As i have only been playing the expansion for 3 days now.. alot of that time i have been lagged out to the point of exasperation.. there is really not all that much content to call it ‘Major’.

Moria was ‘major’, it was huge, it WAS epic to the point of being worth spending the money to repurchase or upgrade your account. Most of the new content is not available to players that haven’t purchased the upgrade and the new content that takes place on the old areas.. well players are SOL on that as well… if they want to capitalize on it.

The skills are rehashes, and from my kinmates that have different classes, the only one that i have heard is any good is the minstrels class. The hunter gets a port to the new area.. so that is beneficial.. not really all that imaginative.. but beneficial.

New virtues.. haven’t seen them.. i have seen that you can gain more in some of the old virtues, BUT, with the cap still at 10, as it was for the MoM expansion.. what is the point of giving you more of something that you can’t use anyway.. is it gonna change, who knows.

Server load.. is mediocre at best.. the product stayed in ‘Beta’ for a while and maybe they didn’t get the amount of players necessary to do an extreme test.. BUT.. the players that are paying for the content.. are asked to be patient as a half baked, roughly polished product was released to the world.. which is becoming the common thing..sadly enough. Whats with the idea of throw it out there and perform major changes in stride to something playable.

The skirmish system is pretty great.. great concept.. fun.. but for how long.. is it gonna get better in the coming months.. maybe… don’t know. The reward system for it is pretty..not so wonderful. It gives you ‘Skirmish Points’ that are stackable in your already overfull bags.. and allows you to buy up and down and across to gain the type of things that you are interested in buying,which were reskins from other pieces.. and rather non-useful if you are already at the old ‘Cap level’ of 60. Nothing really to take away from there. The skirmishes themselves are fun… for now.

I am writing this review as i sit, and once again, wait for the servers to be down, hotfixed and brought back up. The reason that i like playing in the morning is that most people are elsewhere and i don’t have to spawncamp to get the kills that i need to wait for a major boss to be open for slaying.. BUT.. someone had the bright idea of dropping it in the middle of the day when most, that can play, are waiting to.. oh and they just extended it from 0900-1100 to 0900 to 1 pm. Lucky us..

So.. first impression.. eh.. play it in a month when it is refined and the user forces the designer to make something that we waited months for and had to pre-purchase with the illusions of excitement..

Or.. don’t and save you some green for the next best thing..