This game does seem to lack a certain something once you've played it a while... immersion? Once you've played any given class of character for 25 levels or so, it's like you've seen all there is to be seen and the next 55 levels are more of the same. Features that normally provide variety, like tradeskilling, are just tedious and dull. I couldn't even get excited about getting my mount, which was a huge milestone back when I played WoW. I suspect if you came back and looked at AoC again in a year or so, when they've had time to implement all the content they keep talking about, it would be a much better game. And if it doesn't get more interesting soon I may do just that.