/T13, which are very fun, if not very challenging, and the relic grind. Relic grind is just a brutal slog through easy content over and over; if dungeons were harder or more independently rewarding it would be better.

I keep telling myself that this game is truly very young in its current iteration. Give it time to develop and learn from itself, it is/was fantastic at launch for a new MMO (I know there was 1.0 but from what I have heard mostly everything has changed). Heavensward will be telling.