Remember people this is still Beta!
Leveling: You can level to about level 7 in the first 2 hrs you play, that is in the first zone, the Training Zone lets say, after that it does get harder. You get almost no experience from mobs so grinding out a few levels is way too time consuming. This is a quest driven game. The easiest way to level is to join parties. This is because a mob that is 1 level above you can own you like he is an elite but the same mob at the same level takes very little effort to kill. If your higher than a mobs level then its like swatting flies. Why should you be partied then? Well, the drop rate goes up the more you have in a party. So even though everyone is still just doing there own thing they are partied to get better loot.
Parties: This game requires you to be in parties quite a lot. Some quest can only be completed while you are in a party. So if your are a solo minded player you may wish to try another game. Again this is a good thing or a bad thing. Its great when your in a big raid party and your killing mobs, completing quest, leveling etc. But if you just happen to be playing when no one wants to party with you then your kinda SOL.
PVP: I enjoy the PVP aspect of the game. It seem balanced for the most part although the slow down arrow of a scout is a "Female Dog" But it is about as refined as WOW. (damn, compared this game to WOW, guess it could not be helped). It has ship battles also which is really fun when you get to actually have them.
Biggest Gripe: Purgatory!!! So in this game you get killed you are sent to purgatory. No problem with that right? Well the higher level you are the longer you have to stay in purgatory. Yeah at level 10 it may be 13 seconds but when you reach level 40 (max level at the time) 51 min. I mean what the hell. Now you can buy Mythrel that shortens the time you spend there. With your hard earned gold or Gasp real money from the cash shop. Yeah, guess no game is really for free huh. Now one thing that is nice is that almost every item that is in the cash shop can be bought and put in the AH. Again this is a nice way to allow none paying folks a way to keep up with paying players. It also really helps keep the gold sellers down. But, if your in an heroic instance and get killed it really is a halt on playing. And yes priest can rez you however now after the newest patch you get rezed you have a 25% hit on your stats. This can be stacked four times, so really if you die 4 times you can be taken all the way down to a level zero player. But there is a potion that can take this effect off you . . . conveniently located in the cash shop.
Over all I did like this game, I'm still playing it. Like stated it is still in Beta so they could fix the whole purgatory thing when its released. I mean make it 5 min, if your in a instance your going to want to get out of purgatory to help your group and even still buy the potions with cash or gold to rejoin your group but if your just dicking around and happen to get caught by three overpowered mobs then waiting 51 min is just dumb.