Oh definitely not a perfect game but i'm excited about the faction system being put in 1.0. Definitely some better methods within CoF to help on farming stand point as well as better access to gear if you want to go the merchant side. I am happy they made it much harder to efficiently RMT...don't get me wrong I have no issues using RMT myself but actually rather not have it present in masses.
Between the few bosses and end game mono grind plenty to keep you busy but you need to have that "Alt" desire or else i could see the game getting stale. For me there is enough good design decisions so far coupled with listening to the community that I am confident that major areas of concern will eventually be addressed on expanding the game loop side.
I took a break from Sept to now but getting ready to get back into it pretty hard at least until AoC alpha 2. I actually hate the idea of cycles/seasons personally, never been a fan of that with other ARPG's, rather they do content updates quarterly with new challenges and do an expansion yearly or something but such as life. I have 90+ stash tabs and really enjoy trying to make unique/OP builds that people haven't come up with but I'll probably start on new cycle and go merchant just to get the idea of how a new cycle economy will work out. No reason to go new cycle out the gate if you are going CoF really....outside of ladder.
Will see...hope they release patch notes with a few days notice before launch so i can decide on my final game plan. Probably play my juggernaut werebear build as that's the most fun and can scale really high with gear but has a strong base foundation once you come online by lvl 80. Then chase 3 items on the open market and make my 2nd character after death squirrels build...looks like they nerfed the weapons on it but still pretty nasty for ST DPS/boss killer.
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Falconer looks really cool but not my playstyle...think wife is going to try that if we start on new cycle. Haven't looked at warlock in detail yet and never tried runemaster yet so will have plenty of pet projects to keep me busy.