Update on my adventures so far.

I started out with a 4 team of Bezerker, Warden, Dirge and Beastlord in New Halas. Dropped the Warden as I didn't have fun with 4 chars. Got to level 20 refining the ISBoxer set up but just wasn't feeling the team.

So I went back to my day one level 75 Swashbuckler and a level 30 Warden I had on another account. Made a Bruiser to eventually take over tanking duties although the mentored Swash is an unstoppable force at this point. I created a guild called Starfall Buccaneers and some pirate outfits for the team and I am having a blast.

The Bruiser is now 28 ish and I have just been doing content I haven't done before - Condemned Catacombs, Firemyst Gully and cleared Crushbone Keep. Everyone is getting lots of AA which is helping play as a 3 box.

As for Mercs I am using the Dirge full time for run speed and buffs. The Inquisitor was great but I ended up getting CE version of CoE for my main account and using the werewolf Templar. Krivox is awesome and heals/cures/rezzes really well.
The Dirge rezzes very quickly as well when needed.

For the third Merc I settled on the Ranger. Does some great damage and generally stays out of the way. He can pull agro pretty quickly though but Krivox looks after him.

I tried the Mystic Merc for a bit but he was terrible, no healing and no rezzing and looked to be just auto attacking.

Unrest server has a good community and there is always lots of stuff on the Broker and things sell ok. Stuff on the broker isn't as overpriced as I thought so money hasn't been an issue.

Even for someone who has played this game on and off for years there are so many systems and things to keep track of it is daunting. Having lots of fun though.