Had two friends convince me to join them on this adventure. This was my first MMORPG and I was always reluctant to try them. Probably reverence for addiction, which my parents hammered into my brain from the start. Anyway, the combat really did suck, and I don't think I'll ever really enjoy this kind of MMORPG combat. Probably didn't help that I chose the bard class, playing the same melodies on repeat, to my rapidly decreasing sanity. We played for a hundred or so hours, then we hit a wall with this "Heading West" quest where we just got wiped time and again, and didn't specifically know where else to go. How fortunate, for I was itching to quit from the beginning.