Well from my experience, being in a strong active hardcore guild is really painful.
Not only time is spent into the game a lot, but the commitment that you need to put in. IS not fun at all seing ur guild mate having fun in the time attack or seige attack while you cant do much to help since you are low level. (Yeah lvl 50 in my guild is very low!).
That is why, if you plan to play casually, join eq8all, in what ever server is going to play, as he is more experience than most of the new guys out there... At least you wont get lost.
But to tell the truth, you will going to miss lot of fun if you are being slow (I don't like to agree to this but is true). All you do now is missions and quest, and when you get to 40+, all you do is grind and grind in the dungeon. Pretty standard if you want to get fast exp. So be prepare to fce what the truth in the game.
So far what i see for end game is most probably the dungeon time attack (where you take down several strong boss in a 2 party 16 players formation, in a litmited time), then the seige war where you compete against other guilds (which complete the time attack in the dungeon earlier), to own the dungeon for a week.
PvP seem ok to me but not that crucial for the the end game features. There is no guilds war so far nor any guilds between guild fight. Maybe in event later, we do not know.
And for those who are eager for the epic 3, i got the video footages of the epic 3 from one of our guild members (a GM who test for epic 3), but i cant post here, guild copy right problem ,lol. But i can tell you, the attack speed is almost 1.5X faster than now, and the damage is slightly higher too. And I see is much easier to solo now that before, depending on your class. Hope is going to rock....
All we hope now is the 2nd job btw, which is forcasted to be released soon. So stay tune for more info
This post has been edited by jenniferjen: Dec 18 2006, 10:45 PM