2. Groups have absolute domination of the merchant/housing system. Through their wealth and OOC help the mercantile in Skal has been taken over for weeks; and I usually wouldn't cry about it, but there are some shops which are not kept up to date and we have no way to rectify that as players ...

Please. PLEASE. I cannot stress this enough: Don't pull some kind of weird stuff that is supposed to "Help" and balance the Economy but it will only end up hurting new players or those that are not busy farming stuff 24/7.

I can't help but feel like people are heavily exaggerating or I am just not lucky enough to see all those winged special characters. With that said you should not start hiding more races behind a RPR / Application gate because that will just lead to resentment and claims of favoritism.

Not only ...

I absolutely fail to see the problem with faster leveling.

People are now actually willing to try builds that are less than optimal because you don't have to waste too much time with leveling. Dungeons (all of them) seem to now be populated or at least you can run into people there while previous ...

Personally I think this was the best change ever made.

People are barely grinding the same spots over and over again because they don't have to anymore and I'd rather take people leveling quicker than people visiting the same dungeons multiple times for the same end goal.

If you remove the XP ...

I am going to preface this with the following: I have not played a Warlock yet on the live servers, only on the Test server.

But the biggest issue with the Warlocks right now is that they were basically gutted in the form of all their passives (or most of them) being removed and put into the game ...