Well, I’m not cancelling just yet. Paladins turn out to be much more fun than Warriors (thanks to Paul for the suggestion), but…
*While levelling is pretty quick at the beginning, it seems to slow down much faster than in CoH and a lot less happens when you level. My Paladin is now level 13, but I don’t think I’ve gotten a new spell since level 10, nor been able to weild a new weapon or acquire better armor. So the only thing that seems to happen is stats get unnoticeably better (at least, I can’t tell any difference from having them go up by 1), and you get extra talent points, which again provide very small incremental benefits.
*There’s still very little customization: all stats for a class start the same and advance the same, and while in theory you can choose which spells to take, in practice you can afford to take them all (at least so far). That leaves talents, which so far you do have to pick and choose which ones you want, and magic stuff, which Paul tells me is eventually how characters end up being different.
*Finding people to team up with is hard I think I offered to just about everyone near my level fighting in the same area last night, and all I got was refusals. The one time I did team up with someone I regretted it, because he just charged off, wandering farther and farther from the area where I had quests, and every time I asked what he was up to he just said “kill stuff”
*It’s the rp server, but I hardly notice any rp going on, except people standing around the inn in Goldshire. Maybe it’s all on team chat so I can’t overhear it…
*Are there any trainers or a forge anywhere in the Westfall area? I can’t find them, but running back to Goldshire is a pain in the butt
*I briefly tried a Horde character (an Undead Warlock). Interesting to see the area they start out in…very reminiscent of the Playstation game Medieval. Ultimately too creepy for me, though. I don’t really like running around staring at my character’s exposed spine all the time…
*I also tried a Dwarf rogue briefly. I like the snowy area outside of Ironforge, but I’m not sure about the class. Hard to tell at 1st level, and I didn’t get to try any of the quests, because that’s the character who had the unfortunate choice of companions. I should have realized there was something bizarre about a 6th level character wanting to team with a just-materialized 1st level…
