they're hard at work. next patch is in about 3 weeks and it will be the biggest to date. Release was scheduled for mid July but I believe their marketing team has advised them to push the date back because of Albion and some other stuff. So it will most likely be the fall when it is released or soon after.
Racial conflict will be a big thing. Low players should have plenty to do fighting the Faction wars on the borders of their territory. Also local banking and local markets will make the game similar to Albion and Eve online where you can make a living trading goods and selling gear. They have done a lot so far making the combat much more fluid than it was before, and have made gear more frontloaded and allowing mixing and matching to work much better than before. They have also recently added timed spell reflect skills and timed block/parrying where you can actually react to swings and block with your shield in time (this was not possible before). etc.
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Racial conflict will be a big thing. Low players should have plenty to do fighting the Faction wars on the borders of their territory. Also local banking and local markets will make the game similar to Albion and Eve online where you can make a living trading goods and selling gear. They have done a lot so far making the combat much more fluid than it was before, and have made gear more frontloaded and allowing mixing and matching to work much better than before. They have also recently added timed spell reflect skills and timed block/parrying where you can actually react to swings and block with your shield in time (this was not possible before). etc.