Also on faeblight, and I too have actually been harassed for "macroing" by guildies (Shattered Pact). A couple of the officers have been very nice to me or else I would probably have left. Other than that I was harassed by one guy in an IA and that was pretty much it.

I haven't been doing any pvp content because if I queue with 5 it takes a very very long time and when I get a battleground it starts with just me versus the other team. If I queue with 1-3 I get a normal fullish group so I'm not sure what is wrong with their queue system, it is obviously inferior to wow that it starts short of the full number.

I also find this baffling. In wow I always thought that the few resentful people I encountered were annoyed that I'd "bought" an advantage over them, and most people were just curious about it. In rift literally anyone can do the same so its obviously not jealousy. Given that a boxer is a huge advantage in an ia or sealing a rift I'd expect a warmer welcome. And people being rude in /g is, as you say, appalling.

My interest in the game has cooled somewhat (team at 41), probably related to the lack of finding a good community. I levelled a toon to 50 two years ago but then didn't really have anyone to play with once I geared out from experts so I dropped it. I actually think that is probably the breaking point for me with most MMOs. In wow I've had multiple groups of friends I really liked over the years, but I wonder if that was just a fluke after mostly finding people to be interchangable in other games. I think I liked some people enough to give them all my money when I quit aion, but I'd be hard pressed to name one non-wow person that I've played with in the last five years.