I haven't played AoC for over a year, the new T5 Unchained content and crafting does sound intresting though.
For me to return however I would want to start a new character and gear that character up to the point I can start raiding T5 without having to grind T1-3 and Khitai.
Simply because I'm dead tired of those instances and the starting epics gives you few options to play around with gear builds.
Last time I played I actually just stuck to blue gear as there's more options to mess around and having fun without having to grind forever.
I'm aware Funcom dosen't have any resources, but a way to achive this would be to itemize some entry level old world dungeons and reward new epic items with intresting stats with T1-3 budget.
Example itemize Iron Tower & Xiba with more epics, alternativly through a time trial. A simple way to add a time trial would be through a quest, beat boss x,y,z in x time, and you recive a chest with reward. Quest could be obtained hrough itemshop, free for subs, cost points for f2p. Itemshop have the ability to add a cooldown before you can buy again.
Alternativly bring up Cistern, Main System, & Catacombs to entry level 80 and itemize them with starting epic gear. Few players have done these dungeons on level, so these would be almost new content for many.
These dungeons do offer some challenge allready and if brought to 80 they might not need anymore tuning to defend epics, atleast compared to silly t1-2 raid content.
If there was a alternative route to get starting gear I would seriously consider returning for T5. But if not I'll just play some other games like today.
Anyone else wondering about returning for T5/Crafting? What would it take to return?