It's pretty nice so far, but haven't been in the beta but for a couple of days.
The starting area is fun, but very very fast paced. It most likely is only the beta effect (boosting xp and the likes?), but I hit lvl 9 in a matter of two hours or less. The zone layout reminds me a bit of Lesser Faydark, sort of layered, but a bit easier to figure my way around the zones.
Only adding 20 extra AA points in each tree without altering them at all (which is what I saw last I logged in anyway) does not really seem like an improvement to me.
I have been saving my AA's. I have 4 built up ATM. As a necro I ahve maxed out my pet stats in that AA tree. I put a few into enhanced heals and the rest in my normal tree. I would like to max out my STA tree but I can't put any more points into my summoner AA's till the expansion comes out.
I would have rather seen new AA's instead of epics, but this is coming from somebody who probably will never see the epic.
Well, the spells I have seen are just upgrades to our previous. Most of them are nothing special. Im more looking forward to the quests, content, raid stuff, etc. more so than the new spells, skills, AA points, etc.
Well if the new racial traits are part of the expansion...those are in too so thats cool lol. My pally is only level 63 so i still have a long way to go on the leveling side, and im not even capped AAs so 20 more for each tree is good for me. I did like the sarnak race but ive always liked me since EQ1 and wished that they were playable so it finally came true hehehe.
The zpmes i grouped in for testing seemed fun but hard...is it just me or were group mobs smacking the crap out of raid buffed toons >.<
The four year rewards are pretty nice, definitely getting those as soon as my computer is better again. (in case you were wondering how I got this posted then, it's just my vid card, very poor timing!)