I gave this a go this weekend as a Chosen Marauder. For whatever reason, it sunk it's hooks in me deep. The RvR combat (I never played DoAC so I just assumed it's like Battlegrounds) availible right from level 1 is awsome. It took me a bit to understand how to play, and I still don't get the whole crafting aspect side (not that I tried to get into it mind you). But soon, I was plunging myself into the enemy ranks, sowing discord with my axe and sword arm on any that stood before me. I wasn't good enough to take on 1v2, but in any 1v1 match I generally got the better of my opponent. Especially casters who think they can run .

Mabye it's because I always liked the aspect of PVP more than I do PvE. You can join the queue to the PVP scenario whenever you like when your in the respective zones that it represents. When your called to battle, you are ported there. When your done, you respawn exactly where you accepted to enter, letting you go right back to questing. There is also two repeatable quests for the scenario that I was doing. One involves killing 10 players, which is easy since in scenarios your in a group. Second is just to play the scenario. Might as well just keep doing these since it added an extra 1.3K experiance on top of whatever you got from the battle. Granted, the battles themselves were lending me around 6K exp when we won.

One thing to note about the RvR, it raises your level to (what I believe) the minimum required for that zone. For the 2 areas I was in, that level was 8, so if you came in any lower, while in the zone you were given a buff that leveled you and all your abilites to 8. (unlike WoW, your spells/abilites don't have ranks from what I can see. Instead, every level you gain increases thier power.) Once I hit lv 8, the buff no longer appeared, and lv 9 I didn't see any debuffs to mark me down. That said, the highest I have come accross is lv 10.

One more thing, Killing players is definitly the way to go leveling wise. Sure, you can do quests and whatnot and it works very well in itself, but if you can kill a player in single combat outside of scenarios, you are going to net yourself some serious XP and gear. Twice I have killed players solo, and each time it netted me over 1K exp and usually green level gear (same type of tiers in WoW, white is basic, green is uncommon, don't know what's higher).

In short, I think I will suspend my 5boxing and reseve me a copy of WAR.