Age of conan

is age of conan a instanced game like guild wars or a persistan world like wow (with instanced dungeons) or even persitant worl like archlord (dungeons are persistant all areas) please i need to know im about to buy it and i keep searching and getting mixed messages some saying it is others saying its not.....
i would download the trial but that will take wayyyyy to long for my internet speed

It's persistent world with instance dungeons, and instanced main questline (you can only do main quests "during the night", which is solo).