Thanks all of you, you make me want to give it a go just for most of the responses! One of the things that I did like about the game when I first played was the friendliness of the other players, which first got me when I was struggling to fight through a leve and a random passerby stopped and buffed me up (so to speak).

I've only got around 5 hours a week to spare at the moment, so it actually might be good just to do some basic levelling until the next round of patches appear.

Thanks again! and... I should always bite my tongue when people on the internet are wrong. It never goes anywhere truly good (doh!)