This is an attempt at an early review. "Early" because I use to write my reviews after the first impact. I did this with World of Warcraft, I repeated it with Guild Wars and once again recently with the expansion to Doom 3. In all these cases I'm always ready to check them again after months and years to confirm that even after extended play sessions my impressions and considerations don't change, I still believe in what I write even if it comes just after a few hours of play. This because I always try to to understand in depth the general patterns to figure out how they build the rest of the game that I still haven't experienced. The other reason is because I give a strong value to the "first impression". The newbie experience and the first steps allow already to understand the approach and philosophy of the game. What will happen next will be a rehash or a combination of the previous patterns. In the case of this game I also have a deep knowlodge of the overall structure since I played it for more than two years, so I can understand what this expansion adds and how it interacts with the rest. This means that it won't be a DAoC review. I don't want to write 20Mb of text and, since I know I can drift too easily, I'll try to mantain the focus on the content of this expansion and glance to the latest patches when they are related.