Anyone else here playing it? I played in the Open Beta for a couple of weeks and promptly got hooked, after several weeks of research as well. It's a pretty awesome game, definately worth checking out for any MMORPG fan.
I play on a PvE (Player vs. Environment) sever. Basically this means that you can still PvP by participating in raiding Alliance/Horde cities and killing their guards and NPCs and whatnot, but you won't be open game 24/7 everywhere you go. If you attack one of these said NPCs you become "flagged" for PvP and other players can now attack you, which flags them as well. This state ends after 5 minutes of not attacking other players/enemy NPCs.
The game is heavily quest oriented. You can almost always find a plethora of quests in whatever area you're in, most of which rewarding you money and items (useful ones, at that ) and a sizeable chunk of exp. Many quests can be soloed, as well as much of the rest of the game if you really want to, however there are what they call "Elite" quests that send you into dungeons and places where you'd have to be insane (or really dumb) to try and go it alone.
Many of the major dugeons in the game are "instanced", in other words loaded by the server upon entry for each team that enters. This means that you will never have other people camping your mobs or training mobs onto you, or otherwise making your life miserable, since when you go in you all get your very own copy of the place to play around in.
I'm not going to get into all the tradeskills there are to choose from, but I will say the system is very well done. Your skills go up quickly enough by making items just within your ability and so long as you have the skills you get an automatic success, no lost components or failures. VERY handy.
I'm on Stormrage, in the USEastern selection group. I currently have 4 characters made that I intend to play, however I'm focusing on one in particular for the moment:
- Bags - Undead Mage lvl10 (yes, he's a tailor )
- Ichy - Undead Rogue lvl1 (my intended main, once I can make 8 slot bags and mail them to him)
- Bhoveenius - Tauren Hunter lvl1 (Cows with guns! I played this one in Open Beta for a few days, very cool)
- George - Human Paladin lvl1 (I had the thought I may want to try a Paladin someday and don't like the model for Dwarves, so Human was the only other choice. I doub't I'll spend much time on him, though. I have a strong disliking for Alliance character concepts. *shrug*)
That's about all I had to say. I'm real excited about the game, maybe I'll see soem of you in there