I decided to hop onto NL this past weekend to check it out for the first time since it launched (I played for a couple weeks back then).
Man...I want to like NL. I do like the simplicity of things (like you don't need any treasure hunting skills to do chests), but after I hadn't played the shard for almost a year (easily 9-10 months) I found myself bored within 30minutes of logging in because there wasn't any boss up and Blackthorn wasn't ready. That left me with literally the same handful of town quests I did back 10 months ago for the same stuff....so maybe things are too simple? I don't know.
I decided to build a tamer on another tamer that I can send to an off-shard where he will probably just be a pet holder. Even the starting up of the character (which is my 5th toon on the shard now) felt a little "ughhh" with needing to run through Occlo to click this and that to decide my path. I feel like there should be an option to bypass that part and go straight to Moonglow (for a mage).
For the shard being something the Dev team was very intentional on telling you what to do/where to click (ie the little sparkle & quests etc), I do find myself kind of not knowing what to do (easily) at times and things don't seem super intuitive.
I will say that for the most part the people on the shard are very helpful so when I get stuck asking usually works, but there have been a few things people haven't been able to answer and with it being such a new shard the answers aren't even online. Lastly, while I do enjoy the community on NL, I also feel like it's the same 10-15 people so when I've played in the morning it feels extra empty.
