Character creation is still pretty cool. After picking your gender and class, you select between one of two gods who is actually your parent. Remember, if someone asks you if you are a god, you say yes. There are plenty of options to customize your character to suit your tastes, one of which is a choice of colors to make your starting clothes. While this may seem like a trivial thing, it actually has long lasting effects as any of your minions will use those colors on armor and standards. I think it will be cool to identify enemies from a distance based on that.

After all the choices are made, you will start in a tutorial instance with some other players, but not too many to make starter quests a problem to complete. This is where the game changes started getting noticeable for me. They have refined the new player experience to make it a little easier to get into the game, and you become involved in your story earlier. It's during this stage of the game where you get your first God Power.