I enjoyed your post obi's. Game company development need to get out of this "safe" state and take the genre a step further. As some of the older UO LOD knows, I've worked in quite a few different game companys "Volition, THQ, Interplay, etc". It's all too common to see known features undermine inovative steps ahead. Alot of talk with very little follow through.
As much as I miss playing along side of some of the LOD elite "Obi, Carnage, Pyropete, Borric, etc etc" I'm afraid I saw Shadowbane as a timesink and less of a fun game. This was the only reason why I did not jump into the game with LOD.
Hopefully something will come out that we can all get into and kickass like the old days. Been checking out Warhammer a bit. I like this "darker" theme to the game but it seems its another hybrid when it comes to pvp..
Warhammer:
http://www.warhammeronline.com/main.asp?go_where=Images.aspBest,
(ex Lord-LOD)