The THJ vs EQL drama is more interesting when you realize Secrets helped them build the multi-classing for THJ.
I don't know about you, but if I make something for free then other people profit off it I'd be legally butt-hurt to. Also wasn't it possibly also Tyen that sent the email? Probably because he was mad EQ In A Browser wasn't making 6 figures a month!
Anyways, THJ was only better because it was first and had more expacs, faster. If they released 1:1 hardstuck in classic like EQL is, I'd probably prefer EQL because they ATTEMPT to balance shit. THJ is for sure a power fantasy, but if you look at Triunes shit, balance was just never included so to "complete" the game you just ended up playing the easy dad-gamer class to "do it" or the meta cuck cheeze build to "blast it". Look at the leaderboards now and it's just some combo of the same two classes doing everything. Kinda fucked. EQL people thought DoT classes were the best because big parses. But then it was Paladins were OP until they realized they were just a heal class for their charm pet. Then charm pets got "nerfed" and people had to switch to bard shit. Now bard shit is going to drop off and it'll roll to something else, maybe with melee changes/pet class changes we'll see some melee action. THJ had some balancing, but for the most part they just let shit roll with monthly expacs hoping that the AA's/gear would shake up the meta enough that people wouldn't realize they weren't balancing stuff they were just letting the new dumb shit evolve mostly as it did in EQ TLP's, except at a much more rapid pace.
THJ being superior to EQL is just preference. I think THJ was fun, but like I said in a content match 1:1 I think THJ is best for ultra casuals and EQL is better for people trying to flush shit out. Gear in THJ meant more but only because of retard stats like +spellpower +healing that were the only things that ever mattered. EQL you can spend 10 hours +10ing your Umbral Bracer, but nothing will happen. AFAIK dex doesn't even "work" past 300 dex and more mana doesn't matter when you don't run out of mana on boss fights.
I'd say we'll see when EQL catches up to THJ, but that'll probably never happen. Their content creation is slower than content reappropriation. They're trying to add in content for people to re-level through rather than just adding highest end content only like THJ did. Secrets's manifesto here pretty much stated that one of THJ's faults was the majority of zones in expacs being non-viable, and it is true. Unfortunately when you've got a lot of people clammering for high end and you say "Hold on, Permafrost revamp is coming!" it doesn't quite satisfy anyone.
The game's not bad, there's just not enough of it. THJ/Triune were fine, but if you put the same time in EQL as you did in THJ you're also done outside of legendary augs and that's like, nearly Korean MMO grind levels of dogshit daily chores that will burn you out easily.
