well, sort of never left, but haven't played the game in over two months. A few other games and mostly real life work, made it easy for me to just wait for release of the latest chronicle.
There appear to be some class changes, and balancing issues; but that's par of the MMO course.
I really like the new race and area a lot, but since my highest level is 60, I can't really take advantage of the higher level content, so I rolled a newbie Kameal and really enjoying it.
If any of you spent time testing this new race and can give me the readers digest version of class choice, I'd be grateful. If it's too early for any one to really know, even from the test server, that would be good to know to, so I can roll the dice. A strong PvP character would be nice, but if I had to give up being the ultimate PvP god, for a class that's overall more fun to play, I would take the one more fun to play.
I may have missed it, but I didn't see any thing in the patch notes about a Graphics Update, but the world sure does look a lot more vibrant and three dimensional. Don't get me wrong. I thought it looked awesome before, running it at 1920 x 1200 in high detail, but it does indeed look improved upon, and the UI changes are very sweet, especially the radar map.
Great to be back, and happy holidays to you all. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow, when my kids upen the gifts we bought them, and "I" get to play with them =)
Cheers -Bambam