I started gaming with UO and although I am a part of the old school gaming group I still think that games are getting better all the time. One thing I was almost always crying for when playing EQ1 and AO was a way to get from point "A" to point "B" …
No pet pathing still has not been fixed, although now when your pet gets stuck he will "pop" to you after a few agonizing seconds of dying... I have a 148 Engineer and yes you DO need a high level meta-physicist (Theres the spelling for you Kyuuten …