I'll be very very interested to read your "Snafzg returns to WAR" articles. There were really only a handful of things that truly irritated me with the game (I was a Black Orc), but unfortunately they were dealbreakers (in order):

* Stability Issues & Lag - I got my Black Orc up to rank 33 or so, and the Keep sieges were unplayable...and I bought a hardcore new computer JUST to play WAR! If I wasn't lagging out all to hell, I was getting crashes to desktop.

* Incredibly boring/frustrating Keep Sieges - everything else about RvR was fantastic, but the Keeps were terrible. If you were attacking a Keep, it was beat on a door, then beat on the next door, then try to go up a single ramp and kill an NPC. Beating on doors for 5 minutes is a yawnfest. If I was *defending* a Keep...well as a melee player if you don't grab a siege weapon you really are just waiting around for them to break through that first door. And if you happen to die, it's a run back from your warcamp, where somehow you gotta get through the mob of Order to get back into the Keep (which I guess makes sense but is still really frustrating)

* Extremely low population - I think I'm one of the few that loved the graphics and the look of WAR. It wasn't dull at all to me...as a matter of fact it was a welcome change from the candyland colors of WoW (which I have recently quit playing...again lol) The WAR world is MASSIVE, but it's no fun if there's no one around to play with/against! It felt that they needed like 10x more players per server to make the world alive. And public quests? They were AWESOME, I could do them all day long...but forget even trying given the population.

Of course the lack of decent crafting, class imbalance (oh how i hated AOE knockbacks into the lava), etc didn't help matters, but those three things were the main reasons I left.

I *really* wanted to love this game, so maybe you will give us hope in your return to WAR! If you do this though, you are going to have to go all the way to Tier 4 and report on how it is, ok? Also, pick the highest pop server there is!