I hope the comparison to WOW here isn't a negative one because leveling in AO is the most boring aspect of it's gameplay. Dailies improved that alot, but that's certainly not what I would call fast leveling, so it's not WoW in that respect. Even though endgame raids are a massive grind, it's not even close to the hell of leveling to 220. The writing is on the wall: FC wants people to play at the endgame and experience all the content they have introduced there in the last 5 years. It is a big diversion from SL and Ai approach and it was bound to happen: how many GD's has AO went through? Each has their own spin on the direction of the game. At the same time, I can recall how crap it was to level in those days as well. Anyone that complains about how 'easy' it is to level now has lost their perspective on how hard it was before. I honestly doubt that anyone wants to see TL7's que for heckler spots in inferno, do tundra in Adonis and farm faction spawning Mord EVER again. The alternative to 'easy' here is 'stupid'. I will pick easy thanks.