Thanks! I'm glad that we could provide you with some useful information about the game, it really was a pretty enjoyable experience. As far as it being solo friendly, I found it very much so at least in those early levels. Mainly with how the questing seemed to work and the fact that it was very similar to WoW, Swtor, Rift etc. The addition of the FATE system was also pretty solo friendly as well. If you've never played Guild Wars, then think how the rift events in Rift worked; events you could pretty much join in on whenever you were near, but could then go back to solo questing as soon as they were complete without really even needing to form an official party.

The group oriented guildhestes seemed completely optional missions as far as I could tell and just gave additional gold and exp, but weren't connected to the main story in anyway. So if you prefer soloing I don't think you would need to feel pressured in doing them. One thing I will say though in regards to that is that they do provide a lot of exp. which I think helped me stay on track as far as the leveling curve went. But I did skip a few of the first couple side-quests( and there are a lot) so that might have been why. If you find yourself needing some additional exp though the solo guildleve quests and the FATEs give a ton also.

Again this is only my experience up until a little past level 15, so I'm not entirely sure how it will change( if at all) at the higher levels, but if I'm able to get there and see what it's like then I'll probably do a follow up piece aimed more at the high level/endgame experience. I hope this helps though and thanks for reading our stuff. :)

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

Yeah, I don't seeing people who played in 1.0 or even in FF11 really seeing a huge difference in the way the combat works. Mainly just those who have never played either.