You say ‘whole group’, but you don’t plan on playing together? Because if you set up a static group of you and your friends none of your group questions will matter.

  1. Leveling / low level dungeons - not a lot of them are done any more, probably because there’s just not that many leveling up at any one time.

80 raids - I see group calls for the most popular one’s pretty much every time I’m online.

Open world groups / quest grinds - short of the odd individual wanting someone to power level him, no. Pretty much a solo game from 1 to 80.

  1. I’m on Win 11 and it’s very stable. There is a bug when you first load the game; you’ll get a warning box saying ‘failed to …’ do you want to connect anyway and you just hit Yes, it goes away and you log in no problem. There’s also one that shows up about 50% after you log out saying the game didn’t shut down right, do you want to send a report to Funcom. Just say no.

  2. F2p’s actually really good. You have the entire base game of lvl 1 to 80 and the only things you don’t get are the B2p area’s, but the Conq Collection will probably cover that.

As to AA’s, the daily log in bonuses will give you points and AA’s during the month. If they ever turn on the special event bonus panel you’ll get 50 AA’s just from it. I’ve got a totally F2p test character that’s amassed over 400 AA points just from the bonus panels.