Since this looks like the thread for it, I'd like to vent just a bit about Lost Ark. I decided to give it a try, and made a Mage character. The intro promptly dropped in my lap that I'm not only the chosen one, but the double chosen one and the most special person to have ever lived among my kind at that.

Is there an MMORPG on the market that doesn't do stuff like this, aside from World of Warcraft? It's one of the few things I miss from that game—that your character who started from humble beginnings actually starts from humble beginnings. None of this "handpicked by God" stuff.