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The game itself is / was a fairly mindless wack a mole game and fun on a casual level.
I first played during the beta test and stopped playing the year before it shifted to steam as I just got bored of it and didn't like some of the changes they had done.
I remember when there was some kind of private server for this game and it was amazing because not only were the drops/class balance better, but you started with 2 inventory tabs. Unfortunately this server does not exist anymore.
The skill system is weird, bad even but I am not willing to reach the new level cap to find out how will it feel. Why? You see, the 45 level jump didn't really bring much content alongside it. Now let's say that your leveling progress 1-55 is 30h( a random number, I made it to 55 in 20 hours with previous ingame knowledge, but lots of sidetracking as well), however once you make it to, say, 55 more or less you end up with no new content except for the new expansion. Said expansion contains around..5(?) zones, each of them with a small amount of quests and assets copied from the previous areas. What is bad about them however is that while open world they're divided in difficulties *and* you have to grind a currency to progress in multiple occasions. Now, if you were a veteran player you had tons of that currency as that was something you earned out of previous content, especially on high difficulty it was really easy to obtain. As a new player? As far as I remember you have access to the first 2 difficulties of the new areas at first, difficulties unlock with level, the earlier ones give basically none of said currency/
Weeell, your options are: grind it, ask strangers to carry you through the higher difficulty parallel worlds(aka the old content i mentioned) so you can stack up on it while hopefully getting something out of the lottery that is the gearing system or do different old content scaled to your level and grind it at the highest difficulty you can in the most efficient manner.
Now the thing is, in the process of doing that unless you're getting carried through the high difficulty mode you're getting nonexistent experience, while also progressing through basically everything. Having done 2 zones out of the new expansion my new alt had earned experience enough for a level(I was trying to mirror a new player experience). So, let's say that you finish the questline, it'd be optimistic to say that you'd maybe hit lvl 60.
What about the remaining 40? Grind low difficulties in the old world and potentially spend many hours repeating old content trying to hit cap.
I mentioned the gearing lottery: let's say for example you have a ring drop. You have potential main stats like health, crit, resistance(to a specific element) and enchantments that can be anything, including things the item will not benefit from whatsoever and also a chance for sockets. Now, what is worse is that every item has a % on the stats. Let's say it rolls damage, it can be 40 or it can be 80 or higher. Every single line is random. Much of your time spent playing will be trying to get acceptable base stats on a unique item then grinding a recipe that allows you to put stats off of another item by crafting. Again, higher difficulties are your best option due to item level and higher % stat chance as well as higher chance on rare drops. The issue is that no matter what they increase enemy health by a crazy amount with every increase. And yes, it's mainly health, damage goes up too but not by as much, which, yes, it does mean that higher difficulty is straight up better in most cases.
I keep saying that the higher difficulties are way better for rewards - yes, it makes sense, however the pace at which you upgrade feels terrible as well as the low playerbase not being able to sustain groups at lower difficulties. The majority of players was always in the very late endgame and people before that were just left behind. At the time I would spend hours upon hours helping people catch up. The grind was painful but without that they never would have gotten there. In reality though, that time was wasted as this was a problem that the devs made and only they could solve.
As I was writing my last sentence above I realized that I've missed so many things but this should be enough. It's not all negative and it absolutely has an audience but it has only been going downhill for years. Feel free to try it but please keep this and everything older players have been saying. Feel free to ask stuff as well, i'll be subbed to the discussion and get notifications.
Feel free to try other games too, if you like the grind go for old school runescape, i've never played it but there's a reason why it's one of the two MMO games that are still growing, alongside Final Fantasy XIV for so many years. If you want it to be an ARPG go for Path of Exile or Diablo 4 which releases 2 weeks from this comment.
Paid games cost you less than free to play ones in the long run. Please consider this.