I've also been playing on WR lately and am very impressed by the custom world.. creating all the custom NPCs and pathing must have been a lot of work.
I really like the fact that all the NPCs have dialogue and things to say, even if they're not part of a quest (I assume dialogue for Thurgadin etc. will be added later).
The only problem I could see is that Toxxulia is not a very good "newbie zone", it's dark (especially at night
) and very easy to get lost in. Luckily I was playing as a Ranger so could find my way and locate monsters to hunt fairly easily (with the tracking skill) but a character without tracking would find it quite difficult.
The Great Divide area for evil characters is much easier both for finding your way and finding things to hunt.