Yep, I fear going over the Anduin River to Mirkeaves upon release will be a pure lag-o-rama in the first days. I heard Skirmishes have “slots” like session play, now I am on a highly populated server, I wonder if I feel like a thief if I start a solo play session… I already do. I guess I will team up with a bunch of guild mates early on.

COMBAT – uhoh. This does not sound too cool. Now that we all got used to the way it plays. In the end the revamp might be not really that much else besides executing skills immediately and just skipping animations. Which will inevitably look jerky. Execute a slow, longish animated skill and then press the “clobber” button and it will immediately execute the interrupt skill. There must be some jerkiness if they did not create some animations to bridge the gap, and I am afraid judging from your report they did not.

I fear you did not have the time to check if weapon damage ranges of all weapons got normalized. This is one of my concerns that they are a bit too similar after this change.

Kudos to you for fighting on Bullroarer. I guess I should find something else to play during the first week after release. We don’t have any events at the moment and on Mondays and Thursdays (EU raid resets) my servers is really cramped full of players. A good thing, in general. So I won’t complain too much about it.