100% in line with you OP.

I was actually hoping to come back to farming similar areas in groups again, it was hands down the most social part of the game to me. Spending hours upon hours playing with the same people and talking about dumb ****, everyone playing their role. It's either solo play or run around and kill everything mindlessly for me so far. I like the friendslist /exp and the events going on. Hate the skill changes but we'll have to see what they had in mind with all that.

Why these quests though? what was wrong with the old system? it was fun and nerv racking expecting a pker at any time.