I tried out AoC for 2 months, but I don't think WAR will even get me to try that second month. The game itself is great, like AoC, and it definitely feels more "complete." My biggest gripe, and the one that prevents me from enjoying it, is the way abilities work. Animations are static-length, so with spell pushback you'll see your spell go off well before it actually does. Nothing like seeing my sorc's doombolt fly to the target and they don't take damage for 2s. If you move after the animation finishes, the spell cancels. Same thing with the ice spike graphic. It's supposed to be instant-cast, yet I often sit there spamming the button and it takes 2-3 seconds to go off. Sometimes the animation will go off after the spell casts, so the people who get hit with it aren't the people where the graphic is.

Then there's morale abilities, which you can click 105921037418094731284 times and they don't fkn go off. It feels like WoW with horrible latency, all the time.

I won't even get started about the mail lag... but when 5-10s latency to open a mail starts to feel fast you know there's something wrong.