Everquest 2 the worst thing to happen to Eq 1?

Defiant armor even made racial armor obsolete. With all you have to do to make that stuff, it shouldn't be the case.

Most of the gear that defiant made obsolete was barely capable of keeping them up in current content. Once TSS was released, gear from the original EQ zones weren't strong enough to compete in TSS zones. So by saying defiant made most of the drops in the game obsolete, so did TSS and Kunark before that. Each big full level range expansion pretty much did this.

One of the worst things to happen that would far outshine the impact of defiant armor would be required and recommended levels on items. If they would have adjusted the levels as time went by and creatures got tougher they wouldn't have needed defiant gear in the first place. Although this continued as the gear leveled up without full expansions, the new gear from the new expansion still obsoleted the previous gear as well.

Although I agree that Defiant had an impact, it isn't anywhere near the doomsaying that it gets.

Only new expansions typically only offer upgrades to the top end game...Defiant Armor circulated all the way backwards to crude and the early levels of the game...Some one in Luclin ERA zones did not have any need for defiant armor...yet it was added at the same time all the rest was...had defiant been level 80+ only it would not have been as bad...

Except as I said, for expansions like Kunark, Luclin, LDoN, and TSS which were full level spread expansions and their gear made almost all previous gear obsolete.