I came back to the game this weekend after being gone a few years. I just bought the new expansion and paid for a game sub (or course) I left off in the middle of patch 2.3 content at level 50.

Let me just say that getting through the 2.3 to 2.55 content to get to the expansion is one of the worst experiences I've had in an MMO. It is absolutely painful. So much fluff. So much pointless teleporting around. Very little combat or exploring the world.

The number of excruciatingly long and boring dialog cut-scenes is crazy! Usually voice acting denotes an important cut-scene, but not always. Sometimes, it's a meeting about politics and very dry.

The worst thing though is the quest structure. Go here, talk to person x, then go back to the Rising Stones. Over and over and over. Very tedious. This is an MMO, where is the combat? I did enjoy the fights with the Eidelons and the dungeons, I just wish there was more of that. I played about 10 hours Sunday, and about 2 of it was fun .