Client - will Steam's Darkened Sea work?

[vsab]

Nope, latest supported is Rain of Fear. To elucidate; every single patch they change the offsets (e.g. the codes they use to talk to the server), and fairly often they will change the structures that store the data. Not to mention they are making tons of changes in terms of functionality of recent. As such, by the time they are reverse engineered by us, they are changed again by Sony. So we're not really done fully supporting RoF yet...

[Bytebait]

What route would you suggest?

I actively play on the Sony EQ servers now. I'm a tech and an amateur coder and a project like this is 'dreamy'. But I don't want to grab a client that is doomed from the get go nor grab a client that doesn't support current EQEMU functionality.