We need to go deeper.

[Ricky]

I tend to agree, I really enjoyed World of Warcraft but I miss when I used to give a crap about the world because it had multiple things to do instead of queue into a dungeon. I LOVE looking for group tools because they expedite the PVE content but I miss just having multiple things to do instead of everything funneling me into like.. 3 places, tops
Level sync will probably go a long way to helping with this, and I hope we get merits too

[SodRansom]

and I hope we get merits too

This. I was actually just thinking about the topic this thread is on the other day. I just hit 50 for the first time, and it hit me that if I want to continue making my lvl 50 better, the only way to do that is this scenario you're talking about - dungeon ad nauseum. I think adding a merit system would be awesome. It should be really hard and time consuming to hit max on your character, and currently its rather an easy thing to do.

I was also loving all the ideas in the original post. To sum up what I feel I was hearing you say is that it would be great to get more of a reward for different achievements rather than just having your title change. Right now it's you've unlocked a or b achievement, and nothing happens. And it doesn't have to be item rewards either. I loved the idea of unlocking tidbits of storyline through exploring more and more of the world map. Great ideas!