- Action combat, similiar to black desert online, vindictus, etc...
- I hate mounts in MMOs, I would much prefer to have some sort of QiQong system like what Age of Wushu had or Blade and Soul, but more expended upon as I thought it was a bit too limited in those games.
- Big interesting open world with not only land but sea exploration.
- Some interesting stuff added to the open world to incentives exploration that enhance your character in some way, e.g. random chests that appear at random locations all around the world and drop RNG stuff. Or better yet, have crystals that you collect (these crystals spawn randomly on the world map every week or so) and each crystal will give you a perk point on the exploration skill tree wherein you'd be able to get some movement speed buffs, climbing buffs, flying buffs, life skills buffs, etc...
- Things to do other than combat, e.g. fishing, composing and playing music (LOTRO), farming, mining, crafting, etc...
- No fast traveling, except for e.g. a class can create teleportation portals like the mages in WoW.
- No dailies event/quests, I hate that shit, so annoying. I think monthly events/rewards is fine though, maybe weeklies.
- Some sort of interaction with npcs, and plenty of npcs in obvious locations e.g. cities so it doesn't feel so dead, even with low player counts.
- Giant passive skill tree that all classes have access to, in addition to class specific trees, similiar to path of exile but with some of the fat trimmed.
- A decent amount of PVE group content, e.g. dungeons, raids, world bosses, group events, etc...
- PVP in the form of taking over cities in guild battles; owned cities would pay tax to whoever owned them daily.
- Some sort of PVE super boss that is held like a few times a year that rewards the player who beat it, or the guild leader, with a prestige skill tree, in addition to some exclusive gear.
- Some sort of main story or campaign that isn't too long (around 6 hours) that introduces you to the game and gives you some sort of explanation story-wise for your existence and some basic lore dumps.