Traveling 30 to 40 minutes through EQ to get to a great exp grindhole I thought was pretty awesome. Especially considering the trip itself was often quite dangerous, it was a rush just getting there alive sometimes. It was the very fact that so many people gave up doing the difficult things and that only a tiny percentage saw the most epic stuff that made it so rewarding to actually accomplish things in the game. In WoW we're all doing the same shit. The 17+ crowd is just doing it a few months before the 9+ crowd.