yeah lol J you discovered it too late, back in the first couple of years it was usually at least half full servers, if not full. Apparently before I started the MP you actually had to queue for a server too!

*UPDATE*
caps lock was still on

Just played with my gladiator again, on platinum (hardcore of course), forgot how badass these nuk-nuks are. Nearly died a couple of times. Didn't take on any dragons. My armor seems to suck, i might need an upgrade, but since i'm wearing a full set, that's not going to be easy.

Not much traffic on the servers

yeah all the Sacred community have all but stopped playing now, we're waiting on S2. The nearest thing to a Glad in S2 will be the Shadow Warrior I think, but no, there isn't really a proper Glad in it.

Oh and J don't worry too much that your'e wearing the full set, just upgrade bits anyway if you find individual items that are better, I personally still mainly use sets 'just because' but most people don't because with socketing you can make normal items exceed the set bonuses.

Yes horses, which work similarly to S1 but depending on the type of horse you buy, they can have 0, 1, 2 or 3 special combat arts you can use while mounted on them. You cannot use your own combat arts on them. However, you CAN do a quest to get a class-specific mount, and from those you can use all your normal combat arts.

Very excited and happy with how it turned out! Other than the fact I can't run it on max graphics *cry* there are the odd things that I'm perhaps not 100% happy with but they are few and far between, and pretty minor. Overall it is a great continuation of the series.

Differences... well not a huge amount. The world is far bigger, the classes are different (yet similar - High Elf has some of the Battle Mages old spells, plus some new and different ones), the extra mounts that I mentioned above. You can play 'Light' or 'Dark' campaign now as well, though Seraphim has to be Light and Inquisitor has to be Dark. There are also class-specific quest lines with intriguing back stories (I've been concentrating on Shadow Warrior for my testing assignments and it's a nice little backstory), plus it is now drop in/drop out co-op so you can play singleplayer halfway through then invite a friend to join in your game.

Oh and combat arts are very similar to before (the whole mechanism of getting a rune to drop, then 'reading' it to level it up) but with the addition of 3 modifiers for each CA when you hit certain levels, allowing you to customise and empower your own CAs. For example my High Elf can have a combat art Cobalt Strike which is basically one bolt of lightning. One of the first modifiers she can choose is either to have an 80% chance of it splitting and hitting another enemy, or to do more damage (I think... always go for the split)

S2 is scheduled for release on oct 3rd according to gamespot, any truth behind this?