I thought feedback from someone new to the server would be a nice difference for once, so here I go:
I played a Blademaster in my first run and it went rather well. Sure you have the usual problem that you end up with full meele-groups, but till mid/high 30s that's no problem at all.
After that it gets tricky. CC-Chars or healers instantly /disbanding when they see your BM is not a great thing. The premade-problem also REALLY takes effect as soon as you hit the 40s. It's so unbearable that I made almost no rp at all, because the "good" classes always /disbanded and the "bad" classes always stayed.
In conclusion: The biggest problem for a casual Meele class is by far the premade-groups and the mindset of not wanting to play with more than 1 meele class in a grp (rather disband). Solutions would be a ban on premades probably, but I get how this would ruin fun for some.
Speaking of ruining fun for others, I also rolled a Ranger (when I gave up on BM at lvl 45). I always was a very social player (no grey killing, no adding, generally respectful playing) but I really wanted to kick all that out of the window to try and make the ultimate scumbag char. Full bow full stealth and it worked GREAT. Never grouped but once, always soloing. Adding everything I could. It was REALLY fun (not gonna lie) and if you have no meele at all it becomes REALLY challenging in the higher levels too. Because once you are caught, you're done. I'm basically learning how to position myself correctly.
The bane for solo-adding-leech-scum-rangers is Assassins in groups. So go group them, you'll get TONS of free RP all around the city
As a solo Stealther you (as usual) have no real natural enemies (as expected).
General opinion: Great event, decent map (if used for your playstyle), can be fun or frustrating equally.
But the big point everyone is missing is very very simple. The amount of new people I met in the event, the amount of new people to DAOC I met and the possibility to have RvR and tons of XP without grinding for a month is AMAZING!! All you guys having their heads in this game since 2001 and in the server far too much forget that there are always possible new gamers (well returning for daoc, not entirely new...) and for those this event is GLORIOUS. Instead of 1 50 with no RvR or template or any experience other than mob-farming, I now have a 45 DET9 BM with ONLY RvR experience and a 40+ (and counting) Ranger that will probably be a farm char only after 4L8, but still
In conclusion: Thank you Devs for the amazing opportunity to enter the game like this. It greatly helps new players to find other people and get started with levels, RR, gear and money.
The only suggestion would be either to turn of premade or to seperate premade, rest is fine (and/or great)!
Greetings Olk
EDIT: Also, what is wrong with people advertising against extending the Event? I understand that it takes away from the usual RvR, but let people have fun smh