Eh, general combat wasn't hard at all. It was actual bosses and dungeon trash that took awhile to kill, and a lot of it had to do with the fact that -many- players simply didn't optimize their builds for anything, and I would wager that some had points spent in borderline useless stuff. When I finally got into groups where players weren't newblars, it was a cakewalk and shit died fast. Not even overgeared (though I think that was basically impossible if they were doing the newblar dungeons), just not having points spent in abilities they don't use and similar, as well as watching the floor.
Interrupt armor was a bitch, for real, even in groups of people who generally were good otherwise. It helped immensely if one person (read: me) just had a super interrupt heavy build as a warrior. I think I could get 3 or 4, and with points spent in them they had similar cooldowns, so it was just a matter of waiting for abilities on bosses and then dropping my interrupts as a group. More often than not, it would remove the armor, and one of the other group members would use their token interrupt because even monkeys know that if you see a long casting animation, you try to stun it out of it.
I thought the world/design/feel was pretty great, it was just the way that dungeons and the quests were specifically designed that got to me during the trial month. Dungeons were retardedly overtuned for their level ranges, and there was a lot of "collect 10 bear asses" type quests, which I'm not a fan of at all. Otherwise I enjoyed it, but time commitments for mmos are not really tailor made for my schedule anymore, and the amount of coordination that even the newbie dungeons required kind of made me think EQ: Space edition and I decided that I'm too casual for being hardcore enough to enjoy the game at a price.
Now, since it is free, dinking around in it every now and again doesn't seem like a bad idea at all.
