| Just do both instancing and world mobs (a god that walks around or something ala shadow of colossus). EQ has gone the way of instancing a long time ago and it's worked just fine. I used to hate instancing, loving the race, but it can still be just as competitive with instancing. You know who has killed what and both guilds getting to try it makes it fair.
Make the combat closer to EQ1 than EQ2, keep exp loss for death and get someone who knows what they're doing to do your animations.
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