Hello all, I'm from a similarly small minority who are being ushered out of Vanguard (which if you'd be curious enough to try, operates through July 31). I've sampled a lot of things, and newer titles aren't really doing it for me. Admittedly, Istaria is not an easy find from general searching, but I made it. So far I've been kicking around New Trismus and Lesser Aradoth to get the feel of a few classes and I see a pretty good chance of spending some time here.
My concern is that it looks a bit like a solo crafting game. Is that mainly what happens?
I'm quite fond of a sort of classical group that revolves around tanking and healing and where challenge remains. I don't think there are named dungeons or anything like that. If I get something up around level 30, what would you start grouping for? One person's quest at a time, or something like that? Does it become faceroll, or can you selectively find targets as hard as you want?
It also looks pretty common for people to stack multiple 100 schools on a character. Is that pretty much required to do the endgame or highest level mobs?
Thanks for any replies and maybe start seeing some of you in-game.