Ok one thing about ferentus I loved the game when i was playing it all these cool new weapons armours and stuff. you get to duel wield and stuff, crafting manufacturing tanning all types of stuff. But you know once you get to those high lvls lvl 20+ harcore lvl grinding plus u get skill points and u have to lvl different skills and stuff..overall the game i found great nice 3d graphics just the lvling up i found got pretty insane i was lvl 35 :P
IMO Ferentus has a little community (last time I played it was almous dead). But I suppose you could play on West server, it supposed to have more players (and more friendly for sure lol).
Well all games have gridding but i think SWG masked it well, you gridded for hours at a time but you where haveing fun doing it with a group :P. But thats the only game that had a sucsseful gridding system.
on topic: i played it and i didnt like it, its like every other game i played
If they did the updates they said they were going to do about 1.5 years ago it would be a great game. You can level to 30 pretty fast because of quests (i got to 23 or so in 2 or 3 days) and it is pretty fun.