Ok time for my first little review.
I just spent since my last post levelling and playing a Shadow Warrior.
Now the starting location for the elfs was nice and easy, few quests, spread out a little and simple go here, kill x and go back. So it was a nice intro.
I swiftly found that the SW needs to jump in and out of stances and with a 5sec cooldown, that really made combat clunky.
The combat it self seemed quite unresponsive and slow paced (i do understand that im only level 5 at the moment) the global cooldown system on my main melee damaging ability doesnt seem to work, if you spam the key, you'll hit 3-4 times in a row with the same skill only costing little energy. The animations of the combat skills and actions feel rigid and not very fluid, sometimes my animations would become either stuck or i wouldnt even get the animation at all. I dont quite understand wether or not i've tagged the mob for me to loot, so im finding im running up to peoples mobs spamming right click to loot.
Questing is straight forward, nothing interesting at the moment, PQ's seem alien to me and i dont understand how they trigger, how to track them and so on.
The world looks nice, its around the same style as LOTRO but with a shorter high level detail draw distance and the enviroments miss the polish that i'm used to from WoW.
The overall character animation moving, running, jumping feel really average. Running, all characters look the same and all bend over like there spine looses all function. Jumping down from ledges gives you this wierd sticking e.g. fall a bit, stick, fall a bit, stick and if that doesnt happen, you actually get an alright fall animation.
Sorry for the negatives but thats what im experiancing at the moment. I'm going back in.