I got to 50 on my warrior, plan to DPS. But haven't done much as I feel I pretty much have no direction, no clue what I'm going for. As an MMO vet should I just ball out and hop into vets?
You try to finish your key to raid. Whether thats getting Dominion rep to Beloved, or whatever other step you're on. It pretty much drives you through the whole process of gearing up. Though, I would say spend a little time in Adventures and get the blues and hopefully an epic, out of them. Then your dungeons. The direction is your Key quest.
Just my personal experience in this game...
The elder game (not including raids) doesnt appeal to me in the slightest. The whole process of trying to get at least Silver seems neat, at least until you try to PuG dungeons. When it comes to Adventures, I can legitimately say that they can be pugged pretty easily. Though, the winning conditions for all of them need to be more transparent. Getting Silver or worse in an adventure for doing the same thing you did the last run for Gold is dumb and buggy. Just tell me what the fuck I did wrong this time around. Everything is on the internet, why is it a Secret what the Winning Gold conditions are? As for dungeons, they arent exactly hard, but learning these dungeons and getting "good" in them is seems like an exercise in frustration. You either get carried by people that have been playing the game since Beta, or you hope and pray that you have a group of friends or guildies that you can reliably Group with that will learn the shit at the same time as you. Which a group of friends and guildies, can make the dungeon run just as frustrating as it is with a PuG. If you PuG, just expect to not get the reward. Expect no one to interrupt. Expect people to not even have a clue about the content. Lastly, expect any input you give on how to do the bosses to be largely, ignored. This happens all before the group breaks up on its third wipe. Adventures can be just as bad, because as soon as people realize they arent going to get Gold - there goes your group.
tl;dr - I guess I suck at this game in particular. That, or the whole elder game before raiding needs some heavy work done to make it more.. I dont want to say easy? But for fucks sake, I wish I could accomplish something, anything, without having to assemble a God Damn dream team.