Ok. So, my experience with mmos goes all the way back to the original EQ days. EQ bored me to death. It's battle system was so slow. I played WoW as a mage during the burning crusade era. I agree that it was fun trying to form my own type of mage. I decided to be a frost/fire mage. I had a blast! ...until I had to raid. I was told that my super fun build that got me to lvl cap just wasn't cutting it and I had to build it their way. On top of that, I was forced to do raid A to get gear for raid B to get gear for PvP to get gear for Raid C. Needless to say...I quit that game very quickly and never looked back.