EPTI've been playing this recently, and I actually played about a year and a half ago, maybe longer? And I loved it then, but the questing grind was kind of a bitch, and there wasn't that much end game content. I mean, for its age there was a ton but I stopped playing for some reason or another.
Anyway, I've been playing for the past week, and they've made some great changes to this game without sacrificing effort. If you don't know yet, there's a thing called Instant Adventure that makes questing worthless because you're basically questing but you don't have to go back and turn quests in. Not only that, but you can do it as a raid. I was running around Scarwood Reach yesterday with 16 other people for 2 or 3 hours and gained 4 levels without any XP boost. It's fun, a bit of a grind, but way better and actually more fun than questing.
The best part about all of this is that they have a Mentor system where you will be temporarily de-leveld for whatever zone that needs people to instant adventure with, so you can help lowbies who are still trying to get into the game without making it boring for them by one-shotting every thing, you get tons of XP for it, and you get random loot drops that are fit for your actual level.
If you don't like the EQ style games, then don't play this, but if you want something that's not WoW but similar in style, come play. We don't even need more people, and I probably won't make an effort to play with you, I'm just saying that it's been a blast playing, even though I'm re-rolling a class I already played.
oh, and if you don't already know, this is all free2play, and not even p2w, though they have a shop. It sells boosts, and actually sells things that could make leveling a lot better, but doesn't sell anything that affects end-game content. You can actually buy REX from people using ingame currency which can be converted to store credits.
