It is really well polished for a new MMO. I have only experienced very minor bugs, mainly with nameplates and the preorder bag. Difficulty actually ramps up as you level. This is something that I have not seen in almost 10 years from an MMO, Really looking forward to dungeon and raid content.
There are A LOT of minor bugs that i have found. But nothing that really breaks the game or anything. Mostly just minor UI related bugs. like the quest tracker sometimes goes weird and overlaps quests. But /reloadui fixes it. Same sometimes my bags when if irst log in only show like 15 slots. but after a few minutes will show all of them. Again not a big deal just minor annoyances.
Combat has gotten a bit more fun now that i am level 19. The first 1-10 are pretty much just stand and pew pew. you could more or less just stand still. But it is ramping up to where you have to be more dynamic and dodge enemy abilities. Some of the guys ive been fighting if you just stay right in front will hit for ~50% of your health or more. Which make sit a bit more fun instead of what i felt like it was in WoW where you could just stay put and nuke a lot of the time.
Gold has also really picked up. Seems like level 1-15 they give you juuuussssttt enough gold if you were smart with it to buy your mount just from vendoring and questing. But in 4 levels since then i have made ~16 gold or so just from vendoring and questing again. So it seems like theres a bit of a weird imbalance where they limit it but right after 15 just start to give out more. But also buying abilities and stuff goes up in price.
The CX (commodities exchange) is also amazing. makes selling off ores and herbs and crap simple. The ui for it needs some work. like if i want to sell just ores there isnt a filter to just show them. least not that i saw. But i like it just shows "what are they selling for" so you dont have to scan or anything. makes tossing everything up on the CX pretty simple and easy.
The questing is pretty typical recent MMO. Go to Zone. In zone start at base 1. Do bunch of mission in base 1. last mission in base 1 sends you off to base 2. Rinse and repeat till next zone. The quests are all pretty much go click this, gather this, or kill these type mission. Which is fine with me as it keeps questing simple
So far i am enjoying the game. im going at a MUCH slower pace than i did in SWTOR. More just playing a level a night type thing and relaxing outside of game. So maybe that has kept my interest in the game a lot better to. I do feel like there is tons of content even at low levels. The areas feel big enough to not be cramped but small enough to not be running all over.
Also Carbine/NC Soft did a good job with the servers IMO. I went to Stormtalon with a new guild. First day wasnt tooo bad but we hit queues at night. By monday night though our queue was 2k people long and took 2 hours to get in. But since the transfers came online i think a lot of people have jumped to other servers. The queue tonight was only 400 or so and took ~15 minutes.
By the way the free guest passes went out and i have three. 7 day trails more or less if anyone wants to give it a shot let me know